If only the roles of master and disciple could be switched...
"Master..."
Amid the tribulation, Li Qingjue silently sighed in her heart.
The clarity that had filled her eyes since reuniting with Tan Lin was now utterly drowned by loneliness and ruthlessness.
It was as though she had become a different person. Within her heart, a vicious wyrm rose from the water and stirred up a storm.
It was as if the Ruthless One from years ago had returned—the one whose master had "died," who had needed to stand alone for a long time, raising mountains of corpses and seas of blood among the stars.
Those years of experience had long shaped her into this person. She had slain every prodigy who contended with her, taken their Origin, and devoured and refined it.
This was a road paved with blood, one that could subtly alter a person's nature.
Yet after meeting that person again, she had constantly suppressed and controlled herself, doing her best to show her quiet, serene side before her master.
But with her emotions now clashing so violently, she could no longer maintain that former balance.
Rumble...
Within the Heavenly Tribulation, the ruthless and indifferent Li Qingjue forcibly restrained herself. She no longer looked at Tan Lin and focused entirely on crossing the tribulation.
Perhaps only this could suppress her urge to disregard everything, halt the Heavenly Tribulation's descent, rush to Tan Lin's aid, and fight at his side...
Rumble!
The tribulation clouds churned. A second Undying Medicine manifested within the lightning, after which a human face opened its mouth. Terrifying supreme Dao laws crashed down as tribulation lightning.
It was an Imperial Dao Tribulation, terrifying beyond measure. Every bolt of lightning carried the might to destroy the world.
Whoosh...
Hundreds of millions of strands of black