Family Management Game In Immortal Continent

Chapter 504: Li Dalong Had Returned

However, after half a day had passed.

Soul Dukeʼs face was ashen.

BOOM!

The lightning continued to roar, and this time, the Divinity Transformation lightning tribulation grew even more intense. The dark clouds in all four directions became even denser!

Beneath the dim and gloomy sky, a torrential rain began to fall.

At the center of the thunderclouds, upon those ancient and ghostly doors, runes were unexpectedly being carved, and the doors even grew a frame!

The Wrathful-Eyed Vajra of the original third-grade tribulation had transformed into a Four-Armed Vajra.

”A fourth-grade... a fourth-grade Heavenly Tribulation?!!”

Lei Dong, who was beside Soul Duke, was overjoyed; this was the aura of a Heavenly Tribulation he was familiar with.

Originally, when he saw Li Dalong breaking through a third-grade tribulation, he knew deep down that with Li Dalongʼs aptitude, he shouldnʼt be limited to anything less than a fourth-grade tribulation.

He also understood the Li familyʼs predicament, which had forced Li Dalong to attempt only the third grade. But he never expected that now, for some unknown reason, Li Dalong would actually dare to attempt a fourth-grade Heavenly Tribulation!

Amidst his joy, a trace of worry also flashed across Lei Dongʼs face. For this fourth-grade Heavenly Tribulation, Li Dalongʼs foundation was unstable, and those dead souls had not yet been integrated into his Nascent Soul; how could he possibly contend with it?

Sure enough, in less than an hour, the Four-Armed Vajraʼs frenzied bombardment of the ghostly doors caused them to teeter on the verge of collapse, and cracks even began to appear!

”Hahaha!”

Soul Duke let out a great, triumphant laugh. However, his laughter came to an abrupt halt.

He saw it: in the sky, that Four-Armed Vajra had become an Eight-Armed Vajra!

”This is madness! Brother Dalong, have you gone mad?!!”

Lei Dong clenched both his fists and shouted towards Li Dalong, who was at the center of the lightning tribulation.

The original fourth-grade Heavenly Tribulation was already a situation of near-certain death, and the ghostly doors that Li Dalongʼs Nascent Soul had transformed into had already been bombarded to the point of near-fragmentation. And now, he had actually, proactively, drawn forth the fifth-grade lightning tribulation!

That Eight-Armed Vajra, its oppressive might was so strong that it made the very air roar, and in the sky, the lightning descended like pillars!

It wasnʼt just him.

Even Soul Duke gazed in horror at the fifth-grade Heavenly Tribulation.

Li Dalongʼs ghostly doors had already been cracked open; even if they were perfectly intact, beneath this Eight-Armed Vajra, they likely wouldnʼt last for the time of ten finger-snaps.

”No, thatʼs not right. Thatʼs not right. Why would he choose to face a fifth-grade Heavenly Tribulation? If he were attempting a fourth-grade tribulation, that would indicate a mindset of giving it a desperate gamble. But if itʼs the fifth grade...”

Soul Duke could feel his wrinkled hand, hidden within his sleeve, trembling.

He could not see Li Dalongʼs expression from within the lightning tribulation, but he knew with absolute clarity that a man who could force the Wu Clan back without giving an inch, who could endure years of humiliation while carrying heavy burdens within the Wu Clan, and who could hide on the Wu Clanʼs ancient battlefield for a hundred years, was definitely not a madman seeking his own death!

He faintly sensed that the very thing he had feared most had happened after all.

”No, I donʼt believe it... could it be... could it be that coffin?”

In that brief moment, though the site of the lightning tribulation had not yet changed, Soul Duke felt a sense of crisis rising in his heart. After only a flash of thought, his Domain had already unfolded, pulling the nearby Lei Dong into its bounds!

”Soul Duke?!!”

Lei Dong reacted in an instant. With no time to wonder why Soul Duke would attack him at this moment, his own Domain unfolded in a flash. ʼThree Thousand Thundersʼ protected his body, blocking the countless spirit bodies assailing him from within Soul Dukeʼs Domain.

But just as he was about to counter-attack, he was left completely stunned.

Soul Duke had already vanished from his original spot. His aura was already over 5 miles away, and the speed of his departure was increasing ever more rapidly.

However, this sudden turn of events was far from being as shocking as Li Dalongʼs summoning the fifth-grade lightning tribulation at this very moment!

Everyone was now as horrified as Lei Dong had been initially. They stared in disbelief at the sight of the lightning tribulation. That Eight-Armed Vajra, how could it be so incomparably formidable?

”A madman! He probably wanted to risk his life to break through that fourth-grade lightning tribulation, but when he realized he couldnʼt pass, he decided he wanted to have a more dignified fall?”

”Alas, his heart was higher than the heavens, but his fate is as thin as paper. I originally thought our Azure Cloud would produce another Divinity Transformation expert, but I never imagined he would be so arrogant as to bring about his own demise.”

”Everyone, letʼs disperse. What a pity. That seniorʼs breakthrough of the third-grade tribulation was almost a sure thing. Why was there any need to take such a risk?”

”...”

The crowd from Azure Cloud all let out long sighs. If it had been the fourth-grade lightning tribulation, even though they saw the ghostly doors begin to shatter, there would still have been a sliver of hope for survival. But now, with a fifth-grade lightning tribulation...

They slowly turned around, unable to bear looking back. From the bottom of their hearts, they felt regret for that senior. At the same time, they also secretly reflected on themselves, resolving that in the future, they truly must not take such risks. Sometimes, something that seems to have a chance of success can, in reality, claim oneʼs life.

That Han Qiushengʼs face was dark. He had long been prepared to fight a battle with the Wu Clan in order to gain the favor of a Divinity Transformation expert, but he never expected it would all come to nothing in the end.

Immediately after, they departed together with the numerous fellow Daoists from Azure Cloud, heading back towards the regionʼs interior.

Just as they had traveled 30 miles.

Old Ancestor Tianye, amidst the crowd, still had his brow tightly furrowed.

”That familiar ghostly Qi... and our Ghost Eye Sectʼs Gate of the Netherworld... I originally thought it was Brother Dalong breaking through to Divinity Transformation in the Wu Clanʼs territory. As it seems now... I can only hope it truly wasnʼt him.”

As he was lost in thought, he glanced back. The look in his eyes, which had originally held some doubt and worry, gradually widened. The shocked expression on his face would not fade, so much so that he halted in mid-air without even realizing it.

”Brother Tianye...”

A Nascent Soul cultivator, who had originally wanted to discuss something with Old Ancestor Tianye, also turned his head back. His eyes, too, went wide like copper bells, and he couldnʼt help but cry out in alarm, ”Everyone, that... that senior... holy hell!”

As his voice fell, everyone turned around.

They saw only that at the place where the lightning tribulation roared, high above the ghostly doors that floated in the air, a silver coffin had appeared!

Creeeak—

The ghostly doors slowly swung open, making the piercing sound of a long-neglected door, yet it seemed all the more mysterious for it, like a voice from time immemorial!

From within the ghostly doors, a dense mass of ferocious ghostly hands shot out like a blooming chrysanthemum, and tightly ensnared the fists swung by the Eight-Armed Vajra!

”Brother Dalong?!!”

Old Ancestor Tianye cried out. The moment the Heaven-Piercing Coffin appeared, he knew—Li Dalong had returned!

And moreover...

He was genuinely confident he could withstand this fifth-grade lightning tribulation!!!

Nearby, Han Qiusheng watched the strange transformation of the distant lightning tribulation, and those ghostly hands which radiated a black Qi as they contended with the lightning of the Eight-Armed Vajra.

Then, looking at the overjoyed Old Ancestor Tianye and the silver coffin above the ghostly doors, the stories he had heard so often in Azure Cloud over the years that his ears had practically grown calluses resurfaced in his mind.

Gulp.

Han Qiushengʼs Adamʼs apple bobbed.

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