Truly Going All Out

True Person Baixi narrowed his eyes, silently observing the lightning pool still pouring down silver tribulation lightning.

The lightning pool within the tribulation clouds had shrunk considerably compared to before. At this rate, the Silver Firmament Tribulation, which was described as showy but weak, likely wouldn't last longer than a cup of tea's time.

From the very beginning, he had intended to use this fortuitous Golden Core tribulation as an introductory lesson in Cultivation for the Immortal Seedlings behind him.

But how was he supposed to teach this lesson now?

This tribulation had been unreasonable from the start.

"True Person!"

Just then, a clear, childish voice rang out from behind him.

It was the most composed young boy.

"Yes?"

He turned slightly, his expression softening considerably.

He truly saw this young boy in a new light.

Under the tribulation lightning, the other Immortal Seedlings were pale and trembling, but this boy was completely unfazed. He looked at True Person Baixi and asked in a serious, soft voice, "True Person, I know that Golden Core cultivators facing promotion to Nascent Soul must endure a seven-layered lightning tribulation. Now, it seems even the sixth layer cannot defeat this Golden Core cultivator. If this Golden Core cultivator struggles with the seventh layer, can observers lend a hand and thus create good karma?"

"I didn't expect you to think of that," True Person Baixi said with a faint smile, shaking his head. "It's naturally good for cultivators to foster more good karma, but it's difficult for observers like us to interfere with Heavenly Tribulation descended by the Heavenly Dao laws. Firstly, if other cultivators intervene, the tribulation lightning controlled by the Heavenly Dao laws might change. If the cultivator could originally withstand the tribulation, but our intervention increases its power, and he ultimately cannot resist it, that wouldn't be good karma, but a deep enmity between Sects. Secondly, by opposing the Heavenly Dao laws at this time, we would face more severe backlash when we ourselves undergo tribulation."

The young boy exclaimed in surprise, "It can be like that?"

True Person Baixi's smile faded, and his voice turned slightly cold. "The Heavenly Dao laws are the supreme laws above all others. No matter how powerful a cultivator is, they cannot deceive the Heavenly Dao. Any cultivator who tries to prevent the punishment of the Heavenly Dao laws must pay a price."

The young boy was silent for a moment, but couldn't help but ask, "Not even the most powerful cultivators?"

"That's not a question we need to ponder," True Person Baixi said, giving the young boy a deep look. "If you can't see the end of the sky, there's no need to waste your energy thinking about what lies beyond it. For cultivators like us, we can only view the Heavenly Tribulation descended by the Heavenly Dao laws as a series of rigorous trials. At least these trials are impartial to all cultivators. At least, after passing such a trial, for a long time afterward, it's as if you've gained the acknowledgment of the Heavenly Dao laws, and it won't bother you without reason."

The young boy nodded.

Undeniably, everything True Person Baixi had said before was straightforward and useful, but he still felt that there was a deeper meaning in what True Person Baixi was saying now that he couldn't quite grasp.

"If I'm not mistaken, your name is Li Youque?" True Person Baixi asked.

The young boy replied, "Yes."

As the two conversed, the fearsome silver lightning pool within the tribulation clouds had shrunk by more than half. Beneath the golden tribulation clouds that filled the sky, multicolored radiance was now visible, giving the impression of many brightly shining, colorful butterflies.

True Person Baixi's brow furrowed deeply once more.

No matter what kind of tribulation the final layer that Old Ancestor Tong Hui would face was, it was definitely going to be some kind of special Exotic Thunder Tribulation.

In his memory, no normal tribulation lightning would be this colorful.

"Junior brother."

Just then, Wang Li heard the female cultivator, who was pretending to be a mushroom, call out to him from beside him.

Wang Li's spirits immediately lifted. "What is it?"

"Later, when the seventh-layered lightning tribulation descends, if he doesn't die, I'll let you take the Yin Thunder Umbrella. You take it too," the female cultivator said very seriously.

"So many people are watching, and there are definitely people from Huayang Sect. Isn't this a bit too much?" Wang Li glanced around the sky, feeling a headache coming on.

"It's fine," the female cultivator affirmed. "I'll handle it."

Wang Li was uncertain. "Self-detonating the Golden Core again?"

The female cultivator nodded. "Mm."

Wang Li: "..."

Old Ancestor Tong Hui's sixth-layered lightning tribulation was rapidly nearing its end. The originally fearsome silver lightning pool had shrunk to only a few feet square, while the multicolored radiance at the base of the golden tribulation clouds grew brighter and brighter.

These multicolored lights did not exhibit any strong Vital Energy fluctuations, but for some reason, even observers far away felt an inexplicable sense of danger emanating from them.

Old Ancestor Tong Hui also felt that something was wrong. Although his eight-faced black shields, forming eight small black mountains, were intact, he hesitated for only a breath before conjuring another magic tool shaped like a green wooden fish as a precaution.

Swish!

As a large amount of True Essence was poured in, this green wooden fish-shaped magic tool suddenly sprouted like a plant rhizome, producing numerous tender, jade-like shoots. These then transformed into continuously growing vines that surged upwards towards the sky.

In just an instant, countless vines filled the gaps between the eight black mountains and then rushed further upwards.

Hum... hum... hum...

At this very moment, a heart-pounding hum suddenly emerged from the tribulation clouds. The lightning pool, which had not yet completely vanished, was bizarrely torn apart by a terrifying pressure.

From the multicolored radiance at the base of the tribulation clouds, a mass of dark light first emerged.

This mass of dark light was about ten zhang in diameter, but amidst the strange humming, two black lightning bolts, only as thick as an arm, descended from the dark light at a terrifying speed.

These two black lightning bolts shone with a chilling luminescence, like two iron chains descending from the void.

As they plummeted at a terrifying speed, the lightning bolts rotated and intertwined in a spiral, while maintaining a certain distance between them, never truly touching or colliding.

Boom!

Before Old Ancestor Tong Hui could react, these two black lightning bolts had shattered the jade-like vines that blotted out the sky. The terrifying power surged through the void like a tsunami, and then the eight black mountains were also pulverized.

The green wooden fish and the eight-faced black shields directly shattered, shooting out in all directions like meteors!

Poof!

Old Ancestor Tong Hui's body trembled violently, and he directly spat out a mouthful of blood, his heart filled with immense horror!

A wave of uncontrollable gasps and sharp intakes of breath echoed through the surrounding sky.

Even now, the terrifying power of those two bolts of black lightning was only churning within a few hundred zhang of Old Ancestor Tong Hui. The observers around hadn't even felt a strong surge of Vital Energy impacting their vicinity.

The more this was the case, the more terrifying these observers found this tribulation lightning.

Every hair on Old Ancestor Tong Hui's body stood on end.

After those two bolts of black lightning shattered his two magic tools, their residual power struck the Yin Thunder Umbrella, causing it to crackle and pop.

At the same time, on the Nascent Soul that had already formed within his body, several strange black talismans appeared. His Nascent Soul struggled violently, but it only resisted these black talismans for a moment before being severely injured.

However, the thunder tribulation gave him no time to breathe. The murky lightning on the Yin Thunder Umbrella continued to explode erratically. The colors within the Tribulation Cloud above kept changing, with scarlet red, purple, and emerald green tribulation lightning appearing consecutively. Dozens of these three colored tribulation lightning bolts appeared instantly, each as thick as an arm, striking him with astonishing speed.

"Ah... ah... ah..."

As Old Ancestor Tong Hui cried out in terror, he completely released the Treasure Pouch from his sleeve. His divine sense swept over almost any artifact it could find, and he directly activated it. At this point, he had no time to consider what the artifacts were for, nor how much True Essence using them would consume. He only knew that if he didn't do this, he would likely be blasted into dust in an instant by the tribulation lightning.

Boom! Boom! Boom!...

One after another, beams of light collided with the descending tribulation lightning. The void beneath the golden tribulation cloud seemed to tremble like tattered cloth.

Old Ancestor Tong Hui consecutively summoned over thirty artifacts in one go. His True Essence was completely depleted. The Nascent Soul in his Qi Sea, lacking further True Essence support, immediately became listless and motionless. Those black talismans seemed to corrode into the Nascent Soul's body like a corrosive agent.

"I'll risk it all!"

Watching his hard-earned artifacts shatter one by one, Old Ancestor Tong Hui no longer felt any pain. He didn't even care about the clashing medicinal energies or the grade of the spirit medicine. As a spirit stone formation he had long prepared beneath him was activated, he grabbed handfuls of various spirit pills that could quickly replenish True Essence and stuffed them into his mouth, crunching them like beans as he swallowed.

"This..."

Wang Li watched, feeling a sense of being choked. He couldn't help but swallow several times and said with a wry smile, "He's really going all out."

The scarlet red, purple, and emerald green tribulation lightning continued to fall. Simultaneously, a striking deep blue appeared in the center of the golden tribulation cloud. This color of tribulation lightning was extremely rare, and the rarer it was, the more bizarre it seemed.

Whoosh...

A hurricane suddenly swept through the golden tribulation cloud.

Circling the deep blue mass, the golden tribulation cloud was blown by the hurricane, continuously piling up and forming a golden ring around the deep blue portion.

The deep blue mass initially looked like just a ball of light, but after the golden tribulation cloud dispersed, everyone clearly saw that it was a ball of extremely pure tribulation lightning.

This ball of tribulation lightning was an oval-shaped thunderball, completely pure and transparent, like a ball of deep blue glaze. However, upon closer inspection, layers of crystalline thunderous aura flowed on its surface.

This thunderball seemed to have completely formed, yet it did not descend immediately. Instead, it floated quietly in the air, like an extremely cold and indifferent blue eye, waiting for the most opportune moment.

However, waves of terrifying Vital Energy had already begun to spread, making all the observers feel a sense of suffocation.

"Ah!"

Old Ancestor Tong Hui let out another fierce roar. Only he truly knew how terrifying this deep blue tribulation lightning was.

This deep blue tribulation lightning had not yet begun to truly descend, but above the Nascent Soul in his Qi Sea, which was already on the verge of collapse and entwined with terrifying black talismans, a deep blue spike had appeared.

This deep blue spike was positioned on the crown of his Nascent Soul, as if it were about to pierce it completely.

He was truly trapped between a rock and a hard place.

His Nascent Soul was on the verge of complete collapse, and his physical body was continuously suffering severe injuries from the impact of Vital Energy and the tearing of medicinal forces. Not only were there cracks appearing all over his skin, but even his bones were beginning to break.

But at this point, Old Ancestor Tong Hui, who had been low-key and enduring for hundreds of years, was truly provoked into a ferocious rage.

Ever since I formed my Golden Core, I've been preparing to face this tribulation. It's precisely because I felt my talent wasn't high enough and the Huayang Sect's foundation was insufficient that I racked my brains and dragged it out for two hundred years!

I finally obtained an artifact like the Yin Thunder Umbrella, and I've gathered enough artifacts and magic tools to deal with a seven-layered lightning tribulation. But at the very beginning, you throw an Exotic Thunder Tribulation at me!

When I saw the Exotic Thunder Tribulation, I felt I was definitely doomed. Then you gave me a particularly simple Foundation Establishment Stage tribulation, giving me a glimmer of hope, only for you to give me this kind of Exotic Thunder Tribulation in the final stage!

Are you playing with me?!

Is there anyone who plays with people like this?!

Boom!

A remarkably vibrant blood qi surged out from the cracks all over Old Ancestor Tong Hui's body. These streams of blood qi shot straight into the sky, converging into an unusually dazzling rainbow light, like a blood-red rising sun, smashing directly towards the deep blue thunderball.