97: Thunder Law 20%, Heaven and Earth Thunder Tree

The shockwave raged, and dazzling lightning, carrying a scorching aura, engulfed the Blood Ancestor, twisting the air into a blurry halo.

Xiao Zhuo's knuckles turned white, but his mind was exceptionally clear: How could an ancient giant like the Blood Ancestor fall so easily?

Before the lightning dissipated, a dark red blood wave erupted from where the Blood Ancestor stood!

The viscous blood instantly covered the scorched earth, and a fishy smell scent shot to the sky, transforming into a crimson ocean tens of miles wide!

The Lotus of World Purification fell into the sea of blood, instantly exploding into blue smoke, and the rising foul-smelling mist made one's throat bitter.

Xiao Zhuo retracted his Dharma Idol, and his soul consciousness swept across the blood wave, his pupils suddenly constricting—the entire ocean was formed from the Blood Ancestor's Divine Soul!

"The old ghost's Main Body is actually a sea of blood?!" he whispered, cold sweat seeping from his palms.

If that were truly the case, what kind of heaven-defying Divine Ability would be needed to completely eradicate him? This was practically an immortal and indestructible existence!

As the thought arose, the calamity eye had already absorbed all the surrounding Origin Qi.

A three-colored calamity light, black on the outside, red in the middle, and white on the inside, descended like a spear of divine punishment!

The calamity light was incredibly fast! Xiao Zhuo had just looked up when he was violently slammed into the depths of the sea of blood!

The three-colored calamity light pushed him, plowing a thousand-zhang-long gully on the seabed, and the blood along the way boiled and steamed.

The dark golden Hellish Demon Mark flickered wildly, but it couldn't keep up with the speed of his body's disintegration. His Glass Body was covered in spiderweb cracks, only to instantly heal under the surging vitality from his soul infant.

He swallowed a massive amount of three-colored calamity light into his body.

At this moment, the churning sea of blood suddenly contracted, solidifying into a blood-colored human form.

The second calamity light struck at this precise moment, blasting the Blood Ancestor's newly reassembled body into a shower of blood beads!

However, the blood beads did not scatter; they instantly transformed into countless blood shadows, reuniting once more!

The reunited Blood Ancestor clasped and then pulled his hands apart, and an eerie blood-red demonic sword appeared out of thin air in his palm. No sooner had the demonic sword appeared than the redirected calamity light struck!

"Shatter for this Ancestor!" The Blood Ancestor held the demonic sword horizontally, fiercely parrying the calamity light, and the friction between the sword and the destructive energy produced an ear-piercing shriek!

Xiao Zhuo, meanwhile, had completely adapted to the three-colored calamity light, and his Heaven-Observing Divine Eye had even completed its analysis of its structure.

Ten breaths later, the calamity light finally ran out of power, collapsing with a roar. Both of them had, by their respective means, managed to withstand this third stage of the Heavenly Tribulation!

However, before they could catch their breath, the fourth stage, the Lightning Beast Tribulation, had already descended!

The calamity eye spawned eighteen lightning beasts, far more terrifying than the previous Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Tribulation, roaring as they pounced down upon the two of them!

The Blood Ancestor, at this moment, couldn't even bother to curse Xiao Zhuo. Wielding a demonic sword larger than his own body, he engaged nine lightning beasts in battle.

Xiao Zhuo, on the other hand, withstood the lightning spat out by the lightning beasts, while simultaneously engaging in savage close-quarters combat with an ape-shaped giant beast, golden-purple lightning wildly splashing with each punch and kick!

He even occasionally intruded into the Blood Ancestor's battle circle, enduring the lightning beasts' attacks, and then, seizing an opportune moment, delivered a treacherous lightning blade strike towards the Blood Ancestor!

"You brat, how dare you!" The Blood Ancestor spun to dodge, but a wisp of his blood robe was still burned to blue smoke by the lightning fire.

That damned Human Race brat, relying on his Glass Body, moved through the lightning beast horde like electricity, and the lightning blades he occasionally flung were cunning and vicious.

Although the Blood Ancestor had profound foundations, his Main Body, the sea of blood, was not limitless!

Each injury consumed a portion of his Origin sea of blood.

When the sea of blood dried up, that would be the moment of his true demise!

Although his Realm was profound, and he was known for "Rebirth from a drop of blood," capable of resurrecting as long as a trace of his essence blood or a wisp of his remnant soul remained, the lost power would require a long time to replenish.

At this moment, the Blood Ancestor had cursed Xiao Zhuo's ancestors eighteen generations back.

But it was useless. Xiao Zhuo's intermittent sneak attacks annoyed him endlessly, and with the lightning beasts holding him back, he simply couldn't catch the elusive Xiao Zhuo.

By the time Xiao Zhuo had dealt with his own lightning beasts, the Blood Ancestor had only just managed to defeat three.

What made the Blood Ancestor even more furious was that the lightning essence overflowing from the scattered lightning beasts all surged towards Xiao Zhuo!

"This is outrageous!" The Blood Ancestor's demonic blood churned with rage.

Being dragged into the Heavenly Tribulation, its power doubled, and he was fighting for his life, yet all the benefits went to this brat?

He, the magnificent Blood Ancestor, had become a laborer for this ant!

"Die for this Ancestor!" The Blood Ancestor, pushed to his limit, finally erupted. The blood mist around him exploded, sending the remaining six lightning beasts flying, and he recklessly pounced towards Xiao Zhuo!

Xiao Zhuo showed no fear, his lightning blade condensing into a golden stream of light to meet him! A golden and a red figure clashed wildly beneath the tribulation clouds, and where their afterimages passed, even the space confined by the Heavenly Tribulation rippled!

The Blood Ancestor was, after all, an Ancestor Level cultivator, and his control over the Law of Blood far surpassed Xiao Zhuo's nascent Law of Thunder.

In a head-on confrontation, Xiao Zhuo was repeatedly sent flying; in terms of pure power, he was still significantly inferior.

However, his Grand Beginning Glazed Indestructible Body was already formidable, and after Fusion with the Hellish Demon Mark, it was several times tougher!

He actually managed to withstand the Blood Ancestor's tempestuous attacks!

Under the Heavenly Tribulation, neither side dared to easily activate their Domain, lest it be shattered by the tribulation lightning, which meant neither could unleash their strongest killing moves.

Under the barrage of one Lightning Tribulation after another, the two fought desperately while struggling to cope with the might of the Heavenly Dao.

Although Xiao Zhuo was at a disadvantage, he could always barely hold on.

The Blood Ancestor, constantly interfered with by the Heavenly Tribulation, was unable to exert his full strength.

Whenever he blasted Xiao Zhuo's Glass Indestructible Body to the brink of the Shattered Realm (Cultivation Class), Xiao Zhuo would immediately withdraw, using the Lightning Tribulation to hinder the Blood Ancestor and seize the opportunity to recover.

This enraged the Blood Ancestor, who roared repeatedly but was helpless—the power of the Shattered Realm (Cultivation Class) of the ninth Realm could not be used, and the most terrifying corrupting power of the Law of Blood was completely suppressed by the Law of Thunder!

The Blood Ancestor was at his wit's end.

Until the eighth Lightning Tribulation descended!

Within the calamity eye, countless purplish-red lightning trees, obscuring the sky, actually grew!

Innumerable lightning branches, like mad whips, lashed down, furiously striking at the two of them!

The power of this "Heaven and Earth Lightning Tree Tribulation" far surpassed all previous ones!

The violent power of lightning continuously sent the two flying, and they could no longer bother with fighting each other.

Under the lashing of the lightning whips, Xiao Zhuo's Glass Indestructible Body shattered at a rate exceeding his own repair limit!

Glass shards splattered like a rain of stars, his body covered in shocking cracks, and the healing speed visibly slowed down.

The Blood Ancestor noticed Xiao Zhuo nearing his limit, and a hint of pleasure flashed in his eyes.

However, he soon realized with alarm that Xiao Zhuo's aura was slowly rising amidst the lightning!

It turned out that Xiao Zhuo's Heaven-Observing Divine Eye had never stopped analyzing the mysteries of the Heavenly Tribulation!

As he continuously swallowed tribulation power and absorbed the profound Heavenly Dao energy contained within it, the Law of Thunder runes within his soul infant became increasingly brilliant and bright, progressing towards the two-tenths Realm!

His resistance to and control over lightning suddenly skyrocketed!

Gradually, the lightning whips that could shatter glass could now be withstood head-on!

Lightning flashed in Xiao Zhuo's eyes, and he stomped violently in mid-air!

A lightning rune exploded beneath his feet, and he transformed into a bolt of lightning surging against the sky, fiercely pouncing towards the Main Body of the lightning tree beneath the calamity eye!

The closer he got to the lightning tree, the denser and more violent the strikes from the lightning branches became!

Amidst the deafening thunderous storm, Xiao Zhuo, holding his lightning blade, pierced through countless lightning whip obstructions, and fought his way to the main trunk of the lightning tree!

"Shatter—!!!"

A thousand-zhang lightning blade condensed in his hands, imbued with destructive lightning, and slashed upwards against the sky! The blade's edge precisely cut into the base of the lightning tree!

Boom—!!!

The entire sea of lightning exploded in response! The scattered, immense Heavenly Dao energy surged into Xiao Zhuo's body like a torrent, and his Grand Beginning Glazed Indestructible Body instantly gleamed with a metallic, cold luster!

In just ten breaths, his aura surged again, and the strength of his Indestructible Body actually doubled directly under the nourishment of the lightning tree's essence!

The Blood Ancestor below watched dumbfounded. Shattered the lightning tree?

Even if he used all his Divine Ability, he doubted he could do it!

This did not mean that Xiao Zhuo's strength had surpassed the Blood Ancestor's.

The Law of Thunder was inherently strong in offense and extreme speed, and Xiao Zhuo also cultivated the Grand Beginning Glazed Indestructible Body and many top-tier Divine Ability, making him rarely matched among those of the same cultivation class.

The Blood Ancestor's strengths lay in pollution, erosion, and almost immortal survival abilities, but the corrupting power of the Law of Blood was completely useless in the face of the Heavenly Tribulation.

Being forcibly dragged into this Heavenly Tribulation quagmire was truly infuriating for him!

As the Heaven and Earth Lightning Tree collapsed, the last and most terrifying stage of the Heavenly Tribulation began to brew within the calamity eye.

Two figures, emitting an aura that even made the Blood Ancestor gasp, slowly stepped out from the depths of the calamity eye!