Layers upon layers of black clouds churned and rolled like a black sea, carrying a force capable of toppling mountains. They seemed ready at any moment to pour down and drown everything.
Bolts of lightning flowed through them, countless arcs linking together. The sea of clouds seemed all the heavier beneath the lightning, while the lightning itself appeared all the more fierce amid the dark clouds.
Yet Gao Xian was extraordinarily relaxed. The tribulation lightning triggered by the Taiyuan Divine Image was far weaker than the lightning tribulation of the Taixuan Divine Image.
The main reason was that the Taixuan Divine Image had accumulated too much foul qi and baleful qi. Its resonance with the world's qi mechanisms had caused the tribulation lightning to become abnormally powerful.
The Taiyuan Divine Image had no such problem, so its tribulation lightning was clearly a whole level weaker.
Moreover, after two hundred years of accumulation, his cultivation now far surpassed what it had been when the Taixuan Divine Image faced its tribulation.
The mysterious resonance that had arisen with Zhi Zhen just now had also made him resonate with the Taiji Sword Intent within the jade pendant.
At the Divine Firmament Sword Palace, Gao Xian had tempered his Sword Intent and refined the Wuji Yin-Yang Sword Scripture to the perfected grandmaster realm. He had considered using the Supreme Unity Golden Flower to elevate his swordsmanship, but in the end, he could not bear to do so.
The Supreme Unity Golden Flower had marvelous effects even for seventh- and eighth-rank cultivators. As a mere sixth-rank cultivator, he had no need to hurry.
With swordsmanship at the perfected grandmaster level, he might not be able to sweep aside all sixth-rank cultivators, but taking on someone like the Northern Dark Dao Venerable, a Pure Yang who