"Rumble..."
After Xiang Nantian's shout, black clouds suddenly churned across the firmament overhead, and a powerful force of tribulation lightning rapidly gathered within them.
At the sight, Xu Taiping's heart tightened, and he said:
"That punch Eldest Brother Xiang just threw, and the aura he's giving off now-never mind the Heaven Shocking Realm, they're probably beyond even the Dao Integration Realm. If this continues, powerful tribulation lightning will surely descend."
After all, he had witnessed Jing Xian of Ningchan Cave being struck into flying ash by the tribulation lightning sent down by the Heavenly Dao Edict.
"Eldest Brother Xiang, that tribulation lightning is about to fall. Why don't you come hide in the Dragon-Trapping Tower with me?"
Xiang Nantian turned toward Xu Taiping with a broad grin and declined:
"Thank you for your kindness, brother, but mere edict-sent tribulation lightning can't hurt this elder brother of yours!"
As though answering him, the instant Xiang Nantian finished speaking, a thick, blinding bolt suddenly descended from the tribulation clouds without warning, striking straight at him.
"Boom!"
Amid the tremendous crash, Xiang Nantian's figure was swallowed by that terrifying power of thunder.
The power of thunder within this tribulation lightning far exceeded that of tribulation lightning summoned or nurtured by cultivators.
Even Xu Taiping's thunderflame, if not fully fused by his own power, would have been far weaker in killing power than this tribulation lightning.
"Hm?"
But what left Xu Taiping and all the spectating cultivators aghast was this.
After taking that bolt of tribulation lightning head-on, Xiang Nantian had not only survived-he had not suffered even the slightest injury.
Just then, that cold, hoarse voice rang out again from beyond the firmament:
"And here I wondered who it was. So it's those two wandering ghosts from the Third Watch Observatory!"
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