The Golden Core disciples fled Immortal Strife Island.
Senior Sister Zhang and the other two merely drew back a little, watching Zheng Fa on the field and the Heavenly Venerable in the air.
The Nascent Soul Tribulation was a cultivator's own trial. Outside force absolutely could not interfere, or the Heavenly Tribulation's power would increase tenfold, a hundredfold... Feeling the Heavenly Venerable's aura overhead, even Senior Sister Zhang cautiously retreated—
One Heavenly Venerable was already enough to strike terror into people's hearts. Ten, a hundred... just thinking about it made one's scalp go numb.
Yet though she retreated, her eyes never left Zheng Fa for even a moment. She gripped the Pure Tranquility Bamboo tightly, countless doubts churning in her heart:
Why was Junior Brother's Heavenly Thunder Tribulation so unusual?
Zheng Fa had no time to notice her gaze. He harbored the same doubts she did.
The Heavenly Venerable's appearance had caught him completely off guard.
He slowly rose to his feet and stared at the Heavenly Venerable's form. The other had no face, and thus naturally no eyes or nose to speak of, but Zheng Fa inexplicably felt—
The other was watching him too.
The Heavenly Venerable seemed alive!
Strands of blazing white lightning streamed from the black stone stele into the Heavenly Venerable's body, making his aura stronger—or rather, more lively.
Zheng Fa did not dare attack rashly, but his vigilance only deepened.
One small reason he had turned the Nascent Soul Tribulation into a lesson was that he truly had not taken it too seriously. In terms of strength, while he could not compare to a proper Dao Fruit cultivator, he was certainly stronger than an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.
But now, this Heavenly Venerable seemed to be telling him—an extraordinary Nascent Soul meant an extraordinary Nascent