Seventeen years!
A full seventeen years!
She had finally cultivated back to the hundred-thousand-year level!
Ah Yin gently shook her leaves. Blue-gold light surrounded her, and a phantom figure appeared above her branches.
She looked up at the dark clouds gathering overhead and slowly raised both hands. Her branches and leaves reached toward the sky.
"Come on!"
Her voice was soft.
The next instant—
Boom!
A thick, serpentine bolt of red lightning plunged from the center of the clouds, bearing down on Ah Yin with the power to destroy everything in its path!
Ah Yin remained calm. She raised her right hand, and a branch shot outward with the motion!
The branch was like a long sword, its edges razor-sharp.
It tore through layer after layer of air, letting out a shrill whistle!
Crack!
The moment the branch met the red lightning, violent electricity exploded around it. Dazzling crimson light flooded the area.
The blue-gold branch shuddered in the sea of lightning and began to char, yet it held firm.
Ah Yin's expression turned grave. She raised her hand again, and countless blue-gold vines soared up around her to meet the lightning!
As if enraged by her defiance, the dark clouds spun wildly, forming a vortex at their center.
Inside the vortex, the red lightning suddenly swelled, pouring all its violent power down on Ah Yin at once!
It was then that Jiang Liang finally arrived at Sunset Forest.
He did not approach the heart of the Lightning Tribulation. Instead, he stopped a hundred meters from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well and watched.
When he saw the blood-red lightning suddenly grow thicker, his heart clenched for Ah Yin.
Fortunately, the red lightning seemed to realize it could do nothing to her.
The two remained locked in a stalemate for