Dark purplish lightning flickered ceaselessly through the pitch-black clouds, each flash illuminating the outlines of the scorched earth and rocks below, like the final silence before doomsday descended.
Li Bufan stood dozens of zhang away, his Spiritual Sense spread to its limit like an invisible net draped over Unfixed, firmly capturing every minute change within the tribulation clouds.
Under the thunderous pressure at such close range, his True Meaning of Thunder began to circulate of its own accord. The aura of destruction and rebirth intertwined within those tribulation bolts was imprinting itself upon the depths of his perception in an exceptionally profound way.
At last, the tribulation clouds shuddered violently, and a thick bolt of blue-white lightning cleaved down from the clouds. It was as swift as a crack tearing across the heavens, carrying the might to destroy heaven and earth as it locked precisely onto the ground below.
Unfixed did not retreat. A dense emerald radiance abruptly lit up around its body, forming a shield of light condensed from life force itself that enveloped it.
Countless fine Rune patterns flowed through that shield, every line exuding an ancient aura. Clearly, this was a body-protecting art it had comprehended from Daoist Heavenly Gu's legacy.
The blue-white tribulation lightning slammed into the emerald shield with an earthshaking roar. Violent ripples spread across the shield's surface as it trembled fiercely like a bronze drum struck by a heavy hammer.
That shield was indeed formidable, but before the Lightning Power of the heavenly tribulation, it lasted only a few breaths before fine cracks appeared. It then shattered with a thunderous boom, turning into emerald motes that scattered through the air.
However, the tribulation lightning had also been weakened by more than half while breaking through the shield. By the time the remaining Lightning