[The disparity between Purple Bamboo and Bao Zhen became apparent the instant they clashed.]
[Purple Bamboo, who had swept through the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury unopposed, was now being subtly suppressed by the golden-robed youth!]
[The seven-colored peak spun like a bottomless abyss, swallowing every bolt of purple lightning filling the sky. More terrifying still, the peak could release those bolts exactly as they had been, blasting them back at Purple Bamboo!]
[The longer Purple Bamboo fought, the more frustrated he became.]
[He cultivated Divine Firmament Thunder, the First Thunder of the Twelve Palaces, unmatched in its ferocity and overwhelming might.]
[Yet his opponent happened to possess the body of a magical treasure.]
[Lightning arts were useless against him!]
[Just then—]
[Within the Taihua Sect, that sky-piercing pillar of light exploded once more!]
[Amid the churning three-colored thunder tribulation, a white figure shot into the sky and sat cross-legged at the center of Thunderclouds.]
[Three-colored heavenly lightning crashed down!]
[Lightning struck that golden body, bursting into countless tongues of thunderfire, yet failed to shake the seated white-robed figure in the slightest.]
[Xingyao watched from afar, his pupils contracting slightly.]
[Once Zhou Jing survived this heavenly lightning—]
[He would be a Supreme Grandmaster.]
[Today... would they truly let him survive the third nine heavenly tribulation?]
[Before that thought had settled, Thunderclouds changed again!]
[The three-colored lightning abruptly transformed. As the clouds churned, all manner of visions began to take shape.]
[Dragons and phoenixes coiled above; qilins galloped.]
[Auspicious beasts formed of lightning took shape within Thunderclouds, one after another!]
[At this sight, the sect masters of the Three Daos all narrowed their eyes.]
[Zhou Jing had survived the three-colored thunder tribulation.]
[If he could withstand this round of slaughter by auspicious beasts, the immense calamity of slaughter engulfing the Taihua Sect today