467: Chapter 467 The Tribulation of the Pseudo-Immortal King!

The air was thick with the pungent smell of ozone and a bone-chilling aura of destruction.

The moment any living being stepped into the plaza, the tribulation clouds above would be instantly activated, unleashing the "Pseudo-Immortal King Lightning Tribulation Light" simulated by the supreme Formation of the Immortal Palace's great powers. Although it carried the word "pseudo" and was not a true Immortal King Lightning Tribulation, its terrifying power was enough to make any expert who had just entered the Golden Immortal Realm feel their scalp tingle. A single moment of carelessness would result in their death and complete annihilation.

"Ah——!"

Lu Li had barely stepped half a foot into the plaza and hadn't even had a chance to look around when a shrill, miserable scream—a hundred times worse than a pig being slaughtered—reached his ears.

He fixed his gaze and saw that in the central area of the plaza, Su Changkong was suffering the most brutal torture of his life.

Streaks of silver lightning, as thick as buckets and containing the Law of destruction, poured down from the tribulation clouds like a torrential storm, striking Su Changkong frantically and from every angle without any blind spots.

Su Changkong had already had his immortal bones shattered by a single punch from Lu Li in the previous trial; his internal organs were displaced, his Meridians were severed, and he was in a state of critical injury, near death.

Facing such a violent baptism of thunder, he didn't even have the strength to stand up and could only writhe in pain on the pitch-black ground like a pitiful maggot.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The lightning exploded. The blood-colored shield on his body, formed by the residual power of the Great Displacement Blood Escape Talisman, flickered violently under the bombardment of the lightning, like a candle in the wind, about to be extinguished at any moment.

The lightning pierced through the shield and struck his Physical Body, charring his already shattered flesh.

A nauseating smell of burning flesh permeated the air.

Black smoke rose from his entire body. His originally handsome face was now pitch black, his hair stood on end, and his aura had weakened to the extreme, as if it could be extinguished at any moment.

Just as Su Changkong felt he was about to be charred into charcoal, he caught a glimpse of Lu Li walking slowly into the plaza out of the corner of his eye.

In that instant, a vicious, frenzied light erupted from Su Changkong's bloodshot, murky eyes.

"Come! Come in! This Pseudo-Immortal King Lightning Tribulation Light doesn't distinguish between friend and foe!" Su Changkong roared and cursed madly in his heart. "If I can't live, don't think you'll have it any better! With your cultivation, facing this kind of Lightning Tribulation, you will definitely be beaten into a panicked mess and reduced to ashes! If I can drag a freak like you to death with me, I, Su Changkong, will have broken even!"

He stared fixedly at Lu Li, his mouth twisting into a cold sneer, anticipating the sight of Lu Li panicking and being torn apart by the thunder.

Lu Li naturally felt Su Changkong's venomous, snake-like gaze, but he only glanced at him indifferently. That look was just like looking at a stubborn rock on the side of the road.

Afterward, he walked into the heart of the plaza, completely defenseless and swaggering.

"Boom!"

Seemingly sensing a new and more powerful intruder, the tribulation clouds above instantly went into an uproar.

A portion of the lightning that had been striking Su Changkong suddenly turned its spearhead. Dozens of terrifying streaks of lightning, thicker than water buckets and flashing with blinding silver light, wove together in the clouds into a massive lightning net, descending upon Lu Li with the power to destroy heaven and earth!

Su Changkong widened his eyes, staring fixedly at this scene, his breath hitching at that moment.

However, the scene that followed made Su Changkong's eyeballs almost pop out, completely shattering his last line of psychological defense.

Facing the overwhelming net of thunder falling from the sky, Lu Li not only failed to use any movement techniques to dodge, nor did he bring out any defensive Magic Treasure, but he even closed his eyes directly.

With a thought, he voluntarily withdrew the layer of Chaos-colored mana halo that automatically protected his body!

He actually allowed those dozens of terrifying streaks of lightning, which were enough to severely injure a Golden Immortal, to strike his seemingly thin, fair Physical Body directly and without any reservation!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The blinding lightning instantly engulfed Lu Li's small body completely.

Violent electric arcs, like countless silver spirit snakes, crazily slithered and bit at his body, emitting a harsh "crackling" sound.

"He's dead! He must have been blasted into ashes!" A morbid ecstasy surged in Su Changkong's heart.

However, the next second, a lazy, even somewhat comfortable voice came from within the lightning.

"Oh my, this strength is not bad; it feels tingly and numb, quite invigorating."

As the lightning gradually weakened, Lu Li's figure was revealed once again.

Not only was he completely unharmed, not even a single hair had been singed. Instead, he stretched comfortably, his bones emitting a crisp cracking sound like roasted beans.

"This pure power of destructive lightning is the best nourishment for polishing the Physical Body; I can't let it go to waste."

Lu Li opened his eyes, a glimmer of excitement shining in them.

"Ten million Divine Elephants, swallow it for me!"

He suddenly spread his arms, and the particles of the ten million ancient Divine Elephants within his body once again let out earth-shaking cheers.

Lu Li's body transformed into a bottomless black hole. He actually reversed his mana, treating this Pseudo-Immortal King Lightning Tribulation Light—which caused countless great powers to tremble in fear—as the perfect Body Tempering lightning liquid, absorbing it into his body frantically and greedily!

As soon as the violent lightning power entered his Meridians, before it could wreak havoc, it was forcefully suppressed, shattered, and purified by the incomparably domineering Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength.

Countless purified lightning essences merged like spring rain into his limbs and bones, his muscles, and even every tiny cell.

Under the constant washing and tempering of these lightning essences, Lu Li's already peak Physical Body strength began to climb to an incredible level once again.

On the surface of his skin, a faint yet indestructible luster, as if cast from gold, began to flow.

This was clearly a sign that his Physical Body was strong and beginning to gestate an "Immortal Golden Nature"!

"Is... is this guy even human? This must be an ancient monster wearing human skin..."

Su Changkong stared blankly at Lu Li, who was as comfortable as if taking a hot bath in the sea of lightning, watching as the lightning that could have shattered his body to pieces was swallowed by Lu Li as if he were drinking water. His brain had completely stopped thinking.

All his pride, all his jealousy, and all his hatred were, at this moment, before this unreasonable chasm, completely transformed into the deepest despair and powerlessness.

He didn't want revenge anymore; he now had only one thought in his mind: run! Run away from this monster! The further, the better!

The instinct to survive overcame everything. Su Changkong exhausted the last bit of strength in his body, enduring the excruciating pain of his severed Meridians, and like a fish out of water, he crawled bit by bit on the ground, scrambling toward the bronze gate leading to the ninth trial.