The cultivators inside Immortal Grass Market Town grew tense at the sight. They were afraid of being caught up in the tribulation, but Shi Yue was undergoing it, and the Market Town Management Office had activated the island-protecting formation. Leaving Immortal Grass Market Town at this moment could easily draw the tribulation down on them.
As they watched, they also stayed on guard, afraid of being swept into the tribulation.
The tribulations drawn by the Elk Beasts and the others breaking through to the eighth level at the same time far surpassed ordinary tribulations. This was no simple case of their power being added together.
Although the island-protecting formation was powerful, it could barely withstand the tribulation's relentless attacks. It buckled and warped, while the formation plates in the hands of Qu Zhiyang and the other four flashed incessantly, emitting a series of piercing shrieks.
"Fellow Daoist Qu, this won't do! The tribulation is too powerful. If we keep holding it back, repairing the island-protecting formation will take a great deal of resources. Besides, if Shopkeeper Li is breaking through to the Spirit Transmutation Realm, he should be tempered by the tribulation too. Didn't you and I go through the same thing back then?" Ning Fengwu said with a frown.
"It hasn't reached the critical moment yet. Let's keep helping him hold it back for a while. If something happens to Little Friend Shi, none of us will have an easy time of it," Qu Zhiyang said, his face dark.
He was beginning to blame Shi Yue. If he was breaking through to the Spirit Transmutation Realm, he should have given him a heads-up! That way, he could have prepared sooner.
The enormous dark clouds churned violently. Amid deafening peals of thunder, hundreds of thick bolts of Silver Lightning shot