Long Chen was shocked. He thought he had been ambushed, but this was the Alchemy Institute's territory, and Chu Kuang and the others couldn't get in.
A bloody hole was pierced into Long Chen's back, his whole body went numb. He looked up and couldn't help but curse:
"Isn't it said that the heavenly tribulation in the Immortal Realm only appears at the Four Extremes Realm?"
At some point, a tribulation cloud appeared above Long Chen's head. Although the area was small, only a few hundred li, that strike had nearly pierced through his body.
"Buzz!"
At that moment, another thunder sword slashed down, slashing down at Long Chen in midair. At the moment the thunder sword struck, Long Chen felt the surrounding space locked down, unable to dodge.
"Boom!" Long Chen's
fist was wrapped in thunderous power. With a single punch hitting the thunder sword, there was a loud explosion. Long Chen's entire arm was shattered into a bloody mess, cracks covering the bones, nearly shattered by the sword strike.
"Thunder Dragon, hurry up and absorb it, or you're doomed." Long Chen shouted at Lei Ling'er.
In fact, Long Chen didn't need to call out at all. When Long Chen was struck by the first strike of the Thunder Sword, Lei Ling'er had already started clearing the residual wild thunder power from his body. Otherwise, his whole body would be paralyzed and he wouldn't have been able to withstand the second strike.
But in the Immortal Realm, this was the first time it absorbed the thunder of the heavenly tribulation. Here, it was immortal thunder, containing the will of destruction of the Immortal Realm, completely different from the mortal thunder it absorbed and the thunder inside ferocious beasts.
If it weren't for absorbing enough world source energy in the Divine Fire Spirit Pool, Lei Ling'er wouldn't have the ability to absorb immortal thunder at all now.
But even if it could absorb it, converting it into his own power would take some time, so Long Chen's punch suffered a heavy blow.
Long Chen was both shocked and furious. In the Immortal Realm, there is no heavenly tribulation at the Mortal Transformation Realm; this is common knowledge. He thought that in the Immortal Realm, he was also one of the countless beings and could finally be like everyone else.
But the heavenly tribulation didn't care whether this was the Immortal Realm or not; it still came after him, and with every move, it was a fatal blow. In front of the tribulation, Long Chen appeared so weak.
His terrifying physical body was as fragile as paper before the heavenly tribulation, utterly powerless.
"Buzz!"
At that moment, the third thunder sword slashed down. Long Chen's right hand had not yet recovered, so he could only defend with his left. With a single blow, his arm was torn apart by blood, and Long Chen groaned in pain and collapsed to the ground.
"This is deadly. The heavenly tribulation in the Immortal Realm is so terrifying, it doesn't even allow people to survive." Long Chen gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with grave intensity. If this continued, he was very likely to die under the heavenly tribulation.
With Lei Ling'er's current strength, there was no time to devour these terrifying immortal thunders. More and more thunder invaded Long Chen's body, and he felt as if his body was about to explode.
"Buzz"
Suddenly, the hundred-eight thousand stars within Long Chen trembled, and the violent power within him vanished in an instant, leaving only the purest immortal thunder power.
Lei Ling'er was overjoyed, frantically absorbing the power of thunder. Without that violent will, the thunder power became nothing more than her nourishment.
In that instant, Long Chen was stunned. He was shocked to find that the tiny flame atop the 108,000 stars had suddenly grown much larger.
"Could it be..."
Long Chen's heart trembled. At that moment, the fourth thunder sword slashed, and with a tremor in his right arm, a dragon-shaped pattern appeared, enveloping his arm.
With a loud "boom,"
Long Chen's body trembled. Although his blood and energy still surged from the shock, his arm was not splattered with flesh and blood.
The Thunder Dragon's power had grown stronger, and he could now use part of the immortal thunder to protect Long Chen.
At that moment, a massive amount of thunderous power surged through Long Chen's arm into his body. The moment it entered his body, the raging force was instantly absorbed by the 108,000 stars.
The flames atop the 108,000 stars seemed to be doused with oil, expanding dozens of times in an instant.
The thunder power left behind inside Long Chen was pure energy, instantly devoured by the thunder dragon.
The raging power of thunder was like a wild beast. The thunder dragon wasn't strong enough, and eating it was too exhausting—it had to bite into its flesh and blood bit by bit.
But the 108,000 stars absorbed the violent will of the immortal thunder, effectively stripping away the beast's skin, bones, and tendons, leaving behind only flesh and blood. After the thunder dragon devoured it, it could absorb it almost instantly.
Moreover, the fourth thunder sword contained even more thunder power than the previous three combined. The divine fire on the 108,000 stars had surged dramatically, making Long Chen realize that to ignite 108,000 stars, he had to rely on the power of the heavenly tribulation.
Facing the roaring thunder runes around him, Long Chen no longer resisted but actively absorbed them. As he absorbed them, the flames atop the 108,000 stars grew larger and larger.
Another thunder sword slashed down, its pressure several times stronger than the last. Fortunately, Lei Long could now channel the power of immortal thunder. With one punch, the thunder sword shattered, absorbing a large amount of thunder force.
"Buzz"—
At that moment, the flames on the 108,000 stars had reached a certain level. Suddenly, the flames vanished, and at the cores of those stars, tiny points of light appeared.
"Boom!"
Another thunderous sword descended. Long Chen blocked with a punch, but a mouthful of blood sprayed out, causing him to be greatly shocked.
The power of the Thunder Sword was more than ten times stronger than the previous strike, and a massive amount of thunder surged into Long Chen's body.
The hundred-eight thousand stars were instantly absorbed, and suddenly, from the inside out, those stars were ignited and began to burn.
Long Chen calculated that the sword strike just now was the seventh strike. Based on his experience, there were still two more strikes to come.
Sure enough, thunder intertwined above the void, and the eighth Thunder Sword began to form, releasing a fierce and unmatched aura that locked onto Long Chen.
"Buzz"
A thunderous spear appeared in Long Chen's hand. Faced with such a terrifying strike, he no longer dared to block it with his fists.
"Boom!"
The sword finally struck. Long Chen's spear struck out, and with a loud explosion, both the spear and the thunder sword shattered simultaneously. Long Chen was blasted far away, crawling up from the ground, covered in dust and dirt.
"Buzz!"
At that moment, Long Chen's Fengfu Star trembled violently and was actually ignited. Long Chen extended his inner vision and saw that the entire star map had started to burn. All the flames of the stars converged and surged toward Fengfu Star. Once ignited, the power of the flames surged straight toward Yuheng Star.
Next came Siming, Gongqi, Shenguan, Mingmen—all the stars in the Six Stars and Star Map, all of which began to burn. Long Chen felt they were like elixirs, about to be fired, just missing the final spark.
"Rumble rumble...
At that moment, an explosion sounded in the void. The tribulation clouds instantly contracted, and within hundreds of miles, they converged into a giant sword thousands of zhang long, slashing down toward Long Chen in midair.
"Are you trying to kill me?" Long Chen was both shocked and furious. This strike carried the power to destroy heaven and earth, clearly aimed at killing him.
"Come on, I'll go all out."
Long Chen roared, the thunder spear appearing in his hand, staring at the thunder giant that resembled a divine sword.
"Boom!"
The thunderous sword slashed down. Long Chen was as insignificant as an ant. With one strike, the mountain where Long Chen stood instantly shattered.