章 12: Chapter 12 - Void Cutter [Bonus #1]

The heavenly tribulation clouds gathered more and more above her head and crackles of black lightning seemed to be shimmering within the clouds.

Heavens are a funny thing, it's said to be equal to any and all but in her case it seems to be a bit more fond of her as the power withing the lightning continued to surge and the might it held obviously far surpassed the normal 'tri-thunder tribulation'.

Where it should have been three lightnings of purple, blue and gold colour, there in the clouds exists only dark black lightnings which seemed to be rebelling against the heavens itself.

The clouds churned with power as the black lightnings crackled with such intensity that the space itself twisted around it.

But this time she didn't sit in a lotus position nor did she wait for the lightning to just fall upon her body. She stood up in a majestic yet defiant posture as she faced the tribulation clouds as if to declare to heavens that she, Mo Yuxin, Will not back down even in the face of heaven, for she will brave it through her will alone.

And the heavens seemed to have heard her stance as the intensity of the lightnings increased more and more until the heavens itself couldn't hold it in place as the first bolt of lightning came crashing down towards her at a speed so fast that the space itself trembled in fright.

That bolt of majestic yet terrifying lightning seemed to have the power to swallow up the world itself. Everything around her grew dark as even her vision seemed to be going on and off but she knew with her instincts that the lightnings were above.

Time seemed to have stood at a standstill as her body remained frozen in place. Was she afraid? Was she possibly going towards her own doom? Was she going to... die?

No, definitely not. At a moments notice she took her dusk lily pin in her hands as she summoned it and a beautiful violet sword with black teeth like linings appeared in her hand. It's hilt had a majestic dragon emblem curved within and if looked carefully, it seemed to come lifelike and threaten to take your life at an instant. Gazing upon its two lifelike eyes seemed to instill fear within the very depths of your soul.

Yet, she took that sword in her hands and the sword itself looked as if it found its forever home as it's ferocity dropped to nothing infront of her. But towards the opponents, it still inflicted boundless fear.

She, with the sword in her hands, charged towards that bolt of lightning and with boundless courage slashed at it. She slashed at the lightning with every ounce of power she could master using both her golden Buddha Body and her cultivation realm as if to slice it in half.

But the heavens are not so easily defeated as the lightning came into contact with her sword strike yet instead of dispersing or splitting into two like she had intended it to, it stood in its place and even pushed her back a few steps.

She was shocked for a moment as the amount of power stored within this first bolt of lightning was enough to kill 10 initial Nascent Soul realm cultivators.

Even though she was shocked, it was only for a moment. It only took her a fraction of a second to recollect herself and calmy analyse her situation.

At the moment, even though the lightning seemed extremely powerful and enough to kill her. It actually couldn't and she herself knew her limits.

She poured more power into her sword strike as she pushed back the lightning.

One step.

Two step.

Three step.

And finally, gaining the momentum she needed, she gathered enough spiritual power into her sword. Using the spirit sword, she used it's innate ability 'Void Cutter'.

Every spirit weapon has its own innate ability and the number and power of abilities depends entirely upon the sword and how it's made or its age and the power of its sword spirit.

With the lily pin in her hand, she pushed forward violently and used 'Void Cutter'.

A silver crescent moon shaped sword strike came from where she slashed and went towards the bolt of lightning at a ... Slow speed?

It seems as if that sword strike slowed down instead of rushing at a fast speed. Was it eyes playing tricks? Was the strike not performed well? Was there any problem with the sword strike?

No, infact none of the above happened. In reality, the sword strike was so powerful and mighty that it reached the bolt of lightning almost instantly but the speed was too fast for human eyes to follow and only the after images were left for her to see.

Boom... !!!

An extremely loud bang sounded and dust and debris flew everywhere as a crater formed around a 50 meter radius from where she stood.

It was an extremely deep crater of almost 6 feet.

Nothing could be seen in sight as dust filled all the surroundings.

After a few minutes of nothing but absolute silence, the dust settled a little and in the centre of the deep crater stood a lone figure with a vibrant violet sword in hand.

She looked extremely majestic and divine as the light in the space illuminated her surroundings and giving her a silver hue which only further increased her divine image.

She stood in the center of the crater, seemingly unfazed and without any injury but the slight trembling of her hands and the blood dripping from the corner of her lips gave away to her vulnerability.

She sustained heavy internal injury from the shock and power of the heavenly lightning coursing through her body and causing immense damage to her internal organs.

She immediately took a healing pill from the system treasury and gulped it down.

Within a few seconds, she started feeling a bit better as the healing power of the pill took effect at a speed visible to the naked eyes.

The power of this heavenly lightning was equivalent to that of the combined attack of 10 initial nascent soul realm cultivators.

Furthermore, the special penetrating effect of the heavenly thunder made it much more worse.

And that is why, ordinary divine abilities or divine weapons could not withstand such an attack at all.

Fortunately, Mo Yuxin has many ways to defend herself, from her extremely valuable spirit weapons dusk lily pin and sky Avenue Robe to her golden Buddha Body. All of them are peak level existence far surpassing these mere heavenly thunders.

Her divine soul is also many times more powerful thanks to her divine sense.

Even so, when the lightning landed on her body, she still found it intolerable. It was as if countless fiery ants were crawling all around under her skin.

It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling and the pain was unbearable.

However, it has its own benefits as her body and dantian changed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But, she didn't have time to inspect the changes within her body as the clouds started rumbling and the next strike would come down at any moment.

She prepared herself but the healing pill hasn't even started it's full effect before the next lightning came.

This time, it was far more violent and the power contained within it was immeasurable.

What happened next could only be described as bloody and gruesome which no normal cultivator would like to experience not even dare to have any thoughts.

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See you in the next chapter.