Lu Chen and his Immortal Gold Pagoda both entered the saint dao domain, completing a leap to a higher level of life.
For, in a certain sense, those within the saint dao and those beneath it were two different forms of life, fundamentally distinct from one another.
Only peerless prodigies whose brilliance dazzled the ages, or figures on the level of an emperor's own children, could glimpse the splendor of this domain before becoming Saints.
At that moment, the nine-tiered Saint Pagoda hovered above Lu Chen, radiant with immortal light and veiled in rosy radiance, completely blocking the lightning descending from the heavenly tribulation.
But he knew his Saint Tribulation would not be so simple. An aura of the imperial dao faintly permeated the depths of the sea of lightning. A greater threat was about to descend.
Lu Chen's black hair streamed behind him. His powerful body stood amid the stars, his cold eyes flashing like lightning as he gazed into the heavens like a god or demon.
"Absorb!"
With his sharp command, the Immortal Gold Saint Pagoda, forged from seven supreme materials, shuddered. A terrifying spatial vortex formed around it, swallowing every incoming bolt of lightning like a whale gulping down the sea, like an ox draining a river.
Saint might surged boundlessly, blanketing heaven and earth. Having crossed this threshold, his weapon had likewise undergone a qualitative transformation, sublimating its life and becoming a living weapon.
Now, the divine radiance of the lightning weakened, while an even more terrifying calamity brewed behind it.
Taking advantage of this interval, Lu Chen brought out the three portions of source of the dao he had seized in the Blood Trial Ground.
The three clusters of light exuded a gentle, auspicious aura and contained certain fundamental laws of the great dao. Merging