137: Chapter 137: Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, as the strongest of the dragon race, are you really going to just stand by and watch your descendants be destroyed by the heavens?

"Chi—"

There was no loud bang, only a slight sound, as if paper were being sliced through.

That Pitch-black Tribulation Lightning, containing the Power of Annihilation, was actually split in two by that seemingly delicate ice-blue sword light, as smooth as a hot knife cutting through butter!

The two separated bolts of lightning grazed past the Snow Empress's sides, plowing two bottomless, charred ravines into the earth behind her.

Three Great Ultimate Techniques, performed in succession, hard-clashed against the final three strongest tribulation lightning bolts!

This scene caused the hearts of everyone watching in the distance to sway, leaving them incredibly shocked. This was the elegance of the Far North's Sovereign!

This was the sky-toppling combat power of a Seven-hundred-thousand-year Great Beast!

However, just when everyone thought the Nine Tribulation Lightning Bolts had passed, the Heavenly Tribulation was ending, and the Snow Empress was about to succeed in her crossing—

A sudden change occurred!

The thunderclouds filling the sky, which had been defeated by the Snow Empress's three ultimate techniques and seemed about to disperse, did not dissipate. Instead, they suddenly contracted inward!

Following that, an unprecedented, indescribably terrifying will—one that surpassed the sum of all previous Heavenly Tribulations—crashed down!

The entire world instantly fell into a dead silence.

The sound of the wind, the thunder, and even the breathing of the distant observers seemed to be forcibly stripped away and suppressed by this will!

The thunderclouds in the sky turned into a pure, viscous pitch-black, like an upside-down black hole swallowing everything!

At the center of that black hole, a speck of light—whose color could not be described and whose form could not be defined, as if it contained the ultimate mysteries of the universe's birth and death and the return of all things to the void—was slowly condensing and taking shape.

That was not lightning; that was... Heaven's Punishment!

It was the ultimate, lethal judgment handed down by the laws of heaven and earth upon the anomaly that was the Snow Empress!

This power was no longer just targeting the intensity of a seven-hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation; it contained a cold decisiveness that forbade existence and demanded erasure!

"The Heavenly Way... is enraged?" In the distance, Qian Renxue whispered under her breath, her violet eyes filled with disbelief.

She inherited the Seraphim Spirit, and her perception of divinity and the will of heaven and earth far exceeded that of ordinary people.

She clearly felt the almost paranoid killing intent contained within that will!

This was definitely not just a Heavenly Tribulation test; this was... to completely wipe the Snow Empress's existence from its very root, letting her power and soul return to the Far North to serve as nourishment for that ice field!

Sensing this ultimate death threat, the Snow Empress also released an unwilling aura full of battle intent.

She erupted all the remaining power in her body without reservation, and an ice-blue divine light soared into the sky, attempting a final struggle.

However, under the terrifying pressure of that black hole and the speck of light, her ice-blue divine light seemed so weak, like a candle flickering in the wind.

The final judgment had not yet fallen, but the invisible pressure alone had already dealt the Snow Empress a heavy blow!

"Puff—!"

She suddenly spat out a large mouthful of red blood, her delicate body trembling violently. Like a snow crane with broken wings, she fell powerlessly from mid-air, kneeling on one knee above the cold spring, barely maintaining a hovering posture.

The white gown on her body had long since been shredded under the previous tribulation lightning and the current pressure. Large patches of snowy-white, delicate skin—carved like the finest suet jade—were exposed, emitting a heart-stopping yet tragic and fragile glow in the dim world.

Her exquisite face was as pale as paper, her aura rapidly declining. In her ice-blue eyes, the steady flame of determination that had been burning also began to flicker and dim.

"Sister Snow Empress!" Wang Donger cried out in alarm, about to rush over recklessly, but she was held back firmly by Lu Jing.

"Don't go over there! If you go now, not only will you be unable to save her, but you yourself will be locked on by the Heaven's Punishment and your soul will be extinguished!"

Lu Jing's voice was low and urgent. He stared fixedly at the terrifying speck of light constantly condensing in the sky, then looked at the tottering Snow Empress below, his brow furrowed and light flashing wildly in his eyes.

Deep in his spiritual sea, the green scorpion transformed from the Ice Empress was already as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, frantically slamming against the spiritual barrier and letting out silent, despairing, and pleading cries.

But she also knew that facing this level of heavenly might, her going out would only mean throwing away another life.

Was it... going to end like this?

Was the Snow Empress, after all, unable to break free from that unseen fate?

No!

Absolutely not!

In Lu Jing's eyes, an unprecedentedly sharp light suddenly erupted!

A sense of unwillingness, anger, and an even deeper, more overbearing will rose in his chest!

In a flash, an extremely bold, even crazy thought crossed Lu Jing's mind!

He suddenly looked up, his gaze no longer on the tribulation clouds in the sky, nor on the dying Snow Empress, but fixed firmly on the red-and-white Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well below, which was still gurgling despite the terrifying heavenly might!

This miraculous spring!

Its formation was the place where the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings fell.

The skeletons and origins of the two Great Dragon Kings were the foundation supporting this space!

They were the true masters of this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!

They were the ancient overlords who once stood at the peak of Spirit Beast history!

"Let's gamble!"

Lu Jing hardened his heart and no longer hesitated!

He suddenly raised his right hand, palm upward, and his mind communicated with the World-Destroying Black Lotus at the deepest part of his spiritual sea, which was closely linked to his soul origin!

"Weng—!"

A profound, overbearing, terrifying aura that seemed capable of ending all worlds and returning everything to chaos erupted from Lu Jing's body without warning!

In his palm, the exquisite phantom of the Twelve-Petaled World-Destroying Black Lotus suddenly appeared, spinning rapidly, and was then pushed hard by Lu Jing with all his might toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well below!

The World-Destroying Black Lotus phantom turned into a dark stream of light, and in an instant, it sank into the confluence of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's waters and disappeared.

Following that, under the horrified gazes of everyone, a terrifying dragon might—older and more primitive than the Heaven's Punishment will in the sky, carrying the supreme majesty and endless sorrow of the Dragon Race—mixed with the pure destructive Divine Power of the World-Destroying Black Lotus, erupted from the depths of the spring eye like a volcano that had been dormant for ages!

"Roar—!!!"

"Ang—!!!"

Two dragon roars that seemed to travel through endless time and space—filled with unwillingness, anger, and compassion for the fate of junior Spirit Beasts—one scorching and one icy, intertwined and shook the heavens from the depths of the spring eye!

The entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well valley—no, the entire earth of the Sunset Forest—trembled and roared violently under these two dragon roars!

It was as if some long-dormant, unimaginably massive existence was being forcibly awakened!

Lu Jing stood on the hillside, his black hair dancing wildly, his eyes sharp as knives.

He circulated his Soul Power, and his voice, like thunder from the nine heavens, carried an unquestionable questioning and anger. Aided by the resonance between the World-Destroying Black Lotus and the awakened dragon might, it crashed into the depths of the constantly vibrating spring eye:

"Ice Dragon King! Fire Dragon King!"

"As the strongest of the ancient Dragon Race and the senior sages of the Spirit Beast lineage!"

"Are you going to stand by and watch a junior genius perish before your eyes under this heartless Heavenly Tribulation, their soul scattered and returning to the world?!"

"Does your pride, your bloodline, allow you to so indifferently ignore the survival of your kin, being targeted and calculated against by the Heavenly Way at will?!"

"Answer me—!!!"

Lu Jing's angry rebuke was like the final fuse, igniting the anger and sorrow that had been silent for ages.

"Boom—!!!!!"

In the next moment, under the gaze of everyone—including the black hole and speck of light in the sky that seemed to represent the will of the Heavenly Way, which appeared to pause for a moment—the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, that red-and-white miraculous spring eye, exploded!

It wasn't an explosion, but... a shocking phenomenon of some dormant, massive will and power completely awakening and breaking through the seal!

Scorching heat and extreme cold, two diametrically opposite yet same-sourced majestic dragon forces, like two intertwined primordial dragons, soared into the sky from the depths of the spring eye!

The crimson and ice-blue light pillars complemented each other, instantly piercing through the thick, pitch-black tribulation clouds representing the Heaven's Punishment!

A terrifying pressure belonging to the God-level, or even the God-King level, which surpassed the cognition of all living beings present, swept out like a storm!