It has now been a little over a year since Ah Chun came to the Heavenly Realm with Fei Hong. Ah Chun had officially turned ten years old. Thanks to the herbal baths, her actual body age-matched her birth age so she had grown a bit taller as well. Ning Shen had also come and gone for a second time. As a girl in love, she missed him every day when she could not see him. But she used this as a catalyst to work even harder at her cultivation so she can show him her progress every time she saw him. She also got a chance to talk to Mei Liling once every month. Which we also looked forward to. She missed Mei Liling, Yu Yan, Zhi Ru. But at least now she was able to keep up on there well being.
At this time Ah Chun was deep in cultivation as she had been stuck at the peak of Stage Nine Qi Sea for a few months now. She could use a pill called a World Formation pill to breach this bottleneck but Ah Chun's master Fei Hong refused to let her do so. Fei Hong said that breaking into Qi World was the same as to stepping into the true path of cultivation. It was a turning point for immortal cultivators. Using a World Formation pill would only weaken her potential and would cause her to have a weak foundation from then on.
Because of this Ah Chun has been in a state of cultivation for over thirty days now. It was on this day that Ah Chun finally felt the barrier that had been blocking her from taking that next step had finally weakened! When Ah Chun felt this she couldn't help but feel excited!
Forming one's Qi World was something that was done without the control of the cultivator. Whereas breaking into Qi Sea required Ah Chun to condense and liquefy Spiritual Qi. Forming a Qi World was different. Qi Worlds were based on one's potential. For those with weak potential or used pills to help them breakthrough, they would normally have a landmass condensed out of Spiritual Qi that was no bigger than a small island within their dantian. While one with peak potential could form landmasses the size of a small continent.
Breaking into Qi World also created a sky within your dantian as well. This turns the normally black space above ones Qi Sea into a blue sky. This is also affected by one's potential. One with weak potential will only have a blue clear sky while one with high potential might have clouds or even a sun form within their dantian.
Now that the barrier had weakened Ah Chun circulated the Spiritual Qi within her body and she was gathering as much as she could from the air in order to try to make that final push towards the barrier that was blocking her advancement. Because Ah Chun was trying her hardest to break through she did not realize that she was causing an astonishing scene outside.
Meimei who had just entered Ah Chun's courtyard yelled out in surprise as she looked up at the sky. A beam of Spiritual Qi had shot up into the sky causing white clouds to form overhead. Slowly these clouds started to turn darker and darker until they were pitch black.
*Rumble*
The sound of thunder could be heard coming from the sky. But this thunder was very loud as if it was trying to shake the heavens. Fei Hong who was sitting in the garden heard the thunder and directly shot up into the sky and headed towards Ah Chun's courtyard. As she arrived Fei Hong looked up at the sky and her face turned grim.
"What is going on with this disciple of mine!? How did she bring about a heavenly tribulation!?" Fei Hong who had been alive for tens of tens of thousands of years had undergone heavenly tribulations twice. The first time was when she broke through to the Immortal realm and the second time was when she broke through to the Heavenly realm. But now Ah Chun who was only breaking through to the Qi World realm was actually bringing about a heavenly tribulation! The worst part of it was that no one could help her. She had to do this on her own. She had to survive the test from the heavens alone with no external help whats so ever. If someone tried to help a person during their heavenly tribulation then the next lightning strike of the tribulation would be tens of times stronger than before! The issue that scared Fei Hong the most was she did not know, how many lightning strikes were Ah Chun had to endure!
The black clouds above Ah Chun grew bigger and bigger until they blotted out the sky. A loud thunderous boom exploded out from within the clouds as a streak of lightning bolted down racing at an extreme speed towards Ah Chun!
Fei Hong Face sank. This heavenly tribulation was stronger than what cultivators would receive from entering the Immortal realm! Fei Hong could only scream out in panic! "Chun'er!"