Chapter One Hundred Forty-Six: The Supreme Heavenly Tribulation

Chapter 146: The Super Heavenly Tribulation

Erlang Shen frowned, thinking to himself that something was wrong with Tang Youyou.

Without hesitation, Erlang Shen opened his third vertical eye, shooting a streak of brilliant light directly toward Tang Youyou's spiritual platform, intending to forcibly enter her sea of consciousness to see what was happening.

However, a fierce flash of light suddenly erupted from Tang Youyou's spiritual platform, shooting out a beam that directly met the light from Erlang Shen's third eye.

The two beams of light collided in mid-air and instantly vanished into nothingness. Surprisingly, they caused no spatial damage whatsoever; the control and precision of both parties were absolute and flawless.

Erlang Shen remained seated, while Tang Youyou stared back with a cold expression. Their gazes locked in a standoff, neither willing to yield.

Finally, Erlang Shen chuckled, nodded, and said, "You've certainly grown a spine. Tell me, what kind of fortunate encounter have you had that allows you to talk back to your cousin overnight?"

Tang Youyou's cold voice rang out, "Do I have an obligation to tell you?"

Erlang Shen smiled lightly and said, "I suppose you've forgotten what it feels like to get a beating. Do you remember when the last time was?"

A sharp look flashed in Tang Youyou's eyes, yet she replied coldly, "Save it. Don't think that just because you're my cousin you can insult me at will, even if it's in this broken body of mine."

Hm?

What was the meaning of those words?

Wasn't that body hers?

You think your own body is no good? Broken?

Erlang Shen laughed then, saying, "If you think it's broken, why don't you just throw it away? Indulging in all sorts of vices, completely skilled in eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, and smoking, you hollowed out this body long ago, and now you're complaining that it's broken?"

Tang Youyou ignored the remark and directly demanded, "Qin Lei, that female demon, give her to me!"

Gou Gou had long since found Tang Youyou an eyesore. Akimbo, she shouted, "Tang Youyou, you have some nerve, don't you? If you want my little brother and sisters to go with you, you should first look in a mirror to see what kind of pathetic creature you are! Pah!"

Tang Youyou's expression shifted. With a single grab into empty space, Gou Gou felt an invisible, massive hand seize her, leaving her utterly unable to move as she was pulled straight toward Tang Youyou.

Gou Gou cursed furiously, "Tang Youyou, you shameless wretch! How dare you lay hands on your Dog Auntie? Have you grown tired of living—"

A fierce expression flashed across Tang Youyou's face, and she prepared to crush Gou Gou on the spot.

Unexpectedly, Erlang Shen flicked his hand casually beside them, and a Binding Immortal Rope materialized out of thin air, transforming into a ferocious azure dragon that lunged aggressively at Tang Youyou.

Tang Youyou could easily have crushed Gou Gou, but at that exact split second, she would have been trapped by the Binding Immortal Rope. Without hesitation, Tang Youyou hurled Gou Gou directly toward the azure dragon in an attempt to make the dragon mistakenly injure Gou Gou while caught off guard.

However, the azure dragon seemed to possess spiritual intelligence. After wrapping gently around Gou Gou, it placed her softly on the ground, its massive body shielding her from harm.

Gou Gou cared nothing for that; with a flick of her small paws, she prepared to charge forward and give Tang Youyou a piece of her mind.

At that moment, Tu Zhe opened his eyes.

Little Su was astonished to discover that Tu Zhe's eyes were filled with the explosions and burning of endless heavenly thunder tribulations. The fury in the depths of his gaze was beyond containment, and Little Su knew that Tang Youyou had crossed Tu Zhe's bottom line.

Tu Zhe's family and friends were his bottom line.

As long as this bottom line was not breached, Tu Zhe was still a person willing to reason with others.

Once you touched this bottom line, however, you were bound to face his merciless blows.

And the ultimate bottom line of that bottom line was Gou Gou.

Although Tu Zhe had immersed his divine sense into his Alaya-vijnana and Sumeru Ring, he was not entirely oblivious to the outside world.

Tang Youyou's attack on Gou Gou had completely enraged him.

If Tu Zhe had still shown a little restraint during the earlier fight between Little Lei and Tang Youyou, this time he was determined to deal a fatal blow to Tang Youyou.

How are scumbags made?

They are always spoiled by good people.

The hell with you thinking we're good people?

Do we need to spoil you?

When Tu Zhe had immersed himself in his Alaya-vijnana just moments ago, he had witnessed a scene that left him torn between laughter and tears.

Inside the cracked space of the Alaya-vijnana, the Red Baby, who had entered earlier, was wielding a giant hammer condensed from Brahma Qi, hammering away at the heavenly god soul crystals embedded on the walls of the divine sense space.

The heavenly god soul crystals, originally fused into the walls of the divine sense space, had been fractured into deep cracks by Erlang Shen. The Red Baby's hammer blows caused these crystals to shatter and fall in heaps at his feet.

Seeing that it was enough, the Red Baby opened his mouth and swallowed the soul crystals. After refining them, he exhaled wisps of blood-colored soul threads. These threads slipped like smoke into the cracks of the divine sense space walls, fusing with them and making the walls seamless, smooth, and complete once more.

Seeing that the Red Baby was doing a fine job, Tu Zhe said nothing more and leaped directly into the Sumeru Ring, only to be given a massive fright.

Inside the Sumeru Ring, thunder rolled continuously, tribulation clouds gathered thickly, and all kinds of tribulation lightning brewed in the sky, ready to strike down at any moment.

On the ground below, the group of Dragon Guards, Little Lei, and the Three Demonic Women were all sitting cross-legged, their expressions exceptionally heavy as they gazed at the sky filled with tribulation lightning and clouds, clueless about what to do.

It turned out that this collective healing of the Dragon Guards had simultaneously triggered a collective breakthrough in their realms.

Each of them had been given an imperial-grade superior Brahma crystal, every single one containing the power of thirty small worlds. Aside from using less than one percent of the total Brahma Qi for healing, the rest had been entirely refined by the Dragon Guards.

Moreover, having been provoked by their battle with Tang Youyou, their desire to elevate their realms had become unprecedentedly strong, to the point that they hadn't even paused to consider whether they could withstand such a massive surge of Brahma Qi.

Even less had they anticipated that the world within the Sumeru Ring was still an incomplete world riddled with various flaws.

Because this world was incomplete, within the stellar region of the Northern Heavens, it was inevitably eroded or influenced by the universal laws of the Northern Heavens.

Back when they were in the Buddhist Heavens, when had anyone ever experienced a heavenly tribulation?

Buddhism cultivates the mind and nature, while Daoism cultivates destiny; only the destiny-cultivating Daoists spoke of heavenly tribulations.

The problem was that while worlds and their laws shared broad similarities, they also held minor differences.

For instance, in the Buddhist Heavens, no matter how high your realm was, you didn't need to worry about heavenly tribulations. But in the Northern Heavens, the moment your realm exceeded the boundary permitted by the local universal laws of that time and place, you would face a heavenly tribulation.

And what made it most despairing was that this collective breakthrough of the Dragon Guards had pushed nearly all of them into the Great Emperor realm. Dragon Two, in particular, had made a single leap straight into the late Great Emperor stage—an act that openly defied the heavens.

The one least afraid of heavenly tribulations here should have been Little Lei.

As a former mighty figure of the Northern Heavens, Little Lei had lost count of how many heavenly tribulations he had survived.

However, this time was different.

First, this was a collective breakthrough, and the thickness and expanse of the summoning tribulation clouds were terrifying to behold.

The world inside the Sumeru Ring was already vast, yet even with Little Lei's divine sense, he couldn't immediately probe its boundaries. Yet, using that same divine sense, he still couldn't probe the thickness or the edges of these tribulation clouds.

If these started crashing down, not only would this small group of people fail to withstand them, but even Erlang Shen outside might not necessarily endure them.

Second, the tribulation lightning bred within the tribulation clouds unexpectedly numbered up to thirty-six terrifying varieties. This meant that virtually every seed of lightning the heavenly realm had ever accumulated might descend in this single heavenly tribulation.

Who the hell could possibly survive that?