Battlesage felt the force of the 8th tribulation lightning strike on his fist. His skin grew numb from the impact, a soft jolt passing through his entire body in that moment.He flexed his fingers slightly, feeling the numbness fade away.
"It’s getting stronger," he said softly. "But just one more."
He waited for the final lightning bolt.
The sky rumbled a low growl and energy gathered at the center right above Battlesage. Then, the accumulation of those energies turned into a lightning bolt as it all struck down at him.
Battlesage balled his hand into a fist and struck up one last time.
The energy contained in the final tribulation lightning was strong, but not strong enough to deter Battlesage.
The fist met the lightning bolt and the world went silent for Battlesage. Sparks of white and black filled his vision for a moment, blinding everything. A numbness filled his right fist with the remainder of his arm in a dull ache.
It took a moment for his vision to clear and he saw a wound left behind on the back of his fingers, blood dripping out the side. The strength behind the last lightning bolt had been rather strong.
But, just as he had guessed, not strong enough.
The mere wound on his fist was the only thing Battlesage felt on his fist.
The silence turned to a ringing in his ear that then went away, leading to voices he could hear from a distance.
"Sit down!" the voice came, which Battlesage could somewhat tell belonged to Bladedance. He turned around, looking for her in the flying vessel far away.
"You need to cultivate," Bladedance said. "Sit down. Don’t miss the opportunity."
Only then did Battlesage realize what he was being told and quickly sat down to make full use of the Qi that was provided to him.
Bladedance sighed in the distance, shaking her head at the old man who was going to let such an opportunity go away without doing anything.
The White Tiger walked by. "Will you be going for it next, senior?" he asked.
"In a moment. I’ll give him some time to cultivate in peace," she said. Although, she knew herself she couldn’t give him much time. At most, she could give him a few hours.
She didn’t have much time herself, so she had to go through her own tribulations and then cultivate using those energies as well. She had to heal up and then cultivate even more.
By the time she was done, enough time would have passed that she couldn’t have the time to stay in this world for any longer than a week at best. She would have to leave not long afterward.
Alex waited by the side for the old man to cultivate. He could see the energy gathered in his surroundings, a mass of aura that lingered around the old man, waiting for him to collect it all.
The Land of the Blessed Sun was thick with Qi to begin with, but the region around the old man was much thicker, which was proof of what Bladedance had told him earlier. People went through tribulation lightnings in order to advance their cultivation base.
Alex wondered how long it would be before he would need to do such a thing.
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