How To Be A System (Dummy-Proof Edition)

Chapter 88. Heavenly Will: Sorry About The Delay, Here Is Your Tribulation.

While Ren Qingquan and I are busy getting confused. Through [Scan], I saw Su Ping and the others raised their heads. After some thought, I focused my attention on Su Ping's [Scan] and discarded the attention I left on others except Su Ping and Ren Qingquan.

With most of my [Calculate] power free, I begin spending all of them to calculate the information received from Su Ping's [Scan]. Through that massive amount of calculation power, I can now see even beyond the range of Su Ping's [Scan] which should've only reached the radius of 200 meters. It is done by processing the information related to light from outside that arrived into the range of [Scan]. Just like how human can use their eyes to capture information about light and see their surroundings.

I just found out this ability of mine recently when I tried some experiment in boredom.

Anyway, I digress.

They are currently standing in front of a stone with unknown function when the sky above them tore open.

It split open violently like someone is tearing the whole sky. Behind the clear sky that has been torn open, a dense dark cloud comes into view. Amidst the dense cloud, there are occasional streaks of lightning.

At the location where the sky tore open, an aurora can be seen. If coupled with the dark background caused by the cloud, the scene can be said to be extremely breathtaking. Like literally, because a lot of oxygen and spirit qi start to get sucked out of many other spatial cracks that appear around the inheritance site after the sky got torn.

Under such an apocalyptic scene, the woman of light appeared once again in front of Su Ping and the others. This time, the woman's body flickered just like a broken hologram. "Warning! The inheritance site has broken. The inheritance site has collided with the cultivation world. Warning! The spatial barrier surrounding the inheritance site has been damaged!"

After she was done repeating those warnings, the woman's voice paused for a moment before she continued. "Calculating the current tester's result. Choosing suitable rewards among the treasury. Everyone has been rewarded with the Nine Turning Pill. Nine Turning Pill not detected, changing the reward. Green Jade not detected, changing the reward..."

The woman made of light kept on speaking weird sentences as Su Ping's group looked at the sky in horror. Even Ren Qingchen's eyes widened like it was going to fall. All the while, I can hear him mutter. "Impossible! Impossible! This shouldn't happen."

After one minute, the woman seems to find a suitable reward. "Found a suitable reward, rewarding the Dual Affection Scripture."

In the room Ren Qingquan is in, several books from the bookshelf nearby suddenly move on their own and fly to the room's ceiling. When those books arrived near the ceiling, a hole opened which immediately closed once more when the book had passed by.

Those books soon appeared in front of Su Ping's group.

It seems above the room where Ren Qingquan is located right now are the place Su Ping and the others stood. I haven't realized it because the room Ren Qingquan is in right now is also enveloped with formation capable of blocking my [Scan].

I guess I'll need to upgrade my [Scan] one more time, especially now I already got such a massive windfall.

After Su Ping, Ren Qingchen, Young Master Gu, and the others took their respective books, the woman made out of light spoke. "Initiating escape procedures. Good luck and have a safe trip."

Right after the woman said that, a massive door opened before Su Ping and the others. The door immediately sucked those people once it opened.

Just like before, the inheritance site is discriminating against single people as there is actually no door to help Ren Qingquan escape.

Through [Scan], I found Su Ping and the other had arrived at a plane. Above them, the thick tribulation cloud can still be seen, occasional lightning coming from the cloud helps to brighten the surroundings. In the distance, there are also auroras that give off multiple colors coming from where the center of those tribulation clouds is.

The lightning in the cloud begins to condense into the center as their surroundings start to darken.

When they saw it, I heard Ren Qingchen speak. "Let's escape from here!"

Everyone agreed and all eight of them escaped together. Young Master Gu, whose strength is the strongest, helped them to cast some magical technique to increase their speed.

***

Meanwhile, when I saw those lightning gathered in the center of the cloud, I quickly warned Ren Qingquan.

[Host, it is coming! The lightning tribulation is coming! It seems the lightning can't immediately find you because you broke through in this inheritance place.]

While warning him, I also created some stones and gave them [Devour]. In case Ren Qingquan's shield fails to hold on, I'll teleport those stones to help divert the firepower.

Ren Qingquan quickly strengthened his Super Duper ... Turtle Shell and prepared for any impact.

One minute later, Ren Qingquan's first tribulation lightning appeared.

When I saw it, I wanna curse whoever wrote information about lightning tribulation that I've read before.

Which fucker call it a lightning bolt! This shiet is frickin pillar sized!

The thing that struck from the sky is a pillar of light made of lightning. It is around two meters in diameter. When the lightning pillar touched Ren Qingquan's shield, the shield immediately shattered into small pieces. The umbrella made out of Armament Transformation also failed to hold and broke upon touch.

As for those four copper rods that Ren Qingquan planted... Let's not talk about them. They immediately oxidized into nothingness when the lightning pillar touched them.

Ren Qingquan tried his best to recast his Super Duper ... Turtle Shell Technique. But just like before, it got shattered once again upon touch. This time Ren Qingquan starts to spew blood from the corner of his mouth just like those angry elders in xianxia novels after they are humiliated by the protagonist.

Wait, I shouldn't get distracted. When I saw the lightning pillar was only two meters from Ren Qingquan's head, I teleported the stone I already prepared using [Transfer] and activated the [Devour] located on them.

This time. Even when a spatial crack appeared and swallowed those stones, the two meter wide pillar like tribulation lightning isn't affected at all by those spatial cracks and bulldozed through it.

As the size of that lightning pillar is too big to be swallowed by my [Devour], I decided to teleport Ren Qingquan a hundred meters upward to create a distance with that lightning pillar.

After I teleported Ren Ingquan, he arrived at the plaza in front of the tower where Su Ping and others previously stood.

On a hole in the ground which is caused by the lightning tribulation, I saw the lightning pillar take a physics- defying turn and make a 'J' shape as it moved toward Ren Qingquan. When I saw it, I quickly asked him to escape.

[Host, don't stand still. Start activating your Evanescent Movement Technique and escape!]

Ren Qingquan woke up from his shock of almost dying and circulated his spirit qi following Evanescent Movement's qi circulation. Then, he moved away from the lightning pillar that somehow has a homing function.

While he is busy running away, I am also busy teleporting stones and activating their [Devour]. Right now, the diameter of that lightning pillar has reached less than one meter.

Due to the lightning tribulation that forcefully barged into the inheritance site, there are more and more spatial cracks appearing in the inheritance site. It seems whatever the means used to create the space where the inheritance site is located isn't all that powerful and stable.

Even though the tribulation lightning can bulldoze through those cracks, I am sure Ren Qingquan won't be able to. So, while running away, he also needs to evade those spatial cracks.

If this goes on, he'll soon get caught up by the tribulation lightning.

I looked at the torn inheritance site sky above him. From what I can see, beyond that torn sky is the cultivation world.I also doesn't see any trace of spatial crack over there. So I suggested Ren Qingquan to fly toward the sky that has been cut open.

[Host, fly toward the torn sky! It will lead to the cultivation world.]

Ren Qingquan nodded his head and increased his altitude.

Midway through his escape into the sky, the voice coming from the woman of light can be heard as it resounded throughout the inheritance site.

"Initiating protection procedures" With the woman of light's word, a pink pillar of light shot from a stone platform toward the sky. That platform is exactly the one with unknown function and located in the room where the pond of soul is.

After the pink pillar of light reached the inheritance site's sky, it started spreading and turned into a pink barrier. When I saw that, I started to have a bad feeling.

From the books I've read. When someone is transcending their tribulation, it is forbidden for an outsider to interfere. Otherwise the attack will turn even more intense.

Just as expected. When the barrier enveloped Ren Qingquan in it, the tribulation counted it as an outside interference.

I can see the cloud which made up the tribulation start to increase in size. I guess the next lightning pillar will be much bigger in size and much more powerful.

But the most pressing matter right now is that the barrier has blocked Ren Qingquan's path to escape. Behind him, the first bolt of lightning tribulation with homing function has already arrived.

I instinctively used [Transfer] and sent Ren Qingquan outside of the barrier. With the pink barrier separating him and the first lightning bolt. the lightning bolt forcefully collided with that barrier and exploded. As for the barrier, it is still as stable as ever even after receiving that explosion.

With this, Ren Qingquan has survived his first bolt of lightning tribulation.

As the tribulation lightning for Nascent Soul cultivators merely consisted of three attacks that progressively got stronger. That means Ren Qingquan already completed one third of his tribulation.

Right now, he just needs to survive the second barrage.

While Ren Qingquan flies outside of the barrier nearby the sky that has split open and connected to a place in the cultivation world. My [Scan] detected a few energy fluctuations coming towards his location from a kilometer away.

Soon, dozens of people whose strength varied at Nascent Soul, Soul Formation, and Divine Transformation appeared on Ren Qingquan's surroundings. Those people looked at the sky in fear before changing their gaze into the barrier below them. Some have an amazed look while some have greedy look on their face.

The strongest among them, a middle aged Divine Transformation stage said while touching the pink barrier that covered the torn inheritance site's sky below them. "This aura, it comes from someone who has reached the Void Unity stage at least."

Then he looked at the sky and commented. "Those lightning clouds look like tribulation lightning. From the strength, it seems like a tribulation lightning for Divine Transformation cultivator to reach Void Unity stage."

Why is this guy commenting everything, is he trying to show off his knowledge? Anyway, thanks to the information that the Divine Transformation expert gave, I found out Ren Qingquan's tribulation is indeed abnormal in strength.

Is it possible the Heavenly Will took this chance to enact its revenge against every trouble Ren Qingquan and I have caused? Or are there any other reason?