"Yes, this is excellent news." Cai Ling looked at the Purple Nether Flame Snake struggling through the lightning tribulation, its aura growing increasingly violent yet increasingly chaotic, and took out a red longbow.
"It feared I would come after it once I broke through, but it never expected me to come so soon."
"After all, if I had broken through the normal way, recovering and adjusting to my power would have taken quite some time."
"Its desperate gamble has actually saved us a great deal of trouble."
The transformation lightning tribulation was immensely powerful. Every bolt drained a vast amount of the Purple Nether Flame Snake's vitality and dou qi.
Even if it ultimately broke through to the seventh rank and received a gift of heaven and earth energy to heal some of its injuries, it would still be severely weakened, unable to unleash even a tenth of its full strength.
"Indeed, indeed." Hai Bodong nodded along beside her.
"I'll conceal our auras first, so it doesn't detect us and prepare." With a thought, Chu Zhou released his soul force, sealing off the space within a hundred feet.
The three stood in midair, their gazes fixed on the earth-shaking lightning tribulation above the distant canyon.
Pitch-black thunderclouds churned, and silver lightning struck like raging dragons, bombarding the enormous purple snake.
The Purple Nether Flame Snake's screams grew increasingly agonized. More and more wounds appeared on its body, and its dark purple flames dimmed.
Yet the madness in its scarlet eyes only intensified as it continued desperately devouring energy and battering the barrier to the seventh rank.
Time passed slowly. The lightning tribulation had lasted nearly an hour, but rather than weakening, it grew even more violent in its final stage.
The Purple Nether Flame Snake's enormous body was charred black,