Thirty years later, over the North Wind Grassland in the northwest of Cloud Continent, dark clouds suddenly blanketed the sky. Amid peal after peal of rumbling thunder, countless pitch-black Tribulation Clouds surged into being out of nowhere, covering several thousand li in the blink of an eye.
The instant the Tribulation Clouds took shape, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy also turned abnormally restless, swarming from all directions toward a ten-thousand-zhang perilous peak standing deep within the grassland.
Before long, vast swathes of misty Spirit Clouds coiled around the summit, while at the same time pouring madly into the body of the woman sitting cross-legged atop the mountain.
Rumble!
Thousands upon thousands of lightning bolts and wild thunder tore across the dim sky. From deep within the Tribulation Clouds, a blood-red thunderbolt as thick as a water barrel abruptly fell, cleaving straight toward the female cultivator on the summit.
The female cultivator suddenly opened her eyes. Facing the blood-red Tribulation Thunder crashing down, she lightly tossed something out.
In an instant, a golden, radiant treasure bead flew into the sky, colliding head-on with the blood-red Tribulation Thunder at just the right moment.
Rumble!
A peal of thunder rang through heaven and earth. The blood-red Tribulation Thunder as thick as a water barrel was instantly smashed to pieces by the treasure bead, then vanished into nothing.
Immediately afterward, the golden treasure bead blossomed with dazzling golden light. The golden light enveloped the entire summit, then evolved into a verdant lake hundreds of li across, firmly protecting Zhao Zhuojun within it.
Boom, boom, boom!
The first bolt of Tribulation Thunder was easily dissolved, and the Tribulation Clouds filling the sky instantly churned violently. Countless bolts of lightning merged one after another into even thicker blood-red thunderbolts, so crimson they looked as if