Absorbing the Power of the Heavenly Tribulation, Snow Emperor Bravely Confronts the Heavenly Tribulation!

Snow Emperor attempted to use her own soul power to guide and separate the lightning, hoping to peel it away from Xue Chen.

However, the moment her soul power touched those blue electric arcs, she felt a gentle yet firm repulsive force. Her soul power could not intervene at all, let alone guide them.

It was as if this lightning and Xue Chen were one and the same, rejecting any interference from external forces.

For the first time, a clear look of anxiety appeared on Snow Emperor's exquisite face.

Forcefully disperse it?

But the lightning was so tightly intertwined with Xue Chen that violent measures would likely hurt him first!

Yet, if she allowed this strange lightning to continue, who knew what would happen in the next moment?

For a time, this Snow Emperor, who had dominated the Far North for nearly seven hundred thousand years, found herself in a dilemma, her mind unsettled.

"Snow Maiden, what should we do?" Ice Emperor also saw the difficulty, her tone heavy.

Snow Emperor forced herself to calm down.

She took a deep breath and stopped trying to interfere with the lightning. Instead, she condensed her vast, sea-like spiritual power into a single thread, cautiously probing toward the lightning-wrapped Xue Chen to carefully sense his true internal state.

She was prepared to sense pain, lethargy, or even trauma.

However, when her spiritual power touched Xue Chen's body, what she felt was not any of the negative states she had expected, but a surge of... vigorous, burgeoning vitality!

A powerful force of blood and energy, like a volcano gathering strength or a river rushing forth!

Xue Chen's blood and energy were not in the slightest bit weakened; on the contrary, they were climbing and strengthening at a staggering, frantic speed!

His meridians were widening under the flow of lightning, his bones were becoming denser, and his entire body seemed to be undergoing a transformation, as if being tempered anew!

Snow Emperor opened her eyes abruptly, her ice-blue eyes filled with unbelievable astonishment, even carrying a trace of bewilderment.

"This... what is happening?"

She murmured in a low voice, the scene before her completely exceeding the scope of her understanding.

"What is it, Snow Maiden?"

Seeing the shifting expressions on Snow Emperor's face, Ice Emperor could not help but ask urgently.

Snow Emperor's gaze remained locked on Xue Chen, her beautiful face carrying a trace of confusion she herself had not noticed. She spoke slowly, her tone filled with incredulous confirmation:

"Chen'er... he seems to be absorbing the lightning power brought by this thunder punishment!"

Once these words were spoken, they exploded in the ears of Ice Emperor and Xiao Bai like a thunderclap on flat ground.

"What did you say? Little Chen is absorbing the power of the heavenly tribulation?!"

Ice Emperor's voice rose sharply, filled with a sense of absurdity.

She had lived for four hundred thousand years and had experienced several heavenly tribulations, each one a difficult struggle between destruction and rebirth. When had she ever seen, or even heard of, someone being able to absorb the power of a heavenly tribulation as if it were nourishment?

This was simply a subversion of the understanding of the laws of heaven and earth!

Xiao Bai also opened his mouth wide, his massive bear head shaking as he wondered if he had suffered auditory hallucinations from being struck by lightning.

Snow Emperor nodded with difficulty, the shock still lingering in her ice-blue eyes:

"Although it is hard to believe, my perception cannot be wrong... His blood and energy are growing frantically... This lightning is not hurting him; instead, it is... perfecting him!"

Hearing Snow Emperor's affirmative answer, the two Far North rulers looked back at Xue Chen, who was wrapped in docile electric light with his aura climbing step by step. Their expressions were like those of people in a dream, filled with disbelief.

This had completely exceeded the scope of their understanding.

Meanwhile, Xue Chen, wrapped in lightning, was immersed in a strange sensation.

He clearly felt waves of pure and majestic energy pouring into his limbs and bones!

Every cell was cheering and leaping; his blood and energy were surging like a tidal wave, constantly hitting new heights, and his physical strength was undergoing a qualitative leap.

But at the same time, a deeper sense of anomaly came from within his body.

Under the scouring of the surging lightning power, he felt as if something deep within his body...

An invisible barrier was being struck by this external force, and it seemed that something long-sealed was stirring, attempting to break through the seal!

Just then, Snow Emperor keenly sensed that in the massive lightning black hole above the Ice Crystal Palace, destructive energy was gathering frantically once more, with an aura even more terrifying than before condensing and compressing!

The second thunder punishment was about to descend!

Snow Emperor looked up abruptly at the hole in the palace roof, her eyes instantly becoming incomparably sharp and heavy.

Although Xue Chen's current state was strange and seemingly beneficial, the might of this heavenly tribulation was no lie, and the destructive energy it contained made even her feel a palpitation.

She dared not gamble; she dared not gamble on whether Xue Chen could truly withstand this second thunder punishment, which was clearly stronger!

"Ice!"

Snow Emperor made a prompt decision, her voice carrying an unquestionable tone. "You stay here and watch over Xue Chen!"

Ice Emperor followed Snow Emperor's gaze toward the black hole in the sky, where terrifying power was brewing, and instantly understood her intention.

She intended to take action personally to meet this second heavenly tribulation head-on!

Although the scale of this tribulation was alarming, Ice Emperor had absolute confidence in Snow Emperor's strength. With her foundation of nearly seven hundred thousand years of cultivation, the energy level of this tribulation was not enough to truly threaten her.

"Snow Maiden, be careful."

Ice Emperor did not dissuade her, merely offering a solemn word of caution.

She knew this was the safest approach for now; it would protect Xue Chen from being struck directly by the lightning tribulation while simultaneously verifying the true target of the calamity.

Snow Emperor gave a slight nod, saying nothing more.

The aura around her shifted abruptly; the coldness that had been restrained like a sealed glacier erupted with a roar!

The temperature inside the entire Ice Crystal Palace plummeted, as if the very air were about to freeze solid.

With a light tap of her jade feet, her figure transformed into a brilliant streak of white light, piercing through the structure to hover above the Ice Crystal Palace, facing the terrifying black hole churning with purple-gold lightning!

Against the backdrop of the sky-filling dark clouds and violent thunder, her exquisite figure appeared so small, yet it radiated a majestic momentum capable of contending with the might of heaven and earth!

Ice Emperor withdrew her gaze from Snow Emperor and refocused on Xue Chen, her emerald eyes filled with tension and curiosity.

She wanted to see just how many more incredible things this little monster could bring about.

Inside the palace, Xiao Bai also tensed his massive body, standing guard vigilantly beside Xue Chen and Ice Emperor, his bear eyes fixed unblinkingly on the sky, ready to respond to any unexpected developments at a moment's notice.

As for Xue Chen, he seemed completely unaware of the impending second wave of impact, remaining immersed in that strange state where the thunder surged through his body and his seals began to loosen.

The sound of his blood rushing through his veins even faintly drowned out the dull rumbling of thunder outside the palace.

Snow Emperor stood proudly, solitary atop the shattered dome of the Ice Crystal Palace.

The dark clouds hung low, and purple-gold serpents of electricity danced wildly within the vortex-like black hole, casting flickering light upon her white robes and blue hair.

She looked up, her ice-blue eyes watching with calm, unruffled composure as the second lightning tribulation rapidly coalesced—its energy signature far more immense than the first!

It must not be allowed to fall! Snow Emperor's resolve was set.