A Single Word Learned from Three Heavenly Tribulations: Kill!

The entire ice field of the Extreme North was shrouded by the oppressive might of this heavenly tribulation.

Even the air had grown somewhat heavy, as though it would crush everything into pieces.

The four present—

Ice Empress, A-Tai, Xiaobai, and Ling Xiao—all felt that terrifying pressure at the same time.

Ice Empress's face instantly turned pale. "Th-this... what kind of heavenly tribulation is this?"

Ice Empress's heavenly tribulation had already been terrifying, yet compared with Snow Empress's, it truly fell short.

Ling Xiao clenched his teeth as his senses were magnified to their limit.

He clearly sensed the Divine Realm Sealing Law, as well as the Dragon God Shackles Law.

Laws unique to soul beast heavenly tribulations.

The higher a soul beast's origin, bloodline, and years of cultivation, the stronger the suppression of its heavenly tribulation.

Its essence was to completely sever the path for soul beasts to ascend and become gods.

Because of the Dragon God's own mistake, all soul beasts had to suffer punishment for generations!

Ling Xiao could not help clenching his fists.

The heavenly tribulation officially began.

The first tribulation lightning descended.

Dark golden lightning, like a giant dragon falling from the heavens, carried an aura that could destroy everything as it struck straight toward Snow Empress.

However, Snow Empress was indeed Snow Empress.

After restoring her origin, even a seven-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation seemed effortless to her.

No wonder she had said those words.

Snow Empress merely raised a hand slightly, and an ice shield appeared, instantly catching that bolt of tribulation lightning.

The dark golden lightning exploded against the ice shield, and cracks immediately spread across the barrier.

Yet Snow Empress repaired it with a casual wave.

The second, the third... bolts of heavenly lightning descended upon Snow Empress one after another.

Every bolt carried sealing power, suppressing and strangling Snow Empress on the level of laws.

Yet Snow Empress remained calm and composed.

As it continued—

Snow Empress slowly revealed her true form. The Heavenly Snow Woman gradually appeared in the air.

That figure looked exactly like Snow Empress, except she stood dozens of meters tall.

Her long hair was like a true waterfall, while her eyes resembled two icy stars in the sky.

With the power of the Heavenly Snow Woman's true form, she directly withstood the bombardment of the heavenly tribulation head-on.

Bolt after bolt of tribulation lightning fell, all of them blocked by the Heavenly Snow Woman's true form.

At this rate, Snow Empress could pass this heavenly tribulation very smoothly.

However, the heavenly tribulation that was about to subside—

Because of the predetermined causality in the original story, began attempting to correct Snow Empress's existence.

Thus, the heavenly lightning gathering next completely exceeded Snow Empress's expectations.

A bolt of tribulation lightning mixed with the power of causality crashed down directly from the tribulation clouds.

"Boom~!"

The heavenly lightning instantly struck the Heavenly Snow Woman, who immediately shrank back to her normal size.

"Pfft~!"

Snow Empress spat out a mouthful of blood.

Her body swayed violently in midair, and she looked as though she might fall at any moment.

The thunderclouds gave her no chance to catch her breath as they slowly began gathering an even stronger bolt of heavenly lightning.

Just as she was about to fail to endure it, a figure stepped directly in front of her.

His hair fluttered in the lightning, and the thunder pattern between his brows glimmered faintly.

It was Ling Xiao.

He was no longer a little thing. He had grown into a handsome youth.

However, something no one had expected happened.

The heavenly lightning actually turned.

Just as it was about to strike Ling Xiao, it carved an eerie arc through the air.

It bypassed Ling Xiao, who stood in front of her, and blasted directly toward Snow Empress behind him.

"What?!"

Ling Xiao's pupils suddenly contracted. The moment he realized what had happened, he rushed toward Snow Empress.

Caught off guard, Snow Empress was struck directly by that turning bolt of heavenly lightning.

"Pfft~!"

Another mouthful of blood spilled from her lips.

Her body completely lost balance and fell straight from the sky.

In the distance, everyone who saw this froze where they stood.

They never could have imagined that the tribulation lightning from before could actually turn.

Causality had targeted Snow Empress. No matter where Ling Xiao stood, the heavenly lightning would bypass him and carry out the causality it was meant to judge.

At this moment, the heavenly lightning continued, as though it intended to correct the outcome of Snow Empress's certain death.

"Rumble..."

The thunderclouds brewed an even stronger bolt of heavenly lightning. The next one would be more powerful than the last.

"Mom!"

Ling Xiao rushed over.

He charged straight to Snow Empress's side and caught the falling Snow Empress in his arms.

Ling Xiao directly released the Thunder Spirit origin, completely enveloping Snow Empress within lightning.

That lightning of causality crashed down, striking both Ling Xiao and Snow Empress directly.

The power of a seven-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation made the process of devouring and absorbing it even more painful than before.

Ling Xiao gritted his teeth, using his own body to shield Snow Empress from the corrosion of causality.

The power of causality contained within it also gradually fused into Ling Xiao.

The heavenly lightning continued bombarding the two of them.

One bolt after another.

As though it intended to annihilate them both together.

"Xue'er! You little burden!"

"Snow Empress!"

"Mom!"

The cries of Ice Empress and the other two were instantly drowned out by the unending roar of thunder.

Ling Xiao madly devoured everything within the heavenly lightning, including the causal entanglements contained inside.

Heavenly lightning surged wildly into his body. His cultivation began to rise once more, his origin became purer, and his comprehension of laws grew deeper.

With the descent of the final tribulation bolt, everything gradually returned to calm.

The tribulation clouds began to slowly disperse.

The sky returned to its normal color.

Sunlight streamed through gaps in the clouds, illuminating the ravaged ice field.

Yet no one knew whether Snow Empress and Ling Xiao within were still alive.

Ice Empress had just wanted to fly forward to inspect them when she saw a figure emerge from the clouds.

Ling Xiao.

He slowly walked down from the peak of the clouds.

A trace of blood hung at the corner of his mouth, and his robes were covered in scorch marks.

And in his arms—

Snow Empress was held securely in a bridal carry. Aside from the streak of red at the corner of her lips, she had no other wounds on her body.

Clearly, Ling Xiao had protected Snow Empress very well during the final tribulation lightning.

Countless arcs of lightning lay beneath Ling Xiao's feet as he slowly descended from the sky.

Looking back on these three heavenly tribulations—

The Four-Element Law, Seven-Element Law, Spatial Law, Divine Realm Sealing Law, Dragon God Shackles Law, and Causal Judgment Law.

Ling Xiao had gained a sufficiently deep understanding of the Thunder Origin Law and the Soul-Annihilation Law.

More importantly...

Among all laws, within the deepest reaches of ultimate destruction, he had completely comprehended a single word.

Kill!

The Ultimate Annihilation Law!

Locking down space was for annihilation.

Sealing the God Realm was for annihilation.

The polar opposites of light and darkness were for annihilation.

The elemental laws merely found different ways to kill.

Causal judgment was ultimate annihilation.

All laws, at their root, had only one purpose: kill!

The essence of heavenly tribulations was annihilation.

As an Innate Chaos Thunder Spirit, Ling Xiao fed on heavenly lightning and took thunder as his origin. The first law he comprehended was: kill!

Heavenly tribulations were not gentle purification, and thunder was not merciful salvation.

They were merciless killing!

Having witnessed these earthshaking heavenly tribulations, Ling Xiao comprehended only one word—kill!

This first comprehension of the Thunder Law would completely alter Ling Xiao's path of cultivation.