If You Hit Me, Don't Be Afraid of Being Struck by Lightning

The Earth Vein, which Lu Changsheng had spent 1,800 years painstakingly repairing, shattered inch by inch once more under the shockwaves of these Primordial Unity Golden Immortals' clash.

Even the toxic fire from deep underground was forced out, transforming into a sea of flames.

"My path! My path that I spent 1,800 years of hard work repairing!"

Watching the wounds of the world he had stitched together with countless efforts be utterly destroyed in a few breaths by these bastards, and even seeing the distant Nameless Low Mountain begin to tremble again, Lu Changsheng felt his fear instantly ignited by an unprecedented sense of grievance and burning rage.

What does a practitioner of the Dao of Cowardice fear most?

They fear trouble most.

But what if that trouble had already climbed onto your neck, was about to smash your home, destroy your hard work, and leave you with nowhere to retreat?

"I have the Innate Merit Mysterious Yellow Shield and the Origin of the Great Dao anyway! I don't believe you idiots blinded by karmic debt can break this poor Daoist's turtle shell!"

With no way left to retreat, Lu Changsheng's persecution complex completely transformed into a reckless mindset: as long as I am tough enough, the one who feels awkward will be someone else.

He stopped running.

He even straightened his back.

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath and thrust his hands upward violently.

"Mysterious Yellow Undying, Ten Thousand Dharmas Cannot Invade! Open for this poor Daoist!"

Following his angry roar, his peak True Immortal mana was poured without reservation into the Innate Merit Mysterious Yellow Shield hovering above his head.

"Hum—!"

The Mysterious Yellow Shield erupted with blinding radiance.

The twelve innate restrictions were instantly activated in full.

The Mysterious Yellow light screen, which was originally only three feet thick, expanded a full hundred zhang in an instant, transforming into a hemispherical, inverted golden bell.

It tightly protected Lu Changsheng and the small piece of intact Earth Vein beneath his feet.

The very next moment after the light screen took shape:

"Roar—!"

Accompanied by a dragon roar filled with unwillingness and despair.

One of the Golden Dragons, the one with the most severe injuries and nearly half its body burned away, finally exhausted its strength and crashed onto the ruins directly in front of Lu Changsheng.

"Boom!"

The earth trembled, and endless dust mixed with dragon blood surged into the sky.

The massive dragon body plowed a deep trench thousands of miles long into the ground, sliding until it stopped less than fifty zhang from Lu Changsheng's Mysterious Yellow light screen.

At this moment, the Divine Phoenix in hot pursuit had also arrived.

This early-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Divine Phoenix had blood-red eyes; its mind had been completely clouded by the Tribulation Sha Qi of the Tribulation of Measure, leaving only pure killing instinct in its brain.

It didn't even bother to look closely at the tiny figure supporting the light screen in the ruins below.

It spread its wings violently.

"Die, vermin!"

The Divine Phoenix let out a sharp cry and opened its giant beak, which was large enough to swallow mountains.

A strand of pure white Southern Bright Separation Fire origin, condensed to the extreme, descended from the sky, heading straight for the fallen Golden Dragon.

As luck would have it, the attack range of this Southern Bright Separation Fire was massive; it not only enveloped the Golden Dragon but also included Lu Changsheng and his Mysterious Yellow Shield, which were very close to the dragon.

"Damn you, you dead bird! Throwing skills around without even looking!"

Standing inside the light screen, Lu Changsheng watched the pure white flames descending from the sky, which were hot enough to burn black holes into the void, and felt his scalp go numb.

He could only grit his teeth and push his internal mana to the limit, desperately maintaining the operation of the Mysterious Yellow Shield.

"Boom—!!!"

The Southern Bright Separation Fire crashed down.

The moment the heavily wounded, dying Golden Dragon touched the Separation Fire, it didn't even have time to scream before its massive body began to melt and disintegrate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And that terrifying Separation Fire, which would have made even Primordial Unity Golden Immortals retreat, slammed into the hundred-zhang-wide Mysterious Yellow light screen when it reached Lu Changsheng's position.

Silence.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor the wailing sound of a shattering light screen.

The moment the overbearing Southern Bright Separation Fire touched the Mysterious Yellow Qi, it was like a surging, monstrous wave crashing against an eternal, divine mountain.

The Mysterious Yellow Shield merely rippled slightly on its surface, completely isolating the scorching fire laws; not even a single spark managed to penetrate it.

"Blocked it!"

Lu Changsheng's eyes lit up, and his heart settled.

It truly lived up to being a top-grade defensive Innate Spirit Treasure! With all twelve innate restrictions fully activated, it had withstood a strike from a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal without the slightest bit of effort!

However, while Lu Changsheng felt the matter was over, the Heavenly Dao did not think so.

The moment the Divine Phoenix's Separation Fire divine ability touched the mysterious yellow light screen and became tainted by a trace of Great Dao Merit aura inadvertently radiating from Lu Changsheng within, the Primordial Land seemed to hit a pause button.

The battlefield, previously filled with the Divine Phoenix's baleful aura and the mournful cries of the Dragon Clan, suddenly fell into a hair-raising silence.

"Hum..."

A supreme will, transcending all living beings and all laws, descended upon the sky above the ruins without warning.

High above the firmament, the churning blood-colored clouds of the Tribulation seemed to encounter the most terrifying existence, retreating frantically to both sides like a receding tide.

The sky tore open.

But it was not torn by the strike of some mighty figure; the Heavenly Dao itself had ripped open an Eye of Heavenly Punishment, cold, ruthless, and filled with the will of destruction.

"That is..."

In the sky, the other two Golden Dragons struggling desperately and the other Divine Phoenix simultaneously ceased their movements.

They looked up at the suddenly appearing Eye of Heavenly Punishment, feeling the terrifying heavenly might capable of erasing all existence in the world, and unprecedented horror and despair surged in their eyes.

"Purple Heaven Divine Lightning... How could Purple Heaven Divine Lightning descend?!"

The Divine Phoenix that had just spewed that mouthful of Southern Bright Separation Fire had regained a moment of clarity. It stared blankly at the sky, its entire body trembling violently like a sieve.

During the Tribulation of Dragon and Han, murderous intent filled the world, and the Heavenly Dao originally allowed the three clans to slaughter each other to eliminate karma.

Unless one had committed some act against the heavens or committed an unforgivable crime that thoroughly enraged the origin of the Primordial Land, the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning would never actively descend during a Tribulation.

"I... what have I done?"

This Primordial Unity Golden Immortal-level Divine Phoenix looked down blankly.

Its gaze passed over the Golden Dragon that was about to be burned to death and finally locked onto the tiny figure below who was holding up the mysterious yellow light screen, completely unharmed.

On that tiny cultivator, there were no tyrannical fluctuations of magic power, nor any soaring murderous aura.

There was only that faint, yet pure to the extreme... aura of Great Dao Merit!

"Great... Great Dao Merit?!"

The Divine Phoenix's pupils instantly shrank to the size of needle points, its heart feeling as if it were being tightly squeezed by an invisible, icy hand.

It finally understood what a stupid thing it had done.

That mouthful of Southern Bright Separation Fire it had just spewed had actually landed on the embodiment of Great Dao Merit!

In the Primordial Land, harming an embodiment of Great Dao Merit was equivalent to slapping Pangu in the face; it was like tearing down the load-bearing walls of the Heavenly Dao! This was no longer just going against the heavens; this was seeking one's own death!

"No! It's a misunderstanding! Lord Heavenly Dao, this is all a misunderstanding!"