Chapter 698: 461: Sword Slashes Heavenly Tribulation! The Elder Doctor's Decision! The Marvelous Use of Merit Golden Light!_2

Now it seems these two truly are teacher and student, both so daring.

“That sword light, was it slashed by Mr. Chen?”

In the distance, Wei Shanhai and the others were also in a daze.

From such a distance, they couldn’t see the elder doctor’s figure.

But the enormous sword light that just flew out, cutting through the tribulation thunder, slicing into the tribulation cloud, was something they saw clearly.

“The one crossing the tribulation now is Mr. Chen, who else could it be?”

“Mr. Chen uses a sword, so it should be him.”

“A sword slashing through a heavenly tribulation, has Mr. Chen’s Sword Dao reached such a profound level that even tribulation thunder can be cut apart!”

Wei Shanhai and the others didn’t understand the taboos involved in crossing a tribulation.

But it didn’t prevent them from feeling utterly shocked by the sword that the elder doctor slashed out.

On the battered mountain peak, thunder light still pervaded.

However, Lu Qing could feel that within the thunder light, although his master’s aura had weakened, he could still hold on, which put him at ease.

His gaze was more focused on the tribulation cloud vortex in the sky.

Because, after the eighth tribulation thunder descended, the tribulation cloud vortex still hadn’t dissipated, and lightning continued to flicker.

“Could it be, there’s a ninth tribulation thunder?”

Lu Qing’s heart was heavy.

He could see that the sword just now was already his master’s strongest strike.

If there were a ninth tribulation thunder, he would definitely be unable to deal with it.

“No, that’s not right!”

Suddenly, Lu Qing’s eyes focused, staring at the tribulation cloud vortex.

He discovered that within the tribulation cloud vortex, something seemed to be amiss.

He saw that within the golden tribulation cloud, there was lightning trying to gather, but there seemed to be another force subtly preventing it.

And that force was also a golden light, but its color was slightly different from the golden lightning.

If not carefully recognized, it would be hard to notice at a glance.

“That power is… Merit Golden Light!”

Lu Qing identified the golden light at once.

Earlier, his master had poured all his strength into that one sword, unintentionally slashing out with it the Merit Golden Light accumulated over many years, striking it into the tribulation cloud vortex.

Now it seemed that the power of Merit Golden Light hadn’t immediately dissipated, but was instead preventing the tribulation cloud from continuing to gather lightning.

“The light of merit has such ability?”

Lu Qing stared intently at the sky. The golden tribulation cloud was constantly churning, trying to gather lightning. But it never succeeded, and in the end, it began to slowly dissipate instead.

Finally, after the tribulation cloud completely dissipated, a streak of light flew out from the huge vortex center, falling on the elder doctor. The entire tribulation cloud vortex began to gradually disappear.

Soon, the sky returned to its original state, becoming calm and clear, leaving Lu Qing momentarily stunned.

“The tribulation cloud dissipated... did master successfully pass the heavenly tribulation?”

After a moment, Lu Qing snapped back to himself, smiling freely.

“I never thought the power of merit would have the ability to dissolve a heavenly tribulation. This must be the greatest reward of master’s years of doing good and accumulating virtue.”

He felt emotional in his heart.

Based on the previous movement of the tribulation cloud, his master clearly should have faced a ninth tribulation thunder.

However, in that sword earlier, his master had poured all his strength, along with the Merit Light accumulated over most of his life.

Unexpectedly, that Merit Light had such a magical ability—to dissolve the heavenly tribulation, allowing the final thunder not to fall, making the tribulation crossing a success.

Nonetheless, this was also a matter of sowing good causes and reaping good results.

If it weren’t for his master’s benevolence throughout his life, saving lives and treating people, he wouldn’t have been able to accumulate such dense Merit Light. Naturally, he wouldn’t have been able to dissolve this final tribulation thunder.

So all of this was the result of his master’s kind thoughts and deeds, which accumulated such good outcomes.

In the Leaving Fire Tripod, “Yan” was equally stunned.

Earlier, it also believed that the elder doctor likely couldn’t pass the last tribulation thunder.

It was even prepared to protect him together with Lu Qing.

But unexpectedly, the final thunder was dissolved by the Merit Light that the elder doctor released!

Such a thing—it had never heard of before.

Even the classics of the Li Huo Sect never recorded such an event. During the Ancient Immortal Cultivation Era, no one was known to achieve such a feat.

“Maybe those bald monks of the Suspended Mountain know this secret!”

“Yan” suddenly recalled that if any sect understood the power of merit, it would be Suspended Mountain.

In fact, during the Ancient Immortal Cultivation Era, they were known for actively accumulating merit.

Any accomplished monk often traveled far to perform good deeds and gather merit.

At the time, everyone believed Suspended Mountain did this because of doctrine and cultivation technique.

Moreover, people who had Merit Light indeed experienced smoother cultivation and greater blessings.

Now, it seemed Suspended Mountain might have known that Merit Light could dissolve heavenly tribulations—making their cultivation path far easier.

It also explained why Suspended Mountain had a higher ratio of Golden Core cultivators than others—it wasn't just because of special techniques, but likely because of this very secret.

“It’s just a pity,” “Yan” added, “that the current era’s Suspended Mountain seems to have lost this ancestral knowledge.”

“Perhaps not entirely,” Lu Qing said, “I heard from Zhi Rui that over ten thousand years ago, Suspended Mountain had a good reputation.”

“But in the last few millennia, the world has suffered spiritual energy depletion. People can only cultivate to the realm of Innate Perfection.”

“With no heavenly tribulations, the greatest value of Merit Light was forgotten. And besides, condensing merit isn’t easy—it requires long-term selflessness and true kindness.”

“All of this today… is the result of Master’s benevolence over a lifetime.”