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"boom--!!!"

The blazing white lightning engulfed Shen Mo's figure, the blood-flame hand, and the horrified Blood Soul Elder behind him.

The destructive power of lightning raged wildly, purifying and annihilating all filth and evil. The blinding white light instantly illuminated the entire Burial Valley as if it were daytime, forcing countless cultivators to close their eyes or causing tears to stream down their faces from the intense light.

The deafening thunder made the earth tremble, leaving everyone with only a buzzing roar in their ears.

When the lightning subsided and everyone could barely see, they saw that the spot where Shen Mo had stood had been transformed into a charred, massive pit, tens of feet in diameter and bottomless, with smooth, mirror-like walls and wisps of blazing white lightning flowing through it.

At the edge of the giant pit, there were scattered some charred, crystalline substances that looked as if they had been instantly vaporized and condensed by the high temperature, as well as a few dull, almost broken fragments of dark red robes.

Elder Blood Soul... along with his forcibly enhanced pseudo-Nascent Soul power and that blood-flame hand, had vanished without a trace. As if they had never existed.

And Shen Mo...

He was still standing in the center of the giant pit... no, he was suspended three feet above the center of the giant pit.

He was enveloped in a thin, strange light barrier, constantly swirling with chaotic halos and pale golden Dao patterns. Tiny electric snakes crackled across the surface of the barrier. His face was slightly pale, his breathing somewhat erratic, and there were charred marks on the hem of his robes, but… he was unharmed!

Not only was he unharmed, but the powerful Daoist aura emanating from him, which was at the half-Nascent Soul stage and capable of triggering heavenly tribulations, seemed to become more refined and purer after being "baptized" by the first tribulation lightning. His connection with heaven and earth was also stronger! In fact, there was even a faint aura of...rebirth and life leap, which was being conceived and flourishing within him!

He actually used the power of the heavenly tribulation to... kill a pseudo-Nascent Soul cultivator! Moreover, it seems that he also gained some kind of tempering and benefit from this first tribulation lightning!

At this moment, the entire Burial Valley was deathly silent.

Everyone who witnessed this scene—whether from Qingyun Sect, Xuanbing Pavilion, Baicao Sect, Qingmu Temple, Xuanyin Sect, Tianjian Sect, or even the lurking Lieyang Sect cultivators in the distance—was dumbfounded, their minds blank.

With a Golden Core body, he triggered a Heavenly Tribulation, and used its power to kill a Pseudo-Nascent Soul cultivator?!

How insane! How...unbelievable!

"Gulp..." Someone swallowed hard, the sound particularly clear in the deathly silence.

Beneath the altar, Elders Bone Fiend and Shadow Nightmare, their faces ashen, stared at the charred giant pit, then at Shen Mo, who hovered in the air, his aura growing ever more profound and terrifying. Their eyes were filled with shock, resentment, and a hint of... barely concealed fear.

They relied on "holy power" to forcibly enhance themselves, which already posed a great hidden danger. Now, seeing the Blood Soul being cleaved into ashes by the Heavenly Tribulation, they felt a sense of shared grief and fear towards the Heavenly Tribulation even more.

Shen Mo slowly raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the Bone Fiend and the Nightmare, over the astonished and uncertain Heavenly Sword Sect members in the distance, over the valley entrance and every battlefield on the west side, and finally, he looked up at the thick tribulation clouds above his head that were still rolling, with the lightning becoming more dense and terrifying, as if they were enraged by the previous attack and were brewing an even more terrible punishment.

He knew that the real test had only just begun. That last move was a trick, taking advantage of the heavenly tribulation's instinctive repulsion of "foreign objects." The tribulation lightning that followed was the real test, a life-or-death struggle targeting him personally.

But so what?

The corners of his mouth once again curled into that cold and resolute arc.

"The Qingyun lineage fears no challenge. Heavenly tribulation or demonic forces, for better or for worse..."

He raised his hand, pointing to the sky above. His voice was not loud, but it clearly carried across the surrounding area, carrying a resolute spirit of going forward without hesitation and not giving up despite the opposition of thousands.

"Execute them all!"

"Boom—!!!"

As if responding to his provocation, the lightning in the tribulation clouds intensified, and a second wave, a third wave... even more terrifying tribulation lightning was brewing wildly!

Meanwhile, at the top of the altar, the three dark red banners seemed to sense the setback in "holy power," the fall of the blood soul, and the threat of the heavenly tribulation. They throbbed even more wildly, and a more subtle, deeper, and seemingly evil will from the deepest depths of the Netherworld began to slowly awaken...

The sky over Burial Soul Valley has completely changed.

"BOOM!!!"

"Rumble rumble rumble—!!!"

The wrath of Heaven is like a prison, and its punishments are as vast as the sea.

Above the Valley of Burial Souls, the lead-gray tribulation clouds seemed to have transformed into a boiling ocean of destructive lightning. Countless terrifying electric snakes of blazing white, bright purple, dark gold, and even a hint of chaotic color darted, intertwined, and converged within it, emitting continuous, terrifying thunder that seemed to shatter the very sky.

The vast, majestic, and irresistible pressure of heaven and earth, like a tangible sky, weighed heavily on the hearts of every cultivator inside and outside the Burial Soul Valley, making even breathing extremely difficult.

The air was thick with the smell of ozone and the acrid smell of burning after thunder, mixed with a faint, lingering stench of blood, creating a suffocating atmosphere as if the end of the world had arrived.

Shen Mo hovered above the scorched giant crater, becoming the absolute center of this thunderous inferno and the only target locked onto by the heavenly tribulation.

The first tribulation lightning, in an inconceivable way, annihilated the Blood Soul Elder who had forcibly advanced to the pseudo-Nascent Soul stage. It was more like an unexpected interlude, an instinctive rejection of "foreign objects" by the laws of heaven and earth.

Now, what remains is a merciless life-or-death test that truly targets Shen Mo's own foundation, soul, and even karmic karma!

The second wave of tribulation lightning arrived almost without pause, before the residual power of the first lightning pillar had completely dissipated!

This time, it's not just one, but... nine!

Nine bolts of Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, each as thick as a water bucket, with pale purple patterns flowing along their edges, radiating intense heat and an aura of exorcism, struck down simultaneously from the tribulation clouds in a nine-palace formation. They intertwined to form a giant net of lightning covering half of the valley, sealing off all of Shen Mo's escape routes and slamming down upon him!

"Purple Heaven Divine Thunder! It is used to destroy evil spirits and also to forge the Dao body!" In the distance, Fairy Ling Shuang, who was leading the Xuanbing Pavilion disciples to form a defensive formation and keeping a watchful eye on the movements of the Heavenly Sword Sect and the remnants of the Xuan Yin Sect, had a hint of horror flash in her cold eyes.

For ordinary Golden Core cultivators to form their Nascent Soul, it's already quite remarkable if they can summon one or two Purple Heaven Divine Lightning bolts. But Shen Mo's second wave unleashed nine bolts simultaneously, and the power of his Heavenly Tribulation was simply unheard of!

"Sect Leader!" Shi Tie, standing at the valley entrance, saw the nine intertwined purple lightning bolts in the distance. His large, copper-bell-shaped eyes were bloodshot. He roared and wanted to rush over regardless of everything, but was held back by Wang Hu, who was covered in blood and whose left arm hung limply at his side.

"Hall Master! No! That's a heavenly tribulation! Not only will you not be able to help the Sect Leader, but you will also attract lightning and harm the Sect Leader!" Wang Hu roared hoarsely. He had just risked his life to severely injure a mid-stage Golden Core deacon of the Xuan Yin Sect, and he himself was also seriously injured.

Shi Tie gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead. Finally, he stomped his foot, venting his pent-up worry and rage on the enemy before him, swinging his giant axe even more wildly: "Kill! Kill all these bastards! Relieve the pressure on the sect leader!"

With a tap of his finger, he was instantly transported to the exciting world of Chapter 454, "Tribulation of the Body."