The stray threads of lightning continued to sink, plunging toward Su Shi'er below.
However, with the lightning essence bearing most of the heavenly thunder's power, these threads of lightning, though formidable, were at most equivalent to the might of a normal second tribulation.
For Su Shi'er, they were not impossible to endure.
Without using any Magical Treasure, Su Shi'er directly received the threads of lightning with his body, actively guiding the lightning's power into his Dantian Small Universe to batter against the barrier of his cultivation realm.
The realm barrier that had originally seemed like an impassable chasm, solid as a boulder, appeared to gain an imperceptibly tiny crack beneath the lightning's assault.
Yet this level of impact was clearly still insufficient for Su Shi'er to break through that invisible barrier of cultivation.
"Is that... the legendary lightning essence?"
"What a Su Shi'er. He actually has such a spiritual creature hidden on him."
"Unfortunately, this lightning essence has incomplete intelligence and possesses only the simple instincts of a wild beast. Its absorption and refinement of heavenly tribulation power are entirely instinctive."
"Moreover, the lightning essence is limited in strength. Resisting one heavenly thunderbolt head-on is already its limit."
"For the final eighteenth heavenly thunderbolt, this brat will inevitably have to use that Half-Immortal Artifact Treasure Umbrella if he wants to withstand it!"
"With the power contained within the Half-Immortal Artifact Treasure Umbrella, blocking the final tribulation lightning should not be much of a problem."
"Surviving a heavenly tribulation of such power will benefit the brat considerably. However... his future third tribulation, and even the Loose Immortal heavenly tribulations to come, will also become several times more powerful because of the changes in this tribulation."
"But that has nothing to do with me! The Eight Directions Dragon Locking Formation has been