Badan, standing off to the side, looked toward the stream of powerful figures arriving one after another in the distance, and his breathing could not help but hitch slightly. He could sense an utterly terrifying aura from these people!
Every one of them was far stronger than he was!
Fortunately, he could now freely enlarge and shrink himself, and had long since changed his body to the size of an ordinary person. Otherwise, he would have been far too conspicuous right now.
He had absolutely no intention of protecting Chen Qiu.
Leaving aside whether he could protect him at all.
There was no need for his protection anyway. With this Heavenly Tribulation, if some insignificant person truly tried to interfere or play dirty tricks, one careless misstep into the tribulation would be enough to leave them waiting for death.
Heaven-and-Earth Power gradually began to gather.
The tribulation clouds overhead continued to condense as well.
And so it went.
A full half hour passed. The Heavenly Tribulation looked as though it would descend the very next moment, yet it kept flirting with arrival without actually falling. The spectators around them were in no hurry at all; after all, they were not pressed for this brief moment.
As the saying went, good food was never spoiled by being late. Besides, half an hour was not even enough time for them to circulate their cultivation techniques through one full cycle.
Chen Qiu, however, was beginning to lose patience.
"Ah."
Chen Qiu hovered high in the air and sighed softly. Every tribulation was like this, always making him wait forever, as if it absolutely had to gather enough power to strike him dead. Just then—
Rumble!!!
A deafening clap of heavenly thunder suddenly erupted. Immediately afterward, a blinding flash of light cut through the