Chapter 257 - Ling Chuxi’s Crisis!

Thinking about this, Ling Chuxi felt her heart tremble. If she broke through past Level 9 Pinnacle stage, would she have to undergo the test of Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body? Only a body that has undergone Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body could withstand the abundance of Battle Qi.

Ling Chuxi did not think at all that she would reach Level 9 Pinnacle stage so quickly through such a method and was totally unprepared for it. The moment she thought about the heavenly lightning experience she had during her previous breakthrough, her scalp turned numb. One needed to know that countless top-notch cultivators had ultimately succumbed to the baptism of Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body. It was an experience known as the insurmountable moat for cultivators.

‘Heavens protect me, please don’t come for me so quickly. Let me make some preparations and at least let me have a meal first,’ prayed Ling Chuxi in her heart as she leapt down from the odd rock.

Just at this moment, a thunderbolt appeared in the sky despite it being a clear day. A strike of thunder and lightning pierced towards the ground like a sharp arrow, knocking Ling Chuxi out of mid-air.

“F*ck! It’s really happening!” cursed Ling Chuxi aloud as she flipped over and got to her feet. When she touched her head, a felt that a warmth was spreading from the crown of her head. This caused her to raise her head to take a look, and she saw that a pillar of white smoke was rising from her head. Truly a case of having what you fear come to you! She never thought that the Thunder of the Ninth Heavens would actually come for her so soon!

However, was this indeed Heavenly Lightning Striking The body? That can’t be right. Ling Chuxi frowned, feeling extremely perplexed. It seemed like it did not have much lethality if this was indeed it. Wasn’t the Ninth Heavens’ Thunder of Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body so mighty that it was shocking? This shocking little bit thunder did not seem like much.

Just as Ling Chuxi thought about this doubtfully, she saw that the original clear skies that had stretched on for miles suddenly changed. Dark clouds suddenly filled the whole sky and in between lightning flashes, two shocking cracks of thunder rang out explosively. They converged in the sky into a thick beam of bright electric light that fell towards Ling Chuxi’s head. This kind of power was naturally much greater than the strike just now. However, Ling Chuxi knew that this could not be over yet!

Ling Chuxi looked to the sky with a sorrowful face as she wailed in her heart. Was it that the fake heavens could actually hear her inner conversations?! ‘Can I take back what I said?’

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At one end of the mountain range, a calm-faced man stared at the burst of thunder and lightning in the distance. “Is that Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body?” He wasn’t sure who was experiencing it and whether or not the person had the luck to make it through. But still, he had actually witnessed someone experiencing Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body here of all places?

The corners of his lips curled up into a faint smile. It had an undisguised pride about it. He certainly had the qualifications to be proud. From the past till the current day, there were many cultivators who were known as geniuses. However, how many of them actually could withstand the testing of Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body and successfully broken through past Battle Qi Level 9 and entered the great fulfilment? Not very many, and he was one of the few who actually succeeded.

With his age and level of cultivation, not to mention being a student of Wind Cloud Academy, even taking into account others from the whole of the mainland, these achievements were still sufficient for him to be proud of himself.

This was Baili Han. As to why he had appeared here, there was naturally a reason to it.

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Ling Chuxi stood up once again and felt a sore pain buzzing through her body. This heavenly lightning was obviously much stronger than the one before. However, upon examination, the meridians in her body did not show any innate changes. Obviously, Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body had not taken place yet.

In the sky above, black clouds were coming together so densely, they looked like the tops of mountains, revealing endless pressure. Small electrical sparks flickered between the ominous clouds, attracting each other into forming three electric beams, thundering loudly as it happened. The three thunderbolts merged into a huge blue pillar of light which fell towards Ling Chuxi once again.

Ling Chuxi gritted her teeth. Since she hadn’t been struck by Heavenly Lightning Striking The Body yet, from the looks of how things were going, she needed to endure another lightning strike.

The flashing beam of light instantly enveloped Ling Chuxi as a flare of faint blue flashed in front of her. Suddenly her body numbed as if she had fallen into an abyss and her mind went completely blank.

‘Argh! This is painful! Really too painful!’ A heart-piercing pain pierced through her mind and across every inch of her skin and even stabbed through to the blood in her body. Ling Chuxi almost screamed out in agony and could only circulate her Thundercloud Battle Qi with all her strength to resist against the power of the thunder and lightning that invaded her body.