Under Li Guanqi's immense power, the tribulation thunder shattered into countless tiny arcs of lightning.
Yet Li Guanqi had still underestimated the might of the Mahayana realm's heavenly tribulation thunder.
After forcibly devouring just two rounds of heavenly lightning, his physical body was already battered and torn.
Li Guanqi's eyes flickered. Knowing full well that this heavenly tribulation thunder aimed to obliterate him, he simply gave up meeting it head-on.
With a ferocious expression, he shattered bolt after bolt of tribulation lightning, madly devouring the power within.
Such colossal might drew stunned glances from every cultivator watching!
Seeing the prowess Li Guanqi displayed, quite a few Mahayana realm cultivators couldn't help making silent comparisons in their minds.
In the end, they realized that even though Li Guanqi had not yet completed his breakthrough into the Mahayana realm, the strength he demonstrated was not the least bit inferior to what they had possessed back in the outside world—in fact, he could easily defeat them.
They had no inkling of how many battles Li Guanqi had fought over these past six years, nor did they know how many Ancient God Beads he had absorbed alone, or how many insights and memories of mighty senior cultivators he had comprehended.
Now that his sword dao had returned to the true essence, every movement and gesture carried an inexplicably formidable confidence.
Every stance and strike held infinite variations, and his mastery of the sword was horrifying to behold.
Such power was unimaginable; if Li Guanqi ever walked out of God Burial Valley, what a tremendous shockwave it would send through the cultivators of the outside world.
Rumble, rumble, boom!
Across the entire God Burial Ridge, not a single Ancient God Illusory Soul regenerated anymore.
The destructive fury of the terrifying dark-red lightning raged across a radius of a hundred li.
The immense power Li Guanqi exhibited even made the spectating cultivators forget that this was the terrifying Mahayana heavenly tribulation.
No one could blame them; after all, the figure holding the broken sword was simply too terrifying.
That majestic pressure gave them the illusion of facing a mid-Mahayana realm cultivator.
Each swing of Li Guanqi's sword gave off a profoundly subtle feeling, and some among the onlookers even caught faint insights from those profound trajectories.
After an unknown time, for more than a dozen breaths, no lightning fell from the thunderclouds overhead.
As the crowd watched the violently churning thunderclouds, varied thoughts crossed their minds. Within the dense thunderclouds, it looked as though a gigantic dragon was turning in its slumber.
The spectating cultivators snapped their heads up, staring in horror at the thunderclouds suddenly spinning faster and faster.
A thunderous roar boomed out.
From within the cloud layer, a terrifying pillar of lightning a full thirty zhang thick suddenly plummeted!
Everyone fled in panic as the dreadful beam of lightning bore down, carrying an unspeakable sense of suffocation and the terror of death.
Just as everyone was running for their lives, they suddenly sensed a terrifying sword intent piercing the clouds, soaring up from the ground.
Li Guanqi's aura reached its peak!
Li Guanqi glared up at the firmament, the sword in his hand feeling as heavy as ten thousand jun at this moment!
The emotions he had suppressed for six years erupted in an instant.
Six years of bitter cultivation, all for this breakthrough to Mahayana.
Because he knew that not just himself, but his sworn brothers would never waste time either; in corners hidden from each other's sight, all of them were striving in silence.
BOOM!
At this moment, the Great Sumeru Nine Palaces Immortal-Slaying Sigils on Li Guanqi's back shattered instantly like porcelain!
The moment the blood-sigil seal shattered, Li Guanqi's eyes suddenly went wide with surprise.
Immediately after, every cultivator in God Burial Valley saw a dazzling burst of silver light erupt from Li Guanqi's body.
Like a silver pillar supporting heaven, it shot straight into the clouds, piercing right through the heavenly tribulation thunderclouds.
The Ethereal Dao Body was finally unsealed!
Li Guanqi stood in stunned wonder, sensing it all. Though his eyes could not see, he truly perceived the radiant glows of spiritual energy drifting through heaven and earth.
At this moment, Li Guanqi's spiritual root underwent an abnormal change!
Li Guanqi's entire person radiated dazzling silver light...
BOOM!
A qualitative transformation of his spiritual root!
His original saint-grade spiritual root now emanated a horrifyingly terrifying pressure.
A divine-grade spiritual root!
In this moment, Li Guanqi finally understood what a divine-grade spiritual root truly was.
Of the seven elements of spiritual roots under heaven, the divine grade stood alone at the absolute pinnacle.
Among lightning spiritual roots, there was only a single divine grade. He, Li Guanqi... was king!
Boom!
A deafening roar suddenly rang out in his sea of consciousness. Li Guanqi shuddered as the bottleneck that had kept him stuck at the second layer of his cultivation technique for over four full years shattered in an instant.
The once-obscure and abstruse cultivation method suddenly became extraordinarily simple; his mind cleared, illuminated by profound comprehension.
His cultivation method, Divine Punishment, broke through on the spot into its third layer—the Chenming stage!
And the third layer of Divine Punishment granted a terrifying eighty-percent amplification to his primal energy!
Boom!
Dragon scales manifested as Li Guanqi's arms underwent Dragon Transformation. The void beneath his feet abruptly collapsed into an exaggerated concavity, and the onlookers stared in disbelief at the shattered space under his feet.
"He... he actually shattered the space of God Burial Ridge!"
"What a pity... beneath a Mahayana heavenly tribulation, no one dares approach."
Yet they still underestimated the desperation and resolve of these cultivators who had been imprisoned for hundreds or thousands of years.
Many bolted forward, hurtling directly toward the fractured rift in the void.
Li Guanqi paid them no heed. Exhaling a breath of turbid air, his eyes narrowed, and the sword in his hand slashed out decisively!
With the power of Sword Ruins fully unleashed, majestic sword intent surged forth, weaving countless crisscrossing sword qi around him.
Li Guanqi's eyes went wide with fury as he swung his sword with all his might!
"Sword Draw Stance: World Annihilation!"
Rumble, rumble, boom!
A ten-zhang sword light of pure concentration cleaved into the lightning like a razor-sharp blade.
Streaked with crimson glows, the horrifying purplish-black sword light instantly cleaved the lightning in two with overwhelming force!
The dissipated tribulation lightning instantly pierced through two or three rushing figures, reducing them to ashes that scattered into nothingness between heaven and earth.
Even though those people had exerted their full strength to resist the moment they realized the danger, had any of Li Guanqi's heavenly tribulations ever not been the deadliest obliteration heavenly tribulation?
These bolts of lightning, which Li Guanqi dealt with seemingly at ease, were lethal to these Mahayana cultivators who had been deprived of spiritual energy for so long.
Li Guanqi did not spare a glance for those suicidal fools. On his left arm holding the sword, the dragon scales cracked and shattered, and bursts of bloody mist erupted along the arm that had swung the blade.
The shattered remnants of lightning that washed over Li Guanqi were completely absorbed into his body!
BOOM!
The sword light soared against the heavens, showcasing the fruits of Li Guanqi's six years of bitter cultivation.
A single sword cleaving the heavens!
As the sword light flashed past, the dense thunderclouds hanging over the heavens were torn open down the middle, as if ripped by a pair of invisible, gigantic hands.
The clouds dispersed. The earth across all of God Burial Ridge was scarred and battered, littered with scorched craters and countless tiny sparks of dark-red lightning jumping and flickering.
Buzz!
High in the sky, that blood-drenched, charred silhouette stood proudly. Blood dripped continuously from his sword arm.
Yet his spine remained straight as ever, gazing forward with lofty pride.
A formidable aura burst outward from Li Guanqi!
The Mahayana realm!
At this moment, Li Guanqi thoroughly broke through into the early Mahayana realm!
And it was a Mahayana realm with an exceptionally solid foundation and profoundly steady aura!
Buzz!
Rosy dawn clouds spanned a hundred li across heaven and earth, and milky-white mist coalesced into a colossal thousand-zhang vortex that poured into Li Guanqi's body.
Even the old monsters who had lived for thousands of years had never witnessed such a grand display of heavenly bestowal.
Li Guanqi's eyes closed slightly. The immense pressure expanding across heaven and earth forced the many mighty cultivators beyond God Burial Ridge to bow their heads uncontrollably.
Li Guanqi clenched his fists and suddenly discovered that his physical strength was growing steadily stronger as the heavenly glow merged into him.
It was not merely an infusion of spiritual energy; that heavenly glow seemed to carry the Dao rhythm of heaven and earth, transforming his body from within.
Along with the enhancement of his physical body, the Dragon Elephant Prison-Suppressing Art achieved a breakthrough as well.
At this moment, Li Guanqi felt immensely powerful. If he encountered that eighth-rank martial artist from before again, he had absolute confidence that his physical body alone could crush him.
He felt like a spark of primordial spirit immersed in the world—harmonizing with heaven and earth, capable of marshaling the great momentum of the world against his enemies.
His comprehension of lightning primal energy ran so deep that he even felt an urge to create divine abilities and techniques of his own!
As the heavenly glow was gradually absorbed by Li Guanqi, his expression suddenly shifted!
Then, Li Guanqi snapped his head up toward the heavens!
His eyes were deep, their light flickering unceasingly.
In his heart, a mysterious, preordained sensation suddenly arose!
That was...
"The Immortal Realm!!"
Chapter 1087