Chapter 974: Unlimited Blood Tribulation

The terrifying lightning bolt, thousands of feet long, seemed like a warning to those observing.

As they barely managed to retreat, the dark clouds began to shift. Centered above Jiang Fan’s head, the vast dark clouds, thousands of feet across, slowly began to rotate, forming a massive cloud eye with a diameter of two hundred feet.

The cloud eye gradually turned crimson. Like a branding iron slowly heating up, it cast a crimson glow upon the dim, lightless world.

Jiang Fan looked up, his expression grim. He saw it clearly. The cloud eye was filled with lightning—blood-red lightning!

Unlike the pale lightning he witnessed during the tribulations of the Slaveheart Demon Emperor and the North Sea Crown Prince, the lightning before him, however, was an array of bizarre, blood-red bolts! The power they exuded made his hair stand on end, even with his physique already at the Second-Aperture Nascent Soul stage.

“Is this truly the consequence of having twin Golden Cores?” Jiang Fan gasped, his face etched with extreme solemnity. If it was this perilous, Biluo had no reason to keep silent!

But there was no time to ponder the reason! The cloud eye grew increasingly crimson. It seemed as though a hole had been burned through the clouds, casting a blood-red glow across the land.

A surge of blood-red lightning lashed out, striking Jiang Fan with immense force. The terrifying roar instantly collapsed the surrounding snow-capped mountains, triggering massive avalanches. Jiang Fan’s body convulsed violently, his heart thrumming in his chest. His ears were left with only a deafening silence.

A blood-red lightning bolt, as thick as three men, instantly engulfed him. The armor, condensed from a Bodhi Pill, was instantly blasted to dust. His hair, eyebrows, and even his body hair were incinerated in an instant. His entire body was charred black, crisscrossed with bloody fissures.

“Hiss!” Even Jiang Fan, who had undergone cultivation with True Spirit Blood, let out an unbearable gasp of pain. This single blood-red lightning bolt was almost as agonizing as enduring five tribulation lightning strikes from the Slaveheart Demon Emperor.

The pain was excruciating! However, this was just the beginning!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ten blood-red lightning bolts fell in unison, coalescing in mid-air into a single, apocalyptic azure dragon that slammed down. The sheer, earth-shattering impact alone made the entire snow mountain shudder and totter! The destructive crimson light it emitted was even more horrific to imagine!

“Aargh!” Jiang Fan let out a ferocious cry of pain. His flesh burst open, exposing charred muscles and, in some areas, even bone!

“This heavenly tribulation isn’t right; it’s here to kill me!”

“No! I’ll die if this continues!” Jiang Fan roared.

But the blood-red lightning gave him no chance to react; twenty bolts merged into one, transforming into a towering crimson pillar that pierced heaven and earth before descending straight down. A profound sense of mortal danger surged within Jiang Fan.

“This strike will be fatal!”

“Five-Magnet Divine Light!” He raised a hand, and the Five-Magnet Elemental Mountain instantly expanded, hovering above his head, simultaneously unfurling an aura of divine light that stretched for six zhang.

Boom!!!

The earth-shattering blood pillar slammed down. The Five-Magnet Divine Light was instantly pierced through, only weakening the blood-red lightning by fifty percent. The remaining vast thunderous power pierced through the Five-Magnet Elemental Mountain and struck Jiang Fan’s body. His body burst open instantly, resembling an overcooked carcass. Charred flesh flew everywhere, exposing blackened bones and even some incinerated internal organs!

The excruciating pain made his vision swim and he nearly fainted. But he couldn’t collapse! If he succumbed, endless blood-red lightning would await him, blasting him into oblivion!

Within the cloud eye, the blood-red lightning seemed to rage. The previous twenty blood-red lightning bolts were more potent than the full lightning curtain at the peak of others’ tribulations, yet Jiang Fan had survived!

Thus, forty pulsating blood-red lightning bolts intertwined and collided, finally merging into a single, colossal crimson palm! Yes! A giant crimson palm! It had distinct fingers, an arm, and even discernible features and texture!

This was unequivocally someone manipulating the tribulation lightning, attempting to kill Jiang Fan from behind the scenes! If it were a normal heavenly tribulation, his death would simply be attributed to his own incompetence. But using the heavenly tribulation to kill him completely enraged Jiang Fan!

The Five-Magnet Elemental Mountain was useless, but he had other options!

“Voidflow Lightning Force!” He unleashed the Voidflow Lightning Force, which he hadn’t dared to use for a very long time! How was this force cultivated? There was only one method! Absorb the lightning power of heaven and earth and transform it into his own strength! Thus, the Voidflow Lightning Force was created!

So far, he had barely scratched the surface of it; he wasn’t even considered an initiate! Ever since he learned he was wanted due to the Voidflow Lightning Force, he hadn’t dared to cultivate it in the slightest. Now, he couldn’t care less!

“Absorb!” he roared, circulating the Voidflow Lightning Force cultivation method within him. As the force surged in his palm, he fiercely collided with the towering crimson palm!

An astonishing scene unfolded! The crimson palm, which should have obliterated Jiang Fan, when it struck his small palm, seemed to encounter a bottomless void! The giant crimson palm instantly poured into Jiang Fan’s grasp, and as the cultivation technique circulated, it rapidly transformed into Voidflow Lightning Force! The Voidflow Lightning Force within him, boosted by the forty bolts of tribulation lightning, instantly magnified a hundredfold!

Roar! Roar! Roar!

This utterly enraged the unseen entity! A full hundred blood-red lightning bolts descended side-by-side, akin to a collapsing crimson sky curtain!

Those outside the line of sight also witnessed this spectacle. All of them stood dumbfounded!

“What is this?”

“Has the sky fallen?”

“Is this still a tribulation? This is clearly meant to utterly destroy Jiang Fan!”

Many felt despair. How could Jiang Fan possibly survive such a strike? Even a Second-Aperture Nascent Soul cultivator would meet their demise here!

On the other side of the dark clouds, Venerable Chenjing stood atop a mountain peak, his eyes wide with shock.

“Blood-red lightning? Could this be the Boundless Blood Tribulation, the most terrifying tribulation Master spoke of for the Nascent Soul stage?”

“But isn’t this a legendary grand tribulation that only appears when a monstrous talent with Saint-level potential undergoes tribulation, threatening the stability of the Central Lands?”

“Master himself has never seen it, only mentioning it as a heavenly tribulation found solely in legends.”

He found it unbelievable. He had merely taken a trip to the mainland and witnessed the legendary Boundless Blood Tribulation! Watching the crimson sky curtain pour down, even as a Fourth-Aperture Nascent Soul cultivator, he felt a shiver run down his spine. This single strike would require his serious effort to withstand. The current tribulation-undergoer was merely a junior in the Core Formation stage; how could he possibly withstand it?

Jiang Fan was still digesting the blood-red lightning within him, unable to absorb any more. But let him die? Never!

“Immortal Blade!” He bellowed, and all the thunderous power from his lightning core surged forth. Simultaneously, the Voidflow Lightning Force, now a hundred times stronger, merged into it as well. The two-thousand-zhang pale Immortal Blade rapidly surged to ten thousand zhang in length! It was both white and crimson, intricately intertwined. Like a blade formed by two lightning dragons, it cleaved fiercely towards the sky curtain!

Screech!

The sky curtain was indeed split apart! This single sword strike cleaved the sky curtain open! The residual sword might swept through the nine heavens, striking deep into the cloud eye. The massive dark clouds trembled violently, torn open by an incomparably vast rift!

Everyone was utterly stunned by this heaven-slashing sword strike! Even Venerable Chenjing gasped, his eyes wide with fear: “What was that?”

“Is that the Immortal Blade of the Myriad Tribulation Holy Temple?”

“No, it’s an existence even more transcendent than the Immortal Blade!”

Just then, he seemed to sense something, and suddenly looked towards the rift torn open by the Immortal Blade. He stared intently, his face etched with terror, and gasped in horror: “Someone!”

“How can there be someone in the tribulation clouds!?”