Time flowed slowly.
Outer Void.
The Dao Tribulation roared, its lightning blazing bright.
The enormous cloud sphere surged and churned, filling the entire expanse of the void.
At the heart of the Dao Tribulation, countless bolts of Tribulation Lightning reflected in Pei Ling's eyes. His aura was terrifying beyond compare. His appearance, bearing, and every movement began to transform toward perfection.
Every flaw quietly vanished.
This was the eighty-first Dao Tribulation!
Pei Ling could clearly feel that his power had split into two extremes.
On one hand, he was utterly perfect. His aura, strength, body, and soul... all were beyond reproach, impossible to criticize, without the slightest flaw;
On the other hand, at their very core, all of this seemed to be utter Chaos. Beneath that perfect shell, it was as if the most extreme madness, Chaos, evil, and coldness in the world lay hidden...
This state, in which one extreme intertwined with the other, had quietly emerged as he underwent the eighty-first Dao Tribulation.
Now the Dao Tribulation was about to end, and the feeling of perfection coexisting with Chaos grew ever more intense!
BOOM!!!
Rolling thunder crashed down like the Milky Way bursting its banks.
The moment the Tribulation Lightning touched Pei Ling's body, it turned into surging Tribulation Power and eagerly poured into his flesh.
In an instant, the Dao Tribulation ended, and the cloud sphere dispersed.
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Along with the System Prompt, Pei Ling regained control of his body. An ethereal aura seeped from the spiritual energy within him, and his entire bearing changed with it.
Perfect, lofty, cold... as though he were both