Heavenly Dao's Wrath, Great Dao's Beloved Manifests

Kunlun Mountain.

Just as Tianlu stepped beyond the reach of the Xiantian Array, a sudden chill crept up his spine.

"Boom—!"

Without any warning, the clear, cloudless sky above Kunlun Mountain was instantly swallowed by endless purple-black tribulation clouds.

From the firmament, a bolt of divine lightning, glowing with a deep, regal purple-gold, struck straight down toward the top of Tianlu's head.

"Purple Heaven Divine Lightning?!"

Tianlu jerked his head up, his expression freezing in an instant.

As the first Pixiu, an Auspicious Beast of heaven and earth, he was usually lazy, but his mind held the inherited memories of all things in the Primordial World.

This Purple Heaven Divine Lightning was the supreme punishment birthed by the origin of the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao, created specifically to obliterate anomalies that defied the heavens or were intolerable to the Heavenly Dao.

If an ordinary Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal were to be struck by such a bolt, even with a Xiantian Spiritual Treasure for protection, they would suffer the miserable fate of having their physical body collapse and their Three Flowers withered.

"What the hell! Who did I offend?"

Tianlu was startled, his instincts as a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal forcing him to instantly trigger the Law of Space.

His golden body left a blur in place as his true form vanished into the layered folds of the void, shifting tens of thousands of miles to the right.

However, something bizarre occurred.

The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, which had locked onto Tianlu's aura with a killing intent, showed no sign of tracking him or changing its trajectory the moment he dodged.

With a thunderous roar, it struck the ground right beside where Tianlu had originally stood, missing him entirely.

In an instant, the earth of Kunlun Mountain was blasted into a bottomless, terrifying abyss by the strike.

Tianlu poked his head out from the void, staring at the bottomless crater beside him, momentarily stunned.

Before he could recover, the tribulation clouds above the firmament churned once more.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Several more Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts, thick as mountains and carrying the awe-inspiring power to destroy the world, crashed down in rapid succession.

Tianlu dared not be careless, relying on the mysteries of the Law of Space to perform continuous teleports in mid-air.

His figure moved like golden lightning, darting left and right through the void.

Yet, those Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts remained the same.

Despite their overwhelming momentum, the moment they were about to touch Tianlu's afterimage, they inexplicably lost their aim, striking the ground beside where Tianlu had just dodged.

For a time, the earth of Kunlun Mountain trembled, and dust filled the air.

Tianlu watched this bizarre scene, completely bewildered.

He stopped dodging, stood on his Cloud Treasure, and raised a claw to scratch his head, his face full of confusion.

Just then, the Heavenly Dao above the firmament seemed to be enraged; the tribulation clouds boiled violently, and amidst the churning sea of lightning, hundreds of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts condensed into shape simultaneously.

These divine lightning bolts surged toward Tianlu from all directions, covering the sky and earth.

Facing such a desperate formation of lightning punishment, Tianlu simply stopped dodging.

He sat down on his Cloud Treasure, crossed his arms over his chest, and stared wide-eyed at the incoming lightning.

"Come on! Strike! Strike my head if you can!"

Tianlu inwardly goaded the heavens.

The next second, hundreds of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts crashed down.

Yet, a miracle occurred once again.

Just as the hundreds of bolts were about to touch Tianlu's golden fur, they abruptly veered at a near ninety-degree angle.

They crackled and popped as they struck the earth and the void all around Tianlu.

Tianlu remained motionless, completely unscathed.

Meanwhile, the surrounding Kunlun Mountain had been reduced to ruins.

This ridiculous and absurd scene made the corner of Tianlu's mouth twitch violently.

"What is wrong with this Heavenly Dao... has it lost its mind?"

Tianlu muttered to himself, his eyes filled with the look one might give a fool.

"I haven't done anything wicked, have I? Is it really necessary to drop so many Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts just to put on a fireworks show for me?"

Tianlu frowned, his Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal intellect racing.

He knew clearly that the Heavenly Dao would never drop Purple Heaven Divine Lightning without cause.

Since it wasn't because of his sleeping or treasure hunting, it must be because he possessed something that the Heavenly Dao could not tolerate.

At this thought, Tianlu's heart stirred, and he couldn't help but recall the heaven-defying item he had just refined.

He opened his mouth, and with a thought, the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus, radiating endless light of creation, slowly drifted out and hovered before him.

Once the green lotus appeared, the aura of the Law of Destruction that had been ravaging the area with lightning was instantly dispelled by a rich, ultimate vitality of creation.

Unexpectedly, the moment the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus was exposed to the world, the tribulation clouds above the firmament went berserk.

"BOOM!!!"

A World-Destroying Divine Lightning, ten times thicker than all the previous divine lightnings combined and manifesting in a pure, abyssal black, struck down with overwhelming force.

This time, the target of the divine lightning was crystal clear; it ignored Tianlu entirely and plummeted straight toward the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus hovering in mid-air.

"How bold! You dare snatch this master's treasure!"

Seeing this, Tianlu's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

This was an Innate Supreme Treasure he had just painstakingly refined; how could he possibly let the Heavenly Dao blast it to pieces?

At the critical moment, with no time to think, Tianlu abruptly opened his gaping maw.

The Law of Devouring and the Law of Space erupted within his mouth, transforming into a bottomless cosmic black hole.

He lunged forward, stuffed the massive Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus back into his mouth, and swallowed it directly into his own mysterious, unfathomable abdominal space.

The instant the green lotus vanished, the world-destroying Purple Heaven Divine Lightning had already reached the top of Tianlu's head.

Just as the divine lightning was about to strike Tianlu's forehead squarely, a bizarre power of rules descended once more.

That violent, peerless Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, as if it had encountered some terrifying primordial beast, halted its descent abruptly, stopping a mere half-inch from Tianlu's scalp.

Immediately following this, the divine lightning defied all physical common sense and the logic of the laws, suddenly reversing its direction.

It carved an incredibly rigid arc through the air, and finally, with a roar of utter frustration, it slammed into a Ten-Thousand-Zhang Divine Mountain beside Tianlu.

This scene made Tianlu fully understand the situation.

He sat on his Cloud Treasure, patted his round belly, and a smug smile spread across his lips.

So that's how it is. I understand now.

Everything became clear to Tianlu.

The Heavenly Dao wasn't trying to strike him at all; it simply couldn't tolerate the existence of the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus and sought to unleash divine lightning to erase it completely.

As for the reason, as an Auspicious Beast possessing inherited memories, Tianlu understood the cause and effect with a simple deduction.

What was the origin of the Creation Green Lotus?

It was a heaven-defying divine object, born from a single mature chaos lotus seed—one of the remnants of the Thirty-Six Petal Chaos Green Lotus, the supreme chaos treasure that had once nurtured Pangu—which had absorbed the essence of creation during the opening of the world and matured over endless eons.