Rapidnovel Chapter 37: Escape
Chapter 37: Escape
Chapter 37: Escape
Tianyi’s brows twitched as he continuously leaked blood from his mouth, but his body stayed completely still as if the blood did not come from him or stain his purple robes red.
Lei Jingye was still undergoing his Heavenly Tribulation.
Inside Tianyi’s dantian, the Heavenly River continued to form and with each passing moment the stars became more real. Although individual stars seemed tiny, each one possessed tremendous might and shone brilliantly in Tianyi’s dantian.
Before long Tianyi’s dantian became a miniature galaxy with numerous stars revolving around his Violet Gold Core.
At the instant Tianyi’s Stellar Avatar finished forming, the Wind Tribulation began.
Tianyi’s eight yang Spiritual Cores were emitting brilliance like eight suns. His Yin Dragon Pearl Core was giving off black light, it appeared extremely lustrous yet seemed to absorb all the light in the world at the same time.
Invisible blades formed of wind began to assault all nine of his Spiritual Cores. Each blade strike left a shallow white mark on the Spiritual Cores and soon Spiritual Cores began to turn whiter and whiter. Soon all nine cores inside Tianyi’s body became pure white, like white suns. The brilliance they exuded pierced through the grey cloud qi.
Seeing the nine sun-like cores inside of him, Tianyi instantly remembered the legend of Houyi shooting nine Golden Crows out of ten.
Like glass balls, cracks began to appear on all of the nine cores. The next moment the white glass-like shell exploded into tiny little fragments and disintegrated into grey clouds.
What was left were eight golden sun-like cores and one enormous core that was like a giant black sun.
Although it seemed like nothing had changed, if one were to compare the current state of the cores to the previous state they would discover that the cores were slightly smaller and had a sense of completeness.
The Wind Tribulation was extremely quick and easy for Tianyi. However Tianyi wasn’t one bit happy. The density of his true qi immediately doubled, thankfully he had strengthened his martial body to the peak of the Core Formation realm. Otherwise who knows how horrible his condition would be.
It was like his condition had regressed to over three years ago. Although the amount of true qi he possessed doubled and his martial body was cultivated to the peak of the Core Formation realm, his battle capabilities actually stayed the same.
Perhaps it was even worse now.
Tianyi now directed his attention back at Lei Jingye. Although Tianyi took some time to form his Stellar Avatar and undergo the Wind Tribulation it was all within a day. Compared to the Heavenly Tribulation which was a major tribulation, the Wind Tribulation, Flame Tribulation, and Lightning Tribulation were all minor tribulations that took less time.
But Lei Jingye’s Heavenly Tribulation wasn’t a normal one either.
Instead of the regular nine lightning bolts, Lei Jianyi was already at the eleventh lightning bolt. The ninth bolt of the Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation had already passed the threshold of a Core Formation realm attack and each attack afterwards was even more powerful.
“No more tribulation lightning, just end it here.” Tianyi muttered as he coughed into his sleeve.
“Strange, the fleeing technique should have lasted a bit longer.” Lei Jingye tried to communicate with the Red Dragon Lotus and discovered that his connection with it had gotten weaker and his control over it had also weakened.
His face completely darkened when he discovered a second will latched onto the Red Dragon Lotus, “This...is it Xi Longyi’s will?”
Lei Jingye recalled how some of Tianyi’s blood had been absorbed by the red light.
“Sure enough, even if his name has changed he is still the Dragon Emperor. I have to be careful not to use the Red Dragon Lotus against him until I have completely refined it.”
Lei Jingye’s goal didn’t change and as Tianyi suspected. Even though Tianyi was different from Xi Longyi, Lei Jingye still planned to kill Tianyi otherwise the hatred in his heart will fester and might even become his inner demon.
“Xi Longyi, we cannot live under the same sky!”
Lei Jingye said those words through gritted teeth and began to escape in another direction. He had flown away in a straight line and it would be incredibly easy to trace Lei Jingye’s route.
In addition, Tianyi had a trace of his will in the Red Dragon Lotus. There was a high chance that Tianyi would be able to trace Lei Jingye through his connection with the Red Dragon Lotus. Luckily Lei Jingye had already escaped a fair distance away, but he still made detours to hide his tracks.
But Lei Jingye was worrying for nothing, although Tianyi sensed a new connection between him and an unknown artifact but his body was incapable of giving chase at the moment. Tianyi was currently on his knees with his hands on the floor continuously coughing up blood.
His body had been in a delicate equilibrium, but that balance had been broken when he had been knocked back by the red light.
Even as he continued to vomit blood, he felt helpless. In his current state, he was more afraid than anyone else of being hurt. His body was like a porcelain doll, cracking under the slightest pressure.
Sweat began dripping from Tianyi’s forehead as he desperately tried to rein in true qi that was ravaging his body. Tianyi didn’t know how long it took, but he finally calmed down his unstable body and created another delicate equilibrium. Although the pain was excruciating, he was not without any gains.
It was like when he took a test back on Earth. Oftentimes he would just cram the necessary knowledge a few days before, but on the day of the test when he used his whole body to complete the test, the knowledge would be permanently engraved into his mind.
If he took the test again he would have used less time than the first, unfortunately this useless ability of his wasn’t too useful.
But unexpectedly, when his body was being ravaged Tianyi had consolidated his comprehension and even the slight nuances he gleaned from watching Duan Muli and Yang Linyin fight also became clear to him.
Was this the fortune amongst misfortune?
Or was it the fortune within misfortune that seemed like fortune?
Shaking those unnecessary thoughts away Tianyi began to stand up. His formerly purple robes had been dyed maroon, and his white Buzhou Immortal Sect mantle blood red. Tianyi stored away the blood red mantle and was prepared to change his clothes.
Wearing the blood soaked robes was extremely uncomfortable. Once Tianyi changed his clothes he sat down and leaned back against the wall. Forget chasing Lei Jingye, he didn’t even have any more energy to stay awake.
Tianyi tapped the jade pendant on his waist and deployed a protective formation around him before closing his eyes.
He was so tired and his body was numb from all the pain.