Wu Changkong crouched down, grabbed a handful of scorched earth and rubbed it between his fingers. Then he looked up at the sky and murmured, "I think... it was a Thunder Tribulation."
"What's a Thunder Tribulation?" Xue Wu asked.
Wu Changkong explained, "When soul beasts reach a certain stage and their cultivation becomes too high, they attract heavenly lightning from the world itself. That is a Thunder Tribulation."
"It is a hurdle after one hundred thousand years of arduous cultivation. If they overcome it, they are reborn. If they fail, they are reduced to ashes."
"This kind of Thunder Tribulation is extremely destructive and covers a wide area. Judging by the size of this crater... I'd guess the soul beast undergoing the tribulation had at least two hundred thousand years of cultivation."
Upon hearing that, Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu exchanged a look, their shock beyond words.
Just imagining a soul beast with over two hundred thousand years of cultivation undergoing tribulation made their scalps tingle.
Dugu Bo had been standing with his hands behind his back, staring at the scorched ground. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed. "Wait. I sense an aura over there."
"Where?"
He pointed toward the edge of the crater, behind a massive boulder blackened by lightning.
"Over there."
Dugu Bo's figure flickered, and he was already standing behind the charred boulder.
He glanced down, then suddenly let out a soft sound of surprise and beckoned to them. "Come take a look."
Wu Changkong and the other two hurried over. Once they rounded the boulder, all three froze.
There was actually an egg on the ground.
The egg was half the height of a person, entirely emerald green, its shell covered in patterns.
A green glow still lingered on the surface of the shell, brightening and dimming as