"Secret art to delay an Immortal Lightning Tribulation?"
Phoenix and Black Tortoise were both greatly tempted when they heard this.
Great Ascension was the final step on the path to immortality. It represented the condensation of a cultivator's lifelong cultivation arts and divine abilities. After breaking through to the Great Ascension Realm, one's actual combat strength was basically fixed.
From then on, unless one cultivated some heaven-defying supreme ability or obtained a treasure on the level of an Immortal Mansion Rare Treasure, it was almost impossible to increase one's strength even slightly.
It could even be said that by the time a Great Ascension Cultivator broke through, their potential—how many tribulations they could ultimately survive and whether they could Ascend to Immortality—had already been determined and would not change much.
In other words, this Five Elements Kirin had managed to endure until the Seven Tribulation level not because its cultivation art had room for further improvement.
Rather, it had already possessed nearly its current strength when it first broke through to the Great Ascension Realm!
It was just that now, its cultivation could no longer advance another step, and it understood even more clearly that it had no hope of surviving the eighth Immortal Lightning Tribulation.
The secret art of the Jiu Chi Tribe could greatly delay the arrival of the next lightning tribulation, which made it exceedingly important.
Even Phoenix and Black Tortoise, two True Spirits, were not very confident of surviving their fourth Immortal Lightning Tribulation. They were consequently rather envious of this secret art.
Seeing this, the Five Elements Kirin shook its head. "This secret art is difficult to perform and requires top-grade spiritual materials provided by the Jiu Chi Tribe... Besides that, there should be enormous costs and hidden dangers involved. Otherwise, why would the Jiu