Azure Cloud Sect, Heavenly Origin Peak.
On Heavenly Origin Peak lay an enormous pool spanning dozens of miles. It was filled with subterranean yin springwater, exceptionally frigid and heavy with yin energy, and was known as the Cold Water Heavenly Pool.
The Cold Water Heavenly Pool's water possessed unique properties and could be used in artifact refinement and pill concoction. Its greatest benefit, however, was its ability to dispel part of a lightning tribulation's might.
Zhu Qiniang wore the Gold Dragon Blade-Wing Divine Armor and gripped the Golden Scale Azure Aegis Mystic Thunder Sword, her expression solemn as she watched the dark clouds rapidly gathering overhead.
Gao Xian stood beside Qiniang, also studying the thunderclouds converging high above the nine heavens.
This was Qiniang's first lightning tribulation. If she passed it, she would attain the Pure Yang Dao. To help her overcome the tribulation, Gao Xian had specifically accompanied her in cultivation for over twenty years, investing all manner of divine treasures and divine pills without counting the cost.
He had even given Qiniang the Nine Heavens Xuandu Thunderclap Divine Whip. His divine-sense imprint on that divine artifact had been too deep, and in order to pass it on to Qiniang, he had spent no small amount of effort erasing the imprint he had left behind.
Qiniang cultivated the Primal Unity Divine Power Scripture. Its cultivation method was relatively simple, with half of it being a body-tempering art.
At higher levels, body tempering required vast resources to make any progress. This happened to be Gao Xian's strength.
Moreover, Qiniang possessed the steadiest, most resolute, and strongest temperament. Upon reaching the Spirit Transformation level, her cultivation progress had instead become the fastest.
Yun Qingxuan, Yue Shenxiu, and Xiao Hongye had all passed three Wind Tribulations and reached the tenth level of