Kunlun Mountain.
Just as Tianlu stepped beyond the Xiantian Array's boundaries, a sudden chill ran down his back.
"Rumble—!"
Without any warning, the clear skies above Kunlun Mountain were instantly shrouded by endless purple-black Tribulation Clouds.
From the heavens, a divine lightning bolt of deep violet-gold streaked straight down at Tianlu's head.
"Purple Heaven Divine Lightning?!"
Tianlu abruptly raised his eyes, his expression freezing at once.
As the first Pixiu Auspicious Beast born between heaven and earth, he might usually be lazy, but he naturally possessed inherited memories of all things in the Primordial World.
Purple Heaven Divine Lightning was the supreme punishment conceived from the Heavenly Dao's origin in the Primordial World, created specifically to erase those who defied heaven or anomalies intolerable to the Heavenly Dao.
If an ordinary Daluo Golden Immortal took such a strike, even with a Xiantian Spiritual Treasure protecting their body, they would still suffer the miserable fate of their physical body collapsing and their Three Flowers being severed.
"Fuck! Who the hell did I offend?"
Tianlu jumped in fright. His instincts as a Daluo Golden Immortal made him immediately activate the Law of Space.
His golden body left an afterimage where he stood, while his true body had already slipped into layer upon layer of spatial folds, shifting tens of thousands of li to the right.
Yet something strange happened.
The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, carrying an unmistakable killing intent and locked onto Tianlu's aura, showed no sign whatsoever of changing direction to pursue him when he dodged.
With a deafening boom, it struck the ground beside Tianlu's original position without deviation.
In an instant, the land of Kunlun Mountain was blasted by that Purple Heaven Divine Lightning into a terrifying abyss with no visible bottom.
Tianlu poked his head out of the void and stared at the bottomless crater beside him, stunned for a moment.
Before he could recover, the Tribulation Clouds above began to churn once more.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Several more Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts, each as thick as mountains and carrying earth-shattering might, crashed down in rapid succession.
Tianlu did not dare let down his guard. Relying on the profundity of the Law of Space, he repeatedly teleported through the air.
His figure flashed left and right through the void like golden lightning.
Yet those Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts remained exactly the same.
They appeared overwhelmingly powerful, but just as they were about to touch Tianlu's afterimages, they all inexplicably lost their aim and struck straight down at the ground beside wherever Tianlu had dodged.
For a time, Kunlun Mountain trembled as dust filled the air.
The bizarre sight left Tianlu completely dumbfounded.
He stopped dodging, stood atop the Cloud Treasure, and raised a paw to scratch his head, his face full of confusion.
At that moment, the Heavenly Dao above seemed to have been enraged. The Tribulation Clouds boiled violently, and amidst the rolling sea of lightning, hundreds of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts condensed simultaneously.
The divine lightning came crashing down upon Tianlu from every direction.
Faced with such a despairing formation of lightning punishment, Tianlu simply stopped dodging altogether.
He plopped down onto the Cloud Treasure, folded his arms across his chest, and stared wide-eyed at the incoming lightning.
"Come on! Strike me! Strike this lord right on the head!"
Tianlu steeled himself inwardly.
The next moment, hundreds of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts roared down.
Yet the miracle happened again.
Just as the hundreds of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts were about to touch Tianlu's golden fur, they forcibly veered at nearly ninety degrees.
Crackling wildly, they all struck the ground and void around Tianlu instead.
Tianlu remained motionless and completely unharmed.
Meanwhile, the Kunlun Mountain around him had already been reduced to ruins.
The absurd, ridiculous scene made Tianlu's mouth twitch violently.
"What the hell is wrong with this Heavenly Dao...?"
Tianlu muttered to himself, looking as though he were staring at an idiot.
"I don't think I did anything terribly wicked, did I? Did it really need to send down so much Purple Heaven Divine Lightning just to set off fireworks for me?"
Tianlu frowned slightly as the wisdom of a Daluo Golden Immortal began turning rapidly in his mind.
He knew very well that the Heavenly Dao would never send down Purple Heaven Divine Lightning without reason.
Since it was not because he had been sleeping or treasure hunting, then it had to be because something on him had appeared that the Heavenly Dao could not tolerate.
At that thought, Tianlu's heart stirred, and he could not help recalling the heaven-defying item he had just refined.
He opened his mouth, and with a thought, a Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus radiating endless profound Creation light slowly floated out from his mouth and hovered before him.
The moment the green lotus appeared, the destructive aura that had been ravaging the surroundings with lightning was instantly dispersed by an incomparably rich vitality of Creation.
Unexpectedly, the instant the Creation Green Lotus was exposed between heaven and earth, the Tribulation Clouds above went berserk.
"Rumble!!!"
A World-Destroying Divine Lightning bolt, ten times thicker than all the previous divine lightning combined and colored a pure purple-black, crashed down with mighty force.
This time, the divine lightning's target was utterly clear. It no longer paid Tianlu any attention, instead striking directly at the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus floating in midair.
"Bold of you! You dare steal this lord's treasure!"
At the sight, Tianlu's eyes nearly popped out.
This was a Xiantian Supreme Treasure that he had painstakingly refined. How could he possibly allow the Heavenly Dao to strike it apart?
In that critical instant, Tianlu had no time to think. He suddenly opened his huge maw.
The Law of Devouring and the Law of Space erupted within his mouth, transforming into a bottomless cosmic black hole.
He thrust his head forward and swallowed the enormous Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus in a single bite, directly stuffing it back into his unfathomable Abdominal Space.
The instant the green lotus vanished, that world-destroying Purple Heaven Divine Lightning had already reached Tianlu's head.
Just as the divine lightning was about to strike Tianlu squarely on the forehead, that bizarre power of rules descended once again.
The violent, peerless Purple Heaven Divine Lightning seemed to have encountered some prehistoric beast. Only half an inch from Tianlu's scalp, it forcibly stopped its downward momentum.
Immediately afterward, the divine lightning suddenly reversed direction in a manner that utterly defied physical common sense and the logic of laws.
It carved an incredibly stiff arc through the air, accompanied by an extraordinarily aggrieved roar.
With a boom, it smashed into a Ten-Thousand-Zhang Divine Mountain beside Tianlu.
That scene finally made Tianlu understand what was happening.
He sat on the Cloud Treasure, rubbing his round belly as a smug smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"So that's how it is. I understand now."
Tianlu understood everything.
The Heavenly Dao had not intended to strike him at all. It simply could not tolerate the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus and wished to send down divine lightning to erase it completely.
As for why, Tianlu, an Auspicious Beast with inherited memories, understood the karma after making a slight deduction.
What was the origin of the Creation Green Lotus?
It was a heaven-defying divine object nurtured over endless ages after one mature Chaos lotus seed from the disintegrated Thirty-Six Petal Chaos Green Lotus—the Chaos treasure that had once nurtured Great God Pangu—absorbed the source of Creation from the opening of heaven and earth.
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