203: The first god of Earth

[The Ninth District has suffered a bloodbath at the hands of the God Descent Cult; it is a tragedy beyond words!]

[The Wu Imperial Clan has been exterminated by Shadow Pavilion assassins, suspected of attempting to destroy the Human Race's Foundation.]

[Court ministers hold a collective meeting to discuss national mourning and the successor to the crown prince.]

[Insider: Former Imperial Guard Commander Qin Ming failed in his suicide attempt out of fear of punishment and has been dragged to the First District's Royal Hospital for emergency treatment.]

[The Minister of Military Affairs is holding an internal meeting to plan a strike against the God Descent Cult and the Shadow Pavilion: Those who offend humanity shall be punished, no matter how far away they are!]

Huang Chengche looked at the fresh news, his face twisting. Unable to spit out a mouthful of old blood, he directly fainted.

One last thought hovered in his mind: Dirty! So dirty!

...Tang Yunjing looked toward the Fallen Zone, sensing the attraction of the mask. He put it on and allowed himself to be pulled along by the gravity.

Beside a giant round table, a white light flashed on a chair, and his figure reappeared.

Shua shua shua... Very quickly, all 28 seats in the conference room were filled.

The Heavenly Leader Star said loudly, "I presume you all know what has happened. Following Liu Rufeng's failure to attain godhood, another being is actually attempting to attain godhood in the Fallen Zone. Based on the momentum and location, both are within the Fallen Zone. I estimate the opponent is undoubtedly a demonic creature. What are your thoughts?"

Everyone nodded. The momentum of this Lightning Tribulation was even greater. Unlike the previous dense and continuous rain-like Lightning Tribulations, this time it was as if the heavens were collapsing, slamming down all the lightning at once.

If not for the fixed rules of the Lightning Tribulation, they even felt that the Heavenly Dao would skip the nine-stage process and spend two or three days brewing to drop 435,848,049 world-destroying lightning bolts.

After a heated discussion, the Savior Society decided that each person would consume 100 points to activate the "Heaven-Viewing Mirror" and observe the demonic creature Undergoing Tribulation.

The Heavenly Leader Star took out a mythic-grade item and infused it with magic power. Instantly, the scenery changed rapidly until, after 30 seconds, it finally locked onto the demonic creature Undergoing Tribulation.

"Wait, why is this demonic creature dressed like a human?"

"That thick python looks a bit familiar; I seem to have seen it somewhere before."

"Look at that Phoenix—that person is Xu Le!"

As the image became clearer, the people of the Savior Society were completely stirred up.

They had thought the one Undergoing Tribulation was a heinous demonic creature and felt a faint sense of relief, thinking that demonic creatures were, after all, beings targeted by the Heavenly Dao.

They never expected the opponent to be Xu Le, a fellow human; for a moment, their minds couldn't quite process it.

"Xu Le deserves to die. He committed boundless slaughters in the past; today, he deserves this tribulation."

After the Heavenly Longevity Star finished speaking, he found that no one paid him any attention. Even the victim of the slaughter, the Heavenly Solitary Spirit, remained silent. He immediately realized he had been reckless.

None of them were clean!

Although they hadn't killed as many or as fiercely as Xu Le, the sins accumulated over so many years were no lighter than his.

Seeing the sudden silence, the Heavenly Leader Star adjusted the angle, and the sky appeared in the image.

The thunderclouds pressing down within three feet were continuous. The Heavenly Leader Star adjusted the angle three times before finally capturing the entire thundercloud.

Looking at the data measured by the Heaven-Viewing Mirror, everyone's hearts couldn't help but stop.

The thundercloud had a radius of 6,599,999 meters, nearly the area of a giant city. Even if it just pressed down directly, it could crush someone to death, let alone the World-Destroying Purple Lightning.

Boom!

6,561 purple lightning bolts descended from the sky, converging in mid-air into a terrifying Lightning Dragon that was a full 3,500 meters thick.

Hiss hiss hiss... In the office, sounds of sharp intakes of breath rose one after another, causing the global temperature to instantly rise by 0.01"},{

"I... I quit! I no longer hope to become a god!"

Someone directly returned their mask and left the Savior Society.

He didn't want to become a god for the rest of his life.

However, the others didn't pay attention to that person's departure; instead, they wanted to see how Xu Le would die. Perhaps when the day came for them to attain godhood, they could learn from his manner of death.

The Lightning Dragon roared downward. A giant Kunpeng swam over and tore off half of the Lightning Dragon's body with one bite, then trembled all over from the electric shock.

Although a health bar wasn't visible, it was clear that the creature was charred all over, barely clinging to life.

The Lightning Dragon continued downward. Ten fiery-red Phoenixes flew upward against it, spitting flames that filled the sky to cover the Lightning Dragon's body. Then, they were shattered by the lightning, leaving only a giant egg falling from the sky.

The Lightning Dragon's body was weakened once more, but it still had a body over a thousand meters thick.

Just when they thought Xu Le was "at his wit's end," they saw huge black dogs leaping into the air via the body of an upright giant python to bite the Lightning Dragon, only to result in countless black ashes falling.

After the four-digit number of black dogs weakened the thundercloud once more, the giant python bathed in the thundercloud. In just one second, the giant python fell, and then a human rushed into the thundercloud.

"Knowing the Heavens is easy, but defying the Heavens is hard! Even an unparalleled genius still cannot survive the Lightning Tribulation."

Everyone fell silent!

Their hearts felt stifled and uncomfortable; many had already taken off their masks.

A Prodigy of a generation, if even Xu Le cannot survive the Lightning Tribulation, who in this world can?

They gave up too!

They lingered not because they hadn't left, but because they wanted to catch a glimpse of Xu Le's ashes or the blank screen after his death, as a final send-off for a brave soul.

At this moment, there were no factions, no stances, only the sorrow of a fellow seeker of the Dao dying to the Lightning Tribulation!

"He's not dead!" someone exclaimed.

"He... he's still alive!" Everyone stood up.

If a Lightning Dragon nearly 800 meters thick couldn't kill him, what else could bring him down?

Three minutes later, everyone was silent.

If an 800-meter-thick Lightning Dragon wasn't enough, there was an 8,000-meter-thick one, and even an 80,000-meter-thick one.

Human strength has its limits!

Rumble~

The thunderclouds continued to churn.

The area expanded by another nine times.

What was once the area of one giant city was now nine.

Everyone watched the screen in silence; not a single person spoke.

They watched Xu Le pick up the pieces, watched him rescue his contracted beasts one by one, and saw the despair and confusion in his eyes.

Just when everyone thought he had given up, a dazzling brilliance suddenly erupted in his eyes!

That was Battle Intent!

When two rivals meet on a narrow path, the brave one wins!

In a hero's dictionary, there is no surrender—only battle or death!

"What is he doing?"

Emotion surged in everyone's hearts, and some even shed tears on the spot. Though they were all eighty or ninety-year-old men and women, they seemed to see a run under the setting sun.

That was the youth that refused to admit defeat!

In the image, Xu Le remained still. His surrounding contracted beasts seemed to sense something and surrounded him tightly in the center.

"What is this?"

Everyone looked at each other, faintly sensing that this moment was crucial, and they all stared wide-eyed at the screen.

The Heavenly Leader Star even used the Heaven-Viewing Mirror to adjust the angle and measure data, but he found absolutely nothing.

Xu Le in the image was like a still picture, motionless, yet no one dared to be careless, staring with wide eyes and carefully observing every detail.

Time passed slowly, and before they knew it, two hours had gone by.

"He wouldn't be sleeping and waiting to die, would he?" someone voiced.

The others were furious, but before they could speak, they saw an immeasurable golden light erupt from Xu Le. The light flashed and vanished; when they looked again, the spot was empty.

The Heavenly Leader Star had a premonition and hurriedly adjusted the Heaven-Viewing Mirror. When he looked at the sky, the originally thick thunderclouds had already vanished into thin air.

He succeeded!

Blue Star has finally birthed its first deity!