In the outside world, above the dead-silent planet, pitch-black Tribulation Clouds appeared out of nowhere. In the blink of an eye, they were boundless, blotting out more than half the planet.
Rumble, rumble!
Dense swarms of Five-Clawed Thunder Dragons, each easily ten thousand zhang long, flew out of the Tribulation Clouds, instantly tearing apart the outer void of the dark vacuum.
For the first time in hundreds of millions of years, this dead, desolate planet welcomed its first ray of light—and also awaited destruction.
One Five-Clawed Thunder Dragon after another descended from the heavens, hurling themselves madly onto Zhao Sheng, who sat cross-legged in the void, instantly "swallowing" him and everything within a hundred li around him.
The lightning erupted with a radiance billions upon billions of times more dazzling than the sun. Pure destructive power gave birth to an ultimate heat, "melting" the void in an instant and piercing through the barriers of space-time.
Scorched beneath endless blazing white light, Zhao Sheng's fleshly body, which was near diamond-indestructible, actually split open rapidly, then blackened and carbonized, exposing one crystal-clear jade bone after another.
But under the influence of the Willpower Light, great masses of flesh and blood swiftly grew back over his body. Layers of black scabs fell away in sheets, only to be endlessly produced anew.
The first lightning tribulation of the Six-Nine Heavy Tribulation lasted for fifteen minutes, yet Zhao Sheng made no defense whatsoever, enduring it head-on with his fleshly body alone.
In that short quarter hour, he underwent Flesh Rebirth nine times in succession. Not the slightest harm came to the jade bones throughout his body; instead, they appeared even more crystal clear and translucent.
After passing through the first lightning tribulation, the second Crimson Firmament lightning tribulation followed close on its heels.
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