The Nine-Nine Heavenly Punishment struck eighty-one times.
The Five Elements exotic beasts encircled and exterminated for forty-five rounds, lasting almost an entire day.
An enormous lightning tree, its crown laden with myriad weapons, struck for three days.
An eye formed from gathered lightning stared directly at the site of the tribulation for a full three days.
And the yin lightning, whose thunder could be heard but whose glow could not be seen, rumbled for another three days.
Over those ten days, the cultivators of the Mythical Realm went from shock, to fear, to numbness.
Fewer and fewer people remained to watch the ceremony.
They truly could not hold on any longer. Both body and mind had sunk into immense exhaustion. First the Celestial Immortals, then the True Immortals, then the Taiyi, until finally even some early-stage Daluo Realm cultivators could no longer endure it.
If someone was only ten-odd meters ahead of you, you might still think of catching up, of putting your back into a run.
But if that person was several hundred kilometers ahead of you and still advancing at several kilometers per second, forget chasing them—even someone sitting on a high-speed train would probably start cursing their mother.
How could they not curse?
They were mighty Daluo Realm cultivators! Though only early-stage ones, though they had only just entered the Ten Million Dao Realm, they were still Daluo Realm cultivators!
Yet merely standing there and watching someone else's tribulation had left them physically and mentally drained. Some had even begun to wonder again and again whether their own Daluo Realm cultivation was fake.
This would not do.
It was not that they could no longer bear it.
It was that if they kept watching, their Dao hearts would likely shatter.
At that moment, the vanity born from