Boom! Boom! Boom! Over a dozen arcs of lightning struck Di Jiu without missing a single one. Scorched by flames, Di Jiu could no longer feel pain; all he could hear was the relentless cracking of his own bones.
Thud! Di Jiu collapsed to his knees. The terrifying lightning arcs rampaged through his body, and as his spine fractured, the rest of his bones broke one after another.
Di Jiu’s heart sank, and he frantically activated the Starstream Technique, striving to break through to the Yuanhun Realm.
He knew all too well that his life might end here today. If he could break into the Yuanhun Realm in time, he might still have a chance to survive. At the same time, Di Jiu desperately longed for a body-refining technique; if only he had one, he wouldn’t be in such a miserable state.
The barrier to the Yuanhun Realm trembled under Di Jiu’s relentless assault. Before he could fully break through, a second wave of lightning arcs began to gather in the sky and soon crashed down.
Once again, over a dozen lightning arcs engulfed Di Jiu. He looked up at the storm, despair creeping into his heart. He had never witnessed lightning tribulation before and didn’t know if the Yuanhun Tribulation was always this terrifying.
But even if he hadn’t been burned by Golden Core True Fire, Di Jiu doubted he could survive such a dreadful lightning assault.
Tree Brother trembled as it watched Di Jiu endure the lightning arcs. It had seen others undergo the Yuanhun Tribulation before, back when it was just a hazy young tree.
But in its memory, no one’s tribulation was ever as terrifying as Di Jiu’s. It remembered seeing ‘three-nine’ or ‘four-nine’ tribulations—meaning at most nine bolts per round, usually three to four rounds. It had even witnessed a ‘one-nine’ tribulation, where nine bolts fell and it was over.
Di Jiu’s tribulation, however, came with eighteen bolts in one round—two nines, and with two rounds, that’s four nines. What kind of tribulation was this? If Tree Brother ever reached the fourth level and faced such lightning, it doubted it could survive.