With a heaven-shaking, earth-rocking boom, blood-red heavenly tribulation lightning blasted down from an enormous vortex of dark tribulation clouds in the sky...
The Immortal-Thief Outsider released dozens of baleful spirits shimmering with gray light. They formed an enormous defensive formation and roared furiously as they moved to intercept the blood-red heavenly tribulation lightning, ten thousand zhang across...
A relentless chain of booms erupted in quaking bursts of light. The gray-lit baleful spirits forming the defensive formation were struck by the blood-red heavenly tribulation lightning, twisting, collapsing, and exploding one after another.
The Immortal-Thief Outsider's face turned deathly pale, his mind and spirit trembling. Gritting his teeth, he opened his mouth and spat a great mouthful of blood mist into the baleful spirit formation.
At once, the swirling baleful spirits unleashed astonishing ripples of blood-colored light. A boundless, formidable aura surged from their bodies as they swept together around the heavenly tribulation lightning and battered it...
A continuous series of muffled booms erupted. The baleful spirits, aglow with blood-red runes and bloody light, began bursting apart one after another, canceling out and annihilating the heavenly tribulation lightning.
Dozens of li away, Ye Han and Bai Daozi watched the scene and both breathed sighs of relief.
"It looks like Old Thief has weathered this tribulation," Bai Daozi said.
Ye Han nodded as well. "Luckily, it was a minor heavenly tribulation. Otherwise, we'd have been in trouble."
Sure enough, as the baleful spirits battered that bolt of blood-red heavenly tribulation lightning into oblivion, the dark tribulation clouds in the sky began to disperse...
Not a trace of color remained in the Immortal-Thief Outsider's face. To transcend the tribulation, he had just spat out a great mouthful of essence blood containing the blood essence of his meridians. The expenditure had been staggering...
Worse still,