Heavenly Tribulation.
Above the great hall, heavy clouds churned and rolled like lead, countless silver-serpent flashes of lightning darting through them amid incessant thunder.
The Thunder Pool at the center was surrounded by layer upon layer of thunderclouds and seemed to boil.
Black-and-White Thunder crisscrossed within the pool, leaping ceaselessly. The nature of tribulation punishment gathered at a single point, as though nurturing something that was about to emerge.
Inside the hall, Xu Xuan sat in the seat of honor with his eyes closed in concentration, his Spirit Sense already reaching quietly into the depths of the Cloud-Mountain Splendor Sea.
The purple mansion altar thunder he had been nurturing had reached perfection. Once he warmed and catalyzed it with his divine ability for a little longer, it would emerge.
Purple mansion altar thunder!
The thought of it stirred even Xu Xuan's heart.
This thunder should have been rarer and more precious than Sundial Clear Light, approaching the Heavenly Sun-Crow Flame that generations of the Fire Crow clan had enshrined. It was a wondrous spirit treasure of the highest order.
Altar thunder was rare in this world and seldom seen. Only certain ancient Dao lineages possessed it, and most kept it secret.
Steadying his thoughts, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Liu Shu Han, who stood attending below him.
Xu Xuan asked Shu Han about her cultivation in the Wu Household. The young woman answered fluently, showing no nervousness.
Only then did he learn that Shu Han had received the Devil Lord's inheritance: the Colorless Withering Demon Book.
A Golden Core-level withering qi inheritance, bestowed directly, no less, complete and intact.
Xu Xuan's heart stirred. Of everyone in the sect, Liu Shu Han now possessed the highest-ranked inheritance. Even his own could not compare.
Yet the Wu Household had