"Damn it, Fierce Heavenly Punishment Lightning... How could it be Fierce Heavenly Punishment Lightning?
I only mobilized a bit of the earth vein's power. Was that really necessary?" Gu Hui was utterly shocked, his expression changing drastically as he cursed without a shred of dignity.
The vortex formed by the cloud curtain resembled a gigantic eye, cold and lifeless as it locked onto the one below who could shake—and dared to shake—the source of the earth. Amid thunderous roars that shook the universe, pale lightning crashed down from the depths of the Ninth Heaven at the vortex's center, unstoppable in its might!
The pale tribulation lightning enveloped Gu Hui's location like a pillar of light, reducing the patch of land beneath his feet to dust with its world-destroying force.
Heaven and earth fell silent. The mountains surrounding Gu Hui had been completely ground flat by that strike.
A flicker of clear light flashed, tearing a tiny opening in the pillar of light. Gu Hui crawled out through the gap, covered in wounds.
As if provoked—or displeased by an ant's resistance—the remaining seven Lightning Punishments did not descend. Instead, they began gathering at the center of the cloud curtain.
"Pfft, this really is..."
Gu Hui was drowning in regret now. Why had he gone mad and done something like that? Great, it felt like he was about to die too.
At the same time, he went all out. Under the pressure of death, inspirations from his understanding of the three volumes of the Heavenly Book kept surfacing, eventually showing faint signs of merging into one.
"Roar!" Accompanied by a dragon's roar that shook heaven and earth, Gu Hui unexpectedly summoned a fire dragon through his understanding of the three volumes of the Heavenly Book.
A gigantic dragon head, as dazzling as