Ling Xi hurriedly went to find the few senior sisters within the sect.
In fact, they had already been alerted by the commotion caused by the thunder tribulation.
When they all arrived near the Main Peak, the Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation had already unleashed sixteen consecutive strikes.
The scene in the sky caused everyone’s faces to pale with shock.
At this moment, within the Jiutian Thundercloud, nine Golden True Dragon Phantoms roiled fiercely.
Besides them, eighteen Purple-Gold Jiaolong Thunder Phantoms were locked in battle with those nine True Dragon Phantoms.
“This… what is going on?”
The girl in purple robes, with long hair flowing down to her waist and a pair of cyan jade swords at her waist, was the second senior sister, Su Chunshuang, the highest in seniority among them.
Her beautiful brows were tightly furrowed.
“Why would Master’s breakthrough attract such a terrifying thunder tribulation?”
On the other side, the third senior sister, Xia Lan, dressed in red with a practical single ponytail, carrying a fiery red spear, was equally at a loss.
“I don’t know either, but Senior Brother Yuyang said this is a Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation. It must be some extremely special kind of tribulation,” Ling Xi said anxiously.
“Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation… I’ve heard of it before. An elder from Sword Gate Mountain reportedly experienced a Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation when breaking through to the Integration stage,” Gu Qiushui said with a start, as if recalling something.
Her face suddenly turned pale.
“By the way, where’s Junior Brother Yuyang?” Suddenly, Su Chunshuang raised her brow and quickly asked Ling Xi.
Ling Xi was momentarily stunned, then suddenly realized.
“Right, where did Senior Brother go? He told me to find you all but he himself…”
“I’m here, I’m here!”
Just as the girls began to worry, a calling voice came from the steps below the mountain.
Then, the handsome young man appeared, waving his hand as he hurried up from the foot of the mountain.
“Where did you go?”
“I… went to take care of some business,” Chen Yuyang answered quickly, a twitch at the corner of his mouth.
“Alright then, Junior Brother, you’re quite carefree. Anyway, Master’s condition isn’t good. Does anyone have any ideas?”
Su Chunshuang pursed her lips and asked the group.
“What ideas could we have? Among my sisters and me, the strongest is Senior Sister Xia Lan; you’re at the early Nascent Soul stage.
But Master is facing a thunder tribulation from Transformation to Integration stage, and a particularly dangerous Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation at that,” Gu Qiushui said with a bitter smile, pointing toward the distant sky.
“Don’t even mention helping. If we get close and catch even a bit of the tribulation’s aftershock, it’s either death or serious injury.”
The women’s faces turned grave, and they were truly at a loss.
“If Master suffers any mishap, where would the Harmonization Sect go from here?”
After a long silence, Su Chunshuang’s expression was filled with worry and she sighed deeply.
The Harmonization Sect had only been rebuilt for a few decades, its foundation was weak, and it had neither elders nor protectors.
Even among the successors in the sect, there were only a handful.
Counting Chen Yuyang, there were only six disciples of Tai Lingxuan.
Within the sect, the only person capable of bearing the weight was the sect leader, Tai Lingxuan.
With Tai Lingxuan’s Nascent Soul-level strength, the Harmonization Sect had barely maintained its position among third-rate sects.
But if the sect leader were to fall, these few disciples could not possibly sustain the sect.
Everyone’s faces were filled with worry.
Only Chen Yuyang…
Because he knew that the Harmonization Sect currently relied entirely on Master’s support, and that he himself still needed this sect’s shelter against the storms,Chen Yuyang risked exposing himself by acting.
At the same time, there was another reason…
In Chen Yuyang’s mind, images from not long ago in his room surfaced, moments of intimacy…
No matter what, Master had nurtured him.
It would be easy to stand by and do nothing, but the inner demons he’d have to face later would be far more difficult.
Looking at the sky, Chen Yuyang sensed the tribulation intensifying.
Was it because of his Nine-Dragon Thunder Control Formation?
The scale and power of this Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation far exceeded his initial expectations.
Even so…Chen Yuyang watched the sky with unease.
At this moment, as the eighteen Jiaolong Thunder Phantoms were torn apart by the Nine Dragons, the Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation finally reached its last stage.
The storm clouds above swirled violently.
The nine True Dragon Phantoms had dimmed but still soared proudly, facing the sky.
Roar—At that moment, a low, deep dragon’s roar echoed faintly across the horizon from within the clouds.
That was…Chen Yuyang’s expression shifted slightly, for this roar was no longer a Jiaolong’s cry, but the genuine sound of a true dragon.
This meant the final thunder tribulation had ascended from Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation to the even more terrifying and powerful Dragon Roar Thunder Tribulation.
The might of a true dragon had arrived.
Ling Xi and the others covered their ears in pain just hearing that dragon’s roar, barely able to stand upright.
Chen Yuyang also feigned pain but secretly dispersed a trace of the ancestral dragon energy he had obtained from the past Ten-Thousand Dragons Bow to the Sect Tribulation, countering the dragon’s roar so it would not harm the spirits of his senior and junior sisters.
At this moment, the lightning in the sky no longer flickered purple-gold but gleamed purely golden.
The golden lightning quickly condensed, and within moments transformed into a True Dragon Thunder Phantom.
The True Dragon Thunder Phantom roared, charging downward.
The Nine Dragon Phantoms immediately rushed to intercept.
Though both were in the form of true dragons, the former was an incarnation of natural heavenly law and thunder, while the latter was a phantom formed by the formation.
Clang!
The True Dragon Phantom shattered.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
One after another, the True Dragon Phantoms rapidly decreased in number.
However, the True Dragon Thunder Phantom’s momentum weakened significantly from the successive collisions before heavily crashing onto the Harmonization Sect’s Main Peak hall.
“Boom—”
Accompanied by a deafening explosion, a circular shockwave radiated outward from the summit.
Strong winds mixed with scattered lightning burst out in all directions.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The mountains hit by the scattered lightning collapsed violently.
Fortunately, those peaks were uninhabited, and the mountain Chen Yuyang and the others were on remained untouched.
After the cataclysmic noise died down, The storm clouds dissipated.
The world returned to silence.
Amid the dust, Gu Qiushui struggled to lift her head, staring at the Main Peak, which had almost lost its entire summit under the last thunder tribulation.
“Master?”
“I—I’ll go check!”
Su Chunshuang said, immediately drawing a cyan jade longsword, preparing to ride her sword toward the Main Peak.
But before she could move, a powerful mental wave spread from the direction of the Main Peak.
And that spiritual aura was one everyone was intimately familiar with.
“It’s Master!” Ling Xi cried out with joy.
“Great!”
The girls cheered excitedly.
Chen Yuyang also breathed a sincere sigh of relief when he felt Tai Lingxuan’s divine sense.
If it had been an ordinary Jiaolong Thunder Tribulation, Chen Yuyang was confident his Nine-Dragon Thunder Control Formation could withstand it.
But with the tribulation having escalated to a Dragon Roar Thunder Tribulation at the end, he could no longer be absolutely sure.
Thankfully, as the sect leader, Master Tai Lingxuan was not without her trump cards.
Based on Chen Yuyang’s judgment, the method used to disperse most of the power of the final tribulation must have been Master’s secret weapon—a certain treasure capable of spatial distortion.
What exactly it was, Chen Yuyang did not know.
In the ruins and dust,Tai Lingxuan coughed up a mouthful of turbid blood, gasping heavily.
She was… still alive…
Not only alive, but she had stepped into the Integration stage.
Even more…Raising her wrist, Tai Lingxuan saw a golden dragon scale phantom on the back of her hand.
This was a True Dragon Scale, a reward for successfully surviving this tribulation.
However… her body was severely injured and would require time to recuperate.
The sect’s treasured artifact, the Starry Wave Brocade Belt, had also sustained some damage, but this was nothing a corresponding celestial material couldn’t repair with careful nurturing.
Thinking of this, a smile finally appeared on Tai Lingxuan’s face.
Just then, she suddenly felt a wave of warmth coursing through her body.
A pure and potent Yang energy was constantly emerging.
This…Tai Lingxuan was surprised.
Though Yuyang had indeed accumulated a lot, this was far too much!
Not only did it help her break through, but also…
Tai Lingxuan immediately sat down, adjusted her breathing and mind, and activated the Yin-Yang Harmonization Technique to refine the dense pure Yang energy within her.
Outside, Su Chunshuang cautiously approached.
Even the residual lightning scattered among the ruins forced her to tread carefully.
When she saw Tai Lingxuan sitting cross-legged with eyes closed, recuperating amidst the ruins, her last worries melted away.
Master was in good condition.
Without disturbing her, Su Chunshuang immediately returned to report the good news to Chen Yuyang and the others.
Hearing this, everyone finally exhaled in relief, then their faces lit up with joy.
Master’s breakthrough raised the overall strength of the Harmonization Sect to a new level.
This was undoubtedly great news for all.
“But why would Master suddenly break through just like that?” Xia Lan couldn’t help but ask curiously.
“And before the tribulation, why didn’t Master notify us in advance?”
Su Chunshuang also voiced her doubts.
“Yeah, such an important event shouldn’t have been kept secret… and if Master was to undergo tribulation, why choose the Main Peak hall instead of a more remote place? When I went earlier, the entire main hall had been pulverized by the tribulation,” Su Chunshuang added, puzzled.
The girls fell into thought.
Suddenly, Gu Qiushui speculated,
“Could it be that Master didn’t expect to break through suddenly, thus triggering the tribulation?”
Xia Lan nodded slightly and continued, “Though the probability is low, it should be something like that.”
“But Master is at the peak Nascent Soul stage, still a distance from Integration. A sudden breakthrough must mean Master obtained some extraordinary opportunity.”
Though reasonable, this guess only raised more questions.
“Extraordinary opportunity? But Master has been within the sect all along. Where would such an opportunity come from?” Gu Qiushui murmured.
Ling Xi pondered but unconsciously glanced at Chen Yuyang.
Come to think of it…Before the breakthrough, Master seemed to have spent more than an hour in Senior Brother Yuyang’s room…
Could it possibly be connected to Senior Brother Yuyang?