Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

”Boom— Boom— Boom!”

The whirlpool in the sky resembled a massive cloud of tribulation. Without flashes of lightning, only the muffled roar of thunder emanated from within.

”This is the tribulation!”

On the surface, it’s composed of mutated death energy familiar to Chu Xiu, but Chu Xiu could sense that after reaching a certain concentration, these mutated death energies underwent a deeper evolution, giving birth to a higher tier of power.

That kind of power might be what truly defines tribulation!

At this moment, the array formed by Qingyunzi and eight immortals had penetrated over a dozen miles deep, with Chu Xiu trailing from afar and observing.

After reconstructing the immortal body, they seemed to have lost the ability to resist the tribulation’s power and, like Chu Xiu, had to confront the power of tribulation with absolute strength, without any tricks.

However, these were nine powerful heroic spirits, supplemented by arrays and dharma artifacts. Even near the whirlpool, where the concentration of death energy rivaled the peak of the Death Qi Waterfall, the nine ghosts seemed to handle it effortlessly.

Yet, the gravity on the faces of the nine ghosts did not diminish but intensified!

Chu Xiu focused his divine sense carefully, understanding that the opponents were cautious for a reason.

Suddenly, from the dense tribulation fog, the faint roar of beasts could be heard!

The next second, without warning, tribulation beasts Chu Xiu had seen before sprang from the surrounding mist, charging at the nine ghosts with tearing bites!

Chu Xiu could see clearly that these tribulation beasts didn’t exist earlier. Yet, as the tribulation fog rolled, within mere moments, they emerged from the mist!

This revelation left Chu Xiu with shock in his eyes. These tribulation beasts had flesh, blood, and metallic scale armor, but were born from the swirling mist!

Where did these substances come from? Was it just an appearance, or could the tribulation actually transform into different substances?

Witnessing the tribulation’s supernatural wonders, Chu Xiu’s expression became serious.

Within the tribulation fog, the fighting power of these tribulation beasts grew countless times stronger than in the outer world. Whenever heavily injured, they could rapidly recover within the fog.

Qingyunzi possessed power infinitely close to Demigod level, but the ghosts’ combat methods were thoroughly restrained by these tribulation beasts, forcing them to exert several times more power just to barely kill one beast.

Initially, relying on the overwhelming power of the nine heroic spirits was still manageable, but the closer they approached the core, the faster these beasts formed, with greater power, and the array formed by Qingyunzi and the ghosts gradually became strained.

”However, these tribulation beasts don’t pose much trouble for me,” Chu Xiu stroked his chin, silently evaluating.

With his current demigod level strength, he could just plow through.

But it’s essential to understand that the tribulation suppresses mana circulation, among other things.

Even the Death Qi Waterfall combined with Dao Rhyme posed a challenge for Chu Xiu, let alone the pure tribulation here.

Chu Xiu estimated that barging into the core of the tribulation under such circumstances would require using the power of the Divine Living Weight Armor.

The power contained in this divine artifact was about two-thirds full. As long as he didn’t get caught in a protracted battle, another fight shouldn’t be an issue.

With this understanding, Chu Xiu prepared to call Qingyunzi and the others back.

They were still approximately five miles from the core of the whirlpool, but movement had become nearly impossible. Continuing further was pointless.

Just as Chu Xiu was about to use divine thought to relay the message, a massive roar of thunder abruptly erupted from within the tribulation cloud whirlpool!

There had been thunder before, but it resembled muffled rolling thunder within a thundercloud. Now, it sounded like explosive thunder, erupting from accumulated power reaching its peak!

Before Chu Xiu could react, a black dragon-like lightning bolt streaked through the tribulation cloud directly targeting Qingyunzi and the others!

Qingyunzi was aghast, his dharma artifacts glowing brightly, yet those specialized to counter tribulation seemed utterly ineffective in the face of the black lightning, unable to resist even slightly!

The lightning moved impossibly fast. A lead Immortal Monarch didn’t even have time to react before being struck!

The next instant, a soul-wrenching scream rang out as the Immortal Monarch’s heroic spirit level soul body was shattered by the irresistible power, disintegrating into basic particles in an instant!

The terrifying scene caused nearby ghosts to collectively change their expressions, eyes filled with uncontrollable terror!

But it was far from over. Amidst the ghosts’ terrified gazes, two identical lightning bolts emerged from the disintegrated soul body, immediately striking the two closest ghosts!

Perhaps weakened after the first ghost, the lightning’s power diminished, allowing onlookers to see its attack process. Upon hitting the soul body, the lightning spread countless thin bolts from the point of impact, dissolving all structures into fundamental particles, as if breaking all chemical bonds.

In less than 0.01 seconds, one struck Immortal Monarch’s soul body scattered and disintegrated, while another bolt hit an Immortal Venerable. With a slightly more condensed soul body, it had more reaction time, decisively abandoning the half of its body hit by the strange lightning, bolting backward with the remaining half!