by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
“I don’t want you to keep going, I want you to attack! What are you afraid of? Didn’t I already say that if the heavens collapse, I will hold them up? Go all-out attacking! No defending at all!” shouted Long Chen.
The Dragonmark warriors were still in defensive postures despite now daring to fight back. Nevertheless, they didn’t dare to take the initiative to attack.
But hearing this, they clenched their teeth. If they died, then they died. It was time to go all-out.
The Dragonmark warriors took on an attitude as though they had accepted that they would die today. They unleashed all their power, attacking the lightning. But after just the first attack, they found that the weather seemed to have improved. Enduring the lightning also became easier.
“Gu Yang, continue,” said Long Chen.
Gu Yang walked the path of a body cultivator. His aura was the strongest, and heavenly tribulation loved that aura the most. So Gu Yang’s provocation was the most effective.
The lightning tribulation was unleashing lightning based on Gu Yang’s cultivation base. As a result, those rank four Celestials were unlucky. They were enduring the tribulation of a rank five Celestial.
But as everyone went all-out attacking, any lightning that appeared would be instantly blown apart, and the resulting lightning runes filled the air. A sea of lightning runes had piled up. Bathed within those lightning runes, everyone felt their bodies being purified and strengthened.
The wood cultivators were also bathed in the lightning runes. Although they didn’t need to bear any attacks, they found that they were starting to become unable to bear it. They felt like they were about to die.
Suddenly, a lightning chain flew out, pulling them out. Those wood cultivators flew to Long Chen’s side.
Once they were beside Long Chen, they suddenly found that the terrifying thunderforce surrounding them was isolated. They relaxed, and as a result, they collapsed on the ground.
A huge lightning dragon swam around Long Chen. The lightning attacks falling toward Long Chen were all devoured by it. It was like a giant umbrella, protecting all of them.
“Many thanks, senior apprentice-brother Long Chen.”
Those wood cultivators felt so emotional that they were about to cry. Just now, they really had felt like they were about to die.
“You still have some remaining thunderforce in your bodies. Don’t blindly dispel it. All objects have things that restrain them and things that boost them. Thunderforce restrains you because of your wood attribute, but it can also be beneficial. Use it to provoke your wood attribute original runes. When they sense the danger, they will instinctively draw out your spiritual yuan to strengthen themselves, allowing them to grow an extra time. This is an opportunity the heavens have bestowed only to you, so don’t waste it,” said Long Chen.
Those wood cultivators couldn’t help being both grateful and ashamed. Long Chen had only forced them to go through such a terrifying lightning tribulation for their own good.
Long Chen viewed these wood cultivators as very important, and he was preparing to keep them permanently. Of course, he would gather some related information about wood cultivators and their needs as well. Everything was within his control.
The only thing was that wood cultivators possessed weak constitutions. This was their current limit. Any more and it would actually be dangerous.
“Boss, my constitution is weak! I also need protection!” cried Guo Ran upon seeing that Long Chen had saved the wood cultivators. He began moving over.
“Scram! Gu Yang, what are you doing? If even the weakest fellow has time to chat, you’re clearly not going hard enough!” shouted Long Chen.
“Boss, just wait and see!” replied Gu Yang. A rune lit up on his forehead, and a pillar of light soared through the clouds. The tribulation clouds shook intensely.
The sky split open as huge lightning beasts appeared, charging down on them. The Dragonmark warriors turned green with terror. They had never seen or heard of this kind of lightning beast appearing in a tribulation.
“Hehe, Guo Ran, don’t blame your brothers for not being loyal. Next time, remember that drawing attention to yourself should depend on the situation.”
Gu Yang laughed wickedly. All his runes formed a resonance with the world and shot toward the sky. Wielding his spear, he crashed into the first lightning beast. The huge lightning beast blew apart, unleashing endless runes.
Gu Yang was able to destroy one of those five-hundred-meter lightning beasts with one blow, all while smiling. That shocked the Dragonmark warriors, and it fully ignited their hot blood.
They found that the difference between them and the Dragonblood warriors was truly immense. They refused to accept this. If this continued, they would appear too useless.
“Kill them!” All of them charged toward the lightning beasts. They once more found the feeling they had had when killing ninth rank devil beasts in the Infernal Devil Abyss. They no longer had the slightest fear.
All their fear did was make them lose face. Even they felt too ashamed to show their faces. In fact, they felt like were bringing shame to the Dragonblood Legion. They had to retrieve their face.
“Meng Qi, Wan-er, come over.” Long Chen called over Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er. “The two of you just needed to allow your rune to obtain the recognition of the lightning tribulation. Your bodies were originally in a flawless state, so you don’t need to use this thunderforce to temper yourselves. You can come watch the fun as well.”
“Hehe, I forgot.” Meng Qi was a bit red. On the other hand, Tang Wan-er had a teasing smile.
Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er both had special constitutions. The lightning tribulation was nothing more than an approval process for them and didn’t really bring many benefits to them either way.
“Oh, Guo Ran seems to be injured,” said Meng Qi.
“Ignore him. He’s once more up to his little tricks. Don’t get fooled by his appearance. Otherwise, that fellow will definitely begin to wail and cry, saying he’s going to die and such. His shamelessness knows no bounds.” Long Chen didn’t even look at Guo Ran’s pathetic appearance. Holding Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er’s hands, he pretended to talk and laugh.
Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er also laughed. It was true that Long Chen was the one who understood Guo Ran the best. This fellow was crafty and slippery, and he didn’t like suffering the slightest bit.
“He doesn’t walk an ordinary cultivation path, so he doesn’t need to do this either, right?” asked Meng Qi.
“That’s different. The power of his physical body is extremely important. Although his power is the lowest amongst the entire faction, once he puts on his armor, even I would have a headache dealing with him. Once he is clad in his armor, his power will multiply by tens or even hundreds of times. It’s extremely monstrous. But his armor only multiplies his original power, and so the stronger his physical body, the more powerful he’ll be once he puts on his armor. Of course, he also understands this principle. But he doesn’t like to suffer this kind of pain, so he’ll try to escape. He’ll try to get by simply by using his armor to cover up his weaknesses,” said Long Chen.
In truth, Guo Ran’s character was not what a cultivator should possess. If he had Gu Yang’s power and made a specialized armor, adding on his concealed weapons, Long Chen would flee whenever he saw Guo Ran.
But he refused to make something out of himself. Other than when it came to forging, he was too lazy, lazy to the point that there was no saving him. His power was built entirely through Long Chen’s medicinal pills. He didn’t even cultivate. That was why his normal combat power was the weakest amongst them all.
“Boss…” As expected, not much time had passed before Guo Ran intentionally drew Long Chen’s attention to his plight.
“What is it?”
“Boss, I’ve broken my limits seven times already, and I brushed against death’s shoulder nine times. I can’t hold on any longer. I’m going to die… Boss, save me…” As he spoke, Guo Ran
coughed up blood, appearing extremely wretched.
“What did you say? The thunder is too loud and I can’t hear you,” said Long Chen.
Guo Ran once more shouted it. Long Chen’s expression changed slightly. Just as Guo Ran thought Long Chen was shocked and going to save him, Long Chen said, “Sorry, my ears are ringing from the thunder, and I can’t hear anything. Meng Qi, quick, can you tell what he’s saying?”
Meng Qi and Tang Wan-er were both curled up in laughter from Long Chen’s display. He was absolutely evil.
Pfft!
This time, Guo Ran truly coughed up a mouthful of blood. He could see that acting pitiable had no chance of success now. If he ran over, he’d just be kicked back, so he could only continue.
Chapter 1098 Absorbing Yuan Spirit Stones
The lightning continued to grow stronger. The lightning beasts grew stronger, and the runes that came out of them when they exploded also grew stronger.
Even if a person wasn’t struck by a lightning beast, they would still have their skin split when a lightning rune landed on their body. Blood continuously poured out.
Some Dragonmark warriors who were attacked by the lightning beasts had their bones break and wildly vomited blood.
Without a word from Long Chen, the wood cultivators who had just managed to take a breath waved their staves. Green waves of light surged out, healing those injured Dragonmark warriors.
“Not good, boss! Guo Ran has fainted!” One of the Dragonblood warriors suddenly noticed that Guo Ran had collapsed.
Long Chen glanced at Guo Ran who was lying there like a dead dog. “It’s fine, just let the lightning whip his corpse.”
After saying that, Guo Ran immediately crawled up from the ground and continued fighting. This attempt was also a failure now, and he didn’t dare to continue playing dead.
However, very quickly, Guo Ran truly wasn’t able to endure it. These terrifying lightning runes caused him to wildly vomit blood whenever they landed on his body, and this time he wasn’t faking.
However, Long Chen continued to ignore Guo Ran’s wailing. In any case, with the healing of the wood cultivators, there was no chance of him dying. It was just painful.
Guo Ran was the first to reach this point, but in just an hour, the others were also unable to bear it. They were covered in blood as these lightning runes continued to grow stronger. Each time a lightning rune entered their bodies, it would injure their internal organs. As for Wilde, he didn’t feel anything. He was still beating lightning beasts with his club, seemingly unable to feel the surrounding thunderforce.
But at the same time as their internal organs broke apart, the impurities inside them were also forced out. This was a painful way to strengthen one’s internal organs.
Foundation Forging was an important process. This realm was a dividing range for cultivators. In the Foundation Forging realm, cultivators had to expel all the impurities in their bodies. Only through a flawless body could they build a flawless immortal platform.
But the Dragonmark warriors, as well as Guo Ran, hadn’t experienced consecutive terrifying lightning tribulations. In order to fully expel all their impurities, they had to endure extra pain this time.
When it came to Guo Ran, this was all his own fault. Before, he liked to slip away before it got too painful. Now, all that debt was catching up to him, with interest.
As for the Dragonblood warriors, they were also in a miserable state, but it was within the realm they could endure. They still didn’t feel like this was very taxing.
This hellish pain continued for over two hours but felt longer than a year to the Dragonmark warriors. However, to Guo Ran, it felt like a century. He was about to go crazy.
Long Chen finally nodded. Everyone’s bodies had undergone a great change, and their auras were much more solid. The tribulation clouds in the sky were starting to fade.
Buzz.
Suddenly, a blood-red saber-image pierced into the sky, and the tribulation clouds were cut in two. This attack caused even Gu Yang and the others to jump in shock. Long Chen was actually once more attacking the lightning tribulation.
If the lightning tribulation once more strengthened, then perhaps people like Gu Yang, Yue Zifeng, and the other commanders might be able to barely endure it, but the others would be instantly annihilated.
But surprisingly, the tribulation clouds were cleanly cut in two, and sunlight peeked out from that crack. After that, the tribulation clouds slowly dissipated without healing.
“Boss is mighty! Brothers, we succeeded! We’re Foundation Forging experts!” Seeing the tribulation clouds fade away, the Dragonblood Legion’s warriors all let out heaven-shaking cheers.
The Dragonmark warriors were cheering with utmost passion. They were unable to believe that they had survived after fighting against the heavens.
“It ignored me?” Long Chen couldn’t help being dumbfounded as he looked at the scattering tribulation clouds. He had been hoping to allow Lei Long to eat some more this time, but the tribulation clouds simply scattered.
He had been hoping to use their heavenly tribulation to strengthen Lei Long as much as possible. That way, he would have a powerful trump card for his next tribulation.
But looking at this scene, it seemed his hopes were completely dashed. He had miscalculated the laws of the Heavenly Daos.
When the Dragonblood Legion returned to Crouching Dragon Mountain, the entire Xuantian Dao Sect was shaken. In just one day, over thirteen thousand people had succeeded in their tribulations and become Foundation Forging experts. If they didn’t see it personally, they wouldn’t believe it. Even people who did see it personally were almost unable to believe it.
When this news reached Hu Guishan and Fan Song’s ears, they were immediately dumbfounded, their hearts cold. Looking at the huge number of nine-ring Foundation Building Pills in their hands, their heads were empty.
Now, these nine-ring Foundation Building Pills were useless. All the inner sect disciples had advanced to Foundation Forging now.
As for outer sect disciples, the new ones would need at least a few years to advance. The huge number of pills in their hands would simply rot.
Orders had already come from higher up that they couldn’t return them. They couldn’t get out of this, nor could they sell them. Hu Guishan and Fan Song had lost eight hundred million points, making them both feel like they might cough up blood.
In the end, they had no choice but to reduce the price and sell them, their target being the outer sect disciples. They dropped the original price of eight thousand points to four thousand.
But the outer sect disciples were too poor. Four thousand points was too much for them to afford. When any outer sect disciples advanced to Foundation Forging, they would normally prepare a pill that was much cheaper than the Foundation Building Pill. That pill only cost four hundred points.
Nine-ring Foundation Building Pills were the best pills that could be bought in the Xuantian Dao Sect of their type. Thus, the outer sect disciples couldn’t afford such a thing, and even at four thousand points, there still weren’t any takers.
Despite Hu Guishan and Fan Song running over to the outer sect and trying to sell discounted nine-ring Foundation Building Pills in the same spot Long Chen had sold his elixir back then, not one person came to buy it. In fact, not even one person came to talk to them. That made them dumbfounded.
Later, they heard that Long Chen had said that as long as no one bought any, they would drop the price even further, a price so low that they had never dreamed of it.
The outer sect was Long Chen’s land. He was like a god there, and his words were practically more effective than the Xuan Master’s.
Hu Guishan and Fan Song were so furious that they turned purple. They now realized their attempt of conning Long Chen had resulted in them being conned by Long Chen.
But they still had to sell them. These pills were garbage in their hands. They needed more points to consolidate their people’s cultiva
tion bases.
It had to be known that these points were not their personal points. They had gathered all the points they could from their factions, and they had only barely managed to gather enough. After all, not all factions were as united as the Dragonblood Legion and willing to give all their points to the leader.
Hu Guishan and Fan Song had borrowed points from their disciples to buy the nine-ring Foundation Building Pills in order to make a huge profit. But let alone making a profit, they even lost their investment.
No one bit at four thousand points, so clenching their teeth, they dropped it to two thousand points. Still, no one came to buy any. And then what made them even more furious was that even at one thousand points, everyone still ignored them.
In truth, one thousand points was a very enticing price. But before Long Chen sent out the word, they didn’t dare to buy any.
Hu Guishan and Fan Song were about to go insane. They didn’t even want to sell them anymore, but they also needed points. In the end, they sent out word that the lowest price would be eight hundred points. If no one bought any, they would rather throw them away.
Now, people finally came to buy them. But now, these eight-thousand-point pills were sold for eight hundred points each.
And the most infuriating thing to them was that these outer sect disciples were actually grateful to Long Chen after buying the nine-ring Foundation Building Pills from them. As for Hu Guishan and Fan Song, the outer disciples just snorted disdainfully at them. The two of them had spent all their money just to make Long Chen even more amazing in the outer sect. Smoke almost came out of their ears.
News of this business sense quickly spread throughout the Xuantian Dao Sect. Whether it was the inner sect or outer sect, or even the workers and commoners, everyone knew that the two of them had become the Xuantian Dao Sect’s laughingstocks.
Their perfect display of ‘trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it’ had been played out to an extreme level, and their legend would be passed down generation after generation. Others would put on plays of this story, ones that were amazing and realistic.