Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 138 Overcoming Four Tribulations in a Row

Normally, lightning tribulations are numbered nine times nine, and it's impossible for them to exceed this number. At first, the pavilion masters thought they had misremembered the number, but it wasn't until the eighty-third, eighty-fourth, and even one hundred lightning bolts fell one after another that they realized that so many had really struck.

While everyone was worried, they couldn't help but doubt themselves. Was this really a tribulation of lightning? Who gets struck by more than a hundred lightning bolts during a tribulation? They couldn't help but recall what the ancestor had said before. Could it really just be a new lightning technique, and that they had guessed wrong?

What happened over the next month left the dean and the pavilion masters even more bewildered. It wasn't just those hundred-odd bolts of lightning; just over ten days later, thunderclouds gathered again above the Blue Academy, and an even more powerful lightning tribulation struck down.

Then another ten days or so passed...

The third tribulation of lightning crashed down with a deafening roar. This time, the entire Blue Academy was enveloped in lightning, and Twin Star Academy had to activate its protective array to prevent the lightning from accidentally injuring others.

The lightning tribulation continued back and forth, striking more than two hundred times. Even the Dean and the Pavilion Master suspected that the Blue Academy might possess some kind of lightning-attracting magic treasure, which was why so many heavenly lightning bolts were being struck in this direction.

As for someone undergoing tribulation, they thought it was impossible. After all, who could experience four tribulations in just over a month, and each one was stronger than the last? Could someone possibly leapfrog four major realms in one go?

Qiu Ci, who is really capable: "..."

Indeed, in just over a month, she finally completed the synchronization of her cultivation with the dog system, achieved the leap from primary school to junior high school, and jumped from the Nascent Soul stage to the peak cultivation level of the Celestial Realm on the continent.

Her original plan was to undergo two tribulations of lightning at once, thereby reaching the Integration Stage in one fell swoop, giving her clone the ability to protect itself, at least enough to escape the Refining God Sect. That's why she endured 162 bolts of heavenly lightning the first time.

However, she soon discovered that with the protection of the old man from Juanshan and the base's built-in tribulation-crossing assistance program, she not only successfully withstood the tribulation but also had spare strength.

So after more than ten days of recuperation, she simply continued to undergo tribulation. After three attempts, she finally graduated from junior high school. And when her clone was fighting the fifteen pieces of flesh, she successfully struck the last bolt of lightning, officially synchronizing the cultivation levels of both sides.

This is why the clone suddenly ascended to the Celestial Realm.

Unfortunately, Qu Tengfei didn't believe that anyone could advance four major realms in an instant. He thought that Qiu Ci had other considerations for hiding his cultivation and sneaking into the Refining God's Trail, such as wanting to find out the sect's strengths and weaknesses first.

right! That must be it.

Thinking he had guessed his senior's thoughts correctly, he quickly reminded him, "Senior Chu... the Refining God Sect has lost fifteen Nascent Soul cultivators. The sect must have already received the news. If we want to find that Mahayana cultivator again, we probably..."

Boom...

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly saw Chu Qiuci beside him raise his hand and make a fire spell. Instantly, fire meteors rained down from the sky, and huge fireballs crashed down towards the direction of the Refining God Sect.

In the blink of an eye, the entire sect was smashed into a sea of ​​fire and ruins, leaving not even a trace. They hadn't even entered the Refining God Sect's territory.

"Huh? What did you just say?" Qiu Ci stopped and turned around to ask.

"Uh..." Qu Tengfei's lips twitched. "N-nothing?" He had been too talkative. The Great Ascension stage was nothing!
"Oh, right." Qiu Ci seemed to remember something and pointed to the half-collapsed mountain behind the sea of ​​fire, "Those cultivators who are running for the Walking God are still in the stone chamber in that mountain. They should still be alive, but... we might not be able to tell in a while."

Qu Tengfei's expression changed. Remembering the cultivators who had come in with them, he immediately flew over there. Sure enough, he saw the area that the sea of ​​fire had deliberately avoided. More than a dozen cultivators were pinned down by spirit swords and unable to move. It was the work of those fleshy elders.

The Refining God Sect's goal was to seize bodies, so although they were injured and unable to move, they were all still alive. Qu Tengfei quickly stepped forward and rescued them. They had naturally witnessed the Refining God Sect being destroyed in an instant. Qu Tengfei only explained that it was a senior who had intervened, without going into details, and then pointed out the way out for everyone.

He had originally intended to leave as well, but after thinking it over, he returned to his previous spot. Unexpectedly, Senior Chu hadn't left; he remained standing in the same place, as if waiting for him. "Have they all left?"

"Yes." Qu Tengfei nodded.

"Then let's go too!" Qiu Ci turned around decisively; there was no one left on the Refining God Sect's side.

"Where...where to?" he asked blankly.

Qiu Ci paused for a moment, thought for a moment, and then said, "Which of the four great families and sects is closest to here?"

“It seems to be… the Zheng family,” he replied.

"Then let's go to the Zheng family first. Could you please lead the way?"

"Ah? Ah! Senior, you mean..."

"Since we're already here, let's take this opportunity to clean up some of the scourges plaguing this continent."

"..."

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Three months later.

The ancestral home of the Zhao family.

A group of elders were anxiously gathered in the hall. Some of them looked like normal human figures, but their bodies were very thin. They were pacing back and forth in the hall. Others looked like huge lumps of rotting flesh, constantly writhing. But all of them were agitated.

"Clan leader, news from the south indicates that not only the Refining God Sect, but also the Imperial Extreme Sect, Purple Cloud Sect, and Imperial Void Sect have been wiped out. Even the Zheng family, Pei family, and Shi family have been exterminated. They will definitely target our Zhao family next."

"Is that demon really that powerful?" A gaunt old man at the head of the table asked with a gloomy face. "Do you know what her cultivation level is? How could she destroy so many sects in three months?"

“They all say it’s the realm of celestial beings, above the Mahayana level,” someone replied.

"Impossible!" The gaunt old man suddenly stood up. "Isn't it a consensus among all sects that no one in this world can break through to the Celestial Realm?" If someone could really cultivate to the Celestial Realm, they wouldn't have been fighting each other for so many years.

“But… apart from the Celestial Realm, who can so easily crush the Mahayana stage experts of various families? According to the information we’ve gathered, there isn’t a single cultivator above the Nascent Soul stage from any sect or family who has survived,” the elder replied.

The gaunt old man fell silent. Indeed, only the Celestial Realm could achieve this, but was it possible? Over the years, it wasn't that no one on the entire continent had tried to break through to the Celestial Realm, but they all perished on the path. The Celestial Realm emphasizes the unity of heaven and man, a realm that can touch the threshold of immortality. No one has achieved this in tens of thousands of years. So where did this Celestial Realm come from?

"Perhaps it's not Fengdong Continent?" someone speculated.

"What?!" How is that possible?

"Clan leader, do you remember the woman who suddenly appeared in our ancestral land?" the elder reminded him.