The peace of the once dark, silent universe shattered at that moment. Endless lightning and countless tribulation punishments came swarming in. Taiyin, Taiyang, five elements, chaos, and innumerable other heavenly tribulations intertwined, all of them the greatest, most terrifying lightning tribulations in ancient history.
The ocean of lightning tribulation continued to spread, its immense expanse almost covering the Taiyang System. Earth, that little ball of a backwater planet, was utterly inconspicuous within the magnificent lightning sea.
It seemed a single wave could overturn it.
Those bolts of lightning were simply too dazzling, like countless seas of stars crashing down, terrifying to the extreme.
On this day, the foolish Earthlings felt the malice of someone from the Big Dipper.
But the next moment, divine light shone within Hangu Pass. Invisible fluctuations intertwined with emperor aura, tracing incomparably intricate imperial patterns of the void.
One of the four emperor formations guarding Hangu Pass activated. The power of the boundless void was stirred, and space overlapped, turning a step away into the ends of the earth.
The lightning skirted Earth and spread farther outward.
It was as though it and Earth existed on different planes.
Not long before, inside Hangu Pass, the Flame Emperor had sat before the Shennong Cauldron, continually refining medicinal herbs and divine objects to replenish Emperor's Daughter Kui's reserves and heal the wounds she had suffered fighting Chi You.
Sensing a newborn surge of saint power rising above Earth, the Flame Emperor looked over curiously. "He became a Saint?"
"Oh, with that boy's aptitude, becoming a Saint seems only natural." The Flame Emperor examined him with interest. "I wonder how he compares to the disciples of Laozi and Sakyamuni?"
As a Near-Dao Accomplisher who possessed an emperor body, he naturally had the qualifications to comment on beings at the