Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 714 Misjudged the Strength of the Heavenly Tribulation

When a cultivator undergoes tribulation, the clouds usually descend from an altitude of ten thousand meters. Because the distance is so great, they usually require technical means to observe them until they are within 3000 meters of the earth's surface.

A cultivator's maximum attack range is around 3000 meters. Beyond that, it's not that they can't attack, but rather that their spiritual senses struggle to lock onto them. Yan Yu activated the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation just as the main body of the first wave of tribulation lightning descended to a height of 3000 meters.

Further down, from 1800 meters to 500 meters, is the best time to deal with the tribulation lightning. On the one hand, the tribulation lightning is still some distance away from the cultivator, and on the other hand, it is also a good opportunity to conduct long-range lock attacks with flying swords and magic weapons, thus consuming the number of tribulation lightning.

Once the lightning strike breaks through to within 300 meters, it means that it will reach the surface in two or three seconds, and the time left for the cultivator to react is relatively limited.

In the Fire Phoenix Team's meeting room, Zhang Huaide took notes and analyzed:
"The resources for overcoming tribulations can be divided into two categories. One category is coping methods that consume one's own true essence, such as spells, sword formations, etc. The other category is consumables that are low-cost and available in large quantities, such as low-level flying swords and magic weapons."

"To increase the success rate of transcending the tribulation, the key lies in the rational allocation of resources. True essence is renewable, but consumables are not. Therefore, the key to using the latter is not how much tribulation lightning can be consumed, but whether it can buy enough time to refine the medicinal power and restore the true essence."

"Look at what Team Yan did. They first used the Liang Yi Micro Dust Sword Formation to consume some of their True Essence, and then used the Xiao Xuan Guang Ruler instead of the Wan Zhu Sword. This is probably because the Wan Zhu Sword itself requires a small amount of True Essence, which will slow down its recovery time, while the Xiao Xuan Guang Ruler only needs to consume the essence of the magic weapon."

"Among Team Yan's many methods, the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation has the highest cost-effectiveness in breaking the tribulation thunder. Therefore, his strategy is very clear, which is to use the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation as much as possible in the shortest time, ensuring that the least amount of true energy is used to break the most true energy, leaving enough room for error later..."

"That's right," Zhou Hongyu said seriously. "When you're going through the tribulation, you must consider the cost-effectiveness of efficiency and loss of true essence, and determine the best way to deal with the tribulation. Don't panic when you see the heavenly tribulation and throw all kinds of spells and flying swords into the air."

"Under the calamity cloud, no one can save you. You can only rely on yourself for everything."

Everyone nodded in agreement, thinking to themselves that he was indeed our Captain Zhou, as he could remain calm even in a major situation like a tribulation.

Only Tang Xiaolian noticed that Zhou Hongyu's hands, which were placed on his knees, were clenched so tightly that the knuckles had turned white.

In the Qing'an team's meeting room next door, Li Minghu did not explain to his teammates how to overcome the tribulation, but just stared at the screen in silence.

Although the Xiaoxuan Guang rulers were well prepared and numerous, they could not withstand the puppet Ah Zhen's urging and draining of them one after another, and their number soon decreased by more than half.

Yan Yu stood up again, looked up at the sky, and with a rough sweep of his spiritual sense, he estimated that there were about 700-800 copper light thunders.

And right above these thunders, in a place that Yan Yu could not notice, at an altitude of about 6000 meters, the second wave of copper thunders had begun to fall at an accelerated speed, and the number was... 6000.

At this time, the electromagnetic environment within the range of the tribulation has become completely disordered, and only buzzing noises remain in the radio headset.

The light of a searchlight came from a distance. It turned out that someone outside was using the light frequency to signal him, meaning... the situation was getting critical.

Has the second wave of thunder already fallen? Yan Yu immediately knew what was going on. He did not use the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation, but simply used the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword and the Small Xuanguang Ruler at the same time to slowly clear away the remaining part of the first wave of thunder.

In the Longxiong team's meeting room, everyone saw a light signal coming from afar and immediately guessed that the communication had failed.

"Fuck, it actually blocks electromagnetic signals." Liu Longtao complained, "Looks like we need to learn how to use light communication."

"The formation beneath Team Yan's feet is also very important," Yang Linhui analyzed. "Without this formation to block the first wave of tribulation lightning, Team Yan would have to speed up the process of clearing the lightning, leaving them with less time to recover their true essence."

"Wasn't that formation designed by Deputy Captain Ye?" Bo Ran said casually, "Ask Deputy Captain Ye if he can arrange for us to overcome the tribulation as well."

Everyone was speechless. Although Ye Jun was still on the Longxiong team, he had long since stopped participating in team activities. While the Dingbei Army's leadership was largely to blame, Ye Jun had served the team for so long, yet Captain Liu hadn't even offered him the slightest bit of protection. It was only natural that he felt disheartened.

It's like a company that has cut a large number of employees and then invites the laid-off guys back to save the situation. Regardless of whether they are willing to come back or not...it's very embarrassing.

Bo Ran hadn't been a member of the Longxiong team long, and didn't understand the interpersonal relationships within the team. In his opinion, Ye Jun had left the team because his abilities weren't up to par, and then became a formation master because his abilities were up to par. Logically, that was a good outcome, and he wouldn't hold a grudge against anyone on the team because of it.

"Well, it's not our turn to speak." To avoid embarrassing the captain, Guo Feiyun quickly smoothed things over, "The higher-ups will definitely make arrangements."

Liu Longtao's expression remained unchanged, thinking to himself, "Old Yan is definitely going to start a harem. If Ye Jun doesn't quit the team now, how can it be too late?" With her hardworking and uncomplaining personality, if she gets bogged down by team affairs again, she won't be able to compete with those fierce women, right?

Alas, no one can understand my good intentions!
It doesn’t matter. Once they are together, they will thank me sooner or later!

At the top of Tianzhu Peak, at the tribulation site, Yan Yu cleared the first wave of tribulation thunder, and then saw the more dense second wave of tribulation thunder, which had rushed into the coverage of the formation and began to approach a height of three thousand meters.

He pinched the sword gesture with his fingers again, activating the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation.

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Not only were people in Lu country eagerly waiting for the news, but people abroad were also paying close attention to the news of "Lu country monks overcoming the tribulation."

Although they were unable to capture a close-up shot of Yan Yu's tribulation, they used the most advanced military surveillance satellite to take oblique shots of the mainland from above the western Pacific Ocean, and saw the terrifying scene of the tribulation thunder crashing down from the sky.

It's like the end of the world.

The underground black market opened up immediately, with nearly 80% of the bets placed on Yan Yu's inability to survive the thunder tribulation. After all, to date, no transcendent in the world had successfully broken through to the next great realm; all who had taken that step had perished.

The Great Filter, the international term for "crossing the tribulation," is also considered a natural mechanism used by the supernatural world to limit the number of supernatural beings. The tribulation that Lu Guoyanyu was facing was clearly the most massive, exaggerated, and terrifying "Great Filter" of all supernatural beings.

Inside the Lu Kingdom's Privy Council, the technical staff were moving around more and more frequently. Because the second wave of thunder far exceeded the expert team's estimates, almost everyone was on edge, and the atmosphere was filled with an extremely tense atmosphere.

"Normally, there will only be one wave of tribulation lightning." Mei Yingxue remotely connected to Pingjing from Jingbei Province and began to respond to the experts' inquiries. "Merit and karma only affect the intensity of the tribulation itself, not the number of waves of tribulation lightning. This usually only means that he is about to form a higher-grade golden elixir."

"But the previous aptitude assessment believed that he should have formed a mid-grade golden elixir." A cabinet secretary asked, "After taking the Nine-Transformation Vermilion Phoenix Pill." "The aptitude assessment is not absolute." Mei Yingxue pondered.

She was considering whether to share Yan Yu's knowledge of his ability to improve his breathing efficiency simply by being around beautiful women. But after a moment's reflection, she realized it was pointless, as it was also a matter of individual aptitude. Lu State had so many cultivators available for research, yet it still couldn't solve the cultivation problems of mortals, let alone utilize Yan Yu's unique physique.

"So the increase in the number of heavenly tribulations is due to underestimation of his qualifications?" asked another cabinet secretary.

"That's not the case," Mei Yingxue shook her head. "Of course, there's a positive correlation between the intensity of the heavenly tribulation and the grade of the Core Formation, but there's no specific formula for calculating it. The former won't necessarily rise smoothly with the latter; a step-by-step increase is also possible, and it can't be calculated in advance."

"But based on the current estimates, the possibility of Yan Yu successfully surviving the tribulation is rapidly decreasing."

"Yes." Mei Yingxue admitted this, "but I believe he can get through it."

The cabinet secretary who was questioning was silent for a moment, then said to Mei Yingxue:

"Yes, we all hope he can pull through."

Seeing the second wave of thunder swooping down with twice the density, Li Zhaojiang in front of the TV screen couldn't help but say:
"Damn it! Old Yan is doomed..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Minghu glared back at him.

"Old Yan will definitely be fine." Facing his sister's sharp, murderous gaze, Li Zhaojiang quickly changed his tone and said, "His Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation is too powerful. Before, he just released it a few times, and most of the tribulation lightning was gone! Now that there are more tribulation lightning, he can only use the sword formation for a while longer."

"The Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation consumes a lot of energy," Xu Jin suddenly said from the side. "Team Yan is desperately trying to maintain their endurance."

"Hmm." Li Minghu said solemnly, "From the current perspective, the battery life is likely to fall short."

The thunder of tribulation never ceases. Either one continuously consumes one's true essence to use the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation to deal with the heavenly tribulation, or one-time use of flying swords and magic weapons to perish together with the thunder of tribulation. The number of the latter and the consumption efficiency of the former can be roughly estimated. By comparing it with the number of thunder of tribulation, the result can be calculated.

"What should we do then?" Li Zhaojiang asked hurriedly.

Although he had always been worried that his sister would be seduced by Yan Yu, he felt an even stronger sense of grief when he saw Yan Yu struggling so hard at the scene of the tribulation.

"Yan Yu isn't the type to sit back and wait for death." Li Minghu whispered, "He should take some measures..."

While everyone was talking, Yan Yu suddenly stopped his sword formation, took another pill, sat cross-legged on the spot and concentrated on refining it.

Not only that, even the Wanzhu Sword and the puppet Ah Zhen's Xiaoxuan Guang Ruler stopped.

"Captain?" Lin Ning suddenly stood up in the Zhenhai team's meeting room. "What's wrong with him? Is he running low on energy?"

With Yan Yu's complete stop, the thunderbolt descended without any hindrance, and it fell heavily and unimpeded!

"Captain..." Su Yunjin subconsciously held his breath, his hands and feet cold, only to hear Zhao Yuanzhen suddenly roar:

"Is he an idiot? Even if his true energy is used up, it's better than just sitting there and waiting to die!"

She rushed to the screen with great momentum, as if she wanted to drag Yan Yu out of the TV and beat him up.

Xie Ruoxi was also dumbfounded and quickly looked at Chen Lingyun for help.

Chen Lingyun pondered for a moment and smiled slightly:
"No, he's squeezing out the battery life."

"Squeezing battery life?" Su Yunjin was slightly stunned, looked at the screen in disbelief again, and suddenly understood.

At an altitude of over 1000 meters, the copper lightning fell almost perpendicular to the ground. As it got closer to Yan Yu, almost all of the lightning began to deflect, from a straight line downward to shooting towards Yan Yu, and the overall formation gradually changed from a cylinder to an inverted cone.

Coupled with the delay effect of the Taiqing Yanlan Array, all the copper light thunder in this inverted cone is being further compressed, becoming more and more dense and crowded.

"The more tribulation thunder there is within a unit space, the more efficient the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation will be in breaking it." Zhang Huaide suddenly realized, "He needs to further improve efficiency to ensure endurance!"

"But this comes at the cost of time and space, right?" Tang Xiaolian worried. "The lower the thunderbolts are, the denser they are, and the closer they are to him. If he misses even one, he'll have very little time to react and remedy the situation!"

"It's okay." Zhou Hongyu remained indifferent and said calmly, "Yan Yu is best at improvising. He can use high risks to gain more favorable endurance. He can handle it."

Tang Xiaolian was speechless. Captain Zhou, you almost broke the armrests of the chair off!
The copper-light tribulation lightning continued to sink, 600 meters, 500 meters... It even began to grow larger in Yan Yu's field of vision. He could clearly see the shape and details of each tribulation lightning bolt: like a sharp inverted sword cluster, the blue light was dazzling, the lightning color was flowing, leaving no doubt about the terrifying energy contained within.

All the viewers who were watching the live broadcast of the tribulation, regardless of whether they understood Yan Yu's intention, only had one thought in their minds:
To what height does the thunder have to descend before he takes action to stop it?

The answer came quickly.

When the first thunderbolt dropped to a height of 160 meters, Yan Yu's right hand fingers, which were placed on his knees, suddenly formed a sword gesture.

The Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation falls!

Four sword energy lines flashed out, first forming a well shape, and then each of them was lifted up diagonally, like petals, rapidly rotating and cutting around in a clockwise direction, accompanied by a large amount of copper light lightning that shattered, exploded and annihilated, and the dazzling green lightning burst out into a vast expanse. Looking down from the air, it seemed as if a huge green lotus was blooming wildly!

(End of this chapter)