But the laws of Heaven and Earth would not tolerate blasphemy. Whenever a living being stepped into the immortal, deathless realm of a Golden Immortal, the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations were bound to descend, testing their Dao heart and physical body.
"Rumble!"
Above Nameless Low Mountain, amid the spiritual energy roiling from the establishment of the Heavenly Court, a pitch-black tribulation cloud spanning a hundred li was forcibly squeezed into existence.
Within the tribulation cloud, purple World-Destroying Mad Thunder was brewing furiously. A destructive aura that locked onto the primordial spirit pierced straight through the formation and descended upon Lu Changsheng's head.
"Bring it on!"
Lu Changsheng was delighted rather than alarmed. Normally, this tribulation would surely draw the attention of everyone within a hundred thousand li.
But now, the aura of the entire Primordial Land was in turmoil. His mere hundred-li tribulation was hardly even a ripple compared to such world-altering phenomena.
Lu Changsheng did not even bother to retrieve the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Demon-Subduing Swords, nor did he activate the Mysterious Yellow Shield.
He simply sat cross-legged on the Cloud Bed and thrust both hands upward.
"Old Man of Heaven's Dao, we go way back. Considering how I worked from dawn to dusk repairing the Western Earth Vein and delivering the souls of the dead from the Tribulation of Measure, could you let me off easy with this tribulation?"
As his words fell,
the twelve Merit Golden Wheels behind Lu Changsheng's head, solid as though they were physical objects, poured forth their radiance without reservation.
Brilliant and sacred, the golden light of merit—symbolizing Heaven and Earth's supreme creation—shot into the sky and slammed straight into the pitch-black tribulation cloud.
In the next instant,
a jaw-dropping scene unfolded.
The purple heavenly thunder, which had been roaring and churning