The Mysterious Purple Stream

Bibi Dong's mind was in turmoil as she watched everything unfold before her. If it had been an ordinary Lightning Tribulation, her level 98 strength would have been more than enough to withstand it. But this Lightning Tribulation was clearly anything but ordinary.

"Sy-System, what should I do in this situation?"

"Ding. It is merely a Lightning Tribulation. Host, just watch."

Bibi Dong could not help but freeze.

"No, this is a Lightning Tribulation! She's only six years old. How could she possibly survive it?"

"Ding. Reminder to host: she is not the target of the Lightning Tribulation. There is no need to worry."

"Not her? Then who—" Bibi Dong wanted to ask more, but the purple misty aura slowly rose into the air. Only then did she notice that although the stream was tiny, it carried an extraordinarily unique aura. It was clearly no ordinary thing.

Could the target of the Lightning Tribulation be this thing?

As time passed, in merely a few breaths, the thunderclouds filling the sky grew increasingly violent. Even before the Lightning Tribulation truly descended, the extreme aura of destruction from the heavenly lightning had already filled countless people with terror.

Especially the several terrifying existences within the Star Dou Great Forest, all of whom turned their gazes toward the sky.

It was no wonder they were afraid. Every one of them had experienced the Lightning Tribulation that came once every hundred thousand years. Each time had been fraught with peril. Before such heavenly might, failure to overcome it meant death.

Yet the Lightning Tribulation appearing now was far more terrifying than any they had faced before. Worse still, the entire Star Dou Great Forest lay beneath the thunderclouds.

Di Tian's tightly shut eyes slowly opened. Looking at the thunderclouds continuously gathering overhead, his massive body trembled faintly.

"Th-This... what kind of power is this?" Di Tian muttered, his voice clearly trembling.

He looked up at the sky. The roiling black clouds were like a surging black ocean, while the purple lightning darting and flashing within them resembled violent purple dragons, baring their fangs and claws as they released an aura capable of destroying heaven and earth.

"Impossible. A Lightning Tribulation of this magnitude... what exactly has happened?"

At the same time, in the distant God Realm.

A strange fluctuation suddenly caught their attention. The Five Great God-Kings all turned their gazes toward the lower realm. Their eyes were filled with confusion and vigilance. Even they had never encountered such a terrifying Lightning Tribulation.

"What is happening in the lower realm?"

Soon afterward, countless deities turned their gazes toward the lower realm as well.

At the very center of the Lightning Tribulation, Bibi Dong looked at the dense thunderclouds above her. As the purple lightning gathered, it released deafening roars without end, even dyeing the entire sky purple.

Very soon, the first bolt of Lightning Tribulation crashed down.

The thunderclouds churned before abruptly contracting. That streak of purple lightning shot out from the clouds like a purple flood dragon, tearing through space with a dreadful tearing hiss as it fell straight toward Ye Xinyu—no, toward the purple stream above her head.

As the lightning drew closer, it looked from afar like a purple pillar of light stretching between heaven and earth. Carrying endless power of destruction, it seemed ready to reduce everything in the world to nothingness.

Yet when Bibi Dong saw what happened next, panic first rose in her heart—only for shock to overwhelm it the next moment.

The Lightning Tribulation, powerful enough to destroy everything, rapidly shrank the instant it touched the purple stream. In the end, it vanished without a trace, leaving nothing behind.

"How is that possible? That purple stream... it seems to have absorbed the heavenly tribulation?" Bibi Dong's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.

After being struck by the Lightning Tribulation, the originally tiny purple stream seemed to have grown slightly larger. The purple radiance it emitted had also become far more intense.

Boom! Boom!

Before Bibi Dong could think any further, the lightning raging endlessly in the heavens transformed into roaring thunder dragons and poured down with incomparably terrifying force, all of it rushing toward the purple stream.

Yet the purple stream welcomed it all without refusal. The rolling lightning fell upon it and merged into it like nourishment, endlessly and without interruption.

Under this Lightning Tribulation that seemed capable of overturning the heavens, the purple stream did not change much. The only difference was that its purple color seemed to have become much deeper.

Below, Ye Xinyu had already awakened after successfully absorbing the soul ring. Though she had seen Lightning Tribulations on television, now that she was actually in the midst of one, she still felt somewhat panicked.

Perhaps humans were born with a certain fear of the might of heaven and earth.

The thunderclouds above continued pouring down lightning, but as she watched the tiny yet steadily hovering purple stream above her, her heart gradually calmed.

It was not until half an hour later that the rainstorm-like lightning finally dispersed along with the thunderclouds.

At that moment, the purple misty aura seemed to have eaten and drunk its fill. It flew back directly and finally returned above the bead. Strangely, however, it did not return inside the bead. Instead, like a satellite, it circled the bead in a regular pattern.

Ye Xinyu looked curiously at the scene in her hand. She could feel that when the purple stream returned, a certain energy seemed to be continuously nourishing her body. The sensation was not very obvious, but it was definitely there. The bead in her hand also seemed to have changed a little.

Just as she wanted to feel it more carefully, her mother's voice suddenly rang out beside her.

"Stop spacing out! Hurry up and go!"

Bibi Dong was incredibly fast—no, it would be more accurate to say she was flying too low. A journey that would originally have taken at least three days on foot brought them to the entrance of the Star Dou Great Forest in only two hours.

Only after reaching the exit did Bibi Dong finally let out a sigh of relief and slow down.

Only then did Ye Xinyu feel the security of having her feet on solid ground. Along the way, she had practically been flying. It had been far too thrilling. She gently patted her small chest.

"Mom, why were you running so fast?"

Hearing that, Bibi Dong replied irritably.

"After causing such a huge commotion, if we didn't leave quickly and stayed there, wouldn't we just be asking for trouble?"

That was only one reason. More importantly, she had sensed several extremely terrifying auras rapidly approaching them. They were so powerful that even Qian Daoliu was inferior to the owner of one of those auras.

Qian Daoliu had once warned her that the main reason she could not wantonly slaughter large numbers of soul beasts for soul bones was because he had made an agreement with the king of the Star Dou Great Forest. It would not interfere with obtaining soul rings normally, but if it was enraged, then even Qian Daoliu himself would likely have difficulty defeating it.

Clearly, what had happened between her and her daughter had already drawn the attention of this terrifying existence.

And the owner of that terrifying aura was, in all likelihood, the true master of the Star Dou Great Forest that Qian Daoliu had once told her about—Beast God Di Tian.