Ninth heavenly tribulation

In less than a few minutes, the entire clear sunny sky above the Sword Island was blotted out by the thick dark clouds which definitely weren't here to start raining.

So dark that the clouds began making everyone experience despair from just looking at them.

The Heavenly Tribulation could be considered as both the heaven and earth's way of showing its wrath and testing the cultivator.

Attempting to break out of the maximum lifespan it had granted to the humans born in the Mortal Realm was what made everyone incur its wrath.

And only by bearing its wrath and not dying would they be rewarded by the heaven and earth and become a true False Immortal.

That's why no two heavenly tribulations were the same.

Depending on one's age, talent, and cultivation technique, the strength behind the lightning strikes would keep on increasing.

Therefore, for Jian Shen who was a seventeen-year-old boy with the Heavenly Dragon Bloodline that cultivated in the Myriad Sword God Technique, one could just assume how harsh the upcoming heavenly tribulation would be on him.

In fact, Jian Shen himself could feel the lightning being gathered inside those clouds above him.

Looking up, Jian Shen didn't feel despair like others did but rather had a serious look on his face.

The clouds right above him looked like they were some beasts mouth and therefore it seemed like whatever that beast was, it was howling towards him with boundless anger.

"See that beast, no one knows what it is because such a creature doesn't exist in any of the three realms. That's why many of us think that this beast was the first one to reach the apex of cultivation in all the three realms and that's why it was chosen the be the beast that would control the heaven and earth."

"It still has a conscience?"

"Who knows, husband. Some of us even think that this beast's head is something created by the heaven and earth to make those experiencing the tribulation be shaken."

Clearly, the two swords believed in two different things, but not wasn't the time for Jian Shen to think what he should believe in.

After all, the first tribulation looked like it was ready to smite him at any time.

As the clouds rumbled loudly, everything happened in an instant.

Even before Jian Shen could try and see every single detail of the lightning, it had already struck him.

Fuck!

Following his eyes being unable to see anything due to the flash of lightning, Jian Shen was filled with an intense pain.

It almost felt as if his insides were the ones that were being electrocuted.

Because even though he could bear with the external pain which was charring his skin black, it was the pain on the inside which had him all riled up.

Compared to when Jian Shen was remaking his body, even though he was sure that none of his insides were destroyed the pain was a million times wore.

Luckily, this pain didn't last long because the lightning which struck him disappeared very quickly due to which the pain didn't last long.

And following this pain was the reward given by the heaven and earth for bearing with the heavenly tribulation.

A wave of energy passed through Jian Shen's body from the top to the bottom which not only healed all of the injuries that were caused from bearing with the heavenly tribulation and even strengthened his physique both inside and out making it possible to withstand the next one without dying.

Also, with the Myriad Sword God Cultivation Technique running on its own since the lightning first struck Jian Shen, his physique was being strengthened two times as a whole.

This gave Jian Shen not only the extra edge over others in bearing the lightning strikes which would appear next but will also let him feel much less pain.

Within a few moments of the first lightning strike, the clouds had already gathered more lightning than before and crashed down on Jian Shen.

Boom!

The pain this time was honestly less in comparison to the first one, but this might be because he experienced one of the heavenly tribulations already.

The damage it did, however, wasn't less in the slightest.

His skin was no longer just charred but rather destroyed revealing his burst muscles, while on the inside his internal organs had almost been destroyed.

Gritting his teeth, Jian Shen didn't utter a single word as the reward quickly arrived and healed him completely.

Three... Four... Five... Six... Seven... Eight....

Jian Shen had originally thought that maybe he'd get used to the pain or maybe grow numb to it, but with every strike he received Jian Shen was filled with a bigger urge to scream loudly and give up.

After all, during the eight one his entire body was almost reduced to an ash as he barely survived.

If the reward had come any later, Jian Shen was sure that he would've died for sure.

Similarly, the two swords wanted to ask Jian Shen to stop as well because they couldn't help him in any way to ease the damage done by the tribulation.

Especially since it was the ninth tribulation which was going be rained down on him next.

Taking more time to gather the lightning than it did before, this time Jian Shen could clearly see what it was that hit him.

Unlike the previous ones which travelled too quick and looked like ordinary bolts of lightning, this one was in 5he shape of a beast.

A beast that had a dragon's head, snake's body, wings of a phoenix, and four legs which looked like they could crush anything.

As the view took Jian Shen by surprise, he regained his senses from sensing how terrifying the power behind this ninth strike was.