14. Aftermath
“Ouch, ouch, ouch!!!”
As Miss Gong cried out, Yan Chuyue, who was applying ointment to her, mercilessly pressed a little harder.
“If you hadn’t provoked it, would it have gotten so angry?”
When the barrage of heavenly thunder struck, Yan Chuyue’s heart had leaped into her throat. Disregarding the danger of being caught in the crossfire, she had rushed to the scene.
However, as she was on her way, the black clouds in the sky inexplicably began to dissipate, leaving only a single one. She didn’t know if the tribulation was over or if there was some other reason.
Then, she saw an unharmed Gong Yiling and heard her arrogant words to the heavens.
It would have been a miracle if she hadn’t been struck. And the final result was, of course, that she was struck by the heavenly thunder and knocked unconscious.
But just as she was about to shield her, the black clouds in the sky dissipated, indicating that the tribulation was indeed over.
For the next hour or two, she first examined Gong Yiling’s injuries, and in the meantime, she received Gong Musheng and Feng Lili.
It was worth mentioning that more people would have come, after all, everyone knew where the heavenly thunder had struck. But they were all blocked by Gong Musheng and Feng Lili. Most of them, upon seeing Feng Lili, left in disappointment.
In front of this stoic and famously cold woman, asking who she was protecting was a futile endeavor.
And then, it was now.
Miss Gong certainly hadn’t expected that the full force of the heavenly thunder was still beyond her ability to handle. Fortunately, her elemental manipulation had some effect, and the last bolt of heavenly thunder seemed to have been retracted by the thundercloud above, so she suffered no internal injuries.
But the external injuries were a bit troublesome. The direct hit had left large patches of red marks on her face, body, and hands, which burned like a burn.
Since these external injuries were caused by the thunder tribulation, they wouldn’t heal so quickly. Only a physician like Yan Chuyue could properly treat them.
“You have no idea how strange it was in the middle.” Mentioning this, Miss Gong couldn’t help but say, “For a while, I didn’t even know what was happening. It was as if someone had suddenly transferred their power to me, allowing me to withstand the thunder tribulation. That’s why I wanted to try.”
“To connect with a dozen or two dozen simultaneous thunderbolts, why did you have to provoke the heavens?” Yan Chuyue seemed a bit helpless.
But these words sounded a bit strange to Gong Yiling.
“Wait a minute, when did I… connect with twenty simultaneous thunderbolts?”
In her memory, she had only had a slight advantage when dealing with the heavenly thunder at the beginning, and then she had been thrown somewhere else.
“After about twenty bolts of heavenly thunder, I thought you were…” Recalling the scene, Yan Chuyue still pressed her hand to her chest with lingering fear.
Honestly, anyone who had seen that scene would have broken out in a cold sweat for Gong Yiling, afraid that the thunder would have directly vaporized her.
But these words made Gong Yiling even more puzzled.
“After more than twenty bolts of heavenly thunder…?”
Counting the time, this seemed to be when she had entered that white mist. During that time, she had no memory of what was happening outside.
The only impression she had was that after she returned, she saw the marks of being directly struck by the heavenly thunder on her hand.
“Could it be…” Yan Chuyue, seeing her expression, reacted. “During that time, it wasn’t you who was controlling your body?”
This sounded incredible. After all, the Heavenly Sin’s plan had already been foiled. What strange thing could be hiding in this girl’s body?
However, there were some things Gong Yiling hadn’t told Yan Chuyue, so when she proposed this possibility, she herself thought of a certain mysterious existence.
“There’s a saying called ‘heaven and man in communion.'” Thinking of this, Miss Gong proposed a very mysterious theory. “Although my consciousness was doing one thing, my body was actually acting on the instinct of ‘heaven and man in communion’ and doing another.”
“Perhaps it was at that time that I accidentally connected with the Heavenly Dao, and thus, without any consciousness, I managed to get through most of this tribulation.”
This nonsense, no one would usually believe it, let alone the fact that the theory of “heaven and man in communion” was not Yan Chuyue’s setting.
But now, the only thing that could explain all that had happened before seemed to be this possibility.
“Look at you, so proud.”
As she spoke, Yan Chuyue was applying ointment to her, her movements still a bit agitated, not gentle at all, making Miss Gong’s voice sound like a pig being slaughtered.
Of course, she couldn’t complain to Yan Chuyue now. She could only hope that this young lady would calm down a bit.
To distract herself, she also flipped through her own attribute list to see if anything had happened in her body after this incident.
Basically, the attribute interface and the like were not much different. Besides advancing to the early Earthly Nether realm, the basic values had not changed, and there was nothing new on the quest system.
It was just that in the description of the cultivation technique, a few words that she had not seen before were added.
“Note: The Heavenly Saint Technique of the Myriad Paths can refine any form of power, regardless of whether this power can be mastered by ordinary humans. This is specially emphasized. Please remember this, host.”
It sounded a bit like bragging, but it couldn’t hide the fact that its brilliance was dazzling. Whether it was the Heavenly Sin’s nascent soul power or the thunder essence that contained the Heavenly Dao, both of these powers were subdued by the Heavenly Saint Technique of the Myriad Paths.
The system deliberately emphasized this point as a hint to her.
However, whether this hint was from the system or from that mysterious Law of Heaven, she had no way to verify it now.
Seeing this, Gong Yiling couldn’t help but recall her meeting with the Law of Heaven before. Come to think of it, if it were such a powerful existence, it could indeed completely disregard the heavenly thunder after taking over her body.
In that case, she had to say thank you to that person with an unclear stance.
After a helpless chuckle, Gong Yiling was about to close the attribute panel and quietly enjoy Yan Chuyue’s finally gentle movements.
However, just then, she suddenly discovered a module in the system that she had never discovered before.
