Breakthrough

At the top level of the Myriad Manifestations Tower, within Time Purgatory.

In the blank void, thick clouds abruptly began to gather from nowhere. The clouds swirled as arcs of electricity within them rapidly contracted, soon turning into a dazzling purple.

Rumble!

Purple lightning capable of effortlessly piercing heaven and earth suddenly struck down, fiercely hitting the still figure below.

Shen Qian's body trembled slightly, his flesh quivering faintly, yet he frowned instead, seemingly dissatisfied with the result.

A pitch-black scale was held in his hand. Shen Qian exerted force with his palm, and that terrifying strength—which could easily crush the toughest alloys into dust—only bent the scale slightly.

Yet under the pressure of such immense force, the stimulated Ancestral Dragon Inverse Scale bloomed with even more brilliant seven-colored light.

Rumble, rumble!

The clouds gathering in the void above spun even faster, and bolt after bolt of purple lightning began striking down without pause.

After being hit by lightning repeatedly, cracks finally began to appear across Shen Qian's body.

The life force within his flesh began to be worn away beneath the relentless bombardment of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder.

Back when Shen Qian's body had only reached the First Restriction, he could barely withstand even a single bolt of lightning before his body directly entered a state of destruction.

As one of the earliest mythical creatures, the Ancestral Dragon stood at an even higher level than the Candle Dragon. It was among the first lives born from chaos, not much later than Nuwa and Pangu.

It had been born alongside lightning and possessed the strongest body of all mythical creatures. Yet Purple Firmament Divine Thunder could still strengthen its flesh. One could imagine just how terrifying the lightning's power was.

Even though Shen Qian was no longer what he used