Breaking Through to the Second Layer of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body! Father, Come with Me to Ziwei Holy Land
Li Changsheng gazed at the tribulation lightning in the sky and couldn't help scratching his head.
What was the principle behind this?
Why couldn't he make sense of it?
A heavenly tribulation?
How could this be called a heavenly tribulation?!
Wasn't the Heavenly Dao showering her with gifts?!
Hua Qianyan tugged at Li Changsheng's sleeve, his face blank with confusion.
"Old Ancestor, where am I? What's going on up there?"
Li Changsheng turned and waved a hand in front of Hua Qianyan's eyes, a suspicious look on his face.
"You're a Saint King Realm expert, at least. Show some of the bearing an expert should have. Why are you acting like a fool?"
"Isn't this our Ziwei Holy Land? As for what's going on up there?"
"Do you even need to ask? She's obviously undergoing a tribulation! Can't you see all that tribulation lightning?"
Hua Qianyan shook his head vigorously, bringing himself back to his senses.
"Old Ancestor, do you know why this is happening? I've never seen anyone undergo a tribulation like this."
Li Changsheng gave a wry smile.
"Forget you, even I've never seen it. Why is this happening?"
"Perhaps it has something to do with the blessing of fortune she received earlier."
"Because she possesses so much fortune, the Heavenly Dao feels close to her and can't bear to harm her. That's why we're seeing this."
"Other than that, I can't think of a better explanation."
You're asking me, but who am I supposed to ask?
Sounds reasonable, doesn't it? Actually, I made it up.
Aside from making something up, he couldn't think of anything useful to say about this.
Although he was one of the few Quasi-Emperor experts in the True Martial Dao Domain, a Quasi-Emperor still fell far short of the Heavenly Dao.
Perhaps only a Great Emperor could explain the present situation most accurately.
Hua Qianyan drew a deep breath.
Indeed, only that explanation could even begin to account for the present situation.
Today, Ji Zining, the new Divine Child of their Ziwei Holy Land, had set three unprecedented records in succession!
During the talent test, she had reduced the talent-testing stele to powder!
When blessed with the Divine Child's fortune, she had received half the fortune of the True Martial Dao Domain directly from the Heavenly Dao Golden Pupil!
And now, she had even made the tribulation lightning disperse its own might and willingly temper Ji Zining's body!
Any one of these things on its own was a dazzling feat that would be remembered for ages.
Yet all three had happened on the same day, and all had been done by the same person.
Hua Qianyan couldn't help wondering.
How would history describe and record Ji Zining's deeds today?
Rumble!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
No matter how shocked the cultivators below were, the purple tribulation lightning within the tribulation clouds continued to descend.
But just like before, once each bolt came within ten feet of Ji Zining, it dispersed its might and became the purest lightning energy.
With the help of this lightning energy, the pressure from Ji Zining's body had grown more than ten times stronger than before.
Suddenly, Ji Zining's expression sharpened, and all the lightning energy around her body was refined in an instant.
The abundant lightning energy churned within her body, accompanied by a series of sounds.
Crackle!
All the refined lightning energy turned into the essence of her flesh and blood, battering the bottleneck of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body.
The Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body was a Divine Rank Upper Grade cultivation technique.
The complete technique had nine layers, corresponding to the eleven cultivation levels of the True Martial Dao Domain.
When Ji Zining had first learned the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body, she had reached the early stage of the first layer, and her physical combat strength had reached the Golden Core Realm.
Of course, at the time, her physical combat strength had only been comparable to the Golden Core Realm First Layer.
Now, with the help of the lightning energy, she had pushed the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body to the peak of the first layer!
She was only one step away from reaching the second layer of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body!
Once she broke through to the second layer of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body, her physical combat strength would be comparable to that of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator!
To break through to the second layer of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body, she needed to open another orifice. This time, Ji Zining chose to open an eye orifice!
Boom!
A rumble that no one else could hear erupted within Ji Zining's body.
As the rumble rang out, Ji Zining's life force surged, as though her level of life had risen.
The Golden Core Realm Peak pressure her body had been emitting also broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm at the same time!
She had successfully opened the eye orifice and broken through to the second layer of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body!
Boom!
The final bolt of tribulation lightning fell, helping Ji Zining consolidate her body's recent breakthrough.
"Whew!"
Ji Zining exhaled a breath of turbid air, opened her eyes, and smiled faintly at the dispersing tribulation clouds.
"Thank you."
Without the help of the tribulation lightning's energy, she would have needed quite some time to break through to the second layer of the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Body.
Fortunately, she had the lightning energy to help her this time.
Ji Zining stood up and stretched comfortably.
The increase in her physical combat strength made her feel as though the whole world had changed.
It was as if she had gone from looking at the world from a low place to looking at it from a high one, and some of her limitations had disappeared.
Ji Zining shook her head and smiled and nodded at Ji Chenkong in the distant waiting area. Then she stepped forward and descended toward the platform.
Now that everything was settled, it was time to truly join Ziwei Holy Land.
As for the tests that followed, they no longer had anything to do with her.
She was already the Divine Child. Taking the test now would mean denying Li Changsheng face and denying the Heavenly Dao of the True Martial Dao Domain face!
After all, Li Changsheng had appointed her Divine Child, and the Heavenly Dao had acknowledged her.
When she arrived on the platform, Li Changsheng and Hua Qianyan exchanged a glance and nodded slightly.
Hua Qianyan stepped forward and cupped his hands slightly toward Ji Zining.
"You are now the Divine Child of our Ziwei Holy Land. No one in the True Martial Dao Domain will dare look down on you."
"From now on, I hope we can look after each other!"
The Divine Child held the same status as the Holy Lord, so he and Ji Zining were no longer junior and senior.
He and Ji Zining were now cultivators of the same generation.
Ji Zining returned the greeting.
"It's the Holy Lord who should look after me. I don't know much about Ziwei Holy Land, so there will be quite a few things I'll need your help with in the future."
"When that time comes, I hope you won't find me a bother, Holy Lord."
Seeing how gentle Ji Zining was, Hua Qianyan couldn't help breathing a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, she wasn't holding the earlier matter against him. Living together in peace like this was quite good.
Li Changsheng looked toward Ji Chenkong in the distance and smiled faintly at Ji Zining.
"From now on, I'll call you Zining. Zining, your father came here with you this time. Go and bring him along with me into Ziwei Holy Land."
"As the Divine Child, you must have your family's safety guaranteed by our Ziwei Holy Land. Your father and Qianyan will need to discuss all of this."
"Senior, I'll go bring my father over right away."
Ji Zining nodded lightly, cupped her hands, and flew toward Ji Chenkong.
Father should be very happy to hear about this, shouldn't he?
After all, her father, Ji Chenkong, had once been a disciple of Ziwei Holy Land and still regarded it with nostalgia and reverence.
With this, one of her reasons for joining Ziwei Holy Land could be considered fulfilled.
She could keep Ji Chenkong and Chen Qingqian safe and prevent them from coming to harm.
With Ziwei Holy Land's help, they would presumably receive more than just protection. The entire Flowing Moon Dynasty might even rise rapidly because of it.
The many young cultivators who had yet to be tested watched Ji Zining fly over their heads with reverence.
They would probably find it difficult to ever see a genius like her again.
Even if they joined Ziwei Holy Land, they would only be ordinary disciples.
The gulf between ordinary disciples and the Divine Child was greater than that between earth and sky. Forget seeing her; they couldn't even talk about her too much.
Soon, Ji Zining returned to Ji Chenkong and grinned.
"Father, the Holy Lord and Old Ancestor of Ziwei Holy Land told me to bring you into Ziwei Holy Land with me."
"There are also some matters concerning your and Mother's safety to discuss. They're quite important, so you need to go and discuss them with the Holy Lord in person."
Ji Chenkong looked at Ji Zining and nodded somewhat blankly.
"Huh? Oh, oh, all right."
But the very next second, Ji Chenkong suddenly came to his senses and cried out in shock.
"Ning'er, what did you say? The Old Ancestor and the Holy Lord told me to enter Ziwei Holy Land with you?!"
"And they want me to discuss matters with the Holy Lord?!"
As he spoke, Ji Chenkong looked toward Ziwei Holy Land ahead, disbelief on his face.
Could he really return to Ziwei Holy Land now?