Under normal circumstances, the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation was the same intensity for every cultivator who faced it. It would not grow stronger just because your own foundation was deeper.
Of course, that referred to normal circumstances. Some extreme individual cases truly could make the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation's intensity soar wildly, even rising to the level of a Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
The Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation Chen Fei faced this time was also rather special, because Chen Fei had crossed Heavenly Tribulation before—and twice at that.
Thus, within the rules of the Heavenly Dao, the power of Chen Fei's Heavenly Tribulation would automatically be raised.
The strength of every bolt of heavenly lightning was entirely at the power of an experienced mid-stage Creation Realm attack, even approaching the Peak Mid-Stage Creation Realm.
To other cultivators at the Peak Initial Stage Creation Realm, such attack power was simply sending them to their deaths. Even for Creation Realm prodigies within ninth-tier races, it was the same.
But to Chen Fei, he had already slain three Mid-Stage Eighth-Order beings. Toward this enhanced version of the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, Chen Fei did not feel much at all.
Only a few breaths after the first bolt of heavenly lightning dissipated, the second bolt of heavenly lightning had already appeared above Chen Fei's head, giving the cultivator crossing the tribulation no chance whatsoever to recover.
A sword shield appeared before the heavenly lightning. Light and darkness flowed over the sword shield; on closer look, there seemed to be countless folds of space within it, stretching its depth without limit.
The Nether Devil Sword Shield, a defensive move derived from the Nine Heavens Underworld Devil Art. Compared to the original Nether River Shield, its defensive power had risen by a large margin.
Boom!
The heavenly lightning collided with the