Chapter 621: There is no such thing as too much deception in war
Trantor: GodBrandy Editor: Kurisu
Song Shuhang felt awful.
He had concentrated all the power of his body and cultivation techniques into this fist, ready to meet the lightning dragon head-on.
But his fist had yet to bump into the lightning dragon when thetter self-detonated.
This heavenly tribtion had consciousness and was nothing like the methodical tribtion that other cultivators had transcended in the past.
"Boom~"
The radiance of the exploding lightning dragon covered Song Shuhang’s body. Next, the power of tribtion within the lightning dragon directly attacked Song Shuhang’s physical body, ignoring the defensive items he had with him!
Although the defensive formation on the emerald-green kasaya had been smashed to pieces, the emerald-green kasaya itself was still a powerful piece of defensive clothing.
But right at this time, the power of tribtion within the lightning dragon directly passed through the emerald-green kasaya and bombarded Song Shuhang’s physical body.
The power of the lightning dragon burst forth. In the blink of an eye, the defense that the ?Immovable Body of the Buddha? provided to Song Shuhang’s body was breached. The ?Steel Hands Technique? that covered his arms was also rendered useless and broken through.
The power of the lightning of tribtion entered his body, wreaking havoc in there.
The power of the heavenly tribtion had the special ability to suppress the true qi and spiritual energy of cultivators. After the lightning of tribtion seeped into his body, the true qi of his body was continuously suppressed.
Next, the power of the lightning passed through his meridians and started to invade Song Shuhang’s eighth dantians!
Song Shuhang felt his whole body bing soft due to the electricity, and his muscles were also out of control. This feeling of not being able to control his body was truly infuriating.
Song Shuhang clenched his teeth and said, "Dammit."
He wouldn’t give up so easily.
He no longer restrained the mental energy between his eyebrows and fully mobilized it, controlling the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Innate True Qi inside his body and using it to resist the power of the lightning dragon the heavenly tribtion generated.
The dual pain derived from his physical body and usage of mental energy made Song Shuhang growl in pain.
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I’m dying! I’m dying! Of course, the pitiful Lady Onion was also calling out in pain while inside the size-reducing purse.
Song Shuhang forgot to take her out of his purse before transcending the tribtion. Therefore, she was still with him at this time.
Song Shuhang managed to ward off the previous waves of the heavenly tribtion with his ?Inverted Scale Saber Technique? and wasn’t wounded in the process. As a result, Lady Onion wasn’t injured in the slightest, either.
But when the lightning dragon directly attacked Song Shuhang’s body, ignoring all of his defenses, Lady Onion wasn’t able to escape her fate as well. Although the one that was transcending the tribtion was Song Shuhang, Lady Onion just happened to be very close to his body and was thus affected by the power of the lightning dragon of tribtion. At this time, she felt as though someone was roasting her, with all the water fluids in her body quickly evaporating.
But what made Lady Onion even sadder was that the lightning dragon reduced to ashes the green onion sprout she grew back with much difficulty.
If not for the fact that she had taken root in the enlightenment stone, receiving its protection, this lightning dragon would have taken her life!
I refuse to ept it! After I diligently practiced for so long and finally descended from the mountain, a buddhist nun kidnapped me and locked me up for several hundred years! Then, when I finally managed to regain my freedom, I was captured by this small cultivator that even cut off my green onion sprout! When I managed to grow it back with much difficulty, it melted inside the golden coffin! And now, I’m apanying him and dying in the heavenly tribtion together with him!
I refuse to ept it! I don’t want to die yet!
But so what if she didn’t ept it?
Unfortunately, there was nothing Lady Onion could do about this matter.
At this time, Lady Onion wished she could get out of the size-reducing purse and immediately get away from Song Shuhang. However, it was impossible for her to do so. After all, she was unable to assume human form now that her green onion sprout had been reduced to ashes.
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In a distant ce, Yu Jiaojiao was anxiously looking at Song Shuhang. The way the heavenly tribtion was behaving was simply too strange. It was nothing like this when she transcended the heavenly tribtion back then.
Is it possible that the way the heavenly tribtion works has changed? Or is it just Song Shuhang’s heavenly tribtion that is a bit special? Yu Jiaojiao thought to herself, worried to death.
Her mental energy had firmly locked Song Shuhang. If his life aura were to fall below the safety threshold, she would immediately take action and scatter the heavenly tribtion in the sky.
Although this lightning dragon was scary, Yu Jiaojiao had an 80% assurance of scattering the heavenly tribtion in the sky.
But if that 20% probability were toe out on top, for the sake of their friendship, she would prepare a luxurious tomb for Song Shuhang at the bottom of the sea.
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The power of the lightning dragon was still wreaking havoc in Song Shuhang’s body.
However, the Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Innate True Qi inside his body had managed to stabilize the situation under the direction of his powerful mental energy of the Third Stage rank, starting to drive out the power of the lightning dragon.
If he was given two hours’ worth of time, Song Shuhang should be able to drive the strength of the lightning dragon out of his body on his own. However, he didn’t have that much time at this moment!
In the sky, the next wave of the lightning of tribtion was ready to start trouble.
Was it possible that he had no choice but to ept his defeat?
But right at this time, a glistening metallic luster covered Song Shuhang’s body bit by bit.
At first, only his chest and abdominal area were emitting this weak light, but afterward, the light got brighter and brighter and quickly spread to the rest of his body.
His physical body had already broken through the bottleneck of the Second Stage and was slowly evolving into the ’Body of the Battle King’ that cultivators of the Third Stage Realm possessed.
But when the power of the heavenly tribtion seeped into his body and started to wreak havoc, it stimted Song Shuhang’s physical body and increased the speed of the transformation, directly pushing it toward the final stage!
That glistening metallic luster was the sign that his body was about to evolve and transform into the ’Body of the Battle King’.
A feeling of power welled up in Song Shuhang’s heart.
Next, the feeling of numbness the power of the lightning dragon caused immediately disappeared.
Song Shuhang’s eyes lit up.
Although his realm had yet to reach the Third Stage, his mental energy and physical body had reached the Third Stage ahead of time.
Just as the strength of his constitution increased, the true qi inside his body obtained a powerful boost.
"Bang, bang, bang~" The Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Innate True Qi inside Song Shuhang’s body made one vigorous effort and drove the strength of the lightning dragon out of his body.
"Get out!" Song Shuhang roared.
When he roared, the remaining power of the lightning dragon inside his body was transported toward his right arm.
In the end, the leftovers of the heavenly tribtion were driven out of his body.
But right at this time, the treasured saber Broken Tyrant in Song Shuhang’s hand generated an attractive force. Next, the saber quietly gobbled up the remaining power of the lightning dragon.
The treasured saber Broken Tyrant had experienced the mes of tribtion back then when the sect master of the Moon Saber Sect—Ba Qianjun—faced his tribtion of the Fourth Stage Realm. Afterward, the de changed a little and could now store some of the power of the heavenly tribtion. After absorbing the power of the heavenly tribtion, its dark de became a little brighter.
The lightning dragon had finally disappeared...
At this time, Song Shuhang’s whole body was charred ck due to the electricity. At the same time, both his hair and eyebrows had been reduced to ashes after experiencing the power of the heavenly tribtion. Still, he had ultimately managed to survive that fearsome lightning dragon.
The sixth wave of the heavenly tribtion was now over!
"Still four waves to go!" Song Shuhang raised his head and looked at the sky.
At this time, the seventh wave of the heavenly tribtion had already taken shape, and four streaks of lightning of tribtion rained down with all their might.
Song Shuhang closely stared at the lightning of tribtion. Then, just as the lightning rained down, he ruthlessly shed out with the treasured saber Broken Tyrant in his hands.
He didn’t use the ?Inverted Scale Saber Technique? this time. Instead, he just operated the ?Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Technique? and used the strongest saber sh at his disposal.
When the saber shed out, the cry of a whale was transmitted from Song Shuhang’s body. However, the roars of all kinds of animals were mixed within this cry, making it somehow resemble the cry of a dragon.
"Bang!"
The four streaks of lightning of the fourth wave of the heavenly tribtion were scattered and destroyed.
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Next, the three streaks of lightning of tribtion of the eighth wave of the heavenly tribtion were also scattered.
After that, the two streaks of lightning of the ninth wave of the heavenly tribtion were also scattered.
Just as he was warding off the iing waves of the lightning of tribtion, the metallic luster covering his body got brighter and brighter. It was a sign that the Body of the Battle King that only cultivators of the Third Stage possessed was continuously consolidating.
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In the end, the tenth andst wave of the heavenly tribtion was finally approaching.
The tenth wave of the heavenly tribtion was made up of only one streak of lightning.
But this single streak of lightning was going to be stronger than all the previous waves of the heavenly tribtion.
"This is thest wave! If I survive this wave, I’ll be a Third Stage Battle King!" Song Shuhang shouted. Afterward, he spun his wrist and mes started to burn on the treasured saber Broken Tyrant.
It was the ?Heaven Burning ming Saber Technique? he had obtained from Daoist Priest Scarlet Heaven. He had decided to use this saber attack to deal with thest wave of the heavenly tribtion!
"Boom..."
Thest streak of lightning of the heavenly tribtion rained down.
As before, it had the appearance of a lightning dragon. However, it was much smaller than the lightning dragon in the sixth wave of the heavenly tribtion.
It seemed that the heavenly tribtion was at the end of its wits.
"Is it trying to appear weak again?" Song Shuhang smiled gently.
The ten waves of the heavenly tribtion were supposed to be one stronger than the other. Such being the case, how could the strength of thest four waves be weaker than that of the first six?
It’s all useless. You already used this trick once, and now, you want to use it again?
Do you really think that I’ll fall for it again?
This lightning dragon was surely going to be stronger than the previous one. No matter how weak it appeared, Song Shuhang would attack it with all his might.
Song Shuhang poured all his strength into the treasured saber Broken Tyrant. The Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Innate True Qi inside his eighth great dantians also endlessly poured into the de.
The mes burning on the de of the saber got stronger and stronger, wrapping up Song Shuhang’s whole body. Everything within a range of three meters was shrouded in the saber qi of the ’ming Saber Technique’.
This ming saber qi was filled with saber intent capable of burning the heavens and all other things in the universe!
This was the Heaven Burning ming Saber Technique!
It was Song Shuhang’s first time using an all-out sh of the ?Heaven Burning ming Saber Technique? after advancing to the Second Stage.
In the next moment, the lightning dragon descended!
Song Shuhang grabbed the saber with both hands and suddenly shed out. "Break it!"
As soon as he shed, all the mes covering his body turned into a zing sun made of saber qi that chopped toward the lightning dragon in the sky.
"Boom, boom, boom~" The lightning dragon issued a dragon cry.
"Burn, burn, burn~" The ming Saber Technique was ready to burn everything in its path.
The lightning dragon and the ming Saber Technique finally shed.
It was surely going to be a fierce battle between formidable foes— eh?
Unexpectedly, when the ming Saber Technique attacked, the lightning dragon didn’t put up much resistance.
In the sky, as the lightning dragon and the sun-shaped disk of saber qi shed against each other... the former immediately copsed!
That lightning dragon baring its fangs and brandishing its ws was thoroughly destroyed.
The zing sun-like ming saber qi gobbled up the remaining power of the heavenly tribtion that the lightning dragon had left behind and burned it downpletely.
The sound of the unwilling roar of the lightning dragon was transmitted from within the ming saber qi.
From the looks of it, the lightning dragon wasn’t just pretending to be weak... but really was weak?
Was it possible that the heavenly tribtion had concentrated all its strength in that lightning dragon that appeared during the sixth wave of the heavenly tribtion?
In any case, the ten waves of the heavenly tribtion were now over.
Song Shuhang propped himself up with the saber andughed cheerfully.
He had managed to sessfully transcend the heavenly tribtion of the Second Stage!
He had somehow managed to crash his way through this situation where he had a 99% probability of dying and only 1% of surviving. Although he was frightened, he was still safe.
Afterughing cheerfully, Song Shuhang raised his head and looked at the sky.
The fact that thest lightning dragon appeared so weak was rather weird.
Well, perhaps the strength of the ?Heaven Burning ming Saber Technique? that Senior Scarlet Heaven had passed on to him was simply too high?
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In a distant ce, Yu Jiaojiao secretly heaved a sigh of relief. Then, sheughed heartily and said, "Shuhang, congrattions!"
He had seeded. Even though he wasn’t prepared in the least, he had managed to transcend the incredibly dangerous heavenly tribtion.
Now, he was about to be a cultivator of the Third Stage Battle King Realm.
Nowadays, after reaching the Third Stage Realm, direct line disciples had technicallypleted their apprenticeship and could leave the sect. The Third Stage was the realm that implied that one’s apprenticeship was over in the current world of cultivators.
Time surely flew by! When Yu Jiaojiao first met Song Shuhang, he was just a small cultivator of the First Stage Dragon Gate Realm.
She still remembered that Venerable White had him experience the ’shapeshifting dragon gate’ together with her so that he could jump through the dragon gate more easily.
But now, Song Shuhang had already grown up and be a cultivator of the Third Stage Realm. Time really flew by!
Wait, time flew by your sister!
It had been a little more than a month since she had met Song Shuhang! Absolutely nothing flew by!
This bastard had managed to achieve in one month what cultivators with average talent took tens of years to achieve!
Yu Jiaojiao raised her head and looked at the sky. She felt rather sad at this time.
Just as she sorrowfully looked at the sky, Miss Yu Jiaojiao’s small eyes opened wide.
The reason was that the clouds of tribtions in the sky had yet to disperse.
Usually, the clouds of tribtions would immediately disappear after one had sessfully transcended the tribtion. But this time, the sky was still full of dense, dark clouds.
Just what was happening?
Was it possible that the heavenly tribtion wasn’t over yet?
"Shuhang, be careful!" Yu Jiaojiao didn’t have the time to think and shouted loudly, "The heavenly tribtion might not be over yet—"
Yu Jiaojiao had yet to finish her sentence when a pir of lightning descended from the sky.
It wasn’t a lightning arc, but a thick pir of lightning.
Without anyone noticing, a huge pir of lightning had taken shape.
Soon after, the lightning pirpletely enveloped Song Shuhang.
Actually, there was no need for Yu Jiaojiao to remind him. Song Shuhang had also noticed that there was something wrong with the clouds of tribtion in the sky. After the tenth wave of the heavenly tribtion, he had been closely watching the sky.
Therefore, Song Shuhang grasped his treasured saber tightly and used the ming Saber Technique as soon as the ’lightning pir’ rained down.
"Tsk, eat my move again!" Song Shuhang roared.
But this time, it was the ming Saber Technique’s turn to be gobbled up by the ’lightning pir’.
It was like a small torch falling into a pool of water: the mes immediately died out.
Soon after, the lightning pir covered Song Shuhang and the power of the lightning of tribtion inside the pir bombarded his body.
There was no such thing as too much deception in war. Who said that the heavenly tribtion of the Second Stage could only have ten waves?
To tell the truth, the heavenly tribtion of the Second Stage could have up to eleven waves in total. However, the moral behavior of most cultivator was good enough, so they wouldn’t get to experience the eleventh wave.
As for that small portion of cultivators with a bad moral behavior that had faced the eleventh wave of the heavenly tribtion of the Second Stage, they were all dead already.
For this reason, the eleventh wave of the heavenly tribtion had almost be a legend. As such, cultivators slowly started to believe that there were only ten waves.
"Crackle, crackle, crackle~" The heavenly lightning inside the lightning pir exploded.
"Aaaaaah~" The electricity made Song Shuhang call out in pain, and his body began to shiver.
No wonder he’d felt that there was something wrong with the tenth wave of the heavenly tribtion... after all, the whole strength of the heavenly tribtion was concentrated in this wave!
Didn’t they say that the heavenly tribtion had only ten waves? Why the hell did the eleventh appear?!
It’s bad! Even the Body of the Battle King of the Third Stage Realm can’t resist the power of this heavenly tribtion!
His whole body had be soft due to the electricity, and he couldn’t even move his fingers.
The power of the heavenly tribtion seeped into his body once more.
This time, even the true qi inside his body was influenced by the lightning of tribtion and he couldn’t revolve it anymore.
I’m dying, I’m dying... this time, I’m really dying...
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In the airspace of the Pacific Ocean, on that hidden ind slowly drifting about in the sky.
In the deepest part of the floating ind, that powerful senior wearing a mask and residing inside the cold bronze pce seemed to have sensed something as she opened her eyes.