Chapter 5132 Devouring Heavenly Tribulation
“Idiots!”
Seeing this scene, Long Chen immediately sneered. These fellows wanted to rely on their heavenly tribulations to trap and kill him. This technique might work on ordinary cultivators, but against Long Chen, it was the peak of foolishness.
“Lei Linger, kill them all. Don’t be merciful,” ordered Long Chen.
Lei Linger delightedly flew out. After all, those clumps of heavenly tribulation clouds were extremely tempting to her.
BOOM!
A lightning blade appeared in Lei Linger’s hand. With a single slash, the experts and their tribulation clouds were reduced to dust. After that, her Heavenly Fate Disk appeared behind her, spinning as it inhaled the thunderforce in the air like a whale swallowing water, not leaving a single trace behind.
In one swift motion, Lei Linger had killed hundreds of experts. When those in the surroundings saw this, they instantly fled in terror, abandoning their thoughts of slaying Long Chen.
Not letting them get away, Lei Linger transformed into a heaven-shrouding divine phoenix. Her wings tore through the sky as she slew them.
In the distance, others who had spotted Long Chen hesitated, unsure whether to attack or retreat, when suddenly, it was all over. Thousands of tribulation clouds vanished along with the experts under them.
“A group of Heavenly Doyens actually dared to attack me... Just who gave you that courage?” Long Chen snorted and continued onward.
The magma sea was so vast that Long Chen couldn’t see the end of it. He found that those undergoing tribulation here were Heavenly Doyens, with most of them being five to nine star Doyens. He occasionally encountered a half-step Chosen, but he didn’t see a true Heavenly Chosen.
This area seemed to be the outer region of the tribulation zone. Quite a few people attacked Long Chen on the way, and Lei Linger killed them all, devouring their tribulation clouds.
Lei Linger was no longer helpless now. In the primal chaos s.p.a.ce, she had devoured an enormous amount of thunderforce from the dead bodies. Hence, even Eternal heavenly tribulation could no longer threaten her.
After Lei Linger had devoured these tribulations, her aura began to transform, showing signs of compression. When Long Chen asked her about it, he learned that her power had reached a bottleneck. After all, she controlled thunderforce from too many sources, and they were becoming so varied that they started to go out of control.
Furthermore, this thunderforce came from corpses tempered by heavenly tribulation. While abundant in quant.i.ty, it lacked in quality.
As a result, her thunderforce was like millions of troops without leaders, making it difficult for her to effectively concentrate her power. Because of this issue, Lei Linger craved Long Chen’s heavenly tribulation even more than he did, as it was the core source of her strength.
With its power, she could compress and upgrade all these varied thunderforces. Without it, her lack of control would prevent her from wielding her full potential.
As Long Chen sped forward, the magma sea changed color. What was once dark red now turned to the color of fresh blood. Its aura grew increasingly sacred but also carried a trace of wildness.
After a while, these flames exuded great destructive power that pressured even Long Chen, causing his body to sway while he adapted to it.
“No wonder those people could only undergo tribulation back there. If they can’t endure this pressure, they probably won’t be able to withstand the heavenly tribulation that comes with this place,” Long Chen mused, realizing that it wasn’t just the color that had changed here—even the laws had s.h.i.+fted.
In this region, the laws were no longer just warm; they exuded a wild pressure that shook the soul. Undergoing tribulation here could be fatal, even for Heavenly Chosens.
Just as Long Chen entered this region, a cracking sound rang out. The void split open, and a bolt of lightning crashed toward him from above.
BOOM!
Lei Linger immediately swatted the lightning apart, revealing a ma.s.s of lightning runes.
Within the lightning, a translucent figure appeared. A slender and long sword emerged and instantly arrived in front of Long Chen’s head.
“Lifehunter race?” Long Chen’s heart shook. He hadn’t expected to encounter an expert from the Lifehunter race here.
The sharp Sword Qi made Long Chen’s head ache, and his heart trembled. Blood-colored scales appeared on his palm as he reached out to grab the sword.
However, Long Chen missed. The sword vanished just as he grabbed it, and a figure appeared behind him.
BANG!
The figure barely had time to attack before a flame staff silently smashed its head apart. It was instantly killed by Huo Linger.
This was a Heavenly Chosen of the Lifehunter race, and he was definitely above average. Even though he hadn’t completed his tribulation, the tempering of the heavenly tribulation had already significantly boosted his power.
Unfortunately, his focus was entirely on Long Chen and Lei Linger, leaving him unaware of Huo Linger’s presence.
However, it couldn’t be blamed on him, as this place was the core of the Heavenly Flame Devil Domain. The dense flame energy in the surroundings completely covered up Huo Linger’s aura, which was why the Lifehunter expert didn’t sense anything at all.
Huo Linger was growing smarter. She cleverly concealed herself by Long Chen’s side from the moment they entered this region, making it nearly impossible for anyone to sense her within the flame sea.
Lei Linger was more than capable of handling the lesser threats, but by hiding, Huo Linger was able to ambush and kill the powerful Lifehunter expert before he could unleash his most potent techniques.
After the Lifehunter expert was slain, Lei Linger’s Heavenly Fate Disk spun, devouring the giant tribulation clouds in the sky.
As Lei Linger absorbed the pure essence of this heavenly lightning tribulation, her thunderforce suddenly contracted hard. This one gulp of energy was several times better than all tribulations she had devoured here, causing her eyes to gleam with newfound power.