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However, in this chaotic moment when the might of heaven and earth descended and the battlefield came to a standstill—

Beneath the altar, the "Blood Soul" elder, who had been sitting cross-legged without moving and whose aura was the most obscure, suddenly slowly raised his head.

His withered face was expressionless, except for his eyes, which were a pure blood red, like two pools of boiling blood. He looked in the direction of Shen Mo, his lips curling into a hoarse laugh, like the grinding of rusty iron.

"Heh heh... Breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage? Triggering a Heavenly Tribulation? Excellent... Excellent indeed! Such pure and abundant blood and spirit are perfect as the final and sweetest offering to the 'Holy Lord'! It saves me a lot of trouble..."

Before he finished speaking, his withered, chicken-claw-like hands suddenly rose and unleashed a series of complex, eerie hand seals that exuded a strong ominous aura towards the three dark red banners at the top of the altar!

"In the name of my blood and soul, I beseech the Holy Lord for mercy... to temporarily borrow His holy power to wipe out the ants and clear away the obstacles..."

As he chanted hoarsely and cast incantations, the three dark red banners suddenly trembled violently, and countless twisted and struggling demonic shadows appeared on their surfaces, emitting silent roars.

A surge of dark red evil energy, purer and more violent than before, filled with destruction and chaos, poured out of the banner like a tide. Instead of spreading, it rapidly contracted inward, eventually transforming into three extremely condensed blood-red beams of light that shot out from the top of the banner. In an instant, they crossed space and precisely poured into the crown chakras of the three elders: Blood Soul, Bone Fiend, and Yin Nightmare!

"Ugh—!!!"

The three elders simultaneously let out painful roars, their bodies uncontrollably swelling and twisting, as if countless earthworms were wriggling under their skin, and their aura soared wildly like a rocket!

Elder Blood Soul's aura instantly broke through the limit of the Golden Core stage and stepped into a brand new, suffocating level—the Nascent Soul stage! Although his aura was weak and unstable, filled with an eerie smell, and could not be compared with a Nascent Soul cultivator who had truly undergone the baptism of heavenly tribulation, it was indeed the pressure of the Nascent Soul stage!

Bone Fiend and Yin Nightmare were also forcibly raised to the limit of the Golden Core Great Perfection, only a step away from the Nascent Soul stage!

"Holy power infusion! It's holy power infusion! The sect leader... it's the sect leader casting a spell from afar!" Some loyal cultivators of the Xuan Yin Sect in the valley trembled with excitement upon seeing this scene and shouted fervently.

"The leader?" Shen Mo's heart skipped a beat. The mysterious and unpredictable leader of the Xuan Yin Sect, who almost never appeared in public, could actually transmit such a vast amount of evil power from a distance?

Moreover, the nature of this power... is so similar to the power of the "extraterrestrial demons" mentioned in Qingyunzi's jade slip! Could it be that this Xuan Yin Sect Master is not a cultivator from this world, or has already been completely corrupted and controlled by the demons?

"Hehehe..." Elder Blood Soul, whose strength had been forcibly increased to the early stage of Nascent Soul, slowly stood up, twisted his neck, and made a "crackling" sound as his bones popped.

The bloodthirsty aura surrounding him had solidified into a tangible form, burning like viscous crimson flames. His blood-red eyes were fixed on Shen Mo, filled with cruelty, greed, and a haughty indifference.

"Boy, to be able to trigger a heavenly tribulation of such scale with only a Golden Core form, you're not bad. Unfortunately, you're destined to become a stepping stone for the Holy Lord's descent into this realm! Before this tribulation arrives, I'll first... crush this troublesome insect!"

Before he could finish speaking, Elder Blood Soul's figure flickered and disappeared from the spot.

The next instant, a withered hand, enveloped in viscous blood flames and with sharp, hook-like nails, pierced through space and appeared above Shen Mo's head. It carried the terrifying pressure of a Nascent Soul level cultivator and a corrupting, filthy energy, fiercely grabbing at Shen Mo's crown! Its speed was extreme, and its power far surpassed the combined attack of the three hidden swords!

If this grab is successful, not only will Shen Mo, who has not yet truly transcended the tribulation and achieved the Nascent Soul stage, be seriously injured, but even an ordinary cultivator who has just entered the Nascent Soul stage would probably be severely injured!

The real killer move came from this pseudo-Nascent Soul cultivator who had been forcibly enhanced by "Sacred Power"! Moreover, the timing was extremely precise, precisely at the moment when Shen Mo's aura broke through, triggering the Heavenly Tribulation, and his mind and spirit were most "dull" in their connection with heaven and earth and their perception of the outside world!

Combined with the terrifying heavenly tribulation that was still gathering wildly and about to strike with lightning, a deadly situation was formed!

"Sect Leader—!" In the distance, Ying San, who had barely managed to get up from the ruins and saw this scene, roared in despair, his eyes wide with rage.

On the west side, Fairy Ling Shuang and Leng Yue, who had just forced back the Heavenly Sword Sect and were able to catch their breath, also looked into the valley in shock, their hearts sinking to the bottom. A pseudo-Nascent Soul! At this critical moment, the Xuan Yin Sect had actually produced a pseudo-Nascent Soul! How could Shen Mo possibly stop it?!

At the valley entrance, Shi Tie also saw the massive, blood-flame hand that swept down like a blotting out of the sky. His expression of wild joy froze on his face, transforming into endless ferocity and rage: "Old dog! How dare you—!!!"

However, it was too late for anyone to react.

The blood-flame hand, carrying the power of a Nascent Soul cultivator and filthy evil energy, had already touched Shen Mo's hair.

In that critical, life-or-death moment—

Shen Mo, who had been holding the pose of having his arms outstretched and gazing at the sky, moved.

Shen Mo, who had been holding the pose of having his arms outstretched and gazing at the sky, moved.

He lowered his head, his gaze calmly fixed on the blood-flaming hand that was reaching for his head, emanating a nauseating stench, as if it were not a deadly attack capable of killing him, but rather an insignificant mosquito.

His lips parted slightly, uttering two words that were utterly calm, yet seemed to contain some profound truth of the universe, a predetermined law of cause and effect:

"Lei...come here."

"BOOM!!!"

These two words were like the last spark that ignited a powder keg.

Above the Valley of Burial Souls, the thick tribulation clouds, which had been gathering power to the extreme and whose lightning surged like a sea, seemed to have found their final target for release, and suddenly unleashed a terrifying explosion that seemed to cleave the heavens and the earth!

A terrifying pillar of lightning, over ten zhang in diameter, formed purely from destructive, blazing white lightning, with pale golden Dao patterns flowing along its edges, tore through the thick, leaden-gray clouds like a divine spear of judgment from the heavens. Ignoring the distance of space, it struck with unparalleled precision and with a majestic heavenly might capable of annihilating all things, fiercely striking down towards Shen Mo's location—that is, towards the blood-flame hand above Shen Mo's head, and behind that hand, where the Blood Soul Elder's aura surged with an eerie power!

The Heavenly Tribulation has finally arrived! Moreover, the power and scale of this first tribulation lightning far surpasses that of an ordinary Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation! It contains not only a test for those who defy the heavens, but also seems to carry a trace of... an instinctive will to reject and purify that filthy evil energy and the power of the extraterrestrial demons!

"No--!!!"

The cruelty and greed on Elder Blood Soul's face were instantly replaced by boundless horror and fear! He felt the terrifying power contained in the lightning pillar, enough to instantly annihilate his pseudo-Nascent Soul body! That was the might of heaven and earth, the obliteration of "anomalies" by the laws of the Great Dao! He wanted to withdraw his hand, to retreat, to escape.

But it was too late.

Shen Mo's cry of "Thunder, come!" seemed to carry some kind of profound pull. The tribulation he triggered, under the subtle guidance of his will (perhaps also influenced by the Myriad Laws Source Pearl and the karma of Qingyun), the first and most violent bolt of tribulation lightning did not strike him, the "tribulation seeker," directly, but... struck the "foreign entity"—Elder Blood Soul—who intended to interfere with the tribulation, forcibly enhanced it with evil methods, and whose aura was incompatible with this world!