The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 857 - 344: Crossing the Tribulation_3

"Clang!"

Emerald clouds tumbled, and the pleasant sound of a zither fell like raindrops from the sky.

Pressing, pausing, plucking, strumming, flicking... Absolute String held the body of the zither with two arms, while the other two danced gracefully.

Only to see fleeting afterimages, a dark green lightning bolt slashed down vertically, confronting the momentum of the blue lightning head-on.

In that instant, it was a standoff as fine as the point of a needle against a stalk of wheat, with neither force yielding in dominance.

But the next moment, a second blue lightning bolt struck mercilessly, the green thunder lamented, ultimately unable to withstand the might of the dual lightning, and exploded like fireworks.

"The Wrath of Heaven, facing off against The Wrath of Heaven."

"Who is stronger? Who is weaker? Let us see this very day."

The sound of heaven and earth was lost, and the furious lightning surged.

In the void, dense symbols multiplied without end, divine lights flew chaotically, halos erupted, and one marvel after another unfolded.

With a thunderous explosion, a large area of the sky collapsed, and a massive crater indented inward appeared, forcibly inserted into the very center of the blue Thunder Sea, wantonly seizing the thunder element of the same origin but different quality.

Once it took its complete form, the guardian spirits atop the sky-reaching pillars, as long as they possessed organs such as eyes, contracted intensely.

"To actually... reverse-seize the energy of the heavenly tribulation?"

"It’s just the Heaven and Earth Stage, and the core principle held by the Demon Zither has reached such a field?!"

The bear-centaur exclaimed in astonishment, kicking the ground with all four hooves, his body trembling with restlessness.

The harpy suppressed the fear in her heart, attempting to peer deep into the Thunder Sea.

But the chilling discomfort that enveloped her would not dissipate, and with an even more unsettling tremor, she hastily averted her gaze, resorting to stealing glances from the corner of her eye.

"It’s clear that this heavenly tribulation cannot be compared with the Clock of the Era."

Not far away, the Golden-Winged Sky Fox, who had once participated in the defense formation, snarled:

"But! The Clock of the Era targets the entire Ye Clan. With the Clan Protection Formation going all out, naturally, there is shelter to be found!"

"This kid is now all alone, without any protection!"

"The treasures on his body that protect his life, due to the restrictions of the tribulation’s principles, are likely to have become mundane objects!"

"For him to have not fallen at a single encounter in such a desperate situation, the kid is already very powerful and deserves unreserved praise!"

"But this is far from enough! You and I can both sense that deep within the blue Thunder Sea, there seems to be a True Dragon coiled up. That power has not yet awakened, but once it does, seizing thunder elements from the heavenly tribulation? How dare he! How could he! Isn’t this like challenging the dragon’s scale?!"

The Bliss Beast hung its head low, speaking words even more pessimistic than those of the Golden-Winged Sky Fox:

"Death... I foresee the signs of death..."

"Within the Thunder Sea, lurks an unimaginable great terror..."

"No matter what it is, the Heaven and Earth Stage can’t handle it, nor can the Unlimited Foetus..."

"This isn’t just a simple difference in status, the calamity of dual authority that stems from the Heavenly Dao is a killing force that descends after defying the natural principles. It grows stronger against the weak and even stronger against the powerful, a savage without a reason to be explained..."

"Hiss!"

On the ground, the Electric Pincer Dragon wavered its pincers and suddenly exclaimed:

"Trouble! The heavenly tribulation has been provoked!"

"The Thunder Sea is beginning to churn, and the cannon forged by the Demon Zither is nearly burst by the thunder element!"

"Heavenly Dao doesn’t care about the theft of energy at all, Its source is boundless and endless, flesh and blood mortals opposing it is nothing but self-humiliation!"

As if responding to the electric claw dragon centipede’s judgement, the melody of Absolute String suddenly turned chaotic, the silver, sparkling strings were unexpectedly corroded by a wisp of blue rust.

"Cough... The sound is divine."

The half-opened bloodshot eyes of Absolute String, fully opened.

It looked straight up into the sky, gazing at the firmament, and then slowly closed.

At that moment, Ye Hanjun stimulated "Add to Lifespan," with a huge amount of blood energy pouring into the zither’s body, trying to heal its wounds.

But though lifespan could be added, the state of eternal life was not re-established, there was a latent injury deep within that his method could not remove.

"I’ll do it!"

GuaGua called out, activating "Super Purification."

It had conserved its essence and vitality precisely for the purpose of having more energy and physical strength to break through the paralysis of thunder and other derivative calamities.

This move was effective, the rust that Ye Hanjun could not eradicate was completely gone after the continuous sweep of the purifying beam of light, from dimness to flaking away.

In an instant, the Netherworld Lifefire rekindled, maintaining the state of eternal life for the second time.

Absolute String still had its blood eyes closed, but its hands, which had been cradling the body of the zither, were released.

"Dang—"

"Clang—"

To the slight astonishment of the onlookers, Demonic Echo of the Past - Zue Xian, actually played the zither with four arms, with a crisscrossing of hands, without any confusion.

The notes that reached the ears were alternately swift and slow, the inwardly drawn tones seemed to have climbed a notch higher, became more melodious and lingering, more resounding and impassioned.

"Boom!!!"

The cannon burst, a hundred beasts panicked.

In a critical moment, an unprecedented green-gold lightning orb, instead of falling vertically into the world of men, self-exploded in the heavens, bringing a suicidal attack that shattered it to pieces.

"Such decisiveness..." Bear Man Ma sighed again.

If it had been a beat slower, and the lightning orb had not been shot out, the pianist demon’s skill would have become a joke.

Yet, it had managed to catch the crucial moment, trying to detonate the blue Thunder Sea, to completely overturn it.

"Rumble rumble rumble—rumble rumble rumble—"

Even through the Clan Protection Formation, the residents of Without-Sun City could still hear the roaring thunder.

They dared not look up, either bowing their heads or covering their eyes, only daring to cautiously set aside a portion of their perception, quietly investigating.

But what could that do? The green and blue entwined the soul, rubbing against each other, slaughtering each other, the emotion known as fear once again enveloped their bodies.

As long as there were living creatures alive, regardless of whether they had intelligence or not, reverence for nature, reverence for lightning, these memories rooted deep within their bloodlines, once awakened, it’s wishful thinking to let it settle down again—calmly and quietly.

"Grandpa Jue, come on!"

GuaGua waved one little hand while the other tightly grabbed Ye Hanjun’s hair, not wanting to leave his shoulder for a single step.

————————————

PS: Severely blocked writer, the direction of this plot isn’t quite the same, to maintain quality, can’t write fast, sorry.