Crack, crack—sounds rang out in a continuous chorus. The flying knives Lu Xiaotian had expended so much effort refining shattered one after another like porcelain. The lightning tribulation had come too quickly; even the Waterheart Stone Baleful Intent Saber Formation he had set up had scarcely had time to react.
The tribulation lightning that followed took advantage of the brief opening after breaking the formation and crashed down one after another, leaving almost no time to react.
Lu Xiaotian swiftly drew the Earthsplitter Saber. Several razor-sharp saber energies tore through the air, slashing apart the tribulation lightning falling toward his head.
A series of rolling explosions erupted in the air as the saber energies collided with the tribulation lightning. But the lightning was simply too fast; even Lu Xiaotian could not destroy all of it at once.
Boom! Boom!
Lu Xiaotian threw a punch, his powerful fist force shattering two more bolts of tribulation lightning. Yet the remaining two bolts still struck his chest and thigh in the blink of an eye. An ordinary ninth-level Foundation Establishment cultivator would have died or suffered grave injuries under such lightning strikes. When Lu Xiaotian was hit by the two bolts, his body also took a sudden heavy blow and was flung up from the ground. The tyrannical power of lightning passed through the Firewyrm Scale Armor and struck his body. His entire body convulsed violently.
Then the remaining two bolts of tribulation lightning came crashing down. Lu Xiaotian's body rolled continuously across the ground, leaving thin streaks of blood wherever he passed.
Lightning flashed and thunder roared within the thunderclouds overhead as enormous scattered bolts as thick as water buckets descended once more, wave after wave.
Lu Xiaotian looked utterly wretched at this moment, but the scattered flying knives gathered together again,