"Boom—!!"
Li Xuanxiao felt the divine lightning descending from the heavens.
The combatants on the battlefield retreated again and again.
As if sensing what was about to happen, his heart lake trembled violently.
Within the area illuminated by lightning, only Li Xuanxiao stood unwavering.
Thick, ink-like tribulation clouds churned across the sky, forming a purple vortex of heavenly punishment.
The Mirror God slowly tore apart the Ancient Snake God's body.
Suddenly, the world fell into absolute silence.
The thunder vanished at its climax, replaced by suffocating pressure.
Only countless tiny runes swirled within the electric radiance.The Mirror God let out a furious roar.
Though the timing wasn't ideal, no one could predict what might happen now.
The Mirror God knew he was defying the heavens. He raised his head to gaze at the firmament.
After years of meticulous planning, today he would alter destiny itself!!
Simultaneously, Li Xuanxiao also looked up at the sky.
The cultivation base he'd forcibly suppressed was now fully unleashed.
Heavenly Tribulation!!
A dual-layered tribulation converged.
Li Xuanxiao was the cuckoo occupying the magpie's nest.
Using the Mirror God's heaven-defying moment to find a loophole in the Heavenly Dao.
In the next instant, thunderbolts collapsed like celestial pillars.
Terror gripped the onlookers.
Di Nü Feng's divine sense desperately searched for Li Xuanxiao's aura, yet even her power couldn't penetrate the lightning zone now.
"Li Xuanxiao!"
Di Nü Feng gritted her teeth, attempting to charge forward, but her protective spiritual energy vaporized instantly.
Forced to retreat, she watched helplessly.
At the tribulation's epicenter, the Mirror God had just taken control of the Ancient Snake God's body when all three hundred sixty major acupoints simultaneously erupted with blood mist.
The crisp snapping of vertebrae shattering, thunderbolts carrying the Heavenly Dao's will transformed into countless ice spikes piercing his soul.
The Ancient Snake God's spirit wailed in agony, powerless as it was annihilated.
The Mirror God knew this was merely the first tribulation.
He had prepared for this long ago.
Come! Come!
"Hum—!!!"
With this deafening roar, heaven and earth seemed to tremble.
The tribulation clouds high above plunged downward as if pressed by an invisible hand, diving toward the ground at terrifying speed.
Everything beneath appeared insignificant before this overwhelming power.
The force multiplied dozens of times over.
A golden wheel of fate materialized across the darkened sky, thunderbolts erupting from between its teeth—an unforeseen mutation occurring in mere moments.
The Mirror God stared in shock at his transformed tribulation.
What the hell is this?
Is this supposed to happen?
"........."
Li Xuanxiao's eyes shone with unprecedented intensity.
The weak, helpless Nascent Soul inside him had shattered into fragments orbiting his body.
Channeling all his spiritual energy, Li Xuanxiao consolidated every ounce of power.
Veins bulged on his forehead as sweat streamed down his face, his consciousness never leaving those drifting soul fragments.
The tribulation proved more terrifying than anticipated.
Fortunately, the Mirror God had bought him this opportunity.
Li Xuanxiao worked urgently—success or failure hinged on this moment.
The Mirror God's brow furrowed deeply as golden lightning tore through dimensional barriers.
With another thunderous explosion, darkness swallowed the surroundings, void fissures spreading like spiderwebs.
The formless thunder struck directly at the Mirror God's Dao Heart like a vengeful specter.
Centered on the Mirror God's tribulation ground,
the residual energy triggered sandstorms ravaging thousands of miles.
Dust blotted out the sky, rolling forward like tidal waves.
The storm intensified into a massive vortex, churning and devouring everything in its path.
"Senior Brother!?"
Huang Chengqian stared in shock before turning to his senior brother Mozi.
"Senior Brother, what is that?"
Mozi pondered briefly before shaking his head.
"I don't know either."
"..........."
The Ancient Snake God's body had been reduced to mangled fragments after the first tribulation strike.
Now, following this second cataclysmic punishment,
the thousand-zhang-long serpentine form dissipated like smoke.
Countless heads connected to the body melted away in the lightning, as if they'd never existed.
A naked figure emerged from the Snake God's remains!
Completely hairless, its gender indeterminable.
Pale skin glistened with thick mucus.
The naked figure climbed awkwardly from the ground, movements uncoordinated as if unfamiliar with its new form.
Its body trembled slightly—whether from fear or something else.
Or perhaps excitement.
When it finally stood upright,
the distorted flow of time within the lightning storm
made past scenes flash before Li Xuanxiao and the Mirror God's eyes.
Their former glories and downfalls, fierce battles against enemies, lonely cultivation days and nights—all replaying simultaneously.
Countless trials and challenges, moments of joy and sorrow, life-and-death decisions.
Yet the thunder's rampage continued.
Condensing endless karmic force, it manifested visions of their future demise.
Cracks...
The Mirror God felt fractures in his Dao Heart.
"Ahhhhhh!!"
An unwilling howl tore from his throat.
The screech echoed across creation, lingering as if to rend the world apart.
In response, countless dazzling white lights fell like meteors toward him.
These radiance beams carried apocalyptic judgment, brimming with annihilative power to erase him completely.
Perhaps this was the Heavenly Dao's punishment for their audacious defiance.
"............."
Time was running out.
If the Mirror God fell, he would be next.
This desperate gamble required immediate action.
Li Xuanxiao reached out with grave determination.
Mount Shushan's destruction, the Heavenly Dao's collapse, his master's dying teachings...
Suddenly he clenched his fist as if seizing everything.
Nascent Soul ascending to Transformation Spirit!!
Shouting about bonds and camaraderie, he would complete this breakthrough.