Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Of course, the difficulty is extremely high.

The tribulation lightning that Chu Xiu just absorbed, if unified, could probably easily annihilate a Heroic Spirit! And such terrifying power only increased his completion rate to nearly one five-thousandth.

This is just too absurd.

Chu Xiu speculated that the cultivation techniques the ghosts used to absorb the death aura might be related to this, as those techniques could increase resistance to death aura, which is similar to the effect of the Tribulation Body, isn’t it?

However, the ghosts spent a thousand years absorbing death aura for cultivation, and the majority probably didn’t even achieve one percent completion.

”SSS-level traits are not so easy to obtain,” Chu Xiu sighed.

He then thought to himself, ”In cultivation traditions, Divinity Transformation comes with the Divinity Transformation Tribulation, and becoming an Immortal comes with the Immortal Tribulation. Spirits and Demon Beasts frequently face tribulations, and now I’ve gained power from this tribulation lightning. Perhaps the so-called tribulation is not merely a coincidental name similarity but has some resemblance to past tribulations.”

Of course, the two are definitely not the same thing; at least the tribulation lightning before me is greatly different in both characteristics and power from the records of the Demon Sect’s heritage.

After pondering for a while, Chu Xiu shook his head to dispel his thoughts.

Exploring this now is meaningless, and mere imagination won’t lead to any conclusions; better to deal with immediate matters first.

After experimenting several times, he gained significant insights and summarized three methods to counter the tribulation.

The first method is to naturally resist with powerful life force.

The tribulation is a power that directly destroys life, reducing ordered life structures to unordered foundational particles. But every force has strength and weakness and follows energy conservation; the stronger the constitution of life, the harder it is for tribulation lightning to destroy it.

If Chu Xiu possessed Celestial King level life strength, he’d have no problem enduring the black lightning.

Of course, after enduring it, he would certainly be seriously injured.

The second method is to sever the connection of the tribulation.

Chu Xiu discovered that the tribulation is somewhat similar to the Abyss; the Abyss devours worlds after destroying civilizations because civilizations drastically increase the world’s complexity, and the tribulation is similar, involving a step to sever the connection of disintegrated parts with the rest of the body before dismantling the organism.

However, this step happens extremely fast; even with the bug-level detection skill of Divine Sense assisting him, Chu Xiu only noticed its clues during his fourth experiment.

Mana cannot hinder the tribulation lightning at all, but Chu Xiu can mobilize the mana within his body like countless tiny bridges, strengthening the connection between various body parts to increase the energy requirement of the tribulation lightning’s destruction.

Finally, countering with High Tier power.

Though mana doesn’t affect tribulation lightning, Chu Xiu found that the Golden Embryo Origin he condensed could slightly obstruct and slow the tribulation lightning, and the effects of Divine-Demonic Power and Artifact Origin were even greater! They could even battle against tribulation lightning!

This reminded Chu Xiu of when he broke through earlier; it was only after injecting Divine-Demonic Power and Artifact Origin that the speed at which the Golden Core shattered began to significantly slow!

The power impeding his breakthrough, although not as straightforward and brutal as tribulation lightning, seems fundamentally similar.

”So the underlying principle is such.”

Chu Xiu felt that even if he gained nothing else from this journey, the increased understanding of the tribulation made the journey worthwhile.

He exhaled deeply, raising his palm to reveal a small black hole in his palm, its diameter even smaller than one-third of the damage caused by the first tribulation lightning!

This is the result of using his summarized experiences to counter the tribulation lightning.

After thinking for a while, Chu Xiu had a fully developed plan with multiple backup options.

Though somewhat risky...it’s worth a try!

With his mind made up, Chu Xiu rested briefly to reach his peak condition, then without hesitation, charged towards the swirling vortex of death aura!