Long Chen's eyes were in unbearable pain, blood flowing nonstop. Bai Xiaole's mother was wiping him down, and at the same time, a flash of white light appeared on her hand, illuminating Long Chen's eyes. Only then did Long Chen feel the pain ease a little.
"There's nothing we can do. We've run out of trump cards. If we don't do this, we'll lose our lives." Long Chen said helplessly.
Even when Long Chen fell into a coma, he could still feel waves of sharp pain in his eyeballs. In a daze, it seemed as if someone was pressing on his eyes, which made him feel a bit better.
Now he understood that while he was unconscious, Bai Xiaole's mother had always stayed by his side.
"If that's the case, why provoke the heavenly tribulation and oppose the Heavenly Dao? Isn't that just playing with your life?" Bai Xiaole's mother said irritably.
With the white light in her hand, Long Chen's eyes no longer bleed, and the pain lessened considerably. However, for now, Long Chen dared not open his eyes.
"What does it mean to enrage the heavenly tribulation? Even if I don't provoke it, its strength won't decrease. I'm very familiar with it.
I just sped up the process and skipped some of the earlier steps, just to prevent those bastards from escaping. Long Chen said with a helpless smile.
Seeing that Long Chen was still laughing at this moment, Bai Xiaole's mother was speechless. This kid had played with his life and gained experience, seemingly not caring about life at all. Having survived, he was able to chat and laugh so casually.
"These are the new eye masks I made for you recently. They have spatial formations on them that can help you suppress that terrifying power.
However, the power of those seven black swords is too strange; no one can do anything about it. Your eyes probably won't be able to open anytime soon. Bai Xiaole's mother took out a new eye mask. The mask was covered with runes. When Long Chen put it on, a cool breath enveloped his eyeball, and the pain completely disappeared, making him feel especially comfortable.
"Hehe, thank you, senior."
Hearing Bai Xiaole's mother say this, Long Chen was instantly grateful. She was skilled in ocular techniques, and as long as she could stop his eye pain, that was enough.
As for the power of those seven black thunder swords, he would find a way to slowly refine them. Bai Xiaole's mother comforted Long Chen a few words before leaving.
Long Chen extended his inner vision and found countless runes appearing within his bloodline. These were the Heavenly Dao runes from the time of his tribulation.
Long Chen had always thought that all those Heavenly Dao runes had been absorbed by Lei Ling'er, but he never expected them to appear within his bloodline.
After experiencing this tribulation, Long Chen discovered that his strength, flesh, soul, spiritual power, and even the power of flames had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The Four Extremes Realm originally only allowed the four most powerful attributes to be strengthened, determining the direction of future cultivation.
But within Long Chen's tribulation, countless Heavenly Dao runes were actually absorbed into his bloodline, yet he himself felt nothing at all.
"Could it be because of those seven black thunder swords?"
Long Chen suddenly thought of those seven thunder swords, because he had always fought against them and never actively absorbed those Heavenly Dao runes.
Long Chen slowly shifted his spiritual power into his left eye, causing a slight stabbing pain. Fortunately, it was just a probe and did not cause any unusual movement.
Long Chen noticed that inside the three-flower pupil of his left eye, seven sharp swords shaped like petals struck the core area of his three-flower pupil.
These seven black swords still contained an incredibly terrifying power. Looking at them, Long Chen felt a wave of fear; he nearly died under their blades.
These seven swords were too strange. The power contained within them was all-encompassing, seemingly without any flaws, with no strength that could counter them. If the Purgatory Eye failed, Long Chen would truly be dead this time.
Although Long Chen had long sensed that this heavenly tribulation would be terrifying, he still hadn't expected it to be this terrifying.
As Long Chen observed closely, he discovered that the seven sharp swords were wrapped in a mysterious dark force. The two did not repel, but rather attracted each other.
The dragon clan expert once said that his Purgatory Eye was the window to the dark power within him. Could it be that these seven black thunder swords contained dark power?
Isn't it said that the heavenly tribulation is the strongest and most yang force under heaven? How could there be dark power?
For a moment, Long Chen was a bit stunned. This discovery seemed to overturn the knowledge he had learned during the heavenly tribulation.
"Brother Long Chen"
suddenly called out softly, snapping Long Chen out of his deep thoughts. Long Chen's arm trembled, and a bolt of lightning appeared—a tiny figure over three inches tall leapt onto his palm.
The little figure was a beautiful girl with purple hair. In her eyes, lightning runes swirled, containing the power to destroy heaven and earth.
"Lei Ling'er, can you transform now?" Long Chen couldn't help but feel both surprised and delighted. This meant that being able to take human form meant Lei Ling'er had gained the recognition of the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Realm. From now on, she could break free from Long Chen and control the power of Tianting on her own.
"This tribulation gave me even greater control and finally restored the sense of freedom I had when I was on the Tianwu Continent.
However, the suppression of the Heavenly Dao laws here is too severe. Right now, I can only transform into a tiny dot and can't form hand seals myself. Lei Ling'er said.
"Don't worry. Now that you've regained your intelligence, you're just one step away from true transformation." Long Chen comforted her.
"Brother Long Chen, could you take me into your eyes too? That way, I can absorb the power of those seven sharp swords." Lei Ling'er jumped onto Long Chen's shoulder and said.
"Are you sure you can absorb it without being rejected by them?" Long Chen said somewhat uncertainly, not a joke. One wrong move could be fatal.
"I'm certain that the black longsword contains the power of thunder, as well as other powers. So in the tribulation, with other forces enveloping me, I can't absorb it directly, but it doesn't reject me at all." Lei Ling'er said with great confidence.
"Alright, let's give it a try."
Seeing Lei Ling'er so confident, Long Chen gritted his teeth. These seven sharp swords sealed in his eyes were ultimately not a solution. He couldn't just turn a blind eye for life. Since Lei Ling'er said there was a way, she was certainly confident.
"Buzz!"
Huo Ling'er transformed into a thunder rune. Long Chen slowly merged it into his left eye. Long Chen had mentally prepared himself to immediately withdraw Lei Ling'er if he sensed anything unusual.
But to his surprise, the symbol Lei Ling'er had transformed into remained completely unchanged after entering the Three Flower Eyes, and the seven black thunder longswords only trembled slightly before falling silent.
Thunder runes appeared, slowly extending web-like patterns toward the seven sharp swords. The seven and eight swords seemed completely unaware.
Meanwhile, Long Chen noticed that Lei Ling'er was slowly absorbing the power of the seven black longswords through the spider web. However, she absorbed it so slowly that the black swords seemed completely unaware.
With this, Long Chen was completely at ease. Having resolved his eye problem, he continued his inward vision and suddenly noticed a circular vortex appearing beneath his dantian.
"Seventh Star,"
Long Chen saw the vortex and instantly jumped up.