Chapter 2033: The Three-Nines Heavenly Tribulation. Three years later.
Noon.
The blazing sun hung high overhead.
Song Wen stood suspended above a small lake some hundred thousand li from the Divine Blood Sect.
For the past three years, Song Wen had lived with painstaking caution, scarcely using any magical power at all.
Yet as time passed, even the natural circulation of magical power through his meridians caused his cultivation to rise.
Although this increase was so minute as to be almost negligible, that tiny gain alone brought his cultivation to the peak of Tribulation Transcendence.
Thus, willing or not, he finally had no choice but to face the three-nines heavenly tribulation.
Twenty thousand li away, Ying Wu, Zhou Siyi, Bai Wei, and the others stood atop a tall mountain, gazing toward Song Wen. In truth, apart from Ying Wu, none of them could sense or see him at all.
Behind Ying Wu and the others, countless cultivators also stood in midair: elders and disciples of the Divine Blood Sect, along with rogue cultivators and cultivators from other factions who had come upon hearing the news.
To prevent the heavenly tribulation's destructive power from threatening the entire Divine Blood Sect, Song Wen had chosen a location outside the sect for this tribulation.
To prevent any interference during the tribulation, Ying Wu had already summoned the Insect Mother, the Kui Bull, and the late ninth-rank Void Dragon Vine to guard the other three directions.
The entire area within tens of thousands of li had effectively been sealed off. No outsiders or demonic beasts could possibly approach Song Wen.
Song Wen swept his gaze over the distant silhouettes and the vast land. His eyes grew ever sharper and more resolute before finally turning toward the high skies of the Nine Heavens.
He drove