Counterattack

Within a few breaths, the golden lightning pillar that had pierced heaven and earth finally exhausted the last trace of its power and slowly dissipated into nothingness. Yet what it left behind was a horrifying expanse of scorched wasteland stretching tens of thousands of miles.

The earth looked as though it had been burned hundreds and thousands of times over. Bottomless ravines crisscrossed the land, mountains had turned to dust, rivers had completely evaporated, and the air was thick with the pungent stench of scorching and the destructive aura left behind by violent lightning.

The tribulation clouds hung low and churned. Dull thunder still rolled deep within them, as if another even more terrifying killing blow was brewing.

Everyone's hearts rose to their throats as they stared fixedly at the heart of the raging lightning storm, all of them breaking into a cold sweat for Zhang Tie.

Amid the smoke and dust and the still-unfaded bolts of lightning, the outline of a towering figure gradually became clear—a hundred-zhang Golden Body still stood!

However, the Golden Body Dharma Idol had undergone a drastic transformation.

Its originally solemn form with one head and two arms was gone, replaced by two dignified heads with majestic expressions and three muscular arms containing mountain-shaking strength! Yet the display of this shocking three-headed, six-armed divine ability had come at a tremendous price.

The Golden Body Dharma Idol's left shoulder and nearly half its chest had been brutally erased, leaving behind a massive, hideous wound with charred edges. Residual golden lightning crackled at the severed surface like maggots clinging to bone, attempting to spread and corrode it.

Clearly, under the devastating bombardment of that golden lightning pillar, Zhang Tie had desperately activated this life-saving secret art and barely endured the fatal blow at the cost of sacrificing