Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 81

Yan Zhuguang did not enter other true intent spaces to train anymore. Now that the heavenly tribulation had already descended over her head, what training was there to do? The reason she had chosen to enter the time-rift training room inside her own true intent space was to give herself a reasonable excuse for her breakthrough.
There was no excuse stronger than breaking through oneself.
However, the current lightning tribulation was the test for her rebuilt spiritual root. It was not her true Golden Core lightning tribulation. Yan Zhuguang could not let it fall so quickly. Otherwise, if she underwent two lightning tribulations in a row, it would definitely make people suspicious.
The people of Yimiao Sect had not seen anything strange about that test lightning tribulation, but that did not mean Fenghua Immortal Sect’s elders and experts would fail to notice it.
The most urgent task was to break through to Golden Core quickly, draw in the Golden Core lightning tribulation, and cover up this unusual lightning tribulation.
If two lightning tribulations descended at the same time, the two layers of tribulation clouds would merge into one. Although the power of the heavenly tribulation would multiply several times and become much more dangerous, Yan Zhuguang was confident she could pass it.
To Yan Zhuguang, dealing with the Heavenly Dao was much easier than dealing with people.
The tribulation cloud outside Qinggong Tower was still gathering. After Yan Zhuguang shattered her own true intent space, the power on her body began to pulse in waves. A rhythm like a heartbeat spread from Yan Zhuguang’s dantian and extended in every direction.
Very soon, the Heavenly Dao reacted. Above the tribulation cloud over Qinggong Tower that had not yet fully gathered, a new pressure of heaven and earth descended and covered the earlier heavenly tribulation power.
In the eyes of the people outside, the sudden heavenly tribulation sign had still been brewing. But before the tribulation cloud had fully formed, the heavenly tribulation power inexplicably paused for an instant.
After that, the power of the heavenly tribulation suddenly increased several times.
The lightning tribulation cloud began gathering faster, and the energy inside it became even stronger.
The dark, heavy tribulation cloud grew thicker and thicker. The terrible power inside made people’s legs go weak with only one look. Even these titled disciples, who had already passed Golden Core lightning tribulations, were no exception.
“What happened just now? Why did the heavenly tribulation’s power suddenly strengthen?”
“Is this really a Golden Core heavenly tribulation?”
“Who exactly is undergoing tribulation? Who has such great power?”
At the same time, Yan Zhuguang, who had stayed inside Qinggong Tower, vanished from the tower. She had been thrown out by Qinggong Tower.
Since Qinggong Tower was built, Yan Zhuguang was not the only cultivator who had broken through to Golden Core while challenging the tower.
Once someone broke through to Golden Core, the heavenly tribulation would immediately form. If that cultivator stayed inside Qinggong Tower, Qinggong Tower would have no choice but to bear the power of the lightning tribulation and help the cultivator endure it.
With Qinggong Tower’s strength, it was not unable to withstand a mere Golden Core lightning tribulation. But Qinggong Tower was a treasure Fenghua Immortal Sect used to raise its disciples’ strength. It was not something meant to block heavenly tribulations for people.
If that precedent were opened and Fenghua Immortal Sect’s disciples all purposely ran to Qinggong Tower to break through and undergo tribulation, not only would it encourage the crooked habit of using external power to pass tribulations, but no matter how powerful Qinggong Tower was, it could not endure heavenly tribulations striking it one after another.
So once Qinggong Tower sensed that a disciple inside had broken through to Golden Core, it would throw that person out and make them undergo tribulation outside the tower.
And once someone left Qinggong Tower, whether the one-year limit had arrived or not, that tower entry chance would be void. Unless they used another tower entry chance, there would be no other way to enter the tower.
Of course, Yan Zhuguang did not feel distressed at all.
This Qinggong Tower was not very useful to her in the first place. Besides, to make her breakthrough seem reasonable, she had already tried her best to spend time in the tower. Although meeting her own true intent space had moved this time forward a little, it was not by much.
She had only come out a few days early. It was not a loss.
Yan Zhuguang was thrown outside by Qinggong Tower. The instant her figure appeared, Yun Mixue’s gaze had already fallen on her.
She seemed to feel that familiar gaze. While falling from the air, Yan Zhuguang even took the time to turn back and look, meeting Yun Mixue’s eyes as Yun Mixue stared at her.
Eldest Senior Sister did not seem very surprised. There was only worry in her eyes for Yan Zhuguang, who was about to undergo tribulation.
With that expression, could it be that Eldest Senior Sister had already guessed that the person undergoing tribulation was her?
Yan Zhuguang’s eyes curved, and she sent Yun Mixue a warm, joyful smile.
Yun Mixue opened her mouth. Before she could remind her, she closed it again and blinked with some helplessness.
Yan Zhuguang fell to the ground.
When Qinggong Tower threw her out, the place where she appeared was in the sky. The moment she left the tower, she became weightless. While falling, she did not calmly adjust her body. Instead, she went to look at her beloved Eldest Senior Sister. If she did not smash into the ground, who would?
But wanting to see Yan Zhuguang make a fool of herself was impossible.
At the moment she was about to have close contact with the ground, Yan Zhuguang summoned her flying sword and slowed herself before landing. Although she still landed heavily, she stood firm.
Seeing that she was safe and sound and even waving at her, Yun Mixue shook her head helplessly and quickly transmitted her voice. “Stop looking at me. Hurry and adjust your aura to face the heavenly tribulation.”
“This heavenly tribulation of yours is truly strange. Ordinary heavenly tribulations already have a narrow chance of survival. This one far exceeds an ordinary Golden Core lightning tribulation. Is it not dangerous enough?”
“Do not worry, Eldest Senior Sister. I know what I am doing. You do not need to worry about me. I simply have not seen Eldest Senior Sister for a long time and missed you very much, so I wanted to look a little more.”
To prevent Yan Zhuguang’s lightning tribulation from affecting Qinggong Tower’s operation, when Qinggong Tower threw her out, it deliberately threw her to an open area far away.
That place was a treasured ground the sect specially prepared for disciples undergoing tribulation. Its view was very open, and the terrain was rather flat, convenient for cultivators to undergo tribulation. Also, it was far enough from Qinggong Tower.
Yan Zhuguang was only at Foundation Establishment. The range of her spiritual sense was limited, and she could not transmit her voice to Yun Mixue’s position. So she did not transmit her voice to Yun Mixue. She only spoke silently to Yun Mixue from far away with the shape of her mouth.
With Yun Mixue’s Nascent Soul eyesight, she could naturally see Yan Zhuguang’s opening and closing lips clearly. She could not help laughing. “All right, all right. After you pass tribulation, Eldest Senior Sister will let you look as much as you want, all right? Now undergo tribulation properly. Be good. Do not be careless.”
“Oh.” Yan Zhuguang did listen. She obediently answered and began arranging her tribulation methods.
Yun Mixue sighed softly in her heart. Zhuguang was steady by nature and extremely clever. She was originally a very reliable person. Yet whenever she met Yun Mixue, she always seemed as if she would never grow up. Yun Mixue did not know whether it was good or bad for the two of them to always be together, and whether she would spoil Zhuguang.
While Yun Mixue and Yan Zhuguang were speaking from afar, the other people carefully examining Yan Zhuguang’s figure gradually recognized her.
As a talented disciple with the Heavenly-Matched Body, an inner disciple who had rejected the personal-disciple positions offered by a group of Dividing Spirit elders and insisted on following Eldest Senior Sister Yun Mixue, Yan Zhuguang had some fame in Fenghua Immortal Sect.
She had come to Fenghua Immortal Sect only three years ago, yet without anyone’s guidance, she had gone from the fourth level of Qi Refining to early Foundation Establishment. That cultivation speed was truly rather fast. Because of this, she was even more eye-catching.
So when they saw Yan Zhuguang, aside from Yun Changyue and Chu Ningyan, the two titled disciples who often interacted with her, the other disciples also recognized her.
But everyone’s impression of Yan Zhuguang was still fixed at her reaching early Foundation Establishment in three years. This… how long had it been since then? Only about a year, right? And now she had gone from early Foundation Establishment to Golden Core?
Everyone looked at that Golden Core lightning tribulation still endlessly brewing. These powerful Golden Core real people, dignified titled disciples of Fenghua Immortal Sect, could not help opening their mouths in shock, without any image at all.
Chu Ningyan and Yun Changyue had almost watched her go from early Foundation Establishment to late Foundation Establishment. They knew that Yan Zhuguang had only jumped two levels, from early Foundation Establishment to late Foundation Establishment, because she received the hidden realm’s inheritance.
In Chu Ningyan’s view, that was a clever shortcut, not true talent or strength.
In the cultivation world, there were plenty of people who broke through quickly because of inheritance and similar methods. Just like Su You Demon Lord of the Dripping Blood Demon Domain. She had reached the Dividing Spirit stage in a short time. Did that make her an unmatched genius? No one would admit that.
But under such circumstances, Yan Zhuguang had only used one year to directly break through to Golden Core. That was extremely frightening.
A Golden Core cultivator not even eighteen years old. Even if someone began cultivating in the womb, there was not much chance of that. Besides, the best age to begin cultivation was seven or eight years old.
Someone like Su You Demon Lord, whose cultivation had been poured into her by the previous Demon Lord to raise her to the Dividing Spirit stage, had already gone decades without any improvement. But why had Yan Zhuguang’s strength not only failed to stagnate, but actually risen faster than others?
Was the talent of the Heavenly-Matched Body truly this strong?
Chu Ningyan looked at Yan Zhuguang with a complicated expression. For a moment, her thoughts were rather chaotic, and she did not know how to react.
Yun Changyue’s reaction was much more direct. Her gaze was like two sharp swords stabbing straight toward Yan Zhuguang, without the slightest concealment.
Perhaps because she discovered Yan Zhuguang’s talent was so powerful, her emotions became chaotic, and she forgot to hide them for a moment, revealing the jealousy in her heart. Even when she reacted and withdrew that overly exposed expression, it was already too late.
While speaking with Yun Mixue, Yan Zhuguang had already felt that completely unconcealed gaze.
Her expression did not change. She pretended not to know and kept arranging the formation for tribulation.
By the time she finished all the preparations for tribulation, the heavenly tribulation above her head was still brewing with no sign of stopping. Yan Zhuguang did not plan to do anything else. She directly sat cross-legged and began regulating her breath.
The system could not help saying to Yan Zhuguang, “Host, be careful. That woman is so frightening.”
Was her jealousy not too strong? What did Host’s good talent have to do with her? Was it worth being so jealous? She could not even become sect master now. Her gaze just now looked as if she wanted to swallow Host alive.
Yan Zhuguang said, “It is a good thing that she hates me. At least she will not secretly attack Eldest Senior Sister.”
The system bit its handkerchief. It had never seen a host as dedicated as Host. To complete the mission and protect Eldest Senior Sister, she did not hesitate to draw hatred onto herself.
A host like this would be wronged if she did not succeed.
Yan Zhuguang timed things perfectly. When she recovered the energy spent setting up the formation, the tribulation cloud in the sky had fully finished brewing. Then, a thumb-thick purple bolt of lightning suddenly fell.
As if sensing the movement of the tribulation cloud, Yan Zhuguang raised her head at the same moment. Her dark eyes clearly reflected the purple light of the lightning tribulation, making those eyes look especially brilliant.