Elven Legacy

Chapter 72: Elaine's Heavenly Tribulation / Volume 3 End!

"This is quite nerve-wracking and unpleasant to be forced to watch on the sideline knowing you can't interfere with the process." Commented Elif with a frown as he stood in the distance and watched Elaine's figure sitting in the middle of an enormous altar while she prepared to break through to the Saint realm and face her first heavenly tribulation.

"Well, now you know how we felt when you did this, but Elaine will be fine. She isn't sitting on the Tribulation Altar for no reason after all." Said Marcus with a slight smile, though you could also sense the nervousness seeping out of him.

"Your words don't sound very convincing with how nervous you are, Marcus." Said Tiana, as she and Tyler were also watching Elaine; however, they seemed very much calm.

"You're no exception either, Maria; you two need to stop being so nervous, if anything were to go wrong, she could easily activate the Tribulation Altar, and because of a certain someone, you can also activate it as well now." Said Tyler while eyeing Elf as he finished speaking.

"Hmph, excuse me for wishing to test my limit, grandfather, but you act like what I did was terrible; nothing even really happened." Replied Elif, casually dismissing Tyler's words.

"Nothing happened? You were literally in a near-death situation, and you call that nothing happened!?" Exclaimed Maria in protest at Elif's casual demeanor.

"Yet, look at me now, Mother, I'm perfectly fine; you wouldn't even be able to tell I had almost died. So really, nothing happened." Answered Elif as Maria almost slapped him, but she stopped when she sensed changes taking place within Elaine.

Sensing the changes within Elaine, we all stopped talking and intently focused on Elaine; a few minutes later, we witnessed Elaine leave the mortal plane and finally step into the true ranks of cultivation after absorbing large amounts of Qi. However, our joy didn't last for long, as shortly after, she advanced to a Saint; the sky up above was quickly getting filled with dark clouds, and as time passed, every now and then, small arcs of lightning would jump out from the sea of dark clouds like a fish before quickly submerging themselves once more.

Eventually, dark clouds completely covered the once bright sky, all eagerly waiting for heaven to rain down their punishments; however, Elaine must've sensed the pressure from above as she opened her eyes not long later and quickly stood up while staring at the sky and when she did so, a lone lightning bolt shot out from the dense sea of clouds to strike Elaine. Unfortunately for that lightning bolt, Elaine had been ready and swiftly ended that lightning bolt's life with a royal elf's palm; however, that attack signaled the start of heaven's arrival, to which began a bombarded of lightning attacks from the dark sea of clouds above.

'Hmm, each of those lightning bolts are striking down with the strength of a peak Saint; however, it seems Elaine is taking care of them easily enough. Though I'm worried about is not Heaven's Arrival, it's Heaven's Descent; that's where it truly gets dangerous.' Thought Elif while watching Elaine casually destroy every lightning attack aimed at her.

With heaven's arrival having transpired for some time, it finally started slowing down on its attacks until the sky was no longer littered with explosions and lightning bolts; however, that just meant the heavenly tribulations' second phase was about to begin, heaven's descent. And as if right one cue, you could see large amounts of lightning converging to a single point directly above Elaine as the first tribulation lightning formed.

Once the lightning bolt had been fully developed, it didn't waste a single moment and instantly shot out from the sea of clouds toward Elaine's head with the strength of an early saint lord; however, even though heaven's descent had started, it was merely the first tribulation lightning, so it was quickly taken care of by Elaine, still, after sensing the strength of the lightning bolt, her scythe swiftly appeared in her hand after destroying it.