Is That A Wisp?

Soon, the surrounding cultivators and demon beasts gathered. There wasn't more than 20 or so, but they all came to watch the show.

"Aren't these Tribulation Clouds somewhat different? Who is making a breakthrough?"

"Weird, this is not the Fire Tribulation of Dalin, what is happening?"

"This... aren't these the same ascension clouds I saw from my Sect's Ancestor Tribulation 20 years ago? But that shouldn't be possible. Is someone ascending? No... the clouds and energies are the same, but it is much much weaker."

One by one, Divine Senses started to scan the place under the center of the tribulation clouds. Light Spirit and Krune obviously noticed that, but they didn't care at the moment. However, everyone else was shocked by what they saw.

"Is that a Wisp?"

Sure enough, they found out about Krune's real form in an instant. And what impressed them, even more, was that the wisp was entering the Void Breaking Realm! But soon, their attention was caught by the Tribulation itself.

Suddenly, particles of water started to form around Krune. However, they were completely different from normal water. They were full of Water Element and Water Laws of all types. They slowly started to make a whirlpool around Krune, which increased the pressure several times. Krune had never entered deep into the ocean before, but now he was having a first-hand experience of how it was.

It was even worse since the whirlpool of the water element and laws got faster and faster, seeming to want to reap his body apart. However, this was just the first Tribulation, which had the same power as an ordinary one. For Krune, something like this wasn't that hard to resist.

Krune kept just a small layer of energy protecting his body. As the Tribulation got stronger, Krune's energy release increased accordingly. It was a very fine control, which any little mistake would allow the water element to pass through his protection. If that happened, Krune would need to use a lot more energy to first drive that out while keeping the barrier.

Still, Krune was confident in his Elemental and Energies control, so he kept at it.

Krune could see why the water tribulation was the first one. It started very slowly, and the power itself increased little by little. Although it would be terrifying at the end, it really did take its time to accumulate energy.

This situation then continued for another 10 or so minutes.

However, as Krune protected his body, Earth Element began to gather into his Wisp Core. It seemed like his energy barrier that was protecting against the water tribulation had no use against it. Not only that, but that Earth Element seemed to want to transform his Wisp Core into stone! Krune quickly understood that the Earth Tribulation had arrived and started to use the foundation's energies to block it from the inside. 

That was correct. This Tribulation attacked the cultivators and demon beasts bodies directly. Krune had to protect his wisp core from inside out to keep driving the Earth Element away. Obviously, that used a lot of spiritual energy too. However, if there was one thing Krune didn't lack, that was Spirit Stones. As the Stones turned into dust under Krune, even more, kept coming out of his Spatial Ring.

Water Pressure outside, Stone Petrification inside, Krune was dealing with both at the same time. Another 15 or so minutes passed until finally, the Wind Tribulation began. Surprisingly, the Wind and Water Tribulation joined together, creating a vortex of water and wind elements around Krune's Wisp Core. While the Water Tribulation put even more pressure on Krune, the wind element attacked his core.

This time Krune couldn't keep his fine control anymore and had to release his Spiritual, Elemental, and Chaos Energies without stop! He couldn't find a perfect balance between the three to save energy anymore. However, as Light Spirit saw that, he felt satisfied.

"If he continues like this, he will be able to resist until the Fire Tribulation comes on his own"

One must remember that all those Tribulations will reach their peak in power at the very end. However, Krune was already in the middle of resisting three of them without getting any damage in his Wisp Core. That was impressive. Of course, It was all thanks to the Elemental and Chaos Meridians, which immediately converted part of the Elemental Source Energy into Chaos Energy.

"How are you doing?"

"I'm reaching my limit, but I can still hold for a while."

Of course, Krune didn't waste time saying that. He used his connection with Light Spirit to do so.

Finally, Krune's familiar Fire Tribulation descended. Not too surprisingly, the Wind Tribulation also boosted the Fire Tribulation just like the Water one. While the Whirlpool of Water pressured Krune on the sides, the Fire Tribulation attacked Krune from above.

As everyone around saw that, they couldn't help but feel terrified. Some even went further away just in case a mistake happened. No one wanted to be targeted by that thing, only daring to use their Divine Senses from as far as possible to observe. But more impressive was that the wisp in the center was being able to resist that chaos. No one here would be confident that they could have done the same if they were the ones entering the Void Breaking Realm.

As for Krune, he was already going all out. Not only those Tribulations came together, but they were also supporting each other, increasing their power.

Even Light Spirit was shocked by Krune's resistance. He thought that by this point, he would be using his Tribulation Lightning to help him already. However, the tribulations still kept increasing in power until, finally, Krune couldn't hold back anymore.

"Light Spirit!"

Light Spirit had been ready the entire time. The moment Krune's voice appeared in his mind, Arcs of Purple Tribulation Lightning rushed out, creating a barrier around Krune. Light Spirit's Tribulation Lightning then ate all those laws while its power blocked the Tribulations.

Instantly, more than 50% of the Tribulations' power disappeared, which made Krune sigh in relief. Light Spirit could have blocked everything if he wanted, but he couldn't use all his Tribulation Lighting in a single moment. Instead, he worked with Krune to resist it while saving energy.

Krune finally had some time to recover his Spiritual, Elemental, and Chaos energies. The Spirit Stones under him kept breaking one after another as more and more came out of Krune's Spatial Ring. At this level, Krune could both keep his defenses up while recovering some of the energy.

"Try to recover as much as possible. It will take at least 30 or so minutes before the Lightning Tribulation comes out. Once that time arrives, all the other Tribulations will be at the peak of their power."

However, it was then that Light Spirit noticed that a problem.

"Ah! Krune, there is not enough Spiritual Energy the Lightning in the end."

Krune agreed with him.

"Don't worry, I already have a plan. Just make sure to save as much Purple Tribulation Lightning power as possible. I'm using the highest ranks of Spirit Stones I have at the moment already to recover as well. If it goes as planned, I the rest of my Spiritual Energy should be enough."

Light Spirit and Krune then focused once more on resist the ever-increasing power of the Elemental Tribulations.

"What is that wisp? He is a monster! How can he resist something like that?"

"Idiot, can't you see? He is as colorful as a rainbow. He is obviously a Major Divine Soul owner. What I'm more concerned about is not that, though. That Purple Lightning is protecting him, and that is the real trick behind his defenses. I want to know where he got that thing."

"Correct. However, you can't deny that even without that Purple Lightning, he resisted the power of all those tribulations for a long time. I would have been destroyed in body and soul way before him in the same situation."

As far as everyone was trying to stay, no one left. This is something that the majority had never seen before. Not to mention that all of them wanted to see what would happen in the end. By now, the majority already understood that the next one to come was definitely the Lightning Tribulation.

Finally, the time came. On the dark clouds above Krune, another vortex started to form. Everywhere around the Tribulation Clouds was possible to see Lightning moving in the direction of that vortex. It was as if the Tribulation Clouds' entire power was being gathered to be used in the next step. 

Seeing that, Krune prepared himself.

"It's time!"

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