Lightning writhed and roared through the black clouds, striking fear into every heart. The people of Stone Village could not help retreating a few steps, away from the place.
"This doesn't look like rain. It looks more like lightning's about to come down and strike someone." Shi Qingfeng's great-grandfather felt a chill of dread.
He had already entered the Inscription Realm and could be made a marquis, yet in the face of Heaven's might, his heart still trembled.
"It's a Thunder Tribulation," Meng Chuan said.
"A Thunder Tribulation that's come specifically to strike Little Nonpoint."
Everyone from Stone Village froze, stunned.
"Why would a Thunder Tribulation strike Little Nonpoint? I've never heard of such a thing," Shi Yunfeng blurted out.
Lightning was the punishment of Heaven and Earth. Was it really going to strike Little Nonpoint now?
"So if you're still nursing past five, lightning strikes you..." muttered Pi Hou, one of the village boys.
Meng Chuan burst out laughing. Pi Hou made nursing past five sound like some outrage against Heaven and humanity that had provoked the wrath of the skies.
"Little Nonpoint is advancing to the Grotto-Heaven Realm. The Heavens have sent down a tribulation in the form of lightning to strike him and test him."
Meng Chuan explained, "If he survives it, the sea and sky will open before him. If he doesn't, he'll turn to black ash."
"Cultivators have to undergo Thunder Tribulations when they break through?" Shi Qingfeng's great-grandfather was dumbfounded.
"I've never heard of such a thing or seen it recorded. It's beyond belief! This is Heaven's might!"
Few people in the entire Eight Domains knew about cultivators undergoing tribulations.
"In the past, it was perfectly normal for cultivators to undergo tribulations. But later, certain things happened. Thunder Tribulations stopped appearing, and breaking through