Yet before the crowd could recover from the shock of the two overlapping heavenly tribulations, before they could even draw breath at Battle Asura’s madness—
“Clang—!”
A clear sword cry rang out, as though it had cleaved through the thunder filling the heavens and struck directly at the Dao hearts of everyone present!
“?!”
Everyone shuddered and turned toward the final direction atop the summit in horror.
Fang Hanyu slowly raised his head.
His gaze swept over Ling Xi, who was battling the thunder dragons, then passed over Xiao Ruobai, whose battle intent soared into the heavens.
“Since Senior Brother and Third Junior Sister are both breaking through, then let us do it together today.”
On the opposite side of the summit, Fang Hanyu spoke softly to himself.
As soon as his words fell, he no longer held back or suppressed himself in the slightest.
A terrifying sword intent, refined and pure to the extreme—an intent that seemed capable of cleaving chaos itself and severing the ages—erupted from within him with a thunderous roar!
The barrier to the Sage Realm shattered.
“The third one?! There’s a third one too?!”
“It’s that sword cultivator! Sword in White!”
“My Dao Ancestor! Three people! Three people are going to undergo this world-ending Saint Tribulation in the same place, at the same time?!”
“This isn’t tribulation! This is suicide! They’re dragging everyone along to witness the end of the world!”
The cries from below the mountain had already turned into desperate screams.
Just as extreme panic began to spread, a trembling voice suddenly rose from the crowd:
“That makes three. There couldn’t possibly be a fourth, right?! What about that fatty?!”
The moment those words were spoken, it was as though everyone had been reminded of something. Countless gazes instinctively turned toward the edge of the summit, filled with suspicion and uncertainty.
Every eye fixed on Fatty Wang, who had retreated to the side with Mo Yu and was anxiously watching his senior brothers and sister.
Fatty Wang, whose palms were sweating from nervousness, suddenly felt countless burning gazes focused on him. His chubby face went blank, and his small eyes widened.
“???”
“No, why are you all looking at me?! They’re the three undergoing tribulation! What does this have to do with Lord Fatty?!”
He vaguely heard the discussion coming from below the mountain. Instantly hopping mad, he jumped up and shouted down at them, “My name is Wang Xiaopang! Wang Xiaopang! Not ‘that fatty’!!”
The crowd below fell silent after his roar, then, for some inexplicable reason, visibly relaxed and patted their chests.
“Thank goodness, thank goodness. I nearly died of fright. If all four of them underwent tribulation together, they’d really have no chance of survival.”
“Fortunately, this fatty—no, Fellow Daoist Wang—is more composed…”
He hunched his shoulders and muttered in a voice only he could hear, “I’d like to join them too. But I’ve only just reached the peak of the King Realm. I still need to temper my cultivation properly.”
The crowd’s gazes once again locked firmly onto the three layers of tribulation clouds above the summit, whose auras were already beginning to merge and radiate an apocalyptic presence.
The overlapping power of three world-ending tribulations was impossible to estimate. It might truly destroy the summit and even spread to Dao Origin Mountain!
High above the Nine Heavens, in the area corresponding to Fang Hanyu, space silently collapsed as the power of heavenly tribulation began to gather with frenzied intensity.
The third heavenly tribulation had arrived!
Three world-ending tribulations stood in formation above the summit, blazing brilliantly like the legs of a great cauldron.
The tribulation clouds pressed and collided against one another, showing faint signs of merging. The aura of destruction they emitted made even time itself seem to freeze.
This had already surpassed the scope of an ordinary tribulation.
This was heavenly punishment!
It was the ultimate destruction descended upon three beings who dared to defy the heavens at the same time!
And just as the destructive thunder prison was gathering to its limit, on the instant before the three tribulations were about to descend simultaneously—
No one noticed.
Beyond Dao Origin Mountain, a figure dressed in simple white robes had quietly appeared in the void at some unknown point.
He stood there with his hands behind his back, calmly gazing at the destructive sea of thunder above the summit, as though he were watching fireworks unrelated to him.
At that moment, the three tribulations, which had been operating at full force and had grown violent to the extreme, suddenly experienced an exceedingly subtle pause in their rhythm of destruction—so faint that virtually no living being could detect it.
It was as if the supreme will of the heavens and earth had hesitated in the instant before pressing the button of destruction.
A thought sounded beside the white-robed figure’s ear:
“Should we lessen the power of this heavenly tribulation a little?”
The white-robed figure, Gu Changge, showed no change in expression. He did not even move his gaze.
“No need. Their paths should be walked by them alone.”
“Whatever power it should have, let it have.”
The thought faded away.
That imperceptible pause seemed never to have occurred.
The next moment—
“BOOM!!!!”
The true apocalypse descended!
Purple-black thunder dragons, dark-gold thunder spears, chaotic sword lightning…
The three world-ending tribulations no longer met with any obstruction. Carrying the might of heaven that judged all living beings, they crashed down upon the three figures atop the summit!
In an instant, the entire world was reduced to nothing but endless, destructive lightning!
“BOOM!!!!”
The true apocalypse descended!
Ling Xi bore the brunt of it!
She faced five purple-black thunder dragons, intertwining and circling together, their power multiplied several times over!
Before the thunder dragons even arrived, their pure will of destruction had already begun freezing her soul.
“Devour the Heavens!”
A ghostly light blazed in Ling Xi’s cold eyes as her hands traced an arcane pattern before her.
That bottomless vortex of devouring suddenly expanded, spinning at astonishing speed. Countless fine black cracks were torn through the surrounding space along its edges.
“Rumble—!”
The five thunder dragons slammed into the abyssal barrier!
A violent explosion and fierce clash erupted!
The thunder dragons rolled and detonated madly within the vortex, attempting to burst apart this audacious devouring force through sheer power.
Blinding lightning and the dim radiance of the vortex flickered and intertwined wildly. Every flash unleashed enough terrifying energy to dry up a vast ocean.
Ling Xi’s eyes were cold as iron. She poured all her strength into maintaining the stability of the devouring vortex, frantically refining the berserk thunder pouring into it.
Amid the tug-of-war between destruction and rebirth, her aura began to undergo a qualitative transformation!
Almost at the same time, Xiao Ruobai’s nine tribulation thunder spears had already reached him.
Nine dark-gold thunder spears, seemingly hurled by ancient war gods, locked onto the vital points throughout Xiao Ruobai’s body: his brow, heart, dantian, and more. They carried an invincible battle intent capable of piercing through all things and conquering countless worlds!
“Good! Come on—fight!”
Xiao Ruobai neither dodged nor retreated. Battle fire blazed in his eyes!
He actually charged straight into the heavens to meet the thunder spears head-on!
Dark-gold qi and blood surged around him like smoke rising from a beacon tower. His fists condensed the battle intent and strength he had accumulated throughout his life. Without any unnecessary flourish, he swung them directly against the thunder spears!
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”…
When fist and thunder spear collided, the sound was not like clashing metal. Instead, it was a deep, muffled roar, like primordial divine mountains crashing into one another!
Every strike erupted with a ring-shaped shock wave that forcibly pushed away the surrounding lightning.
One thunder spear exploded beneath his fist!
Then two!
Then three!
He moved through the rain of thunder spears like a humanoid tyrannosaur, his fists sweeping out with a grim, unstoppable momentum. One after another, he smashed the thunder spears apart, turning them into dark-gold arcs of electricity that filled the sky!
The shattered battle intent within the thunderbolts was instead greedily drawn into his body, tempering his War God physique and Battle Saint Soul!
As for Fang Hanyu, he faced the most strange and unpredictable of them all—the chaotic sword lightning.
The endless silver sword lightning was as fine as rain, yet every bolt contained a terrifying sword intent that could split open the heavens and earth before plunging them back into primordial chaos.
It seeped through every gap, as though it could ignore all defenses and strike directly at the very foundation of the Dao.
Fang Hanyu finally moved.
An supreme sword intent that made ten thousand swords submit and caused the flow of laws to break apart swept outward!
He did not unleash any earth-shattering sword technique. He merely raised his sword and delivered a simple slash forward.
“Shhk—!”
A fine, gleaming sword mark appeared in the void before him.
As the chaotic sword lightning poured down and drew near the sword mark, it seemed to be guided and controlled by an invisible force. Bolt after bolt veered off course, like countless rivers flowing into the sea, willingly pouring into the sword mark!
With his supreme swordsmanship, Fang Hanyu had actually established a domain of lightning severance before him!
Any thunder entering this domain would have its violent destructive will instantly analyzed and severed by his sword intent.
Only the purest origin of chaotic lightning remained, quietly absorbed by the embryonic sword-Dao sacred domain that had emerged behind him.
He tempered his sword with the tribulation and nurtured his domain with thunder!
Under the combined displays of the three cultivators’ abilities, the fiercest assault of the first wave of tribulation lightning was forcibly withstood!
transmigrates into the role of a villainous rich second-generation kid in an urban fantasy novel, and gets bound to a god-tier choice system. Right at the start, he catches the female lead stealing exam papers! This triggers the villain's choice options! [Choice 1: Pretend you didn't see anything] [Choice 2: Loudly call her out, drawing everyone's attention] [Choice 3: ...] And thus, a twisted villain is born. To avoid getting killed by the protagonist, he has no choice but to take down all the protagonists first. Jiang Che: Nobody understands being twisted better than me!
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.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
