With everyone protecting Grandpa Baishun, his expression relaxed, and he calmly faced the falling heavenly lightning. I still became Grandpa Baishun's conductor, helping him bear the remaining bolts. As before, the third bolt of destructive heavenly lightning was the most dangerous for a ghost immortal, and it also brought about the greatest increase in my strength. Although every increase in a half-immortal's power raised the probability of attracting heavenly lightning, I could still sense the strange enhancement it brought. The power seemed not to be mine, yet I could clearly feel how it improved my body.
Grandpa Baishun successfully became a ghost immortal, and everyone was overjoyed. This also proved that protecting him through the tribulation had worked, while those watchful gazes vanished along with it.
As for Black Eyes, it had never come out again after entering the Heavenly Pit. I began to wonder whether it was the artifact spirit of the Penetrating-Yin Cone, much like Purple-Clad. Hadn't Zhou Xianming, the Town-Gate Envoy, said that she was a heavenly demon born from a magical treasure?
"Skyreach City now has five ghost immortals guarding it. As long as Nangong Yu also survives her tribulation and becomes an immortal, we'll have six ghost immortals stationed here. This is the inland, after all. Who would still dare bully us?" Tao Fengjie had come partly to threaten me, but since he was usually easygoing, he soon blended in with everyone. Besides, I had already agreed that once there was news of Brother Ruize, I would let him take the Eight Ghost Gate there to seek refuge.
"The Four Immortal Sects of the inland originally had only one fewer ghost immortal stationed in the south. Now our strength is finally balanced. We should also thank all of you fellow cultivators for protecting me through