Generally speaking, a spirit tribulation would only take on physical form at the ninth strike, and Sovereign Dharma Bodies that could draw down a manifested spirit tribulation at that stage were almost always among the highest-ranked of the Great Thousand World's ninety-nine grades of Sovereign Dharma Body...
Yet someone within the Immortal Fox Sect had actually drawn down nine spirit tribulations, all of them manifested. It truly overturned everything they thought they knew...
While the powerhouses in those secluded places reeled in shock, the nine enormous dragon-shaped spirit tribulations stirred again. The nine dragons roared, and amid those cries that shook heaven and earth, the nine tribulation dragons slowly began to fuse together!
As the nine dragons merged, multicolored radiance shrouded the Heavenly Expanse, bathing Heaven and Earth in a layer of wondrous light!
"Roar!"
Within that multicolored radiance, a colossal dragon ten thousand zhang long spanned Heaven and Earth. As it roared, pitch-black spatial rifts tore open across the firmament beneath the force of its cry!
"Nine manifested lightning tribulations, and now all nine have become one..."
Liu Yu raised his eyes slightly, looking toward the colossal multicolored dragon that blotted out the sky and sun.
Strictly speaking, breaking through from Sovereign to Earth Sovereign required overcoming two ordeals.
The first ordeal was shattering the Sovereign Sea.
Shattering the Sovereign Sea meant turning that single Sovereign Sea into Sovereign Seas present throughout the body, so that every piece of flesh contained one... Simply put, it meant reshaping the physical body with Spiritual Energy.
Liu Yu had long since undergone that reshaping. Without the slightest exaggeration, every piece of flesh on his body contained forbidden power—the power of gods and demons!
To give a somewhat inappropriate example, if someone could cut a piece of flesh from Liu Yu's body and