Tribulation clouds spanning a thousand li

The folding fan in Ji Fenghe's hand was no ordinary fan, but a supreme-grade Spirit Artifact.

With a few gentle waves of his folding fan, Ji Fenghe sent several wind blades flying at Luo Qi.

Countless invisible particles of powder rode the wind toward Luo Qi.

Luo Qi clapped his hands together, and a blood-red palm several zhang across descended from the sky. It easily smashed the wind blades and struck toward Ji Fenghe without losing momentum.

"So strong!"

Ji Fenghe narrowed his eyes and advanced to meet him. Although Luo Qi was strong, the gap between them was not so great that he would be instantly crushed within ten moves, so Ji Fenghe could easily play tai chi with him.

Luo Qi, however, attacked without pause, each blow fiercer than the last, forcing Ji Fenghe to give everything he had.

Go, Senior Brother Luo!

In the distance, Liang Kuang clenched his fists and silently cheered Luo Qi on, but unease also rose in his heart. He knew Ji Fenghe was highly skilled with poison. Yet Ji Fenghe was now trading blows with Luo Qi without making any use of that advantage, which made Liang Kuang's heart give a jolt.

Boom!

The two clashed head-on, and Ji Fenghe retreated, landing beside Mo Qi.

Clutching his chest, Ji Fenghe gasped for breath. He had already given his all, but there was still a considerable gap between him and Luo Qi.

"Are you all right?"

Mo Qi had only recovered thirty percent of his Spiritual Qi, but seeing Ji Fenghe retreat in defeat, he could no longer concern himself with recovering and stood beside him.

"Cough, cough. Don't worry. He's already lost!"

Ji Fenghe gently waved his folding fan and spoke with complete confidence.

When Luo Qi had traded blows with him just now, he had already seemed unable to muster his full strength. Ji Fenghe's poisons were taking effect.

To poison Luo Qi into submission, he had used eighteen poisons this time. Two had even been made from thousand-year-old spirit medicines from the Spirit Medicine Realm and were extraordinarily potent. Even though Luo Qi had taken spirit pills, he had been unable to guard against them completely.

Several of the eighteen poisons could also interact with one another to produce even stronger poisons, leaving Luo Qi in great discomfort.

Forcing himself to swallow the blood in his mouth, Luo Qi gave Ji Fenghe a long look, then turned and left. Ignoring Liang Kuang in the distance, he swiftly flew away.

"Haha! Trying to leave? It won't be that easy."

Ji Fenghe laughed and rode the wind after him, trailing Luo Qi from afar. He had numerous means of increasing his speed and was not at all afraid Luo Qi would escape.

"Senior Brother Ji is actually that strong?"

Xiao Yu watched Luo Qi flee in defeat and spoke in surprise.

"Hmph. Poison is just a petty art!"

Mo Qi snorted, then took out the poisons Ji Fenghe had once given him.

He had seen every bit of how Ji Fenghe had used poison to bring Luo Qi down and resolved to study it once he returned.

Liang Kuang tried to escape, but Mo Qi kicked him to the ground, leaving him to await Ji Fenghe's return in despair.

Several hours later, Ji Fenghe flew back from the distance, laughing, with the unconscious Luo Qi bound behind him.

Now he had another guinea pig.

Seeing Luo Qi tossed at his feet, Liang Kuang's eyes rolled back, and he fainted outright from fright.

Boom!

In a valley a thousand li from the barrier site, thunderclouds filled the sky.

After several days of signing in, Ye Xuan had finally triggered his lightning tribulation today and was preparing to break through to Nascent Soul.

"Tribulation clouds spanning a hundred li, eighteen lightning tribulation strikes. I wonder whether the Spirit Medicine Realm's Nascent Soul Tribulation will be any different."

Being in another world, Ye Xuan did not know whether this world's lightning tribulations would differ from those of the Yellow Origin Realm.

But one thing was certain: something would definitely go awry with his Nascent Soul Tribulation.

During his last Golden Core Tribulation, the thunderclouds had shrunk a full nine times, and the lightning tribulation's power had increased dramatically at the end. Had he not obtained a Supreme-Grade Lightning Spirit Root from his final sign-in, Ye Xuan might not have survived that last bolt of heavenly lightning.

Holding Rift the Void, Ye Xuan looked up at the sky.

Above him, the thunderclouds grew larger and larger.

Fifty li, sixty li, eighty li, ninety li, a hundred li.

After reaching a hundred li, the thunderclouds stopped expanding. Deafening rumbles echoed within them, as though they still wanted to expand farther.

Boom!

Thunder rumbled ceaselessly within the tribulation clouds, but no lightning tribulation strike had fallen yet.

Boom!

A ripple spread rapidly outward from the center of the thunderclouds, reaching their edges in the blink of an eye.

Crack!

Ye Xuan heard a tremendous crash. Something seemed to shatter at the edges of the thunderclouds, and they began expanding without restraint. In an instant, they spread beyond three hundred li and continued to grow.

"You damned heavens!"

Ye Xuan burst into furious curses. Clearly, the lightning tribulation had previously stopped at a hundred li, yet for him, it had actually broken the rules governing tribulations. This left him uncertain.

Five hundred li, six hundred li, seven hundred li, eight hundred li, nine hundred li.

Only after reaching nine hundred li did the tribulation clouds' expansion slow.

"Tribulation clouds spanning a thousand li? Isn't this a Spirit Transformation tribulation?"

Looking at the tribulation clouds that had finally stopped expanding, Ye Xuan's mouth twitched. He was utterly speechless.

Boom!

As though sensing Ye Xuan's dissatisfaction, the tribulation clouds unleashed their first lightning tribulation strike as soon as they reached a thousand li.

"You motherfucking bastard!"

Ye Xuan cursed, raised his fist, and charged straight at the lightning tribulation.

Although this lightning tribulation was more than ten times as powerful as Zheng Huaiyuan's, Ye Xuan was now also more than ten times stronger than Zheng Huaiyuan.

The terrifying reserves of Spiritual Qi accumulated through the Chaos Dao Scripture, the world's blessing, the Spirit Medicine Realm's origin, and the immortal sword Rift the Void made Ye Xuan far stronger than others at his cultivation level.

"The first few lightning tribulation strikes aren't strong. This is a good chance to practice the Heavenly Lightning Instruction."

Ever since obtaining the Heavenly Lightning Instruction through signing in during Zheng Huaiyuan's tribulation, Ye Xuan had left the cultivation method gathering dust in his Storage Bag.

There was no helping it. The requirements for practicing the Heavenly Lightning Instruction were too harsh: he had to draw tribulation lightning into his body.

Where was Ye Xuan supposed to find a lightning tribulation within the Dao Sect?

Boom!

The lightning tribulation struck Ye Xuan. Streaks of lightning crackled across his skin, then swiftly surged into his meridians.

"Ah!"

Ye Xuan roared and circulated the Heavenly Lightning Instruction at full power, drawing the heavenly lightning into his Dantian. He ruthlessly suppressed it with his black core and tempered it repeatedly, condensing a tiny lightning seed.

Boom!

The second lightning tribulation strike arrived instantly, with almost no interval.

Then came the third, the fourth...

Only at the seventh lightning tribulation strike did the lightning seed in Ye Xuan's Dantian approach saturation.

Beside Ye Xuan's black core, a brilliant lightning seed revolved around it like a star.

Only at the twelfth lightning tribulation strike did Ye Xuan reach his limit and summon the immortal sword Rift the Void, though he only unlocked one of its seals.

At the fourteenth lightning tribulation strike, Rift the Void's second seal was unlocked, and the strands of heavenly lightning condensed within Ye Xuan's Dantian exceeded a thousand.

At the sixteenth lightning tribulation strike, Rift the Void's third seal was unlocked. Ye Xuan was forced to the ground by the lightning tribulation and began frantically swallowing spirit pills.

At the seventeenth lightning tribulation strike, Ye Xuan activated second-stage Blood Burst, truly unleashing the power of Rift the Void's third seal and barely surviving the lightning tribulation.

And at that moment, the eighteenth lightning tribulation strike arrived in an instant.