Sleeping for a second increases my blood energy. I become the strongest sky-swallowing snake

Thunderclouds.

But in an instant.

Everything changed.

Countless dark green tribulation clouds rolled in, like ink dragons churning.

They quickly gathered into a vast, boundless black ocean.

Rumble!

Rumble, rumble!

Rolling, roaring.

Seeming to devour all light between heaven and earth!

Deep within the clouds, lightning danced like silver snakes, weaving into an impenetrable net, each flash accompanied by deafening roars that shook the earth.

Rumble, rumble!

Crack!

The momentum was still increasing!

Each sound made people's hearts tremble, as if it were the wrath of Heaven, wanting to cleanse the world of all impurities.

"...My heavens, am I some dirty thing that must be eliminated? Must you exert such divine power?" Xu Chengxian looked at the tribulation lightning, falling into deep self-doubt.

In this life and the last, he didn't seem to have done anything that harmed nature or reason, right?

Not to mention whether he had the opportunity, he didn't have the ability to do evil!

In his previous life, he was a workhorse; in this life, he had just started. Usually, besides eating and sleeping, he just bullied his younger sister, the Empress, and his younger brother, the Dao Lord.

"...This shouldn't warrant being struck by lightning, right?"

Even though his knowledge of the cultivation world's lightning tribulations was very limited, Xu Chengxian was absolutely certain that he was in trouble.

Crack!

A bolt of lightning roamed the sky like a giant dragon, tearing through the sky.

"Damn it!"

Xu Chengxian couldn't help but curse.

Accompanied by an extremely dazzling blue-purple light, it instantly illuminated everything around, then quickly plunged into deeper darkness.

This light seemed to contain the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, tearing the tribulation clouds apart, leaving behind shocking arcs of electricity.

Whoosh—

Swish—

Instantly, a gale arose, and torrential rain poured down.

...

"What kind of lightning tribulation is this?" Lingxiao, surprised, raised her snake head, her eyes wide.

She seemed to have tricked Old Ghost.

"...This old one has witnessed many lightning tribulations." Ling Yunzi stood tall, his brow furrowed. "Such a display shouldn't be happening at this time."

Xu Chengxian was just a ninth-tier demon beast.

The lightning tribulation he was undergoing was for breaking through and advancing to a Great Demon.

The cultivation realms of the demon race and the human race could be compared to each other.

The Great Demon realm was similar to the Foundation Establishment realm.

Reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining to establish a foundation wouldn't result in such vast tribulation clouds.

"When cultivators form their core, they are divided into seven grades. Even the lowest first-grade core formation lightning tribulation is only slightly stronger than this."

"Within my Holy Sect, there are indeed people who undergo tribulations with a different momentum than others." Lingxiao paused, very puzzled, and said, "But those are all people with bizarre behaviors, who receive such treatment."

To be called a person with bizarre behaviors by the Empress meant that, whether in terms of cultivation aptitude or other aspects, they were definitely elites among their peers.

Eccentrics.

Eccentrics with powerful cultivation.

After her reminder, Ling Yunzi also remembered something.

"In this old one's sect, there was once a senior."

Lingxiao immediately turned her head to look at him, wanting to know which senior from a proper Xuanmen sect would enjoy the same lightning tribulation treatment as the 'Holy' Sect's eccentrics.

"That senior...hated evil as if it were an enemy." After thinking it over, Ling Yunzi still used the elders' evaluation within the sect.

What a 'hater of evil'.

In other words, a ruthless killer, right?

As expected, the orthodox sect was suppressing the demonic mountain.

Rumble!

Crack!

In the time it took to say a few words.

Xu Chengxian's first lightning tribulation fell so unexpectedly.

The two couldn't care less about saying anything else and quickly turned their gazes to the valley.

The wind turned into a violent roar, carrying endless power, sweeping away everything on the earth.

Trees bent over, even breaking, with broken branches and fallen leaves flying.

Torrents of rain poured down, as if irrigating the valley, turning it into a vast ocean.

And when this ray of lightning tore through the sky, everything seemed to be stopped.

Time seemed to be paused.

Mixed with deep blue and faint purple, like the light of judgment from the heavens, carrying boundless terrifying power, it crashed down.

Bang!

Accurately striking the flower snake below.

At this moment, the air seemed to be ignited, erupting with deafening roars, accompanied by dazzling light, illuminating the earth as if it were daytime.

The ground trembled, and mud and water splashed everywhere.

The surrounding rocks and trees crumbled and turned into dust under this power.

After the lightning passed, a pungent smell of burning flesh quickly spread out.

The flower snake's body was charred, but its eyes burned with an unyielding flame, a desire for survival, a pursuit of power.

It slightly opened its mouth, emitting a puff of black smoke.

It flicked its snake tongue into the sky.

It said.

"...Damn!"

Xu Chengxian was very angry.

The tribulation lightning came too fast.

He was looking up at the tribulation clouds when the thunder struck down.

What does it mean to be as fast as thunder and lightning?

It meant that he hadn't even had time to blink when the tribulation lightning landed.

In an instant, it shattered dozens of places on his scarlet protective blood energy.

The thunder and lightning struck his snake body, causing a numbing and stinging pain.

Flesh bloomed, and some scales shattered.

It was somewhat painful.

However, after this tribulation lightning struck, Xu Chengxian felt a little more at ease.

"It seems I can withstand it!" A light flashed in his vertical pupils.

The sword hanging over his head was most dangerous when it was descending but had not yet fallen.

The threat would be constantly amplified in the constantly anticipated consequences.

But when the tribulation lightning really fell, and he felt its power, he felt relieved instead.

The tribulation lightning was indeed terrifying.

Not only could it wear down blood energy, but a wisp also drilled into his spiritual altar sea of consciousness.

But in Xu Chengxian's sea of consciousness, the lotus platform blocked it.

"It's just that the blood energy seems to have been consumed quite a bit." Xu Chengxian didn't dare to be distracted to look at the panel and check the specific value of blood energy consumption.

But since he crossed over, he had spent almost every day increasing his blood energy, so he was very sensitive to changes in blood energy.

So, based on his feeling, he could roughly judge how much this lightning had worn away.

"Nearly 100,000 blood energy."

For an ordinary ninth-tier demon beast, this consumption was considered very dangerous.

After all, there were at least eight more tribulation lightnings to come.

And each one was more powerful than the last.

But for him...

"Heh heh." Xu Chengxian couldn't help but chuckle.

The thing I fear the least is consuming blood energy!

With a thought, the blood energy in his body churned and surged, gushing out, instantly replenishing the shattered protective defense force.

The injuries on his body also healed eighty to ninety percent in that instant.

Then he looked up again, looking at the tribulation clouds.

Waiting for the second tribulation lightning.

"Come on!"