As Lu Yang had predicted, halfway through the voyage, the weather suddenly turned. Lightning flashed and thunder roared. The ship was lifted a hundred meters into the air by the waves, then came crashing down onto the sea.
If not for the multiple arrays reinforcing the hull, the ship would have been torn to pieces long ago.
Lu Yang thought, I knew it. He had already spotted three Body Integration Realm cultivators aboard this ship alone, not counting the ones on the other two ships.
With so many high-level cultivators aboard, encountering such a terrifying storm was clearly no accident.
After all, a Body Integration Realm cultivator wielded a portion of the power of the rules. Dispelling a storm at sea should have taken no more than a word.
Su Yiren's expression turned grave. She shielded Lu Yang and the others, then sent them a voice transmission. "Be careful. I tried to dispel the storm with the power of the rules, but it didn't work. Someone's deliberately stirring up trouble behind the scenes—and they're at the Tribulation Transcendence Realm!"
A huge hole split open in the inky clouds, and a pitch-black silhouette appeared overhead, wrapped in wind and rain. Its jade-green eyes, like amber, glowed eerily, as if they had come from the depths of the underworld.
Its pressure was like a prison—unfathomable, immovable, irresistible—and weighed down on everyone's hearts.
"It really is a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator!" Su Yiren broke into a cold sweat. She hadn't expected such terrible luck on this trip, to run into one of them.
When Tao Yaoye and Man Gu heard that a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator was here, they panicked a little. They rarely went out with Lu Yang and had never seen a scene like this.
Lu Yang calmly sent a voice transmission to