Qin Fengming's delight had only just appeared on his face when the dense clouds in the sky suddenly began to churn violently. In an instant, they became far more turbulent than before.
A rumble thundered across the heavens, and several bolts of lightning flashed down, enveloping Qin Fengming.
"Eh? Why has the frequency of these lightning bolts suddenly become so rapid?" Seeing the dragon-shaped lightning, which had originally appeared at wide intervals, suddenly shooting out in groups of three or five, Qin Fengming's expression changed drastically, and he could not help exclaiming urgently.
Though shocked in his heart, he did not panic. With a thought, he urged the massive Taotie ferocious beast to intercept two of the lightning bolts directly. As for the other two, he calmly endured them with the Four Symbols Sword Array and Silver Spirit Shield.
Amid the sharp crack of lightning tearing through the air, the two dragon-shaped bolts struck Qin Fengming's body.
Terrifying energy ran rampant within him, while powerful tempering and purifying force swept through his body. A trace of enlightenment suddenly appeared in his mind.
The might of the Heavenly Tribulation differed from that of other attacks. As long as cultivators became tainted by the aura of the Heavenly Tribulation, they were destined to undergo its baptism. Even with a Vast Desolation Profound Treasure resisting it, the Heavenly Tribulation would still descend upon the cultivator.
Whether it was the Five Elements Beast or the Silver Sheath Worm, the reason they could resist the Heavenly Tribulation was not that they completely blocked the lightning strikes. They merely weakened its terrifying might, reducing the destructive power of the lightning that fell upon the cultivator and allowing the cultivator's body to be tempered within what they could endure.
Though this process took somewhat longer than directly