Chapter 4871 — Thunder Burial
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As for whether the Alliance Leader's words were true or false, one need only look at those present who had come here once before. Their first failure had long since left its shadow upon them; with faces so deathly dull, what chance did they have of succeeding at the Xuan Ascension this time? One in a thousand? One in ten thousand?
Watching the tension and terror written across the crowd, the young Alliance Leader on the platform smiled without a sound. Had anyone dared stare at him the way Wei Zhao did, they would have seen the contempt and scorn etched into his very bones—the gaze one turned upon so many ants.
With his strength, these cultivators at the peak of the Nascent Soul indeed were, in his eyes, insignificant ants. And these ants did not even possess the resolve to burn their boats behind them. Beyond contempt and scorn, there was hardly a second expression he could summon.
Contempt though he held, he was still the Alliance Leader, and at the very least he had to tolerate the drudgery of explaining the rules to the end.
"Once you enter the Giants' Road, the only thing you need do is seek a suitable place to enter seclusion. So long as you circulate your cultivation method at full force, it will naturally draw down a lightning tribulation. As for the tribulation points within, they have all been marked out long ago," the Alliance Leader said indifferently.
Tribulation points? Wei Zhao was momentarily taken aback, then understood. Even on the Giants' Road, not just any place could summon a lightning tribulation.
These so-called tribulation points were presumably the places where lightning tribulation was relatively easy to draw down. To put it plainly from a mortal standpoint, they were spots more likely to be struck by lightning...
"Naturally, not every tribulation point remains effective; they were marked tens of thousands of years ago, and some have long since failed. Still, every tribulation point is arrayed with a protective formation. So long as you remain within the formation, you may draw down your tribulation in peace, with no fear of anyone outside taking advantage and striking at you when you are vulnerable," the Alliance Leader continued.
Everyone, Wei Zhao included, came to understand, and their earlier worries were swept clean away. After all, who did not have a few enemies and rivals? Facing the lightning tribulation while striving for the Xuan Ascension was already difficult enough; if one also had to guard constantly against ambushes, then truly few would survive. Fortunately, the Academy Alliance had thought this through.
Many already knew of such things—those who had attended the Giants' Road before needed no telling, and others had acquaintances among the academy disciples of earlier cohorts, from whom they had naturally sought out these crucial details.
"Striving for the Xuan Ascension is your foremost task, but it is rare to visit the Giants' Road at all. If you have the leisure, you might as well look around inside. The rare treasures here are renowned throughout the Eastern Continent—only the place is riddled with perils, and you must also guard against attacks from the newly ascended Xuan Ascension disciples. So I advise you all to know when to stop, and to make your exit once you have had enough. Greed will only see you dead faster," the Alliance Leader added casually.
As for those who failed to attain the Xuan Ascension, there was no need to speak of it—everyone knew there was no accounting for them. For anyone who failed, even if they managed to cling to life, they would be half-crippled at best. Such people lacked even the most basic means to protect themselves, let alone contend with others.
At the words "rare treasures," the academy disciples instinctively roused themselves. Wealth, companions, means, and ground—for cultivators like them, wealth came first among all good things. And that meant not merely spirit jade, but those rare treasures that no amount of money could buy.