Mo Tianliao, who had a loose tongue, was bitten on his nose, and the flames around him instantly extinguished, causing them to almost fall from the clouds.
He embraced Qingtong and slowly fell to the ground. Returning to the Half-immortal realm, Mo Tianliao was already able to fly with Qi, so he handed the small spirit sword to Mo Xiong.
The big black bear was very excited. This was a spiritual sword refined by Venerable Lord Duantian, so he immediately stepped on it, and tried to fly with it.
The huge bear, standing on a small flying sword which was of the size of the palm of his hand, flew slowly, with excitement on his face. He took a sip of spiritual wine, poured his spiritual power on the spiritual sword, and flew out with a “swoosh”.
“Ahhhhh!!!—”, the spiritual sword flew too fast and the bear was sent flying out before he could stand firm. As he was tumbling down, he quickly summoned the flying sword back to pick him up. But he realized that he had not refined the flying sword, and it would not listen to his call. So, he fell straight down, sending out a long series of screams, and hit the ground with a loud sound, stirring up thick smoke and dust.
The big tiger once again covered his eyes with his claws, and the tortoise-shell colored dogtail grass on his head turned into a memorial tablet, which stood on the big tiger’s head, with the words “Here lies the stupid bear” written on it.
Qingtong blinked and couldn’t help pursing his lips and chuckling. He seldom smiled. His beautiful eyes always looked cold and indifferent. This smile was like the moonlight, and the gray world around him suddenly became colorful.
Mo Tianliao, who happened to look back, was stunned when he saw this scene.
This laugh had only lasted for a moment, and Qingtong’s expression had already returned to his usual cold look. He raised his eyes and glanced at Mo Tianliao, frowning slightly, “What are you looking at?”
Mo Tianliao slowly raised his hand and touched the long eyelashes, “Baby, you should smile more.”
Slender fingers traversed the thick eyelashes, to the straight bridge of the nose, and fell on the pale lips, and then…was bitten.
“Oww! Ouch, ouch, ouch!”
Don’t shake your fingers in front of the cat if you have nothing to do. Mo Tianliao had been learning for so many years but still wasn’t obedient and still couldn’t grasp this lesson.
Since he had already restored his strength, they should no longer need to hide here. What was theirs, they had to force those people to return as much. Mo Tianliao let Mo Xiong go out and inquire about the news, while he went to the main hall and released several secret communication tools.
When a Nascent Soul transformed into Half-immortal, their spiritual aura returned to Half-immortal .
Every time a powerful cultivator advances to a great level of cultivation, a celestial phenomenon will be triggered. It had been several days since Mo Tianliao’s cultivation returned to the stage of Half-immortal, but he did not see any celestial movement. At first, he thought that the Heavens had not noticed it due to his unique soul and spirit. However, just as he was rejoicing, the celestial phenomenon came.
The astronomical phenomenon that was seven days late was actually brewing and awaiting for the right moment.
Purple thunder and lightning hovered over the Duantian Mo Palace, and the people guarding outside the Mo Palace woke up from their meditation.
It had been more than a year since the opening of the Great Mountain Array. The mysterious Half-immortal of Woyun Sect had lost his strength and escaped with several of his disciples. The Elder of the Gu Sect and his disciples were still inside and the other two demonic sects had already disappeared, while the sect elder Liu Bi of Liuyun Sect and the elder of Thousand Ghost Sect were still inside. When they asked Xuanji what was going on inside, he couldn’t tell. He only said that the Demonic Sect and Liuyun Sect were fighting. He and his disciples were trapped in the battle and tried hard to escape from the gap.
Now, the gap had become a killing array, and no one could get close to it.
Some people said that the people of the Liuyun Sect used deceit to open the mountain protection array. Others said that this had been planned by the Demonic Sect, and now it had harmed all the Righteous Sects. The most outrageous thing that some people said was that the Venerable Lord Duantian came back from the dead and protected the Mo Palace himself.
However, in this world, sometimes, the more absurd the speculation was, the closer it was to the truth.
Dark clouds, lightning and thunder flashed across the skies, seven lightning, wound into a dragon, hovered in the clouds — it turned out to be the Seven Lightning Tribulations!
When cultivators arrived at the time of clearing the tribulations, they had to face and pass the nine lightning, which was called “Nine Lightning Tribulations”. Usually, there would be lightning tribulations when a cultivator of Nascent Soul Realm advances into Half-immortal Realm, because it’s very close to the time of passing through the Tribulation period, but most of them were few and not painful. Only the very powerful cultivators had to face the legendary Seven Lightning Tribulations.
The Heavens was telling everyone that this person was destined to ascend. All cultivators who have passed through the Seven Lightning Tribulations in history, as long as they could survive the Tribulation period, without exception, have ascended.
At that time, Mo Tianliao was holding his cat in the yard playing in the water.
The moonlight was feeble, so Mo Tianliao lit a few glazed lanterns by the hot spring pool, placed them in a lotus jade plate, and sent them to float in the water. Qingtong stretched out his hand to fish the lanterns, Mo Tianliao held his waist and allowed him to hook. After a while, he suddenly looked up keenly. His mind was distracted and his hands holding Qingtong lost some strength. Qingtong was about to fall into the water as his body became unstable, he immediately stretched out his hand to hook unto Mo Tianliao’s neck, and the two fell into the water at the same time with a ‘splash’.
The snow-colored gown was thoroughly wet and tightly clinged to Qingtong’s body. In spring, Qingtong’s clothes were usually thin, reflecting the warm light of the glass lamp, which clearly revealed the color of one side of his skin, and the pink…
Mo Tianliao swallowed his saliva and slowly moved towards him. All of a sudden, he hugged Qingtong, broke out of the water and rolled on the ground.
“Kraka! Krakka! Boom!!!! -“ A huge flash of lightning struck down, smashing all the glazed lanterns in the hot spring pool.
“Lightning Tribulation!” Mo Tianliao immediately tensed up as he watched the purple electric current still flashing in the pool.
Although this lightning tribulation was not the same as the Nine Lightning Tribulation when crossing the tribulation period for Immortal ascension, it should not be underestimated. A careless person would be killed. Although the mountain protection array was powerful, it could not prevent the lightning from crashing down. Otherwise, the cultivators only needed to pay a sum of money to Lord Duantian when they crossed the tribulations, and then hide in the Duantian Mo palace.
“Hide away!” Mo Tianliao pushed Qingtong away, and he flew to the distance.
Qingtong was pushed and staggered to stand up. He shook his soaked clothes to dry and followed Mo Tianliao.
Flying to a high mountain, Mo Tianliao crushed a spirit stone and quickly burned it with the fire in his hand. He drew the array as fast as he could. At the same time, the second heavenly lightning had already struck down.
Mo Tianliao used his own spiritual power to hold up the protective enchantment. As he tried to withstand the lightning, the huge impact from the lightning made his blood surge, but he was still able to hold it. For a moment, he was overwhelmed and didn’t prepare the magic weapon to resist the lightning tribulations, so he could only draw an array to resist one or two.
He couldn’t defend against the lightning tribulations, but he could lure them away. Mo Tianliao’s hands began to form handseals to draw another array at the same time, which soon became phantom shadows.
“Krakka, krakk!” The third lightning tribulation hit his body hard and a few drops of blood spilled from the corner of Mo Tianliao’s mouth. The speed of his hand had not reduced, and before the arrival of the fourth lightning tribulation, he drew the final stroke.
The purple lightning surged down and directly fell on the protective cover on Mo Tianliao.
Mo Tianliao sat cross-legged, with his hands facing the sky, summoning the spiritual power of the fire element to contend with it. The Duantian Heavenly Fire hidden under the Mo Palace sensed the call of fire spiritual power. It broke out of the ground in an instant, turned into thousands of fire dragons, and collided head-on with the purple electric light.
“Duantian Heavenly Fire!” The crowd outside exclaimed.
The Venerable Lord Duantian was famous across the Taixuan Continent. In addition to his ability of crafting weapons to the highest level, there was also the Duantian Heavenly Fire in this Mo Palace. Legend has it that this was the fire used by the Heavenly Immortals to refine the stones and fill the sky in ancient times, which could burn all the hard things in the world. But now, this divine fire already had no spirituality. It couldn’t compare with the spiritual power of the woodfire, but it was more powerful and easy to adjust. It was the best choice for refining weapons.
The Duantian Heavenly Fire had no spirituality, but it could recognize the Lord Duantian. In this world, the only one who could control the Duantian Heavenly Fire was this Venerable one.
Now, there was no need for Mo Xiong to spread the news outside. Tomorrow, the world would know that the Venerable Lord Duantian had resurrected!
The Duantian Heavenly Fire dragon devoured the lightning bolt and was also attacked and scattered. Then, the fifth and sixth lightning tribulations came one after another, giving Mo Tianlio no time to breathe. Mo Tianliao’s pupils shrank. When he advanced to Half-immortal in his previous life, there was also a lightning tribulation. However, the intensity was not even one-tenth of this current one. Judging from this posture, it was undoubtedly the same as the Nine Lightning Tribulations!
He quickly summoned countless giant trees to attract the lightning so that he could pass it above the array. The hastily drawn array could still resist a little, leading half of the thunder and lightning into the ground, while the other half had to be resisted by Mo Tianliao.
“Boom -“ What?! Two lightning bolts together, instantly razed the bare mountain to the ground. Mo Tianliao suddenly spewed out a mouthful of blood.
Finally, the last one. The seventh giant purple dragon hovered in the clouds. He waited for a long time, but it didn’t come. It seemed that it was brewing a huge storm.
Mo Tianliao looked at the thunder and lightning in the sky, and his pupil shrunk. This was not a mere lightning tribulation! This was a Death Tribulation!
It turned out that he had such huge and imposing tribulation not because he was favoured by the Heavens, but because he had violated the taboo of the Heavens.
It was true if one had given it a thought.
Someone who used another’s body to come back from the dead. Took advantage of the body of a divine wood to cultivate and become a Half-immortal from a mortal within merely three years, was really going against the Heavens. It was no wonder that the Heavens could not tolerate him. Just as he was finally becoming a Half-Immortal, he was noticed by the Heavens and it decided to get rid of this anomaly.
Qingtong also saw the brewing storm and suddenly became anxious. He could not help him out. He was also in the Half-immortal Realm. If he went to help, the Heavens would think it was a tribulation for two people. At that moment, Heavens would immediately release twice the lightning and would blast both people into slag.
Mo Tianliao stood up with difficulty and looked at the sky, refusing to admit defeat. The Half-immortal Realm cultivation belonged to him in the first place. What right did the stupid Heavens have, to think that he did not deserve the realm? “Thief Heavens, come at me!” Mo Tianliao stood in the middle of the chaos of the brewing thunder, raised his head and yelled at the sky, aroused by anger.
The last flash of lightning that brewed for a long time finally turned into a thick beam of light, rushing straight towards Mo Tianliao.
“A Wooden body with a human soul, too mysterious and strange. Since the Heavens found it intolerant, it will return to dust.”
Hearing such a voice that seemed to come from the ancient times made people feel unsteady.
The huge light pierced Mo Tianliao and he subconsciously closed his eyes. At the moment when the electric light fell on the top of his head, a body with the fragrance of plants and trees rushed over and instantly stuck to his back.
“Qingtong! No — !!” Mo Tianliao quickly turned back and hugged the man on his back into his arms to protect him.
“Boom!!—“ A huge burst of sound resounded through the sky, splitting the whole mountain into a huge pit.
After that, the clouds dissipated, the moon emerged, and everything returned to peace.
The entire Duantian Mo Palace was silent, and even the people outside the Palace couldn’t recover for a long while. As soon as the Venerable Lord Duantian had just been resurrected, he was struck to death by lightning again…what the hell is this?
They could not be blamed for thinking like this. They have really never heard of anyone who could survive the Death Tribulations.
Mo Tianliao thought the same way. He only felt that there was no pain in his internal organs. He slowly opened his eyes and found that he was standing on a lone stone pillar, surrounded by a huge and deep pit, and only the stone which he had settled on was left unscathed. Blinking and looking up. A tortoise-shell colored umbrella stood on the top of his head, and then quickly turned into a big mouth, “Oww! I was electrocuted to death!”
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The author has something to say:
mini theatre:
Master: Taishi is really a loyal protector to the Lord.
Big Tiger: Taishi is really a loyal protector to the Lord.
Big Black Bear: Taishi is really a loyal protector to the Lord.
Taishi: What the fuck?! Who is the motherfucker who threw me up to be struck by lightning?
Carpenter: Fortunately, I reacted quickly kekeke.. Ahem, Taishi is really a loyal protector to the Lord..