Chapter 129: The First Tribulation
Suddenly, Ruan Xing's feet felt empty, as if he was thousands of feet in the sky. His body swayed in the wind like a kite without a rope and fell downwards.
In front of her eyes was a gray mist that was sometimes thick and sometimes thin, like clouds on a cloudy day.
Ruan Xing was suddenly startled and quickly threw the sword to his feet. He made a gesture with one hand and prepared to control the sword to prevent it from falling further.
However, the flying sword was not under her control, but fell straight down. The spiritual power in her body was like a layer of insulating clothing on the surface of her skin, and not a trace of spiritual power could penetrate out.
Cursing inwardly, she wanted to open the storage bag to see if there was anything she could use, but to her dismay, the storage bag could not be opened either.
Fortunately, this is just a simulation.
Sighing, Ruan Xing calmed down and spread out her spiritual sense, wanting to take a closer look at where the key had teleported her to.
Fortunately, although the air here isolates spiritual power, spiritual consciousness can still be used.
This should be a place devoid of spirits.
She had read some information in some miscellaneous books about the legends of the immortal world, which she was not sure whether it was true or false. It said that there were some extremely strange places in this world with no living creatures, no spiritual energy, and everything here would be quickly corroded by time.
No wonder Immortal Lord Guangyou said not to come until you reach the state of divine transformation.
After the Nascent Soul stage, the physical body can be reshaped, and the strength of the physical body is greatly enhanced, comparable to a defensive top-grade magic weapon. After the Spiritual Transformation stage, the soul can be cultivated. Even if spiritual power cannot be used, the power of the soul in the sea of consciousness can still protect oneself.
She roughly estimated that with her falling speed, she was probably at a height of 10,000 to 20,000 meters. She just didn't know whether this was somewhere in the Xianyuan Continent, or whether she had passed through a space-time rift to reach another space. After all, she had only completed her foundation building, and could not sense whether there was any aura of space-time rifts on the key and the light gate.
Unfortunately, with her current physical strength, she would definitely turn into a puddle if she fell to the ground, with no possibility of survival.
In a short period of time, thousands of thoughts flashed through Ruan Xing's mind. She opened her eyes wide as if she didn't want to miss any information. A few seconds later, a ruin full of ashes appeared in front of her, and then her body was like a drop of water hitting the fine dust and shattered into pieces.
The simulation ends.
Ruan Xing thought with some headache, it seems that this inheritance is not what she can dream of. If she waits until she reaches the Spirit Transformation Stage to receive this inheritance, that will be a long time in the future, it is not cost-effective.
She should focus on the present and break through the golden elixir as soon as possible.
Without wasting time, Ruan Xing continued to start the simulation.
This time, after killing Qin Taimo and returning to Qin Tai's house to see her grandmother, Ruan Xing did not ask to see the key, but instead asked Qin Taihe to protect her from the calamity.
Qin Taihe had been kept in the dark about Qinghong Zhenjun's defense against Ruan Xing. Although he was surprised that Ruan Xing could obtain the Jindan stage skills not long after entering the sect, Ruan Xing helped him after all, and it was not a difficult request to protect her, so he naturally nodded and agreed. Ruan Xing also had her own considerations when she chose to break through the Jindan stage in Qin Tai's house. Before entering Xizhou, Qinghong Zhenjun was very likely to have been secretly watching them, so she did not dare to make any other moves along the way.
But after entering Xizhou, especially when arriving at Qintai's home, there were several people in the Nascent Soul stage and the Spirit Transformation stage in Qintai's family. If True Lord Qinghong rashly put her spiritual consciousness into someone else's home, it would be equivalent to an act of provocation. Therefore, she believed that it was safe to break through in Qintai's family.
Her cultivation had long reached the point where she could break through, but she had been suppressing it because she could not survive the tribulation in Zhongzhou. When Qin Taihe nodded in agreement, she immediately found an open space and set up two formation plates she got from Xie Huai to prevent anyone from accidentally entering. However, her magic weapons were useless. The Ten Thousand Souls Banner was a top-grade magic weapon, but the thousands of evil spirits contained in it were of yin nature and were most afraid of thunder tribulations, so she could not use it.
The mid-grade magic sword and the mid-grade sword tassel are not defensive magic weapons, and cannot deal with the tribulation very well. However, she was able to successfully pass it in the simulation, so there should be no problem this time.
Qin Taihe noticed this problem and asked, "Didn't you prepare robes and defensive magic tools?"
"Well..." Ruan Xing said embarrassedly: "I didn't have time to prepare."
The main reason was that she didn't have time. She had never thought that she would find a chance to leave Xuanbing Sect so soon. The next day after the simulation began, Qin Taihe had to go to Nanzhou. They could only hurry to Xizhou without any stop on the way. Therefore, Ruan Xing had no chance to prepare any magic weapons or robes for herself along the way.
The gray calamity clouds in the sky had begun to gather gradually, and the dark pressure seemed to be pressing on people's hearts. Qin Taihe frowned coldly, "You and I saw the horror of the calamity clouds with our own eyes yesterday, but you still don't take it seriously. Do you want to follow in Sister Meng's footsteps?"
Thinking of Senior Sister Meng lying on the ground dying like charcoal, Qin Taihe felt uncomfortable in his heart. He took out a robe and a bronze mirror from his storage ring and threw them to Ruan Xing, "Use mine first."
Qin Taihe never felt any difficulty when he was overcoming the tribulation. He had many magic weapons, so he could just destroy one and take another. Moreover, it was his master who was protecting him, so he felt very at ease from beginning to end, as his master would never let him die even if he failed.
"Thank you, senior brother." Ruan Xing obeyed the order respectfully. She took the thing, studied it for a while, and then put on the robe. Qin Taihe's robe was very large on her, but its defensive effectiveness was not compromised. Although it affected her movements a little, she was resisting the thunder on the spot and did not need to move, so it was not a big impact.
The bronze mirror is a palm-sized heart-protecting mirror and is also a mid-grade defensive magic weapon. It can be used temporarily after a simple ritual by Ruan Xing.
The dark clouds merged into one, and the darkness grew thicker and thicker, with the sounds of lightning and thunder continuing uninterrupted, as if showing off their strength to Ruan Xing on the ground.
Ruan Xing was not afraid at all. She sat cross-legged on the spot, ready to take the first step into the Golden Elixir realm.
Soon, the first lightning bolt fell. Ruan Xing was wearing the heart-protecting mirror and robes, and was protected by the formation plate. She directly embedded the hilt of her flying sword into the ground and used it as a lightning rod.
Perhaps it was because the material used to forge the sword was not pure ore, or perhaps the lightning in the cultivation calamity was unscientific, the effect of the lightning rod was minimal, and only less than one-tenth of the lightning was guided and dispersed, and the rest still hit Ruan Xing accurately.
She mobilized all her spiritual power to erect a protective shield on her robes, which she held for four or five seconds. The shield shattered as lightly as glass, and the strong push on her back made her head buzz for a moment, with the aftertaste of the roar still lingering in her ears.
During the half-time break, Ruan Xing checked the items on her body. She was not seriously injured, but her limbs and spine still felt numb and sore as if she had been electrocuted. Her robes and breastplate were slightly damaged, and it was estimated that there would be extensive damage after the tribulation was over.
I think Qin Taihe would not want a second-hand magic weapon that needs to be repaired. He is willing to share resources with her until the Nascent Soul stage, so he should not have to return it.
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