Far North, Who Summoned the Lightning Tribulation?

She understood the Ice Emperor; if it were not a matter of true gravity, she would never be so composed.

She immediately looked at Xue Chen and commanded quickly:

"Chen'er, you and Xiao Bai stay inside the palace. Do not come out."

Her tone carried an unquestionable majesty.

"Mother?"

Xue Chen also snapped out of his excitement. Seeing the grave expressions on Aunt Ice Emperor and Mother Snow Emperor, his heart tightened involuntarily.

Xiao Bai stood up at once, his massive body shielding Xue Chen as his bear face filled with vigilance.

The Snow Emperor said no more. She exchanged a glance with the Ice Emperor, and in a flicker, the two figures transformed into a white and a green streak of light, vanishing instantly from the Ice Crystal Palace.

They left behind only a bewildered and uneasy Xue Chen, along with a guarded Xiao Bai.

Xue Chen retracted his martial soul. He looked up toward the palace entrance, a surge of intense curiosity and worry rising in his heart.

What on earth was happening outside?

Could this sudden upheaval of heaven and earth... truly be related to the martial soul he had just awakened?

The Snow Emperor and the Ice Emperor transformed into two streaks of light, instantly appearing in the high sky above the Ice Crystal Palace.

The sight before them caused even the Snow Emperor, as the Lord of the Far North, to shrink her pupils slightly.

Looking out, the entire Far North seemed to be shrouded by a boundless black curtain; thick, heavy clouds hung so low they felt within reach.

Within the clouds, there were no longer scattered flashes of lightning, but countless thick, blue-white bolts—some even laced with eerie purple-gold—darting madly and tearing through the long sky.

The continuous, rolling thunder merged into a deafening roar.

On the ground, the ice plains that had remained frozen for ten thousand years were illuminated by the flashing electricity like a ghost realm!

Countless soul beasts of the Far North, regardless of their strength, were fleeing in a frenzy, cowering and emitting fearful, mournful cries. It was a scene as if the apocalypse had arrived.

The Ice Emperor's voice, carrying unprecedented gravity, came through clearly amidst the deafening thunder:

"I scouted hundreds of miles to the north, and everything I saw was like this!

This thunderstorm... it doesn't seem to be regional; it has blanketed the entire Far North!"

The Snow Emperor hovered in the air, her exquisite face covered in a layer of frost. She felt the violent and chaotic thunder elements in the air, along with an... indescribable sense of oppression. She shook her head slowly, her voice ethereal yet carrying a resolute conclusion:

"This is no ordinary weather phenomenon!"

An ordinary thunderstorm could never cover such a vast area, nor could it terrify the soul beasts born in the Far North to such an extent.

Within this thunder lay a will and power that made even her feel a faint tremor of heart.

The two dared not delay. Their figures flickered again, moving in different directions from the Ice Crystal Palace as their center. They spread their divine senses fully, carefully probing every inch of the ice plains and every snow-capped peak of the Far North, attempting to find the source of this upheaval.

However, after a thorough search, the results only left them more confused.

Aside from the terrifying thunderstorm shrouding the world, they found no traces of invading enemies, no abnormal energy eruption points; it was as if this world-destroying scene had been generated out of thin air.

"Strange!"

The Ice Emperor returned to the Snow Emperor's side, her brows locked in a frown:

"How can this be? I can't find any cause!

How could such an abnormal weather phenomenon suddenly appear in the Far North? It makes no sense at all!"

The Snow Emperor remained silent, her ice-blue eyes flashing with rapid thoughts.

She felt a faint intuition that this phenomenon was related to Xue Chen, who had just completed his martial soul awakening inside the palace.

But how could that child's awakening trigger a celestial change that enveloped the entire Far North? It was too inconceivable.

With no results from their search, the two could only return to the Ice Crystal Palace, filled with doubt.

However, just as their figures were about to reach the sky above the Ice Crystal Palace:

"Rumble—!!!"

The black clouds in the sky seemed to be stirred by some invisible, colossal force, beginning to churn and gather at an unprecedented speed!

They were no longer spreading aimlessly, but were instead piling up in layers, surging violently toward a single center point—directly above the Ice Crystal Palace!

In the blink of an eye, the outline of a massive, bottomless black hole, its edges flickering with destructive purple-gold lightning, took shape directly above the palace!

Around the black hole, the purple-gold lightning no longer merely flickered; it coiled tightly around the edges like violent thunder dragons.

The Snow Emperor and the Ice Emperor hovered in mid-air, staring at the black hole of churning clouds gathering madly above the Ice Crystal Palace.

The might of heaven and earth struck the fear and knowledge buried deep within their bloodlines and memories.

"A Lightning Tribulation!"

The two spoke almost in unison, their tones filled with unconcealable shock.

Both had personally experienced the baptism of a Lightning Tribulation and were all too familiar with this power that symbolized both the trial and the destruction of heaven and earth.

Precisely because of this, they understood even more clearly how terrifying the scale of this tribulation was!

Covering the entire Far North, with energy condensed into substance—this was absolutely not something that could be triggered by an ordinary hundred-thousand-year soul beast undergoing its tribulation!

Ice Emperor whipped her head around to look at Snow Emperor, her emerald eyes filled with uncertainty.

"Snow Maiden, is this a lightning tribulation you triggered?"

In her view, if Snow Emperor were approaching her next great tribulation, given her nearly seven-hundred-thousand-year foundation of cultivation, it might... perhaps not be entirely impossible for her to trigger a tribulation of this scale?

Snow Emperor's breathtakingly beautiful face was grave. She slowly shook her head, her ice-blue hair dancing in the violent air currents, her voice clear and certain.

"There is still time before my next tribulation. It was not triggered by me."

"Not you?"

Ice Emperor was stunned, her delicate brows knitting tightly together. "Could another soul beast be undergoing tribulation nearby? But in this vicinity..."

Her powerful divine sense instantly swept across a hundred-mile radius, and she immediately dismissed the speculation herself.

"No! I cannot sense a single soul beast with the cultivation aura required to trigger a lightning tribulation of this magnitude! Strange, where did this tribulation come from? And who is the target?"

This defied all logic!

A lightning tribulation was Heaven and Earth's test for those who defied the natural order; there must be a specific subject to endure it.

Yet, right now, this world-destroying vortex of lightning was clearly suspended above the Ice Crystal Palace, and while the locked-on aura permeated the surroundings, they could not find the one who should have been undergoing the tribulation!

Just as the two were turning these thoughts over in their minds, attempting to find the source of this illogical tribulation—"Rumble!!!"

The lightning black hole in the sky seemed to have reached its peak, emitting a roar that shattered the void!

A bolt of blue lightning, wreathed in countless fine, purple-gold electric sparks, struck down ferociously from the center of the black hole!

As it descended, the lightning bolt suddenly condensed, vaguely taking the form of a ferocious, roaring blue lightning dragon!

The dragon's maw was wide open, its body composed of pure, destructive energy, and its target was unmistakable: it was aimed directly at the dome of the Ice Crystal Palace below!

Its speed was so fast and its momentum so fierce that it far exceeded any ordinary lightning tribulation!

Because of their previous shock and investigation, Snow Emperor and Ice Emperor's minds had experienced a momentary lapse.

It was not until the lightning dragon tore through the sky and the aura of destruction was already upon them that Snow Emperor snapped out of her thoughts!