Big Yellow's Breakthrough

“Big brother, if you want to absorb someone, absorb me!”

The weakened Tribulation Lightning stood in front of Punishment Lightning. He was extremely grateful to Punishment Lightning for saving him.

Seeing the two bolts of lightning acting like this, Lu Ming was completely speechless.

Why did it feel like he was the big villain here?

He was a genuinely good person, alright?

Lu Ming sighed helplessly.

“I'm just asking you guys, why do you keep striking me? Who did I offend?”

As soon as Lu Ming spoke, the two bolts of lightning froze.

‘We don't know! The orders we receive are simply to strike you! We really aren't settling a personal grudge...’ Punishment Lightning quickly replied.

“Then who gave you those orders?” Lu Ming pressed further.

‘Whenever you trigger the rules of the Xuantian Continent, an order is automatically dispatched!’

Seeing Punishment Lightning's reply, Wang Defa, Fu Yunshen, and the others all turned to look at Lu Ming.

Noticing their gazes, Lu Ming was also speechless. He hadn't done anything, had he?

Ever since he transmigrated, though he hadn't exactly been doing good deeds left and right, he hadn't done anything bad either!

Why would he trigger the rules and get struck by lightning?

Then, his eyes flickered. Could it be because he was the protagonist, destined to stand supreme through all eternity?

As the saying goes, “When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a great man, it always first frustrates his spirit, fatigues his muscles and bones, exposes his body to starvation, and subjects him to extreme poverty...”

In other words, these were all trials meant to temper him, the protagonist!

It had to be. After all, he and Big Yellow had caused about the same amount of mischief.

Yet Big Yellow never got struck, only he did...

Then, Lu Ming looked up at Tribulation Lightning again.

“Why did you turn black?”

Hearing Lu Ming's question, Tribulation Lightning directly explained his transformed functions.

Fearing Lu Ming would blame him, he quickly added another line: ‘Oh, the mission ordered me to do this...’

Lu Ming didn't think too much of it and waved his hand.

“Alright, it's fine. You guys can go!”

Hearing this, the two bolts of lightning couldn't help but sigh in relief.

They vanished in an instant.

“Little Jie, you have no idea how much I sacrificed to save you this time!” Back in the Thunder Pool, Punishment Lightning couldn't help but complain.

“Little Puny, don't worry, big brother will remember your kindness!” Tribulation Lightning said gratefully.

“Do you think we'll get punished for doing this?” Punishment Lightning asked with some worry.

Tribulation Lightning pondered for a moment and comforted him: “Probably not. We didn't do anything illegal... We just went a bit easy on him. Besides, even if the two of us struck that human with all our might, we wouldn't be able to kill him anyway...”

“Isn't it said that ‘The Dao has fifty paths, but only forty-nine are manifest, leaving one to be sought’? This is his silver lining of survival. What does it have to do with us?”

Hearing this, Punishment Lightning nodded in agreement. “You have a point...”

...

After the two bolts of lightning left, Lu Ming and the others also returned to the Xinghe Dynasty.

Once Lu Ming returned to his residence, he sensed the changes in himself.

Within his dantian, his Nascent Soul had transformed into a Soul Transformation primordial spirit, which could enter and exit his dantian at will.

As his divine sense expanded, every blade of grass, tree, insect chirp, and ant movement within a thousand miles became crystal clear to his mind.

He no longer needed to consciously absorb the spiritual energy around him. Instead, he resonated with heaven and earth, drawing the natural spiritual energy to use as his own.

Incredible. So this was the Soul Transformation stage! It was truly terrifyingly powerful.

Lu Ming looked at his primordial spirits and couldn't help but feel speechless again.

Now that they had all turned into primordial spirits, why was the one wearing the green helmet still colored green?

Could it really not change colors?

Just then, he noticed that the one wearing the black helmet was actually holding a small black leather whip in its hand.

“What the... Where did this come from?”

Right at that moment, a small arc of electricity crackled from the small black whip.

Instantly, Lu Ming recognized it. It was a fragment of that Tribulation Lightning.

Just then, Big Yellow's voice came from outside. “Boss, are you there, boss?”

“Yeah, I'm here...” Lu Ming replied.

Big Yellow excitedly pushed open the door and entered. “Boss, I'm about to break through to the 5th-rank too! Is there anything I should watch out for?”

Hearing Big Yellow's words, Lu Ming's eyes widened. “You're about to break through?”

It was no wonder Lu Ming was surprised. He had almost never seen this fellow cultivate.

Every day, it was either playing with one person or messing around with another.

Lu Ming sized Big Yellow up from head to toe. Indeed, it was on the verge of breaking through.

“Alright, go ahead and break through. I'll protect you!”

“As for experience, I don't have any. You're a dog and I'm a human, so it's different... Why don't you send a sound transmission to ask your great-grandson...”

Afterward, the man and the dog made their preparations and headed back to the place where Lu Ming had just completed his seclusion. Big Yellow then began its own seclusion.

For Big Yellow's seclusion, Lu Ming called all the disciples of the Qingshan Sect over.

Big Yellow's seclusion went incredibly smoothly.

It very easily promoted to the 5th-rank.

Meanwhile, Tribulation Lightning, who had recovered in the Thunder Pool, suddenly received a mission.

He frantically absorbed the power of thunder.

He wanted to let loose and relieve his frustration from his previous failure.

He refused to believe he would encounter another freak like Lu Ming who could actually devour the power of thunder.

Full of pride and aggression, Tribulation Lightning descended.

But the moment he saw Big Yellow, he froze.

Just then, he also spotted Lu Ming.

‘Hi... Hello, boss!’ Tribulation Lightning quickly greeted Lu Ming.

Before Lu Ming could say anything, Tribulation Lightning quickly wrote out another line of text: ‘Don't worry, boss, I know how to handle this...’

Seeing how sensible Tribulation Lightning was, Lu Ming didn't feel like saying much else.

After all, one doesn't hit a smiling face, and Lu Ming was always soft-hearted when treated with respect.

Still, he spoke up: “My sect disciples need your lightning power to cultivate...”

Hearing Lu Ming's words, Tribulation Lightning couldn't help but grumble inwardly: Fortunately, I brought plenty of thunder with me this time. It should be enough.

Immediately, Tribulation Lightning struck randomly a couple of times, then carefully controlled the lightning power to allow the disciples to cultivate.

When Tribulation Lightning returned, Punishment Lightning saw his state and couldn't help but exclaim: “What the hell? What happened to you? How did you end up like this again?”

Tribulation Lightning waved his hand: “Met the boss. It was his brother's tribulation...”

Hearing this, Punishment Lightning hurriedly asked: “You didn't strike the boss's brother too hard, did you?”

“Don't worry, how could I not understand basic lightning etiquette?”

As he said this, Tribulation Lightning felt a bit depressed.

In truth, he didn't want to understand it either, but who told the boss to be so terrifyingly fierce!

If he didn't understand, he would get beaten up.

Hearing Tribulation Lightning's words, Punishment Lightning finally nodded in relief. “That's good then, that's good...”

Then, the two bolts of lightning smiled at each other and began to roll around in the Thunder Pool.

Big Yellow had just come out of seclusion, and before it could even host a feast to celebrate—

—it received a message from Huang Tianbao. He was also about to charge into the Soul Transformation stage.