Shattering the Void (Part 1)
The Eight Steps Against Calamity—the first Dao technique unleashed from the Thunder Virtue Heavenly Book—possessed incomparably tyrannical power.
The lightning tribulation triggered by the Eight Steps Against Calamity was not a true heavenly lightning tribulation, but a tribulation of the heart.
It was a terrifying lightning born from within, drawn forth from the depths of an immortal's heart by their fear of heavenly tribulations, making it utterly impossible to guard against.
Chen Xiao's eight steps harmonized with the laws of heavenly tribulation. Aside from merging with a heavenly tribulation, this was one of the methods Chen Xiao used to wield the laws of heavenly tribulation directly against his enemies. However, attacking enemies through the laws of heavenly tribulation directly also exacted a terrifying cost from Chen Xiao himself.
Now, at this very moment, the immortal yuan within Chen Xiao's body had been completely drained, without even a trace remaining.
Had the Thunder Virtue Heavenly Book not protected him from within, and had he not had the Kingdom of All Beings at his back, he would likely have made a complete fool of himself this time.
Within the Kingdom of All Beings, a high-grade ancestral vein slowly burned. Boundless spiritual power transformed into streams of dense primal energy that poured into Chen Xiao's body.
His dried-up meridians were nourished once more, and the pallor on Chen Xiao's face gradually faded.
"With my current strength, I'm simply incapable of fully executing the Eight Steps Against Calamity. At most, I can take four steps."
At last, Chen Xiao felt somewhat reassured. The spiritual power contained within one high-grade ancestral vein was nearly dozens of times that of a low-grade ancestral vein. In other words, one high-grade ancestral vein was equivalent to dozens of low-grade ancestral veins.
And Chen