He spread his arms, and the crimson fire dragon coiled around him exploded apart. Its several-dozen-zhang body transformed into an incomparably gorgeous cloud of blazing red fire that spread around his sides.
That fire cloud was breathtakingly beautiful. Crimson, orange, and gold overlapped and churned like the most brilliant sunset at the edge of the sky, yet beneath that beauty lurked killing intent enough to burn all things to ashes.
"Nine Thousand Miles!"
The fire cloud spread out, stretching between him and the shrunken tribulation clouds. One cloud was red and the other purple, confronting each other as the red fire cloud rolled forth on scorching waves.
The purple tribulation clouds surged with lightning as they contracted backward. A visible boundary formed between them, and they faintly seemed evenly matched.
The tribulation clouds seemed utterly enraged by Li Bufan's blatant provocation. An incomparably muffled rumble erupted from deep within the clouds, followed by dozens of blue-violet bolts of lightning bursting out at once.
Like countless furious electric serpents tracing twisted paths through the sky, they passed through the gorgeous fire cloud and wound straight toward Li Bufan.
As the lightning passed through the fire cloud, it carried away vast amounts of heat and energy, but its main body was not completely dissolved by the flames.
Those blue-violet electric serpents wrapped around Li Bufan's body from every direction, encasing him from head to toe in a huge net woven from lightning.
"Good!" Li Bufan felt no fear; instead, he was delighted. Having broken through to the Golden Core realm, he had been eager to test just how far his physical body had been strengthened. The lightning erupting from these tribulation clouds was the finest touchstone.
"Azure Dragon Nine Transformations, arise!" His spine suddenly straightened like a fully drawn bowstring. Fine dragon-scale