Divine Firmament lightning blazed with unmatched intensity, supremely yang and fiercely scorching, yet grand, righteous, and majestic, carrying an unsurpassable authority that could cleanse away all things.
Gao Xian gripped the Nine Heavens Xuandu Thunderclap Divine Whip and charged upward against the current. Spurred by his Heavenly Dragon Law-Controlling True Eye, the whip's thirty-six bamboo segments spun with a deep hum, releasing low, resonant peals of thunder.
The roaring of Divine Firmament Thunder resounded through heaven and earth, its might carrying on for tens of millions of miles.
Compared to it, the thunderclap emitted by the Nine Heavens Xuandu Thunderclap Divine Whip was like the buzzing of a fly. In this vast world, only Gao Xian could hear it.
Though the whip's thunderclap was faint, it formed a layer of thunderclap protection around Gao Xian's body.
The nearly formless thunderclap subtly resonated with the peerlessly mighty Divine Firmament Thunder, dissolving its force layer by layer. Only an extremely small portion of the Divine Firmament lightning pierced through the thunderclap barrier.
The golden lightning had originally been ferocious beyond compare, but after being transformed through the Nine Heavens Xuandu Thunderclap Divine Whip, its violent radiance split into countless utterly yang, utterly pure rays, illuminating Gao Xian's body and spirit, inside and out, until they were utterly clear.
The foul qi and baleful qi accumulated deep within the Taixuan Divine Image were completely refined and cleansed away by the Divine Firmament lightning in this state. This included Gao Xian's divine soul—even the various foul qi hidden in the deepest reaches of his sea of consciousness melted and dispersed beneath the Divine Firmament lightning.
This foul qi and baleful qi were like cancer cells inside a cultivator's body. They lived attached to the cultivator, yet constantly drained their essence, qi, and divine soul,