Combat Emperor: Zhang Yu's Journey
Chapters... 289: One Reason To Be Strong.
The morning changes day and the day changes night. But until this time the awaited trial lightning did not also come.
Long Shen was already tired of raising his face looking at the sky which showed no change at all. He really never knew of this phenomenon, because usually the lightning experiments did not take too long to appear.
"Is it possible that this is not a gift from heaven?" his inner.
Long Shen looked back at Zhang Yu trying to notice the energy fluctuations around him.
At once he knew what was really going on. "So it's like that. He will face the grace of heaven. But it's still in the preparatory stage. He needed some time until he truly had the qualifications of receiving the third heaven's grace."
Long Shen had never met a case like Zhang Yu. It was the first time that he had been surprised for a while. But it shouldn't be a meaningful problem. Zhang Yu only needed to cultivate there and still prepare to receive the third heaven grace.
In another corner, Xuan Yin, Zhang Long and Xiao Mei stared at Zhang Yu from a distance. Not so far from where they were, Xiao Nie spread his hands as if holding back the meter so as not to try closer.
"Dad, is Zhang Yu really going to receive the third heaven's grace?" ask Xiao Mei.
Xiao Nie was briefly silent as he was confused by Zhang Yu's situation. Saying no, it was obviously wrong because Zhang Yu was clearly in a position of receiving the heaven's grace. But saying it was true also seemed to be wrong because until now there had been no signs of change above his seat.
"Nothing will cross this line. Even if you are at the heavenly level, it will still not be able to withstand the power of the trial lightning in the grace of heaven."
Xuan Yin, Xiao Mei and Zhang Long nodded faintly. Their attention was fixed on Zhang Yu who was sitting cross-legged on the top of the highest cliff.
"You should return safely. You can do it!" inner Xuan Yin, as if having the ability to communicate with Zhang Yu who was two hundred meters in front of him.
Time passed again. It didn't feel like it had been ten days since Zhang Yu had stayed in his place.
Xuan Yin always came to see him from the same place. This time he even came with Zhang Chao, the son who said he really missed his father who did not come home.
"Mom, can't we help Dad?" ask Zhang Chao. The boy had no idea what his father was doing there. He could only look at the father who seemed to grimace occasionally and frown like he was enduring pain.
"Chao'er, we mustn't cross this line," pointed Xuan Yin at the tree trunk that had been given a mark.
"But if you want to see me okay, you just pray and hope I'll come back safely."
Heem!
Zhang Chao nodded. He immediately put his hands together and prayed with his loud voice. "May father be well. I must return safely because Chao'er and I are waiting for you here."
Xuan Yin showed a smile upon hearing his son's sentence. After feeling like he had been there for quite a while, he brought Zhang Chao back.
"Mom, is there with dad? His body suddenly shone."
Xuan Yin's footsteps came to a halt hearing Zhang Chao's cry. Spontaneously he turned back his body while looking at where Zhang Yu was.
True as Zhang Chao had said, at this moment Zhang Yu's body shone golden and emitted an unusually strong aura.
Shortly after, a wisp of black clouds gathered above his head. The rumbling sound of earthy lightning and the flash of light was like racing the brightest.
"What is this thing called the gift of heaven?" inner Xuan Yin.
A while later some people also came because they saw dark clouds gathered in the same place. Zhang Long, Xiao Mei, Xiao Nie, Song Yixue, even Long Shen who had previously gone hunting with Sun directly returned to where Zhang Yu was.
"I thought it might take months until the third heaven's grace came. But who would have thought it would come so quickly," Long Shen murmured.
Blars!!
Blars!
That burst of strength made the cliff shaken violently. Huge rocks are falling, landslides are impossible to control.
Although the people watching had already kept a distance of two hundred meters, but they still felt a very real impact.
"We're fifty meters back!" exclaimed Xiao Nie who immediately spread out his hands and directed the dozens of people gathered there.
They did not know why Xiao Nie had asked them to stay away even though the place looked safe. But as they were about to speak, the place they thought was a safe place now turned chaotic after several lightning strikes destroyed it.
"It-it ...." They all fell silent.
"Is anyone hurt?" xiao Nie asked everyone.
Luckily they immediately drifted away by following Xiao Nie's words which made them survive the attempted lightning strike.
"Dad, is Zhang Yu going to be okay there?" xiao Mei asked worriedly.
Xiao Nie was silent for a moment before shaking his head. "Nobody knows. This experimental lightning is the strongest of all the experimental lightning I have ever witnessed."
"Although the level of lightning strength of the experiment is not uncommon it also runs parallel to the potential it has, as well, but quite a number of cases where it turned into a boomerang because the experimental lightning was too strong to destroy the body of the person who would receive the gift of heaven."
Xiao Mei and Xuan Yin raised their faces compactly after hearing Xiao Nie's sentence. A second later they looked back at Zhang Yu with anxious feelings.
Blars!
Again the explosion was heard. Presumably it was the last explosion of the experimental lightning attack because there was no sound of explosion after and the sky was back to how it was.
However, visibility is still very affordable because almost every region is now covered with a layer of fog that is very thick.
"Zhang Yu," Xuan Yin murmured softly as he searched for Zhang Yu's whereabouts within the smog coil.
He handed Zhang Chao over to his grandmother, then ran inside while removing the fog.
"Xuan Yin, wait!" Xiao Nie attempted to stop Xuan Yin forcing his way closer to where Zhang Yu was. He was worried if the attempted lightning attack had not really ended. Yet his efforts were futile as Xuan Yin had already dashed a hundred meters in front of them.
"Yue Yu ...." Xuan Yin muttered again. The closer the distance between them he can see the shadow of the husband who was still in his place. Even in the same position as if not moving in the slightest.
"Thank God," Xuan Yin said, relieved. He really could not calm down since hearing Grandfather's sentence which made him have to go directly to check it out. He was truly grateful that Zhang Yu had safely passed through the grace of heaven.
Slowly Zhang Yu opened his eyes. For a moment he frowned when he saw his wife's face was very close to him. He still thought if all this was a dream, until a very tight hug gripped his body.
"Yin'er?" muttered Zhang Yu.
Xuan Yin raised her face at a glance, she again drowned her face and hugged even tighter. "Until when are you going to keep making other people worry about you? You know, I'm really scared that you didn't survive this third heaven gift."
Zhang Yu did not need to doubt his wife's words as he could feel his hands still shaking and sweating coldly. However Zhang Yu could not promise not to put himself in a position between life and death. All of it was for the sake of the clan, family, son, even for Xuan Yin himself.
"I need strength to protect you. Make sure no one dares to look for trouble with you, in order to live a quiet and happy life."