Countless pale, glistening fleshy tendrils, like giant white snakes, burst from the ground, intertwining and writhing, shaking the entire space with a rumble.
The increasingly dilapidated ground was crisscrossed with fissures from which white mist billowed.
Simultaneously, the black wind in the sky reacted, with azure light flowing within the wind mass. The sky-covering black wind transformed into an azure hue. Immediately following, thunder roared, and thick azure lightning bolts descended from within.
A white fleshy tendril that had just emerged from a fissure was instantly charred black by two bolts of lightning, retracting swiftly back into the ground.
As the azure lightning continued to fall, the white fleshy tendrils erupting from the ground seemed to encounter a nemesis, all those struck by the lightning retreating back below.
At this moment, Zhang Ling had just flown out of a fissure, looking at the scene with astonishment. Lightning flashed incessantly before his eyes, as if he had entered a thundercloud.
If not for a sweep of his divine sense, barely discerning a broken stone tablet in the distance, the place where he had been previously, he would have thought he had arrived in another dimension.
The entire space seemed to be shaking, the source of the tremors being the white fleshy tendrils erupting from the ground.
Before him, lightning continuously tore apart the fleshy tendrils, but countless more emerged from the fissures. Looking out, everywhere was a scene of writhing white shadows and azure lightning.
"Junior Brother, what's happening?" Not far away, a streak of light rapidly approached, and Senior Brother Tianfeng arrived.
Tianfeng Ancestor's complexion was much better than before, and his aura had recovered to seventy or eighty percent, clearly having used the drop of ten-thousand-year spiritual liquid.
Zhang Ling shook his head; he naturally didn't know what was happening. Although he had explored underground earlier, he hadn't reached the deepest depths to see what these fleshy tendrils were growing from.
Judging by the current situation, these white fleshy tendrils might belong to an extremely large monster. It looked as if it was about to break free from underground.
Looking at the lightning constantly falling from above, it was clearly suppressing whatever was underground.
"This place is too strange; we should rejoin the others first," Tianfeng Ancestor said with a solemn expression, just as he was about to say something. Suddenly, a loud boom echoed from the distance, not the sound of thunder, but the sound of a drum.
Although hidden in the thunder, it was not very obvious, but both were Nascent Soul cultivators and immediately recognized it as the sound of the Crimson Cry Drum.
Zhang Ling and Senior Brother Tianfeng exchanged a glance and flew directly toward the direction of the drum sound. This drum sound was clearly Grand Priest Luo Ming summoning everyone.
Regardless of whether this person had found the exit, with such a change occurring here, joining the others was definitely safer than acting alone.
Lightning continuously fell from the sky, shattering the white fleshy tendrils, causing some trouble for Zhang Ling's movements.
However, they both keenly observed that although these azure lightning bolts had strong attack power, they were specifically targeting the white fleshy tendrils. As long as they didn't run directly into them, they were easy enough to avoid.
And so, they traversed through the lightning and white fleshy tendrils, fraught with danger, but ultimately without harm.
"What is that? It looks like a giant monster."
The closer they got to the direction of the drum sound, the more clearly Zhang Ling and Tianfeng Ancestor saw a giant white thing in the distance ahead.
The thing looked like a giant white mountain, hidden in a white mist, seemingly hundreds of feet tall, and constantly wriggling, expanding in circles, with countless shining white tendrils wrapped around it. It looked more like a giant meatball.
Could this be the main body of the white fleshy tendrils?
At this moment, an extremely thick azure lightning bolt struck the meatball, engulfing the entire thing. The azure light in front of them shone brightly, making it impossible to open their eyes.
A terrifying force of thunder and fire radiated from that direction, and Zhang Ling and Senior Brother Tianfeng's expressions changed slightly. They quickly stopped their flight, no longer approaching, and simultaneously activated their own defenses to resist the radiating thunder and fire force.
Strands of electric light, along with scorching wind pressure, struck the yellow light shield formed by the Yellow Luo Umbrella, creating sizzling and crackling sounds.
This terrifying thunder and fire force weakened after a dozen or so breaths. Although it wouldn't cause fatal damage to Nascent Soul cultivators, it still required some spiritual power to resist.
After the lightning passed, the scene before them dimmed. The giant meatball in front of them had become charred black, emitting wisps of black smoke. They could still smell a burnt odor.
At the same time, Zhang Ling noticed several people standing around: Grand Priest Luo Ming, the ugly-faced youth, and Elder Tian, among others.
These people were also looking at the charred meatball with surprise.
At this moment, another red light streaked over from the distance, landing not far from Grand Priest Luo Ming, and the voice of Old Devil Baihua came, "What is this? Could this thing have caused the earthquake?"
No one responded to his words, because cracking and shattering sounds were coming from the charred meatball.
Countless cracks instantly appeared on the meatball, and black fragments, like pieces of hard shell, fell off.
Attracting everyone's attention.
The meatball shook violently, like a cracking eggshell, revealing a dazzling white light within.
With a loud boom, all the charred black parts of the meatball that had been struck by lightning fell off, revealing an eyeball wrapped in white fleshy tendrils.
That's right, it was an eyeball.
A white eyeball that was five or six hundred feet in size. This eyeball had no eyelids, and countless glowing white fleshy tendrils were wrapped around it, like strange worms.
A faint layer of white mist also surrounded the eyeball, and any divine sense that approached was completely devoured.
If Zhang Ling and the others weren't Nascent Soul cultivators with keen senses, they wouldn't have been able to see clearly that this was an eyeball.
Another rumble of thunder sounded, and the azure mist above rolled, and azure lightning bolts fell once again, heading straight for this strange eyeball.
The eyeball also reacted instantly. A flash of red light appeared in the pupil-less eye, forming a blood-red pupil.
The blood-red pupil rotated strangely, and Zhang Ling felt a sense of dizziness and fascination upon seeing it, as if all his mind had been captured.
He quickly shook his head and squinted his eyes.
A wave of lightning fell, and the area where the eyeball was located was blasted with flying earth and rocks, creating gusts of smoke and dust.
However, after this wave of attacks, the eyeball was unharmed.
Even more strangely, the red pupil in the eyeball flickered, instantly splitting into countless dense, bizarre blood-colored pupils.
No matter which direction you looked from, these pupils were staring at you.
In an instant, Zhang Ling and the others felt as if they were being watched by countless ferocious beasts. Even Grand Priest Luo Ming and Old Devil Baihua's faces turned pale.
Another wave of lightning struck down, and the blood-colored pupils in the strange eyeball all rotated, and strands of black light, densely packed, appeared above the eyeball.
These light strands were extremely thin, like strands of hair, tens of thousands of them, intertwined with each other, as if forming a black net, covering the eyeball.
The azure lightning that fell on it strangely disappeared.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling's face darkened. Others might not be able to see what these light strands were at a glance, but the Void Devouring Insect in his sleeve trembled, letting him know that these black light strands were actually slender spatial rifts.
This made him secretly alarmed. Such slender spatial rifts, and so stable, were beyond what the Void Devouring Insect could compare to.
He knew that the spatial barrier in this space was several times more stable than the outside world. His Void Devouring Insect could only create spatial fluctuations.
Although this was because the Void Devouring Insect was still very weak, its own spiritual power was only equivalent to a fourth-order demon beast.
But even if the Void Devouring Insect were a Nascent Soul-level spirit pet at this time, it probably couldn't create so many thin, stable spatial fissures at once.
Booming sounds of thunder continued to ring out. At this time, the azure clouds in the sky had formed circles of cloud sea vortexes. At the center of the vortex, a golden light flashed, followed by a silver light.
Instantly, the thunderclouds above were dyed with gold, silver, and azure colors. Even more violent and terrifying thunder and fire power was brewing in the cloud sea.
"Not good, tri-colored heavenly lightning, leave here quickly!"
Noticing the changes above, Grand Priest Luo Ming cried out in alarm and immediately transformed into a streak of purple light, flying away into the distance.
The others didn't dare to stay either, all sensing the terrifying energy coming from above. They activated their escape techniques and left this place.
Heavenly lightning was the most violent energy in the world, with powerful destructive force. Even lightning tribulations usually only presented one type of lightning. Once heavenly lightning changed, it was extremely dangerous.
In the Northern Plains cultivation world, there was only one recorded occurrence of tri-colored heavenly lightning.
It was in ancient times, during the great battle between the alien demon race and the human race. They were retreating step by step and opened a demon spring seal. Boundless demonic energy poured out from the demon spring, causing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to mutate, and tri-colored heavenly lightning descended.
Instantly, an area of one hundred thousand miles turned into a sea of lightning, and countless cultivators died. Only then did they force back the human race cultivators at that time.
In addition to this, there were also records of several occurrences of dual-colored heavenly lightning. Although not as terrifying as tri-colored heavenly lightning, they were also extremely terrifying.
Like the silver-fire lightning tribulation that appeared when he saw Miss Ruolan undergoing her lightning tribulation in the Lost God Palace, it was also a special heavenly tribulation. But that silver-fire lightning tribulation was, after all, a single color.
Lan Que had also told him before that if they could ascend to the Spirit World, cultivators like them who ascended from the lower realm would trigger dual-colored lightning tribulations to wash away the alien aura on their bodies.
It was also said that if a cultivator wanted to ascend to the Immortal World, he would trigger nine-colored heavenly tribulations.
In short, the appearance of this special heavenly tribulation was extremely dangerous.
"Tri-colored heavenly lightning, what exactly is that thing? It can actually trigger such terrifying heavenly lightning!" Elder Tian couldn't help but yell as they flew.
"Nonsense, no matter what that monster is, it's not something we can provoke. Have you found the exit?" Grand Priest Luo Ming asked with a snort.
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the others sank even more. No one spoke again, obviously none of them had found the exit.
At the same time, Zhang Ling also noticed that several more streaks of light had followed, it was Dongfang Ya and the other cultivators who had rushed over.
Judging from their appearance, none of them had found the exit either.
In an instant, the tri-colored heavenly lightning had already fallen, and the entire space was rumbling and shaking. The scorching thunder and fire power continuously radiated from the location of the strange eyeball, forming gusts of heat waves.
Although everyone had already left hundreds of miles away in this instant, they still sensed the terrifying impact.
Each of them quickly used defensive means to resist this force. But everyone was still like a small boat in the wind and waves, unable to stabilize their bodies.
The weird eyeball, enduring the tri-colored heavenly lightning, did not show any fear. All the pupils in the eyeball strangely gathered together, forming a large pupil, like a black hole, staring at the sky.
Most of the lightning that fell was swallowed by the spatial rifts it had created. Only the white fleshy tendrils wrapped around the outside of the eyeball were shattered.
But even so, it did not pose a fatal danger to the weird eyeball.
However, with the fleshy tendrils on its body being shattered, the eyeball also shook a few times, seeming to become angry. A black beam of light suddenly shot out from the blood-red pupil, directly into the thunderclouds in the sky.
Silently, the black beam of light was like a bottomless hole, and the lightning was all sucked into it wherever it passed, without any sound.
At the same time, the dark beam of light suddenly became thicker, and then thinner again, strangely swelling and shrinking, appearing bright and dark.
The space around the beam of light also immediately appeared distorted and deformed, forming large areas of spatial fluctuations. Twisted spatial rifts were constantly spreading out.
This black light beam was like a bare tree trunk, suddenly growing countless branches.
Although Zhang Ling and the others were far away from that place, they instantly sensed that the entire space had become extremely unstable.
Countless spatial cracks, like black snakes, quickly spread towards them.
Zhang Ling's face turned pale. He had just experienced a spatial collapse not long ago, was he going to experience it again? He quickly summoned the Void Devouring Insect and released a black and white spiritual light to cover himself.
Immediately afterwards, with a sweep of his divine sense, he saw that Senior Brother Tianfeng not far in front of him also had a look of astonishment. Two slender spatial rifts slid past Senior Brother's side, tearing his robe.
Fortunately, it didn't hurt his body.
With a thought, he controlled the Void Devouring Insect to move towards that side. The black and white light flashed, and he instantly appeared next to Senior Brother Tianfeng, pulling Senior Brother into the light.
This space has now become extremely unstable. Although it is extremely dangerous, the Void Devouring Insect can just use its spatial supernatural powers.
Under his gaze, he also happened to see that the ancient demon had turned into a streak of blood to avoid a spatial rift. This guy seemed to be unlucky. After avoiding two spatial rifts, he crashed head-on into another spatial rift that suddenly appeared in front of him.
His body was instantly cut into two pieces. The ancient demon screamed and spat out a mass of dark true demon energy, wrapping around the upper half of his body.
But several spatial rifts suddenly appeared above his head and on his left and right sides, quickly intersecting each other, and his two halves of his body were chopped into seven or eight pieces.
A black, bloody figure flew out of a mass of flesh and blood, seemingly this guy's Nascent Soul. But the position where it was located suddenly appeared a spatial rift that was several feet wide, directly swallowing the bloody figure.
The ancient demon Bloodheart seemed to have died just like that.
