Heavenly Dao Child 244 Tribulation Part-3

The vortex amongst the cloud swirled as the cloud rumbled, as Maheswara spoke with anxiousness evident in his voice, "So it begins."

A red colored lightning bolt hit Ryuu, he tensed a bit before he relaxed at that as he thought, 'huh, I was told the lightning tribulation is the toughest even the static charge I can gather by rubbing my hair is greater than this.', Ryuu waited for the second one waited then after 10 minutes another came down and struck him again as weak as the previous one. 'I was preparing for this, THIS!!!!!!'

Meanwhile all the senior cultivators watching the tribulation paled specially his teachers and his older sisters as Antariskh whispered lowly, "Mother this is…"

Veena gritted her teeth as she spoke, "I know I know Ryuu really is unlucky."

Ryuu was bored already so bored he was filling sleepy, he would have fallen asleep if it were not for the fact that his teachers would tan his hide for not taking it seriously, by now he had already suffered the 20th strike already nothing had changed they were not only week but also had immense amount of time between each up he would die of boredom, his eyes started to drop as he felt sleepy only to be jolted awake by someone's shout, "RYUU BE VIGILANT!!!!!!!"

Ryuu sat ramrod at as the anger filled voice of Maheswara came to his ear just in time to be hit by a blue lightning causing his entire body to become numb, 'eh it was much stronger than before', suddenly with a couple of seconds another rained down. 'huh it had become faster and did the strength increase' before long the lightning had an indigo tint as it caused Ryuu to feel as if he was hit by a hammer as he felt pain.

Ryuu was totally confused at that, 'Huh what is happening?', only for his memory to shift back to one of the lectures his 3rd mistress had given him a few days prior to his tribulation.

Flashback a few days ago,

Celestia: "Listen Ryuu normally a lightning tribulation occurs it is generally divided into three types,

a) Stable

b) Ascending

c) Random

Stable as the name suggests it means that the strength and period of it is always constant. This type of tribulation has the least strength in its bolts and as such is the most desired one.

Random is the type that has the strength of its bolt random meaning one of them might be strong then the next ones will be weaker than stronger again, the time interval between each bolt strike is also random, as such generally cultivators do not prefer it because of its unpredictability.

And lastly there is ascending, normally it starts with the lowest bolt strength and gradually increases in strength most people tend avoid it specially those who have to suffer a large number of bolts during tribulations as the bolts towards the end has the highest amount of damage. But amongst this type there is another called 'Exponential type', it starts with incredibly weak bolts and large gap between each, people tend to be frustrated because of it as well as let their guard loose, when all of a sudden a sharp increase in strength followed by a sharp decrease interval to the point a 4 or 5 lightning bolt strikes per second. It is highly dangerous to the point less than a percent might survive, I hope you are lucky enough not to face it Ryuu, even after everything the chances of your survival are very low lower than 20 percent. "

Ryuu gulped seeing the no nonsense serious face of Celestia as he spoke, "Teacher how can I discern what type of tribulation I will have."

Celestia shrugged as she spoke, "No idea child, in spite of the fact so many have been researching on this matter, no one has been able to find any inkling on this matter. As such I cannot tell you how or why it is different for everyone."

At present Ryuu gulped at that as he bit back a curse it seems he drew the short stick on this, well there was no use crying over spilled milk now, as such he quickly grabbed every items he needed to survive, including the 'Thunder Serpent Rattan' as he cut a part of it quickly siphoned the juice from it, holding it in his mouth as well as a few pills which he somehow managed to push inside it his mouth causing his cheeks to bulge comically as the contents of his mouth was threatening to burst out badly. He did not have the luxury to lower his head anymore as it was making it difficult to keep the contents locked inside his mouth, he then activated the array painstakingly created with the help of his teacher, as he sat on a meditative stance with the prayer bead wrapped in his hand.

He managed to get ready as a flurry lightning bolt rained down on him hard, the array managed to hold on to it, but cracks were appearing already on it, causing Ryuu to frown, the entire thing was happening so fast that the array will not be able to hold for much longer, Ryuu cursed at that 'tch if only the bolts gave a respite the barrier created by the array would have healed', and as the 69th bolt struck with the sound of glass shattering the barrier collapsed.

The 70th bolt came towards him as he threw the rattan in his hand as it collided with the bolt, normally this type of rattan usually grows where thunderstorm is more frequent not only that they have the ability to attract and absorb lightning making it ultimate lightning rod, on top of that their juices makes one temporarily immune to lightning, Ryuu's eyes widen as he watched the lightning bolt disintegrate the rattan , he felt the tingling as the lightning course through his body, normally he would have utilized the ability to attract the lightning but his teachers had told him it was futile, after all no matter what precaution anyone might have the lightning would still hit them but that does not mean that the strength of the lightning could not be decreased, as such he used all the rattan he had almost all of them except one which he kept for the 81st strike.

Using so many rattans he somehow managed to placate the strength of the next 4 bolts but he still had 7 left, the last seven each more deadly than the previous. Ryuu gritted his teeth he knew he had to fight back with everything he had or else risk complete annihilation. He gritted his teeth as he took out his bow as he fired arrows after arrows but he only managed to lower the strength of two bolts before he exhausted them, 5 more to go.

Meanwhile a large entourage of people from a certain city was making their way towards the place using various means of transport, when they were almost 10,000 km from Ryuu's position a soldier dressed in armor suddenly appeared in front of them as he spoke in a gruff voice, "HALT! TURN BACK AND DIE."

Cultivators tend to be arrogant because of their strength specially those who are born in larger clans and have managed to showcase their talent in front of others thereby gaining special privileges from the clan to them others are mere ants, one of such exceptional person was being stopped by some person dressed in an armor how could Heavens themselves go against such travesty as such with righteous anger the man stood up as he shouted before anyone could stop him or say something, "HOW DARE YOU SOME NO NAMED PEASANT DARE T….", he could not complete his tirade as tsunami of fire not only engulfed him but also any nearby person within a few kilometers of area reducing them to ash in a blink of an eye, the remaining people who were lucky to be a bit far away simply ran away from this place.

The soldier snorted with disgust as he spoke, "Typical weakling more bark than bite distracting from witnessing Young Lord's ascension."

Chapter end

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