Above Medicine King Mountain in the Zhao Kingdom, the gleaming lotus seedpod transformed amid spiritual radiance into the enormous spectral image of a volcano. A phantom sat atop it, like a god within the flames, sacred and majestic.
That dense, suffocating aura emanated from the spectral volcano.
In advancing from Nascent Soul to Spirit Transformation, cultivators could not only commune with and command heaven and earth, but also use great divine abilities to manifest a divine domain. The spectral volcano and lotus seedpod before them were the embryonic form of one.
The heavenly tribulation overhead also began churning and gathering, instantly darkening the surrounding sky until it was gloomy and oppressive.
This meant that White Medicine True Lord was already halfway through his breakthrough. He needed only to survive the lightning tribulation and inner demon tribulation to become a new Divine Lord.
Even Spirit Transformation cultivators dared not interfere with a sixth-stage lightning tribulation.
After all, lightning tribulations were manifestations of the Heavenly Dao, and cultivators could only face them themselves. If anyone else intervened, not only would the difficulty increase, but the interfering cultivator would also be drawn into the tribulation.
If a Spirit Transformation cultivator interfered in someone else's lightning tribulation, both might well perish together. Its power could exceed that of a normal tribulation tenfold.
That went all the more for Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators.
Furthermore, these lightning tribulations of the Heavenly Dao could even sense clones, making it virtually impossible to use a clone to sabotage another person's tribulation.
Yet the aura of the figure rushing out now gradually came to resemble Divine Lord Tiande's. That unmistakable presence clearly marked him as Divine Lord Tiande's clone.
At that moment, everyone had a foreboding feeling. Having gone to such lengths, Divine Lord Tiande could not