"What's going on?"
"Didn't he already survive his heavenly tribulation? Why is there another lightning tribulation?"
"And this heavenly tribulation is actually countless times more terrifying than the lightning tribulation just now."
At this sight, the powerhouses of the Three Thousand Provinces of the Desolate Ancient Land were shocked. As though something had occurred to them, their pupils trembled violently.
Could someone in the Lin Clan be about to undergo tribulation and attain the Dao as a Great Emperor?
Which old monster of the Lin Clan was it?
Was it one of the ten great elders, or some other powerhouse?
It was one thing for the Lin Clan to produce a Quasi-Emperor today, but now it was about to produce a Great Emperor too? Had it truly obtained some heaven-defying opportunity?
"Hmph! Trying to break through to Great Emperor? You haven't asked the Wang Clan yet!"
"Hurry and notify the ancestor to come out of seclusion. Someone in the Lin Clan is about to break through to Great Emperor."
"A few days ago, you injured our Wang Clan's Great Emperor and made our clan lose all face in the Three Thousand Provinces of the Desolate Ancient Land. Now someone in your Lin Clan wants to attain the Dao as a Great Emperor? First, see whether our Wang Clan agrees!"
Within the Lin Clan's domain, an icy voice rang out from the shadows.
Had Lin Fan heard it, he would certainly have recognized its owner: Quasi-Emperor Wang Kun of the Wang Clan, who had identified his Immortal-Exterminating Curse that day.
Many people did not want the Lin Clan to produce another Great Emperor, which would upset the balance of the Ancient Continent.
Especially since the Lin Clan already had that terrifying powerhouse, the Unfettered Sword Emperor.
The youngest Great Emperor in the history of the Desolate Ancient Land-how little time had it taken him to reach late Great Emperor? He truly lived up to his reputation as the monstrous genius most gifted to become an immortal.
No orthodoxy wanted the Lin Clan to produce another Great Emperor. In particular, orthodoxies with grudges against the Lin Clan, such as the Wang Clan, began making moves behind the scenes.
Beneath the surface, dark currents surged!
The Lin Clan!
Watching the heavenly tribulation gather once more, Uncle Fu, the very person involved, was also dumbfounded. He froze in the sky.
But a moment later, he sensed something wrong. The heavenly tribulation did not seem to be targeting him!
Yet he was the only one in this stretch of heaven and earth. No...
Uncle Fu abruptly looked toward the courtyard below, his pupils contracting. "Could it be... Fan'er?!"
Lin Dong, Ji Ningshuang, and the elders also noticed this. This was no ordinary lightning tribulation, but the legendary Physique Tribulation.
It could also be called a Monstrous Genius Tribulation.
Legend had it that heaven and earth maintained a balance. Once a monstrous person or physique appeared and disrupted that balance, the Heavenly Dao would send down lightning punishment to destroy that person.
Put simply, the Heavenly Dao was afraid-even heaven envied his strength.
It feared that this person would threaten it. Yet every person who could trigger such a lightning tribulation was a peerless monstrous genius, possessing a peerless divine body and earth-shaking talent...
Lin Dong and the others were not surprised that Lin Fan faced a Monstrous Genius Tribulation. After all, he had fused with a forbidden physique-the Chaos Gods and Devils Body!
Bang!
Just then, a loud bang rang out from the courtyard. Terrifying soul power surged, and black-and-white Chaos Gods and Devils Qi poured forth.
Lin Fan walked out, purple-gold divine light flashing through his eyes. He raised his gaze to the lightning tribulation locked onto him, his eyes fearless and unafraid.
"The Immortal-Exterminating Curse really is gone!"
Seeing Lin Dong appear, the elders perked up and immediately turned their gazes toward Lin Fan. Upon discovering that the Immortal-Exterminating Curse had indeed vanished, they could not help breathing a sigh of relief.
But the next moment, they looked at one another, shock creeping into their eyes.
When they had brought Lin Fan back a few days ago, Fan'er had lost all his cultivation. How many days had it been? This brat had already broken through to Core Formation Realm First Level? What a freak!
"Fan'er!"
In the distance, Ji Ningshuang wanted to fly toward Lin Fan and embrace the son she had not seen in years, but Lin Dong held him back, refusing to let him approach Lin Fan. She could only cry out, her eyes reddening as she looked at Lin Fan.
Lin Dong and the other powerhouses dared not approach Lin Fan in the distance.
They were all Great Emperors or Quasi-Emperors. If they approached Lin Fan, the lightning tribulation would take it as a provocation, making Lin Fan's Physique Tribulation stronger.
"Mother, I'm fine!"
"Mother, Father, don't worry. Your son has grown up and can stand on his own!"
"A mere lightning tribulation can't do anything to your son!"
Lin Fan froze at first. Seeing that it was his mother, he gave a faint smile, cast the two of them a reassuring smile, then looked toward the elders and nodded.
He indicated that he could face the tribulation and that they need not worry.
Lin Dong laughed heartily. "Good! As expected of my son! You have spirit!"
All he received in return was a glare from Ji Ningshuang. Lin Dong smiled sheepishly. He feared neither heaven nor earth, only his wife.
Ji Ningshuang paid Lin Dong no more attention. Looking at the resolute, handsome Lin Fan before her, whose face merged with the childish one in her memories, she understood that her son had experienced much during his two and a half years of tempering and had grown up considerably.
"Go, Fan'er. Whatever happens, your mother is here."
If Lin Fan survived the lightning tribulation, everyone would be happy. If he could not... a woman became strong as a mother. Even at the cost of suffering Dao injuries from the lightning tribulation, she would save his Fan'er.
Lin Fan nodded and rose into the air to meet the lightning tribulation.
At this sight, the fifth elder's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "Are you kidding? A Pill Condensation Realm cultivator flying through the air?"
He looked toward the other elders, who rubbed their eyes. If they remembered correctly, Pill Condensation Realm cultivators could, at most, travel by riding objects.
Only after opening a spirit sea in the Spirit Sea Realm would they have enough Spiritual Qi to support brief flights through the air.
After breaking through to the Heavenly Dipper Realm, their spiritual power transformed into Profound Qi, allowing them to fly without tiring.
Yet Lin Fan possessed the Chaos Gods and Devils Body, and the pure spiritual power the Chaos Scripture had refined for him was actually no weaker than the Profound Qi of the Heavenly Dipper Realm, enough to let him fly.
"This brat's spiritual power is so pure and abundant!"
"The abundant spiritual power stored in his golden core is no less than that of cultivators who have opened a spirit sea."
"Overall, he's actually no weaker than some Heavenly Dipper Realm prodigies. Flying in the Pill Condensation Realm-is this what makes the Chaos Gods and Devils Body so monstrous?"
Watching Lin Fan fly through the air, the fifth elder and the other elders marveled and clicked their tongues, saying they had never seen such a monstrous Pill Condensation Realm cultivator.
Even a monstrous genius like Lin Dong had not been as formidable as his son back then. Truly, the blue surpassed the indigo from which it came.
Hearing the elders' astonishment, Lin Dong and Ji Ningshuang were immensely proud.
Lin Fan stood in the void, clad in spotless white. Mysterious Gods and Devils Qi wreathed his body, making him look mysterious and extraordinary.
He quietly awaited the lightning tribulation's descent.
As though sensing a provocation, the lightning tribulation brewed with ever greater intensity, its muffled rumbling like the roars of ancient gods and devils.
"Pill Condensation Realm?"
"Good heavens!"
"Am I fucking seeing things? The person inside that lightning tribulation is at Core Formation Realm First Level?"
"Don't tell me this little fellow brought on the lightning tribulation. What happened to a Great Emperor attaining the Dao?"
The moment Lin Fan appeared, cries of astonishment rang out from the surrounding void. They were stunned on the spot by the sight before them.
Was this a joke? How could a mere Pill Condensation Realm cultivator trigger such a terrifying lightning tribulation?
This lightning tribulation, countless times more terrifying than Godslayer Saint King's Quasi-Emperor tribulation just now, was actually not a Great Emperor's Dao attainment, but a little child's lightning tribulation.
Everyone present was a powerhouse whose might commanded a region of the Desolate Ancient Land.
There were Sage Kings and Quasi-Emperors.
Hearing that someone in the Lin Clan was about to attain the Dao as a Great Emperor, they had rushed out of seclusion and hurried over, intending to observe a Great Emperor's Dao attainment. Yet now they were being told that this was a Pill Condensation Realm cultivator undergoing tribulation?
Had they not seen it with their own eyes, who would have believed it?