"Get lost!"
A cold, merciless rebuke rang out from Peach Blossom Island, its force shaking the sea.
Above the sea, the enormous sea beasts that had just poked their heads out felt their minds buzz, their souls nearly scattering.
Terrified, they no longer dared linger for even a moment, much less covet that Immortal Spirit Qi.
At a certain moment, Song Changming felt the space around him solidify like water. Beneath the shroud of heavenly might, even moving a finger became incredibly heavy and difficult.
His aura had been locked onto, his life soul imprisoned within his body. If his flesh were destroyed now, his divine soul would have nowhere to flee.
Techniques such as shedding one's shell like a golden cicada were even harder to employ.
Under an immortal tribulation, every trick would fail. There was no possibility of deceiving heaven and crossing the sea. What was tested was one's pure cultivation and attainments.
At the vault of heaven, black clouds gathered into a vortex hundreds of miles wide. Bolts of heavenly lightning were drawn forth one after another, endlessly converging at the center of the vortex as they brewed something immense.
Song Changming knew that the heavenly lightning merely served as a vessel for heavenly might.
The true threat was not the lightning itself, but the tribulation punishment it carried.
"There are five great immortal ranks in heaven."
"Immortal, True Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Profound Immortal, and Golden Immortal."
"Every immortal rank has its own tribulation. Immortals are low-rank immortals, and the immortal tribulation they must endure is the least difficult. Those who perish in this tribulation were simply never fated for the immortal path, so there is no need to mention them.
"Among those who successfully undergo tribulation and ascend to immortality, differences can also be seen.
"Those