Chapter 1053: Chapter 665: Night Demon Tribulation Crossing_3

The black Shield shattered in an instant.

The Demon King’s Wings were pierced through by the thunder light.

Li Qi’s body was completely engulfed by the thunder light.

At that moment, Xiong’s face turned pale.

Terreda took half a step forward, then forcibly stopped himself.

The Old Ghost’s eyes snapped open, the blood light in the Ghost King’s Blood Eyes blazing.

Ran Tu stared fixedly ahead.

Then—

The thunder light dispersed.

A dark silhouette stood where he had been.

His clothes were already in tatters, his whole body charred black and covered in blood. The Demon King’s Wings drooped weakly behind him, his body trembling slightly, as if he might collapse at any moment.

But he did not fall.

He stood.

Li Qi slowly lifted his head, a smile appearing on his charred face. Though ragged, that smile was incomparably brilliant.

"I... endured it."

His voice was hoarse, yet carried a kind of exhilaration of surviving a great calamity.

In the distance, the tense bodies of Xiong, Terreda, and the Old Ghost finally relaxed, a look of relief appearing at the corners of their mouths.

Ran Tu stood where he was, looking at Li Qi’s ragged yet proud figure, and a fierce impulse suddenly surged up in his heart—he also wanted to succeed, he would definitely succeed.

Qin Tian stood at the farthest point, his gaze calmly watching that charred figure.

His expression did not change, but the faint upturn at the corner of his mouth betrayed his current mood.

The Celestial Thunder Tribulation was over.

Next would be the Body Burning Tribulation and the Heart Demon Tribulation.

But he believed Li Qi would definitely pass them smoothly.

...

Li Qi stood in place, his body still trembling slightly. His charred skin was covered with fine cracks, like land long parched by drought, or like a cicada chrysalis about to break open.

Blood and sweat mixed together, slowly seeping out along the gaps of those cracks and dripping onto the charred ground beneath his feet.

At this moment, a series of crisp sounds came from within his body.

"Ka, ka, ka—"

The sound was like bamboo joints popping, or bones being reforged, coming from deep within his body, dense and powerful. Each sound was accompanied by a warm force surging out from his bone marrow, spreading through his limbs and every bone.

The charred skin began to peel off in chunks.

First his forehead, then his cheeks, then his neck, shoulders, chest, arms... the dead, blackened skin sloughed off his body like a cicada’s cast shell, revealing the brand-new skin beneath.

Li Qi could clearly feel that his body was undergoing earth-shaking changes.

The Celestial Thunder Tribulation was not only a test, but also a tempering.

Those who passed the Celestial Thunder Tribulation would have their bodies reforged by Celestial Thunder Power—the muscle fibers became even more tenacious, bone density greatly increased, and the width and toughness of the meridians would leap to a whole new level.

This was the gift Heaven and earth bestowed upon a Tribulation Crosser, a qualitative leap of the fleshly body.

The Demon King’s Wings behind him suddenly spread open, wider and thicker than before. The dark-golden Demon Pattern was intricate and noble, like an ancient language carved upon the wings, slowly flowing and exuding an aura that made one’s heart palpitate.

At the moment the twin wings unfurled, a wave of air surged out, blowing the rubble and dust on the ground into the air.

Li Qi’s aura also rose in that instant like surging waves.

That aura was more than twice as strong as before he passed the Celestial Thunder Tribulation, like a long-accumulated flood finally finding an outlet, roaring and unstoppable.

He lifted his head; his charred face had already been renewed. His eyes were as black as an abyss, and deep within his pupils faint thunder light flickered—that was the mark left in his body by Celestial Thunder Power, proof that he had passed the Celestial Thunder Tribulation.

In the distance, Xiong looked at Li Qi’s completely transformed appearance, involuntarily clenching his fist and letting out a low shout, "Good!"

The Old Ghost nodded slightly, his eyes full of gratification.

Ran Tu took a deep look at Li Qi, and his clenched fists slowly relaxed.

Li Qi’s success gave him immense confidence—since Li Qi could endure it, he believed he definitely could as well.

The dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, but that was not a signal that the tribulation had ended; it was the beginning of another ordeal.

Orange-red clouds slowly appeared from the horizon, like cotton lit by flames, spreading across the entire sky piece by piece.

The color of those clouds shifted from light orange to deep red, from deep red to dark purple, layered one upon another, like a burning city in the sky.

The air began to grow hot and dry.

The blades of grass on the ground started to curl and yellow, fine cracks appeared on the surface of rocks, and even the air itself seemed to distort slightly.

The second of the Celestial Human Three Tribulations—the Body Burning Tribulation—was about to arrive.

If the Celestial Thunder Tribulation was a direct strike at the fleshly body, then the Body Burning Tribulation was the ultimate test of the toughness of both flesh and Soul.

The Celestial Thunder strikes from outside in, splitting open your defenses and piercing your meridians; the Body Burning Tribulation, however, burns from inside out, starting from your internal organs, slowly incinerating your body from within, burning your Soul.

Many prodigies who had crossed the Celestial Thunder Tribulation fell under the Body Burning Tribulation.

Li Qi raised his head to look at the burning cloud layer in the sky, took a deep breath, and the Spiritual Energy in his body began to circulate again, preparing to face the second trial.

Just then—

Qin Tian suddenly lifted his head and looked into the distance.

His gaze pierced the boundary of the valley, pierced through the layers of trees and mountains, falling upon a far-off direction. In those calm eyes, a faint ghostly light suddenly flashed.

As expected, some blind fools had come to stir up trouble.

The Celestial Human Three Tribulations were tests sent down by Heaven and earth, during which a Tribulation Crosser was at their most vulnerable—they could not be disturbed, could not be interrupted. Once someone from outside intruded into the range of the tribulation, the power of the tribulation would instantly surge, treating the intruder and the Tribulation Crosser alike as targets, killing them both.

This was the self-protection mechanism of the rules of Heaven and earth, something no one could change.

Therefore, when he chose a place for Li Qi and the others to undergo tribulation, he deliberately picked this remote valley, to minimize the chance of disturbance. Yet now, someone had still found their way here.

Moreover, judging from the strength and number of the auras, more than one person was coming.

"Someone’s coming. You keep watching over Li Qi; leave the rest to me."

As soon as his words fell, his figure vanished from the valley.

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