A pillar of light shot up to the stars. Lightning energy filled the surroundings, yet showed no sign of gathering. Before my blessing, even the Heavenly Dao had to give me special treatment.
Lightning tribulations were trials prepared for living beings breaking through their shackles. They assessed the Dao heart, strength, and fortune together. If any aspect fell even slightly short, the tribulation imposed by the Heavenly Dao's rules would reduce them to ashes.
But when I infused Dao Essence directly, the Heavenly Dao had to bestow an equivalent amount according to its rules, maintaining the balance.
Thus, the spectacle was immense, no less than that of a breakthrough to a higher realm.
With my Dao Essence enveloping her, the young woman's cultivation broke through level after level under the blessing.
Although I did not know how cultivation realms were classified in this New World, the bodily structures that connected to heaven and earth could not lie.
From the initial stage of drawing qi into her body, she instantly entered the level of refining qi and containing breath. As her sea of qi flowed into her dantian to nurture her spiritual awareness, the expansion of that sea caused her unbearable pain. Her screams drew startled cries from the disciples guarding the gate and brought groups of disciples from within the sect to the immortal terrace.
Even several immortal elders who had presumably already forged their Dao Platforms circled overhead. Stunned, they hurriedly contacted their old acquaintances.
"What in the world is happening?! Why has all the spiritual energy around us been sucked dry?"
"It looks like a disciple suddenly received a great opportunity!"
"Dao Essence is being forcibly bestowed upon her! Could that senior be performing some strange infusion on our disciple?!"
"I've only ever seen cultivation infused into someone,