"I'm done blocking! I'll fight you head-on!"
Lu Ren roared and abandoned his defense. His Heaven and Earth Dharma Form transformed into a five-foot sword in his left hand. He swung both swords again and again, slashing at the Void Thunder Tribulation.
Lu Ren's two-sword technique had already reached the pinnacle. Using it now tempered his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form in the tribulation lightning while easing the pressure on him.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The two swords cut through the air. Wielded by Lu Ren, the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form carried the Divine Rules' power to its utmost limit and easily blocked the Void Thunder Tribulation.
The Great Desolation Sumeru Sword was slightly weaker, but it too could block the Void Thunder Tribulation.
At last, after a bitter fight, Lu Ren survived the sixty-eighth tribulation.
Next came the sixty-ninth, formed from the Destruction Divine Rule. Its power was fiercer still.
Lu Ren blocked it again and again, but nearly every clash injured him. Without his bones to hold him together and his flesh to regenerate, he would have fallen long ago.
"He survived the sixty-ninth tribulation too!"
"Could he really survive all seventy-two?"
Many Divine Emperors had grown numb at the sight.
Despite all their doubts, Lu Ren had smashed through one tribulation after another to reach the sixty-ninth. He had already worked too many miracles.
Suddenly, Lu Ren's body froze. Above his head, a powerful bolt of tribulation lightning struck down once more.
"It's the Time Tribulation!"
"Lu Ren's frozen in time! He's finished!"
Everyone cried out in shock.
Boom!
Before their eyes, the Time Tribulation slammed into Lu Ren. The terrifying bolt sent him flying, and he crashed heavily to the ground.
"Cough!"
Lu Ren struggled to his feet and coughed up blood. His back and body