Chapter 471: Martial Cultivation Lightning Tribulation

"Fellow Daoist Li, is that a lightning tribulation?!" Wei Zixu stared for a long time, but always felt something was off.

Li Yuan wondered, took out some ancient texts and flipped through them, then suddenly said: "This is not a Magical Cultivation lightning tribulation, it's a Martial Cultivation lightning tribulation!"

"Ah?!"

Martial Cultivation?

No, no, no.

Isn't the Martial Dao severed by the sages? Upon reaching the Golden Core stage, is there no way to continue advancing?

Where did this heavenly gifted genius come from?!

Li Yuan exclaimed in shock: "Magical Cultivation lightning tribulation is nine nine, Martial Cultivation lightning tribulation returns to one. If the ancient texts are correct, the thunder gathering in the sky could be one of the legendary three divine thunders, the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder!"

"Purple Firmament Divine Thunder?!"

"That's the kind of divine thunder where a single bolt of lightning contains thousands of Dao Marks?!" Wei Zixu was greatly shocked.

Actually, lightning tribulation is somewhat distant for most cultivators.

Except when some skills are finalized and one encounters lightning tribulation, most cultivators do not face lightning tribulation before the Nascent Soul stage; this differs from ancient times, apparently because the sages suppressed some heavenly dao principles, opening a path for later generations.

But this also gave rise to a saying that modern people are not as good as the ancients.

Nascent Soul cultivators can roughly understand the meaning of 'modern people are not as good as the ancients': that ancient cultivators, upon passing each major realm checkpoint, encountered lightning tribulation and thus increased their capacity to bear Dao Marks.

For example, an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator can hold at most three thousand Dao Marks, but those with extraordinary talent can hold even more. And after ancient cultivators passed lightning tribulation in each realm, they could increase their total Dao Mark capacity, which manifests as a greater advantage at the Nascent Soul stage.

That's why the saying 'modern people are not as good as the ancients' exists; whether it's correct or not, according to current cultivation discourse, at least modern cultivators have extremely versatile use of spells, secret arts, and various divine abilities, with many choices. Moreover, the natal Accumulation Device can be disassembled and retrained as needed to adapt to various environments for excellent combat options, so naturally they are not weak.

So the reasoning is simple: in battle, one still relies on personal means; as for potential and talent, it's a matter of benevolent people seeing benevolence and wise people seeing wisdom.

Like the current Magical Cultivation lightning tribulation, as long as one passes nine heavenly lightning baptisms, the body is sublimated by Magical Cultivation and spiritual awareness transforms into divinity, one can naturally break through the Nascent Soul stage.

But undergoing Martial Cultivation lightning tribulation, whether it's Li Yuan or Wei Zixu, is also their first time seeing it.

Or rather, ten thousand years have passed since the sages severed the Martial Dao path; perhaps this is also the first time countless cultivators have witnessed a Martial Cultivation lightning tribulation!

"Is Martial Cultivation lightning tribulation just a single Purple Firmament Divine Thunder?"

"That's how it's recorded in the ancient texts." Li Yuan also couldn't be certain, after all this was also his first time seeing Martial Cultivation lightning tribulation, so he couldn't speak too absolutely.

Wei Zixu was somewhat curious, wondering exactly who was undergoing the lightning tribulation ahead.

And at that moment.

Twenty years passed in the blink of an eye, and Yan Buji, who was in the midst of the lightning tribulation, naturally felt that deadly threat.

"Indeed, after I completely inspected and overhauled my Profound Technique, my essence, energy, and spirit burst forth, and at the moment I sought to contain the completed Surge Technique, the lightning tribulation naturally arrived." Yan Buji raised his head and looked toward the sky.

"Come on, let me witness how formidable the sages' severing of the Martial Dao is!"

Boom—

Accompanied by that Purple Firmament Divine Thunder flashing past, Yan Buji's whole body felt as if ants were crawling over it, and then he suddenly lost consciousness.

"Ah!!!"

However, in an instant, Yan Buji suddenly opened his eyes and let out a miserable scream!

His flesh and blood were blown apart in many places by the divine lightning's bombardment; at this moment, Yan Buji had no choice but to violently circulate his True Essence to move his numb body, disregarding injury, to dissolve the divine lightning's power!

Boom—

Again?!

Yan Buji widened his eyes, sitting cross-legged on the sea surface, continuously circulating his True Essence within; his Golden Core trembled incessantly under the divine lightning's bombardment, even developing cracks!

This unstoppable, inescapable, incomparable force destroyed Yan Buji's physical body, blowing apart his meridians and flesh, covering his bones in a layer of char. The pain of tearing his flesh did not make Yan Buji feel unable to suppress it; rather, the divine lightning, wrapping around, tore at his spiritual awareness and soul with terrifying power, causing him to scream miserably over and over!

At this moment!

Yan Buji exerted his power without reservation; every fraction and every bit was used to melt that terrifying divine lightning!

At the same time, his boundless True Essence, like a surging tide, undulated like waves across the calm sea surface, raising ripples that spread for thousands of li!

The sea thus turned a pure gold, like wheat fields blown by the wind!

Boom—

Another Purple Firmament Divine Thunder fell, striking Yan Buji's heavenly spirit!

After the numb, tingling sensation came endless tearing agony and excruciating pain. He was not unfamiliar with the pain of tearing his own flesh with his own hands, nor had he never felt sorrow for his past.

But this was undoubtedly, unreservedly, indisputably absolute terror; even Yan Buji's ironclad will could not suppress the anguish, causing him to howl in lament to heaven and earth once more!

"Ah ah ah ah!!!"

Yan Buji painfully crawled on the calm sea surface; the luster in his eyes gradually faded as he gazed upon the terrifying visage reflected in the bland seawater, his reflection's mouth opening and closing, as if telling Yan Buji to give up.

Give up?

If giving up were that easy, how could he have come this far to taste such suffering?

It is precisely because of the pain that he feels happiness.

Boom—

The Purple Firmament Divine Thunder fell again, bombarding Yan Buji's shattered body.

Struggling, he fell again and again, rose again and again.

In this world, power is never obtained for nothing; I have transformed everything I have gained into my longing for the future, my desire for strength, and my ambition for the highest peak!

"Do you want to defeat me....."

Yan Buji, on the divine lightning‑strewn calm sea surface, actively shattered his Golden Core!

In an instant, the True Essence canopy that even ten‑thousand‑meter‑high dark clouds could not suppress stretched across ten thousand li; the undulating True Essence waves on the calm sea surface rose into a towering tsunami!

Come on.....

Come strike me down!

Boom—

Boom—

Boom—

Three successive bolts of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder shattered an ant's struggle, fiercely striking that ant whose heart reaches the heavens!

Yan Buji collapsed again, his consciousness already blurred, his soul having been struck by divine thunder several times, showing signs of gradually fading.

Willpower alone cannot let Yan Buji rise again, for how could his will possibly contend with heaven and earth, contend with the sage who has severed Martial Dao?

Cough cough!

But he did not fall; instead, he staggered up to his feet, standing in the purple thunderstorm, his right hand clenching a fist and raising it high.

Come!

Yan Buji's horrifying face was reduced to nothing but charred bone, his whole body turned into a skeleton with only a trace of flesh; he faced the divine thunder, facing the world, facing heaven and earth, facing himself!

He proved that his desire could pierce even divine thunder capable of shattering will!

Boom—

Boom【72】 Nine bolts of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder echoed through heaven and earth!

Nine bolts of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, echoing across heaven and earth!