Chapter 58 - A Certain Wisp Passed Out. (1/2)
Krune entered the combat room, in front of him there was five puppets, all of them with a combat power equivalent to a 5th Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, if Krune could use spiritual energy skills, he could finish all of them in a second, but this is a Divine Sense combat, he has to win with Divine Sense alone.
”The attacks available for me to practice were simple elemental Divine Sense attacks, if I use fire element based Divine Sense I can burn the opponents soul, if I use ice which is a branch of the water element I can slow down the opponents thinking speed, Hasik asked me to not break them so I guess I will simply aim at the puppets cores, this way I will not damage the Divine Sense spheres inside them.”
The battle started and the puppets moved forward, different from Krune, the puppets used both Divine Sense attacks and Spiritual energy attacks together, Krune now understood why this test was considered difficult, a cultivator not being able to use spiritual energy skills, while his opponents could, made a huge difference in the combat power between them, but Krune didn't mind much, his wind element movement was almost perfect, nothing that the puppets throw at him could hit his body.
The only attacks that reached Krune were Divine Sense attacks, this isn't something that can be avoided since Divine Sense covers everything, you can only defend or resist, thanks to his tribulation lightning soul training, the pain inflicted by those puppets was laughable in his eyes, Krune kept dodging the spiritual energy skills while attacking the puppets cores with his Divine Sense, he purposely selected water so as to not damage the puppets core, he was making them use all the spiritual energy available in their cores, that was how Krune was planning to finish this battle.
Back at the Order Hall, Hasik let out a sigh of relief.
'Seems like the puppets will be okay, this test was something extremely hard for the people in the past, but with his tribulation lightning soul tempering, it's no wonder that the puppets Divine Sense attacks have little to no effect on him. I reckon that his friends will have a harder time passing this test than what Krune had.'
The battle continued and the puppets finally ran out of spiritual energy, Krune let out a sigh of relief, he really didn't damage anything this time, Hase Hasik was also happy, at least the puppets which can use Divine Sense weren't broken this time.
Just as Krune was about to step on the teleportation formation, he heard a sound.
”Crack.”
Everyone felt a chill on their backs, it couldn't be, right?
But before they could check they saw the Divine Sense sphere on the head of one of the puppets break apart, the puppet soon followed, if one looked close, all the connections that kept the puppet parts together had been fried.
Krune couldn't believe what happened in front of his eyes.
”What the hell? It's not my fault, I swear!”
Hasik quickly summoned a few more puppets to check what happened there, his face was a mix of grief and rage, he even asked for him to not break the puppets, but in the end, one of them simply crumbled like a pile of rusted metal.
When he got the result, his rage turned into incredulity.
”You! Why did you use the power of tribulation lightning on them? This isn't something they can resist! First of all, how can you even use the tribulation lightning with your Divine Sense?”
Krune heard that and was as surprised as Hasik.
”Tribulation Lightning? That's not possible! I used water, I didn't put even an ounce of any other element in my Divine Sense attacks, it had been water all along!”
Hasik looked at Krune's face, it didn't look like he was lying, but then again, who other than Krune would have tribulation lightning here?
'Could it be…?'
Hasik then summoned a weak puppet forward, if something happened to it, it wouldn't matter.
”Attack this puppet, don't worry about breaking it, it's very cheap and easy to make, use only your Divine Sense without any element.”
Krune understood where Hasik was coming from, he is the only source of tribulation lightning in this place after all.
After using some Divine Sense attacks on the puppet, it crumbled down just like the last one, when Hasik sent the other puppets forward to check, the result was the same, even though Krune hadn't used any element, his Divine Sense attacks still had the tribulation lightning power on them.
Hasik and the others looked at Krune through the illusory formation, it was then that Shinja spoke.
”Krune had been tempering his Soul through the use of the Tribulation Lightning, that one that had entered his future golde- errr… rainbow core, could it be that his soul got some of this properties?”
Hasik and Krune pondered a bit but couldn't find any other answer, what Shinja said made a lot of sense as well.
”But how come I've never noticed it before?”
”Because you are an idiot.”
This time it was Ao, Hasik and Shinja who answered together.
Krune almost fainted right there and then, where his leader pride went to? He doesn't know, maybe it hasn't been with him from the very start.
Hasik the thought about something.
”Try to check your soul, the tribulation lightning is something made for annihilation, since it's part of your soul now, it might be causing serious damage to it and you haven't even noticed it yet.”
Krune was alarmed, he immediately concentrated on his soul and after searching for a while, sure enough, he could faintly feel the power of the tribulation lightning lingering around it, but the weird thing is that although it was present in his soul, it didn't try to harm him, if anything, it felt somewhat gentle, as if this was the place it was supposed to be. Krune told what he found to Hasik and the others.
”That's weird, It's not causing any harm, seems like you didn't notice not because you are an idiot with high IQ, but because it wasn't hurting you in the first place.”
Krune mouths twitched, he finally lost his patience.
”Those Divine Sense puppets the remained are very important, right? It would be a pity if someone accidently released some tribulation lightning over them, don't you think?”
Hasik's face immediately change.
”Cough, cough, it was a joke, a joke, don't you know how to take a light joke?”
Krune didn't believe a single word, he took out some tribulation lightning and played with it on his fingers while looking at the remaining four puppets in distance, Krune's face looked like we was doing an important decision in his life.
Hasik kept apologizing, he only didn't cry because he didn't have tears to start with.
On the other side, Shinja and Ao were holding their laughs, they looked at each other and smiled, maybe it's because Krune is like this that he can hold everyone tightly together without noticing, you will never get bored with him around.
Krune finally put the tribulation lightning back in his rainbow core and came back to the Order Hall, Hasik looked at him with some fear but spoke anyway.
”Well, this is a good thing on the short term, if you haven't noticed yet, when you were doing your previous tests, your Divine Sense didn't manifest the power of the tribulation lightning, which means that it only appears when you have the intention of attacking something, I reckon if you keep tempering your soul with tribulation lightning, this power will get even stronger with time.”
”The problem is, I don't know if this is a good or bad thing on the long term, it might have huge repercussions during the Core Formation Realm breakthrough as well since the soul plays a big part in it, not to mention that all core formation cultivators need to go through the Heavenly Tribulation as well, it might have some effects on the tribulation lightning inside your soul too.”
Krune nodded, it's still too soon to know what will happen with this new power of his, but at first it looks like it doesn't matter what element he infuses in his Divine Sense attacks, it will always have the destruction power of the tribulation lightning as part of it, what he needs to decide is if he will keep using the tribulation lightning to temper his soul or not.
Hasik noticed that to keep thinking about it wouldn't bring them anywhere, so he changed the topic.
”Leave the matter of the tribulation lightning aside for now, you have just finished the last test, so from on, you are a legacy disciple of the Mohie Sect, and with that, you have also acquired the power to control this dimension to a certain extent together with the resources available for legacy disciples.
Krune's eyes lit up.
”Does it mean that I can take anything I want out now?”
Hasik shook his head.
”You can use anything inside the dimension, but you can't take them out except for things like Spirit Stones, pills or runestone formations.”
Krune and the other were puzzled, but they waited for Hasik to continue.
”The reason is because to prevent other legacy disciples in the past to rob the sect, all important items had been branded by the sect, as long as they are removed from the Mohie Sect dimension, they will be destroyed by the brand left behind.”
Krune understood it, but the fact that they can take the spirit stones, pills and others is already very good.
”How many spirit stones is available for us now?”
Hasik just laughed at that question.
”None!”
Krune and the others jaws dropped.
”What?!”
”Then what was all those spirit stones that we got from the tests?”
Ao and Shinja were nodding, they also want to know!
”Those are spirit stone prepared to be the reward of future disciples, even I can't take them away unless someone pass the test to receive the reward. Think about it, if you are to die outside or simply decide to give up on the Mohie Sect and never come back, what will be there for those that come after? You should have noticed by now that what the Mohie Sect wants is to revive the sect.”