The Eastern Emperor's true body likewise pressed forward without hesitation, risking his life in battle against the humanoid lightning.
The battle was incomparably brutal. Even someone as powerful as Taiyi, facing a "self" equal to him in strength, possessing all his secret techniques, never tiring and never exhausting his divine power, had his physical body shattered several times. Even his Immortal Platform was nearly pierced by his own humanoid lightning.
But after surviving peril after peril, he ultimately emerged victorious from this unparalleled battle. He cleaved that humanoid lightning apart, then blasted it to pieces in the starry sky with a peerlessly invincible Eastern Emperor World-Subduing Fist.
Yet his tribulation was still not over.
Bolts of humanoid lightning descended from the heavens, all of them marks of Ancient Great Emperors.
Across the endless ages, many Ancient Great Emperors and Primordial Emperors had left their footprints on the Divine Other Shore.
The Eastern Emperor did not use the secret technique Three Pure Ones Return to One Qi to share the pressure with his Dao bodies.
Alone, his momentum arcing like a rainbow, valiant and invincible, he fought those bolts of humanoid lightning heedless of life and death, using these marks of Ancient Great Emperors to temper himself.
In the fierce battles, he fought drenched in blood, growing braver with every clash, displaying terrifying combat strength and sweeping away all before him.
Fist seals, the Chaos Bell, the Heavenly Dao Battle Box, the Immortal Gold Arrows... who knew how many bolts of humanoid lightning they crushed and slew as he endured peril and fought bathed in blood.
He truly fought until no more humanoid lightning could descend.
Finally, taking the Chaos Bell, Heavenly Dao Battle Box, Immortal Gold Arrows, and other magical treasures, already battered beyond recognition by one fierce battle after