The instant Liu Changxu's golden core fully took shape, spiritual energy began gathering in the previously clear, cloudless sky above the Ascension Pavilion. Dark clouds gradually formed over several miles, then rapidly expanded as time passed, soon covering nearly a hundred miles and standing in stark contrast to the vast, clear skies beyond.
The roiling black clouds stretched for nearly a hundred miles, bearing down like Mount Tai and filling the cultivators beneath them with the oppressive terror of an impending apocalypse. They fled outward in droves, knowing that a cultivator was undergoing core formation and that they had to get away quickly to avoid being caught in the lightning tribulation.
Yet the sight of a cultivator forming a core and undergoing Tribulation Transcendence drew even more cultivators toward the area. These were Foundation Establishment cultivators coming to observe the process. Since they would have to form their own cores someday, they naturally could not pass up this rare opportunity.
"No one is to come within a hundred miles of the Ascension Pavilion!"
His master, Su Hao, channeled his magic power into a thunderous shout that carried for a hundred miles.
After receiving this warning from Su Hao, a Golden Core cultivator, the Foundation Establishment cultivators who had wanted to get closer flew beyond the hundred-mile boundary.
Once Su Hao saw the Foundation Establishment cultivators moving away as instructed, he too hurriedly flew a hundred miles away.
He had warned them to leave to prevent anyone from interfering with Liu Changxu's Tribulation Transcendence.
When a cultivator underwent Tribulation Transcendence, other cultivators coming too close could easily cause the lightning tribulation to grow even more powerful and destructive.
Not long after Su Hao left, serpents of lightning suddenly danced wildly through the heavy black clouds. The wind and clouds shifted abruptly,