Chapter 1373: Heavenly Lightning Tribulation (1/2)
*Bzzz!~*
Lightning crackled, and thunder resounded throughout the region. There were indeed people who had felt the incredible aura of the heavenly tribulation purely because they were nearby and not because of their own perception. They swarmed in closer in droves to witness the incredible phenomenon, the sole manifestation of the heavens known to the cultivation world.
With all of heaven and earth energy gathering, the heavens were blocking any form of mental probing that they first mistook it for the weather acting strange, but the aura it gave off differentiated it as plainly as the clear skies.
They could not be mistaken about this phenomenon being the fabled heavenly tribulation!
Just before they got all excited and were about to inform people back at the home of their finding while others thought it was the formation of a treasure as they neared in greed suddenly had incredible pressure descending on them all at once!
*Bzzz!~*
The huge pressure simultaneously caused them to collapse as they crashed towards the ground, seeming to faint as drool flowed out of their mouth.
Ancestor Dian Alstreim looked at his people he caused to faint. He felt nothing to have them just faint because no one needed to know anything about the heavenly tribulation. Instead, he even felt like killing them without pain so that the entire Alstreim Family could stay safe from troubles.
But he couldn't and sighed.
In the end, he moved them all into one place with his over-encompassing essence energy and bound them with ropes made from his essence energy. They were like flaming ropes that twisted around their bodies, slithery yet harmless while making them restricted in terms of movement.
Ancestor Dian Alstreim knew that these commoners would start worshiping him and swear that they did not see anything once they woke up. At least, that was the deep fear and respect that they possessed towards him, the sole guardian of the Alstreim Family.
That is, at least until now before he turned to look at Davis, who rose to the heavens.
He wanted to save him, the future of the Alstreim Family.
However, if he interfered, he understood that he would just make things worse, and all of them might end up dead, and he would undoubtedly be the cause of their deaths. His expression was a bit ugly as he tried to maintain his ground under the incredible pressure.
He couldn't understand how Davis could face this overwhelming aura without cowering in front of it, and to his disbelief, he couldn't even understand why he was mad at it. Then, he suddenly noticed.
A teenager with blonde hair seemed to be struggling a bit on the ground while looking a bit pained. She was undoubtedly an Alstreim from the looks of it, but then he instantly recalled who she was, Edgar Alstreim's second daughter!
His eyes twitched as he instantly realized that she was the one responsible for the heavenly tribulation. Her cultivation was at Revolving Core Stage, matching with the initial weak aura of the heavenly tribulation he sensed. However, he didn't know what kind of special physique she possessed to attract the heavens to deem if she was worthy!
'Edgar... Are your two daughters the bane or the boon of our family...?'
Thinking back, the Alstreim Family's situation stopped being monotonous and broke out of internal struggles after Davis, or precisely Claire, entered the stage! And now, the second daughter was displaying manifestations of being a unique character who might change the fate of the Alstreim Family!
At the same time, he felt small in front of these three characters, especially under the influence of the overbearing aura of the heavenly tribulation!
'No matter what, I hope that they survive this ordeal...'
Ancestor Dian Alstreim gulped as he retracted his gaze from the struggling Tia Alstreim to watch Davis, who seemed to have stopped a hundred meters above the surface, seemingly waiting for the heavenly tribulation to strike him to death!
Indeed, Davis had stopped rising because if he gained more distance from Tia Alstreim, then he would find it difficult to protect her. The brewing lightning above seemed to be waiting as far as he could tell, waiting for the Heart Demon Tribulation to end even though it seemed ready to be able to launch a deathblow.
He felt that the air around him was heavy. He didn't know if it was his imagination or he was really cowering under pressure with his will becoming chipped as time passing by, but the rage helped him hold on to his battle intent.
*Whoosh!~*
A golden-colored rod appeared out of nowhere in his grasp. It was a golden-black spear where the pitch-black blade seemed to bend or diverge the light around it.
*Brrr!~*
The Golden Sheen Obsidian Spear trembled in his grasp, seemingly trying to struggle out of his grasp, but Davis's soul force kept it restricted.
”Human! Your strength has increased in a short amount of time to be capable of handling me without that ominous power, but you still haven't paid any respects to me! How can I let you use me when-”
”...”
There was a momentary silence before the Golden Sheen Obsidian Spear's reluctant trembling turned into one of a coward's trembling.
”This... This is a heavenly tribulation...?” Its voice seethed with confusion and fear.
”That's right...” Davis's voice was cold as ice, ”I'm going to use you to defend myself from the heavenly tribulation.”
”...”
The Golden Sheen Obsidian Spear remained silent for a moment before its trembling stopped.
”Can I go back into your spatial ring...?”
”You can't...”
Davis replied, causing it to tremble again!
”No! Please...! If I get hit by that tribulation lightning, I'm dead! My spirit will be exterminated! This is not fair!”
Davis couldn't help but smile at its whining. It was an incredibly arrogant and proud spirit as far as he knew, but it cowered under the aura of the heavenly tribulation. He waved the golden-black spear, causing its trembling to stop as he brought it under its control.
”This ain't fair for me either, but I only have you who could battle against this heavenly tribulation. Use every last bit of energy you can muster to defend your spirit while I use mine to battle against it.”