Chapter 150

Chapter 150: Nine Heavens Profound Thunder

The second wave of tribulation lightning blasted Yun Xi straight to the ground. She spat out a mouthful of blood and felt like her soul was about to leave her body.

Li Cang Yuan and the red-robed female zombie had it even worse than she did. The split-off tribulation lightning burned them into charcoal-black lumps.

The tribulation lightning did not only strike them. The remaining seven coffins buried underground also failed to escape. The entire corpse-nurturing ground was struck by Nine Heavens Profound Thunder until sparks of lightning burst everywhere, and waves of gray gas shot up from beneath the earth.

Yu Qing Cheng and Xia You watched in panic, terrified that Yun Xi would not make it through.

“Fellow Cultivator Yu, what else can we do?” Xia You asked, clenching her fists.

“Guard them. We absolutely cannot let all their efforts go to waste.” Yu Qing Cheng’s face stayed tense. She knew they had reached the most critical moment. If Yun Xi could not hold on, the third wave of tribulation lightning would not fall. Senior Brother Liu would have to keep drawing the tribulation lightning. If those zombies escaped, all the consequences would fall on them.

Yun Xi, lying on the ground, was also in terrible shape. She felt her awareness blurring, and in the next breath her divine soul would leave her body, but a voice deep inside told her to hold on a little longer.

The Nine Heavens Profound Thunder that entered Yun Xi’s body was truly terrifying. It tore through her with unstoppable force, wrecking her body like rotten wood. The lightning spiritual power inside her rushed in right after to repair the damage, but it still could not keep up with the destruction.

Dian Dian, lying in the space, was trembling all over as well. His master had suffered a heavy blow, and as the contracted beast on the servant side, he naturally did not feel well either.

“What do I do! What do I do! What do I do!” Dian Dian muttered in frantic agitation.

The Immortal Spirit Grass beside him noticed Dian Dian’s condition. It shook its leaves and sent a stream of pure spiritual energy into Dian Dian’s body.

Dian Dian absorbed it by instinct and then injected that spiritual energy into the contract seal. The contract seal flashed once, and the spiritual energy was transmitted away.

“It works!” Dian Dian realized he could help his master. He flashed to the Immortal Spirit Grass and began absorbing the spiritual energy it released with all his might. This time, the Immortal Spirit Grass did not dislike Dian Dian. It wrapped him in pure spiritual energy instead.

Through the contract seal, Dian Dian worked hard to send spiritual energy into Yun Xi’s body. Yun Xi’s awareness gradually cleared, and that feeling of being about to ascend at any moment vanished.

Yun Xi struggled up from the ground and took the five-centers-facing-heaven sitting posture. She gripped two top-grade spirit stones and began to absorb them.

The Nine Heavens Profound Thunder circled through Yun Xi’s body once. It seemed to find that unsatisfying, so it threaded through her flesh and suddenly latched onto her bones. That abrupt stunt made Yun Xi’s body jolt, and she sped up her absorption of the spirit stones.

Two breaths later, the divine sense she used for inner sight discovered that the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder split out a wisp of gray qi-thread from her arm bone. The instant the gray qi-thread left her bone, it was shredded by the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder.

Then the weakened Nine Heavens Profound Thunder sank into her body again and continued to roam along her bones. The sharp, tingling sensation made her shiver uncontrollably.

Yun Xi was deeply alarmed. That wisp of gray qi-thread should have been planted back when the Golden Core evil cultivator injured her arm. At the time, she had already used lightning spiritual power to force all the evil qi that had drilled into her body out. She had not expected there to be a straggler, and that it had even seeped into her arm bone.

If she had not advanced at the corpse-nurturing ground this time, and if what she had drawn down had not been Nine Heavens Profound Thunder, she did not know when she would have noticed something was wrong. Just thinking about it made her break into a cold sweat. She felt that this time, she had turned misfortune into a blessing.

Just as Yun Xi was secretly relieved, the third wave of Thunder Tribulation fell in an instant.

The white magnolia hairpin in Yun Xi’s bun raised a barrier of light that protected her for the moment. It dissolved one bolt of tribulation lightning and gave her time to catch her breath.

Yun Xi ached at the thought of it. The hairpin had already used up two protective effects to shield her before. After blocking tribulation lightning this time, it would probably be ruined.

Sure enough, her guess was quickly confirmed. With a “crack,” the protective barrier shattered, and the white magnolia hairpin snapped cleanly in two. Nine Heavens Profound Thunder struck Yun Xi with pinpoint accuracy. Luckily, with the barrier blocking it first, its power was weakened by two parts.

Yun Xi held on, but the two white zombies beside her had it bad. They were completely blasted into black charcoal. Before, they could still twitch a little, but now there was no movement at all.

Two more bolts of tribulation lightning fell one after another. This time, Yun Xi threw the Seven-Star Doom Staff into the sky to take the lightning, buying herself time to recover.

The Seven-Star Doom Staff was surprisingly reliable. It actually absorbed this bolt of Nine Heavens Profound Thunder and completely lit up the Yao Guang Star among the seven stars on the staff, then slammed down heavily beside Yun Xi.

Yun Xi swept a hand and took it back. The injuries in her body had recovered about sixty percent, and she could withstand the lightning to come.

The tribulation lightning seemed to sense that Yun Xi had recovered. This time, it no longer fell one bolt at a time. Instead, three bolts dropped in one go, blasting Yun Xi back onto the ground again.

Yun Xi truly had no strength left to climb back up. The magic robe made from the five-colored python on her body was black in one spot and gray in another, almost reduced to beggar rags. Even so, she still gripped the top-grade spirit stones tightly and, without thinking, kept absorbing spiritual energy to repair the injuries caused by Thunder Tribulation.

The tribulation lightning seemed impatient. It struck down the remaining four bolts all at once, nearly flipping the entire corpse-nurturing ground over. The auras of Li Cang Yuan and the red-robed female zombie completely dissipated.

When Yun Xi felt death was close, the flower-mark immortal artifact at her brow appeared on its own and protected Yun Xi’s divine soul.

In the next instant, Yun Xi’s eyes flashed through the entire life of the red-robed female zombie.

The red-robed female zombie had been the granddaughter of the Bai family in the mortal world. Because she was born into a noble family, she had been doted on since childhood and raised with care. The clan had been prosperous too, with many descendants and talented youths, showing the signs of a flourishing, rising house.

But after she finished her sixth birthday, the family began to decline, like the setting sun. They struggled on, barely holding themselves together. Even so, the family still persisted, believing that hardship was only temporary.

Yet the Bai family’s persistence only made things worse. Those who entered court as officials were demoted and cast aside. Clan members who did business were set up and framed, losing everything in the end. The family suffered accidents again and again. Some died, some were injured. Another five years passed like this, and the Bai family had already fallen out of the circle of great families.

At that time, an expert with an immortal-like bearing appeared at the Bai family and declared that the Bai family’s decline was because of Bai Jing Han, the one who later became the red-robed female zombie.

The Bai family did not believe that the reason their clan was falling lay with an ordinary granddaughter. But the man spoke with certainty. He said Bai Jing Han was a lone star of doom – whoever got close to her would be cursed.

Before Bai Jing Han turned five, the Bai family’s Old Madam had still been alive. The Old Madam was a good person for ten lifetimes and could suppress Bai Jing Han’s fate. But once the Old Madam died, no one could hold Bai Jing Han down. That was why disaster kept striking the family. If it continued, the Bai family would only end with their bloodline cut off.

When the Bai family thought carefully, the facts did match what the Daoist priest said. After the Old Madam passed away, the family began to go downhill. Bai Jing Han’s parents had also died when their carriage was startled and fell off a cliff. Bai Jing Han had been in the carriage too. Her parents had held her in their arms, and she was the only one who survived.

At that, the Bai family completely believed the Daoist priest’s words. But how could they break the situation? They could only ask him for guidance. The Daoist priest did not hesitate. He said he would take Bai Jing Han away, guide her to cultivate the Dao, and pray blessings for the Bai family so the clan would return to the right track.