Invisible Security Guard
Chapter 706 - 705: Struck by Lightning

Chapter 706: Chapter 705: Struck by Lightning

The stuttering Five Mao from the capital was just a very minor figure in the marketplace, of course, his story is continuing.

Many people, too, enact their own legends on the Mainland, playing out their stories.

Located to the south of the East Sea lies an island, known as Turtle Island because it’s covered in sea turtles. Every breeding season, seen from the sky, the island is dense with a variety of turtles everywhere, and simply digging into the sandy beach can yield a multitude of turtle eggs.

Several hundred meters beneath the sea near Turtle Island is a cave dwelling, called the Green Waves Cave, it is the cultivation place of the snake spirit, Francisco Zuck, who controls a vast sea territory spanning a thousand miles and commands countless Sea Monsters.

Yusuf Zuck and the others did not venture into the sea bed, but he dispatched over a dozen powerful demons in every direction, setting watch in secret positions. With shrimp soldiers and crab generals patrolling the perimeter, Turtle Island was now incredibly safe.

The trio of girls were triplets, connected by their hearts, with Cultivation Realms that were roughly equal, and since that absurd night when they were wholly taken by their master Yusuf Zuck, the harmonization of yin and yang had brought them to the Late Condensation Period.

Their pace of cultivation was indeed very swift, surpassing those Human Cultivators who frequently consumed Elixirs.

Of course, this was also thanks to the yang essence of Yusuf Zuck, for his exceptional kindness to them. If it were any other Human Cultivator, during the dual cultivation they would just deplete their energy without giving anything back hence they would not have sensed the Nine-nine Heavenly Tribulation in such a brief period.

The Nine-nine Heavenly Tribulation, composed of thirty-six lightning strikes, means undergoing thirty-six thunderstrikes.

Whether for demons or humans, the punishment of Crossing the Tribulation is the thunder brought down by the Heavenly Dao. Thunder, a natural phenomenon that destroys all, yet it is manipulated by the unseen Heavenly Dao.

No one can explain why reaching a certain level of cultivation triggers tribulation; this is indefinable, beyond comprehension, mysterious to everyone, so it is seen as the punishment of the Heavenly Dao.

After staying on Turtle Island for ten days, Sandy was the first to face her tribulation. To prevent the other two girls from invoking a chain reaction of heavenly tribulations when Sandy faced hers, the two sisters dove into the sea, taking refuge in the cave dwelling of the snake spirit Francisco Zuck.

These days, Yusuf Zuck too has been researching the heavenly tribulation, knowing it to be most perilous, as one could die at any moment, beyond saving by anyone.

Additionally, during the tribulation one must not be distracted, there must be no disturbance, no others may Cross the Tribulation alongside you, and within the radius of the tribulation area no one else can stand under the thunderstrike, and so on.

The reason no others can be present is because each person’s karma differs.

Take Sandy, for instance; she had little karma of her own, hadn’t killed anyone in her life, nor had she done anything wicked or despicable, so her tribulation wouldn’t be very severe, her heart was pure.

However, were someone to stand under the thunderstrike next to her during the tribulation, for example, if Yusuf Zuck were there, then the heavenly tribulation would detect his karma and add it to the punishment. At that point, Sandy would likely be unable to pass her tribulation.

In a word, there cannot be anyone near Sandy, even those without karma. In fact, what is considered karma isn’t just about having killed someone, according to Buddhist theories, eating meat every day, or sexual conduct with others, these are all karmic acts, so what constitutes karma is also just a guess by those on the path of cultivation.

Yusuf Zuck stood at the foot of the mountain with Ruth Wilcox and others, while Sandy stood on the beach, holding a sword, which was Yusuf Zuck’s Purple Light Sword, a Turtle Shell, shed by Jorge Zuck, a piece of snake skin, left behind by Francisco Zuck during her shedding, along with various other items gifted by powerful demons, all for defense.

In sum, to guarantee successful tribulation for Sandy, all the powerful demons had gifted her defensive treasures.

The sky was overcast with dark clouds, so dense they seemed about to collapse, incredibly close, a mere hundred meters above Sandy. There were muffled thunders roaring within, lightning flashing about, and torrential rain soaking Sandy completely.

In contrast, just a hundred meters away where Yusuf Zuck and the others stood, the weather was sunny with clear skies.

This scene was incredibly eerie, and both Ruth Wilcox and Ember Vance had to admit that the world was magical, and science couldn’t explain many of its phenomena.

"Creak—" the sound of a grindstone whirring came from the dark clouds, and the hearts of Yusuf Zuck and the others leaped to their throats.

And then, a bolt of lightning came crashing down without the sound of thunder.

Light always travels much faster than sound, just like when we see lightning and have to wait a few seconds or even ten seconds for the thunder to follow—now it was that situation! ~

It’s just that Sandy didn’t have a lightning rod above her head, nor an antenna to attract the lightning, so the lightning was headed straight for her head, in a very frightening way!

Although Sandy had learned a lot about crossing the tribulation these days, she couldn’t help feeling particularly scared when it came to it. In fact, demon cultivators fear lightning the most; among all the mythical creatures, it is said that only true dragons are not afraid of lightning, while other demon cultivators would hide as far away as possible at the sound of thunder.

It’s just a natural reaction.

Sandy, being a Cloud Leopard, is essentially a leopard that has achieved sentience, of course, a leopard unlike any ordinary cheetah, but a very rare spiritual being called the Cloud Leopard.

Yusuf Zuck used to envy Charm Wilcox for daring to "day" snakes, envy Darwin Crane for daring to "day" ghosts, and even envy a character in the TV drama "The Journey of Flower" for daring to "day" caterpillars.

And now, he had "dayed" a leopard.

Yusuf Zuck was actually scared in his heart, and occasionally when he thought about it afterward, a horde of ten thousand "grass mud horses" would gallop through his heart.

But what’s done is done; he was just carried away at the time, plus little Sandy was truly damn enticing.

He finally understood the heroic feats of Charm Wilcox and Darwin Crane; they say it’s better to die under a peony, playboy even as a ghost—for you never know the taste of meat until you’ve bitten into it.

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While Yusuf Zuck was realizing he had thought too much and chuckling foolishly, Sandy had already taken over a dozen bolts of lightning in one breath.

Nothing surprising really, she had an abundance of magic treasures on her and no sins, so the tribulation wasn’t heavy—just the ordinary forty-nine Heavenly tribulations. After fending off the lightning with various defensive magic treasures, she would successfully cross the tribulation.

"It doesn’t look like there’s a big problem now, but Yusuf Zuck, we will also face this rhythm of being struck by heavenly lightning in the future, right?" Ruth Wilcox suddenly asked.

"Indeed, we will all be struck by heavenly lightning. I might get struck before you guys since we all have sins!" Yusuf Zuck said solemnly.

"You’re the one with the deepest sins!" The two girls glared at him and said.

"Yes, yes, yes, my sins are the deepest!" Yusuf Zuck, afraid of them, could only nod repeatedly.

Ruth Wilcox couldn’t help but laugh and slapped him on the back, "I’m being serious here, and you’re messing around again. If we’re all going to face such tribulations in the future, I suggest you take some time to visit the secular world. Perhaps we could use some scientific equipment to avoid the lightning tribulation!" Ruth Wilcox thought for a while and said, "Lightning tribulation is nothing more than lightning striking the body, and since this kind of tribulation doesn’t oppose the use of defensive magic treasures, if we use lightning protection devices, we should be able to channel the lightning into the ground. I remember a study at Harvard University on the electricity of lightning with a conductive device—at that time, placing it on our heads should channel the lightning into the appropriate conductive bottles or batteries!"

"Oh... uh... is that possible?" Yusuf Zuck gaped in astonishment. If that was possible, then wouldn’t crossing the tribulation for cultivators or demon cultivators not be a problem anymore?

This is an excellent topic indeed!

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