When the lightning tribulation dissipated, the Modern Dharma Cultivators who had witnessed everything finally slowly released the sealed space and lifted the Tiantian Xiangxing Ruler's defenses. That chain of sudden changes had all happened within a few brief moments. Before they could even react, that hare-rising, falcon-falling barrage of attacks had already forced the Holy Emperor to abandon his preparations and face the tribulation early.
The dark-faced grandmaster stared blankly at his companion. "The Holy Emperor... failed?"
"Probably?" the other replied. Even he had felt his heart quail at that world-destroying force just now. He could not imagine how a carbon-based lifeform could survive lightning tribulation of such power without a specialized countermeasure like the Imprisoning Thunder Mantra.
"No!" Yue Luo Liuli screamed. The foundation of two hundred million years of draconic evolution allowed her to possess many highly practical abilities without needing especially high cultivation. "That parasitic beast isn't dead... No! He has already transformed into an immortal beast! Mortal methods can no longer kill him!"
Once the aura of the lightning tribulation faded, another powerful presence gradually emerged. The group in the distance suddenly felt their hearts tighten.
If the fear Shenzhou's living beings felt toward dragons came from innate bloodlines—because "all those unafraid of dragonkind's divine might had died out along the road of evolution"—then their current terror came from reason itself. Their minds screamed at them to flee that vicious creature. Even Yue Luo Liuli was no exception.
Beneath a bank of dark clouds, the Holy Emperor raised his head.
Of course he was still alive. The Ascension Tribulation was indeed a near-death ordeal for cultivators ascending for the first time, but to a banished immortal, it was no more than a breeze brushing the face. Even forced by Wang Qi to undergo it early, he