By then, she had absorbed all the Yimu Lightning Tribulation, and the next bolt was gathering in the clouds above.
After a short recovery, her aura finally stabilized completely and began to rise rapidly.
Before the next bolt could fall, she had already returned to peak condition.
Suddenly, a towering emerald tree sprang up above the thunderclouds.
A beam of green light shot down onto Li Wan'er.
The tree swiftly withered. To everyone's shock, Li Wan'er withered along with it.
Wrinkles covered her once-youthful face, and her body stooped.
Wood symbolized life. It could grant life, but it could also extinguish it.
Li Wan'er stared at her hands in disbelief.
Shock gripped her. How was she supposed to survive a tribulation like this? The tree above the thunderclouds was still dying. If it died completely, would she die too?
It seemed impossible to overcome. Li Wan'er panicked and immediately activated a formation, drawing in the surrounding wood-element Yuan Qi to replenish her life force. But it was a drop in the ocean.
The tree above the thunderclouds continued to wither.
Li Wan'er felt as though her life was about to go out like a snuffed candle.
Just as Li Wan'er thought she was about to die, she froze. Then she came to her senses and cleared her mind. There was no withered tree above the thunderclouds at all. The clouds had merely kept her bathed in green light.
"It's an illusion."
Fear washed over Li Wan'er. She had nearly died in that illusion.
It had been terrifyingly real.
If Li Wan'er's mind had withered along with the tree, her consciousness might have died, leaving only an empty shell.
One after another, the Yimu Lightning Tribulation struck—eighty-one bolts in all.
As Li Wan'er underwent her tribulation, faint ripples appeared in