From beginning to end, Fang Chen had paid the Devil Race no mind. What worried him was that they might interrupt the refining of Meteor Tear and make all his efforts go to waste.
His gaze returned to the Heaven Refining Furnace, anticipation growing ever stronger in his eyes.
Inside the Time Bell Formation, the Heavenly Punishment grew denser and denser.
At first, there had been only scattered lightning serpents. Now they had become an unbroken thunderstorm. Purple Destruction Divine Thunder, golden Judgment Divine Thunder, black Annihilation Divine Thunder, and white Purification Divine Thunder poured down like rain. Every bolt held enough terrifying power to gravely wound an Immortal Emperor.
But the Heaven Refining Furnace welcomed it all.
The five Imperial Flames burned wildly within the furnace, and the Five Elements cycle accelerated to its limit, furiously refining the Heavenly Punishment pouring in. Some of its power went toward further condensing Meteor Tear, while the rest was absorbed by the Heaven Refining Furnace.
As the Heaven Refining Furnace absorbed that energy, the runes on its surface grew more profound, and the Dao Resonance it radiated grew stronger.
Boom-crack!
A purple-black bolt of divine thunder, thick as a pillar holding up the sky, tore through the firmament and struck straight down from the clouds.
This bolt was entirely different from those before it. Its color was neither simply purple nor black, but the two intertwined, radiating a suffocating aura of termination.
Where the divine thunder passed, space silently evaporated, the Time Flow Rate fell into chaos, and even the laws themselves trembled.
This was Heavenly Punishment at the level of an Eighth-Revolution Immortal Emperor!
The Heaven Refining Furnace shuddered violently. The phantom Otherworldly Beast on its lid let out a low roar and opened its mouth to inhale.
The purple-black divine