Chapter 1853: 渡劫成功

I’ve seen people tame beasts, tame humans, and even tame weapons, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone tame a lightning tribulation.

Chen Yonghuang, Mo Ling Gu Sheng, Huo Xu Gu Sheng, and the others were all too shocked to speak.

The scene before them had completely defied their understanding.

Lightning, the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao used to punish cultivators attempting breakthroughs, was now obeying a cultivator's command…

How was this even possible?

“This is… my teacher!”

Liu Yang was utterly captivated.

His teacher’s methods truly seemed boundless.

Boom!

After hearing Zhang Xuan’s guidance, the lightning rumbled, and the dark clouds churned. Its speed and power of convergence seemed to increase significantly. It felt as if it could easily strike down not just one freshly ascended Saint 9-dan cultivator, but several more.

The Saint 9-dan cultivator who had just broken through below turned pale.

Who the hell did I ever offend…?

“Help me block the Lightning Weapon Tribulation…”

Ignoring the Fae spirit who looked like he was about to burst into tears, Zhang Xuan let out a sigh of relief and gave the command.

The method of guiding the tribulation was only effective for Fae spirits and had little impact on human master teachers. Therefore, with this lightning tribulation taking charge, it was foreseeable that the number of Fae spirit experts would decline, and they would no longer be a major concern.

Boom!

Full of hesitation, the little tribulation finally stirred and charged towards the Lightning Weapon Tribulation before it.

Seeing a mere Saint 9-dan lightning tribulation daring to block it, the great saber trembled slightly, splitting the dark clouds in half.

Boom!

With a roar, the little tribulation reformed itself.

Zhang Xuan’s scalp tingled. He turned his head again: “Is anyone else about to break through… Never mind, I’ll handle it!”

With that, he swayed and appeared above the crowd: “The path of cultivation requires rectifying the heart, rectifying virtue, rectifying speech…”

From the sky, he began to lecture.

His clear voice echoed all around. The many cultivators behind Liu Yang initially paid no heed, but after hearing a few sentences, they became fully absorbed, each with a smile on their faces. The bottlenecks they couldn’t break through before suddenly became clear to them.

Years of doubts also vanished.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

People continuously broke through, reaching Leaving Aperture, Void Glimpse, Ethereal Realms… The dark clouds densely covered the sky. The previous small tribulation had been very weak, but with these new additions, it began to rage violently.

The lightning gathered, forming a giant figure.

Zhang Xuan lectured until his mouth was dry and his tongue was parched. In just over ten minutes, over two thousand people had broken through, with more than five hundred of them attracting lightning tribulations.

At this moment, the little tribulation had spread across the entire Royal City. The lightning was hundreds of zhang in size; a mere tear could rip space apart, as if it would collapse heaven and earth.

The Lightning Weapon Tribulation in the sky, seeing the previously despised little fellow transformed into such a formidable entity, seemed to hesitate. Its long saber trembled; before it could even strike, it was hit by the lightning and kept trembling in the sky.

“This works too?”

Shaking their heads, Chen Yonghuang and the others looked as if they had seen a ghost.

Using lightning to defeat lightning — only Zhang Xuan could possibly conceive of and achieve such a feat.

“You can handle it yourself, I’ll rest for a bit…”

Seeing that the Lightning Weapon Tribulation temporarily couldn’t descend, the clone let out a sigh of relief, swayed slightly, and with a flash, vanished from its spot.

Although it had broken through to the Ancient Sage level with the help of the Sacred Vestige Stone, it had suffered severe injuries in its struggle against the great saber and needed to return to recuperate properly.

After putting it back into his ring, Zhang Xuan immediately felt as if all his strength had vanished, and he plopped down.

He realized he shouldn’t have been so reckless.

If it hadn’t been for this place, with so many Fae spirits on the verge of breaking through, and if he hadn’t already established a good relationship with the little tribulation, he truly wouldn’t have been able to withstand it.

Rumble!

The little tribulation and the Lightning Weapon Tribulation clashed for a while. Eventually, the latter’s power was worn down, and it slowly dissipated.

Feeling the pressure disappear, Zhang Xuan immediately felt a new surge of power emerge throughout his body, causing his entire life level to undergo a transformation.

“Suppress!”

After a moment of hesitation, Zhang Xuan did not rush to break through.

Although breaking through now would allow him to smoothly become an Ancient Sage level expert, his future advancements would inevitably be affected.

Having learned Master Kong’s breakthrough method, he wanted to imitate him by suppressing his cultivation several more times, aiming for even higher realms in the future.

Whoosh!

The continuously surging power was suppressed, and he returned to the Great Perfection of the Immortal Realm. Zhang Xuan let out a sigh of relief.

“You can go back now, thank you for this time…”

He bid farewell to the little tribulation.

This lightning tribulation, formed by over two hundred breakthroughs, glanced down at the surging crowd below, paused for a moment, then finally swayed and slowly dissipated.

Only after it disappeared did Zhang Xuan feel his entire body’s strength completely depleted, without an ounce of energy left.

This breakthrough, though allowing him to reach the Ancient Sage level and enabling him to succeed at any moment, had also left him with only a skeletal frame, and his life force was severely depleted.

Even with the blood of an Ancient Sage at the Blood Rebirth level, it would still take several years to fully restore his physical body.

“Kill him…”

He had just sat down and hadn’t had a chance to rest when an Ancient Sage of the Fae tribe, with a fierce glint in his eyes, rushed over, pressing his palm down fiercely, aiming directly for Zhang Xuan’s head.

The momentum of this guy’s breakthrough was simply too immense. If he wasn’t killed now, he would inevitably become a huge hidden danger in the future, and no one would be able to defeat him.

“Young Master!”

Unexpectedly, the other party reacted so quickly and attacked directly. Chen Yonghuang roared, about to intervene and save him, while the Dragonbone Divine Spear on the side also trembled, wanting to make a move.

However, before either could reach him, they saw Zhang Xuan, who was sitting on the ground, instinctively raise his hand to meet the attack.

Splat!

With just one strike, the Ancient Sage’s arm was shattered into powder, followed immediately by his body exploding, his soul unable to escape.

“This…”

Everyone present was stunned.

This attacking Ancient Sage, though not at the Blood Rebirth level, was still an expert at the Myriad Philosophers realm, yet he was casually slapped to death by someone at the Great Perfection of the Immortal Realm…

“Me?”

Zhang Xuan himself was utterly bewildered.

After this Lightning Weapon Tribulation, his power had increased significantly, but he hadn’t broken through to the Ancient Sage realm. He had originally thought he was at most comparable to an expert at the Bloodline Continuation level. He never expected that with a casual palm strike, an expert at the Myriad Philosophers level would be instantly killed!

“Already comparable to… early Blood Rebirth…”

Feeling his power, Zhang Xuan was filled with excitement.

He hadn’t broken through yet, but his power was already comparable to that of an early Blood Rebirth realm. No wonder it was said that suppressing one’s cultivation multiple times would greatly benefit its growth.

It truly seemed to be the case!

“Attack…”

Seeing Zhang Xuan casually slap an Ancient Sage to death, the remaining Ancient Sages on Linghuang’s side were utterly terrified. Yonghuang and the others no longer hesitated, and in a short time, they cut them all down.

Seeing this scene, Chen Linghuang’s face turned ashen, and he gritted his teeth, no longer daring to be distracted. He quickly absorbed the power spreading from the black hole to recover from his injuries.

“Right… the power produced by the ritual can help Chen Linghuang recover from injuries, but can it also help me recover from mine?”

Seeing him in this state, Zhang Xuan’s heart suddenly stirred.