A golden avenue spread out beneath Shen You's feet.
It was not an embryonic form, but a complete Dao.
The Dao foundation was engraved with the undying wills of every God Emperor in the Chaos God Clan's history, and among the Dao patterns flowed a power of chaos purer than any strike before.
The instant the great Dao took shape, the firmament of the outer starry sky split open.
It did not shatter. It did not collapse. The entire firmament was torn in two by a power surging from the depths of the universe's laws.
What poured down from the rift was not ordinary lightning, but eight utterly different kinds of Chaos Tribulation Lightning—
The crimson Burning Heaven Tribulation Lightning burned the void into a furnace.
The orange Soul Extinguishing Tribulation Lightning specialized in cleaving apart divine souls and seas of consciousness.
The golden Dao Splitting Tribulation Lightning could split an Emperor Venerable Dao clean through the middle.
The green Decay Tribulation Lightning could corrode even time itself.
The cyan Wind Tribulation Lightning was formless and intangible, yet could shred every defense.
The blue Ice Tribulation Lightning froze the chains of karma.
The purple Annihilation Tribulation Lightning directly erased existence.
The black Guixu Tribulation Lightning returned all things to nothingness.
The Eight Desolations Chaos Tribulation.
Among Emperor Venerable Tribulations, it was a terrifying Heavenly Punishment ranked second, second only to the legendary Nine Heavens World-Extinguishing Tribulation.
From ancient times to the present, those who could draw down this tribulation while proving the Dao as Emperor Venerable were all supreme prodigies rarely seen across all ages.
In the history of the Chaos God Clan, only the first-generation Chaos God Emperor had drawn down this tribulation when he proved his Dao.
Shen You stood directly beneath the eight-colored sea of lightning, his