Lu Huo felt utterly crushed!
If he and Xu Yi were in the same class, Xu Yi would be the top student sitting dead center in the front row, tormented by all kinds of difficult problems every day, while he would be the slacker sitting by the back door, showing up only when he felt like it and playing on his phone with the sound off. He might even skip class to get the teacher's attention, but the teacher wouldn't bother with him.
There was no hurt without comparison. Lu Huo felt as though his heart had taken a hundred thousand points of damage.
"Senior Lu, have you figured it out yet?!"
Xu Yi's anguished cry rang out again.
He really couldn't hold on any longer. He had run out of spirit liquid ages ago, and had already drained the dozens of gourds of Spirit Wine he'd diluted it into.
At that moment, his whole body was charred black, and every strand of hair had turned ginger-yellow. He showed the signs of scorched lightning entering his body, proving his flesh could no longer contain such terrifying lightning power and was beginning to break apart.
Lu Huo shouted, "This is an Endless Lightning Tribulation, meant for Heaven to collect evildoers. I once read of it in ancient texts passed down secretly by my clan. They say that whenever someone transcends their destined fate and slips from Heaven's grasp, Heaven's will locks onto them once they come into their power and bombards them without end, until they're refined to death. What opportunity did you get, or what shouldn't-be-hidden thing are you concealing in your body? Get rid of it at once, or you're doomed!"
Lu Huo had never seen any such texts. He was only making a guess based on old lore