Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning

Song Wu, True Lord, looked down below, his gaze falling on the several dead cultivators of the Ancient Witch Clan. He lingered there briefly before looking at the crowd and saying, "Take them back and give them a proper burial."

"Yes."

Everyone nodded in succession, but several cultivators pointed at the figure undergoing the tribulation, their faces full of confusion. "Ancestor, what about him?"

"If we leave, what if those Southern Frontier cultivators come back to harm him?"

"I will remain here."

As he spoke, Song Wu, True Lord, flew down onto the mountaintop closest to the tribulation zone.

"What?"

"Ancestor, you're staying here?"

"Ancestor, is that really necessary?"

The Ancient Witch Clan cultivators were all stunned.

In the distance, Bai Ruorou and Xia Kening also widened their eyes, staring blankly ahead.

This was a True Lord!

One of the strongest beings in the world!

Yet he was actually going to stand guard here.

All the two of them could do now was hope this True Lord would listen to reason and leave quickly.

But...

"Enough. You may all leave."

Song Wu, True Lord, waved his hand, signaling everyone to depart, while his gaze had already turned toward Song Zhong.

Seeing this, the Ancient Witch Clan members could only carry away their fallen companions and leave.

Within the heavenly tribulation, Song Zhong endured the unceasing bolts of lightning while looking at Song Wu, True Lord, his face filled with bewilderment.

This was a True Lord. What was he staying here for?

I've changed my appearance now. He shouldn't know that I'm Song Zhong, right?

Right, he's a True Lord.

So even if I haven't released any spiritual energy, he can still see my cultivation realm.

He probably thinks, like the other Ancient Witch Clan cultivators, that I'm one of their own.

So after seeing my cultivation realm, he decided I'm an unparalleled genius of their clan and wants to guard me here to ensure nothing goes wrong?

But what happens after I break through?

Could he be planning to take me back to their lair?

Wouldn't that expose me in no time?

As Song Zhong underwent the tribulation, he began considering how to deal with this True Lord once it ended.

In the distance, Bai Ruorou and Xia Kening looked at each other, neither daring to speak, much less communicate through secret voice transmission.

That was a True Lord. If they dared to speak, they would surely be discovered.

Secret voice transmission also required spiritual energy. Any fluctuation of spiritual energy would still be noticed by him.

The two of them did not even dare to move.

Days passed one after another.

The lightning falling from the sky grew increasingly powerful.

Before they realized it, the final day had arrived.

As that day came, the Tribulation Clouds overhead grew so dense that they nearly blotted out this entire stretch of heaven and earth.

Terrifying bolts of lightning crashed down in a frenzy, packed as densely as a torrential downpour.

The Seventh-Ninth Tribulation Lightning lasted a total of sixty-three days.

For the previous sixty-two days, the lightning had never ceased. Under its continuous bombardment, every plant in the valley where he stood had been blasted into dust, and even the ground had sunk deeply.

Boom!

Another deafening blast rang out, and the entire earth shook violently.

"The power of this lightning has grown stronger again."

Song Zhong muttered to himself. Beside him, a bolt of lightning struck heavily into the ground before him, its terrifying force smashing open an enormous fissure.

A fissure?

So the ground beneath wasn't ordinary earth—was there an underground cavern below?

The thought had only just surfaced in Song Zhong's mind when a terrifying peal of thunder erupted from within the split earth.

The next moment, the cracked ground exploded, and a streak of green light shot into the sky.

A violent aura spread through the area, one filled with corrosion, sinister chill, and poison.

Song Zhong stared at the green light that had flown out, utterly dumbfounded.

This was Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning!

I just happened to come here to undergo a tribulation, and I found one of the Ten Great Thunderbolts?

This lightning had been hidden deep underground. The continuous descent of the heavenly tribulation had destroyed the ground and brought it into the world!

Almost instinctively, Song Zhong raised his hand and grabbed at the lightning.

In an instant, the Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning burst forth with dazzling radiance, its terrifying Lightning Power surging in all directions.

This lightning contained both the violent, peerless might of lightning that could destroy all things and the sinister poison and corrosive power within it.

In an instant, this entire region became a world of lightning.

Even the bolts of Tribulation Lightning falling from the sky were shattered by the green lightning.

The surrounding earth instantly turned green and continued to corrode away.

The Lightning Power rushed into Song Zhong's body and began madly corroding his meridians, organs, bones—corroding everything.

The next moment, streams of Lightning Power surged out from Song Zhong's body, frantically absorbing, devouring, and resisting the invading lightning.

At the same time, within Ten Thousand Poison Valley, Southern Frontier cultivators one after another raised their heads and looked toward a certain location.

"This is... lightning? Some terrifying lightning has appeared?"

"And it's poisonous lightning!"

"We can sense such a terrifying presence from so far away. Could this be one of the Ten Great Thunderbolts?"

Someone immediately suggested, "Should we go take a look?"

The moment his words fell, everyone around him changed expression.

"Take a look? Are you looking to die? That place is clearly where the heavenly tribulation is falling."

"Don't you know that an Ancient Witch Clan cultivator is undergoing a tribulation there?

"We fought a great battle over that cultivator before, and then an Ancient Witch Clan True Lord flew over and waited there."

"If we go there now, we'll be delivering ourselves to our deaths!"

Although the Southern Frontier cultivators sensed the lightning and even guessed that it might be one of the Ten Great Thunderbolts, not a single one dared to fly over.

After the Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning raged for some time, its dazzling radiance gradually faded.

The next moment, the lightning flew straight into Song Zhong's body.

This...

Song Zhong had never expected that obtaining the Nine Yin Profound Poison Demon Lightning this time would be so easy, so smooth.

When he had come here, he had even considered that if he failed to find the lightning, then once the Era of Cosmic Reversal truly arrived and the True Lords all fell asleep, he would leave.

Yet he had merely undergone a tribulation, and the lightning had come to him.

The problem now was, why hadn't that True Lord left yet?

When I absorbed the lightning just now, my spiritual energy should have leaked out, right?

This...

Hm?

The lightning had ended?

As Song Zhong pondered this, the lightning in the sky had already dispersed. Dense spiritual energy surged uncontrollably from around his body, rippling outward in waves.

Streams of divine light even circled around his body once before flowing into him.

The next moment, the figure of that True Lord appeared directly before Song Zhong.