Thunder rumbled, yet there were no dark clouds or heavenly omens within heaven and earth.
As that inexplicable oppressive aura descended, the Chaotic Void for several thousand zhang around began to surge like ocean waves.
In the unseen, Chu Mu seemed to sense something. He swept his gaze around, and that inexplicable oppression grew ever clearer.
This oppression somewhat resembled the heavenly might within the realm, yet it also carried several differences. It seemed vaster, more terrifying.
At some unknown moment, as the chaotic currents became increasingly violent, a deep-purple bolt of Thunder abruptly appeared.
With a boom, before Chu Mu could react at all, the bolt hurled him back several hundred zhang. The massive boulder beneath him shattered with a crash beneath the Thunder's aftershock, turning into countless fragments that scattered through the Chaotic Void.
Chu Mu's clothes were shredded and his body charred black, yet the aura around him remained steady.
Compared to an ordinary Nascent Soul Great Cultivator, the foundation of his cultivation was simply far too profound.
His charred body returned to normal in but an instant, nourished by his vast Furnace True Essence.
The deep-purple power of Thunder winding around him was also devoured completely in the blink of an eye.
His form swelled, transforming into a ferocious shape.
Though his body was only several zhang tall and could not be considered enormous, it inexplicably possessed a towering grandeur, as though man was heaven and earth, and heaven and earth was man.
Chaotic tides swept through the void amid flashing lightning and rolling thunder. Unlike tribulation lightning within the realm, which descended from the skies, the lightning tribulation in the Chaotic Void came from every direction, with no distinction between heaven and earth.
Bolt after bolt of Thunder struck from all directions, giving him no