Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

By the time Gao Zhun had fully grasped the current situation, the tribulation lightning from above had already formed. At this moment, Gao Zhun was sitting cross-legged in his own courtyard, and not far away, Ah Zhong was also sitting cross-legged.

As for Madam Zhu, who originally lived in the courtyard, she was taken away by the Gao family when the strange phenomenon occurred, and is now anxiously watching from a distance.

A dark purple-black thundercloud and another dark leaden thundercloud formed simultaneously above the Gao family's outer courtyard. The dark purple thundercloud, in particular, almost filled most of the sky, making it especially frightening.

"Isn't that the courtyard where Gao Zhun and her daughter live?"

Almost the entire outer courtyard of the Gao family has been mobilized, standing suspended in the air around the center of the two thunderclouds, and their gazes can naturally see Gao Zhun and A Zhong sitting cross-legged in the center of the courtyard.

"One is definitely Gao Zhun, but who is the other man?"

"I remember that Gao Zhun had just broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage half a year ago. I didn't expect that after three months of training, he would have returned as a Nascent Soul cultivator."

A cacophony of noise filled the crowd, most speculating about the extraordinary encounters Gao Zhun had experienced in the past six months. In just half a year, his cultivation level had risen from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul. Some even believed that someone had forcibly bestowed power upon him.

Inside the inner courtyard, many people also took to the air, gazing into the distance, each pondering in their hearts that someone else was about to enter their inner courtyard and become a legitimate direct descendant of the Gao family.

However, Gao Zhun, the person in question, no longer had the same eagerness to become a direct descendant of the Gao family. Having had the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning integrated into her two previous advancement pillars, she now knew more about the thundercloud above her head than anyone else. After all, even if it looked familiar, who could recognize that this was the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning, which was extremely rare even after the Great Ascension stage? A Nascent Soul cultivator triggering the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning—if word got out, everyone would think it was a joke!

"Is the heavens going to kill me?" Gao Zhun looked up, her eyes seemingly trying to pierce through the thundercloud. However, while she was unconscious, Wu Yaqiubai had put a pair of Ink Ice on her again. At this moment, she could not activate the Illusion Breaking skill to see through the thundercloud. Of course, she could take off the Ink Ice at any time if she wanted to.

But what's the point? Even if Po Wang could see through the thunderclouds formed by the Heavenly Dao, how could she possibly escape the tribulation lightning?

Therefore, instead of doing futile work, it's better to open your arms and embrace the impending thunder. Whether it brings destruction or rebirth, we can only leave it to fate.

A series of loud rumbling sounds emanated from the purple thunderclouds. After gathering momentum for about the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, Ah Zhong had already endured one tribulation lightning bolt, while Gao Zhun's tribulation lightning was just about to strike.

"My God!" The person who exclaimed was Gao Xuefeng, who had lived next door to Gao Zhun for many years. Gao Xuefeng was five years older than Gao Zhun. At the age of eighteen, his cultivation had already reached the peak of the middle grade of Golden Core. If nothing unexpected happened, he would be able to successfully become a Nascent Soul expert before the age of twenty in another year or two. Unexpectedly, the little sister next door beat him to it. However, this tribulation lightning seemed too terrifying to him.

"Is Heaven intending to kill Gao Zhun?"

Someone said those words, and unfortunately, Lady Zhu overheard them. As if she had thought of something, Lady Zhu's face instantly turned pale. She bit her lower lip tightly and covered her chest with her right hand, as if she was recalling something or as if she was enduring something.

"Yes, sir!"

Just as the lightning struck, a heart-wrenching cry reached Gao Zhun's ears. Looking in the direction of the sound, she saw Madam Zhu looking in her direction with grief, as if she would lose her daughter in the next second.

For some reason, seeing Madam Zhu's worried and sorrowful appearance, Gao Zhun's fear inexplicably faded a lot. Yes, she had the most loving mother in the world, so how could she not withstand this small Nascent Soul Tribulation and needlessly fail her mother's expectations for her over the years?

Before she could think any further, the first bolt of Purple Lightning struck her body, hitting her right on the back of her neck. A tingling sensation spread from the back of her neck throughout her body, and her body felt perfectly normal.

Gao Zhun was first startled, then overjoyed. She had some understanding of the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning. Normally, cultivators only have a chance of encountering this kind of tribulation lightning when advancing to the Mahayana stage and afterward. The Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning has a powerful effect on cleansing and strengthening the soul's impurities, but it has a devastating destructive power on the body. Most cultivators who undergo the Nine Heavens Tribulation Lightning end up with their physical bodies destroyed and their souls having nowhere to rest, ultimately resulting in their souls being scattered. In her previous two advancements, the Heavenly Dao diluted the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning into the advancement pillar to cleanse her soul. It was not that the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning was diluted, which is why her physical body did not perish, but rather that her physical body itself belonged to the type that was not afraid of the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning.

Having understood this, Gao Zhun was much more composed in the face of this tribulation, letting the lightning travel across his body surface and then slowly seep into his meridians and soul.

The first bolt of Purple Night Tribulation Lightning traveled through Gao Zhun's meridians. Gao Zhun used her internal vision to observe the situation inside her body. She saw that the crackling current gradually formed into columns of current even thicker than her meridians, forcibly widening them. What should have been an extremely painful process was temporarily relieved of Gao Zhun's sense of pain due to the numbing effect of the tribulation lightning itself.

Finally, the current columns flowing through Gao Zhun's body converged above her dantian through her meridians. Hundreds of current columns merged at a speed visible to the naked eye, almost forming a new Purple Heaven Lightning Tribulation above her dantian. Just as Gao Zhun was wondering, this newly formed tribulation lightning struck towards her Jade Palace and Golden Core in her dantian.

Crack! Crack! Gao Zhun clearly heard the sound of her Jade Palace and Golden Core shattering inside her body. When she looked with her inner vision, she was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. Her Jade Palace, which she had spent a Foundation Establishment stage to build, and the Golden Core, which she had worked so hard to form, were just shattered away like that.

Wait a minute, Gao Zhun witnessed a truly miraculous scene. Within her golden core, which had been split in two by the lightning tribulation, a tiny figure seemed to be faintly visible, clearly not yet formed into a physical form. For some reason, Gao Zhun felt that perhaps after a few more lightning strikes, this tiny figure would solidify. However, after the first Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning completed its second strike within her body, the remaining lightning seeped into her soul, turning its role to cleanse the impurities within it.

Well, at this moment, Gao Zhun's state of mind has undergone a complete 360° transformation. From the initial fear to the later composure, from the later composure to the later enjoyment, and from the later enjoyment to the current expectation being shattered again, Gao Zhun feels as if he is running wildly on the road to trembling.

"Let the lightning tribulation come even more fiercely!"

The onlookers, including the terrified Lady Bamboo and Ah Zhong who had already advanced, watched speechlessly as Gao Zhun was struck by a bolt of lightning and then excitedly roared to the sky.

"Could this child (master) have been struck dumb?" This thought echoed in both Madam Zhu's and Ah Zhong's minds at the same time.

As Gao Zhun had hoped, after the tribulation lightning struck, the thunderclouds above her head did not immediately dissipate. In fact, it was the same when Ah Zhong was undergoing his tribulation. He had to endure three tribulation lightning strikes in a row. The first one was the lightest, the second one was slightly heavier, and the last one was a full-force strike that exhausted all the energy of the thunderclouds. As long as he could withstand it, he would be a true Nascent Soul cultivator and would be called a Nascent Soul expert by the world.

However, as one tribulation lightning bolt after another crashed down as if desperate, and Gao Zhun's laughter grew increasingly wicked and arrogant, the bewildered onlookers became more and more confused. One, two, three, four, five... What happened to the rule that a Nascent Soul cultivator could only withstand a maximum of three tribulation lightning bolts? Not to mention that ordinary cultivators typically only receive one tribulation lightning bolt. So, Gao Zhun had now been struck by eight tribulation lightning bolts in succession. Was the Heavenly Dao really determined to kill this monster?

"A Nascent Soul cultivator undergoing nine tribulations? This child..."

At the top of a tower deep within the Gao family's inner courtyard, a man sitting cross-legged in meditation suddenly opened his eyes. His gaze seemed to penetrate the tower, as if he could see the deep purple thundercloud gathering its last strength before unleashing its final strike, concentrating all its energy.

Gao Zhun looked up, her face full of anticipation, at the tribulation lightning above her head that was shrinking and solidifying. She knew that this was the final strike, and its intensity would certainly be greater than the sum of the previous eight strikes. Success or failure depended on this one blow.

Outsiders could not know, but she, who had been using internal vision to monitor the changes in her nascent soul, knew better than anyone else. Like the Jade Palace and Golden Core before her, her nascent soul was different from others. With each tribulation lightning strike, her nascent soul gained a new color. After seven tribulation lightning strikes, her nascent soul had become a seven-colored nascent soul. However, with the eighth tribulation lightning strike, it did not become eight colors, but became completely black. So, after the baptism of the final tribulation lightning strike, what would her nascent soul look like? This anticipation was a hundred times more intense than the anticipation of no longer being subjected to those women's public displays of affection.

"No, this is the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning."

The man on the top floor of the tower suddenly disappeared from the tower and appeared abruptly behind Gao Zhun. Of course, apart from Gao Zhun, no one else noticed his presence.

The moment the man appeared, Gao Zhun sensed it. Just as he was about to turn around to see who it was, a completely unfamiliar, deep voice echoed in his mind—

"You must not be distracted during the tribulation. The ninth bolt of Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning will definitely cause strange phenomena in the heavens and earth. Don't worry, I'm here to help you."

Gao Zhun was shocked to hear this. This person actually knew that she was undergoing the Purple Heaven Tribulation Lightning? And the powerful soul intimidation that could be felt even without seeing the person meant that this person's cultivation level was probably no less than the Mahayana stage.