Chapter 165 - Thunder Fire Spirit Fruit
Jian had survived the fourth strike of the tribulation. While he was recovering from the fifth strike of the problem, Song Yu has stood up and checked the tree.
She found out that the has stopped growing. The leaves of the tree have turned purple. Even though she didn't happen to have extensive knowledge about the spirit fruits tree, she understood that for the tree to give a fruit first, it needs to bloom.
She knew that as the tree survives the fifth strike of the tribulation, it would bloom. After checking the tree, she looked up and saw that the clouds had stopped gathering.
She knew that the fifth strike of the tribulation was going to fall. She saw Jian waking up from recovering and getting ready. The fifth strike of the problem fell on the tree, and as it fell, Jian immediately came in between the tree and the strike.
Which caused the clouds to rumble, and both knew that the heavens were angered once again. Jian immediately moved away from the tree, and Song Yu saw the tribulation clouds follow him.
She then also followed him because song Yu was also going to help the tree survive the tribulation.
While he would continue to change the direction, Song Yu would try to control the tribulation.
It doesn't matter if she can control the whole thing. Whenever she would feel that she couldn't handle more, then she would use the controlled Thunder element to attack the tribulation.
This was decided last minute because Jian couldn't change the direction and even try to control the Thunder. It entirely depends on Jian so that Song Yu can maintain some of them.
As they had planned, they started to perform. After ten minutes of continuous attacking and defending there plan was working. Jian was able to change the direction, and Song Yu controlled small clusters against the tribulation.
They followed the same process for fifty minutes because the tribulation continued for the same time as the third and the fourth strike, but its strength was twice the fourth strike.
Something unexpected happened towards the end. The small clusters of the tribulation gathered together and formed a large group that directly fell on Jian.
Jian had to use his body to defend against it because he didn't have enough time to protect against that last strike, which caused him a ton split mouthful of blood.
He immediately went on his knees; he hadn't expected the strike to be this powerful to cause him internal injuries. He was shocked because his physique was comparable to Core formation realm expert, but it couldn't defend against the tribulation.
Song Yu saw everything happen; she couldn't do anything. She had tried to control it, but the amount of Thunder element was so large that she couldn't even touch it.
As the clouds dispersed, she rushed towards Jian to help him, but before she could, Jian was already in a meditation position and had eaten a three-star healing pill.
The injuries were healing, but the process was prolonged. He had not expected the three-star pill not to have any impact on injuries. So he took out some herbs and spirit fruits and ate them.
Song Yu saw that he was focusing on recovering, so she sat beside him and concentrated on healing. While they were recovering, flowers have started to bloom on the tree.
But as the flowers were blooming, they were falling on the ground. If Song Yu were to see this, then she would panic, but if Jian used Star Gaze, then he would see that after every flower that blooms. The spirit Qi will flow toward a flower which was at the top of the tree.
Meaning they were devouring each other so that they could convert into fruit. The process continued for some time, and at last, only one flower was remaining.
The flower which had bloomed is now closing, and if Jian were to see it using Star Gaze, he would know that it was converging all qi into its centre.
The process of formation of the fruit has started. But the clouds are still gathering even though twenty minutes have passed. Jian opened his eyes to check then focused on recovering.
This would be the last strike of the tribulation, so both of them knew it would be considerably more potent than the fifth strike. They were hoping to survive the problem; otherwise, all they had done would be for nought.
The clouds stopped gathering after thirty minutes. Jian and Song Yu both stood up. Song Yu asked Jian if he was OK. He smiled and nodded. He didn't say anything because his injuries had not completely healed.
But if he told her, then she would get nervous. Jian then looked up and saw that the clouds had covered all areas. There was no place safe from it. Jian frowned after seeing that because the tribulation would cover all space, there would be no place to stay away from it.
And from the rumblings of the clouds, he could tell that it was going to lot more potent than other strikes. He understood that for the last strike, they had to focus on protecting the tree. Otherwise, it would be destroyed.
He and Song Yu surrounded the tree and waited for the tribulation to start. In a few minutes, the hardship struck, and as Jian had expected, it covered the whole area; but nothing was hidden.
It started from outside and began to head towards the tree. As it was falling on the ground, the destruction caused by it has left Jian speechless.
Everything in its path was obliterated. Jian's expression became grim. He had not expected the tribulation to cause such destruction. He looked at Song Yu and told her to prepare because she would get heavily injured if not careful.
As it reached the tree, Jian immediately released all of his cultivation, and as he did that, the ground underneath him was destroyed. Song Yu was shocked to see Jian strength. She then calmed down, and she also released her cultivation.
Jian jumped on the top of the tree, and Song Yu would defend themself from the ground. But she couldn't hold for long because of the strength of the tribulation. She couldn't hold on and was injured.
Jian immediately came down and helped her sit under the tree and told her not to move and focus on healing her injuries. If he let her continue, then her injuries will increase, and she will be heavily injured.
The branches on the tree had started to get blown away by the tribulation. At the top of the tree where the fruit was maturing was protected by Jian. After Song Yu got injured, he couldn't cover all trees.
He was trying very hard to protect the tree from tribulation. Now he was only focusing on protecting the part of the tree where the fruit was maturing.
Slowly it was getting harder for Jian to defend. He was able to continue because he used the full strength of his cultivation for the first time. Otherwise, he would be injured.
He continued to defend for fifteen minutes, but then he saw the small clusters of the tribulation have started to gather. He knew that they would converge into a large group. He immediately prepared to defend against it.
But it was too late because the target of the cluster was the bottom of the tree, and Jian had thought that it would fall on the fruit. Before Jian could reach to defend, he was thrown away from the impact.
He immediately stood up and rushed towards the tree. It was a good thing that Song Yu was sitting on the opposite side. Otherwise, she could have died.
As he reached the tree, he saw that more than half of the tree had been destroyed. He then looked towards the leaves and saw that they had started to wither. His expression became grim, and he sighed because, from the look of it, the tree was destroyed.
He looked up and saw the clouds had started to disperse. He sat down and sighed. He thought that the tree was destroyed. But the system interrupted and told him to check using the start Gaze.
He didn't have any expectations, but still, he checked. As he activated Star Gaze, he was shocked to see that the Qi rushed in one direction. As the leaves of a branch fell, the Qi from that branch ran towards the top of the tree.
He immediately checked the tree from each direction and saw that it was happening in each order. He then focused on finding where the Qi was flowing. He jumped on top of the tree and was shocked it was absorbing the Qi.
He sighed in in in relief and smiled that the fruit was still maturing. He immediately jumped down and told Song Yu about it, and she also became happy. They finally relaxed after knowing that the fruit was growing.. They will get developed Thunder Fire Spirit Fruit.