"But now there's also a Taishi Lingchu."
Ling Qing couldn't help thinking of the young man standing beside Taishi, without sorrow or joy.
He gave off a completely different feeling from Shi Lan. He was like a blank sheet of paper, so pure it was as if he had never set foot in the mortal world, without the slightest trace of earthly life.
"After all, he's someone the Emperor values. He must have something special about him... Yu'an?"
Midway through her sentence, Ling Qing sensed that something was wrong with Ling Yu'an.
Ling Yu'an's brows were slightly furrowed, her face deathly pale. She clutched her head as veins bulged across her forehead.
"It hurts..."
Shenzhou Vast Land, Illusory Star Domain.
Two figures stood atop a desolate dead star.
"Are you sure it's all right to undergo the tribulation here?"
Lingchu looked up at the sky, doubt in his eyes. The world before him could not possibly contain him. Before this, even his aura alone had drawn Heavenly Punishment.
"I'm here," Taishi said calmly, as if everything were under his control.
At that, Lingchu hesitated no longer. A space appeared in his palm, suffused with the energies of yin and yang. His Primordial Spirit, over nine hundred zhang tall, burst into dazzling rays of light. In an instant, dark clouds blanketed the starry sky, filling it with an aura of destruction.
The instant Lingchu drew down the lightning tribulation, nearly a hundred divine lights lit up in unison across the Central Heaven Domain, summoning countless tribulation clouds.
The Heavenly Human tribulation used the life force within the lightning tribulation to transform the opened space and bring forth life. For ordinary prodigies, this step posed little difficulty; it was even effortless. But for Lingchu, it was a hurdle he could