The berserk lightning finally broke through the black flame storm and struck the back of the enormous black bird.
At once, the Nine Nether Sparrow let out a pained cry. Black smoke billowed from where it had been struck by lightning, and even the surging black flames could not rapidly heal the injury there.
But soon, a stream of azure energy surged from the Nine Nether Sparrow's body. The black lightning lingering at the wound, which even the black flames could not stop, was swiftly devoured the moment it encountered that azure energy. Then Jiu You felt a numb, itchy sensation spreading across her back.
The immense life force contained within the Wood Thunder rapidly repaired her wounds. In the blink of an eye, not only did the wounds left by the Black God Thunder vanish, even her shattered feathers grew back.
Jiu You was completely different from when she had been by Mu Chen's side in the original story. Back then, only her spirit essence had remained; her physical body had long been utterly destroyed during her second lightning tribulation.
That was why, even after successfully surviving the lightning tribulation, Jiu You had slept for nearly two years before being reborn. Those two years had been the process of stimulating her Immortal Phoenix bloodline and undergoing Nirvana Rebirth to create a new body.
But things were different now. Jiu You was resisting the tribulation lightning with her physical body, and if she wished to undergo Spirit Transformation and God Ascension, she had to rely on the Black God Thunder to awaken the power of Jiu You within this body.
That was why Jiu You had kept forcibly charging into the lightning, seemingly seeking her own death.
The process was extremely dangerous...
Yet after realizing that Liu Bai's azure lightning