The gazes of all the people snapped away from Perfected Xuanji in unison, turning as one toward the source of the deafening boom, the direction of the absolute peak!
They saw that the sky above the absolute peak had completely changed its hue.
Endless pitch-black tribulation clouds surged out wildly from the depths of the void, like a boiling sea of destruction.
Perfected Xuanji hovered in the air, his gaze sharp as lightning piercing through the empty space, as he said in a deep voice, "It's that woman!!"
Atop the absolute peak, a faint, almost imperceptible flicker of helplessness crossed Ling Xi's face.
"After all, I couldn't suppress it any longer."
Stepping onto the summit of the Heavenly Ladder, a vast rain of creation poured into her body, tempering her Dao foundation and elevating her cultivation.
This was originally the greatest gift the heavens and earth bestowed upon those who reached the summit, but for Ling Xi, it had become the final straw that broke the balance.
The truth was, she had long since touched the edge of the Saint Realm, even stepping half a foot across its threshold.
But to refine her Devouring Dao Foundation into a peerless, perfect state unrivaled through all eons, she had used her supreme will to forcefully suppress her cultivation at the peak of the King Realm, subjecting herself to the most brutal tempering imaginable.
When she stepped onto the top of the Heavenly Ladder, that majestic, creation energy brimming with the origin of heaven and earth flooded into her, like adding towering raging waves into a river that was already about to overflow.
The majestic Saint Realm power within her, which she had suppressed to the extreme, could no longer be contained once triggered by this new influx of power, and erupted with a thunderous crash!
"Weng——!"
A vast aura that stood above all King Realm power, carrying the intent of all laws returning to nothingness and eternal devouring, burst out of her body uncontrollably, shooting straight toward the sky.
This aura, like a lighthouse in the dark, instantly enraged the unseen Heavenly Dao in the dark.
"Rumble——!"
The Ascension to Saint Tribulation had descended!
Feeling the power slipping out of control within her body and the destructive intent locked onto her from the firmament, the helplessness in Ling Xi's eyes hardened into a calm as icy as frost.
She no longer tried to suppress the power, but instead went with the erupting force, circulating the Devouring Dao resonance all around her to its peak to meet the terrifying tribulation light that could reduce all things to nothingness.
Yet the might emanating from this heavenly tribulation even before it fully descended far exceeded everyone's imagination.
The ten thousand li of void surrounding Dao Origin Mountain could not withstand the spreading of the tribulation clouds, letting out a groan of overexertion as if it were about to shatter completely.
A will of destruction swept down like an invisible tide.
On the plaza at the foot of the mountain, countless cultivators paled, and those with weaker cultivations even collapsed onto the ground, not daring to lift their heads to look up.
This was by no means the pressure an ordinary Ascension to Saint Heavenly Tribulation could possess!
"This is no ordinary Saint Ascension Tribulation! This is Heavenly Retribution! An annihilation-level tribulation!"
An elderly old saint with vast experience trembled so hard his teeth chattered, letting out a despairing roar.
Perfected Xuanji hovered in the air, his expression more grave than it had ever been.
He could sense most clearly that the energy contained within those tribulation clouds was terrifyingly powerful.
Is this the heavenly tribulation a peerless monstrous genius bearing a heaven-defying Dao Foundation must face?
Right in the middle of this overwhelming oppression where the heavens and earth changed colors and all things wailed in agony ——
"Boom!!!!"
The thunderous roar of the enraged Heavenly Dao reached its peak, and the thick, ink-black tribulation clouds split open with a crash.
A thunder dragon finally poked its head out.
It was a terrifying thunder dragon, hundreds of zhang in diameter and of unfathomable length, formed entirely out of purple-black thunder origin that carried the purest power of destruction.
The moment it appeared, the void let out another groan of unbearable strain.
"The first thunder tribulation is here!"
Countless people at the foot of the mountain held their breath.
The thunder dragon let out a silent roar, carrying apocalyptic, world-shattering might as it smashed down toward Ling Xi with earth-shattering force!
Its speed was so great that it seemed to transcend time itself!
Ling Xi let out a clear shout, pressing her pale, slender palm upward through the air.
Before her, the dark Dao Rune capable of swallowing all myriad laws formed a rapidly spinning, bottomless devouring vortex that brazenly met the thunder dragon head-on!
"BOOM——!!!"
The true collision erupted.
The thunder dragon charged into the vortex, bursting with blazing lightning. Its terrifying thunder power raged wildly, desperate to tear apart the vortex that dared to devour the might of heaven.
The vortex, meanwhile, acted like the greedy maw of a great beast, tearing at and refining the thunder dragon's vast, surging thunder essence without restraint.
The stalemate lasted but a split second.
"SCRREECH——!"
The hundred-zhang-long thunder dragon was actually crushed and swallowed whole by that devouring vortex!
Down at the foot of the mountain, every person's expression froze on their face, their eyes bulging to their absolute limits.
What had they just seen? The apocalyptic thunder dragon that could leave any elite prodigy grievously wounded had been eaten alive!
It was not a defeat, not a standoff — it was as wild as a giant python swallowing an elephant, the most primal, domineering act of devouring and plunder imaginable!
"It got swallowed?! She swallowed the thunder dragon?!"
"What kind of Dao art is that?!"
"She's not going through heavenly tribulation, she's eating the tribulation!"
Amidst this roaring, boiling commotion, Wang Zhan stared fixedly upward, his fingernails digging deep into the skin of his palms.
So this is her Dao, isn't it?
So domineering, so utterly inconceivable.
Yet how could the dignity of heavenly tribulation ever allow such blatant defiance?
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
As if enraged beyond all restraint, the lightning within the tribulation clouds seethed and erupted!
Five far thicker thunder dragons, their color a deep violet and their surfaces etched with ancient thunder runes, emerged from the roiling clouds all at once!
They coiled and wove around one another, merging into a devastating thunder torrent that locked onto Ling Xi once more.
The second thunder tribulation — Five Dragons Conquer the Summit! Its power had more than doubled!
The terrifying oppressive aura instantly silenced all the commotion at the foot of the mountain, leaving every single person feeling their scalps go numb once again.
At the peak of the highest summit, a sharp glint flashed across Ling Xi's eyes. She wove hand seals, and the devouring phantom behind her swelled once more, brazenly charging to meet the five raging thunder dragons.
Blazing lightning and the dark devouring force clashed and annihilated wildly. Surges of raw energy swept across the summit, the scene devastating beyond compare.
Just as Ling Xi was locked in this brutal, grueling standoff against the five thunder dragons, her unyielding will and the Dao aura of defiance against destruction spreading across every inch of the summit, Xiao Ruobai, watching from a different direction, felt his blood burn with fiery excitement.
What he saw was not the terror of heavenly tribulation, but Ling Xi, standing alone against total annihilation, her resolve and domineering spirit to meet the might of heaven head-on with her devouring path.
"Excellent! What a wonderful Third Junior Sister!"
Divine light burst forth from Xiao Ruobai's eyes. The dark golden War God blood flowing within him was like a volcano that had slumbered for hundreds of millions of years, beginning to boil, roar, and burn of its own accord.
"Crack..."
A soft sound, like porcelain shattering, echoed in the depths of his Dao heart. That layer of realm barrier, long since thin as cicada wings and held back by his own will for ages, shattered completely under the stimulation of this surging battle intent.
"I'm about to break through."
A flicker of surprise crossed Xiao Ruobai's face, only to be instantly replaced by blazing, burning battle spirit.
"Fine then. Let it come!"
He threw his head back and let out a long howl, his voice sharp enough to pierce metal and crack stone, brimming with unbridled excitement and wild abandon. No longer holding back in the slightest, he released all the restraints he had placed on his full power.
"Weng——!"
An overwhelming, earth-shaking battle intent that brooked no opposition, mixed with equally vast, primal Creation Power, erupted with a thunderous roar and shot straight toward the highest heavens!
"Another aura?! Who could it be?!"
"Heavens! It's Battle Asura!!"
"He's going to break through too?! He's going to cross Saint Tribulation right here as well?!"
"Are they insane?! Two people squeezing onto such a small peak at the same time to undergo tribulation, the power of the heavenly tribulations will draw on each other and stack up wildly! They are practically courting death!"
The foot of the mountain burst into an immediate uproar. Everyone was stunned by Xiao Ruobai's sudden, unforeseen action.
Cyan Rakshasa undergoing tribulation was already an event that shook heaven and earth, and now there was a second person joining in?
This went far beyond mere boldness—it was pure madness!
Yet the only response to the crowd's horrified exclamations came from high above the nine heavens, where an even more rousing, surging thunder of war drums suddenly boomed out.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Aligning with the position where Xiao Ruobai stood, the void shattered, transforming into an ancient battlefield of blood-like crimson gold!
War drums thundered, and illusory phantoms of ancient demons and gods roared!
Xiao Ruobai's Saint Tribulation had descended.
Two vast heavenly tribulations manifested at the same time above the summit. Their destructive pressure stacked up frantically, making the entire Mount Daoyuan begin to tremble violently.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
