At that very moment, the Spirit Pagoda's Soul Masters were desperately operating High-Rank Defensive Soul Tools to withstand the lightning.
There were far too many High-Rank Soul Spirits and pieces of Precision Soul Tool Machinery inside to evacuate in time.
The timid starved to death, while the bold stuffed themselves to death.
They decided to resist with everything they had.
After all, the epicenter was at Shrek Academy, far away from them. Surely they could withstand even a stray bolt of lightning.
Yun Ming, meanwhile, stood guard above the Golden Ancient Tree-in other words, above the Sea God Pavilion.
Unless he had absolutely no other choice, he would never leave.
If even the Sea God Pavilion was gone, Shrek would truly be gone.
Everything else could be rebuilt with money, but not the Sea God Pavilion carved from the Golden Ancient Tree. This was Shrek's true root.
He only needed to hold out until Chen Xinjie, Zang Xin, and Cao Dezhi arrived.
Zang Xin and Cao Dezhi had a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Chen Xinjie had a Divine Artifact.
Chen Xinjie still did not know Long Yeyue was dead. Yun Ming had deliberately lied to him precisely to trick him into coming over to shoulder the disaster.
Right and wrong could wait until Shrek Academy survived this calamity.
Besides, no one even knew whether Chen Xinjie would live through it.
Yun Ming was ruthless toward himself, and even more ruthless toward others.
In his eyes, only he and Shrek mattered. Nothing else was important; everything else could be used.
At that moment, Di Tian had already suffered grievous injuries after enduring the first bolt of Tribulation Lightning and was powerless to resist any further.
Even if he had been at his peak, he probably could have withstood only one or two more bolts at most.
But there had to be at least a dozen bolts in this tribulation. This Tribulation Lightning was coming expressly to strike him dead.
He actually should have left long ago, but he could not resign himself to it and stayed to test the Tribulation Lightning's power.
After that test, all faith in the Dragon God vanished from his eyes-oh, the Former Dragon God.
"Dragon God, oh Dragon God, the rules you laid down forbid Soul Beasts from becoming gods, but surely that does not mean exterminating every last one of us?
"Our Dragon Clan has worshipped you for generations, and ever since you brought the Soul Beast Clan into being, they have worshipped you too.
"I, Di Tian, have made offerings to you and your other half for generations. Why must you treat us so harshly?
"Just what has our Soul Beast Clan done to chill your heart?"
At that very moment, Di Tian's reverence for the Dragon God vanished completely.
From this day forward, he would believe only in the Golden Dragon King. He would help the Golden Dragon King become the new Dragon God.
He believed the Golden Dragon King would not become that absurd Dragon God who disregarded whether the Soul Beast Clan lived or died and established such an absurd Heavenly Tribulation.
Having made up his mind, Di Tian also made his preparations. He was ready to withdraw.
Di Tian had survived eight lightning tribulations, so he had considerable experience enduring them.
Tribulation Lightning struck both the body and the soul, but primarily the soul.
If your body died but your soul survived, the lightning would keep striking. Only after your soul was utterly annihilated would the Heavenly Tribulation dissipate.
Thus, if the body died but the soul survived, the Tribulation Lightning would not disappear. This was also why Di Tian had insisted on triggering the Heavenly Tribulation.
And so, beneath the shocked gazes of Yun Ming and the other survivors, Di Tian simply killed himself.
That was right-he chose suicide outright.
Yun Ming felt he had been played. Di Tian had never intended to endure the Heavenly Tribulation in the first place. After taking one bolt, he stopped resisting.
Then would this Heavenly Tribulation disappear too?
A flicker of hope flashed through Yun Ming's heart.
The instant Di Tian died, the Spatial Domain he had released abruptly contracted and gathered inward, enveloping his entire enormous body.
The next moment, Di Tian's enormous Dragon Corpse vanished, replaced by a pitch-black Dragon Scale.
It was his reverse scale.
At that very moment, far away in the Star Dou Great Forest, the reverse scale the Golden Dragon King had just received from Di Tian disappeared, replaced by Di Tian's intact corpse.
Spatial Displacement-this was how Di Tian had perfectly transported his own corpse.
His soul, meanwhile, remained above Shrek Academy, anchored to this reverse scale.
The Heavenly Tribulation remained firmly locked onto him, shrouding Shrek City.
By now, Di Tian had completely abandoned his defenses, because his soul simply could not withstand the Heavenly Tribulation. If the next bolt fell, he would surely be reduced to drifting ash and scattered smoke.
But Di Tian was not surrendering without a fight. He had chosen to trust.
Because Lin Che had told him to simply go ahead; Lin Che would handle everything.
He was not placing his trust in Lin Che, but in the Golden Dragon King.
With its unfathomable methods, the heaven-defying Reincarnation Tower had even earned the Golden Dragon King's approval. Di Tian believed it could preserve his soul.
At last, Lin Che stopped watching the show.
He stretched, looked at the thousand-meter-long Dragon Corpse Di Tian had transported before him, and immediately brought out the Reincarnation Tower, beginning to ravenously devour the energy within Di Tian's Dragon Corpse.
The Reincarnation Tower's first layer began spinning wildly, and the Special Mark on the forehead of Di Tian's soul, thousands of kilometers away, grew brighter and brighter.
Immediately afterward, Di Tian's soul was drawn into the Reincarnation Tower. Just like that, Di Tian vanished into thin air.
His flesh was dead, but his soul had not perished. As long as his soul remained, the Heavenly Tribulation would not disappear.
But Lin Che had taken Di Tian's soul into the Reincarnation Tower, and the Heavenly Tribulation could not lock onto the tower at all, so it could only keep striking the same spot.
Watching this, Lin Che found it quite interesting.
Normally, once Di Tian triggered the Heavenly Tribulation, he would be finished after enduring four or five bolts at most, unable to take the full tribulation.
Once his soul scattered, the Heavenly Tribulation would disappear too.
But now, with this loophole exploited, the Heavenly Tribulation could not strike Di Tian dead and would keep striking until its energy was exhausted.
Shrek Academy would probably have to take a complete round of Heaven-Defying World-Destroying Tribulation Lightning.
This would probably blast Shrek Academy apart outright and thoroughly strike the Blue Silver Emperor dead as well.
The kind that left not even a speck of residue.
What league did she think she was in?
Daring to block a Supreme God's Tribulation Lightning,
and at full power, no less?
In short, the Blue Silver Emperor, one of the Douluo Continent's two great malignant tumors, was utterly finished this time.
The Blue Silver Emperor was different from Tang Hao.
Her entire body had transformed into roots, taking firm root beneath Shrek Academy and becoming the Core of Life.
By now, she had probably almost finished devouring the Golden Tree.
After ten thousand years of taking root, how could she escape?
Even if she wanted to flee, she could not. She was doomed.
"Di Tian, throw that reverse scale of yours into the Golden Ancient Tree. Draw the Heavenly Tribulation over and make it keep striking that spot."
Lin Che spoke through thin air to Di Tian inside the Reincarnation Tower.
Upon hearing this, Di Tian immediately willed his life-bound reverse scale toward the Golden Ancient Tree.
Just then, the second bolt of Heavenly Tribulation arrived.
A lightning bolt twice as thick as the last savagely struck the reverse scale and blasted the Golden Ancient Tree as well.
In an instant, the Golden Ancient Tree snapped beneath the strike. Heavenly lightning ignited earthly fire, setting fierce flames ablaze, and the entire trunk was bathed in Tribulation Lightning, a sight too terrible to behold.
This time, no matter how deeply the Blue Silver Emperor had been sleeping, she was jolted fully awake:
"What on earth is going on?
"Why is there such terrifying Tribulation Lightning?
"What exactly is Hao doing?"
The Blue Silver Emperor had only just awakened, and sensing such heaven-defying Tribulation Lightning nearly frightened her soul out of her body.
This Heavenly Tribulation was coming for her life. Someone was going to die.
At that very moment, Plane Master Tang Hao also sensed something amiss:
"Who's undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation? Draining my power again, and so much of it too.
"I hope it strikes you bastard dead.
"Has some top-level Soul Beast in the ocean broken through?
"Or is it those few Soul Beasts clinging to their last breaths in the Star Dou Great Forest?
"Best if it strikes you all dead!"
The Dragon God had established this Heavenly Tribulation, yet its energy still had to be deducted from the Plane Master.
"Do you think it's easy for me to swallow up a little energy? Strike you bastards dead, you pack of beasts!"
Wait, this is...
Tang Hao had only just awakened and was still somewhat groggy, but once he sensed the location, he jolted fully awake:
"Oh no, my wife!"
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