Chapter 241: Aftermath Of The Tribulation?
Only after all the tribulation clouds disappeared did, the people dare to approach Shirong. The vortex of spirit Qi that was surrounding him also faded away and his breakthrough was now considered to be fully complete.
The people were a bit apprehensive and only when the elders took the lead did they follow. The one who was at the front was none other than Clan Head Lu.
“Congratulations young master!” He exclaimed.
Shirong who had been focused on himself finally opened his eyes. Upon opening them, he finally noticed the carnage that had been caused. When all the people were being killed, he had actually not noticed as he couldn’t spare his attention.
It was a very risky situation for him and any lapse in judgment could have been fatal to him. But now that the people were closer to him, he noticed them being covered with blood and even an elder that was at the Nascent Soul realm seemed to be injured.
Among all the elders that had joined as his Dharma protectors, five of them were at the Nascent Soul realm, including clan head Lu. The other nascent Soul realm elders belonged to the other cities and were their respective heads.
“What happened?” Shirong asked in a low voice.
Clan Head Lu instantly understood that Shirong must not have been able to pay much attention to other things when he was undergoing his breakthrough.
‘But how did he kill the targets, then?’ Clan Head Lu wondered before explaining the matters in brief to him.
After listening to the entire explanation, Shirong understood that it was the Immortal Crystal armament that had killed the targets for him. Since he had them in his mind, the immortal weapon must have picked up on it and acted.
‘You bring more and more surprises to me every day.’ Shirong thought in his heart.
After Clan Head Lu, the other elders also congratulated him, but some of them were quite sad due to the loss of their clansmen. Still, what Shirong had done was nothing short of a miracle. In total, he had born ten bolts of tribulation lightning, of which six were even the Purple-white lightning bolts.
Just being able to bear three normal tribulation bolts was considered to be good, but for him, they could say that he was nothing less than a monster. The elders knew that the Divine armor had contributed to it as well, but it was still Shirong’s talent that must have triggered the change in the tribulation.
The elders including Shirong himself were unaware that everything had changed because of the presence of Lin Wu. Had he not been here, Shirong would not have had the unknown energy in his core and it would not have absorbed the tribulation lightning.
Originally he would have broken through after three bolts of tribulation lightning like normal but the unknown energy consumed it and enraged the tribulation clouds. Then the appearance of Lin Wu only made it change further and it evolved into a dual layered heavenly tribulation.
Still, in the long term, Shirong had only benefited from it. His cultivation technique had progressed to the next level and the unknown energy effect had also made some unknown changes to his Nascent Soul. He could tell that his affinity with the lightning element had increased.
He took another look at the people from the audience and saw their expressions. Some of them were excited seeing him, some were sad from the loss of their companions, and some were simply scared.
Those that had run away at the first sight of danger were thanking the heavens that they did not dare stay in the audience or they may have died too. The Nascent Soul realm elder who had been hit by the tribulation lighting was still pale and blood was leaking out of his mouth.
‘It’s good that we got them all to sign the agreements before, or this would have been a mess.’ Shirong thought.
Eventually, it was decided that they will all return to the city for now and those that were injured will be treated. Clan Head Lu volunteered to compensate the kin of those that had died, but the other elders rejected it. They knew the risks of what would happen and could not go back on their words now.
No one knew that Shirong would be so monstrously talented that dual layered tribulation would be formed. While they got to witness a rare phenomenon, they also ended up making some losses.
Currently, clan head Lu and Shirong were sitting in a private room and finally got to talk.
“How did you get rid of the targets, young master? I could tell that you were fully focused on the breakthrough.” Clan Head Lu questioned.
“It was not actually fully under my control. When the lightning bolts were being restricted by the Armor, and split into smaller ones. I needed to dispose of them quickly. I just ended up deflecting them towards the direction of the targets.
Although I was lucky at the start as it only killed the main targets but the last bolt was quite strong and I could barely resist it. That’s why when the lightning bolt was sent there, it ended up killing everyone in a radius.” Shirong said, making up a believable excuse.
What he had said was in reality a truth as it was indeed Lin Wu who had killed them with the lightning, but Shirong did not know this fully. He just had a hunch and made up this lie.
Clan Head Lu didn’t doubt this either, as according to him there weren’t many methods by which one could do something like this. Like even he himself would be able to deflect a bolt of tribulation lightning if it came towards him, but to control where it lands would be extremely difficult.
But he just pushed all this on the divine armor which was given to him by his clan and attributed it to their greatness.
“Well… that was entertaining to watch…” Lin Wu chuckled.
