Tribulation

the capital was called raising Sun kingdom. many people from all over the kingdom range came over, some were signing up at the last moment, while others wanted to find a place to stay before its too late.

There was already a ranking board of who would have the highest chance to win, Sora was of course at number one. many already thought he was on some drugs or something, while others thought that he was holding back his cultivation all these years, and was just now showing it odd.

there were hundreds of millions of people taking part, many were confused as to how so many people would clear the tournament, within only 168 hours.

a day before the tournament, everyone was given a badge that acted like a camera. the camera was 360 degrees and was to remain on a person's body from the start of the tournament to the end. if anything that was SUS were to be seen, one would be kicked out along with everyone who took part facing trouble. even if they took no part in the tournament, they would be punished,

the badge also needed to be refined, the process to find it, one needed to have all outside clones, and other stuff to disappear, this forced everyone to have no way of cheating.

the badge also measured one cultivation and measured their strength, this gave them a ranking which to no one shock, Sora was at the top of everyone... but they were shocked seeing he was at the 3rd stage of cultivation within all 3 cultivation systems,

sadly, they could see the ranking for those within another kingdom. but they were sure Sora was a one-of-a-kind talent on the whole planet.

"So, I have 2 weeks to master this." Sora sat back in his chair while eating an orange grasp, of course, the fruits, and vegetables within this world looked different from that of earth. Sora looked at the technique which he had to comprehend within two weeks, before sighing.

the technique was called the Ulimaite Figner beam, it was a technique that combined all 3 cultivation system power, and fuse them to form 1 super powerful beam.

the thing about the 3 cultivation systems, was that they all had their own unique energies, Body cultivation system had physical energy. Soul cultivation had Spiritual energy, and lastly, Qi cultivation was considered natural energy.

the reason why control was important was that these 3 energy didn't work well together, only those with good control can merge the energy and have it so that they worked well together

this meant needed all 3 energies come together and become one and shot a powerful beam that could destroy both body and soul alike. Sora had to closely study the technique for some time, and it was not so simple.

Sora needed a few weeks before he reached the level needed to use the technique, pointing his finger at the sky, a powerful beam shot out, a mountain that was far away was pieced through, and the beam continue going forward, only slightly weakened.

"Well, I comprehended it, but not mastered it. I'm a bit slow..." Sora said softly, before sighing helplessly. everything he gained from the system was mastered almost instantly, but he needed like 80 hours to master such a technique.

"Did he say slow?" within a room filled with screens, a man was watching Sora's screen and was shocked upon hearing him calling his progress slow. around him, countless other people were looking at a screen, watching those a someone to make sure they were not cheating. they all had 1,000 people they were watching, and they all had sharp soul sense, so they could multitask.

"The emperor personally gave him that technique, indeed this person is talented. the emperor needed 10 years to create this technique, but he needed only 1 week." a middle-aged man said while looking at the screen, before turning around to look at a black glass window, he was sure the emperor was watching this from there,

"he is one of the few who got that technique, keep a close tab on him. if anything off happens, report it right away. there is no need to worry if it's a false report." the middle-aged man said calmly, from what he knew, the emperor had a dream.

the dream was about the incoming danger and the way to avoid it. as the emperor's most trusted person, he knew how important this was. everyone was given a technique, and a few who were eye-catching were given the Ulimaite Figner beam, and out of all of them, Sora comprehend it the fastest.

anyways, Sora looked at the screen in front of him. with him completing the first part of the tournament, he was given a chance to head towards the empire, where he would wait to take part in the tournament.

"Should I try and reach The Body Transformations realm? I might need a week to reach it... well, with this technique, I should be able to do it." Sora said softly before searching where he could find a Silver-grade dungeon, after searching for some time, Sora set his eyes on the Great Ape Dungeon,

Sora guessed it might take him 1 day or so to clear. after all, this was a silver-rank dungeon, there were going to be hundreds of millions of monsters within, with the boss at the Body Transformations realm, Sora would indeed have the energy needed to break through.

but there was a problem, how would he cultivate with this badge watching him? Sora sat back and fell into deep thought about the matter. Sora thought for some time before he remembered the system,

'system, how much to make the badge see something I would want it to see... and to have it not contact with other stuff they might see.' Sora asked calmly,

{10,000 LS an hour.} the system said to which Sora made Sora sigh softly, but he did it and went on to buy the dungeon to be used for the next week, before setting off. the crime rate had reached a new time low in the past few days, Sora was not worried much about being assassinated or anything like that,

Sora went on to enter the silver dungeon upon arriving at its locations, once done, he went on to look around at the area he found himself. it was a thick forest,

'Start now... and give me knowledge if anyone is following me.' Sora said calmly,

{what would be another 35,000 years host.} the system said to which Sora easily agree, and the next moment, his eyes narrowed as someone was indeed following him. it was an expert at the 4th stage of cultivation, personally set here by the emperor himself.

'... can you extend it so he too sees what I want him to see? and if anyone were to enter, can they too be affected by the illusion. Sora asked calmly, trying to remain normal as much as he could.

{that would be 30,000 LS an hour.} the system said to which Sora nodded, with a high, Sora stepped into the forest and pointed forward, using the Ulimite Finger beam, a beam shot from his finger, and it cut through the forest, destroying everything within Sora way.

Sora stepped forward, and with that step, Death Qi rushed toward Sora, who absorbed them all. using his telekinesis, Sora pulled all of that Death Qi toward him. Sora let himself go berserker, but not too much that he completely lose himself, just enough to have the benefit of going berserker so he could quickly improve upon his skills.

meanwhile, within the room filled with people looking at the screen, shock filled the middle-aged man who was watching the screen with Sora. how could he not be shocked to see someone who was at the 3rd stage of cultivation showing strength to match those at the 4th stage, Sora could skip a whole stage, this was never heard of.

'he must be the one.' Behind the black window, the emperor watched the slaughter taking place in shock. but what he thought was more shocking was the improvement happening to Sora, every time he used the Ultimate finger beam, his skills with it only improved,

one should know thats techniques were extremely useful. they help a person better use their energy, just think of electricity, electricity alone is useless and even harmful. but add wires, and you could control the electricity to have all types of effects.

Qi and another type of energy were like electricity, they could have all types of effects, at the same time strengthen the power. the UmliteFinger Bean could strengthen a person to punch power up to 20% of their strength measurement, thats for people at the 5th stage of cultivation like the emperor, but for those whose strength was within the 3rd stage or even the 4th stage, it would be far higher.

In the 3rd stage, it would be around 100%, and in the 3rd stage it would be around 60%, Sora's strength was at the 4th stage of cultivation, meaning this technique could allow him to lash out with strength up to 60% his strength,

As one strength improves, a higher grade technique would need. just think of techniques as math problems, you can't use first-grade level math in 12th grade, at most that level of math would be like 1% useful,

techniques were the same, once your strength goes past the usefulness of the skill, evolve and improve the said ability or else it would hold you back, normally one should try and create their own technique, that way it could improve alongside you.

The emperor watched as Sora went on to easily handle every monster within the dungeon, this was nothing shocking, Sora's strength measurement was at least 30,000, and thats not adding the Ultimate Figner Beam,

the dungeon boss only had a strength of 10,000, Sora was 3 times stronger than the boss, which was huge. even a 1.25x difference in strength was huge, that was even more so for a whole 3 times,

even if the difference was huge, these were just too many monsters for Sora to deal with, and since Sora was holding back, not wanting to risk the uniqueness of his Qi being found out, so he was simply spamming the figure beam. time passed, and after 11 hours passed and Sora stepped out of the dungeon,

The emperor looked at the measure of Sora's strength and cultivation and was shocked. within 11 hours, Sora managed to improve his cultivation to Qi cultivation from level 8 to level 10 within just 11 hours. his Soul cultivation also improved to level 10, meanwhile, his body cultivation remained at level 8,

'He is a freak... but how did he cultivate his soul?' The emperor was confused, all they saw was Sora slaughter all of the monsters, before going on to sit down and cultivate near the gold rank spirit stones, which he shocked dry.

'could he perfectly convert Qi into spiritual energy? is that a technique or is that ability?' The emperor looked at Sora, too stunned to know what he should think about all of this,

'were they born with unique abilities? what freaks.' the emperor thought while watching Sora who went on to find another dungeon to enter and go on clear,

'he improves through battle... what a talented kid, to think he has only been cultivating for only a year and a few months.' The emperor thought I'm amazement, to think his kingdom would be so lucky as to birth such a being.

for the past few weeks, he has tried to sleep so he could see if Death wanted to show him something, how could he not? but to his disappointment, death has not reached out. from what he could guess, the god of death didn't want to see being like Sora die, if he birthed them to protect the galaxy one day, one could guess the amount of work it took.

To the God of death, he might just be a pawn. he had thought of using Sora to force Death to do something, but in the end, he through such a stupid thought out of the window. just think of what could happen if he enraged the god of life and death, a being who could see the future, he didn't dare to even try and think of what power Death could have.

anyways, 14 hours later, Sora was kicked out of a dungeon, and storm clouds gathered above his head, Sora looked at the sky for a moment, before he stepped forward, and with a flash, he disappeared shooting out of the capital,

everyone stepped outside and was stunned to see storm clouds gathering to cover the whole sky, far away, even the emperor stepped outside to look towards where Sora was, looking at the clouds which were moving towards that location.

"This is more like a... Void rank expert." The emperor said in shock while looking at the storm clouds, avoid the body transformation realm, it was the void rank, which was the 5th stage of cultivation for the Qi cultivation system.

for a person to enter the Body's transformational realm, they must go through the tribulation, a test brought upon a target by the will of the world. the storm clouds gather were far higher than even those of the void,

The Emperor's pupils shrank as he could see the tribulation from his empire... but he was more than 10,000 miles away, yet the storm clouds reached even this far. this was unheard of, the emperor thought for some time before looking at Sora's cultivation ranks, his lips twitched the next moment at the scene he saw.

Sora was trying to break through all 3 cultivation systems to the 4th stage all at once, Sora was seeking death,

'System, I might die.' Sora thought calmly while looking at the sky which was completely dark thanks to the storm clouds.

{host, when destroying the core, it shall down done alongside the others to have the most benefits. as for your life and death host... well, thats might be a problem,} the system said making Sora speechless for some time, but he shook his head slightly and simply waited.

'it would be depressing if I simply died. I better live... well, I better go find where there is a metal mine.' Sora thought as he quickly went online and searched for such places, he had to hurry before the tribulation cut the connection.

once he got the location, he sighed in relief seeing it was only 30 miles away, with a step, Sora disappeared, and as the seconds passed, the lightning got ready to fall. Sora would need about 3 seconds to reach that location, but lightning was already getting ready to fall,

'damn it.' Sora thought through gritted teeth, his eyes turned blood red, and with this, his speed suddenly increased to a new height, but it was not enough. just when he was a mile away, lightning gathered above him, following him with great ease from above.

the lightning moved like it was some snake, before it took the form of a lightning dragon, seeing this, Sora roared and exploded with power, the lightning and Sora clashed, and a heaven-shaking shock wave was heard, windows far as hundreds of miles away felt the impact, ht barriers around the many cities shattered, leaving those within the kingdom defenseless to suffer the impact

Luckily, man experts had moved to defend against the attack, so only a small amount of people were injured. Sora on the other hand landed on his feet, although he was not injured, he had a deep frown while looking at the sky.

that was only the first round of attack, there were 12 rounds, each stronger than the last. Sora quickly turned and disappeared, and within a heartbeat, he appeared next to the metal mine. Sora's energy entered the mine and went on to forcefully shape it into a lightning rod.

"This should weaken the lightning to some degree," Sora said with a sigh, if he was skilled with formations, then he would have been able to set up a formation that could help him out, sadly he wasn't