After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Between heaven and earth, the roaring sound was incessant, and above the dark, inky sky, thick dark clouds pressed in like a thousand troops.

Amidst lightning and thunder, a fierce wind raged, and large raindrops, like dense arrows, were swept up by the gale, forming spectacular storm curtains.

In these rolling mountains, the pitch-black rainy night seemed to swallow up all sounds, with only the roar of thunder echoing across this ancient land.

At the summit of the mountains, a man in black stood proudly, his black clothes fluttering in the wind, yet he seemed to be isolated from everything in the raging storm.

The rain automatically parted around him, unable to touch him at all.

"If one hears the Way in the morning..."

The man in black spoke in a low voice, almost as if talking to himself, but his gaze was fixed firmly on the sky.

The calmness in those dark eyes was gone, replaced by an undisguised fervor and excitement.

At that moment, the thunder in the heavens and earth seemed to revolve around the man in black, and lightning illuminated everything around him in an instant.

On the distant mountain peaks, thousands of cultivators watched silently, their expressions varied. Some were excited, looking at the black-clad man on the summit with fervent eyes; others had complicated feelings, gazing thoughtfully at the lightning that pierced the heavens and earth.

"Huo Yu!"

A voice suddenly pierced through the rain, and almost at the same moment, a figure appeared on the mountaintop not far away, as if stepping on a thunderbolt. His speed was unmatched.

However, the man in black at the summit seemed oblivious, stepping into the air and ascending to heaven as if he had become one with the world.

At the same time, the heavens and earth roared, the wind and clouds swirled, and countless red tribulation clouds appeared out of nowhere, instantly covering the entire sky, as if the end of the world had arrived.

Above the crimson clouds of tribulation, a dozen or so blurry figures could be vaguely seen, resembling true immortals, draped in rosy light, surrounded by celestial music.

The space behind the phantom seemed to be torn apart, leaving only emptiness. In that emptiness stood a golden gate, its golden light dazzling and awe-inspiring.

The thousands of cultivators watching felt a burning pain as soon as their divine senses touched the golden light, and they had to withdraw their divine senses.

The golden gate was too large to be seen with the naked eye; only a few cultivators were able to maintain their focus and continue to observe this grand spectacle, which had not been seen for nearly ten thousand years, from afar with their divine sense.

The man in black remained unaffected and continued walking step by step toward the gate leading to the Heavenly Path.

At the same time, the pursuer was unaffected. He withstood the pressure of the heavenly tribulation and slowly approached Huo Yu. The Tenglong Spear in his hand disappeared instantly and reappeared behind the man in black, pointing directly at the man's back.

The man in black didn't stop, raising his hand to unleash a deep red fire dragon, easily repelling the spear tip that was hurtling through the air with lightning.

Throughout the entire process, his gaze never left the Gate of Heaven.

The pursuer was close, and he caught the gun with his backhand. The silver-black gun tip was gathering deep blue lightning, pointing directly at the man in black.

"Don't even think about leaving!"

The pursuer's voice was filled with determination and anger.

The lightning power on the spear was comparable to that of heavenly thunder. As if drawn by it, the thunder in the sky became even more violent, and several bolts of lightning, each ten feet thick, struck the surrounding mountains. The onlookers all fled far away to avoid it.

At this moment, the man in black finally stopped, his black robes fluttering in the wind, as if whispering to himself:

"I, Huo Yu, began cultivating at the age of fifteen, and after four hundred years of Mahayana cultivation, I have now cultivated for nearly a thousand years and finally achieved perfection. Today is the day I ascend to immortality."

"Today will be your death day!"

The pursuer roared to the sky, and lightning blazed brightly on the Tenglong Spear, even showing a faint tendency to attract heavenly lightning.

However, no matter how he attacked, he could not get close to Huo Yu, as if there was an invisible barrier between the two of them that absorbed all the lightning.

"The gate to the Heavenly Dao has appeared; the path to immortality is imminent. If heavenly tribulations obstruct me, I will undergo them; if immortals obstruct me, I will slay them!"

Huo Yu finally turned to face his pursuers, his eyes filled with disdain, not only for the Heavenly Tribulation, but also for the so-called immortals.

As for his pursuers, he didn't take them seriously at all.

With a thought, several fire dragons, even more powerful than before, appeared out of thin air without warning and rushed toward the pursuers.

How could Long Yucheng not see the disdain in Huo Yu's eyes? In the past, he might have been enraged, but at this moment, he only had two words in his mind—revenge!

He had already experienced extreme rage and endless despair, and now the last chance to kill his enemy was right in front of him, leaving him with only extreme calm.

Almost at the same time the fire dragon appeared, Long Yucheng spun the Tenglong Spear in his hand, and several bolts of lightning, each ten feet thick, met the roaring fire dragon.

Thunder and fire collided, exploding into dazzling silver and red light in the air.

At the same time, dozens of tiny silver balls, each the size of a grain of rice, flew out of Long Yucheng's storage bag and hurtled towards Huo Yu at full speed.

A deep red, almost purple fire phoenix materialized out of thin air in front of Huo Yu, circling him slowly amidst its sharp cries.

The silver ball disappeared without a trace the moment it touched the fire phoenix, as if it had vanished into thin air.

Long Yucheng's eyes flashed, and he shouted:

"burst!"

In an instant, countless silver bolts of lightning exploded within the fire phoenix, but the phoenix remained completely unharmed, its color changing from deep red to deep purple, with faint silver-white lightning flowing within it.

Huo Yu disdained using magical artifacts. As the Demon Lord, he had been in charge of the Demon Sect for hundreds of years, relying on brute force to overcome all techniques.

Huo Yusheng was born with a fire-attribute celestial spiritual root, and the cultivation method he practiced was modified from the most widely circulated low-level cultivation method in the cultivation world—the Fire Control Technique, which he named the Burning Heaven Technique.

He has reached the pinnacle of the art of fire, and his control over fire has long since reached a level that is almost indistinguishable from the laws of heaven and earth.

Using the impact of the exploding ball, Huo Yu rode the fire phoenix and accelerated towards the tribulation clouds.

The deep purple fire phoenix let out a sharp cry. All the fire spirit root cultivators watching around felt the instability of their spiritual roots. They were shocked and fled at lightning speed, as if their spiritual roots would leave their bodies and follow Huo Yu if they stayed for even a second longer.

Long Yucheng also possessed a fire elemental root, and being the closest, he was more significantly affected. Even though he had taken precautions beforehand, he was still affected, and his attack paused for a moment.

In that instant, Huo Yu, riding the fire phoenix, completely broke free from the lightning cage he had created and rushed up to the top of the tribulation clouds.

The golden Heavenly Dao Gate, when viewed up close, was hundreds of feet tall. Its powerful aura was already awe-inspiring even from a distance, but when Huo Yu actually stood before it, he felt an unprecedented shock.

This is the most mysterious existence in the cultivation world—the Gate of Heavenly Dao! How insignificant humanity is before its dazzling brilliance!

The path to heaven that he had longed for since he embarked on the path of cultivation now stood before him. As long as he pushed open this door, he could transcend tribulations, ascend to immortality, and become a celestial being!

"Boom boom boom!" Fire dragons several meters thick slammed into the massive Heavenly Gate one after another.

Huo Yu attacked with all his might, the crimson thunderclouds beneath his feet churning and rumbling – the heavenly tribulation had officially begun.