Chu Tian was the same.
The nine-colored lightning of the Nine Heavens World-Extinguishing Tribulation hacked down onto his body, and every strike blasted wounds deep enough to expose bone into his flesh.
But after the wounds healed, another path of nine-colored, flowing lightning marks would appear beneath his skin.
On the Dao foundation of the Supreme Demon God Dao beneath his feet, the nine-colored lightning marks were fusing on a deeper level with the other seven types of source Dao patterns.
They no longer occupied separate territories, but had me within you and you within me.
Within the radiance of the Imperial Dao, one could sense the world-extinguishing might of the Nine Heavens Tribulation Lightning; at the edges of the Heavenly Demon miasma flowed the mutually engendering power of the Five Elements; deep within the violet epochal scars burned the killing intent of the Extreme Realm Blood Lightning.
This Great Dao was not fixed and unchanging. It kept evolving, kept growing, kept drawing closer to the universe's most primordial form.
Then the two of them stepped out of the sea of lightning at the same time.
Tribulation lightning was still burning on their bodies.
The golden patterns of Shen You's Chaos Divine Body and the eight-colored lightning scars of the Eight Desolations Tribulation Lightning interwove into a suit of thunderfire battle armor, each lightning scar continuously transforming amid the strikes falling through the void.
Beneath Chu Tian's skin, the nine-colored lightning marks, the Imperial Dao Array Patterns, and the violet epochal scars reflected one another, and his flesh grew more and more transparent within the lightning. The bones, meridians, and dantian inside his body were all clearly visible.
Every beat of his heart drew out a resonance from the four Myriad Realms Imperial Cities, and the sound of blood flowing