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

Chapter 715 Breaking the Tribulation
Above Yan Yu's head, there is a huge funnel.

Countless green lightning bolts poured down from the funnel, rushing into the filter formed by the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation at high speed, and then were fiercely torn apart by the flashing sword energy.

Due to the limitation of Yan Yu's true energy, he can only summon four sword energies at the same time. Even if the sword technique controls it to move and cut quickly, there will definitely be many that slip through the net.

Therefore, Yan Yu chose another way of fighting: to summon the visible form instead of moving and cutting, to cancel the summon immediately after the attack, and then to summon it again at the next location.

This operation was incredibly complex, but the effect was both magnificent and practical. Four lines of sword energy flashed and intertwined, forming a web. A flood of cyan lightning crackled and exploded. Beneath the calamity clouds that obscured the sky, it was as if countless days had appeared, illuminating the entire sky.

From the perspective of a military satellite camera in the distance, the central part of the mainland was covered by endless dark clouds, and Yan Yu's direction and position could not be seen at all. One could only see the flashing and brilliant light from afar, proving that Yan Yu was still alive and still struggling with the ferocious heavenly calamity.

At the same time, the first wave of temptation from the outside world also came.

Many unfamiliar civilians attempted to rush into the Wudang Mountain area from the southern part of Jingzhou, but were subsequently blocked by patrolling military monks. A fierce battle soon broke out between the two sides.

In the base, the team monks also received the news.

"Shall I go?" Liu Longtao asked.

"No." Mei Yingxue shook her head. "We should be wary of a strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain and making a feint to the east and attacking in the west."

"Team Qing'an goes, and Li Minghu stays."

Li Zhaojiang immediately led his team to the battlefield.

Not long after, more folk monks invaded from the north, and the front line sounded the alarm.

"Yang Linhui, take the others." Mei Yingxue ordered, "Liu Longtao stay."

A moment later, another strange extraordinary person came down the Yangtze River from the upper reaches and was intercepted by the monks from the military government.

"I'll go." Zhang Huaide stood up. "Captain Zhou, will you stay?"

"Yeah." Mei Yingxue nodded.

By now, everyone had understood clearly that someone was organizing some civilian extraordinary people within Lu State to attack Yan Yu's tribulation site.

Of course, considering the tight security in the Wudang Mountains and the significance of Yan Yu's tribulation to the Lu Kingdom's upper echelons, this behavior was practically tantamount to rebellion. Therefore, most of the extraordinary people who were attracted were desperate and penniless, and might not truly be capable of invading.

Mei Yingxue ordered all the major teams to go out and left behind the most powerful monks in order to prevent elite extraordinary people from taking advantage of the chaos and trying to infiltrate alone - the decapitation tactic was used to perfection by the Lu Kingdom, and the enemy might not fail to learn from it.

In order to avoid distracting Yan Yu, the outside world did not inform Yan Yu of the enemy attack.

Yan Yu used the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation to break nearly two-thirds of the second wave of thunder. There was not much true energy left in his body. Suddenly, he put away the Yin-Yang Micro-Dust Sword Formation, and used both hands to quickly strike with sword gestures, sending the Ten Thousand Bamboo Swords into the sky.

The second wave of thunder finally ended. The third wave of thunder was just emerging from the clouds. It was a myriad of silver lightning bolts, shaped like snowflakes and as light as flying catkins. They seemed to be swirling and falling slowly, but in reality, their falling speed was three times faster than the bronze lightning bolts.

Yan Yu quickly swallowed the pill and sat cross-legged on the spot, vigorously refining the medicinal power. Every bit of true energy generated in his dantian was immediately transferred to the area near his stomach and intestines, wrapping up the pill layer by layer.

This was a moment of racing against time. He had to recover as much true energy as he could before the third wave of thunder came, so he didn't care about his body at all.

Under the strong stimulation of the true essence, the gastrointestinal mucosa began to bleed in many places, which was then stopped by Yan Yu using the true essence of the mantra.

The abundant energy caused the local body temperature in the abdominal cavity to rise, and a strong nausea and urge to vomit arose in his mind, but Yan Yu still forced himself to suppress it with his will.

His experience as a mortal warrior in his previous life had almost imprinted in his soul the extent to which his body could withstand the destruction of its true essence.

Taking advantage of his small true energy capacity, when the second wave of thunder descended to a height of 4000 meters, Yan Yu also restored the true energy in his dantian to about % of its maximum capacity.

He looked up into the sky again, only to see a flood of dazzling silver lightning, like a sea of stars, swooping down towards him. Yan Yu was about to repeat his old trick, causing the silver lightning to spontaneously gather into a funnel formation and then blast it with his sword array, when his spiritual sense suddenly sensed something was wrong.

These thunders are falling faster and faster!
A motion model quickly emerged in his mind: If the silver light thunder could be forcibly accelerated in the Taiqing Yanlan formation, then the entire cone would be stretched longitudinally.

The lower the altitude, the faster the lightning will fall, and the distance between the previous and next batches of lightning will be wider, resulting in sparser lightning within a unit volume.

Considering that lowering the height of the lightning will severely shorten the reaction time, there is no need to take this risk.

Thoughts flashed through Yan Yu's mind like lightning, and he made a decision in an instant. He clasped his hands together and released the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation again.

绞！
Sword energy lines flashed, swirled, and pierced continuously, slicing and shattering the dense silver lightning. At the same time, the puppet Ah Zhen also activated the remaining small Xuanguang rulers and struck out, breaking the marginal lightning that was not easy to be broken by the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation one by one.

Compared with the copper light thunder, the silver light thunder is faster, and it frequently moves sideways when falling. The difficulty of using the line sword energy to penetrate many at once is also increased by more than a little.

Yan Yu tensed his mind with all his might, and the cone model in his mind was running wildly, densely covered with various falling light spots.

Every moment, a large number of light spots were shattered by the sword energy and disappeared in his sea of consciousness. Many scattered light spots continued to fall, and were then quickly transformed by Yan Yu into the breaking route of the Xiaoxuan Light Ruler, and the instructions were conveyed to the puppet Ah Zhen through the spiritual consciousness host.

Puppet Ah Zhen also worked at full power, continuously shooting various flowers of light into the sky. The direction, angle, speed, and trajectory were all precisely controlled, steadily destroying the leaking thunderbolts.

Although the entire process took only a few tens of seconds, it felt as if months had passed. The Xiaoxuan Light Ruler was finally depleted, and only two or three hundred Silver Lightning Thunderbolts remained. Yan Yu quickly tossed a Qi-boosting pill into his mouth, then began a series of sword techniques, manipulating the Ten Thousand Bamboo Sword for the final cleanup.

After defeating the last thunderbolt, he immediately sat down cross-legged on the spot and began to frantically refine the medicinal power.

His true energy was almost exhausted, all his magic weapons were used up, and he only had about sixty sets of flying swords left... Although he wasn't at the end of his rope, he was out of ammunition and food.

Yan Yu looked up at the sky again, only to see that the dark clouds had finally separated in all directions, and a golden beam of light was projected from the center, sweeping away the murderous atmosphere below the clouds.

has it ended?

Yan Yu felt relieved and was about to stand up on the spot with his hands on his knees, when he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The golden elixir failed!

Surviving tribulations not only tests one's life but also sharpens one's character. Once the tribulation is over, it's like shedding one's shell, ascending to immortality. The primordial essence within one's dantian will immediately condense and collapse, ultimately transforming into a golden elixir, the foundation of a Jindan cultivator's Dao.

Although there is not much true energy in the dantian now, there is no sign of condensation at all, which is enough to prove that the heavenly tribulation has not ended at all!

Yan Yu looked up at the sky and saw that the golden light column was indeed falling straight down, covering the entire top of Tianzhu Peak.

Golden light reached his body, and the three flowers gathered at the top of his head. In an instant, an extremely warm feeling came over his heart, and the whole person seemed to be bathing in a hot spring. The dantian that was about to be exhausted was filled again.

Divine light of merit.

Yan Yu suddenly realized that this was the so-called divine light of merit. Reborn, he first captured the Yuanzhen Demon Emperor to protect the south; then he brought down the Eclipse Queen to ensure peace in the north. How many lives had he saved? Even if no one in this world knew, how could he conceal it from the glorious Heavenly Dao?
Saving lives and allowing people who were about to die to survive is the greatest merit!

Yan Yu was completely enveloped by the divine light of merit. Not only was his true essence replenished, but his mind was also cleansed. For a moment, he fell into a state of selflessness, his ears were filled with the mysterious sounds of the Tao, and his cultivation level began to rise rapidly like a rocket!
The next second, there was another loud thunder in the sky, forcibly interrupting him from his trance.

Yan Yu looked up at the sky again, only to see that the golden pillar of light had disappeared. Endless skylight fell in the void, among which were a large number of golden fire meteors, falling straight towards the ground at a speed of nearly a kilometer per second!

Golden light and thunder!

The straight-line distance from the calamity cloud to the surface of the earth is more than ten thousand meters, but the speed of these golden calamity thunders is even more terrifying. They approach the surface of the earth in just a few seconds, releasing a large amount of light and heat in the process. The long tails continuously heat the surrounding air and even form a strong air vortex, stirring up strong winds in the entire Wudang Mountain area, with trees falling down and birds and beasts screaming in fear. It is like a typhoon passing through, and the ground is in ruins.

Yan Yu was not panicked at all. He pinched his right hand and used all his strength to activate the Liangyi Microdust Sword Formation. With his left hand, he changed his moves to control the remaining Wanzhu Swords. At the same time, he used his spiritual consciousness to urge the puppet Ah Zhen to raise his head and spit out the Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire. He shot all the remaining sword energy, flying swords, and spells in his hands... at full force towards the endless thunder above!

A massive flare of light exploded in the sky, and countless golden lightning bolts simultaneously detonated over Jingbei Province, unleashing a terrifying radiance like a supernova explosion. The light source could be seen across half of the continental land. A violent shockwave tore through the calamity clouds upwards, stirring up vast swaths of air in the stratosphere and blasting a torrent of energy like a solar prominence into Earth's outer space. Even many nearby satellites were affected, their outer shells instantly ablated, their structures fractured and shattered, and even the circuit boards within were shattered into a chaotic mess!
(End of this chapter)