Chapter 474: Chapter 244: Divine Thunder Descends Unceasingly, He Xiong Wu Takes Action [Second Update]
A hundred miles of thunderclouds obscured the sky and blocked the sun, descending like a giant beast from the heavens, pouring its endless wrath upon the earth. Within the thunderclouds over the Black Hall, the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder flickered constantly, growing thicker with each flash.
Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder, one of the ten divine thunders in the Cultivation Realm, is renowned among the long-lived Golden Core Zhenrens. Even a Golden Core Body Cultivator would not dare to withstand a Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder the size of a fist.
But the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder flickering in the thunderclouds was now the size of a human head, and its terrifying oppressive force could be felt even a hundred or a thousand miles away from the Nightmare Blood Vein. This showed its fearsome and powerful nature.
Wen Jiu understood this well through the memory of the Demon Soul, but fortunately, after East Spring’s Undying Bone formed the Golden Core, its defensive power had dramatically increased, and the Thunder Spirit Demon Blood Body also had a certain amplification.
Therefore, Wen Jiu was not worried about East Spring’s Undying Bone being unable to endure the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder that appeared first.
"Is this the Thunder Tribulation triggered by External Foundation Establishment and Core Formation, or by a Top-Grade Golden Core?"
As Wen Jiu pondered, he awaited the fall of the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder. Moments later, the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder seemed to lose patience entirely, unleashing a reverberating roar as it fiercely fell, striking the Stone Hall.
At that time, Lu Shouren, He Xiong Wu, and others had already withdrawn everyone from the Stone Hall, initially thinking that retreating twenty or thirty miles would suffice. However, when the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder landed, it instantly shattered the Tier Three Defensive Array on the Stone Hall, transforming a thousand-zhang area into a blood-red Thunder Pool, prompting Lu Shouren and He Xiong Wu to retreat further.
Foundation Establishment Cultivators from both families watched the scene from afar, their hearts surging with excitement, especially upon learning that the Thunder Tribulation was triggered by a Lu Family cultivator’s Core Formation. This was not a natural disaster.
"So ferocious?"
In Lengxi Mountain, noting that the Tier Three Lower Grade Defensive Yin Array, capable of resisting the full attack of a Golden Core Cultivator, was shattered in one blow, Wen Jiu was somewhat awestruck by the terrifying power of heaven and earth.
However, when the Thunder Pool reduced the Stone Hall to ashes upon the surface of East Spring Undying Corpse Body, a tranquility returned to Wen Jiu’s heart.
No matter how the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder attacked, even as it blasted through the Thunder Pool, East Spring Undying Corpse Body remained unmoved, circulating corpse energy to continuously provide power to the Corpse Body and Thunder Spirit Demon Blood Body, resisting the Thunder Tribulation.
Unlike the Thunder Tribulation during Foundation Establishment, the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder did not dissipate immediately after descending.
Instead, it continued to output.
Ten breaths.
A hundred breaths.
Everything around East Spring’s Undying Bone was turning to ash, be it the land or the Nightmare Blood Vein.
Though the Corpse Body was unscathed, the consumption of corpse energy was incredibly rapid. Despite the corpse energy having just multiplied several times, reaching a level where the Blood Corpse Escape could be used at will without worrying about consumption, East Spring’s Undying Bone’s corpse energy depleted by two or three tenths in just a hundred breaths, equivalent to all its previous corpse energy.
"It seems this Thunder Tribulation was significantly strengthened due to the Top-Grade Golden Core. If it were previously East Spring Undying Bone, just one encounter would have exhausted all corpse energy, leaving only the power of Five Ghosts, Two Corpses."
Murmured Wen Jiu, watching the power of the Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder diminish and gradually fade into nothingness within the thunderclouds. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the second wave of Celestial Thunder arrived on schedule, with three Scarlet Sky Divine Thunders pouring down, roaring as they engulfed the thousand-zhang area around East Spring’s Undying Bone.
Witnessing this, Wen Jiu’s heart trembled, and Lu Shouren was even more shocked. He hadn’t expected East Spring’s Undying Bone to effortlessly handle the first wave of Celestial Thunder, and even more unexpected was the second wave’s power increasing several folds.
Even from a distance, he felt as if he were amidst the Thunder Tribulation, the terrifying aura spreading from the Thunder Pool causing even him, a centenary Golden Core, to change his expression.
"If I were inside, I would have been annihilated." Lu Shouren couldn’t help but express.
He Xiong Wu stood beside him, his face seemingly expressionless, yet his heart was filled with both shock and urgency. Seeing three Scarlet Sky Divine Thunders descending simultaneously, he couldn’t help but feel joy and anticipation, silently thinking: three Scarlet Sky Divine Thunders descending at once, even the most powerful Golden Core Zhenren would face death in such a heavenly tribulation.
Boom—
Watching from afar, the Nightmare Blood Yin Vein exploded violently, with three Scarlet Sky Divine Thunders almost severing the entire vein on the spot. However, a large amount of hidden underground yin spirit energy, blood energy, and death energy surged out, turning into ashes under the Thunder Pool, making He Xiong Wu’s heart ache. After this tribulation, not to mention allowing another realm breakthrough and Core Formation, the Nightmare Blood Yin Vein might take a hundred years to recover for normal use.
But now, he couldn’t care about much else, compared to a Top-Grade Golden Core demon about to be born, a Nightmare Blood Yin Vein was insignificant. He Xiong Wu kept his eyes fixed on the Thunder Pool, feeling every breath of time passing exceptionally slowly, because as long as the Thunder Tribulation existed, it meant Li Bai was still resisting.
Then at a hundred breaths, the Thunder Tribulation began to dissipate, and an expectant look burst forth in He Xiong Wu’s eyes.
"How is this possible!"
However.
Li Bai was still upon the Nightmare Blood Yin Vein, not turned to ash, and his Golden Core Power had actually grown stronger due to the Thunder Tribulation.
The awakened He You watched this scene with a pale face, watching the imposing figure standing in the fading Thunder Pool, a mouthful of congested blood surged to his heart again, spraying out with a puff.
"Why... why... I could form a Middle-Grade Golden Core with limitless prospects, yet I encountered him..."
With a shout of unwillingness, He You fainted once more. Witnessing this, the resolution hidden within He Xiong Wu’s eyes became increasingly fierce, even though the thunderclouds continued to accumulate Celestial Thunder far surpassing Scarlet Sky Divine Thunder, He Xiong Wu couldn’t suppress himself.
