Chapter 132 - CHAPTER 131 – THE NINE LIGHTNING TRIBULATION SEED ESSENCE

Solanky raised his hammer to strike the anvil the 999 millionth time. As the hammer was pointed towards the sky, the clouds began to gather above him. The moment the hammer fell onto the anvil, the gathered clouds released lightning, which followed the falling hammer, forming a trail of lightning behind it. As the hammer fell on the anvil, it split open, and the seed of lightning buried deep it shot out and dispersed into the clouds. The lightning brewed as the clouds gathered momentum; more dark clouds began to form, and arcs of lightning and roars of thunder reverberated within them. Solanky knew that the moment these clouds released the lightning and thunder, he would have no way of dodging or evading and would have to receive it head on. The space within the cauldron began to tremble violently; the clouds became so heavy that one could see arcs of electricity and lightning replacing their natural shape.Solanky formed seals with his hands, and multiple energy barriers and law barriers formed around him rapidly, he waved his hand an armor he obtained from his previous visit to the secluded space in one of the zones adorned his body. This armor belonged to a third peak-turn being, but black god Solanky still felt very uneasy as the lightning and thunder brewing had seemed to reach its limit. He waved his hand once more, and a shield belonging to a fourth peak-turn being appeared before him and formed a sphere around him.The clouds in the distance all vanished as they were being replaced by streaks of bolts forming a whirlwind above him; they coalesced into a ball of lightning a few meters in height. This lightning ball with a height of a few meters, was terrifying because the moment a single bolt of lightning escaped, that bolt could tear the space of the beyond realm and even kill a saint emperor transcendent by just brushing past them.As the lightning was coalescing the spiritual body of black god had already began igniting the source-defying flames within its soul. BOOM!The ball of lightning shot down in an instant as if it had traversed the space time, it shattered the energy barriers and shield in an instant and charged forward towards the spherical cage which protected black god Solanky. Solanky, witnessing this, became terrified and petrified. The cage began to show countless cracks on its surface after 3 breaths of time the entire caged collapsed and the lightning ball continued moving forward and struck the armor of Solanky. The lightning seemed to have not lost any of its power, but its power seemed to increase now. The armor shattered, and the lightning struck black god's body; in an instant black god Solanky's body was reduced to ashes leaving behind his spiritual body. His spiritual body opened its arms wide to receive the strike, with seeds of the source-defying flames already ignited, the lightning and the flames began to consume and erode each other, but clearly it was the flames which had the upper hand. The lightning and thunder strikes increased to the max, and the continent beneath Solanky became charred black with countless lightning marks on the ground.With the help of the source-defying flames and his second-turn early-stage spiritual body and awareness, he began to integrate the lightning with his essence. This was a deadly gamble even for beings with spiritual awareness at the fifth-turn, as this lightning was capable of even injuring sixth and seventh-turn spiritual bodies and true peak-turn beings at the sixth-turn. With the help of source-defying flames, he was able to minimize the danger posed by the lightning; after what looked like an hour, he was able to fully merge with the lightning. A flood of information poured into Solanky's memory, and he learnt that the lightning he had just absorbed and integrated with his spiritual body was called the nine lightning tribulation. The nine lightning tribulation was a calamity-based law discovered outside the beyond realm; the moment Solanky heard this he was taken aback because he never knew laws existed outside the beyond realm and such laws could take form. The nine lightning tribulation was created by a powerful ninth-turn calamitous lifeform that stood at the absolute peak billions of samsaras ago, and it was believed that being, had already touched a power above the true peak-turns level.The lightning was eventually discovered by Bragon during his expedition in the world and realm where all existence sprouted from. This world and realm was borderless and boundless, and no being ever knew its end even if they increased their sizes to several billions of light-years. Most beings who tried to experiment with this felt that they were minuscule in the grand scheme of things and were like a speck of dust within that realm, so they all agreed to call that realm the Draft-world. The draft world was a terrifying place only powerful beings who had reached or surpassed the fifth-turn could roam freely within that space.After learning about the draft-world and the origins of the nine lightning tribulations, the voice of Bragon resounded once again within the cauldron black god Solanky was in. "Haha, very good, as I expected. You are now my successor and the best candidate to inherit this world treasure of mine. You may be wondering about the other floors and pyramids. Haha, those were bonuses because I thought any being wouldn't be able to merge with the lightning, and even if you hadn't chosen the lightning cauldron and create a true peak-turn technique, you would still have to obtain the lightning seed displayed within the seventh pyramid. But that is unnecessary now, as the lightning within that pyramid already dissipated the moment you begun the merging and integration process." Solanky was a little taken aback, but he thought about the forging of a true peak-turn weapon or artifact to pass the pyramid's test. But before he could even ask his question, the voice of Bragon seemed to already know his thoughts; a portion of the clouds and continent dislodged itself from the others and coalesced into the figure of Bragon.This figure was very much different from the coiled humanoid figure outside; this was the true body of Bragon: was a humanoid figure with a long tail, four faces and they were the faces of a (seahorse, hawk, man and dragon) above his head were eight stars orbiting around what seemed to be a lightning pearl. His mid-body had six huge, strong arms with two legs and a long tail. With his true form revealed, Solanky felt like an inferior being under the gaze of the true body of Bragon. Although it was a remnant spiritual energy stored within the cauldron, it possessed a spiritual sense above the fifth-turn, and it was the main spiritual body remnant needed to gather the others to help the clone outside come back to life and repair the world treasure. Bragon said, "I sense a familiar defying law embedded within your spiritual body, and that law belonged to an old companion of mine. Although we were at the eighth-turn, his power and means alone were unfathomable; even ninth-turn peak-turns beings are weary of him. You must be connected to him. I mean Supremo."The spiritual body of Solanky nodded his head affirmatively. "No wonder you could break through the shackles of the saint transcendent entity directly into the true peak-turns second-turn without refining or shattering the saint halo of your physical body. I will be waiting for you to claim the seventh pyramid. I believe Behan is officiating this competition, I will send him a message to create a similar space to overlap this world; the elites of the competition wouldn't notice a thing. After that, you give him the world treasure to keep for you until your main body breaks through the true peak-turns level. That's when I can borrow your body to repair the treasure. Don't worry, you would gain more insights on your path of becoming a guardian-level ancestor figure (fifth-turn or above). Use the lighting to forge a new body for yourself; the power you will release would increase from 730 billion to 750 billion times the strength of ISG, the absolute limit for calamitous lifeforms. that female in the fire cauldron is truly resilient and terrifying to be able to control 48% of the flames isn't bad for her level, but you would have to kill this clone of hers if want to truly obtain the last pyramid and the world treasure. i can her true body hiding in a world ring amongst her sect's elites."