"Senior Xiao is truly too powerful."

Xiaohou Bo looked at the distant scene with admiration.

Although Fu Young being favored by the heavenly tribulation was enviable, it was ultimately the display of overwhelming strength that earned true recognition from cultivators.

Seeing Xiao Shou’s strength, Chen Zhiyi and Chen Qingzhi both felt genuine envy toward his sister.

Perhaps the thunder tribulation was truly enraged or perhaps it was determined to kill Xiao Shou no matter what.

After the rolling dark clouds churned, they actually condensed into countless three-meter-wide golden lightning spheres, which rained down toward the massive stone mountain created by Xiao Shou’s law of the earth divine ability.

Explosions rang out continuously.

With every falling lightning sphere, the rock mountain shattered and collapsed bit by bit, its size rapidly shrinking.

Beneath the mountain, Xiao Shou finally finished refining the purple lightning within his body.

He released his divine sense to observe the situation outside.

Good.

Fu Young was still inside the defensive formation, refining the magnetic lightning.

As for the heavenly tribulation...

Xiao Shou’s expression suddenly changed.

Was it an illusion?

His divine sense had just sensed a strong malicious intent directed at him.

How was that possible?

The thunder tribulation was supposed to be an embodiment of the Heavenly Dao.

However, in the original story, it was said that the Heavenly Dao of the Longevity Love world had no good or evil.

It was merely a rule-based consciousness that maintained the world.

The so-called chosen ones were simply pieces on the chessboard of the Heavenly Dao that was responsible for maintaining and completing the world’s rules through their fated paths.

As long as the world itself was not threatened, the Heavenly Dao should not possess personal emotions or targeted hostility.

So it must have been an illusion.

Even though Xiao Shou felt uneasy, he could only comfort himself this way.

However, this doubt still left a mark in his mind, causing his to become suspicious of the Heavenly Dao descriptions in the book later on.

Xiao Shou did not know what impact this small trace of doubt would have in the future.

He only knew that if he did not find a way soon, once the rock mountain was destroyed, the next target would likely be himself.

After all, even refining a single purple lightning bolt had already taken considerable effort.

Golden lightning would definitely be even more difficult to refine.

Even if he tried to extract and purify it like the purple lightning, it would not be easy.

It would be too wasteful to simply let it dissipate.

For his cultivation technique, thunder tribulation lightning was a rare and excellent body tempering resource.

Even formations that condensed lightning energy could not compare.

Ah, if only there were storage bags specifically designed to collect lightning energy.

After considering all his methods and recalling what Fu Young had said before the tribulation, Xiao Shou reluctantly confirmed that he would have to give up on fully harvesting the heavenly tribulation.

What a pity.

His fox eyes blinked in regret, but his actions were swift.

He immediately took out all of his ordinary and upgraded Five Thunder Beads, along with all offensive talismans and unrefined offensive magic artifacts.

He controlled them to merge into one mass and said, "Stone Earth Pillar of the Heavens!"

Then, at the moment when his hair shortened by more than a meter and returned to its original length, all the tightly bundled offensive artifacts shot into the surging mass of earth and stone.

Outside, everyone could only see the rock mountain, which was in the middle of the golden lightning sphere storm, twisting continuously as it rapidly reconfigured itself.

In the blink of an eye, it actually reformed into a gigantic stone pillar so tall that its top could not be seen, piercing straight into the center of the thunder tribulation clouds.

"It is not over yet! Since you are so interested in me, I should return the favor properly!"

A faint smile curved Xiao Shou’s lips.

He looked up at the sky and stared at the towering stone pillar that pierced deep into the pitch black thunder filled clouds.

"Explode!"

In an instant, a massive burst of brilliant sparks erupted at the connection point between the cloud center and the stone pillar.

Immediately after, earth shaking vibrations echoed across the sky.

The giant stone pillar shattered into countless fragments that rained down continuously.

At the same time, the tribulation clouds dispersed amid the brilliant explosion, revealing a large stretch of pale blue sky.

The heavenly tribulation seemed to be enraged by Xiao Shou’s actions.

The crackling lightning intensified wildly as the dark clouds surged back like a covering sky, gathering once again and plunging a thousand-mile radius into complete darkness.

All lightning then converged toward the center, forming a mass of black lightning that was about to descend.

"Your lightning can no longer fall."

After extending hs divine sense to confirm the situation, Xiao Shou said with a cold smile.

The moment his voice fell, the black lightning and the central core of the tribulation clouds were suddenly enveloped by a red vortex.

In the blink of an eye, they were sucked inside.

Then the red vortex vanished.

A pale cyan vortex appeared in its place, spinning as it swallowed all remaining tribulation clouds in the surroundings.

Soon after, even the cyan vortex disappeared.

Seeing this, Xiao Shou finally let out a breath of relief.

As expected.

Once a force exceeded the limits this world could bear, the laws of the world would forcibly transfer its source into a higher dimension.

The combined explosion of the Five Thunder Beads, Tier 5 offensive talismans, and magic artifacts had struck the abnormal tribulation lightning with power equivalent to a single strike from a Nascent Soul cultivator at the very least.

This world could not contain such a level of force.

He frowned slightly.

"However, that red vortex feels a bit strange. According to the original description of Xiao Ran’s ascension, the later cyan vortex should be the normal one."