A perfectly measured smile hung on Menglan Jun's beautiful, androgynous face as he said:
"I was already benefiting from your good fortune. I'm more than satisfied to have spent only ten years solidifying the cultivation I had just broken through to. Greed is the greatest taboo in cultivation—I know when to be content."
After speaking, he did not forget to claim credit for himself:
"I set up an Orchid Barrier around the Mountain Hollow. It should stop those Immortal Practitioners hoping to pick up scraps."
Yunxi said with a smile:
"Thank you, Lan Jun, for standing guard over me."
Afterward, they turned their gazes toward the Ice Baihu couple undergoing their tribulation.
Because the two of them were undergoing tribulation at the same time, its scale was no less imposing than Yunxi's breakthrough into the Grand Heavenly Immortal Realm. Although the Ice Baihu couple stood at opposite ends of the Mountain Hollow, the power of the descending Tribulation Lightning had still increased. The two, in their true forms, were struck by the lightning almost simultaneously.
Yunxi felt that the Purple Gold Lightning was even harsher on the Ice Baihu couple. A bolt of Tribulation Lightning fell every five breaths, as though it only wanted to finish its task as quickly as possible and did not care whether the two could endure it.
Menglan Jun clicked his tongue in amazement.
"Are Demon Immortals' tribulations always this perilous?"
Yunxi saw that the Ice Baihu couple's lustrous white fur had already been scorched black by the Thunder Tribulation. They looked like white cats that had rolled around in a pile of coal, pitiful beyond words.
Though she did not look away, she answered Menglan Jun's question.
"Demon Immortals' cultivation is accompanied by slaughter to begin with, which is why their Tribulation Lightning is