Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

”Five-Colored Tribulation Clouds?”

Jiang Chen’s body seized with excruciating pain as he crawled out from under the ground.

He looked up at the cluster of Five-Colored Tribulation Clouds gathering in the Celestial Vault, his eyes filled with gravity and rage.

He knew all too well how terrifying the Five-Colored Tribulation Clouds were!

They were dozens of times more terrifying and powerful than the previous four-colored tribulation clouds. If he had been completely confident about surviving the four-colored clouds...

...then facing the Five-Colored Tribulation Clouds, his chances of success were less than thirty percent.

Less than a thirty percent chance of breaking through to the Union Palace Realm. That was incredibly low, and incredibly dangerous.

One moment of carelessness...

...and he would be buried amidst the lightning.

Utterly annihilated!

”Damn you, Tu Shanhe! For a mighty Union Palace Realm expert, you resort to such despicable tricks to deal with me. Using a borrowed knife to kill, trying to use the power of the Thunder Tribulation to get rid of me, is that it? You’d better pray I don’t survive this! Otherwise, the day I step into the Union Palace Realm will be the day you so-called experts meet your end!” Jiang Chen took a deep breath and shot into the sky.

The Five-Colored Tribulation Clouds brewed another bolt of lightning, which came crashing down.

SWOOSH...

He had already passed through five bolts of the Thunder Tribulation, all of which were lightning condensed from a single Mystical Technique.

But next, he would face lightning formed from fused Mystical Techniques!

The bolt crashing down at this very moment was a fusion of cyan and blue—a Thunder Tribulation bolt combining the Secrets of Wind and the Secrets of Water.

The brilliant cyan-and-blue lightning looked like two dragons of thunder.

They coiled around each other, spitting ferocious bolts of lightning as they arrived in an instant.

A dark golden light swirled around Jiang Chen, making him look like a War God cast from a Golden Body. Gripping the Spirit-Slaying Sword with both hands, he slashed out. ”Thick Earth Sword Technique—Mountain and River Sword Shield!”

BUZZ!

The sword light pulsed, coalescing into the shape of a mountain.

The mountain materialized in midair, blocking the path between Jiang Chen and the lightning.

RUMBLE!

The terrifying lightning slammed into the mountain of Sword Qi. The entire structure trembled violently. The fused cyan and blue lightning acted like a venomous dragon’s drill, spinning and rotating continuously, trying to break through the Mountain and River Sword Shield and annihilate Jiang Chen.

But unfortunately...

...Jiang Chen’s defensive technique was simply too formidable!

BOOM—

The bolt of lightning suddenly shattered.

He had safely passed the sixth bolt of the Thunder Tribulation!

RUMBLE!

Cyan, blue, and yellow. The three-colored lightning brewed for a moment before suddenly transforming into a tricolored thunder dragon that shot down from the Celestial Vault.

Its hundred-zhang-long body shone with a tricolored light as radiant as a divine glow.

It opened its cavernous maw and lunged, trying to tear Jiang Chen to pieces!

CRACK...

Before the tricolored thunder dragon, the Mountain and River Sword Shield was as fragile as tofu, instantly bitten to pieces.

As the Mountain and River Sword Shield shattered...

...the tricolored thunder dragon executed a Divine Dragon Tail Swing. Its tail, containing infinite Destructive Power, lashed viciously toward Jiang Chen.

’Not good!’

Jiang Chen hastily raised his Spirit-Slaying Sword to block. With a deafening DONG, lightning erupted over the blade. Accompanied by a sizzling sound, serpents of electricity coiled around Jiang Chen’s entire arm.

”AGH...”

Jiang Chen let out a wretched scream.

Under the lightning’s assault, the flesh on his entire arm disintegrated, leaving only bare, bleached bone.

”ROAR...”

Jiang Chen’s face twisted in agony, veins popping on his forehead.

”Hahaha, the kid can’t take it anymore!”

”The Union Palace Tribulation isn’t so simple, is it? If it were just about resisting the lightning’s impact, one could use a Grand Array to evade it. The real difficulty lies not only in resisting the lightning but also in accepting its baptism to reforge one’s flesh and blood. That’s the true life-or-death moment!”

”Back in my day, I faced mere Bicolored Tribulation Clouds, and it nearly extinguished my soul, preventing me from completing the reforging. This Jiang Chen is facing a Five-Colored Thunder Tribulation! If he can survive it, I’ll eat this rock!” the Purple Star Beast Emperor said smugly, kicking at a watermelon-sized stone at his feet.

Tu Shanhe and the others all revealed smug smiles.

Yuwen Zheng and his group, however, looked grim.

At this point, no one could help Jiang Chen. He could only rely on himself!

...

RUMBLE!

The seventh bolt of lightning was a four-colored one, a terrifying bolt fused from four different Mystical Techniques!

This bolt of lightning was like a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth.

When it appeared, all color vanished for a hundred li around Martial Saint Mountain, leaving only this single bolt of lightning, as brilliant as a divine glow!

BOOM!

Under the impact of this lightning, fifty percent of the flesh on Jiang Chen’s body was blasted away.

Even half the flesh on his skull had burst open.

Exposed bone and mangled flesh, yet his two eyeballs, wrapped in a cyan-gold light, remained intact.

PFFT!

Jiang Chen had collapsed to the ground, continuously spitting blood. He was now weakened to the extreme.

The flesh on his legs, arms, and torso had all been torn apart.

His blood had been vaporized by the lightning.

”Fuck... Goddammit...”

”This is killing me.”

RUMBLE...

The final bolt of lightning, brewing with five-colored light, hovered within the tribulation cloud.

Still brewing!

Once it was unleashed, it would be with the force of a Mountain Collapse and Earth Split, an unstoppable power that would obliterate everything.

Jiang Chen trembled, trying to get up, but without flesh, he was little more than a skeleton. How could he move? His bones felt like they were about to fall apart, and his consciousness began to fade.

”No...”

”Stop, just stop...”

”Don’t go on, you can’t continue with this tribulation...”

Bai Ling and Lin Feifei were already streaming tears.

Yuwen Xunyi, White Tiger, and the others had turned their heads away, unable to watch any longer.

High in the Celestial Vault.

The terrifying lightning was enough to make heaven and earth lose their color, to eclipse the sun and moon.

If this bolt were to fall, it would destroy everything it touched, bringing annihilation to all. And that, of course, included the tribulation-taker, Jiang Chen!

RUMBLE...

The five-colored lightning finally fell.

In that instant, it was as if the world froze. Time itself seemed to stop.

Horror was written on everyone’s faces.

Even the experts of the Union Palace Realm trembled before this bolt, nearly falling to their knees.

This bolt of the Thunder Tribulation was too terrifying!

’Am I going to die?’

’No... I can’t die...’

’I still haven’t found my father, and there’s Qingyi—I promised I would take care of her for her entire life. I can’t die...’

A brilliant light suddenly erupted from Jiang Chen’s dimming eyes.

Consciousness!

He was fully lucid again!

The flames of hope were reignited in the depths of despair.

”ROAR!”

”I, Jiang Chen, will not die! If the heavens want to destroy me, I will slaughter the heavens! If the earth wants to destroy me, I will bury the earth!”

”ROAR!”

Jiang Chen suddenly let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar.

His roar was even louder than the thunder, carrying a booming echo.

BUZZ—

Within Jiang Chen’s Spiritual Sea, the suspended God-slaying Sword suddenly erupted with an intensely brilliant light.

The Holy Dragon insignia etched upon the blade’s surface abruptly opened its eyes.

SWISH!

A Profound Yellow Spirit Pearl shot out from the dragon’s mouth, coming to a halt and hovering over Jiang Chen’s heart.

At the same time...

...the five-colored lightning crashed down.

BOOM—

As the lightning fell, the entire Martial Saint Mountain shook and roared. Boulders shattered, the ground sank, and the whole majestic mountain began to break apart. The powerful Mountain Guard Array was forcefully shattered by the lightning’s impact.

The lightning enveloped Jiang Chen, grinding him down into the mountainside.

Wherever it passed, rock and stone disintegrated.

Everything was being destroyed!

Only Jiang Chen...

...The Profound Yellow Spirit Pearl over his heart was rapidly melting under the lightning’s assault. And as it melted, threads of blood began to form, spreading across Jiang Chen’s skeletal body.

Bathed in the heart of the lightning.

A golden hue appeared on Jiang Chen’s bones. His flesh was filled with a profound yellow light, and his blood began to transform from crimson to gold.

Heart, regenerating!

Lungs, regenerating!

His organs, reforming...

Muscles, flesh, skin—all were bursting with new life!

When that lightning dissipated, the ninth bolt followed. This was the final bolt of the Union Palace Tribulation. It was not for destruction, but for rebirth from the brink of death!

This bolt of lightning descended.

It caused Jiang Chen’s body, which had been on the verge of destruction, to brim with vigorous life once more.

And at this moment, Jiang Chen...

...snapped his eyes open. Nine Life Palaces materialized behind him, fused together, and opened a Dao Origin Void, into which they all merged.

He had truly stepped into the Union Palace Realm!

At the same time.

Three words appeared in Jiang Chen’s mind—Immortal Sword Body!

After he broke through to the Union Palace Realm, the God-slaying Sword had bestowed upon him a brand-new superpower—the Immortal Sword Body.

This constitution was born for the sword, strengthened by the sword, undying and indestructible, a force to dominate the world!

As Jiang Chen absorbed the nourishment of the final Spiritual Thunder, replenishing his immense losses, his eyes erupted with a divine, brilliant light. He glanced at the stunned Tu Shanhe and the others in midair, a ferocious, cold smile spreading across his face. ”I have entered the Union Palace. Now I will slay all my enemies in this world!”