More than a decade later.
In a great city toward the northeast of the Boundless Realm.
Yeguang City.
Chen Lin stood on the Tribulation Platform, gazing up at the heavens.
Dark clouds massed overhead, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring.
Then a bolt of tribulation lightning as thick as a bucket crashed down, striking straight at Chen Lin's head!
Immediately.
The towering formation pillars surrounding the Tribulation Platform released milky-white light, weaving a great net overhead that weakened the tribulation lightning's power by thirty percent.
The remaining thunder power landed on him, its ferocity diminished enough to temper his body without letting its Thunderbolt Meaning damage his origin essence.
Chen Lin nodded inwardly.
The Tribulation Platform here truly deserved its far-reaching reputation. It had some impressive tricks, and though a single use cost a fortune, it was worth the price.
This time, he was facing the Great Vehicle Heavenly Tribulation.
Although he had already advanced his cultivation to Dao Integration perfection before leaving his fiefdom, he had still spent more than a decade traveling to be safe.
Only after his state of mind had become steadier did he attempt the breakthrough.
Now, he was without leakage or impurity, his body, soul, and intent seamlessly united. His cultivation could advance no further.
With all his treasures and the formation's assistance, surviving the heavenly tribulation should have been a certainty.
Chen Lin had observed it before and understood the Upper Primal Domain's Great Vehicle Heavenly Tribulation. It also consisted of nine strikes, no different from that of the Lower Primal Domain.
Only its power was greater, because it contained the aura of laws.
He handled the first seven without the slightest strain.
He passed them with ease.
Only for the final two did Chen Lin grow more serious.
The eighth was black