Apocalypse: I rescued the big boss with millions of supplies

Chapter 56 Shi Qing Advances

Everyone seemed to see Shi Qing being swallowed by the lightning pillar. "Freeze!" At the critical moment, the lightning that was falling from the sky suddenly stopped about three meters above Shi Qing's head.

"Shi Qing, use whatever defensive measures you have left. I can only pause for two minutes." Fu Muyu's obscure gaze fell upon the layer of lightning in the sky. The power of nature was indeed beyond human control. After advancing to level four, Fu Muyu, who could originally freeze time for ten minutes, found his time compressed by a full four-fifths in the face of this power of heaven and earth.

A tragic smile appeared on Shi Qing's beautiful face. He was a water-based superpower user. Under the tribulation of lightning, wouldn't using a water wall to block it be courting death?

Shi Qing quickly took out all the mermaid gauze from her spatial ring and wrapped it all around her body. She generously scattered the crystal cores that Long Yangyang had given her on the ground and desperately absorbed them to restore her strength.

Seeing this, Long Yangyang hurriedly grabbed a handful of fruit tree seeds from her spatial storage, infused them with her supernatural power, and towering trees quickly grew around Shi Qing, the dense fruit trees completely surrounding him, as if they were his loyal protectors.

Yun Cangshu and the others were not idle either. Since their superpowers could not help Shi Qing, the three of them and the snake hurriedly moved the lightning rods from the nearby high-rise buildings. Fortunately, all three of them were level three superpower users, and their strength was much greater than that of ordinary people. Yin Zhu was even faster and quickly threw the lightning rods onto the trees.

At this moment, the lightning bolt was already showing signs of falling. Boom! The purple lightning was so bright that everyone could not open their eyes, and no other sound could be heard except for the booming sound.

After an unknown amount of time, when Long Yangyang opened her eyes, what came into view was a few scattered broken branches and leaves on the ground. The lightning rod had been shattered into pieces by lightning, leaving some thumb-sized iron fragments scattered on the ground. The place where Shi Qing was was covered with bright red blood, and the blood flowers flowed around like a stream, instantly congealing under the scorched earth and intense heat.

"Shi...Shi Qing, are you alright?" Long Yangyang's face was pale, and her voice trembled as she spoke. "Shi Qing?" She dared not walk towards the blood altar, afraid of seeing a scene she did not want to see. The others stared blankly at the bloodstains, their hearts surging with grief.

"Shi Qing, how badly are you injured?" Fu Muyu held Long Yangyang's trembling hands. He had a contract with Shi Qing, and the fact that the contract hadn't been broken meant that she wasn't dead.

Fu Muyu stared at the blood-soaked area with a serious expression, and the bulging veins on his wrists revealed that he was also in a state of turmoil.

"Still, still alive, cough cough." At this moment, a humanoid creature slowly crawled out of the pool of blood. Only then did Long Yangyang notice that the so-called pool of blood was actually the mermaid gauze that Shi Qing wore, soaked in blood. At this moment, the silver-white mermaid gauze that Shi Qing had wrapped around her with nearly a hundred layers before the lightning tribulation struck was now reduced to a thin piece, barely covering Shi Qing's body.

Shi Qing transformed back into his original merman form, with a human body and fish tail. However, unlike when they first met when his upper body was completely human, Shi Qing's upper body was now covered with dense, silvery-white scales. His human-like ears had turned into silvery-white fish scales, and bright red blood flowed from the gaps between his scales, as if his entire body was about to shatter like porcelain in the next second.

Shi Qing was too weak to stand up. The thunderclouds in the sky seemed to sense that Shi Qing was not dead, and they gathered again. The thick clouds pressed down little by little, and purple lightning flashed in the clouds.

"Shi Qing, flower dew." Long Yangyang has a wood-type ability and her perception of life force far exceeds that of ordinary ability users. She clearly felt that Shi Qing's life force was weakening little by little. She had given all the flower dew she had collected to Shi Qing when he was undergoing his tribulation.

Long Yangyang had no stock on hand, so she had Shi Qing take the rose dew directly.

Shi Qing looked at the rose near her lips. Drops of dew condensed on the delicate petals, and she could feel the rich life force of the petals just by smelling the fragrance.

"Don't waste your superpowers, I might not survive the tribulation." Shi Qing smiled weakly. No wonder that even with the help of adult mermaids, less than one in a thousand of the cubs of their mermaid clan can reach adulthood. With his current injuries, let alone a stronger tribulation, he wouldn't be able to withstand even a tribulation of equal strength to the eighth tribulation.

Fu Muyu transferred his supernatural abilities to Shi Qing through a contract, healing his wounds. "Have you forgotten our agreement? You made a contract with me, and I will protect you through adulthood."

Fu Muyu's abilities were also somewhat stretched thin at this moment. After all, his time-manipulation ability had been exhausted in order to stop the lightning tribulation just now, and his beast-taming ability was helping Shi Qing recover from her injuries.

Shi Qing's eyes were a little moist as he looked at the rising ice pillars that surrounded him layer by layer. A strong will to survive suddenly rose in his heart; he didn't want to die.

Shi Qing opened his jaw and drank the flower dew. The rich vitality of the flower dew replenished his lost energy. Then, Shi Qing opened his arms, and streams of water flowed from his hands, converging into a huge water sphere. Shi Qing was in the very center of the water sphere, constantly compressing its density. Not enough, not enough. Make it denser, make it heavier. As long as the lightning couldn't penetrate it, he could pass through adulthood.

"Boom boom boom!!!"

The thunder wouldn't give Shi Qing enough time to prepare. The overwhelming purple lightning struck again without warning. Boom! The ice pillars shattered. Boom! The ice pillars were smashed. No matter how many ice pillars Fu Muyu added, under the merciless bombardment of the thunder, they had no choice but to shatter.

Finally, Fu Muyu could no longer squeeze out even a tiny bit of his supernatural power, revealing the water sphere beneath the ice pillar.

The thunderbolt hurtled towards the water sphere relentlessly, its claws outstretched as if it intended to tear the sphere to shreds immediately.

The moment the lightning touched the water sphere, the sphere visibly shrank. "Boom, boom!" The lightning continued to strike the water sphere without stopping, seemingly without end.

Finally, under the relentless bombardment of the thunder, Shi Qing's figure appeared and disappeared in the water. Long Yangyang and the others, who were observing Shi Qing from a distance, could faintly smell the aroma of Shi Qing's charred flesh.

Seeing that Shi Qing was about to reach her limit, Fu Muyu leaped to Shi Qing's side and used his supernatural ability to heal Shi Qing's injuries.

"Brother Fu," Long Yangyang saw Fu Muyu rush over and wanted to run over to help without thinking, but she was stopped by Xiao Fei just as she was about to take a step.

[Yangyang, don't be impulsive. Fu Muyu has a contract with Shi Qing and can help Shi Qing share the burden of the tribulation. You are different. If you intervene in Shi Qing's coming-of-age tribulation, not only will you not be able to help, but you will also have the opposite effect, intensifying the tribulation.]

Long Yangyang's anxious gaze fell on Fu Muyu's body, which was covered in wounds from the lightning strikes. "Xiao Fei, is there any way? They'll be struck dead by the lightning." Long Yangyang looked at the charred and torn wounds on Fu Muyu's body and felt heartbroken.

"What should we do? What should we do? Brother Fu's life force is fading." Long Yangyang paced back and forth helplessly, her heart filled with panic. "Cang Shu, did you have any premonitions? Brother Fu and the others will be alright, right?"

"It'll be alright, how could anything happen?" Yun Cangshu didn't know whether he was comforting himself or Long Yangyang. He didn't dare use his supernatural ability to foresee the future, for fear of seeing a result he couldn't accept.