Above the heavens.
A terrifying Void Return Tribulation ravaged the region, while the pitch-black clouds flickered and dimmed without cease.
Taiyi Gate's group had merely been struck by the aftershocks at the outer edge, yet the Life-Saving Means on their bodies immediately shattered apart. Like leaves swallowed by wind and rain, they drifted helplessly with the current.
Even Sword Son Dugu Tian, a Void Refinement Paragon, lost half his life despite using his strongest defensive divine ability.
Staggering, he hurriedly steadied himself and stopped his descent before fleeing rapidly in the opposite direction.
The other Taiyi Gate elders followed after him in an equally miserable state.
Only after escaping the range of the heavenly tribulation did the terror in their eyes become fully apparent.
They gazed toward the center of the heavenly tribulation. Five-colored pillars of lightning pierced between heaven and earth, radiating destructive tribulation power as they mercilessly obliterated everything visible to the naked eye.
The aftershocks at the very outermost edge alone had severely injured every member of Taiyi Gate and nearly killed them. One could only imagine how horrifying the five-colored lightning pillars at the center truly were.
"Who could be undergoing a tribulation of this level?"
"Could it be the legendary Body Integration Cataclysm?"
Dugu Tian wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His face was deathly pale as he said with grave solemnity, "It is not a heavenly tribulation for breaking through to the Body Integration Realm, but it is not far from one."
"Someone deep within Hanguang Cave is breaking through to Perfected Void Refinement. They must possess extraordinarily powerful divine abilities to have drawn down a Tribulation of Heavenly Punishment."
The elders were astonished. "What?! Perfected Void Refinement is already this terrifying?"
They then looked at Dugu Tian's battered appearance and