Over the next six years, Luo Hong refined two more Ninth-grade Immortal Artifacts, each of Ninth-Ninth Grade Quality. The various factions of the Black Mountain Immortal Domain were left numb with shock!
Of course, normal artifact refinement could not be as fast as Luo Hong's. He had placed many of the material-processing steps inside the Golden Sun Reverse Rain Great Formation, allowing him to refine a Ninth-grade Immortal Artifact every three years.
Thus, in the eyes of outsiders, Luo Hong had long prepared the materials. So when, in the fifteenth year of his seclusion, the fifth cloud of golden calamity lightning he summoned transformed into a seventh-grade tribulation cloud, no one was overly surprised.
"Just as expected. Those four Ninth-grade Immortal Artifacts were merely practice. This Seventh-grade Immortal Artifact is what the master truly intended to refine!"
"Even Taiyi Cultivators find Seventh-grade Immortal Artifacts exceedingly difficult to obtain. If the master succeeds this time, he will truly become renowned throughout the Four Alliances!"
"The calamity lightning is here! Everyone, stay alert! The Great Elder specifically instructed us that nothing must happen to the master!"
Although the seventh-grade tribulation cloud was still primarily golden, silver lightning plasma and crimson thunderfire churned within it.
Bolts formed by the fusion of the three colors crashed down continuously, causing the spiritual peak where Luo Hong was located to shake without end.
If not for the great formation, the aftershock of the calamity lightning alone would have collapsed the entire spiritual peak!
Meanwhile, inside the cave abode, Luo Hong sat cross-legged above the artifact-refinement array. While fully focused on driving the materials within the array through their final fusion, he also endured the bombardment of the three-colored calamity lightning.
His bare chest was covered in black lightning patterns, while the thunder light at his heart