On the third night after Zhu Baifeng's death.
Jiang Xia took a comfortable bath and planned to study the secrets of the spirit possession technique again. As usual, he casually threw a spirit gathering pill into his mouth.
The moment you chew it like candy beans, the familiar herbal aroma fills your mouth, and a hot current flows down your throat.
Lao Jiang burped comfortably.
Then……
I'm in trouble.
He took a large amount of drugs, which made the quiet spiritual power in his body, which was almost full, become violent and restless in an instant, just like a match was thrown into it.
It was like a giant beast that had been awakened, howling and charging left and right inside Jiang Xia's body. The spiritual energy in every meridian was ignited, as if it were on fire.
In just a moment, Jiang Xia's face turned red.
Wisps of white mist rose from above his head.
Gathering and dispersing is like the mist from boiling water.
The spiritual energy dissipated outwards uncontrollably, and in just a few seconds, it formed a shock wave like a halo. All kinds of books in the entire study were stirred and flew everywhere, creating a mess.
The first person to feel the turmoil of spiritual energy was Liu Hui.
The silly monster put on his cloak and turned into a gust of wind, rushing from the garden to the study. He kicked the door and broke it. Amidst the flying wood chips, he saw Jiang Xia, whose face was as red as a steamed shrimp.
Lao Jiang was slumped in his chair, his fingers tightly clasped on the armrests.
The chip in the brain seemed to be impacted as well, and the operation of the prosthesis was briefly out of control. When Liu Hui came in, she saw that the armrest made of spiritual wood was broken by Jiang Xia's five fingers.
"Are you going to survive the catastrophe? You didn't listen to my advice! You took random medicines!"
The wolf demon stepped forward quickly and placed his hand on Jiang Xia's forehead.
A burning sensation made Liu Hui's eyes widen.
The anxious monster picked up Jiang Xia without saying a word, bent his legs and took off like a cannonball. The reverse force shattered the study floor, and his suddenly rising body also smashed the ceiling of the study.
In the explosion of the circular shock wave, the silly monster carried the boss, stepped on the air, and ran out of the city.
The thunder tribulation is not very intelligent and can only target the person undergoing the tribulation.
But if Jiang Xia were to endure the tribulation in the county town, even the weakest thunder tribulation of the Qi training realm would cause many casualties. The power of heaven and earth is definitely not something that ordinary people can withstand.
"Boss, hold on! Suppress your spiritual power!"
Liu Huiru carried Jiang Xia like a sack and shouted loudly while running:
“The power of the thunder tribulation will increase with the number of people in it. If you can’t suppress it, I can escape, but if all the people in this city are dragged into the thunder tribulation, you will surely die!
It must have been suppressed!
I will take you to a no-man’s land.”
"Take him to Fengshan quickly!"
The voice of the local city god also reached the silly monster's ears at this moment. The city god surnamed Cui reminded him sternly:
"The spirit is born and raised by nature, and is not subject to calamities. The only person who can help him survive the calamity is the Pomegranate Supervisor. Go now!"
“Oh.”
The wolf demon responded and changed direction in the air.
The incident happened suddenly, and the stupid monster didn't bother to hold back his strength. He found the direction of Fengshan, and when he exerted force with his legs, a gust of wind swept over the monster's body.
When he was carrying Jiang Xia and walking together, he broke the speed of sound.
The moment the sound barrier was hit, Lao Jiang let out a loud scream.
It hurts.
It was like hitting one's head against a rock.
Meanwhile, in Fengshan, Pomegranate was happily staying up late playing games, when he suddenly felt uneasy. He grabbed the game console and rushed out of his warm nest.
When I looked forward, I heard a howling wind.
Ten or so breaths later, at the cliff of Fengshan Mountain, Shi Liu saw Liu Hui carrying Jiang Xia falling from the sky.
There was no need to sense it. The moment Jiang Xia appeared, the restless spiritual energy could no longer be suppressed. In the dark sky above his head, a dark cloud of thunder gathered.
"Is he going to transcend the tribulation? So soon?"
Pomegranate's eyes widened.
But at this point, Shi Liu also knew the reason why Liu Hui brought Jiang Xia here.
It looked back and saw that the rabbits it raised in the nest were frightened by the breath of thunder and were running around. The spirit-filled tiger was also roaring terrifyingly .
These beasts sensed the breath of destruction and were terrified.
"Help me hold it and hurry up!"
Shi Liu threw the game console to Liu Hui, waved his paw and shouted:
"The farther you go, the better. If your demonic energy hits the thunder tribulation, you will lose this Fengshan Mountain."
The wolf demon nodded, looked at Jiang Xia with some concern, and then disappeared into the wind with Shi Liu's game console. Before leaving, he did not forget to take the nest of lively little rabbits with him.
At the same time, he led the frightened tiger, riding the wind, and ran out of the mountain for his life.
"Hey, you're not ready?"
Pomegranate flapped its wings and flew to Jiang Xia's side. Thunderclouds gathered and swirled above his head, like a swirling eye in the sky. In the dark eye of the storm, dazzling arcs of electricity were flashing.
A strong wind was blowing, covering the entire Fengshan cliff .
Jiang Xia tried hard to control his paralyzed body and assumed a posture with his five hearts facing the sky.
At this moment, he was almost unable to suppress the raging spiritual energy in his body. Facing Shi Liu's shouting, he could only stiffen his head and probe his spiritual thoughts into the storage ring.
Prepare……
Of course he does.
The only thing that Lao Jiang didn't expect was that the thunder disaster came so suddenly and without any signs at all.
"Shua"
He used his divine sense to open the storage ring, and a bunch of things appeared scattered around Jiang Xia. Shi Liu turned his head and saw nine purple-black stones, a rolled-up formation diagram, and several bottles.
Finally, there is a triangular metal thing with a thin wire on the top.
"Hey, the Thunder Stone, you have this good thing too?"
Pomegranate was a clever monster that knew a lot about natural treasures. It smiled knowingly and without Jiang Xia's instructions, it quickly opened the formation diagram and placed it in front of Jiang Xia.
Then he placed nine thunder-controlling stones on the centers of each array.
Finally, he grabbed the porcelain bottle and poured out a round vermilion pill.
As soon as the elixir was poured out and the wax seal was opened, Pomegranate felt as if he had smelled the most wonderful perfume, and an expression of enjoyment appeared on his stone face.
"Top-grade foundation-building pill, Jiang Xia, you are really extravagant."
It curled its lips, pried open Jiang Xia's stiff lips, stuffed the palm-sized pill into Lao Jiang's mouth, and helped him move his jaw up and down to chew the pill into pieces.
Finally, he propped up the incomprehensible metal thing and quickly evacuated the area where the thunder tribulation had already formed.
Although he is a spirit, he is not affected by calamities.
Even if it helps temporarily, it will not stimulate the power of the thunder tribulation, but Pomegranate is smart and it does not want to experience the feeling of being struck by thunder.
After retreating nearly a hundred steps, Shi Liu sat on a rock, folded his wings, and crossed his legs like Jiang Xia did in the past. He supported his chin with his left paw and watched the thunder tribulation in front of him with a happy face.
Jiang Xia, this bad guy, is going to be struck by lightning. Although the thunder tribulation is only the initial tribulation of Qi training, it is coming with such force and ferocity, like a dark cloud covering a city .
Haha, I think this bad guy Jiang Xia must have done something bad recently, which made the heaven and earth angry.
Pomegranate doesn't want to miss such a beautiful scenery.
It doesn't have too much to worry about.
It’s just the weakest Qi training thunder tribulation.
The first tribulation on the road of cultivation is not dangerous. As long as you are not an evil cultivator with resentment, and as long as you have a foundation-building pill in your hand, you can basically get through it safely.
What's more, Jiang Xia also luxuriously prepared top-grade foundation-building pills, as well as the transformation formation diagram that would only be prepared for higher-level thunder tribulations, and the thunder-controlling stone that could absorb the power of thunder and lightning.
Such luxurious preparation...
Even if you pick your feet, you can get through it easily.
"At least take my prosthetic body away! You idiot Pomegranate, this thing is a lightning rod!"
Jiang Xia was roaring in his heart at this moment.
Unfortunately, Pomegranate has no chip and cannot hear his cry.
The top-grade foundation-building pill that Wang Liufu had obtained from his master had already dissolved its medicinal power, and it was like adding a highly effective fuel to the turbulent spiritual energy.
Originally, he could still suppress it, but the moment the drug power entered his body, it exploded immediately.
"Crash"
The spiritual energy surged for a moment, as if something was happening between heaven and man.
There were dark clouds rolling in the sky above his head. A dazzling bolt of lightning tore through the darkness and struck Jiang Xia on the head. At that moment, Jiang Xia could not hear anything.
He could only feel his short hair standing up, and then a strong electric current flowed into his body along his spiritual sense, like a sledgehammer hitting him on the head.
The hammer knocked Jiang unconscious.
Pain comes second.
The raging spiritual power in his body was also suppressed by this lightning. Lao Jiang felt that the lightning was like a rough hand, grabbing the spiritual energy and stuffing it into every inch of his flesh and blood!
This pain was very similar to the stinging pain when Liu Hui cleansed his marrow and transformed him into a mortal. It was like a file scraping through his flesh and bones, causing a numbing pain.
Before he could "savour it carefully", there was another loud bang and the second thunder struck. This time the pain was even worse, and Old Jiang grimaced in pain.
Sparks were flying all over his left prosthesis.
The four high-energy capacitors were close to overload, the steel components of the prosthesis showed signs of melting, the brain chip was bombarded by lightning, and the security system went offline in an instant.
Various error messages kept popping up in front of Jiang Xia's eyes.
It even blocked the entire vision of my left eye.
Everything in front of his eyes went dark, and when he was struck by the third heavenly thunder, even Jiang Shusheng's cursory and useless life appeared before his eyes.
But there is some good news.
Thanks to Shi Liu's previous help, the carp-dragon transformation diagram in front of Jiang Xia has been activated.
The red carp dragon pattern with a dragon head and a fish body painted on the pattern is so lifelike that it seems to come alive at this moment. The carp dragon drawn with a vermilion pen is swaying its tail like a ribbon.
This nimble creature was bathed in lightning and broke away from the formation.
It flew around Jiang Xia in the form of a phantom, as comfortable as if it was swimming in the water, and the nine thunder-resistant stones also helped Jiang Xia share the power of the thunder tribulation.
The purple-black stone was covered with lightning marks, and slender blue arcs were drawn around the phantom of the carp dragon, making it look like a sci-fi holographic projection.
This area of ​​lightning and lightning is filled with a wonderful sense of the future.
Lao Jiang’s suffering continues.
The first three lightning bolts struck his body, violently pressing the turbulent spiritual energy into every inch of flesh and blood, like a rough tempering, cleansing Jiang Xia's body.
The next three bolts of lightning struck directly on the soul.
The body was still hit hard. In the vast and empty sea of ​​consciousness, in that world of thought, there was also a flash of lightning, and the sky and the sea were connected with the rhyme of thunder.
In the midst of the turmoil, Lao Jiang's right eye seemed to be lit up from the inside.
There was also the strange tree of stars with two flowers blooming in the sea of ​​consciousness. It was also bathed in thunder and lightning, but it was not damaged at all. It was even shaking its body as if it was bathing in spring rain, as if it had eaten golden Ke La.
It has never been so active.
Lao Jiang's body was cleansed by Liu Hui, but his soul had not been tempered since birth. These three lightning bolts were like the waves washing away the sand.
Jiang Xia's soul was also cleansed through the painful ordeal.
Retain the essence of simplicity.
The last three bolts of lightning were more ferocious and domineering than the previous six. Lao Jiang felt like a small boat sailing on a raging sea.
I was tossed around by an invisible pair of hands, as if the boat would capsize and I would die in any moment.
It was also like a ball of dough being pinched in someone's hand, being stretched and compressed again and again, constantly changing its shape. Finally, when his consciousness was about to become blurred, he was finally reshaped again.
It was glued together again into a human form.
And this time.
The originally isolated reality and spirit seem to be connected together.
For the first time, he felt the real existence of his soul in his body. The real soul, like flowing water, filled the outline of the body.
It seems like I can travel into the void at any time.
But this tempered soul is still too fragile and needs the protection of flesh and blood. It cannot run out to the outside world to wander.
"Hello! Hello? Are you still alive?"
Lao Jiang was immersed in that strange experience, learning to observe the world from the perspective of the soul. He was in a daze and didn't know how much time had passed, but he vaguely heard a sharp call.
I felt something cold hitting my face again.
He looked up blankly and saw Pomegranate sitting cross-legged on his chest, hitting his cheek with its small steel fork. The sky in his sight was no longer oppressive with dark clouds.
Instead, there is a dim moon and few stars.
The sea of ​​stars is so brilliant.
It was as if everything that just happened was just a dream.
"You're already like this after just nine strikes? I heard that you took the Spirit Gathering Pill to gather spiritual energy, no wonder you're so weak."
Pomegranate chuckled and felt relieved to see Jiang Xia wake up.
But he still said unforgivingly:
"This Qi training thunder tribulation is just the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth saying hello to you.
The next level, the True Thunder Tribulation, is truly life-threatening. If you don't do good things and bully our Pomegranate again, heaven and earth will punish you with a nine-fold thunder tribulation.
I'll hit you ninety-nine times and eighty-one times, and see what you can do."
"You just scare me."
Jiang Xia said weakly:
"The oath Mr. Crow gave me binds you and me together. If I die, you will suffer the same fate. Alas, help me up. I can't see with my left eye.
The chip is also screwed.
Next time I'll have to ask them to add an overload protection device."
Pomegranate snorted, flapped its wings and flew up. With a wave of its left claw, its earth-controlling ability took effect. The ground bulged on both sides, and it directly created a stone chair for Jiang Xia.
Lifted him off the ground.
Lao Jiang glanced at his left arm.
He knew without even trying to sense that this thing was broken. The capacitor exploded from overload, and the internal wiring and machinery were completely destroyed by lightning. He looked to the right again.
The small lightning rod prepared earlier was intact.
But it didn't work either.
Obviously, the thunderbolt only looks like thunder and lightning, it is not actually real thunder and lightning, so the lightning rod is naturally useless, and this attempt can be considered a failure.
The last one is the diagram of the carp-dragon transformation formation.
Originally, it was prepared by Zhu Baifeng for himself, but after being killed by his filial apprentice, Heishui gave this thing to his new boss in order to exchange it for the Ashes Medicine for his junior sister.
It can be considered as a disguised form of help.
But the formation diagram can only be used once, and this time the vivid carp dragon on it disappeared, leaving only the burnt silk.
“It’s a heavy loss.”
Lao Jiang complained.
But there was no expression of regret or pain on his face.
He obviously gained more than he lost.
Now that he has officially entered the Qi training realm, he has not yet tried all the supernatural powers of a cultivator, but just by sensing the spiritual power in his body, he can control it as easily as his arms, ten times more condensed than before.
The Dantian Sea of ​​Consciousness and the Shenting Lingshu have been greatly expanded. What was a small puddle before has now become a trickling stream.
besides……
"Um?"
Jiang Xia's expression changed. He raised his right hand, and as his mind swayed, a blue-purple arc of electricity flashed between his five fingers.
“Is this… a magical power?”
He looked at the blank Carp-Dragon Transformation Array beneath his feet in astonishment.
He remembered what Heishui had told him before, that when using this diagram to overcome thunder tribulations, in combination with the Thunder Control Stone, there was a small chance that he could gain the ability to control lightning by drawing on the nine-day thunder energy.
The reason why Zhu Baifeng spent all his family wealth to buy this formation from the Hongyan Society was to gamble on that tiny chance, but now it has gotten the advantage to Jiang Xia.
"Ha ha ha ha."
Lao Jiang laughed heartily and said:
"It seems that I am lucky. As expected, if you are eager to help others and do good deeds often, you will always be rewarded."