251: Frequent use of methods

“Poof!” The first Heart Demon Lightning Dragon pierced through his tattered protective starlight without any obstruction, fiercely striking his Main Body!

Immortal Master Tian Luo’s body twitched violently, the divine radiance in his eyes faded like a receding tide, instantly engulfed by boundless fear and illusions.

The Eight Trigrams Dao Plate above his head let out a mournful cry, its spiritual light completely extinguished.

The second and third Lightning Tribulations followed closely!

“Ugh ah—!” Immortal Master Tian Luo couldn’t even utter a complete scream. His powerful Physical Body, under the dual assault of chaotic thunder and Heart Demon erosion, disintegrated inch by inch, turning into ashes!

His Nascent Soul, which attempted to flee, was completely submerged, torn apart, and annihilated by the surging Lightning Tribulation that followed, the moment it left his body!

After the Tribulation of Ascension to Immortality began, countless Lightning Tribulations had already enveloped the two, making it impenetrable. Within the absolute Domain, the outside world could not perceive anything.

The Quasi-Immortal Peak expert, Immortal Master Tian Luo, on whom Dao Yi Sect had placed high hopes, and who was a surprise weapon in their scheme against Xue Qin, perished both in body and spirit under the fourth Tribulation of Ascension to Immortality, leaving not even a trace.

Beneath the calamity cloud, only Xiao Zhuo remained!

Immortal Master Tian Luo’s demise did not shake the Heavenly Tribulation in the slightest.

The Heavenly Dao was merciless; its target was now only Xiao Zhuo.

The calamity cloud churned even more violently, its color shifting from pitch black to a heart-stopping dark purple, brewing even more terrifying power.

“He’s dead just like that?” Xiao Zhuo glanced at the spot where Immortal Master Tian Luo had vanished, his eyes indifferent.

His inner knot had been resolved back in the Minghu Realm, and the Sacred Soul Scripture protected his Primordial Spirit. The fourth Heart Demon Lightning had no effect on him.

Immortal Master Tian Luo’s demise was within expectations, just earlier than he had anticipated. He had thought this person could at least last until the fifth stage.

Fortunately, the Lightning Tribulation not only did not diminish but, due to Immortal Master Tian Luo’s demise, redirected all the tribulation he would have endured towards Xiao Zhuo!

“Good, bring it on!!” Xiao Zhuo raised his head, unafraid. His Battle Intent surged like boiling water. “Tribulation of Ascension to Immortality? Let’s see what you can do to me!”

The fifth and sixth Lightning Tribulations!

Their power had escalated to an incredible degree.

Each Lightning Tribulation that struck down was like the explosion of a chaotic star! The Realm sea space shattered and annihilated in large swaths like fragile glass, leaving behind voids that could not heal for a long time.

Violent energy currents raged. Cultivators from the Blood Demon Realm and Dao Yi Realm, observing from thousands of miles away, all turned pale with horror, retreating again and again.

Xiao Zhuo finally felt the pressure.

He could no longer completely devour the Lightning Tribulation. The destructive energy impacted his body, causing tiny cracks to appear on his purple-gold Thunder Dao Body, which then rapidly healed under his powerful self-healing ability.

“Heavenly Demon Hegemon Body! Activate!” Xiao Zhuo roared, his muscles bulging, his height growing to ten feet. Ancient demonic patterns appeared beneath his skin, overlaying the purple-gold lightning patterns, and a wild, overbearing aura soared into the sky!

His Physical Body strength instantly increased tenfold! He directly withstood the Lightning Tribulation’s bombardment, the cracks on his body instantly mending, and he even forcibly suppressed and refined the destructive lightning energy that had invaded his body!

The seventh Lightning Tribulation!

Nine bolts of lightning merged into one! It transformed into a chaotic lightning pillar, over a hundred zhang in diameter, piercing through heaven and earth!

Within the lightning pillar, Heart Demon illusions, spatial fragments, and temporal turbulences intertwined. Its power was enough to instantly kill a True Immortal who had just entered the Realm!

“Blood God Body! Awakening! blood god armor, condense!” Xiao Zhuo’s eyes burst with blood-red light, and the terrifying power deep within his Bloodline erupted with a roar!

His Physical Body strength doubled again on top of the Heavenly Demon Hegemon Body!

A red-black armor condensed around his body. The current blood god armor was incredibly tough, to an unbelievable degree.

Even more terrifying, a layer of viscous, scorching God-Slaying Blood Flame, seemingly capable of incinerating all things, rose from the pores all over his body!

Boom—!

The chaotic lightning pillar fiercely smashed onto Xiao Zhuo’s body!

Amidst the earth-shattering roar, that area completely transformed into a sea of chaotic lightning.

The Blood Flame and chaotic thunder violently collided, eroded, and annihilated each other, emitting a piercing shriek.

Destructive shockwaves swept in all directions!

Deep within the lightning and Blood Flame, Xiao Zhuo’s figure stood proudly!

Lightning flickered across his armor, which was covered in cracks, yet it rapidly healed at a visible speed under the tenfold terrifying recovery power brought by the Blood God Body!

The Blood Flame stubbornly burned, constantly eroding and decomposing the chaotic thunder entwined around his body, in turn nourishing himself.

Within his Sea of Consciousness, the Sacred Soul Scripture operated to its extreme, his soul infant radiating boundless clear light, firmly resisting all Heart Demon illusions from the outside, remaining unmoving.

After the fourth stage, every Lightning Tribulation was accompanied by a Heart Demon lure. A slight oversight would lead to falling into an illusion, and the Physical Body would turn to dust.

However, for Xiao Zhuo, it was still ineffective.

The eighth Lightning Tribulation!

The calamity cloud seemed to be completely enraged, changing from a glassy color to a pure darkness that swallowed all light. The terrifying pressure caused the entire Realm sea battlefield to fall into a deathly silence.

Nine glassy bolts of lightning no longer appeared as giant pythons or light pillars, but transformed into nine thunderous divine spears, directly condensed from the Heavenly Dao Law, entwined with endless destructive Dao Principles!

The divine spears were silent, yet they carried the ultimate will to pierce through all Realms and end everything, locking onto Xiao Zhuo, arriving in an instant!

“Dao Principle of Freedom! wan fa (myriad laws) Return to Origin!” Xiao Zhuo felt an unprecedented deadly threat, pushing the Natural Freedom Dao Principle Rune to its limit.

Natural Freedom Dao Rhyme permeated his body, as if resonating with all Dao Principles of heaven and earth.

He clasped his hands, actually taking the initiative to draw the God-Slaying Blood Flame and residual chaotic lightning energy around him, condensing them into a strange shield in front of him that constantly rotated and contained the meaning of creation and destruction of all stars in the heavens—the Myriad Laws Origin Shield!

“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom...”

Nine thunderous divine spears successively struck the Myriad Laws Origin Shield!

Each impact erupted with an energy storm that made True Immortals tremble.

The Origin Shield vibrated violently, covered in cracks.

Xiao Zhuo was bathed in blood, his bronze skin cracked, and the crystallized bones within his body groaned under the unbearable strain.

But his eyes were as firm as a rock. He frantically operated the Dao Principle of Freedom, analyzing, transforming, and guiding the Law of Destruction and Law of Thunder contained within the divine spears.

The Devouring Divine Body was fully activated, greedily devouring the pure energy that was dispersed and transformed.

The Blood Flame, moreover, counterattacked madly, attempting to erode the Main Body of the divine spears!

Stalemate! An astonishing stalemate!

Finally, the ninth divine spear exhausted its power and shattered, and the Myriad Laws Origin Shield also exploded with a roar!

Xiao Zhuo was violently sent flying a thousand miles by the residual impact, crashing through a planetary fragment, bathed in blood, his aura fluctuating violently.

Only his eyes were as bright as burning stars!

He had survived the eighth stage!

The calamity cloud fell into an unprecedented deathly silence, silently chasing the flung Xiao Zhuo, like the extreme calm before a storm.

The entire Realm sea seemed to freeze.

In the distance, Xue Qin revealed her figure, her beautiful face filled with unprecedented solemnity and disbelief.

From the direction of Dao Yi Realm, True Man Tian Xing and other high-level figures were ashen-faced—the Heavenly Tribulation moved, and Immortal Master Tian Luo was gone, the outcome self-evident. And the enemy had actually passed the eighth Immortal Tribulation!

The calamity cloud began to collapse, its color changing from glassy to a pure darkness that swallowed all light!

An aura of destruction, surpassing all previous Lightning Tribulations, seemingly originating from the very beginning of the Universe, imbued with the will of ultimate judgment, slowly condensed and locked on!

The ninth Tribulation of Ascension to Immortality, the World-Destroying True Immortal Tribulation, descended!

The power of this Tribulation had already surpassed the Peak of True Immortal, touching the Heavenly Immortal level!

Xiao Zhuo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looking at the collapsing dark core. Feeling the ultimate pressure capable of making a True Immortal’s Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, he was not only unafraid but revealed a wild, unrestrained smile full of anticipation.

“The final feast... Come on!” The Blood Flame around him reignited, his broken body rapidly healed under powerful recovery, his soul infant radiated clear light, and the Natural Freedom Dao Rhyme circulated ceaselessly, pushing his state to an unprecedented Peak.

His goal had never just been to Undergoing Tribulation, but to... devour the calamity eye, to help his Thunder Dao Body transform, and to forge his unique Dao Principle of Freedom True Immortal Dao Fruit!

At this moment, he felt that the Origin of his Thunder Dao Body had reached a critical point after absorbing a large amount of Immortal Tribulation, just a little bit away from qualitative change, and the Natural Freedom Dao Principle Rune was also radiant with immortal light, as if it was about to enter another Realm.