“Shi Yue, after I finished my tribulation last time and came down, junior sister looked at me with a really strange expression. Did you also stick some Lightning Evasion Talismans on me?” Mu Qianjue asked sternly.
Half a year ago, Ning Shiyue had prepared a large stack of talismans for him.
He had been busy dealing with the tribulation and used them all without having time to check them.
“Just three…” Ning Shiyue pouted, feeling a little guilty.
Feng Qingran had explicitly forbidden Ning Shiyue from drawing any more Lightning Evasion Talismans.
So, she had secretly slipped three of those talismans for Mu Qianjue, mixed in with a bunch of others.
After Mu Qianjue finished his lightning tribulation last time, junior sister hadn’t said anything.
Ning Shiyue thought junior sister hadn’t noticed, so she secretly prepared some again this time. But she was caught red-handed!
Facing three pairs of piercingly handsome eyes, Ning Shiyue felt even more guilty. “Alright, I promise I’ll absolutely never do it again!”
“Hmph! Words are cheap. Write it down. If you dare secretly draw such talismans again, I’ll never help you find magical beasts to test your poisons on, and your talisman brushes and ink will be confiscated…” Baili Wenliu directly tossed out a sheet of paper for Ning Shiyue to write on.
Ning Shiyue wasn’t afraid of Baili Wenliu, and she didn’t want to write it. But when she met Mo Jinghong’s gaze…
Ning Shiyue shrank her neck and obediently wrote the guarantee, handing it to Baili Wenliu.
She planned to ask Baili Wenliu for it back once they returned.
However, Baili Wenliu took her written guarantee, walked over to Mo Jinghong, and gave it to him.
Ning Shiyue watched helplessly as Mo Jinghong put away the guarantee.
Her heart sank halfway!
Ai!
She wasn’t intimidated by anyone except Mo Jinghong!
“Fifth Senior Sister, remember what you said. If you violate it, I’ll have Seventh Junior Brother handle it,” Baili Wenliu said smugly.
Ning Shiyue: Sixth Junior Brother, don’t celebrate too early…
“Fifth Senior Sister, given the physical resilience of everyone here, the lightning tribulations up to the Tribulation Transcendence stage should pose no problem,” Mo Jinghong’s voice was cool and clear.
Boom!—
The first bolt of Feng Qingran’s Nascent Soul advancement tribulation struck down.
Feng Qingran sat cross-legged, absorbing the tribulation lightning’s power, her expression unchanged.
The others noticed that the pressure and power of this first tribulation lightning were normal.
It was quite different from the Golden Core tribulation last time…
Their tense hearts relaxed a little.
Within the dark clouds above, hidden among them, was a plump, dark cloud cluster.
It was the Sky-Shielding Eye. It would love to strike Feng Qingran dead, but they had a contract!
It also wanted to increase the lightning’s force to make her suffer more, but after striking, the one who’d suffer misfortune would be itself!
After the last Golden Core tribulation ended, it had hidden away, but Mo Jinghong still found it!
That painful experience was something the Sky-Shielding Eye never wanted to recall again…
Soon, the second tribulation lightning gently descended.
Feng Qingran felt her body numbed by the tribulation lightning. It felt strange—this tribulation wasn’t right?
Last time during the Golden Core tribulation, the lightning seemed intent on striking her dead.
Now, the lightning was honestly helping temper her body, and doing so step by step…
Feng Qingran calmed her mind and spirit, circulating the lightning power within her body towards her Golden Core, refining it.
But under the tribulation lightning, no one remains unscathed.
By the time the fifth tribulation lightning struck, Feng Qingran’s skin and flesh were charred black as coal.
Feng Qingran ignored the physical pain, focusing on refining the lightning power to transform her Golden Core into a Nascent Soul…
The evolution of the Golden Core into a Nascent Soul was the key to transcending the tribulation.
Many cultivators who failed to advance to Nascent Soul did so because, under the tribulation lightning, they couldn’t focus on transforming their Golden Core, leading to failure.
If Golden Core tribulation fails, one can attempt again after ten years.
Within Feng Qingran’s dantian, that multicolored Golden Core was undergoing changes.
The Golden Core gradually grew tiny limbs, followed by a burst of faint cyan light emanating from her dantian.
Looking again, the Golden Core had already transformed into a small figure, extremely adorable and looking exactly like a miniature version of Feng Qingran.
Between the small figure’s brows was a cyan mark. Feng Qingran couldn’t clearly see what it was yet.
Stepping into the Nascent Soul stage meant she was one step closer to the Soul Transformation stage.
She had to reach the Soul Transformation stage within the remaining five years.
The gap between advancing from Golden Core to Nascent Soul and from Nascent Soul to Soul Transformation wasn’t small at all.
For the remaining five years, she couldn’t afford to slack off even a little.
Feng Qingran withdrew her spiritual sense from her dantian, focusing on facing the tribulation lightning.
She also didn’t notice that within her dantian, a mysterious force was playfully teasing the Nascent Soul.
Not far away, the others, seeing Feng Qingran’s expression, guessed everything.
Mu Qianjue’s peach blossom eyes filled with a smile. “Junior sister has reached the Nascent Soul stage. From now on, she just needs to undergo the tribulation lightning’s body tempering. There won’t be any danger.”
Liu Canglan expressed some concern. “There’s still one Heart-Questioning Lightning bolt.”
Last time, during the Heart-Questioning Lightning, Feng Qingran had shown an abnormality. This time, would she be able to pass it?
Inner demons usually grow progressively worse…
“After junior sister finishes her tribulation, we’ll soon be able to go out and gain experience,” Ning Shiyue said happily.
“It’s still early! It’ll take at least half a year to stabilize her realm,” Baili Wenliu, who had been stuck at the peak of Golden Core, had planned to go out for experience half a year ago.
But half a year ago, Mu Qianjue underwent his tribulation, and Baili Wenliu was drenched in a shower of spiritual rain, so he delayed his plans.
This time, there would be another shower of spiritual rain, meaning he’d need several more months of recuperation at least.
