456: Inner Demon Tribulation and Lightning Tribulation

Scene 1: Sect Hall, filled with guests.

Above Luoxia Peak, a terrifying purple-gold pupil suddenly split open, stretching across the firmament!

A gaze, vast as the will of the Universe, coldly pierced through all Restrictions, instantly locking onto the core of the System deep within Yao Delong's Sea of Consciousness where Yin-Yang Harmony resided!

A cold, mechanical voice resonated through his Soul: "Forbidden item… Analyzing… Capturing…"

Countless cold, incomprehensible Law chains, like a heavenly net, erupted from the pupil!

Revered Master Leng Yuekui, Junior Sister Lin Qingxue, and even Qiong Shuang were instantly reduced to ashes beneath the chains!

And he, Yao Delong, was firmly gripped by invisible giant claws and dragged into the depths of that cold, pitch-black pupil, his Soul peeled away and studied inch by inch, emitting a desperate, silent wail...

Scene 2: Immortal Domain Divine Palace, grim and terrifying. He was imprisoned in a cage of Law, becoming an "experimental subject" for countless supreme existences.

The Yin-Yang System was forcibly stripped away, and he watched helplessly as his deepest memories, emotions, and thoughts were examined, mocked, and modified like specimens on a display board.

His Soul grew numb and decayed bit by bit in the eternal, endless torture...

Fear! Fear originating from the deepest part of his Soul, the fear of his greatest secret being exposed!

This was the Heart Demon! It seized the deadliest hidden danger in his heart—the one he was most afraid of having exposed—and magnified it infinitely!

It attempted to pollute his Dao Heart, shake his Foundation, and trigger a backlash of his Origin the moment his Primordial Spirit and Physical Body perfectly merged!

The intensity of this fear was so great that even the nascent form of the Primordial Spirit that had just formed in his Sea of Consciousness dimmed, violently shaking as if it were about to shatter!

"Roar—!" Yao Delong subconsciously let out a silent roar within the illusion!

Just as his Primordial Spirit was on the verge of collapse amidst the turmoil of his mind!

The "yin-yang enlightenment disk," which floated in the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness and seemed to be forged from primordial stars, engraved with infinite Yin and Yang Dao patterns, suddenly shook!

Clatter—!

A brilliant, distinct black-and-white phantom of a giant "Yin and Yang fish" suddenly emerged, expanding with a boom like a guardian deity, instantly covering the entire crumbling Sea of Consciousness!

Those twisted, terrifying Heart Demon illusions that were eroding his Primordial Spirit were like ice and snow thrown into a blazing flame, hissing and popping as they rapidly melted and dissipated!

At the same time!

Inside his Dantian, the nascent form of the Primordial Spirit, born from the Divine Soul and Nascent Soul, suddenly erupted with ten thousand rays of brilliant, scarlet-gold divine light!

The essence of the Earth Core Blazing Flame Fire was thoroughly ignited!

"Evil thoughts! Burn away all falsehoods!"

Boom—!

A mental blade, condensed from the Earth Core's raging fire that burned away all impurities in the world and scorched the dust of the Soul, struck out violently from the core of the Primordial Spirit!

Carrying the resolute will to incinerate all things, it swept across the Sea of Consciousness!

Wherever the Earth Fire went, illusions collapsed!

Fear was like a dark curtain being burned through!

That terrifying pupil, that cold cage, that peeling Soul...

All the dark, twisted fantasies, under the combined might of this Earth Core Blazing Flame Fire that burned away falsehoods and the order-protecting power of the yin-yang enlightenment disk, screamed and burned like filthy ghosts exposed to the noon sun, turning into void green smoke and completely dissipating!

The Heart Demon, just beginning to sprout, was crushed into slag by the two supreme treasures!

The haze was gone! His mind was clear!

Yao Delong's Primordial Spirit shook violently, and the scarlet-gold light surged! The fire of his Divine Soul was clearer and more brilliant than ever before!

However—

The true heavenly might descended with a boom at this very moment!

"Hum—!!!"

A suffocating, vast pressure suddenly descended from the sky, instantly piercing through all the Restrictions and Formations behind Luoxia Peak!

A will, older than thunder and heavier than the stars, indifferently and ruthlessly locked onto Yao Delong, who had just condensed his Primordial Spirit and cleansed his Heart Demon!

The tribulation cloud, thick as an ancient mountain range and pitch-black as ink, rolled with countless dazzling electric snakes and lightning pythons, covering the firmament for hundreds of miles within a few breaths!

The sunlight was completely swallowed, and the entire Luoxia Peak was shrouded in doomsday-like darkness and the roar of thunder!

A terrifying aura of destruction permeated the air, making even the mountains tremble slightly!

This power… how could this be a mere Soul Transformation tribulation?!

The dark purple destructive lightning faintly condensing in the depths of the tribulation cloud exuded an aura that clearly reached the edge of the Void Refining Realm disaster!

"The Heavenly Tribulation is here!"

Yao Delong opened his eyes abruptly! Scarlet-gold flames burned fiercely in his pupils, devoid of fear, filled only with soaring Battle Intent!

Whoosh—

A sword as red as blood was summoned from his Dantian, falling into his palm with a shrill, dragon-like sound as it pierced the air!

The blade flowed with the light of the Blazing Flame, and the sharp Sword Qi cut through the Void Realm—[chixiao sword], a high-grade heavenly artifact!

Boom!!!

The first bolt of tribulation lightning struck violently! It was not the common silver-white or purple, but a heart-stopping, dull gold-red! Wherever it passed, the space left behind scorched, twisted trajectories!

Its power was already close to a full-strength strike from a Late Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator!

Yao Delong rose to his feet and stood on the altar!

"Nine Transformations of the Vast Sun, First Transformation—Dawn: The Rising Sun!!"

He held the chixiao sword high, his pure Yang true Qi surging wildly!

The sword hummed, and a brilliant "morning sun" radiance, tearing through the eternal night, roared from the tip of the sword toward the sky!

Pure, domineering, carrying the supreme will to pierce through the darkness! The sword light and lightning fire collided with a boom!

Sizzle—!

The lightning was torn apart and melted by the morning sun sword rainbow! Residual electric snakes splattered everywhere, vaporized by the Blazing Flame sword aura!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The second and third bolts of tribulation lightning followed closely! Violent silver lightning balls and condensed purple lightning spears tore through the sky!

"Nine Transformations of the Vast Sun, Second Transformation—Chasing the Sun: The Golden Crow Patrol!!"

"Nine Transformations of the Vast Sun, Third Transformation—Molten Gold: The Scorching Sun!!"

Yao Delong stepped on the stars, his sword traversing the Nine Heavens! His body turned into a stream of light as he struck back ferociously!

The sword shadows were like a patrolling Golden Crow flapping its wings, and the sword momentum was like the melting of ancient divine gold!

The brilliant sword light resisted the thunder, shattered the lightning balls, and melted the lightning spears! The sound of the Void Realm exploding echoed to the clouds!

The seventh bolt of tribulation lightning! A gray, eerie lightning bolt carrying strange, obliterating Death Qi twisted and shot over in an instant like a Soul-reaping venomous snake!

"Nine Transformations of the Vast Sun, Fifth Transformation—Space-Splitting: The Radiance of the World!!!"

Yao Delong exhaled and shouted, the chixiao sword emitting a sharp, silk-tearing hiss!

Sword! Light! Splitting! The! Firmament!

There were no towering flames, no massive momentum!

There was only a scarlet-gold ray of light, condensed to the extreme, as fine as a hair, yet so bright that it pierced through a piece of the tribulation cloud!

Point! Pierce! Line! Break! Surface!

Swish!

That deathly lightning that chilled the heart was silently pierced through by this world-shining sword light!

Like a needle pricking a balloon, the deathly lightning power suddenly collapsed! It dissipated into nothingness!

The eighth bolt! The core of the tribulation cloud collapsed and rotated instantly! Terrifying energy frantically converged and compressed!

A giant lightning spear that reached the sky—purple to the point of black, with dark red blood light swimming within it—

The destructive fluctuations it emitted had truly reached the shocking power of the Void Refining Stage—it condensed into form!

The space was torn into black cracks by the Qi emitted from the tip of the lightning spear!

"Come!" Yao Delong's black hair danced wildly, and in his eyes, there was only that world-destroying divine spear!

He poured all of his Essence, Qi, and Spirit into the chixiao sword in his hand!

The sword body hummed, on the verge of shattering!

The core of his newly born Primordial Spirit erupted with unprecedented light!

"Roar—!!! Look clearly! My Dao! My Law!"

"Nine Transformations of the Vast Sun, Sixth Transformation—Burning Sea: The Great Sun Descends!!!!"

He no longer stood above the Immortal Cave!