"Buzz"
When Long Chen pressed his hands on the center of the vortex, the dragon claw suddenly trembled.
"Pfft!"
Blood light splattered as Long Chen's body was pierced by the dragon claw.
This sudden turn of events came so suddenly that Bai Shishi and the others cried out in alarm. Divine light swirled on the dragon claw, erupting with supreme divine might. The sacred pressure made the world change.
"Buzz buzz buzz... The
dragon claw pierced through Long Chen's body. Long Chen's whole body glowed, and golden patterns appeared beneath his skin—those were his tendons, formed from the convergence of dragon power.
The moment the dragon claw pierced his body, the dragon tendons erupted, frantically absorbing the claw's power. But the claw's strength was so great that the tendons cracked, almost on the verge of shattering.
However, with the dragon tendons resisting, the violent force was reduced by more than half, and the rest of the power could not inflict fatal damage on Long Chen.
The dragon claw pierced through Long Chen's body, and a raging force surged like a tsunami, nearly bursting Long Chen's body apart.
"Boom!" Suddenly,
a dragon-shaped pattern lit up inside the divine ring behind Long Chen, and a sacred dragon's roar echoed as he summoned the Dragon King's battle body phenomenon.
Long Chen had no choice but to summon it, because its claws carried terrifying dragon might. Only by channeling it into the phenomenon could he resolve the crisis.
"Buzz!"
Within the vision behind Long Chen, a giant dragon roared. Its entire body was illuminated with runes, its pressure shaking the heavens. The dragon in the vision was also frantically absorbing the power of thunder.
"Lei Ling'er, come absorb it with me, I can't hold on much longer." Long Chen shouted.
The power within this vortex was overwhelming; Long Chen felt as if his body was about to explode, and even the phenomenon could not hold up.
But he had to desperately absorb the power from the dragon claw, refusing to withdraw it from his body, or else he wouldn't withstand another attack.
Upon hearing Long Chen's command, Lei Ling'er transformed into thunder, her wings shining like the blazing sun, illuminating the entire world.
Endless darkness is dispelled, allowing people to see farther, but the farther they look, the more terrifying it becomes.
Lei Ling'er's thunderous wings incarnated, their light piercing into the tribulation clouds, allowing her to see what was happening within billions of miles.
The tribulation cloud was not only vast and boundless, but also unimaginably thick. Its light pierced through billions of miles of space, yet its end was still unseen.
Within the vast tribulation clouds as vast as the sea, endless thunder rolled, continuously pouring power into those vortices. The scene was terrifying.
"Buzz buzz buzz...
With Lei Ling'er helping him absorb the vortex power, Long Chen immediately felt the pressure ease. But even so, as the thunder power kept pouring into his body, it became extremely difficult for him to absorb it.
At this moment, Lei Ling'er couldn't help him break down or digest the energy in order to share the thunder's power. This energy contained a rare, violent will of the Heavenly Dao. Previously, when Lei Ling'er helped him remove it, he could absorb it directly, but now he needed to break it down himself.
Lei Ling'er absorbed frantically, absorbing over eighty percent of the energy. The thunder wings she transformed into grew larger and larger, covering the sky and plunging straight into the heavenly tribulation.
"Boom boom boom...
While Long Chen absorbed the power of thunder, the divine weapon incarnated in the heavenly tribulation never stopped attacking, but Lei Ling'er blocked them all and couldn't harm Long Chen.
Long Chen absorbed all the thunder power, and his physical body rapidly strengthened. His spiritual blood, spiritual roots, and spiritual bones began to awaken and fuse quickly.
It could be said that at this moment, Long Chen's aura was soaring wildly, his power rapidly increasing, yet he couldn't feel happy at all.
As time passed, the power of the tribulation was rapidly pouring into those vortices. Long Chen was growing stronger, but he could clearly sense that his father, the Qiankun Cauldron, the mysterious dagger, the Nine-Star Heir, and Wu Tian were all soaring with their auras as wildly.
At first glance, Long Chen understood that the heavenly tribulation was empowering them, injecting all their power into their bodies, and then using their power to kill him.
The tribulation has changed, and so has the Heavenly Dao. Long Chen doesn't know whether it's because the Gate to Another World has opened, or because he has obtained the Saint King qualification, which led to this change.
He could clearly feel that this world was both supporting him and destroying him.
The Heavenly Dao seemed to have two kinds of emotions. Long Chen couldn't tell which was real. But within the tribulation, he couldn't feel the affinity of heaven and earth, nor the blessing of fortune. Here, there was only destruction.
"Lei Ling'er, can you absorb the power of other vortexes at the same time?" Long Chen asked.
"Brother Long Chen, I'm at my limit now and can't absorb any more energy.
If you absorb energy from other vortexes, the pressure on your side will increase. I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it." Lei Ling'er's voice sounded a bit anxious; she had noticed something was wrong.
"I need time, but the tribulation has seen through my weakness and won't give me time. Forget it, I'll just focus on absorbing this and take out the biggest threat first." Long Chen said.
Among these whirlpools, the power of this dragon claw was the most terrifying. Long Chen could only choose it to strike; as for the rest, he had no time to think further.
In the distance, everyone was terrified at first when Long Chen was pierced by the dragon's claws, thinking he had been killed by the heavenly tribulation.
But seeing that the dragon claw was still resting on Long Chen's chest, and his aura rapidly surging, people finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Rumble rumble... Long
Chen's body roared and exploded. With the influx of thunder power, his body began to fuse greatly. Supreme blood, purple blood, spiritual bone, spiritual root energy, dragon power, star power, soul power—they had all fought separately, but now, with the blessing of the heavenly tribulation, they began to interact with each other.
As they began interacting, Long Chen's aura grew stronger and stronger, as if it were endless.
Long Chen's body was like a furnace, trying to refine all energy into one. If all power were merged into one, Long Chen would reach a whole new height.
But at this moment, Long Chen couldn't get excited at all, because his absorption speed of thunder power was limited, and the heavenly tribulation seemed to have calculated this perfectly, not giving him the chance to reach his strongest.
"What should we do? What should be done? For
the first time, Long Chen felt anxious. His mind went into chaos. The power within the tribulation was being wildly poured into the whirlpools, and he could only absorb one vortex. After an hour, the whole world gradually began to light up.
That's because the power of the heavenly tribulation is waning, the tribulation clouds are thinning. If it were someone else, they'd be happy, because the tribulation was about to end.
But Long Chen knew that when the power of the heavenly tribulation was exhausted, it would be a life-or-death final battle, and right now, he was still far from reaching his limit.
Long Chen was both shocked and furious, unwilling to accept it. This was clearly cheating—even the Heavenly Dao was starting to cheat. It was utterly shameless. The Heavenly Dao was unfair—where could there be any such thing as fairness in this world?
"Boom!"
< B1107> Suddenly, the vortex Long Chen absorbed exploded, all the thunder power merging into his body. Above the ninth heaven, not a single tribulation cloud remained, and the sky was clear for miles.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
At that moment, a terrifying scene unfolded. Several other vortices slowly cracked, and with a sudden explosion, the vortexes exploded one after another, with figures charging at Long Chen.
"The way of heaven is unfair, yet I insist on defying it."
Long Chen's sword-like brows furrowed, murderous intent soaring to the sky. Holding the Seven Absolute Sword, he charged at the first figure.