Above the firmament, phantoms of the sun, moon, and stars emerged in alternation. A magnificent, ancient celestial star chart evolved into a lightning tribulation, and the entire sky was instantly blanketed by raging thunderclouds.
Xiang Yuan stared, dumbstruck, at the changing heavens. He had watched Bai Wuyan undergo her tribulation before and knew exactly what this meant. After a cultivator reached the great completion of the Body Integration Realm, a lightning tribulation would reshape their body and allow them to advance another step into the upper three realms.
After Yan Xuanhe severed the heavens with a single sword strike, the laws of heaven and earth had become incomplete, and the upper three realms had turned vague and unclear. The Dry Abyss Realm had no concept of lightning tribulations. The Body Integration Realm was its endpoint; if cultivators wished to go further, they had to seek opportunities for a breakthrough in other worlds.
The Dry Abyss Realm had no lightning tribulations!
Mahayana Mountain's mountain-protecting formation had simulated a lightning tribulation!
Never mind whether this lightning tribulation was real or fake, or whether it could truly serve the purpose of a tribulation—Xiang Yuan felt himself being locked onto by it. Before the lightning had even struck him, his entire body had gone numb.
He was only in the Nether Passage Realm. He couldn't lift with his hands or carry on his shoulders; his wives could testify to that. He was utterly incapable of tying up even a chicken. For the mountain-protecting formation to simulate a lightning tribulation just to strike him was a little too outrageous.
It would have been enough to keep strengthening the Sword Master Mingxia and the others. There was truly no need to deploy a lightning tribulation!
Rumble—!
Crack!
Terrifying Vital Energy gathered high in the sky. The