Ao Tian was strong, Li Beifei had to admit that.
His physical body and cultivation were now at the Saint Realm, making it difficult to defeat Ao Tian. His cultivation's explosive growth from the Extraordinary Realm to the Saint Realm had already exhausted his millennium of accumulation. If he wanted to break through again, his physical body would have to improve once more.
His physical body followed the path of Blood Qi Divine Rainbow, and each breakthrough required a powerful external stimulus. This time, to elevate his physical body directly to the Saint King Realm, he followed Lao Liu's suggestion and merged the Tribulations of Entering Sainthood, Carefree Roaming, and the Saint Realm, resulting in nine Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulations.
The Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation was the most powerful among heavenly tribulations, second only to heavenly punishment. The conditions to trigger it were also very stringent.
Either one's battle prowess had to be extremely, extremely, extremely heaven-defying, like that old guy, who was three minor realms ahead of others in every realm. According to Lao Liu, the old guy always faced the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation every time he transcended.
Besides heaven-defying battle prowess, there was another way: provoking the Heavenly Dao, suppressing one's realm severely, and breaking through more than three realms consecutively, which met the minimum standard for the Heavenly Dao to send down the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation.
Like ordinary heavenly tribulations, the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation was also divided into nine levels. He was currently facing the first of the nine tribulations, which consisted of nine lightning strikes, but each one was more powerful than the last of the forty-five lightning strikes of an ordinary Saint Realm Tribulation (I messed up in the previous chapter, writing the five-nine tribulation as fifty-four strikes...). Li Beifei couldn't withstand even the first three Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulations with his current strength.
Fortunately, he had enough Nine Revolutions Life Renewal Pills; otherwise, he would never have listened to Lao Liu and taken such a risk.
The Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation was what the old guy faced! Imagining himself being swatted away by the old guy's humanoid lightning tribulation no matter how strong he was at the same realm, Li Beifei felt that this Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation was not something a human could endure.
Li Beifei held a Nine Revolutions Life Renewal Pill in his left hand, circulating his cultivation technique to absorb the powerful life force. His physical body, shattered by the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, instantly recovered. He shuddered, and the charred, carbonized skin peeled off again, revealing newborn, baby-like skin.
He clenched his fist. Although he always felt that Lao Liu's suggestion was unreliable, he could feel the power of his physical body growing at a directly perceptible rate. The blood in his body surged like rivers and seas. He knew that his physical body was condensing Blood Qi Divine Rainbow.
At Yao Xian's coming-of-age ceremony, he had successfully condensed thirty-six Blood Qi Divine Rainbows, officially entering the Saint Realm in terms of physical body. Then, he stayed in the Taixu Realm for a few years, where he was beaten by Gu Changsheng from time to time, condensing another five Blood Qi Divine Rainbows. Before this, he was beaten again, condensing one more Blood Qi Divine Rainbow. Now, after being struck by the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning three times, he had condensed another Blood Qi Divine Rainbow and was officially condensing the second Blood Qi Divine Rainbow.
In total, he had now condensed forty-three Blood Qi Divine Rainbows and was in the process of condensing the forty-fourth.
But he was still ten Blood Qi Divine Rainbows short of the fifty-four needed to reach the Saint King Realm in terms of physical body.
With six Purple Firmament Divine Lightning strikes remaining, could he condense ten Blood Qi Divine Rainbows? Even if he could, he would have to endure a lot more pain!
Compared to being bombarded by the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, Li Beifei actually missed being beaten by Gu Changsheng. At least when Gu Changsheng beat him, he didn't have to worry about his life being in danger, but this Purple Firmament Divine Lightning was inhumane!
"Boom!"
Ao Tian, humiliated and enraged by Li Beifei's disheveled appearance, shuddered and shook off all the dust on his body. Then, holding his battle spear, he charged toward Li Beifei.
Coincidentally, the fourth Purple Firmament Divine Lightning was also fully condensed at this moment, seemingly cooperating with Ao Tian. With a "boom," a purple lightning bolt, thicker than the previous three combined, struck down.
Ao Tian's black battle spear was like a streak of black lightning, blending into the dark starry sky, hiding earth-shattering killing intent, piercing through the void, and thrusting toward Li Beifei like a hot knife through butter.
The purple lightning was dazzling, like a purple celestial waterfall, tearing apart the starry sky, carrying an aura of annihilation, and landing on the battlefield.
"Rumble!"
Powerful lightning serpents raged across the ancient battlefield, but Ao Tian still regarded the heavenly lightning as nothing. He even guided the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning onto the battle spear in his hand. The battle spear emitted a dazzling purple light, its aura alarming the universe, the starry sky trembling, like a ferocious purple lightning dragon biting toward Li Beifei.
Li Beifei was struck by the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, feeling paralyzed all over, countless purple lightning serpents raging on his body, gnawing at his flesh. He was covered in purple light, looking extremely strange.
Facing Ao Tian's purple lightning dragon, Li Beifei's body was unable to move, unable to make any defensive posture, but he was not panicked at all, only the sword intent on his body remained strong.
"Stab!"
The battle spear pierced through Li Beifei's chest. The spectators widened their eyes, thinking that Li Beifei was about to fall under the combined attack of Ao Tian and the heavenly tribulation.
However, Ao Tian frowned. Although he could feel that he had pierced through real flesh, he felt something was strange. It was his intuition.
"Buzz!"
At this moment, Ao Tian felt a sharp intent coming from behind him. He subconsciously swung his battle spear to sweep backward. With a "bang," he was knocked back hundreds of feet.
Ao Tian stabilized his figure, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes. He had clearly sensed something strange behind him just now, but when he turned around, he found nothing. But why was he knocked back?
Ao Tian looked down and found a faint sword mark on his armor. The sword mark disappeared quickly. He was even more surprised. He was knocked back by Li Beifei's sword energy.
But he didn't even see Li Beifei's sword energy, and even his divine sense didn't detect it.
"Huh?" Suddenly, Ao Tian noticed that Li Beifei, whose chest he had pierced, had dissipated. He swept his gaze, his divine sense covering the entire battlefield like a blanket, but he found that Li Beifei was above him.
"What happened just now?"
Someone was surprised. As outsiders, they didn't even notice how Li Beifei got above Ao Tian, as if Li Beifei was originally in his current position.
"Could it be a profound spatial divine power?" Someone guessed, but someone quickly denied this guess. The surrounding space was extremely chaotic due to the battle between the two and the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation. Using spatial divine powers at this time might lead to spatial turbulence.
Even a Great Saint-level expert would have a narrow escape from spatial turbulence.
But since it wasn't a spatial divine power, how did Li Beifei reach above Ao Tian?
Only Li Beifei and Bai Yifei knew the answer to this question.
"Boss's divine power is too perverted, with no trace to follow. This divine power, coupled with his invisible swordsmanship, is simply the best sneak attack combination!"
Xuan Mingzi became more and more excited as he spoke, and the more he spoke, the more he felt that this was really suitable for the boss.
"..."
"He wouldn't really like to knock people out with a club, so he created this divine power, right?" Bai Yifei asked suspiciously.
Knock people out with a club?
Li Ruoyu and the Holy Maiden of Yaochi both showed strange expressions. They were also targets of Li Beifei's clubbing back then. The only difference was that Li Ruoyu was successfully attacked, while the Holy Maiden of Yaochi escaped.
"Probably not?"
Mu Qingyi's tone was also a bit uncertain, because Li Beifei had too many previous offenses.
It wouldn't have been before, but after what happened just now, Li Beifei already had an idea in his mind.
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