Ye Tian stood within the deathly silent starry expanse manifested by the Immortal-Slaying Ancient Formation.
Above, below, and in every direction lay endless nothingness, with only cold stars casting a ghostly glow.
The all-pervading Dao resonance of oblivion and invisible pressure began to seep in, seeking to corrode his emperor body.
They sought to unravel his Dao heart and shatter him into oblivion.
Yet Ye Tian's emperor body was flawless, and his chaotic qi-blood circulated ever so slightly.
That alone shut out every harmful influence, leaving him impervious to all arts.
"What will the first trial be?"
His gaze was calm, like an ancient well or a deep pool.
As though answering his thoughts—
Crack—BOOM!!!
Without warning, the deathly silent starry expanse shook violently!
Countless hideous, pitch-black fissures abruptly split open in the nothingness around him!
Then hundreds of millions of terrifying thunderbolts, thick as mountains and dark purple with destruction, surged forth like world-destroying giant pythons breaking free of their cages.
They carried a savage will to tear apart the heavens and annihilate all arts.
They erupted madly from those fissures, instantly filling the entire firmament!
Yet these raging thunderbolts were utterly different from those of the earlier chaos emperor tribulation!
They were not chaos-colored, but a pure, ultimate dark purple—the color of the very source of destructive force!
Wherever they passed, the void collapsed and runes shattered.
Every thunderbolt contained countless fine, densely packed Great Dao runes.
Those Great Dao runes twisted and screamed, terrifying enough to chill the heart and make anyone afraid to look directly at them.
They radiated an annihilating aura that could shatter even a Great Emperor's divine soul!
Their power exceeded ordinary heavenly tribulation lightning by far more than a hundredfold!
Sensing it through the celestial screen, everyone in the plaza below felt