The fifth heavenly tribulation, with its three lightning dragons, struck for a full incense stick's worth of time.
Since it had already descended, Chen Xinjie and Yun Ming were too late even when they rushed over. The Blue Silver Emperor bore it all alone.
By the time the fifth heavenly tribulation had completely passed, only a third of the Blue Silver Emperor's eighty-one main roots remained.
She had exhausted all the Power of Life she had devoured from the Golden Ancient Tree over the years, barely managing to preserve her life.
At that moment, she could no longer concern herself with the Golden Ancient Tree's main roots. She only wanted to survive this heavenly tribulation.
As for any ten-thousand-year grand plan, that would have to wait until she survived.
She wanted to run, but the heavenly tribulation had locked onto her completely. There was no escaping it.
At that moment, apart from her main roots, the Blue Silver Emperor's hundreds of millions of rootlets were also nearly withered away. She could no longer draw life force from underground to nourish herself.
Yet the fifth heavenly tribulation had only just ended when the sixth arrived.
Above the curtain of the sky, the even more terrifying sixth heavenly tribulation had already taken shape.
Thunderous roars resounded through heaven and earth. This entire stretch of space had been sealed off by tribulation lightning. No one could enter or leave.
It was ready to annihilate everything within this tribulation lightning.
Six heavenly tribulation lightning dragons, their bodies flashing with purple-gold lightning, tore through the clouds and charged toward the Blue Silver Emperor and the damaged Golden Ancient Tree with crushing force.
At the sight, Chen Xinjie's eyes nearly split at the corners.
That Soul Beast absolutely could not withstand a heavenly tribulation of this level, and the Sea God Pavilion would also be blasted to pieces.
Although Chen Xinjie did not know whether Yun Ming's words were true or false, he could not sense Long Yeyue's presence, after all.
It was normal for someone's presence to be obscured within this heavenly tribulation, and he was unwilling to contemplate the worst possible outcome.
Even if he was being deceived, he had to defend the Sea God Pavilion to the death. He could only believe, and Long Yeyue had to be inside.
Because Chen Xinjie could not accept the outcome in which Long Yeyue was already dead.
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Xinjie immediately summoned the Sea God Helmet.
This was a supreme treasure the Sea God had left in the world, a divine relic forged by the Sea God himself, a token the Sea God had bestowed upon their Sea God Family, and Chen Xinjie's strongest trump card.
This family heirloom should have been passed down through the family, to seek an heir for the Sea God and continue the legacy. That was the mission of their Sea God Family.
But now, for the sake of his beloved, he could no longer spare a thought for anything else.
What family, what honor, what most loyal believer of the Sea God? He could no longer care about any of it. He only wanted to protect his beloved.
"Sea God, great Lord Sea God, have pity on your child! Lend me your divine power, protect the one I love, and stop this heavenly tribulation!"
With a low shout, Chen Xinjie ignited his own Sea God bloodline and poured all of it into the Sea God Helmet.
This was not its normal activation. Chen Xinjie had used the Sea God Helmet under normal circumstances before, treating it as Battle Armor.
But under normal circumstances, the Sea God Helmet was actually only a little stronger than Four-Word Battle Armor.
Now, Chen Xinjie was using his own Sea God bloodline to activate the divine power at the Sea God Helmet's very source.
The divine artifact's core, sealed away for endless ages, awakened in an instant. Azure divine radiance shot into the sky, and vast, mighty Sea God's Power swept across the eight directions.
Sea God's Light blossomed, forming an enormous oceanic barrier that enveloped the Blue Silver Emperor, the ruined Sea God Pavilion-the Golden Ancient Tree, which had only its last breath remaining-as well as him and Yun Ming.
The main outpouring of divine power was directed toward the Golden Ancient Tree. An absolute divine-level barrier took shape, ready to face these six heavenly tribulation lightning dragons head-on.
Boom!
With an earth-shaking roar, the barrier collided fiercely with the six heavenly tribulation lightning dragons, holding them back as it endured the combined crushing force of their dives and their thunderous lightning strikes.
But even a god's methods were still somewhat inadequate before this heavenly tribulation.
The divine-level barrier released by the Sea God Helmet endured only a few waves before this terrifying heavenly tribulation forcibly blasted it apart.
After breaking through the barrier, the lightning dragons, though partially weakened, still charged powerfully toward the Blue Silver Emperor and the Golden Ancient Tree.
Their coordinates really had all been marked.
Two charged toward the Blue Silver Emperor, and one charged toward the Golden Ancient Tree.
How could Chen Xinjie allow the heavenly tribulation to strike his beloved dead?
At this critical moment, he could no longer concern himself with the fact that this was his family's heirloom. Compared with his beloved, the Sea God Helmet was not worth mentioning.
He chose to face the heavenly tribulation head-on!
"Explode!"
Boom!
With a heaven-shaking roar of self-detonation, the helmet bearing Sea God's Power exploded completely. Endless Sea God's Light blossomed as divine power gushed out, and the resulting shock wave forcibly blasted those heavenly tribulation lightning dragons apart.
Only some residual lightning landed on the Blue Silver Emperor and the Golden Ancient Tree. Chen Xinjie had blown apart this sixth wave of tribulation lightning.
The price was his bloodline origin and the shattering of the divine artifact.
As the one bound to it, he immediately suffered a bloodline backlash and was gravely wounded at the same time. His meridians shattered, and he plummeted heavily from the sky, crashing into the ground, his fate unknown.
"Well done!"
Tang Hao was extremely satisfied with Chen Xinjie's move. Compared with that useless Yun Ming, Chen Xinjie was more than just a little stronger. He really had delivered, blocking this sixth heavenly tribulation for Tang Hao's wife. It could be said that he had stopped it single-handedly.
But there was no gratitude toward Chen Xinjie in his heart. This Sea God Helmet was a divine artifact his son had personally forged in the first place. Was it not only right and proper to use it to protect his own mother?
Everything Chen Xinjie had sacrificed was only what he ought to have done.
Yet there was no pleasant surprise on Tang Hao's face, because this was only the sixth heavenly tribulation, and it had already been so difficult. Several more heavenly tribulations still remained.
The next heavenly tribulation was about to finish brewing. Seven heavenly tribulation lightning dragons soon formed, and their numbers were still increasing. But now the Blue Silver Emperor was already at death's door, without the slightest ability left to withstand the heavenly tribulation.
Once this heavenly tribulation descended, the Blue Silver Emperor would undoubtedly die.
Chen Xinjie, the only person here they could count on, had already fallen unconscious. As for Yun Ming, that useless man could not withstand it at all. He could not be relied upon.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
When this seventh heavenly tribulation descended, it would be the moment his wife, the Blue Silver Emperor, perished, and the moment their ten-thousand-year grand plan failed.
The central figure in Tang San's ten-thousand-year grand plan had never been him, but the Blue Silver Emperor.
Without the Blue Silver Emperor controlling the entire Douluo Continent, the ten-thousand-year grand plan could never succeed.
Although he was the Plane Master, the only role Tang San had arranged for him was to resist the Abyss and protect the Douluo Continent from its invasion.
Everything else depended on the Blue Silver Emperor's world sublimation, and the key to it all lay with the Blue Silver Emperor.
He could be replaced. His grandson Tang Wulin could replace him. It was merely a matter of defending the Douluo Continent.
As long as his grandson Tang Wulin was given time to grow, he would certainly be able to protect the entire Douluo Continent in the future.
He had instead become a dispensable figure, while only the Blue Silver Emperor could accomplish the world's sublimation.
Once the Blue Silver Emperor died, everything would come to nothing, and the ten-thousand-year plan would have to begin anew.
Only grief would remain!
He did not believe humanity and the Abyss could keep fighting for another ten thousand years.
If the Abyss invaded in force before the Douluo Continent fell under their control, then once the world was sublimated, they would have labored for nothing.
He absolutely could not allow such a thing to happen. He would not allow it.
The Blue Silver Emperor absolutely could not die. She could not be destroyed by this heavenly tribulation, could not die such a stifling death.
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