"Where was the heavenly tribulation?" Countless people stared upward, dumbfounded. It felt less as though Qiu Wuji was undergoing a tribulation than walking up the flower-lined steps in her own back garden.
Many remembered that Qiu Wuji seemed to have undergone a tribulation before, only to return in failure, neither injured nor ill.
Was it because she had actually completed her tribulation that time?
In fact, yes.
According to the Heavenly Dao's settings, passing one tribulation was all it took. She had been unable to ascend then because the Heavenly Realm had not opened, and Qiu Qiu's forced tribulation had not been part of the plot, so it had ultimately been corrected and erased. The only memory left to the world was that Qiu Wuji had attempted Tribulation Transcendence and returned in failure.
But the heavenly tribulation had indeed descended. There would not be another.
It was just that Chu Ge was now writing Qiu Wuji's ascension, and in the readers' eyes, this was her first ascension. Having no heavenly tribulation would not make sense either.
Chu Ge painfully tapped at his keyboard. "Suddenly, dark clouds filled the sky. Fierce winds howled, lightning flashed, and thunder roared. An immense tribulation bolt tore through the heavens and came crashing down."
"Great Heavenly Tribulation!"
Not only did he have to give Qiu Qiu an extra heavenly tribulation, he also had to make it especially spectacular and powerful, the sort that could blast any cultivator undergoing Tribulation Transcendence into ashes.
The spectators cried out in horror, each imagining themselves in her place and believing they could never survive it.
Then the protagonist would dispel it effortlessly, highlighting her magnificence by contrast, right?
Qiu Wuji looked up at the sky, gazing at the terrifying tribulation lightning, yet a smile unconsciously curled her lips.
She