<h4>Chapter 563 - First Bolt Sessfully Taken! </h4>


    <i>~huu~</i>


    Lin Mu took a deep breath and opened his eyes that were filled with determination. He leaped far and increased the distance from the two snakes.


    The Fire Fang Snake and the ck Water Snake did not pay any attention to Lin Mu at all. It was not that they did not want to but rather they could not afford to. They simply looked up at the sky, while spirit Qi waves continued to rise from their bodies.


    <i>~Rumble~</i>


    The first bolt of tribtion lightning started to form in the cloud as it gathered together. Two huge ’mouths’ opened up in the clouds and it looked like the lightning bolts were their tongues.


    Lin Mu braced himself as he didn’t know if the lightning would still strike him at this distance or not. The distance that he had chosen was double the distance of the Tribtion tform that Lin Mu had seen at the Tri Cauldron Peony sect.


    <i>~boom~</i>


    The two tribtion bolts were fully formed and finally fell from the sky with a loud thunderp.


    <i>~Zap~</i>


    The bolts struck the two snakes as they hissed in pain. Spirit Qi swirled around them acting like barriers but it did not seem like it was effective.


    Exclusive content from N?velDrama.Org.


    <i>~shua~</i>


    mes came out of the Fire Fang Snakes’ mouth as they swirled around, joining the spirit Qi barrier that had just copsed. Blood trickled out of its scales that had been broken from the tribtion lightning bolt but it still managed to withstand it.


    The ck Water snake was in a simr condition with its scales being broken. The only difference was that these scales also seemed to be burned, unlike the Fire Fang Snake. The Fire Fang Snake lived near volcanoes and had good hesitance to heat and fire.


    Even the heat of the tribtion lightning bolt was enough for it to withstand. But one could not tell if this would be naturally possible or was this due to the intervention of Lin Mu in the form of Beast Qi.


    The ck Water Snake spat out a blue mist from its mouth that surround his body and attached to his wounds. The bleeding soon stopped as the flesh got stiffer.


    The ck Water Snake had used its venom which could make a victim’s blood clot in its body on himself!


    If it were another human or creature, their blood would freeze in their veins, eventually killing them but to ck Water Snake who had resistance to his own venom, he could use it as blood clotting medicine.


    Lin Mu saw that the might of the two tribtion bolts was nearly the same as that of Alchemist Bo.


    ’Seems like it is manageable.’ Lin Mu thought to himself.


    "How many bolts do you think there will be senior?" Lin Mu questioned.


    "Hmm... if these beasts were normally undergoing the heavenly tribtion with their original talent, even this single bolt should have been enough for them to break through. But with the improvement of the Beast Qi, I reckon they will have at least two more bolts." Xukong stated.


    "I guess, I should get two attempts then. One with each snake." Lin Mu said.


    "Be careful though, you will need to time it properly. If it is too early or toote, the Punishment lightning bolts will descend instead of the Pure Tribtion lightning. We do not know if that will work for you or not." Xukong warned.


    "I understand senior." Lin Mu replied and came closer to the two snakes.


    <i>~Rumble~</i>


    The clouds stirred as more lightning crackled through the seams, gathering up at the ’mouths’. Once the spear like lightning bolts were just about to bepleted, Lin Mu jumped into the fray. And the snake that he had chosen to use first was the ck Water Snake.


    <i>~BOOM~</i>


    <i>~BOOM~</i>


    The lightning bolts fell with a thunderp, tearing through the air as they struck the beings below. Except one of them was diverted slightly. The first bolt hit its intended target which was nothing but the Fire Fang Snake, but the second one that was supposed to hit the ck Water Snake hit Lin Mu instead.


    "ARGH!" Lin Mu grunted in pain, as the searing lightning coursed through his body.


    His robes were burnt as a brownyer could be seen glowing below. Unlike thest time, his skin was not affected and only his robes were burnt.


    The Mortal Strengthening Scripture had endured the might of the tribtion lightning bolt!


    But that was not all. Unlike before the armor of the Mortal Strengthening Scripture was still intact and no cracks could be seen on it. Lin Mu was actually a bit worried about this and wondered if the armor would stop the effect of the Tribtion bolt too.


    But that didn’t happen. While that armor did manage to block the impact of the bolt, it didn’t stop its effect on Lin Mu’s core.


    <i>~Crack~</i>


    Lin Mu’s core which was half covered with cracks started to crack again. The cracks spread more and now covered three quarters of the entire core. Lin Mu could also feel the spirit Qi around him stir, as if it was excited.


    "IT WORKED! IT WORKS!" Lin Mu internally eximed, still feeling numb from the lightning bolt.


    He quickly chanted the severing heart sutra to get through the pain and tried to move.


    ’I’ll need to move to the Fire Fang Snake for the next bolt.’ Lin Mu thought.


    He looked at the ck Water Snake that was dumbly staring at the sky, as if wondering where the Tribtion bolt went. The Fire Fang Snake on the other hand was bleeding even more and was lying on the ground weakly.


    "Is it dead?" Lin Mu wondered and probed the snake with his spirit sense.


    <i>~humm~</i>


    <i>~Crack~</i>


    But then he received a sudden surprise. The core within the Fire Fang Snake’s body had already been fully covered with cracks and was about to shatter. There were dense waves of spirit Qiing from it and it was evident the Nascent Soul was about to be born.


    "How can this be? The tribtion is not even over yet?" Lin Mu stated.