Long, long ago, Tribulation Transcendence was very gentle. At most, it would only send down nine ordinary heavenly lightning bolts. If one could not withstand them, it might even reduce a few bolts to display the upper realm's mercy.
It could be said that as long as one's Dao foundation was relatively solid, ascending and becoming immortal was easy. Thus, countless Great Cultivators flocked to it like ducks, and even some Integration stage cultivators with flawed Dao foundations dared to give it a try. If they were lucky, they truly succeeded; even if they failed, they could undergo Liberation by Violence and recultivate as loose immortals who had survived tribulation.
In other words, Tribulation Transcendence in the past was incredibly watered down—so watered down that any crooked melon or cracked date could pass it.
But things were different now!
The already monstrous Tribulation Transcendence had become even more monstrous. It did not care about this or that; even if your caliber far surpassed that of ancient cultivators, enough for one person to equal five or six crooked melons and cracked dates of old, it still would not do!
A single bolt would shatter your dream of becoming immortal and leave you crying out, "I'm only at the Integration stage!"
This was the true portrayal of Ziwei Continent's twenty-eight Integration stage peak... no, after breaking into the Tribulation Transcendence stage, those old timers.
There was no helping it. Tribulation Transcendence was simply too monstrously excessive. Even though all twenty-eight of them had broken through at once, greatly dispersing the pressure that descended upon each of them, the power of the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning was still far too fierce!
Utterly unyielding and blazing, it destroyed everything.
They could not even undergo Liberation by Violence and recultivate as loose immortals. The moment