This time, Xianli was battered by the heavenly lightning until she was thoroughly dazed and disoriented. That state was more dangerous than anything—if she failed to use the heavenly lightning to make up for the deficiencies in her first-grade alchemy, she would immediately be struck to death when her bodily strength failed to keep up!
"Quickly, circulate your own power. Don't let your body fall into a state without strength!" I shouted urgently, my voice drowning out the thunder and jolting Xianli awake.
Xianli hurriedly drew on the power within her to resist the heavenly lightning, and at last managed to withstand the first wave of its devastating onslaught!
But she still seemed unable to let the Heavenly Dao make up for her deficiencies. Seeing more than a dozen bolts of heavenly lightning crash into her again and again, leaving her on the verge of exhaustion, I hurriedly said, "Don't just endure it by force. Adapt to it. Enjoy it. Even draw it in, study it, and make your own alchemy approach it! A heavenly tribulation is the Heavenly Dao itself. The Heavenly Dao transforms into thunder to punish those who are not of the Heavenly Dao and those who defy heaven. To defy heaven and break through realms, you must first follow the Heavenly Dao Law step by step, then seek to break through by defying heaven! So right now, you must first study it and use it to complete the Dao your alchemy lacks, then form the pill and defy heaven!"
Though Xianli still seemed only half to understand after my reminder, she had already begun using the falling heavenly lightning to comprehend her own alchemy. With every strike, the power in her body weakened tremendously, but each time she endured it, she continued to grow. The only