Divine Tribulation Realm

**Divine Tribulation Realm**. In this realm, only profound energy would experience an increase in growth and no other change is accompanied by it. However, the word "tribulation" here is the nightmare of countless profound practitioners, meaning that a mortal cultivating to become god will meet the wrath of heaven. Once you reach the peak of the ninth level of the Divine Tribulation Realm and try to forcibly break through into the next great realm, you will immediately trigger punishment from the heavens—**Divine Heavenly Tribulation Lightning**. Unlike Divine Origin realm and Divine Soul realm, Divine Tribulation realm only contains nine small realms.

***See Also: Divine Tribulation Realm Cultivators***

## Divine Heavenly Tribulation Lightning

Heavenly tribulation lightning is incomparably terrifying and powerful lightning that falls down from the heavens onto the cultivator attempting to break through to the next great realm. If they can endure it without dying, then they will successfully break through. If they cannot resist it, becoming a cripple would be getting off lightly and losing their life would be the heaviest outcome. Moreover, different profound practitioners undergo stronger and more deadly heavenly lightning tribulations based on their talent.

### Thunder Clouds

In the Realm of the Gods, cultivators undergoing heavenly tribulation is very frequent. Thunder clouds will form above a cultivator's head along with a lightning domain. These clouds for normal cultivators will be about ten kilometers wide. The more talented the cultivator the wider the thunder cloud but the largest witnessed do not exceed a hundred kilometers wide. In Yun Che's case, the black clouds covered the entire Eastern Divine Region.

### Lightning Strength

For a profound practitioner, the lower their innate talent, the weaker the heavenly tribulation lightning. By that standard, the higher one’s innate talent is, the stronger the tribulation lightning they have to suffer.

### Stages

Each stage of tribulation lightning doubles the number of lightning strikes. The first stage of tribulation lightning is made up of one strike of tribulation lightning; the second stage two strikes; the third stage has four strikes and the fourth means enduring eight simultaneous strikes. Cultivators will have ten breaths of time between stages.

More than ninety percent of the profound practitioners who long to break through the Divine Tribulation Realm would usually have to endure one tribulation lightning. Though this is so, sixty percent of the profound practitioners still die beneath the tribulation lightning.

There has only been one time where a genius had to endure more than 4 stages. He had to endure 6 stages of tribulation lightning and died in the 6th stage where he had to endure 32 strikes of tribulation lightnings at the same time.

From the first to the sixth, each stage of lightning tribulation signified a multiplicative increase in the number and power of tribulation lightning.

But the seventh stage of tribulation lightning was of a completely different nature, it just was a single scarlet lightning sword, but its power was both mighty and fearsome. No longer was it double the thirty-two bolts of lightning, it was literally on a completely different and unfathomable level. It was strong enough to instantly annihilate a Divine King

During the eight stage, the scarlet lightning sword is 10 times larger than the seventh stage.
The ninth stage was strong enough to cause fear in even the Divine Masters and God Emperors, as it could obliterate a Divine Master.

1st-6th Stages : Purple Lightning

7th-8th Stages : Scarlet Lightning Sword

9th Stage : White Lightning Dragon

In Yun Che's case, he went through 9 stages of Tribulation Lightning.

### History

The lightning tribulation first appeared in dynastic Chinese literature. For example, in *Journey to the West* (*Xiyouji*, 西遊記, 1592), the immortal hero Sun Wukong learns his famed seventy-two transformations in order to hide from three heaven-sent calamities of lightning, fire, and wind fated to afflict him every five hundred years. His master, the Sage Subhuti, tells him:

> Though your appearance will be preserved and your age lengthened, after five hundred years Heaven will send down the calamity of thunder [*lei zai*, 雷災] to strike you. Hence you must be intelligent and wise enough to avoid it ahead of time. If you can escape it, your age will indeed equal that of Heaven; if not, your life will thus be finished.
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## Trivia

* Numerous talented cultivators lose their lives under the divine heavenly tribulation lightning. This was why the Divine Tribulation Realm has another name, the "**Divine Perishing Realm**".
* The Divine Tribulation Realm only has nine small realms in total. The implication behind it is, to step by step approach the tribulation of the nine heavens.
* They give the user 100 breaths of time to be prepared, then it strikes after every 10 breaths

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Chapter 1239
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1241
3. ↑ Chapter 1242
4. ↑ Chapter 1243
5. ↑ https://journeytothewestresearch.com/2018/09/09/sun-wukong-and-the-three-heavenly-calamities/
6. ↑ Chapter 1128