"First, bow to Heaven..."
"Second, bow to the earth..."
"Third, bow to all living beings and the state..."
As the Kingdom Ascension Ceremony proceeded smoothly, winds rose and clouds surged above the Nine Dragons Imperial Capital. Thunderclouds gathered, and immense heavenly might descended out of nowhere, bearing down on everyone present.
But familiarity made it bearable. Compared with their several encounters with heavenly punishment, this degree of heavenly might and these celestial phenomena were hardly worth mentioning. They caused no change in the moods of Huan Emperor Xiao Ying and the others, who calmly continued doing what they needed to do!
Rumble...
Heavenly thunder rolled, and thunderclouds pressed down over the capital. Fierce astral winds and thunderclouds tangled with the nine-colored national fortune cloud, violently shredding it and turning the skies above the Nine Dragons Imperial Capital into a chaotic expanse. Countless people looked up in shock and astonishment.
Dazzling lightning enveloped the nine-colored national fortune cloud, blending its many colors into chaos; fierce astral winds tore at it, scattering it into countless fragments of brilliant color.
Crack...
Heavenly might surged. A thick bolt of heavenly lightning split the chaotic sky, pressing the clouds into restless ripples like a giant hand stirring heaven and earth. Then it forcibly cleaved a massive opening and struck toward the summit of the thousand-zhang Heaven-Sacrificing Altar.
"Heavenly tribulation?! The heavenly tribulation that tempered immortal bodies in the Primordial Era and earlier is actually targeting the Great Huan Dynasty's Kingdom Ascension Ceremony. It truly is an Imperial Court that defies Heaven! This tribulation was bound to come!"
"Just as expected. Without the blood balefulness of a human tribulation to cleanse it and gather the fortune of heaven and earth, it has drawn a heavenly tribulation instead!"
"Astral winds of the nine heavens, lightning tribulation of