The instant the mighty Heavenly Tribulation descended, Maheshvara Heaven unleashed endless thunder and struck down the Black Sun Ghost King.
Su Che's vital energy took a grievous blow.
The Black Sun Ghost King had long since become part of Ruomu, and Ruomu had merged with his Dao Foundation. When the ghost king was struck by the Heavenly Tribulation's lightning, it was as though Su Che himself had been struck. He felt, from one remove, the overwhelming might of heaven and earth.
Tribulation Lightning was nothing like ordinary Thunder Arts. It made no distinction between Yin, Yang, or the Four Forms. It struck at a cultivator's Dao Foundation where it was weakest, crushing it with absolute force. Unless that foundation had been tempered a thousand times and made perfectly whole, the lightest touch would grind a lifetime of cultivation to dust.
The Black Sun Ghost King had a ghostly body. The moment the Tribulation Lightning touched him, it turned into the fiercest Great Sun True Fire, using the sun's power to shatter that body. Netherfire and foul winds followed, burning both form and spirit to ash from within.
In a single instant, even a Void Step Ghost Cultivator as formidable as the Black Sun Ghost King was reduced to nothing beneath the Tribulation Lightning.
Under normal circumstances, there could have been no surviving it.
But these were not normal circumstances.
The path the Black Sun Ghost King had joined was the Primordial Sacred Dao—or, to put it plainly, the methods of the Devil Sect.
Though he was a Ghost Cultivator, the combined efforts of the Dharma-Ending Demon Master and Su Che had brought him an important step toward devil cultivation.
His ghostly body was destroyed, but his Demonic Sense remained.
Su Che knew that the "Dharma-Ending Three Realms-Subduing Wisdom King Outer