Crack!
Before everyone's eyes, the Seven Kill Death Tribulation passed mercilessly through Yang Lingshu's wooden body, severing him at the waist.
His arms and lower body instantly shattered into fragments, then were burned into nothingness by the still-undispersed Redfire Tribulation the very next moment.
Even the Rootless Water that had originally been able to nourish the Dao body had its source cut off by the spatial turbulence carried within this seventh killing tribulation.
Yang Lingshu had yet to truly comprehend the laws of space. The scraps of spellcraft he could wield at present were simply not enough before this tribulation.
Without the sustenance of Rootless Water, Yang Lingshu's remaining body could no longer withstand the scorching of the great Redfire Tribulation.
From the spectators' perspective, the head of Clear Sky Academy, trapped in a place of extreme peril, was still dragging his broken body through the tribulation arts by force, desperately reconstructing his Dao body.
His qi palace, origin core, and sea of consciousness still remained. As long as they did, there was still hope for his Dao body to attain completion.
So long as the woodification process could cover his crown, even if he achieved only a half-formed Dao body, it would be enough to turn the whole situation around.
Crack... crack...
Yet in the very next moment, crisp cracking sounds rang out one after another.
The Path Seeking Realm cultivators lacked the cultivation to understand what those sounds meant, but the True Intent Cultivators attending the ceremony could clearly perceive with their divine sense that, at the heart of the storm ravaged by crimson fire, red lightning, and spatial turbulence, cracks had begun appearing across Yang Lingshu's neck.
"Damn it! That Heavenly Kill tribulation spirit is actually this vicious!"
"It doesn't merely want Fellow Daoist Yang to fail