The Dao Unfolded Above All

His Primordial Spirit rose and sat cross-legged upon Ziwei, solemn and majestic. Clad in a crown with twelve strands of hanging beads, he shone like a brilliant star high in the heavens, as though the Human Emperor had descended to the mortal world. He came down into the sixth heaven as a demon king and ghost emperor, commanding the ghosts within the banner and setting Reincarnation in motion.

The fifth heaven, Thunder Tribulation Heaven, opened!

The sixth heaven, Human Emperor Heaven, opened!

Lin Xian sat in solemn dignity as he walked through the sea of lightning. At times he seemed to tread the heavenly Dao like a qilin; at others, he resembled a Heavenly Venerable wielding lightning punishment. With every movement, the power of thunder manifested in five colors: red, green, black, white, and yellow.

It was as if he were not crossing a tribulation at all, but ruling Heavenly Tribulation from on high, transformed into the Thunder Emperor and commanding lightning to reward good, punish evil, and slay demons. For all their abilities, the three old monsters felt utterly stifled.

Their mighty Divine Sense was so thoroughly suppressed by the God-Striking Whip that they could not put it to use at all.

Their bonded treasures, refined over four thousand years, were not worth mentioning beside the Human Emperor Banner.

And their decaying bodies had already become those of the living dead. They instinctively feared lightning and dreaded even the slightest touch of it.

"Think you can get away?" Lin Xian's gaze shifted. Like a thunder god roaring and beating his drum, he sent peals of thunder shaking the universe. His five organs—heart, liver, lungs, spleen, and kidneys—linked to the fifth heaven of the Other Shore. Amid dragon roars and tiger howls, a bolt of heavenly lightning formed within his