However, the might of the Heavenly Tribulation grew stronger with each wave!
Before the energy of the first wave had completely dissipated, the three layers of tribulation clouds above the firmament seemed to have been utterly enraged. They began brewing an even more frenzied assault!
The aura of destruction surged exponentially!
The second wave, the third wave, the fourth wave…
The terrifying lightning tribulation was like a whip of destruction wielded by the Heavenly Dao, lashing down upon the summit again and again, each wave more powerful than the last, without the slightest pause.
Blood trickled from the corner of Ling Xi’s mouth, and her clothes were torn, but the coldness and defiance in her eyes only grew stronger.
She was like a dancer walking along the edge of destruction, frantically devouring and refining.
She transformed the world-destroying lightning into a part of her sacred foundation. Her aura continued to rise amid the cycle of destruction and rebirth, becoming increasingly profound and terrifying.
Xiao Ruobai had long since transformed into a dark-gold God of War, charging fearlessly through the lightning spears and phantoms of gods and demons.
His body was blasted to pieces again and again—skin torn, bones broken, tendons snapped. His crimson-gold battle-god blood scattered like rain, only to be forcibly restored in the next instant by his surging battle intent and indestructible vitality.
The more he fought, the braver he became. His battle intent soared into the heavens, as though he intended to punch straight through the world itself!
Fang Hanyu, meanwhile, remained standing quietly where he was. The long sword in his hand moved with techniques pared down to the absolute essence, yet each stroke contained the supreme profundity of severing laws.
The sword domain before him grew increasingly solid. It transformed from a single sword mark into a hazy, chaotic sword realm.
Any lightning tribulation that fell into it was instantly broken down and assimilated.
His aura remained steady, but every time he withstood another bolt, the sword-light in his eyes shone brighter. His entire being was like an unparalleled divine weapon tempered a thousand times over by the Heavenly Tribulation—its edge increasingly restrained, yet its danger growing ever more palpable.
The summit had been utterly transformed into a chaotic ocean of lightning. Only three tiny yet incomparably tenacious figures rose and fell within it, struggling against the storm.
When the eighth wave of lightning tribulation crashed down, its might had already reached an utterly inconceivable level!
At that moment, the three layers of tribulation clouds actually began to merge!
They intertwined and coiled around one another, giving birth to an even stranger and more terrifying composite tribulation!
Its power was by no means a simple addition. Instead, it underwent some kind of qualitative transformation!
“BOOM—!!!”
A tri-colored pillar of annihilating lightning, more than a thousand zhang in diameter, descended like divine punishment at the dawn of creation, carrying the ultimate will to erase all things as it thundered down upon the three of them without distinction!
Faced with this ultimate strike, which combined the power of all three of their tribulations, Ling Xi, Xiao Ruobai, and Fang Hanyu finally sensed a lethal threat for the first time.
Ling Xi let out a sharp cry and drew in all the Devouring Dao rhymes, compressing the power of devouring to its absolute limit as she charged head-on toward the lightning pillar!
Xiao Ruobai unleashed a battle roar that shook the entire universe. His body swelled as he transformed into a hundred-zhang-tall phantom of a crimson-gold God of War. Bringing both fists together, he launched a heaven-shaking punch with the indomitable will to advance without retreat, even if it meant mutual destruction!
For the first time, the ancient sword in Fang Hanyu’s hand rang out with a clear, dragon-like cry. His entire being seemed to merge with the sword, transforming into an ultimate streak of sword-light capable of cleaving chaos itself. Rather than retreat, he advanced, striking directly at the core of the tri-colored lightning pillar!
“BOOM—!!!!!!”
A terrifying explosion beyond the power of words erupted.
The void surrounding the summit was utterly transformed into a darkness of nothingness.
A storm of destructive energy swept in every direction, completely scattering the remaining rosy radiance and Dao laws at the top of the Dao Repository Heavenly Stairway.
No one knew how much time passed before the light and storm finally began to subside.
Three figures reappeared in the void. All of them were battered and disheveled, their auras feeble, yet they were still standing!
They had endured the eighth tribulation—the terrifying lightning tribulation formed from that fusion and accumulation of power!
But above them, after releasing that ultimate strike, the three layers of tribulation clouds did not dissipate. Instead, they began the final—and most frenzied—compression!
All the lightning and all the will of destruction converged and collapsed toward a single point at the very center!
The ninth and final ultimate tribulation was brewing!
An unprecedented terror, born from the deepest instincts of life itself, swept through the heart of every living being across Dao Origin Mountain.
“The ninth tribulation… this is…”
Inside Mind-Clearing Hall, an old Supreme Elder with a full head of white hair, a man who had weathered countless storms, pointed at the water mirror with trembling fingers. His voice was hoarse, and he could not even complete his sentence.
Perfected Xuanji’s expression was as heavy as still water, his eyes filled with deep worry.
The aura brewing within this ninth tribulation had already surpassed his understanding of Saint Tribulations.
“Can they withstand it?” the white-haired elder muttered to himself, his voice trembling in a way he himself did not notice.
Atop the summit, Ling Xi, Xiao Ruobai, and Fang Hanyu were covered in wounds, yet their eyes were brighter and more resolute than ever before!
“Buzz—!”
The point that had been compressed to the extreme suddenly stopped shrinking.
The next instant—
“Crack!”
A strange sound, at once like the birth of heaven and earth and the end of the universe, rang out in the deepest recesses of every living being’s consciousness.
The light compressed to the utmost limit erupted.
It locked onto the three of them. It seemed to move slowly, yet in truth it surpassed time and space, arriving in an instant!
“Devour the heavens and consume the earth. Let the Dao perish while I endure!”
Ling Xi cried out sharply, transforming herself into a final black hole. She charged directly into that “light of destruction,” intending to devour and refine it completely!
“Fight! Fight! Fight!!!”
Xiao Ruobai roared. He unleashed the most extreme and devastating punch of his entire life, striking that beam of light head-on without the slightest flourish!
“Sever.”
Fang Hanyu uttered only a single word. Man and sword moved as one, transforming into an ultimate sword-ray that seemed capable of cutting apart the boundary between existence and nothingness. He slashed upward against it!
Three figures. Three great Dao paths.
At that moment, they collided head-on with the lightning tribulation that represented the Heavenly Dao’s ultimate will of destruction!
There was no sound. No explosion.
Only an absolute darkness that devoured everything expanded instantly from the point of collision, swallowing the three of them and that entire region without a trace.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
At the foot of the mountain, everyone held their breath and stared wide-eyed at the darkness that had swallowed everything. Their hearts nearly stopped beating.
Inside Mind-Clearing Hall, there was utter silence. One could hear a pin drop.
No one knew how much time passed. Perhaps it was an instant. Perhaps it was ten thousand years.
The absolute darkness began to slowly fade and contract.
The first figure to emerge was Fang Hanyu.
He knelt on one knee, using his sword to support himself.
His face was pale as paper, and his aura was weak to the extreme, yet his back remained ramrod straight. His eyes were still clear and sharp, as though what he had just severed was not a world-destroying lightning tribulation, but merely a wisp of breeze.
Next came Xiao Ruobai.
He lay motionless on his back in the void. But then, a powerful vitality, like a spark in the darkness, ignited at the center of his heart and rapidly spread throughout his body.
His charred skin cracked and peeled away, revealing the newborn skin beneath, which shimmered with a faint jade-like luster.
Finally, the darkness vanished completely, revealing Ling Xi’s figure.
She remained standing, but the shadowy aura of Devouring surrounding her had almost entirely dissipated.
“Rumble…”
Above the firmament, after releasing the final ultimate tribulation, the fused three-layered tribulation clouds seemed to have exhausted all their strength. They began to rapidly disperse and collapse.
The Heavenly Tribulation had ended!
Endless sweet rain, rich with magnificent vitality and mixed with fragments of the purest laws of heaven and earth, began to fall.
It poured down from where the tribulation clouds had dispersed, completely enveloping the three figures atop the summit.
with countless casualties. As a top-tier gamer, Liu Xuan volunteered to join the fight, intending to dominate with his skills, but instead he obtained the hidden class: [Pacifist]. Unable to attack. Unable to use active skills. Fortunately, with each level gained, he acquired a new passive skill. And so, armed with a body full of passives, Liu Xuan slaughtered his way through the battlefield of ten thousand races! [You attacked Liu Xuan] [You gained the debuffs: 'Poison', 'Fear', 'Burning', 'Bleeding', 'Freeze', 'Silence', etc.] [Your attack speed has been reduced by 99%] [Your armor and magic resistance have been reduced by 99%] Warriors of the Ten Thousand Races: How the hell am I supposed to fight this?!
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!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
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.
