Chapter 64 - Heavens Fall! (1/2)

The group didn't take long to arrive at the right place, there wasn't anyone around since the Mercenary Guild took care of this issue already, usually, no one would try to make things difficult for those breaking through another realm, but there are still situations where grudges or disputes would force the hands of people, so that's why the Guild would send some cultivators of higher level to take care of the process.

Shinja went to the center of the empty place and sat there, she was calming her mind before starting, while they waited, Mile turned to Krune and took a look on his eyes again.

'It really is the rainbow eyes, but how did he get that? I saw his picture before when he got a Four Starts Badge, but at that time his eyes had a common color, so I didn't care much about his rainbow hair, could it be that he was hiding his eyes true color before? No, that wouldn't make sense, otherwise, he would still be hiding it now, but he seems to not care about it at all.'

In fact, the colors of Krune's irises aren't very apparent, it just started to change recently, so the people around him who are used to his rainbow hair didn't care much about that, so Krune himself isn't aware of the changes it had gone.

'Anyway, when this is over I will call him for a chat, if this is what I think, then our Mercenary Guild really got a treasure on our hands, Shinja's Pure Yin Body can't even be mentioned in the same line.'

Mile turned away and paid attention to Shinja again, there is a lot of time for her to discuss things over with Krune.

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Shinja focused on her soul and allowed it to slowly approach her dantian, the dantian will only start absorbing the soul if the cultivator wishes for it, so it isn't anything dangerous until the cultivator decides to step into the Core Formation Realm, as soon as it got close, her golden core let out an enormous absorption power, Shinja felt like her soul was being grinded away, her face went pale and she started to sweat rivers, but once the process starts, it can't be stopped, the golden core will only stop absorbing the soul when it feels satisfied.

Krune and the others saw that and could tell how much pain Shinja was going through, Yusa wanted to go help her but there was nothing she could do to start with, she could only mentally cheer up for her at moment.

During the process, the cultivator must keep a clear mind all time, if they faint, the golden core will go out of control and won't stop until the entire soul is gone, this will mark the end of the cultivators life, fortunately for Shinja, her soul is very strong, all thanks to the training she underwent at Rainbow Sect Secret Realm.

If there was a good thing about this, is the fact that the process doesn't take too long, Shinjas golden core absorbed everything it wanted and started to change, Shinja took out a lot of spirit stones and put them around her, the golden core changing process needs a lot of spiritual energy and Shinja was ready for that, one by one spirit stones turned into dust, but there was always another spirit stone to take its place, the golden core inside Shinja's foundation got quite bigger, it also shined, even more, its sturdiness increased at a fast pace.

On Shinja's side, she could feel the connection between her soul and the soul inside the golden core, that is how Core Formation experts used their powers, thanks to the connection between the two souls, the cultivator could bring out the true power of the golden core, something that was impossible before.

The breakthrough process only took one hour, the spiritual energy around Shinja started to calm down and her golden core slowly stopped to absorb spiritual energy, but it wasn't over yet, if one looked at the sky above Shinja, one could see the gathering of dark clouds, it was obvious, the Heavenly Tribulation was coming down soon.

Shinja didn't waste time, as soon as the process was over, she activated the 'Stabilizing Soul Technique', the pain on her soul immediately disappeared and the injure on it stopped to affect her control over the elements, but she knows that it is only temporary, after some time the technique will lose its effects and she will have to spend a few days to properly heal her soul.

She looked above and could see that the first lightning was about to come down, she took out a hairpin that looked like it had been frozen, it was a water type weapon that she had acquired especially for this moment, the Heavenly Tribulation doesn't allow anyone to interfere in the judgment, but it had nothing against using weapons, a weapon is part of a cultivators strength after all.

The first tribulation lightning finally came down, but just when it was about to hit Shinja, something unbelievable happened, it suddenly… turned!

Everyone jaws dropped, and the target was none other than Krune!

In the last second before the tribulation lightning made the turn, Krune felt a ripple inside his rainbow core, that ripple definitely came from the power of the tribulation lightning inside it, thanks to that, Krune was put on high alert, so before the lightning hit him, he was prepared and used all the spiritual energy possible at that moment to attack and defend against that lightning bolt.

Blazing Wind Blades, Earth Walls, Water Walls, Myriad Water Dragons, Thunder Line, he used his entire arsenal to stop the bolt from hitting him, unfortunately, that was the power of a Core Formation Realm Heaven Tribulation, it broke through all the defenses and struck Krune head-on, of course, after passing through all those attacks and defenses, it had lost more than 50% of its power, but it was still terrifying anyway.

But before they could even process what happened, a certain wisp human form was burnt to the point that it looked like charcoal.

”What the hell?!”

Krune felt like crying, he looked to the tribulation clouds in the sky and couldn't help but think.

'This is bullying!'

The heavens couldn't care less about Krunes thoughts, the second lightning bolt in the skies started to charge up again, but Mile didn't wait for it at all, she disappeared from her position and immediately appeared in front of Krune, she grabbed him and used her best movement technique to bring Krune away from the tribulation zone, in just a few seconds, she had already disappeared from everyone sights, before that, she sent a Divine Sense message to the other two Core Formation experts for them to take care of Shinja and stop anyone from following them, thanks to that, Krune now had a chance at life, but when Mile used her Divine Sense to check things behind, her face sunk.

'I won't be able to bring him away in time before the second bolt comes down.'

She then sent him a Divine Sense message

”If the second bolt comes at you, you will have to defend against that as well, no one can intervene when the tribulation lightning selects a target, otherwise its power will only increase, as long as you can survive the second lightning bolt, I have the confidence to bring you away from the tribulation zone.”