Chapter 590: The Giant Beast In The Sea Of Lightning (1/2)

The crowd froze when the tribulation unveiled itself in its full glory. What they were witnessing went beyond anyone’s comprehension.

Terrible bolts of heavenly lightning intersected in the sky and formed giant waves. Generally speaking, lightning pouring down like water was already a phenomenon alarming beyond belief. But currently, thunder and lightning was frothing and roiling in the sky and brewing into colossal waves!

“This is terrible, this is awful... He’s going to fail. My soul would be destroyed if this lightning even touched me!” a golden immortal murmured to himself from several hundred kilometers away, floating in fear and trembling in awe of the spectacle.

He wasn’t the only one; even peerless and dao immortals were terrified, as the giant waves of lightning were beyond horrifying. For those who’d never experienced the void realm, a slight brush would be all it’d take to seal their fates.

For their part, the many void realm cultivators who’d been eager to challenge Lu Yun now abandoned the idea in favor of meticulously observing the tribulation instead.

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“In my opinion, we should wait for the tribulation to pass. It won’t be too late to fight then.” Lu Yun glanced at Wu Tulong, his tone serene. The latter nodded and retracted his spear, then stared at the tribulation with bright eyes, not blinking even once.

As for the others, the presence of Lu Yun standing guard was ample deterrence. This gave the young man enough breathing space to wholeheartedly focus on the tribulation at hand.

Green robes flapping in the wind, his sword blossomed with the radiance of the moon. A resplendent full moon rose behind him, the manifestation of a fearsome combat art from the Primordial Era—a flawless ancient art.

Boom!

The moment the moon appeared, a thousand giant waves rippled forth and neutralized an entire wave of lightning. However, the moon also shook from the impact. Many cracks snaked along its surface, but its integrity remained. The young man heaved a long sigh of relief, his forehead covered in sweat.

“Look, there’s a creature in the sea of lightning!” Someone suddenly pointed up at the ocean of lightning mirroring the East Sea’s waters below.

The sea of lightning had swelled into furious billows dozens of kilometers tall, and a colossal creature floundered amidst the waves. From it, one could sense the aura of a prehistoric beast. Meanwhile, waves of lightning still relentlessly bombarded the young man.

The moon behind him had been dispelled and his sword took to the field instead, materializing as a curtain of moonlight that doggedly resisted the tribulation. The young man’s strength was astonishing! Even when compared to the former ten lords and thirty-six champions, he would be ranked among the very best.

A wave was churned to pieces everytime it crashed into his sword curtain. But the lightning came in endless, relentless waves, and it took only a few moments for the sword curtain to shatter as well. The sword returned to its master’s hand, keening in sorrow.

This result was anticipated, and the young man promptly summoned a formation tower that instantly deployed a giant defensive formation to block the lightning smiting down from the heavens.

Taking advantage of this brief reprieve, the young man hastened to swallow a few pills to recover his energy.

There were ninety-nine waves of lightning in total, and it took everything the young man had to block them all. Heavily injured at the end of this round of exertion, blood dribbled from his mouth and his face was wan. His once elegant green robes were charred ashes, his sword melted by the lightning, and the formation tower now nothing but charred rubble.

But after the ninety-nine waves were spent, the sky still didn’t clear. Rather, a stifling atmosphere spread throughout the land. Even immortals and cultivators as far as fifty kilometers away felt an unbearable oppression.

“The giant beast born amidst the tribulation clouds is about to attack,” Wu Tulong suddenly murmured.

Shocked, Lu Yun looked carefully into the depths of the lightning sea beneath the tribulation clouds. A titanic black creature twisted in it, bolts of fine lightning densely strewn about the surface of its body.

The young man’s gaze remained firm. With the flip of a wrist, a snowflake-like weapon appeared in his hand. Snowflakes drifted in the sky, imbuing his charred green robes and turning it into a brand new snowy garment draped over his body.