Chapter 114

Chapter 114: Tribulation Lightning Shatters the Formation

Yun Xi’s eyes flashed as she sent a voice transmission, “Dian Dian, are you ready?”

Dian Dian kept absorbing spiritual power until its body felt swollen. It shifted and said, “Master, I think I can do it.”

“Get ready. Once the timing is right, I’ll let you out,” Yun Xi replied.

“Yes, Master.”

Yun Xi felt the plan of using Thunder Tribulation to smash the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array might work.

Before, she hadn’t been sure because this was an independent space. She worried Thunder Tribulation wouldn’t come. But City Lord Li’s attack just now confirmed to her that there were cracks to exploit here. Once Dian Dian came out, it should be able to trigger Thunder Tribulation.

Still, she also feared Dian Dian would be struck to death, so she had already prepared a Third Rank formation plate.

The mid-grade spirit stones in Yun Xi’s hands turned to powder again. She quickly took out two more. Almost every cultivator still alive was using spirit stones to trade for time.

Zhou Lang Chen tried to slash with his sword, but the sword light dissipated before it even reached the array. Even the sword light’s power was absorbed. His face darkened further, and he spat out another mouthful of blood, likely stirring an old injury.

Mu Ning Zhu clenched her spirit stones, her sharp, heroic face filled with unwillingness.

At that moment, another golden sword attacked Li Cang Yuan. But Li Cang Yuan had already used the array to raise his cultivation to the peak of late Golden Core. He lifted a flute to block the attack.

Almost the instant that golden sword appeared, Yun Xi yanked Dian Dian out of her space.

“Dian Dian, it’s on you!” Her voice transmission hit Dian Dian’s mind at the same time.

The moment Dian Dian appeared, it felt itself being locked onto. The sensation was faint, but it was certain it wasn’t wrong. The one undergoing Tribulation Transcendence was it.

“Master, Dian Dian is locked by Thunder Tribulation. Get ready!” Dian Dian said.

“Okay,” Yun Xi replied.

The change came fast and vicious. The instant Li Cang Yuan blocked the golden sword, a bolt of purple lightning pierced into the space and struck Li Cang Yuan beside the crystal coffin. The lightning passed through his body, struck the crystal coffin, and then spread across the whole array.

In the end, only a tiny spark of lightning fell onto Dian Dian. Yun Xi didn’t even have time to activate the Third Rank defensive formation plate.

“Master, why is Thunder Tribulation so small?” Dian Dian asked in disbelief.

“It’s not that Thunder Tribulation is smaller,” Yun Xi said. “Most of its power was consumed by Li Cang Yuan and the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array. The next one won’t be this easy. Don’t let your guard down.”

Nearby, Zhou Lang Chen had already realized what Yun Xi was trying to do. He shouted, “Everyone, don’t give up! With tribulation lightning entering the array, we can definitely break this evil formation!”

As if to prove his words, the next bolt of purple lightning thickened and slammed down faster, its power doubled. It didn’t look like a Second Rank Thunder Tribulation at all. It looked more like Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation.

Yun Xi immediately activated her white magnolia hairpin. If not now, then when?

Li Cang Yuan was struck so hard he toppled headfirst. He had never imagined tribulation lightning would appear here.

City Lord Li seemed to realize something too. He immediately condensed another golden sword and stabbed into the hidden space again, and the tribulation lightning followed right after, fast and precise. This time, the target was the crystal coffin at the array core.

“No!” Li Cang Yuan screamed, his face paper-white.

But the crystal coffin shattered under the strike, and the corpse inside fell from the air.

Ignoring how his cultivation dropped back to Golden Core Stage, Li Cang Yuan leaped up and caught Qiu Shui’s body.

However, the purple lightning that traveled through the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array fell evenly onto every cultivator’s head. Thankfully, everyone was prepared and endured this Thunder Tribulation.

This time, Dian Dian wasn’t so lucky. It was struck until a patch of its white fur turned black.

“Ow! Dian Dian is going to die from pain!” Dian Dian howled.

“Dian Dian, hold on,” Yun Xi urged. “You’re a little rat that’s going to awaken a treasure-seeking bloodline. A mere Second Rank Thunder Tribulation – you can definitely make it through.”

It was only the second bolt. Yun Xi herself didn’t feel confident, so she chose to activate the Third Rank formation plate and pull Dian Dian inside it.

Dian Dian also knew this Tribulation Transcendence was dangerous. It immediately hugged a mid-grade spirit stone and started absorbing, easing the agony in its body.

Li Cang Yuan, holding Qiu Shui’s corpse, was struck into an ugly state as well. He wanted to protect the person in his arms, but the cultivators who had found the culprit weren’t going to let him go. Attacks immediately began raining down on Li Cang Yuan.

No one was stupid. After the second Thunder Tribulation fell, everyone had already confirmed that the one drawing Thunder Tribulation was a Trail-Seeking Rat breaking through to Second Rank. So they all did their best to stay away from that area. The city was big enough.

Because the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array was still running, everyone moved slowly, but that didn’t stop them from attacking Li Cang Yuan.

Mu Ning Zhu had already taken Qin Tong Shuang and moved far away from Yun Xi. They couldn’t help, so they could only protect themselves.

Yun Xi also struggled to move her feet, trying to leave the Tribulation Transcendence center. She didn’t want to be struck by lightning.

The scene turned chaotic, but City Lord Li kept breaking at the space. With each of his attacks, the Thunder Tribulation fell faster and faster. The third time, three bolts of purple lightning fell in a row, each as thick as a baby’s arm. Yun Xi’s scalp tingled, and she hurried even faster.

Those three bolts struck the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array and made it unstable. The red array dimmed by two shades.

City Lord Li attacked again, and this time, his sword directly shattered a formation plate.

The instant that formation plate broke, the entire space shook again. The remaining tribulation lightning seemed impatient. Four bolts fell at once, and then it began brewing the second wave of Thunder Tribulation.

Those four bolts smashed into the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array, instantly destroying four of the smaller arrays and weakening the pull.

The moment Yun Xi felt the pull lessen, the Thousand Shadow Wind-Supporting Technique circulated. She turned into an afterimage and left her original spot.

The remaining cultivators also rushed out of the City Lord’s Residence. They didn’t want to be struck by lightning anymore.

As the whole space trembled, Yun Xi felt like she pierced through a thin membrane. In the next second, she saw the tribulation clouds above the City Lord’s Residence.

“We’re out!”

“We really got out!”

“Don’t celebrate too early. That evil array is still there.”

“Huh? Four small arrays are gone.”

“Fellow Cultivator Zhu, what’s going on?”

“The tribulation lightning destroyed four of the smaller arrays, so we were able to break out of the space,” Zhu Lin said. “Now it depends on whether that little rat can endure Thunder Tribulation.”

By now, Yun Xi was standing outside the Tribulation Transcendence area, staring worriedly at Dian Dian.

Dian Dian was desperately digesting Thunder Tribulation. It was almost curled into a ball, and all its fur had turned black, smoke still rising off it.

On the other side, Li Cang Yuan was ultimately protected by City Lord Li, even while being besieged.

The cultivators were furious, but none dared say much. City Lord Li was, after all, a Nascent Soul True Lord. They couldn’t do anything to him.

The tribulation clouds seemed to finish brewing. In the next breath, lightning poured down in a flood. Yun Xi clenched her fist so tight it hurt.

The torrent of tribulation lightning shattered the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array, and only then did it slam onto the Third Rank formation plate. The formation plate held for five breaths and used up some of the power. After it broke, the tribulation lightning finally struck Dian Dian.

“Dian Dian, hold on!” Yun Xi shouted.

The instant the Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Array broke, every cultivator began sending messages to call for reinforcements. They were not going to swallow this loss.