Body Integration Heavenly Tribulation!

As they spoke, a young man with a conflicted expression emerged from the void behind Li Guanqi. The young man wore a red robe, his long, silver-white hair draping behind his back. Incomparably handsome, with deep, profound eyes and his robe slightly open at the chest, his entire demeanor carried an air of wild, unruly abandon. Li Congxin stared fixedly at Li Guanqi and said softly, "You lied to me..." Li Guanqi smiled, saying nothing. Li Congxin continued, "You knew full well that attempting Body Integration with an incomplete divine soul is dangerous!!" Li Guanqi turned to look at the handsome face that shared several similarities with his own and chuckled. "Since I promised you, I won't go back on my word. It's just a bit of danger. Along the path of cultivation and immortality, when has there ever been no danger?" Li Guanqi opened his arms and said softly, "Come." Li Congxin took a deep breath. Remembering the bitter spirit tea from that day, he suddenly broke into an easy smile. "Here I come!" Boom!!! A golden spiritual form suddenly surged out of Li Congxin's body and fused into Li Guanqi. Li Guanqi raised his hand and stowed away Li Congxin's physical body. The primal energy within him surged madly, running rampant! In an instant, the spectators discovered in horror that another colossal thundercloud had appeared overhead, standing on equal footing with Lu Wuhen's. What was more, the expanse of this thundercloud seemed poised to surpass even Lu Wuhen's. Hiss! Sharp intakes of breath sounded across the area one after another, and many experts murmured under their breath. "A myriad-zhang heavenly tribulation thundercloud... If I had faced a thundercloud that vast back then, I would have been struck dead long ago..." "In a mere arena duel, the Yanluo Sword actually forced Lu Wuhen to break through into Body Integration!! What a monster." When Meng Jiangchu saw Li Guanqi preparing for Body Integration, he sprang straight out of his chair. "Utter nonsense! He actually wants to preserve an avatar?! Foolish! With no preparation at all, isn't this courting death?!" A sharp light and deep concern flashed across Gu Yong's eyes as he said gravely, "These two youngsters have truly given their all to win, but breaking through so rashly is far too perilous." Caught off guard, Lu Kangnian accidentally punched a hole straight through the face of the war drum, his eyes locked onto the duel in the arena. He had never imagined that the clash would truly force Li Guanqi into breaking through into the Body Integration Realm here and now. It had only been a few years since Li Guanqi reached the Void Refining Realm. With such a hurried breakthrough into the Body Integration Realm, no one could predict what the outcome would be. Standing in midair, Pengluo looked on, his eyes filled with anxiety. Gritting his teeth, shining patterns began to light up across his body once more. A large hand gently rested on him, and Nangong Xuandu spoke softly: "Do it again, and you will die." Pengluo lightly brushed Nangong Xuandu's hand aside, his expression suddenly turning inscrutable. He barely reached Nangong Xuandu's knees and had to crane his neck to look up at him, yet his gaze held a supreme disdain overlooking all creation, bearing a striking resemblance to the sword spirit's. Glancing at his shoulder, Pengluo muttered to himself, "Die? Big deal. It's not like I haven't died before." Nangong Xuandu's brow furrowed slightly. When Pengluo's gaze swept past him just now, his heart had actually shuddered. That feeling... was just like the gaze of a Domain Lord! That detachment reigning high above all living beings, looking down on the mortal world. There was even displeasure at having a hand placed on his shoulder, the slight furrow of the creature's brow seeming to say, *Who gave you permission to touch my shoulder?* Watching Pengluo head straight for the barrier, Nangong Xuandu's lips curled into a curious smile as he murmured, "Interesting..." He then silently weakened the barrier where Pengluo was heading, a change Pengluo quickly noticed. On the surface, the barrier appeared intact, but its interior was hollowed out like timber eaten away by insects. Without hesitation, Pengluo pretended to strain with all his might as he squeezed inside. The moment he breached it, he severed half of his body and hurled it forward. "Master, catch!" Seeing Pengluo squeeze in again, Li Guanqi was also caught by surprise. Then, as if realizing something, he caught the offering, and Pengluo was instantly repelled outside by a powerful spatial force. After swallowing it, Li Guanqi's power began frantically battering against the threshold of the Body Integration Realm. In the sky above, two magnificent thunderclouds roiled like boiling water, thick bolts of lightning relentlessly thrusting out from the banks. The terrifying sight sent the crowd retreating in panic once again, only halting after pulling back nearly twenty thousand zhang. Scores of light screens appeared in midair, leaving everyone to rely on the projections to watch the situation within the barrier. Just as the spectators watched in bewilderment, crimson light suddenly flickered amidst the churning of the colossal thundercloud belonging to Li Guanqi. That horrifying red light spread across the entire thundercloud in the blink of an eye! Lu Wuhen was taken aback at first, but then a strange smile broke across his face as he murmured, "A killing tribulation! Li Guanqi, you really have rotten luck, running into a sure-kill heavenly tribulation! You're not going to die under this tribulation, are you? If that's the case, why not leave everything you have to me before you die? I promise I won't let it go to waste." Feeling the primal energy surging endlessly within him, Li Guanqi looked up at the blood-red lightning in the heavens. "A killing tribulation?" The corners of Li Guanqi's lips curled upward in an enigmatic smile. This was hardly the first time he had faced such blood-colored tribulation lightning. Slowly stripping off the tattered Floating Cloud Robe to reveal a muscular torso covered in gruesome wounds, he turned to Lu Wuhen and spoke. "Watch yourself. Don't die. "Once the tribulation is over, I'll settle every single debt with you, piece by piece." Boom! As Li Guanqi deliberately released his aura, the thunderclouds overhead churned violently, crashing down a blood-colored lightning bolt nearly a zhang thick! The lightning was blindingly fast, its descending trajectory impossible to catch with the naked eye. Yet Li Guanqi stood in midair with his arms spread wide, seemingly welcoming the heavenly tribulation lightning. Boom! Crash! A massive hole was blasted through the barrier's formation screen. The blood-red lightning struck Li Guanqi squarely, instantly giving off a burnt, charred smell. Lu Wuhen swallowed hard, watching with his own eyes as Li Guanqi withstood the heavenly tribulation with sheer physical strength! With his flesh torn and shredded, Li Guanqi trembled uncontrollably, his blackened face resembling charcoal. Yet he reached out a skeletal hand, grabbed the lingering lightning, and stuffed it into his mouth. Those icy eyes fixed on Lu Wuhen, sending a chill running straight through him. Li Guanqi exhaled a wisp of dark smoke. Looking up at the heavens, he murmured inwardly, *Just a little more...* Indeed, his physical body was only a hair away from breaking through into physical Body Integration! Lu Wuhen took a deep breath, standing on guard as he waited for his own tribulation to fall. His greatest reliance was the sword tip that could cleave through the heavenly tribulation lightning! Rumble! Three more blood-colored lightning bolts crashed down in rapid succession. Li Guanqi still deployed no defense, choosing to endure them directly. Bang! His body plummeted from the air, slamming violently into the shattered Dao platform. Rumble! Lying in the crater on the ground, surrounded by stray arcs of blood-colored lightning, Li Guanqi's body twitched unconsciously. Yet his hands held the sword in a death grip, letting the terrifying lightning burrow into his flesh and blood. Suddenly! Li Guanqi's expression shifted. He abruptly realized that his divine soul felt as if it were being torn apart by the lightning, the agonizing pain washing over what little sanity remained... It seemed... his choice to preserve a sliver of Li Congxin's divine soul truly was not going to work. If this continued, the missing fragment of soul would very likely cause his origin spirit to split, and he would end up dead beneath the heavenly tribulation! Faced with this agonizing dilemma, Li Guanqi's face turned grim.