Han Changming frowned deeply. He had consulted quite a few manuals on raising spirit insects and had some understanding of how they advanced.
Generally speaking, spirit insects would not trigger a lightning tribulation when advancing to the fifth rank, but there were always exceptions. Some spirit insects with powerful bloodlines would face lightning tribulation upon reaching the fifth rank, and some mutated spirit insects might also trigger one. Such cases were rare.
Han Changming had not expected the Amethyst Flying Scorpion to draw a lightning tribulation when advancing to the fifth rank. Under normal circumstances, spirit insects and spirit beasts would only attract lightning tribulation when advancing to the sixth rank. The sixth rank was a formidable threshold.
Could it be because the Amethyst Flying Scorpion had devoured the corpse of a fifth-rank Soul-Devouring Scorpion? Or had the Amethyst Flying Scorpion undergone some mutation? Was that what had drawn the lightning tribulation?
A strange hiss rang out from Thousand Insect Peak. The Amethyst Flying Scorpion flew out of its nest, and Purple Miasma surged across its body, concealing it completely.
Unlike immortal cultivators, spirit insects and spirit beasts could only withstand tribulations head-on before taking human form. They could not, like cultivators, use talismans, formations, treasures, secret arts, and countless other methods to improve their chances of success.
Following a rumble of thunder, a lightning bolt bright as day tore through the heavens, as though splitting a crack in the sky, and shot straight toward the Amethyst Flying Scorpion.
The Amethyst Flying Scorpion was shrouded in Purple Miasma. The silver lightning vanished into the sea of purple mist, followed by a miserable hiss.
The thunderclouds churned violently, and an even thicker silver lightning bolt flew out of them. Like a massive hammer, it smashed into the sea of purple mist,