He thought to himself that Fu Young had indeed awakened his Eye of Ishvara inside the secret realm.

He had already suspected it when he saw that earlier phenomenon while retrieving the strange stone from the sea.

His Eye of Ishvara seemed to be offensive in nature and extremely powerful.

In fact, it was so powerful that even the thunder tribulation seemed to feel threatened.

Was that even possible?

A divine eye stronger than thunder tribulation?

In a sense, thunder tribulation is an embodiment of the Heavenly Dao itself.

How could that be?

Chen Zhiyi shook his head as if trying to shake off this absurd thought.

"Others would not encounter something like this, but he is different. He is like the favored child of the Heavenly Dao."

"As expected of the protagonist," Gou Guangming said absentmindedly, clearly envious.

He blurted out what he was thinking.

Only after noticing everyone looking at him strangely did he quickly wave his hands.

"Haha, I was just joking. Do not take it seriously."

But how could they not take it seriously?

It sounded almost too real.

Was this the reason their leader suddenly pledged loyalty to an unknown nobody?

It did not sound like a lie at all.

Favored child of the Heavenly Dao?

The chosen one?

For a moment, everyone fell silent, each lost in their own thoughts.

Bolts of tribulation lightning kept descending one after another.

Each strike aimed at Xiao Shou looked as if it wanted to annihilate him completely, cruel like a freezing storm in winter.

Yet when it came to Fu Young, the lightning was gentle like a spring breeze.

Xiao Shou could not help feeling stifled watching this.

Fortunately, the thunder tribulation still maintained some fairness.

It struck one person at a time.

Even so, Fu Young’s tribulation bolts were noticeably thinner and their power seemed significantly weaker than Xiao Shou’s.

He did not know that this so-called fairness was actually the result of his cute disciple’s subtle intimidation.

Otherwise, the thunder tribulation might have thrown all the lightning strikes at him alone.

Xiao Shou and Fu Young’s bodies had been tempered through secret methods and enhanced by demonic beast cores.

Their cultivation advancement had also strengthened their physiques considerably.

On top of that, since they were undergoing tribulation together and taking turns resisting the lightning, whenever it was Fu Young’s turn, not only did the tribulation lightning weaken significantly, but its descent also slowed down noticeably.

This gave them plenty of time to refine the lightning power.

They managed to hold on until the six nine tribulation passed.

When the first lightning of the seven nine tribulation began to fall, they gradually started to feel the difficulty of refining it.

Before the seven nine tribulation, all lightning was pure thunder energy.

For the master and disciple pair who were already used to using lightning to temper their bodies refining it was extremely familiar and easy.

It was just that it hurt like hell every time.

However, once the seven nine tribulation began, pure thunder energy started to mix with other attributes.

The first strike was fire lightning and Xiao Shou who is get caught off guard suffered a setback.

His meridians and flesh were slightly burned.

He quickly reminded Fu Young.

Fortunately, the cultivation technique Xiao Shou practiced granted him vitality nine times stronger than ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.

The burned areas regenerated almost instantly.

However, since he did not have a fire spiritual root, he had to concentrate fully to separate the fire attribute from the lightning energy.

Fu Young who possessed complete spiritual roots and could refine and absorb any energy that entered his body, watched Xiao Shou with admiration as he removed the fire spiritual energy.

He thought his Master was truly impressive with an extremely powerful control over spiritual energy.

Separating two attributes within tribulation lightning and expelling one of them was not something ordinary cultivators could accomplish.

Most cultivators either used techniques or artifacts to disperse tribulation lightning outside the body, or they allowed it to enter their bodies and then used precious pills to repair the damage.

Only his Master had chosen to directly extract the violent fire spiritual energy from the lightning itself and expel it.

Most cultivators would not even think of such a method, and even if they did, being able to actually do it was another matter entirely.

In a sense, his somewhat naive Master was also a genius.

Completely unaware that what he was doing was an extraordinary act, Xiao Shou continuously separated, expelled, and refined the incoming fire lightning.

His internal vitality automatically repaired the damaged parts of his body.

By the time the ninth fire lightning struck, after being separated, expelled, repaired, and refined, his entire body suddenly felt light.

It was as if some kind of restriction had been unlocked or a heavy burden had been removed.

His organs, blood, bones, muscles, and even cells all became unusually active, giving him the illusion that he could accomplish anything.

What is going on?

Why do I feel like this?

Just as Xiao Shou opened his eyes in confusion, a water barrel thick wind lightning suddenly descended from the sky.

"Eight nine tribulation, wind thunder!"

Based on experience, a tribulation lightning filled with such terrifying destructive power should have struck him.

However, this time it completely exceeded Xiao Shou’s expectations.

Just as he prepared himself to forcibly withstand it, the wind thunder accurately landed on Fu Young who had been fully on guard.

Xiao Shou could not help but cry out, "Young’er, be careful!"

Suddenly struck by the tribulation lightning, Fu Young was also slightly surprised.

But soon, an odd expression appeared on his face as he stood there and allowed the wind thunder to seep into his body.

"Master, no need to worry. Have you forgotten my technique and spiritual roots? Fire thunder or wind thunder, for others it is a destructive blow. For me, it is basically a great tonic pill."

"Oh! I almost forgot."