Pei Ling saw eight figures walking slowly ahead. Ji Changfu was at the front, followed by two cultivators: Chu Mo and Gui Hengqiu.
Behind them were Ji Changfu, Chu Mo, Gui Hengqiu, another version of him, and another Xue Zhao.
He and Xue Zhao were walking at the very back.
Pei Ling felt increasingly uneasy, as if some tremendous crisis were quietly drawing near.
Still, he forced himself to stay alert, but couldn't find anything amiss...
Step, step, step...
The monotonous, unchanging footsteps gradually blended into their surroundings, like rustling and murmuring, as if they would go on walking like this forever.
Pei Ling's eyelids closed against his will once more...
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Qingyao Mountain.
Tribulation clouds blanketed the sky.
Thunder crashed with overwhelming force.
Violet and azure radiance lit up heaven and earth. A mighty heavenly power rumbled down!
Pei Ling's eyes were shut tight, his Xuan Shan snapping in the wind as he hung suspended in midair. A torrent of tribulation lightning poured down like a waterfall and struck his body, only to transform in an instant into countless hair-thin electric snakes that his body absorbed.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Another wave of Tribulation Lightning crashed down in torrents. Its dazzling brilliance was as bright as the rising sun, illuminating the entire world.
Thunder roared across the void, shaking the earth.
Below, the once picturesque landscape had long since become a wasteland.
The mountain ranges and valleys had all been reduced to ash.
Newly formed craters, reeking of burning, spread ever deeper, as if turning into an abyss.
Suddenly, a vast surge of demonic aura erupted!
It swept across the sky, boundless as the sea, and for a time even contended with the Heavenly Tribulation. Its terrifying pressure filled heaven and earth.
A gigantic Nine-tailed Fox appeared in the void.