Chapter 822 - 794: The Third Tribulation Lightning!

"Boom——!"

A deafening crash shattered the sky.

In the blink of an eye, the third layer of tribulation lightning arrived as expected.

Sun Zhe seemed as insignificant as a speck in the fabled sea, utterly dwarfed, instantly engulfed by the blood-red ocean of thunder upon the lightning tribulation descending upon him.

At this moment.

At the edge of the Fire Lake Islands.

The onlookers, facing impending disaster, fled in panic, reminiscent of an unprecedented mass migration.

Even though the space surrounding Sun Zhe for several kilometers was sealed by a barrier, there was still lightning leakage.

The leaking lightning was substantial, transforming into minuscule particles barely visible to the naked eye, swiftly permeating the entire Fire Lake Islands, causing those at the far edges to inadvertently inhale countless lightning particles, leading to chest pain and lung swelling. Many martial artists with low cultivation coughed blood and had throats torn!

At this point, Zhu Yan and several ladies had retreated far with the crowd, anxiously watching the direction of the Fire Lake Islands.

The raging thunder resembled a blood-red torrent descending from the heavens, still madly surging across the Fire Lake Islands, destroying everything it touched!

"Ah Zhe... you must hold on."

Tears shimmered in Zhu Yan’s beautiful eyes as she silently prayed for Sun Zhe’s ride.

Moments later, the entire Fire Lake Islands was shrouded in thick blood mist!

The blood mist was composed of countless lightning particles.

As time passed briefly, when the dense blood mist dissipated, many cultivators flying through the air looked down from high above, shockingly discovering that the entire Fire Lake Islands had vanished without a trace, leaving only a massive crater spanning tens of kilometers, a truly horrifying sight!

"It’s truly terrifying!"

Madman Zhang was drenched in cold sweat, his gaze trembling, "Blood Thunder’s Ninth Layer, and this is only the third layer. Its power has already leveled the entire Fire Lake Islands to the ground. Can he possibly withstand the subsequent layers of tribulation thunder?"

Grandmaster Tianyun silently sighed, shook his head, and said, "I don’t know either. I can only hope for a miracle."

"Ha!"

Beside him, Chu Chenglong chuckled, rejoicing in others’ misfortune, "This is the heavenly punishment meant to obliterate life’s creatures. How can mere flesh and blood withstand it? This is simply a tribulation of certain death!"

As he said this, he cast a glance at Grandmaster Tianyun, smiling as he said, "Tianyun, didn’t you read related ancient texts before? You should know, in all recorded history, no one has ever truly passed through the Nine-Layered Thunder Tribulation!"

"That so-called Conical Hat Hero, he’s no exception!"

Old Man Meng, the Poison Sword Grandmaster, could hardly stand it any longer, his voice hoarse as he spoke, "Steward Chu, this Conical Hat Hero is our Earth Hua Country’s future hope. Can’t you wish him well?"

Chu Chenglong snorted coldly, "I’m just speaking the truth!"

"Ha, the hope of Hua Country, someone like him who slaughtered his compatriots, is he even worthy?"

Upon hearing this, Madman Zhang laughed heartily, "What he killed were nothing but a bunch of bullies from Heaven Sword Sect, those scoundrels deserved death! If it were me, I’d kill them too!"

He cast a contemptuous glance at Chu Chenglong, "As for you, Steward Chu, in my opinion, you only dare to act tough at home. Once confronted with powerful foreign races, you immediately turn into a lapdog. As a Hua Country man, you truly lack even a bit of backbone!"

"Think about the Hua Country’s land, the hot-blooded spirit of the Yellow Emperor’s descendants, all of it fought and won by our ancestors with their lives, and here it comes to your generation..."

"Shut up!" Chu Chenglong, furious beyond measure, glared at Madman Zhang, "What do you know? I’m considering the greater good, protecting the young generations of our Hua Country from foreign race oppression in the Outer Wilderness, doing so reluctantly."

"Do you really think I wish to bow down to these outsiders?"

"..."

...

At this moment.

At the center of the Fire Lake Islands.

Sun Zhe crawled out from amidst the rubble glowing with lightning, struggled to stand, but found himself unable to stand upright, as if an invisible force was suppressing him.

He could only hunch over, standing barely, head low, arms limp, with all the flesh of his body turned to charcoal, even showing scorched bones in multiple spots.

He felt no pain at this point, having become entirely numb.

"My love!"

"My love, what happened to you? Wake up! What will I do without you..."

Not far ahead, within rolling dust, came Lin Feiyan’s heart-wrenching and hoarse cries.

Sun Zhe raised his eyes and saw Bai Lang had also turned into a humanoid piece of charcoal, while Lin Feiyan sobbed beside him.

Earlier, at the moment the third layer of tribulation lightning descended, Sun Zhe utilized True Qi Thunder Transformation to absorb it, then swiftly directed it toward Bai Lang and Lin Feiyan.

In that critical moment, Bai Lang sacrificed his sole protective magical treasure to shield Lin Feiyan from the tribulation thunder.

"Luckily... he helped me bear part of it, or I wouldn’t have survived this lightning."

Sun Zhe gently coughed up a mouthful of blood and ash, his fingertips crumbling into dust, feebly half-kneeling on the ground as the tiny lightning particles continued to corrode, his left eye and teeth slowly disintegrating into dust and dispersed.

"Fellow Daoist, regarding the previous matter... I was wrong."

Suddenly, a hoarse voice emerged from Bai Lang’s entirely charcoal-like body.

It seemed he wasn’t dead yet!

"Fellow Daoist, I am willing... to die in apology, but I hope you... spare Yan’er..."

Sun Zhe, half-kneeling on the ground, his body beginning to fall apart into ashes, felt everything was disappearing, not even having the heart to listen to Bai Lang’s pleas.

The destructive power of the blood thunder far surpassed the healing speed of his undying body.

"Next... leave it to me."

Suddenly, a calm yet gentle voice reached his ears.

He struggled to lift his head, and in his blurred vision, a graceful figure in a flowing gold dress gradually emerged.

"Your Highness..."

Long Youyou stood before him, reaching out a dainty hand to rest upon his head, her palm exuding soft golden light.

"No one can pass the Nine-Layered Thunder Tribulation, but I believe in you, hoping you’ll be the exception."

"..."

...

"Rumble——!"

The tribulation clouds gathered at ten thousand meters high suddenly flashed with lightning and thunder, as if gods were concealed within, beating drums, shaking the heavens and earth.

The fourth layer of tribulation lightning was being brewed!

The distant crowd watched the apocalyptic scene, all feeling fearful and insignificant, while also worrying for Sun Zhe.

Just as the crowd thought the fourth layer of tribulation lightning was about to descend, a soul-stirring dragon roar suddenly echoed across the heavens and earth.

Amid the blood mist rolling through the massive pit, a golden dragon soared skyward, resembling a colossal mountain range, flying toward the tribulation clouds with imposing dragon majesty!

The tribulation clouds seemed to sense the challenge, suddenly flashing with blood light!

The shocked ground-based crowd found that the tribulation clouds vaguely formed a massive twisted human face.

"What exactly is happening?"

"Why is there a dragon?"

"..."

The onlookers were thrown into an uproar.

Many Earth martial artists with cell phones frantically attempted to capture photos as souvenirs, but strangely enough, the phones exploded the moment they were taken out, seemingly destroyed by some unseen divine force.

Under the aghast gaze of the crowd, the golden dragon roared defiantly and plunged headlong into the tribulation clouds to disappear.

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