World-Crossing Dharma Ark, Thunder Kindles Fire (Please Vote!)

The lightning tribulation had grown from the former nine bolts to the present eighteen of the second ninefold cycle.

Every cascading deluge of heavenly lightning was also far more blazing and ferocious than before.

But.

From beginning to end.

Before the dharma robe woven from seven overlapping nets of Dao arts.

It had to be said that Liu Dongqing faced this tribulation with even greater composure than before!

This meant.

The growth of Liu Dongqing's reserves of Dao arts had long since far outstripped the increase in the heavenly lightning itself throughout the nine rounds of lightning refinement in the Spirit Transformation Dao Lord realm.

Thus.

In the foreseeable future.

Provided no other upheaval disrupted Liu Dongqing's cultivation, the third, fourth, and even ninth ninefold cycles of heavenly lightning might sound increasingly terrifying, but he would face each one with greater ease than the last!

Precisely because of this.

When the rolling heavenly lightning crashed down for the tenth time.

Liu Dongqing had completely put aside his worries over the lightning tribulation's blazing ferocity and immersed himself fully in the refinement it brought.

In the comprehensive transformation of his body and soul, his Dao arts, and his Divine Embryo!

Boom—boom—boom—

Lightning struck again and again, and immense quantities of electro-mercury thunder pulp filled every corner of the Blessed-Land Domain.

When the final bolt of heavenly lightning descended with savage force.

Within the Divine Embryo.

The final portion of incense divine power evaporated completely into divine blood, merging into the Divine Embryo's essence. At the same time, after the Divine Embryo grew tougher and more substantial, an almost instinctive "hunger" erupted within it once more.

Its belly was empty again, and it "hungered and thirsted" for incense divine power even more intensely than before.

At that instant.

When that instinctive "hunger