"Gu Que, if I used twenty-seven Death-Substitute Puppets, could I block twenty-seven tribulation lightning bolts?" Song Wen asked.
"Heh!"
Gu Que scoffed, then continued.
"Extreme Yin, you really are indulging in wild fantasies. Death-Substitute Puppets might let you temporarily evade tribulation lightning, but they can only buy you a brief moment to catch your breath."
"Tribulation lightning locks onto the cultivator himself. So long as the Death-Substitute Puppet cannot exhaust the tribulation lightning's power, once it destroys the puppet, the lightning will continue pursuing the one undergoing tribulation."
"Otherwise, wouldn't Xugeng merely need to activate twenty-seven Minor Teleportation Talismans to avoid all twenty-seven bolts of tribulation lightning?"
After hearing this, Song Wen asked again.
"What about formations? Can formations help cultivators withstand tribulation lightning?"
"Then take a look—does the Divine Blood Sect's protective sect formation still appear to be operating?" Gu Que replied with a question instead.
Song Wen raised his head and swept his gaze across the sky.
Beneath the pitch-black tribulation clouds, a transparent barrier could faintly be seen.
This was enough to show that the Divine Blood Sect's protective sect formation was still operating normally.
But perhaps Xugeng feared that someone might seize the chance to ambush him while he underwent tribulation, so he had remained within the protective sect formation.
Yet the tribulation lightning passed through the formation's barrier without the slightest obstruction.
"Then formations cannot block tribulation lightning?" Song Wen said.
"Not necessarily," Gu Que said.
Song Wen became even more puzzled.
Then he heard Gu Que continue.
"If a formation is set up before the tribulation clouds appear, tribulation lightning will pass through it as though it were nothing. But if a formation is set up after the tribulation clouds have gathered, it can withstand tribulation lightning."
"Furthermore, while undergoing lightning tribulation, whether one