Arc 17The Tribulation at Mystic Heaven
Chu Kuangren prepared the Mystic Heaven Sect for the Great Age of Strife, then faced an alliance of Unknowable Places and hostile forces attacking the sect. He revealed that the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation had drawn the invaders into his Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation, which devastated their army and left the survivors facing its continuing waves.
- Chu Kuangren refined pills and distributed them, scriptures, and cultivation resources to strengthen the Mystic Heaven Sect’s Daoist Seeds.
- Changguang Saint King united the Unknowable Places and hostile factions against Chu Kuangren, while the Mountain-Sea Tower Master vowed revenge for Li Ze.
- Chu Kuangren let the sect’s disciples choose whether to leave, and Nangong Huang, Murong Xuan, and more than ten thousand disciples stayed as Gu Linglong abdicated and joined him.
- An army of more than a million cultivators surrounded the Mystic Heaven Sect, and Chu Kuangren used the Mystic Heaven Sword Formation and Cloud Sea Wonder Formation to kill and cripple the attackers.
- Chu Kuangren fought the invading Saints and the Master of Mountain-Sea Tower, defeated the Four Fiends, and faced six Saint Kings with the Heavenly Baleful Armor and Sea God Trident.
- Two Quasi-Emperors, Changguang and Haiyue, joined the battle and repeatedly attacked Chu Kuangren, who recovered from their blows.
- Chu Kuangren revealed that the Cloud Sea Wonder Formation had drawn the invaders into his Nine-Colored Heavenly Tribulation, and its first two waves killed most of the army.
- The later tribulation waves devastated the battlefield as Chu Kuangren absorbed lightning energy, and the Seventh Wave killed most of those present while the two Quasi-Emperors and several leaders survived.