[Congratulations, Golden Main Quest completed.]
The whale looked at the green screen as the primordial power that engulfed the planet dissipated. A dense and almost infinite life force covered the planet like a yellowish mist - this was the price of freedom.
A creature alive since the beginning of the universe, a supreme and primordial king, a proud existence that valued its life above all else, had sacrificed itself.
Alm and Bruno didn’t need to fully understand the formation to know that the main assurance of completely sealing this creature was its life. With a third of the formation undone, a primordial creature would have the power to break free, regardless of the strength of the formation. But if its life were tied to the formation, it could never break free without destroying everything.
The formation had multiple layers of protection. First, who could destroy three seals? Then, who could believe that the Primordial Divine Beast of the Universe would choose to sacrifice itself? And finally, even if something very out of the ordinary happened and the Behemoth chose that path, it would become an almost defenseless divine soul, easily captured by heroes for other purposes.
The formation was carefully planned and always well protected; immediately after the third seal was undone, the heroes in the divine world would receive the alert. In a few seconds, the planet would be surrounded by heroes; the fugitives couldn’t get far.
What the Behemoth did was not an intelligent solution, but it was exactly what he did. All of his infinite life force was burned at once, completely destroying the seal.
Alm and Bruno sighed. This Bestial Young Master acted recklessly, as expected, but finally hit on something and was of great help.
A golden power began to circulate around the planet, and spatial laws condensed; the hero who was there didn’t need to use his manifestation to summon the other heroes; the destruction of the formation would already summon them. But...
BOOOM!
A violent roar, so powerful it could be heard across the entire continent, emanated from the whale’s body, as if invisible shackles had been broken. In response, a terrifying aura condensed in the sky.
As the whale advanced, the world fell silent for a moment. Then, the entire space began to tremble as a destructive aura spread in all directions. In a matter of seconds, all the golden power that was summoning the heroes disappeared, and dark clouds covered the planet.
"Is it the end of the world?"
Feeling that destructive aura, the cultivators of the planet realized that, no matter where they were, they were under tremendous pressure. Their bodies trembled involuntarily. The wrath of the heavens seemed determined to destroy the entire planet.
Everyone was terrified. Many didn’t understand what was happening, but they knew something terrible was about to happen. It was at that moment that a warmth ran through their bodies, calming them.
They felt a welcoming divine presence, and they all took deep breaths, looking around. A protective instinct took over each one, and they began to search for nearby survivors. Without needing words, faith connected them. Everyone alive on the planet felt each other and came together to protect each other. There were no more differences among them; the strongest took care of the weakest. United by a single will, they were guided by the divine presence.
The whale was at the center of celestial annihilation. He used the connection of the faith power he received from the people, sacrificing a significant part of that power. It was a foolish decision, but they didn’t regret it; these people were physically wounded and emotionally shaken. If they hadn’t done that, practically all life on the planet would have died because of them.
The sky and the earth resonated, and lightning filled the sky. In the distance, it looked like the place where the whale was had been submerged in a sea of lightning.
The hero looked up at the skies, scared by the magnitude of the annihilation. A tribulation was supposed to be a test, and a part of celestial energy would be present in it to be used. But there wasn’t a drop of that energy in those lightning bolts; the heavens refused to give him a path to life. They were clearly intent on obliterating him.
Celestial laws have no life, nor emotions worth mentioning. How could they be so angry at a mortal? There were no records of a Heaven-Defier reaching this level while still having mortal cultivation. Even his heroic power was suppressed. But it was his fault for still being weak; if he were a more powerful hero, he could ignore this.
The queen’s will was supreme and above celestial laws, but the laws still existed and were to be followed. If the world wanted to annihilate someone, at his current level, he could only retreat. If marked by this tribulation, he would definitely die. So, he activated his heroic rune and sealed his presence; thus, the heavens would ignore him, and nothing would touch him.
He just watched the whale from afar, coldly. He had never hoped so much for someone to survive. All he wished for the most was to deal with that figure personally and then destroy the entire planet.
**BOOM!**
Lightning swords began to fall from the sky onto the whale. Each one of them was enormous, over a hundred meters long.
The whale smiled, and his tattoos lit up like two divine stars. His fists were raised high, and two enormous whirlwinds formed; he truly began to absorb those terrible lightning swords.
All the people on the planet felt the world crashing down on them. But the whale was like a divine lightning rod in the heavens; not a drop of energy was wasted and fell onto the planet. They saw this and clenched their fists with tears almost falling from their eyes... little did they know that the whale himself was the cause of all this. To everyone, evil could only come from the nefarious golden figure.
It took a few minutes. Suddenly, the annihilation clouds trembled. Endless lightning beasts began to fall from the sky all over the planet, each one of them three hundred meters long and incomparably fierce.
Seeing those lightning beasts, the hero broke out in a cold sweat, stunned. Each of these creatures was at a power level that, if he had to fight, and didn’t use all his heroic power and manifestation, he would be doomed.
In the center of all the beasts, one of them looked like a storm dragon with five hundred meters, emanating a sense of certain death. They were endless, and in the face of this sea of beasts, any strategy, any technique would be useless and impossible to use. There was only one option: to use all the power to win or die.
All forms of life on the planet trembled feeling the presence of death over their heads. Those beasts covered the entire horizon and slowly descended upon the land. Just with their presence, the entire continent began to fracture, and a new cataclysm was being initiated.
The whale snorted; suddenly, a curse was activated in his body. At that moment, he withdrew his saber from the inventory. The tattoos converted a large part of the power they received into Yin, Vorion pulsed with infinite and invincible power.
**SLASH!!**
A black slash capable of splitting the skies surged towards the clouds. As it ascended, it increased in size and continued to grow endlessly. All the laws of the planet were being used by the whale to extend its reach.
A slash the size of the continent appeared in the skies of the planet. The black clouds were parted, and the orange sunlight broke through that cut in the horizon amidst the total blackness of the clouds. Suddenly...
**RUMBLE!!**
The skies roared furiously like the end of the real world. Immediately, all the lightning beasts turned towards the whale. Gaia’s curse karma, combined with the whale’s clear challenge, made the power and will of these beasts become even more extreme. Now, the only thing in their eyes was that round figure.
All mortal cultivators saw the phenomena on the planet cease, and the beasts focused everything solely on that divine, round figure. They wanted to say something, but found that no words could express their current thoughts. He was clearly putting himself in danger to protect them... in the end, nothing came out of their mouths.
"Now."
The whale spoke dryly, and his eyes gleamed with all his bloodline and physical cultivation maximized. In seconds, the world was covered by flashes, lights, and violent thunderous roars.
Everyone saw a single figure, covered from all sides, being endlessly attacked from all sides. He dodged meticulously, and his saber moved with his glowing fists. The enormous lightning beasts were destroyed one by one. Each of them was killed with just one strike.
The hero watched with wide eyes. The beasts... the annihilating power of the lightning suddenly weakened when the saber cut through; they simply couldn’t defend themselves.
The tattoos became divine and invincible against any law. They had a limitation in range, but they could completely affect the beasts and kill them as if they were made of paper.
Time passed slowly, and the whale seemed like an invincible war god in the skies. It took nearly two hours, and when he killed a third of them, the infinite sea of beasts suddenly stopped attacking.
The whale smiled and waited for this moment. Those common beasts had no real intelligence, but they felt the gaze of the central beast that resembled a storm dragon. It was standing there just watching, and it had a clear rudimentary will and intelligence; it was the one commanding the beasts.
That central beast roared ferociously. In the same second, all the beasts turned into lightning runes and merged with him.
The creature grew and grew... it reached six hundred meters... a kilometer... five kilometers...
Its power multiplied countless times, and this time the hero held his breath in fear of being sensed by that beast. Its power was unmatched.
"It’s about time, you’ve wasted too much of my time."
The whale spoke dryly after all the beasts were absorbed. He snorted and attacked that colossal beast directly. Everyone watched in astonishment, then a rune glowed on the whale’s forehead.
VRRRRROOOOOOOM-SCHLURP!
The sound of something massive being forcibly sucked resonated through the heavens, and everyone swallowed hard with wide eyes... in a second... that colossal beast vanished completely.
Within the spatial inventory, a supreme power completely destroyed all will and annihilating power. That was the same method they used when they were still among the evil cultivators and defeated the infernal beasts. Against mere laws, the Devouring God Spatial Technique could swallow anything, and then the Emperor’s Domain being used in conjunction was an unbeatable combo.
But... it couldn’t end that easily, and he knew it.
The clouds in the skies and the annihilating power did not diminish... on the contrary, now it seemed that its true strength was about to come. Before he could say another word, the sky trembled. Countless lightning-shaped human forms fell from the sky.
"Lightning Berserk Warriors? How is this possible?!" The hero spoke in shock.
There are rumors that Lightning Berserk Warriors only appear in a lightning tribulation in the last realms of divine cultivation. Each of these lightning-shaped human forms possesses its own intelligence. They are created when cultivators fail in their tribulations, their wills and a bit of their souls are drawn to them. They are completely different from those beasts without much intelligence.
The whale felt immense pressure and was surrounded by thousands of these figures. They possessed some soul... they weren’t just laws or a will, they couldn’t be easily swallowed.
If they used everything they had, they could swallow and destroy all of his will and laws, and then deal with his soul... but if it was just one or two, it was impossible to use their cheat now.
His ears thundered, and the whale was already exchanging blows with one of those lightning warriors. They were like real people, they even had lines that looked like armor and clothes.
When his saber met the lightning warrior’s spear, sparks flew. He couldn’t cut through his weapon, and his tattoos weren’t as effective with some of their souls controlling everything. At the same time, the other lightning warriors attacked.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
At this moment, the whale could only go all out. The lightning warriors closest to him were all killed, while the others were repelled.
Alm and Bruno had already reached the maximum levels of divine cultivation, but in their previous universe, the tribulations didn’t reach this point. This was new to them; in this universe of the queen, everything was bigger, more powerful, and more terrifying.
He killed over a hundred of them at once. But that didn’t make him happy at all. He saw that all these lightning warriors knew how to dodge and defend. They weren’t much different from real people. In fact, when they tried to dodge just now, there were signs of movement techniques being used by them.
This was a shocking battle. The warriors were intelligent and used techniques, but the whale was an ancestral being who had lived for a long time and fought for his entire life with the noose around his neck. When he was injured, they were only superficial wounds.
Amidst the heat of battle, they found ways to catch these warriors off guard and allowed them to hit them. The tattoos absorbed everything... and that warrior who attacked lost half of his power in a second and was killed shortly after.
It was the most efficient way to kill without losing much, but the injuries were piling up... and the power of faith they had was being slowly used up.
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This shocking battle continued for a long time before the lightning warriors gradually diminished. The whale oppressed them all, massacring them as if they were nothing, not even their techniques could do anything against him; in the end, they all fell.
Suddenly the skies roared furiously, and nine huge figures condensed in the clouds. As soon as they appeared, all sound disappeared from the sky and the earth. Everything became deadly silent.
Just looking at these nine made everyone jump in shock. They seemed alive. Even their eyes had light and expressions. They were no different from real people.
"Sacred Heroic Spirits..." The hero’s expression completely changed, and his heart stopped at what he was seeing.
He knew that these Heroic Spirits were the heroes who died after serving the queen in their universes. There was a completely different level from the Lightning Berserk Warriors; the celestial laws copied part of their will and remnants of power before they fell.
These nine huge figures surrounded the whale, obviously not human and had very different physiques. At the same time, a subtle golden power appeared behind them. The hearts of everyone on the planet tightened. This was very unfair. This was not a tribulation, but a complete extermination.
The first to face the whale was a male figure with wings holding a spear. When his spear pierced towards him, space trembled intensely, and he was immediately blocked by the black saber.
**BOOM!**
Cracks appeared in the air as it almost shattered. The whale’s blood spun inside him, and he flew back. Just as the whale was about to attack, his body instinctively spun in the air. A saber missed and struck his shoulder, almost cutting his arm.
The whale sighed and spared no effort in total focus...
He was fighting alone, and the only ’fair’ thing was that each of them was at the equivalent level of the first divine realm. But... they were all heroes with a bit of his heroic power.
Suffocating hours unfolded. All the power of faith ran out, and the whale’s entire body began to be injured and destroyed, while his IQ and laws were almost completely drained.
Everything they absorbed at the beginning of the tribulation had already been used up... everything they could use within the inventory had also been used...
"DIE!"
With a final roar, infinite wooden spears surrounded three heroic spirits. The whale slashed with Varion, and they exploded into colorful lights. Eight of them were killed, leaving only the last one.
With a wave, the spear Liumi returned to his hand after they worked together. She, after starting spiritual cultivation, could already help them a little independently.
Their bodies were completely red and broken, with almost no Qi left. That last opponent in front of them was in a more pitiful state. It wouldn’t be difficult to take him down; they would win and felt that annihilation would end afterwards...
But... even if they won this annihilation, they would die afterwards because they were out of energy. Alm and Bruno thought desperately and postponed the inevitable end. There was no hope left.