The Thunder Pool churned, and the heavenly tribulation was a prison of torment. Purple lightning streaked across the sky like true dragons, shattering one Immortal Realm Law after another. Countless rays of immortal light blazed forth as Order Divine Chains wove a net spanning heaven and earth, enveloping the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. It was as though an ancestral god who had created the world had arrived from the primordial wilderness to judge all living things.
An enormous black hand covered the heavens single-handedly, disregarding the achievements of the Great Accomplished Saint Physique lineage as it sought to force a tribulation upon them.
Lofty, cold, and merciless, it sought their extermination, looking down upon the mortal world from a station beyond anything the beings of the Human World could imagine.
Never mind appealing to the Heavenly Dao-even if they took their complaint to Beyond the Empyrean, the response would be, "Who stands before this court, and why are you suing this very official?"
A calamity more terrifying than the ninefold immortal tribulation, more powerful than the Sacred Body's great accomplishment tribulation, had been born.
"I am the lord of all heavens. All immortals obey my command."
The majestic figure amid the sea of lightning seemed truly to be the legendary lord of the Immortal Court, the supreme Heavenly Emperor before whom all immortals bowed. His words became law, his mouth pronounced heaven's decrees, and all the myriad Daos of the heavens stirred at his command.
Beast-shaped bolts of lightning emerged one after another, so lifelike they seemed to be living creatures. Kun Peng spread its wings, blotting out the sky and sun. As the twin energies of yin and yang circulated, they parted the void, carrying a vast momentum that seemed able to embrace every river and devour heaven