"Six-nine thunderfire tribulation..."
In the Small Courtyard on the Back Mountain, Lin Mo gazed up at the sky, his heart growing heavy.
Advancing from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment required no heavenly tribulation, but advancing from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Golden Core realm meant enduring its baptism. Either one survived the tribulation and formed a golden core, or one perished, body and Dao alike. There was no third possibility!
Ordinarily, cultivators at Foundation Establishment Perfection faced the three-nine windfire tribulation, which carried the least risk. Unless their luck was particularly poor, they could usually survive it.
The six-nine tribulation was another matter.
Among the three great righteous sects within a thousand-mile radius, led by the Azure Cloud Sect, it seemed only the female Sect Master of the Sword Sect had successfully survived the six-nine thunderfire tribulation. Other cultivators had either fallen beneath its lightning or lacked the aptitude to qualify for a heavenly tribulation of such power.
Could Senior Cloud Crane's current situation... be because he drank the mid-grade spirit spring water?
Lin Mo worried inwardly, but he had no way to help. He could only silently hope that True Person Cloud Crane would turn calamity into fortune and survive this tribulation safely.
After watching the tribulation clouds for a while, he realized the lightning did not seem about to descend immediately, and the weight on his heart eased a little without his noticing.
Cloud Crane High Person had, after all, cultivated for a hundred and fifty or sixty years and become a Guest Elder of the Azure Cloud Sect. He surely had plenty of life-saving trump cards tucked away.
Since there was still some time before the tribulation lightning descended, Cloud Crane High Person surely had a way to respond. Even if he did not, the Sect