News that Shen Mo was about to attempt a tribulation breakthrough had not been spread beyond Zhao Lingyin.
Over those three days, enduring violently fluctuating aura, he made every preparation in rapid succession. There were external resources prepared for his forthcoming charge at the Formless Realm, arrangements for the Crimson Flame Sect during his seclusion, and he even used the Gecko False Body to notify Hong Gu of the Mount Li Alchemy Sect.
Afterward, he entered the highest-grade, most heavily warded cultivation chamber in Cloud-Viewing Mansion and quietly awaited the arrival of his Dao-achievement tribulation.
"It's here!"
Shen Mo's aura surged violently. Then, with a sudden tremor in his mind, he sensed the aura of tribulation.
The next instant, streaks of dark-purple lightning appeared in the void above his head, while invisible fire rose from the Yongquan acupoints beneath his feet...
These were the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation and Invisible Fire Tribulation among the Three Calamities and Six Tribulations. Heavenly lightning could strike a Dao Body into charred ash and blast a Divine Soul into pieces, while invisible true flame would burn its way upward, burning through the lower dantian, the Crimson Palace Golden Tower, and the Consciousness Sea within the skull!
With a wave of his hand, Shen Mo raised the Azure Cloud Umbrella, a top-grade spirit artifact on the verge of advancing into a spirit treasure. The true intent of the Cycle of Life and Death flowed outward, propping up a small world around him.
Dark-purple lightning carrying ultimate destructive force poured down upon Shen Mo like a cascading river of thunder, its momentum incomparably savage and terrifying. It was blocked by the Azure Cloud Umbrella, its destructive power continuously converted into defensive strength, making the treasured umbrella ever sturdier and more wondrous. Few bolts could break through