Meng Wanshu's Tribulation!

Within the first level of the Nirvana Pagoda, Li Guanqi was engulfed in scorching flames. Eventually, the intensity of this power grew so immense that even the Nirvana Pagoda struggled to contain it. The searing heat threatened to incinerate the pagoda's entire internal space! Having no choice, Li Guanqi retreated into the sword coffin's space. Not far away, Pengluo crouched on the ground with a dragon draped around his neck, popping medicinal pills into his mouth while muttering under his breath. "Brother Jiu, this Flame Spirit doesn't seem simple to me at all..." Jiuxiao grunted, opened his eyes for a brief glance, and shut them again. Thinking Jiuxiao hadn't heard him, Pengluo reached over and pried the dragon's eyelids open. "Brother Jiu, did you hear me? That Flame Spirit is definitely the same sort of character I am." Irritated, Jiuxiao constricted his body. Pengluo choked with a gagging gasp, his eyes rolling back as foam bubbled from his mouth, desperately swatting at Jiuxiao's scales. "Brother Jiu, Brother Jiu... can't... can't catch my... my breath!" Only then did Jiuxiao release him, coiling alone at the apex of the Nirvana Pagoda to drift into slumber. Pengluo knelt on the ground, gasping greedily for air, and rolled his eyes in annoyance. "It's over. Even Brother Jiu won't take my side anymore." Just as Pengluo was lamenting, Li Guanqi's aura surged to the peak of the mid Tribulation Transcendence realm! His surging, torrential aura ran as deep as an abyss. Even Pengluo frowned slightly; he could no longer perceive Li Guanqi's cultivation at all—it was completely fathomless! Yet just as Li Guanqi was about to charge toward the late Tribulation Transcendence realm, the flames around his body flared violently, forcefully suppressing his power. As his aura gradually receded, Li Guanqi finally began to stabilize his cultivation. The power of Devouring Void was extraordinarily potent and proved tremendously beneficial even to his comprehension of lightning. After all, the Flame Spirit had been born amidst primordial chaotic thunder. During his cultivation, the Spirit-Devouring Dao Physique combined with the Flame Spirit's power to grant him deeper insights into the laws. Moreover, after fusing with the Devouring Void Sacred Flame, Li Guanqi's strength had skyrocketed. It was not merely reflected in his cultivation realm, but also in the purification of his primal energy. Such a development had likely been foreseen by Su Xuan as well. What Su Xuan aimed to do was elevate Li Guanqi's strength to an unprecedented height before his ascension! Only in this way could Li Guanqi safely endure the perilous initial period after ascending to the Immortal Realm. While Li Guanqi continued to consolidate his realm, heavy, goose-feather snowflakes began drifting across the entire Celestial Spirit Realm outside. Rumble! Thunder boomed across the vault of heaven, where a woman stood proudly with a longsword in hand. With the breakthrough in her cultivation, Meng Wanshu's aloof elegance had grown even more otherworldly. Facing the roaring heavenly tribulation thunder in the firmament, not a sliver of fear showed on her face; she remained entirely calm. Only her flickering eyes betrayed her as she looked back toward the White Jade Tower time and again. Having devoted herself entirely to closed-door cultivation recently, she had missed out on a great deal. Though unable to leave seclusion, she still knew more or less that many things had taken place. Throughout this time, Meng Wanshu had harbored a quiet ache in her heart. She did not understand why it was that the stronger she grew, the less time she had with Li Guanqi. Yet later, she had come to terms with it. As their strength advanced, the responsibilities resting on their shoulders grew heavier as well—especially since Li Guanqi was a man who carried a great sense of righteousness in his heart. Nearby, Gu Li directly crushed a storage ring, releasing myriad inscribed talismans that formed an impenetrable defensive barrier. Meng Wanshu smiled and nodded at Gu Li. Catching her eye, Gu Li scratched his head in slight embarrassment. The title of Eldest Sister-in-law carried no small weight. Though they joked and bantered casually on ordinary days, even Ye Feng treated Meng Wanshu with the utmost respect. Tang Ru formed hand seals inside his broad sleeves, a faint smile eventually gracing his face. "Perilous yet without mishap. All will be well." Hearing this, Cao Yan glanced around and chuckled. "Long Hou brought Yu Shan and the others, and Uncle Meng is personally overseeing the perimeter. Every master of the Heavenly King Pagodas is present. It'd be downright bizarre if anything went wrong." A smile crossed everyone's faces at his words, though Ye Feng's expression suddenly turned a bit peculiar. Immediately afterward, a ripple stirred through space, and a graceful figure in a long dress materialized beside Ye Feng. Li Qingchan cast a surprised gaze across their surroundings, frowning slightly as she perceived the ambient energy. "What an astonishing tribulation pressure! That woman..." Ye Feng shrugged and said softly, "My eldest sister-in-law." A flash of light crossed Li Qingchan's eyes, but she said nothing. Yet her silence didn't keep the others from chiming in. Cao Yan and the rest exchanged glances, beaming as they chimed in to tease her. "Greetings, Second Sister-in-law!" Li Qingchan's face flushed crimson in an instant. Staring at the smiling faces around her, she found herself at a loss for words. Ye Feng pursed his lips, fighting to suppress the grin threatening to tug at the corners of his mouth. Li Qingchan glared at him and gave him a sharp nudge with her elbow, only to find he had no intention of offering an explanation. At a total loss, she could only nod awkwardly, her cheeks burning bright red. Rumble! Without warning, a bolt of blood-red heavenly tribulation thunder three feet thick plunged straight from the sky! Confronting this tribulation of obliteration, Meng Wanshu's gaze remained tranquil as water. With a flick of her wrist, she unleashed several sword strikes in rapid succession! Ice-blue sword radiance flashed across the void. Within that surging sword intent faintly lingered the nascent form of Sword Soul realm sword intent. To everyone's shock, the terrifying sword light sliced the descending thunder into three! The falling lightning shattered like frozen blocks of ice, fracturing into countless minute arcs of electrical discharge. An ice-blue tempest of primal energy formed around Meng Wanshu, drawing that horrific crimson lightning into her body. Gradually, her aura surged higher and higher, shattering the barrier into the Tribulation Transcendence realm in the blink of an eye! Then came the most critical step—the power of laws. A hazy blue mist suffused the void, accompanied by the potent power of frost laws. Her eyes glimmering with an ice-blue light, Meng Wanshu gently closed them. Yet right at that moment, an exceptionally powerful resonating force barreled in, utterly disregarding the tribulation's suffocating pressure! Li Guanqi had appeared atop the peaks of the Celestial Spirit Mountain Range at some unknown moment. With the power of his Spirit-Devouring Dao Physique unleashed at full throttle, a terrifying resonance enveloped Meng Wanshu. In that instant, the crowd watched in horror as the tribulation clouds in the sky churned uncontrollably. Expanding from an area spanning several thousand zhang, they abruptly ballooned to over ten thousand zhang across! Li Guanqi merely shrugged with indifference. The tribulation clouds now treated him as a fellow tribulation crosser, but that hardly mattered to him. He had to ensure that Meng Wanshu traversed the sea of laws without harm! His white robes snapped fiercely in the wind as he allowed the thick crimson tribulation bolts to strike his body. With his burly frame fully unleashing the Demon King Physique, purple divine patterns ran across his skin, and dragon scales emerged to bear the brunt of the heavenly tribulation! Meng Wanshu soared straight toward the clouds, bathed in shimmering ice-blue light. A rich aura of laws permeated the void, a spectacle that turned many onlookers' eyes red with envy. Aside from Meng Wanshu, who else could ever receive such treatment? Li Guanqi was dedicating the entirety of his resonance to a single person, and to keep from interfering with her tribulation, he willingly let the lightning crash down upon himself, withstanding it purely through flesh and bone. Xiao Chen could not help but twitch his lips. "Boss really plays favorites..." Ye Feng smacked the back of his head and snapped, "Nonsense! Don't you see who's crossing the tribulation?!"