Legendary geniuses faced tribulations as strange and varied as the stars in the sky, almost all of them heavenly tribulations rarely seen throughout all ages. Ye Xiwen's heavenly tribulation was exceptionally terrifying. Even if other geniuses encountered it, they would likely face death nine times out of ten, with little hope of escaping alive.
Otherwise, Ye Xiwen would have long since drawn down his heavenly tribulation and broken into the Imperishable Realm. Nor was Ye Xiwen the only one wary of heavenly tribulations; Qin Lie and the others were the same. Given their accumulations, they would already have crossed the threshold of the Imperishable Realm instead of still lingering in the Eternal Life Realm.
The pressure descending from above grew greater and more terrifying. Even Ye Xiwen, sheltered within the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree, felt an inexplicable pressure.
Outside, the Fire Tribe experts and those people they had captured also felt an inexplicable might bearing down upon them. They had all come this far by surviving tribulations, so how could they fail to recognize it? Someone was clearly undergoing a tribulation.
Yet they opened their divine eyes and swept out with their divine senses, but found no one undergoing a tribulation. As for the Lightning Lake, they had already disregarded it. Their divine senses could not possibly probe inside it.
More importantly, how could there possibly be life beneath it? Not even gods could endure it. After Ye Xiwen, several more people had been forced to fly out, only to meet the same fate: screaming as they were struck alive into minced flesh. Unlike Ye Xiwen, they had not even fallen into the Lightning Lake.
Of course, that was merely how they saw it. To them, being struck dead on the spot or falling in and being electrocuted made little