The stadium was enveloped in total silence. Everyone's eyes are fixated on the arena.
A handsome looking youth who had a tan skin with a stature akin to a god is currently standing proudly on the arena while looking at the lad in front of him. The lad had a delicate stature and a skin as white as snow and exuding an aura of calmness. They are like two opposite unmoving mountains who dares to touch the sky with their might.
Anyone who witnesses the scene somehow trembled as the two gives out an unspeakable domain.
It remained silent for a while as Yulrir had broken the ice.
"Please advise me, fellow junior." Yulrir cupped his fist forward and bowed towards Theo.
Theo who looked like he just woke up from trance had gaped his mouth and clumsily done the same but failed to utter a single word.
This scene made the spectators curse inwardly.
"That brat is obviously just checking Yulrir out since earlier!!!! Damn it! Here I thought he was trying to act almighty!" The headmaster cursed to himself.
Everybody whose closely watching had thought the same.
"Have you stared enough?" Yulrir said nonchalantly.
Theo smiled and rubbed his nose. "Well, I could just stare at you all day --- "
"Aaah -- rather -- forever! Yeah! It won't be that bad." Theo exclaimed as the bottom of his right fist had smacked the palm of his left-hand, looking like he just had a brilliant idea.
"This fellow is really bold!" One of the disciples can't help but gawk out.
"Such a smooth talker!" Another one shouted out.
The headmaster can't help but be embarrassed on how bold his disciple is.
Terra and the other elders didn't know to laugh or to cry.
Yulrir , on the other hand, was embarrassed and annoyed at the same time. It was the first time he had met such man who is this bold and shameless. He can't help but to blush a bit but thankfully he had a mask who basically helps him to hide reactions like this.
"... Are we fighting or not?" Yulrir mumbled softly.
"..."
Theo smiled widely and a boundless amount of qi had poured out of his body.
Yulrir was alarmed and changed his stance.
The qi which covered the whole stadium was seemingly endless. This brought pressure to those who were within the radius.
"This qi --- don't tell me..." An elder exclaimed.
What happened next had made everyone dumbfounded. An ominous thick black cloud had suddenly appeared above the horizon blocking the entire stadium's area.
"THIS IS --- " Logan whispered to himself.
The headmaster had jumped up from his seat and went near the stage wearing a solemn expression on his face.
Yulrir had moved farthest from Theo and circulated his <<Wind Shield>>.
"Tribulation clouds..." Yulrir looked up and frowned upon seeing the black cloud.
"So this is why his prowess is really higher than the others, he is literally holding back himself in breaking through the Saint rank." Chu Feng sighed in helplessness.
"This brat really dared to break through in the middle of the tournament..." The headmaster frowned and curled his fist.
The crowd was similarly stupefied as they saw a blue lightning struck down onto Theo's body. The lightning is as thick as one's arm but Theo doesn't seem to mind it and continued circulating the boundless qi around him.
If one attempts to jump a rank level, one will experience the so-called "Tribulation". It is said that if a mortal attempt to go against the heaven and exceed one's limitation. The heavens will send a tribulation lightning to a mortal. It is up to a mortal whether he or she will be able to overcome it. If successful, the mortal will be promoted to a higher rank and a part of his mortality will be shed extending his life. The tribulation's difficulty varies in one's rank. For example, if you are an elementary warrior trying to reach the rank of a Saint, it'll invoke the least difficult lightning tribulation however if you are a Saint trying to breakthrough the rank of a Deity, the tribulation lightning will be fiercer. If one failed to go through the tribulation, the cultivator will never be able to attempt it once again or some may even die. So whenever a cultivator will breakthrough a higher level, they always see to it that they are more than prepared. A tribulation lightning is not your just normal lightning, a normal cultivator naturally has immunity to ordinary lightning but a tribulation lightning can take a cultivator's life if one is not careful. Some cultivators would even set up arrays to lessen the damage output of a tribulation lightning or even use their ultimate skills to block it. The cultivator may not be able to borrow help from others as it was against the natural law. Safe to say that this tribulation lightning is basically a "Heaven's Trial" to those cultivators who would like to attempt to shed their mortality and become immortals. This is the same to every species whether you were a human or a beast.
"This Theo is a f*cking demon! He takes the tribulation lightning like it was nothing!" One of the disciples said in a depressing tone. A normal cultivator will be having difficulty passing a tribulation but this Theo is doing it right in the middle of the tournament. Nobody is in a right mind to do that without any preparation.
Yulrir silently stood at the edge of the arena and watched the lightning struck onto Theo's body. He felt complicated and obviously concerned everytime a lightning struck the lad. He knew that nobody will be able to help a cultivator whenever he or she attempts to breakthrough.
"This bastard, what is he thinking?" Yulrir thought to himself and his lips twitched downward.
Nobody had moved a muscle and only watched as Theo's tribulation went on.
The disciples who are yet to attempt breaking through Saint rank is feeling a bit depressed as they saw how fierce the bolts of lightning are. Even the senior disciples such as Adelard, Chu Feng and the other contestants who are a breath away from reaching the Saint rank had also gotten cold sweats and frowned.
During a Saint Tribulation, the cultivator will suffer 7 Lightning strikes. Theo had successfully blocked the 5 of them and now the Tribulation cloud had issued a heavy thunder and the 6th lightning had struck down. The sixth lightning is a different color than the first five.
"A purple lightning! Oh god! What the hell is that guy cultivating as he had invoked the Purple Lightning on a Saint Tribulation?!!" An elder cried out.
The lightning's color varies depending on its intensity. Color blue will be the weakest then followed by purple, gray, gold and black. Saint tribulation usually only invokes blue lightning.
Theo gritted his teeth as the purple lightning struck his body. This time, a blood had ooze on his lips as he felt like he was smacked by 20 mountains.
"BRING IT ON!!!!" Theo roared and the qi he was emitting had doubled.
Yulrir can't help but gasp onto the scene as well.
"Bastard, you better succeed... " Yulrir mumbled to himself.
The 7th purple lightning had struck down and Theo had directly countered it with his fist. Theo coughed out a hefty amount of blood but you'll see that his lips are still curled upward grinning.
After the 7th lightning dissipated, the tribulation clouds had dispersed onto nothing.
At the center of the arena, Theo whose clothes had been tattered by lightning was smiling brightly. He was mildly injured but the smile he had--- covered the fact that he just escaped a lightning tribulation.
With a hoarse voice, he shouted nonchalantly---
"Now that I'm a Saint... I will be disqualified from the tournament... Right!?"