During the period when one is directly struck by lightning, one's own recovery ability will be greatly weakened—this seems to be a characteristic of lightning tribulations.

However, even with such a significant reduction, there are limits. Even if the recovery efficiency is reduced by 99%, she can still accelerate her physical recovery with the power of time.

As the power of time continues to be consumed, the physical body cycles through annihilation and rebirth.

While enduring the tribulation lightning, Xi Heng often used this method when undergoing tribulations before. Although it has been greatly weakened due to the special nature of the Dao Integration Tribulation, it can still be used to some extent.

However... this method consumes the power of time a little faster.

Fifteen seconds later, the third heavenly tribulation also dissipated.

The white-haired girl, whose body was still intact, let out a soft breath and memorized the following:

"After the fourth save, the spell alone was enough to block the third heavenly tribulation for five seconds."

Last time it took three seconds, and the two times before that it didn't even last a second.

The power of all kinds of spells is enhanced by the integration of the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

Since the fourth save could stop the lightning tribulation for five seconds, perhaps the tenth or fourteenth save could withstand the third powerful lightning tribulation with magic alone.

Even though it has a special attack against magic defense, it can still enhance the magic's power to the point that it can withstand natural disasters by repeatedly loading and looping saves.

As the number of save/load attempts increases, the Heavenly Tribulation will inevitably become increasingly powerless.

Because the intensity of the Heavenly Tribulation itself remains constant, as if it were predetermined from the beginning, it will not dynamically adjust as Xi Heng's strength increases.

At least, that's the case for the first six tribulations she's currently experiencing.

The third tribulation has arrived, and the amount of primordial energy of heaven and earth that Xi Heng has accumulated and initially refined within his body has reached a certain limit.

Those who cultivate often have this feeling of expansion—the body cannot contain more power, so it needs to expand its capacity, or use up the power before it can continue to accumulate.

Otherwise, it will be like a teacup that is already full; no matter how much water you pour, it will only overflow.

"Other cultivators who successfully survived the tribulation should have accumulated roughly the same amount of spiritual energy as I do now," Xi Heng thought to himself.

While other promoted individuals can only overflow once, she can repeatedly collect more and more.

"Now that we have accumulated enough for the time being, it's time to find a place to continue the next stage of refining."

Drink the water in the cup first, then bring another empty cup to refill it.

Xi Heng's mind raced, and he returned to the save/load space.

Clicking the save button randomly saves the clothes that Yin Wanluan gave me years ago, and then reloads the save file.

This time, I switched back to the original save file from Yaowang Mountain.

The sensation of fluidity washed over my body and then disappeared. When I opened my eyes, I saw spider webs covering the jagged beams of the roof, and I was lying in the wooden house.

With cicadas chirping and a gentle breeze in his ears, Xi Heng didn't linger. As the white flames flashed, the surrounding scenery immediately changed to the rarely visited summit of Yaowang Mountain.

She waved her hand to create a cave, and once inside, she sat cross-legged in meditation, motionless as if transformed into a statue.

Time flies, and three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth is the fundamental spiritual power, which is more compatible and integrated with the human body than ordinary spiritual power.

As if she were actively adapting to Xi Heng's refining process and spontaneously integrating herself, she completed the entire refining process in just three months, incorporating the stored spiritual energy of heaven and earth into her dantian, meridians, muscles, and divine senses like spiritual power.

Having completed the foundational work of cultivation, he was not far from becoming a Dao Integration cultivator who had truly survived the tribulation.

During this time, Xi Heng often had doubts. He was clearly still in the middle of his advancement, but after arriving at this save file, no heavenly tribulation broke out.

Only when you save your game in the Heavenly Realm will the golden light and lightning continue to appear.

"It is likely that the Heavenly Tribulation itself does not come suddenly, but rather it is gradually brewing on a certain imperceptible level, along with the cultivator's cultivation level, and only emerges when the cultivator advances."

"And I suddenly arrived at this time period, so there was no heavenly tribulation brewing?" she silently guessed, unsure if she was right or wrong.

In short, the practice here is quite peaceful.

After consolidating and refining the accumulated spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and feeling his strength increase exponentially, Xi Heng confidently returned to the save-load space and clicked the last save to face the heavenly tribulation.

Calamity struck unexpectedly, and on his fifth attempt, he withstood eight bolts of lightning.

Only the final tribulation, the Nine Tribulations, which is far greater than the previous eight combined, remains unsurpassed.

Next came the sixth and seventh saves—during which Xi Heng was unable to escape the Nine Tribulations, which resembled a golden dragon.

Even if the resurrection spell of time is used, it will be annihilated again.

The perfect method of restoring time has a certain time limit.

She must be resurrected within the 'future' that she can see for a few dozen seconds, and cannot exceed that time.

Xi Heng can only glimpse the future within 33 seconds, and is therefore limited to being resurrected within 33 seconds.

Thirty-three seconds is enough to dodge any of the first eight tribulations, but the ninth tribulation lasts much longer, and the tribulation clouds in the sky will not dissipate in a short time.

The ninth great calamity, which transforms into the form of a true dragon, cannot be escaped through such trickery.

When Xi Heng first faced the Ninth Tribulation of Lightning, he felt the power of Heaven's might, which made him feel incredibly small.

They might wonder if the intensity of this lightning tribulation was a bit off.

Even if other cultivators have complete mental cultivation, they wouldn't be much stronger than her now.

No one who has advanced in rank should be able to withstand such a powerful tribulation.

Such a calamity could probably only be overcome by those born with extraordinary talent or cultivators who possess truly secret treasures...

She has the ability to load save files, so she should be able to pass.

However, the tribulations described in some advancement books are not this powerful.

Have I offended the corrupt Heavenly Dao in some way? Or have I done something wrong, or overlooked something?

As he pondered, the words written on a tattered page of a remote book he had previously read suddenly surfaced in his mind—a cultivator said that the 'Dao' of merging with the Dao might influence the power of the Heavenly Tribulation.

Then he speculated: "Is it because I chose the Heavenly Path of Time that the power of the lightning tribulation is far beyond ordinary?"

"This path is not something ordinary cultivators can even glimpse?"

However, in the end, he only let out a soft chuckle.

Coincidentally, she was no ordinary person.

After the ninth heavenly tribulation annihilated his physical body, Xi Heng returned to his save space to save another garment given to him by Yin Wanluan. He then clicked to save and returned to Medicine King Mountain to continue refining the accumulated spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

As the cycle of 'Refining-Responding to Tribulation' continued several times, by the time she loaded the save for the twenty-first time, the spiritual energy she had accumulated was more than four times that of an ordinary Dao Integration cultivator.

Faced with the calamity once again, he could easily block the first five bolts of lightning with just the White Flame Spirit Fire technique.

In addition, her physical body could withstand the force, so the first eight lightning tribulations would not cause her any significant damage.

But when the golden light and lightning transformed from the sky into the shape of a true dragon, and its two golden eyes, flashing with electric light, stared down, one could still feel an immeasurable power.

When the Nine Tribulations unfold, the might of Heaven and the might of the Dragon will overlap and merge, and the power of the tribulations will converge into the shape of a dragon.

Five golden claws pierced through the clouds, the dragon's body undulating, sometimes rising and sometimes falling, the shapes of its scales formed by the lines of lightning.

Lightning formed the dragon's whiskers, which swayed in the wind. Its two protruding eyes shone brightly, and its huge mouth revealed sharp teeth, making it as lifelike as an ink painting created by lightning.

Xi Heng was below, gazing at the enormous dragon's eye in the sky.

Even though it was the 10th or 10th time he had witnessed the final tribulation lightning, he still found it difficult to calm his mind.

Her attention was divided in two, one half remaining calm, the other half completely drawn to the lightning.

"The more I look at it, the more I feel that only by delaying the resurrection can we survive this great calamity," she thought.

"Delaying the resurrection time requires increasing the foreseeable future seconds—this is an even greater challenge, perhaps even more difficult than dealing with a celestial calamity."

"Let's give it our all again."

The thought flashed through his mind in an instant, and the true dragon in the sky roared out a thunderous cry.

Then, just as she had seen in the previous dozen or so times when she faced this calamity, the dragon's head descended with the speed of a flash of light.

The white flames rippled, illuminating ninety-nine spatial partitions of varying sizes between heaven and earth.

Time accelerated, and Xi Heng's spellcasting speed became instantaneous, with golden light arrays emerging between the spatial partitions.

Countless shields linked together to form a towering golden tower.

The golden dragon pressed down on the top of the tower, causing destruction from top to bottom with unstoppable force.

The towering structures failed to stop it in the slightest; its upper part dissipated in the blink of an eye.

The remaining half was even thicker, but it couldn't even last half a second; at most, it would leave a scratch on the scales on the surface of the golden dragon.

Snapped--

The snapping sound came from nowhere. Before the golden dragon even reached Xi Heng's location, twelve giant floating cities suddenly appeared in the sky.

The city is predominantly gray-black, standing on a floating ice and snow island. Countless spires rise up, making the whole city resemble a dense forest and a high mountain, while the spires themselves are the dense forest on the mountain.

All the doors and windows of the twelve deathly cities, which were pressed together in a circle, opened at the same time, bursting out with countless dense deathly energies, which then transformed from the air into twelve chains that were even thicker than the golden dragon, and chained the golden dragon away.

First, a loud boom resounded, the earth trembled, and Xi Heng's physical body temporarily dissipated.

Then the black chains arrived, binding the dragon from its head to its tail.

The massive chains tightened, unleashing their power to violently pull the golden dragon upwards.

The golden dragon roared with thunderous booms, shattering the chains binding it. But moments later, new chains rushed in and bound it tightly.

The opponent shattered the chains again, during which time the power of the lightning tribulation was slightly depleted.

The deathly aura continued to erupt, clashing with the golden lightning.

Although one of these two is the power of the Heavenly Dao, and the other is merely the deathly calamity refined by Xi Heng, the difference between them is enormous.

However, due to their sheer number, they can still wear down and pull against the Heavenly Tribulation Golden Dragon.

The winner will be decided when the opponent's strength is completely exhausted.

Thirty-three seconds after her figure was annihilated by the golden dragon, pale golden light flowed through the air, and the white-haired girl's figure reappeared from it.

The golden dragon, bound by chains, initially found it difficult to exert its full strength to continue suppressing her attacks, only managing to deflect the lightning with its edges, which was easily blocked by simple white flame magic.

But then, the golden dragon was able to unleash its power again, roaring as it broke free of its chains, shattering them into pieces.

Xi Heng sensed that the other party was about to leave and frowned slightly.

"The amount of death energy is large, but its explosive power seems insufficient. We need to think of a solution."

The thought had barely formed in her mind when suddenly a giant golden claw shot out from the sky, pressing down on her.

With a thunderous roar, Xi Heng's body was torn to shreds, turning into white flames that scattered and then coalesced to the side.

As time flowed by, they reunited, and the dragon's eyes shone brightly.

Xi Heng blinked, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw only a gray and gloomy scene.

He stumbled slightly, and when he looked back, he realized that he had returned to the save/load space, and the heavenly tribulation was no longer in sight.

"..."

After a moment of silence, she silently resumed her thoughts and spoke softly:

"Next, we can use the power of time to accelerate time and enhance the explosive power of the death energy. We can also preserve more floating cities of death energy, or directly use the entire city to crash into the heavenly tribulation..."

"In short, it's just a dragon transformed from lightning tribulation." She scoffed, "So what if I slay another dragon?"

Move your finger forward and click to load the save file.

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Volume 1: Chapter 390, A Long-Awaited Reunion

In the blink of an eye, the sixty-seventh tribulation had arrived.

Other cultivators can only obtain the spiritual energy of heaven and earth once during their tribulation, but Xi Heng has refined it twenty-three times.

However, because it is difficult to overcome the ninth tribulation of lightning, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth cannot be accumulated and perfected in one go, and it usually takes two or three times.

Once his vital energy is sufficient, he will return to the Great Zhao's archive and slowly refine it.

Each time, the refining efficiency is much faster than before.

The first refining took three months, while the second only took two and a half months.

It took a full twenty-three refinements and two years and three months of Xi Heng's reign.

At this point, the primordial energy of heaven and earth has refined the physical strength and overall power to a certain extreme level, making further improvement difficult in the current state.

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