Chapter 1240: Six Calamities Shakes the World
Crack! Boom!
Four bolts of heavenly tribulation lightning crashed down, overlapping with the three that had come before, exploding into an even larger lightning domain. At the center of that domain was undoubtedly Yun Che's location.
"Threefold... three consecutive folds?"
"How can this be? This... is this really a lightning tribulation?"
All the Divine Kings, Divine Sovereigns, and Divine Lords looked at each other in shock, each face bearing deep astonishment and disbelief. Threefold lightning tribulations were rare, but it was not surprising that they appeared for Yun Che... but for threefold tribulation bolts to strike within a single breath—this had never happened before. Even these peak-level experts of the divine path had never heard of such a thing.
The Zhou Tian projection did not stop. The Star Monuments spread across the Eastern Divine Region still perfectly reflected everything happening on the Feng Shen Platform. Countless cultivators stared blankly at the lightning domain that had engulfed Yun Che... even the Divine Lords and Divine Sovereigns could not understand this anomaly; its impact on them was unimaginable.
After the three consecutive tribulation bolts, no more descended for the moment, but the lightning domain in the sky did not disappear. The bolts within it crackled with even more ferocity.
The people of the Yin Xue and Flame God sects had long been stunned, almost unable to speak. On the Feng Shen Platform, Yun Che's figure was completely devoured by the lightning domain, invisible to their eyes, and they could no longer sense even a trace of his aura.
"...Dragon God Emperor, has the Western Divine Region ever seen a phenomenon of threefold tribulation bolts striking simultaneously?" Zhou Tian Shen Di asked.
"Never." Long Huang raised his head, gazing up at the rolling black clouds. "It's not over yet."
Zhou Tian Shen Di's brows furrowed deeply. His voice was low but filled with profound disbelief: "In other words... Yun Che is still alive!"
When Yun Che was at the peak of the Divine Tribulation Realm, he could defeat those at the peak of the Divine Spirit Realm. Therefore, it was only natural that he could withstand multiple tribulation bolts through his own strength. However, everyone had clearly seen Yun Che's current state—he was completely on the verge of death. With the power of the Heavenly Dao's lightning tribulation, a single bolt should have been enough to annihilate him completely. Yet now, with threefold tribulation bolts descending together—seven bolts in total—he was... somehow still alive!
The power of the tribulation bolts was right before their eyes, absolutely real... How exactly had Yun Che survived three consecutive tribulation bolts?
The moment Zhou Tian Shen Di finished speaking, the sky shook violently. He looked up: "Could it be..."
Crack!!!!!!
This explosion nearly tore everyone's eardrums apart. Within the lightning domain, eight bolts of purple light flickered fiercely, then struck down in unison.
"The... fourth fold!!"
With each additional fold of the tribulation, the number of bolts did not simply increase—it multiplied terrifyingly! The first fold had one bolt, the second had two, the third had four, and the fourth... had a full eight!
That was more than the total of the first three folds combined!
Although the threefold and fourfold tribulations were separated by only one level, they were as different as heaven and earth.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Eight bolts struck simultaneously, purple light filling the sky. The terrifying scene and the might of the Heavenly Dao frightened the Divine Tribulation cultivators into pale faces, but little did they know that those Divine Spirit cultivators who had recently undergone their own tribulations were even more horrified.
Because the tribulation they had experienced was completely different... this was at least ten times more terrifying!
"Hiss... How can this be? Master, we both faced fourfold tribulation, so why is Brother Yun's completely different from mine?" Huo Poyun shouted in alarm.
"..." Huo Rulie could not explain a single word, because the shock in his heart was no less than Huo Poyun's.
When Huo Poyun had broken through to the Divine Tribulation Realm, he had endured a fourfold tribulation. Before enduring it, the Three Flame God Sects had spared no effort in preparing him as thoroughly as possible. Then the fourfold tribulation descended... one bolt, two bolts, four bolts, eight bolts—step by step, each fold more terrifying than the last, but there was a ten-breath reprieve between each fold.
Huo Poyun knew very well how crucial each of those ten breaths was. He could even be certain that if the interval between each fold had been eight breaths instead of ten, he would never have been able to withstand the fourth fold.
Yet for Yun Che's fourfold tribulation, the first three folds had descended within a single breath, and the fourth came less than three breaths after the third.
In other words, within less than five breaths, four folds had struck—fifteen bolts in total... Huo Poyun asked himself: if it were him, he might not even survive, let alone endure safely.
Before the crowd could recover from their shock, the sky shook again. The lightning domain blazed with an even denser, more blinding light... and this time, it was a full sixteen bolts.
"F... f... fifth fold!?" Huo Poyun lost his voice on the spot.
Crack!!!
All shouts were instantly drowned out by the overlapping thunderclap of sixteen bolts. Sixteen bolts of tribulation lightning fell from the heavenly gates, merging into a single massive lightning pillar that crashed down upon Yun Che's location.
At that moment, the entire sky was dyed pure purple. The black clouds that had been roiling wildly transformed into a sea of purple clouds. The world was filled with seemingly endless thunder from the Heavenly Dao and dense purple light.
No one could sense Yun Che's aura. No one could even imagine what state he was in.
On the Feng Shen Platform, the Heavenly Dao's tribulation lightning rampaged madly, turning into a vast sea of heavenly tribulation. And within that sea of lightning, Yun Che, who had been lying limp on the ground on the verge of death, slowly sat up...
When the first tribulation bolt struck him, his entire body trembled violently. Countless streams of energy surged into every corner of his body. Though these streams were violent and uncontrollable, they felt incredibly comfortable—cool yet warm, as if his broken and battered body had suddenly been immersed in the gentlest spring breeze.
Is this... the lightning tribulation...?
His remaining consciousness told him so.
The Heavenly Dao's tribulation bolts descended one after another. The power of the tribulation lightning rushed into his body like a violent beast. Unconsciously, the pagoda appeared above his head. The Great Dao Pagoda Art was stimulated by the tribulation lightning and began to circulate rapidly, greedily absorbing its power... like a dying fish in a desert suddenly encountering a torrential downpour from the heavens.
This was not ordinary profound lightning; it was Heavenly Tribulation Lightning—the power of the Heavenly Dao that surpassed the category of "mortals"!
Its intensity might not be so shocking, after all, it was only a punishment and trial for Divine Tribulation cultivators. But its level was so high that no human could possibly understand or touch it.
But that was only for "humans."
Although Yun Che was also a mortal, he possessed the Evil God's profound veins and the uniquely Evil God "Lightning Spirit Evil Body."
As the Elemental Creation God at the dawn of chaos, the Evil God controlled the most extreme elemental power of chaos. As long as something did not exceed the level of "chaos," all lightning could be tamed.
Even the Heavenly Dao's tribulation lightning!
Spiritual energy surged wildly into Yun Che's body. Within the extremely high-level sea of heavenly tribulation lightning, the rate at which spiritual energy entered was far more violent than in the Minghan Heavenly Lake or the Burial God Fire Prison. The wounds covering his entire body healed at a visible speed. His nearly depleted profound veins regenerated profound energy at a rate incomprehensible to ordinary people.
Yun Che's spirit also became clearer and clearer. He sat upright in the sea of tribulation lightning, focusing his mind to circulate the Great Dao Pagoda Art. Under his active control, the rate of spiritual energy intake increased explosively again.
The tribulation lightning bolts that were supposed to annihilate him from this world, when they struck him, not only failed to harm him in the slightest but instead transformed into his vitality and power.
But no one could witness this scene. And in his deep concentration, Yun Che had no idea what upheaval was occurring outside. Every pore on his body opened wide, the Great Dao Pagoda Art operating at its peak. He felt as if he were bathing in the most violent yet most comfortable storm in the world. And even so, he still felt it was not enough...
Continue...
More...
The more, the better!
Keep going!!
After the fourth and fifth folds descended simultaneously, within a mere three breaths, three dozen lightning bolts flickered in the sky—a scene that would surely be forever recorded in the annals of the divine realm.
"The... sixth fold!?"
Countless voices of shock and disbelief drifted across the sky of the Eastern Divine Region, merging into a vast tidal wave of sound that lingered endlessly.
Those who could attract a fivefold tribulation were extremely few in the entire divine realm. If they successfully endured it, they were destined to become supreme beings of their era... The founders of the four great royal realms of the Eastern Divine Region had all drawn fivefold tribulations at the Divine Tribulation Realm. This showed just what a fivefold tribulation meant.
As for those who drew a sixfold tribulation, in the entire Eastern Divine Region—and even the entire divine realm—over a million years of history, only one had ever appeared.
Unfortunately, that extraordinary genius had been barely alive after enduring the fifth fold, and the moment the sixth descended, he was reduced to ashes.
In other words, in the history of the divine realm, no living being had ever truly passed a sixfold tribulation.
"Could it be that the second person in divine realm history to attract a sixfold tribulation is about to appear... Ah!!"
Still not giving anyone time to recover from their shock, the sky exploded again. Three dozen bolts of Heavenly Dao tribulation lightning formed a dazzling lightning formation and struck down from the sky...
Yun Che's sixth fold—the second sixfold tribulation in the history of the divine realm—descended upon the world in countless suddenly widened pupils...
And the fourth, fifth, and sixth folds had descended one after another within just ten breaths!
The Heavenly Dao's power, the most strict and errorless, seemed to have gone berserk and out of control today...
Three dozen bolts of tribulation lightning struck simultaneously—a scene no one would ever forget, perhaps never to be witnessed again in their lifetime. Every person's eyes were completely filled with the sky-covering purple light. In that purple world, they were as if frozen by an invisible force. No one moved. No one spoke. They even lost the ability to think.
Even the powerful Divine Lords repeatedly questioned whether they were in a dream.
At this moment, no one had the leisure to wonder how Yun Che had survived the first five folds.
And no one knew that beneath the sixfold tribulation that shook the entire Eastern Divine Region, Yun Che was extremely calm and at ease. His injuries, vitality, and profound energy were recovering at a rate so fast it could only be described as terrifying. And under the power of the Heavenly Dao channeled by the Great Dao Pagoda Art, his body was undergoing subtle changes.
Even the pagoda, which had been spinning all along, faintly emitted a strange light unlike before.
After the sixth fold, the lightning domain in the sky finally quieted down. For a long time, no more lightning bolts raged. Only the black clouds continued to roll.
After a while, the lightning domain began to slowly contract, growing smaller and smaller.
The hearts and souls of the crowd finally calmed slightly from the storm.
"It's finally... over..."
"A sixfold tribulation... the second in divine realm history... In my lifetime, I have actually witnessed the legendary sixfold tribulation!"
"I once thought that legend was fabricated. So it turns out that such a thing as a sixfold tribulation really exists in this world. Defeating those at the peak of the Divine Spirit Realm at the Divine Tribulation Realm... Where did this freak Yun Che come from? But then... he should have been reduced to ashes, right?"
The Feng Shen Platform was still submerged in the roaring sea of heavenly tribulation lightning. Not a trace of Yun Che could be detected.
"Sixfold tribulation..." Liuguang Realm King Shui Qianheng murmured in a daze.
"Sixfold tribulation..."
Luo Changchen, Lu Zhou, Jun Wuming... These supreme Divine Lords at the peak of the Eastern Divine Region were all as if possessed, murmuring the same phrase.
The more tribulation folds, the higher the talent, the more the Heavenly Dao resented it. And a sixfold tribulation... was an "honor" that even they had never dared to hope for.
If there truly was someone who could attract and successfully endure a sixfold tribulation, then the heights he could reach in the future were beyond even these peerless experts' estimation and imagination.
The first person to attract a sixfold tribulation had perished under the lightning.
And the second... Yun Che, given the state he was in when he drew the tribulation, was it truly possible that he was still alive?
All gazes were fixed on the sea of lightning on the Feng Shen Platform, waiting for the tribulation's power to dissipate. Although they knew it was impossible, deep in everyone's mind, there lingered a trace of hope like a fantasy... because this was Yun Che. He had already created too many miracles.
But at this moment, Long Huang suddenly looked up at the sky, his brows sinking sharply: "This is..."
At the same time, the color of the world changed eerily. The purple-glowing world was suddenly tinged with strange crimson light.
Everyone instinctively looked up, and in the same instant, they all held their breath.
The contraction of the lightning domain had stopped.
And the purple lightning bolts were undergoing an incomprehensible mutation... twisting, bit by bit, turning into a deep, bloody red.
Like blood.