3 Transcending tribulation.

Chapter 3: Transcending tribulation.

Soon all the barriers were destroyed, and the nine flags dimmed completely, losing energy.

Seeing the first line of defense was decimated, the young man didn't panic, and he calmly brought out an ancient-looking talisman engraved with the words: soul clone!

The talisman exuded a powerful ancient aura.

He placed the talisman on his chest, then chanted a spell, and then the talisman turned into countless speckles of violet light, the lights were as bright as stars, soon the speckles all gathered and formed a silhouette exactly like him in both appearance and aura.

The black silhouette roared and the rose to the sky to meet with his tribulation.

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At the same time, he brought out the talisman, many people who knew what it was were surprised.

That was a treasure that could receive the attack of peak powerhouses and transfer all the damage to a clone formed with pure energy, such treasure was rare and would be cherished like a child by sects, he could serve as a lifesaver for powerhouses in life and death situation.

Above the crowd of onlookers, in the highest peak in the martial arena, in a grand majestic hall, Top powerhouses of the sky fall sect were gathered including the sect master the two grand elders, Nine Elite elders, and many-core, inner and outer sect elders.

Every one here was exuding powerful aura that could make weaker cultivators tremble and bring mortals to their knees.

Surprisingly this grand assembly of powerhouse were not gathered to talk about the sect but to witness the grand elder's son tribulation.

In the crowd the Second grand elder, an old man with a powerful aura frowned deeply when he saw the talismans in Adriel's hands, he turned to look at middle-aged beauty emitting a noble aura standing by his side, and he then said with a serious tone:" Third Grand elder how did your son get his hands on a pair of soul clone transfer talisman, The sect only has five pairs of it left from what our ancestors left for us, and only the sect master is allowed to use it, and I'm pretty sure you don't have enough contribution or spirit stone to purchase it after all everyone knows you have spent all you have to purchase medicines and armor for that worthless son of yours."

He sounded as if he was worried about the sect but by questioning her so openly, but he was using this chance to start trouble and undermine the Long Fei's position in front of the sect elders after all he despised her because she rejected all his attempts to court her several times in front of so many people.

Sure enough, as he said that, the elders on the second elder's side began to voice their doubts and the hall soon grew noisy.

Long Fei wasn't in the mood to answer the old man at all she didn't hear him, even if she did, she wouldn't care, the talisman wasn't hers to give in the first place, it was found by her daughter after experiencing a fortuitous encounter, and she later gave it to Adriel when she found out he was about to breakthrough.

Right now, Long Fei was gritting her teeth, her fist was clenched, and her pair of eyes were glued on her son who was facing his life and death crises, she wished she could switch places with him right now.

Seeing long Fei not replying, a cruel smile appeared on the second grand elder's face, and he continued, "you must give me a reasonable explanation for how he got this, or I will condemn your son to death for stealing from the sect!!"

He then turned to the sect master a middle-aged man standing by the side, he gave him a meaningful look before saying : "sect master I'm afraid the third grand elder and her son have unkind intentions towards the sect and should be punished for using the sects crown treasure without permission"

The sect master frowned, but he didn't say anything, as the person in possession of the soul clone talisman, how could he not know that none of them was missing and was just a misunderstanding?

But will be an insult to the second elder's face if he pointed the misunderstanding out now in the presence of so many elders, it was likely he would even hold a grudge

The second elder was a proud and petty man but he had plenty of people in the sect supporting him including half the elders present here.

As for the third elder, she was too focused on her son for the past decade and didn't meddle with the matters of the sect, so she wasn't popular among sect members most people didn't even know Adriel's name.

If he was to choose between who to support in this argument the former is the obvious choice but as the sect master he had to put the sect unity above everything so he had to remain neutral at least on the surface.

'Why did this old fogey have to bring me into this' the sect-master sighed, he decided to let her clear the misunderstanding herself he was also curious about where she got the talisman from.

The second grand elder's smirk grew wider, he took the sect master's silence as an approval and secretly prepared to blow this matter beyond proportions.

He opened his mouth to speak , but he was forced to swallow his words when he felt a deadly aura lock unto him,

He turned to look, and his sly face quickly turned sour.

The other elders noticed the subtle change, they also turned to look, and they saw a gray haired Old man walking into the hall side by side with a ferocious looking bear twenty feet tall.

The old man wore multi colored robes, simply put rainbow robes.

The sect master quickly stepped forward and saluted : "3rd generation sect—master has seen Prime master!"

The other elders asides, the third grand elder immediately imitated the sect master and saluted him too.

The man who entered was none other than the elusive prime elder of sky fall sect, and the highest ranked Beast master in the sect, the bear beside him was his first and most powerful martial beast and its strength surpassed everyone in the sect.

He was several thousand years old already with battle powers that were undisputed in the sect, Legend has it that the Prime elder together with his martial beast once battled a group of seven peak emperors with their thousands of followers and managed to come out on top with barely any injuries.

He is even rumored to have broken through the martial realms and stopped into the nascent soul Realm.

However He had a carefree personality and a fiery temper that could explode at anytime,

He rarely appeared unless the sect was troubled, but for some reason he always paid attention to Adriel trying to transcend the tribulation.

Now that he as appeared every one remained silent.

The prime elder ignored their salutations and continued walking until he arrived before the second grand elder and whispered, "You are getting too old for this, you should leave this matter for the younger generations to handle."

The second grand elder was peeved hearing him, but he didn't dare utter any word of disapproval and stood there like a scared mouse seeing a cat.

The Prime elder turned a way from him and arrived beside the third elder, fixed his gaze at Adriel.

Everyone did the same, including the second grand elder whose face was rather unpleasant to look at now.

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Currently, a charred body laid on the ground, of course that was Adriel's clone formed by the soul clone talisman.

Moments ago, when Adriel clone rose to the sky to brazenly meet the lightening head on, his talisman clone was instantly destroyed.

Unfortunately, the lightening didn't disperse after destroying leinad's clone and immediately located his aura once more.

The good news was that the lightning was significantly weaker than when it fell from the tribulation clouds, but it was still as powerful as a martial lord's full-powered strike.

In no time the lightening strucked Adriel and overwhelmed him, he took long gasps as he struggled to breathe under the oppressive pressure.

In virtually an instant Adriel's red and white armor was directly destroyed and last mode of defense was obliterated, then the lightening moved

His entire body trembled directly spewing a mouthful of blood everywhere, his complexion became pale, and his skin started splitting apart.

He felt like thousands of electric needles were swimming inside him, the pain was unbearable that he almost passed out several times but gritted his teeth and endured.

He wasn't going to fail this time, he had to break through, so he endured and endured until a loud explosion aura began to climb sharply.

Success!

The whole thing happened in a few breaths, but to Adriel he felt like years had passed.

<Ding>

<You have successfully transcended your first heavenly tribulation (lightening).

Immediately after Adriel broke through, a series of information and a countdown appeared in front of him from no where, he felt his mind shake and a mysterious air began to form in his dantian .

Thud

But before the countdown hit zero, Adriel vision blurred and he collapsed.

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