<h4>Chapter 661: Like a God or Immortal</h4>


    Earlier, when the light of the Grand Dao fell like rain, the night was as bright as midday.


    However, as denseyers of tribtion clouds nketed the skies, darkness returned. Everything was dim and overcast.


    A stifling, destructive aura filled the Sea of Chaotic Spirits, and it was continuously intensifying.


    Everyone could tell that the imminent tribtion was sure to be extraordinary!


    “When I stepped into the Spiritual Manifestation Realm, my Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation was nowhere near this terrifying…”


    Within the ruins of the Immortals’ Sword House, Ying Que gasped, his expression full of astonishment.


    “How big of a disparity is there?” Yuan Heng couldn’t help but ask.


    After a moment’s silence, Ying Que said seriously, “This tribtion has yet to descend, but judging from its aura alone, it’s thousands of times more intense than what I faced!”


    The crowd was stunned.


    Ying Que was a descendant of the ck flood dragon lineage, and his talent and foundations were tyrannical. He far surpassed the world’s ordinary cultivators.


    Simrly, as a flood dragon, his Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation was surely terrifying beyond imagination.


    Yet now, he was saying that the aura of Su Yi’s tribtion was thousands of times greater than his!


    Who wouldn’t have been surprised?


    “Big Brother Su Yi will be just fine. I’m sure of it!” Wen Lingxue pursed her lips and said with assurance.


    “That’s only natural. No power in this world can?stop Master!” Yuan Heng said without so much as pausing to think.


    The others looked at each other inplete agreement.


    …..


    “What level of tribtion is this?”


    Far away, over the distant surface of the ocean, an unkempt old Daoist flew through the air. When he saw the gathering tribtion clouds, he couldn’t help but cry out in rm and astonishment.


    He instinctively fled the affected stretch of ocean.


    As Su Yi stood in the air, he noticed the unkempt old Daoist and recognized him at a nce. This was the same old pervert who’d tried to “y without paying” at the top brothel in Nine Tripod City, the Song of the Sandy Creek.


    The old blind man had once warned him about the unkempt old Daoist’s suspicious origins. He called himself Ming Ya, the Netherworld Crow, and he emanated traces of the distinctive aura of the Sea of Bitterness. This led the old blind man to suspect he’d once ventured into the Sea of Bitterness, one of the most perilous ces in the Netherworld.


    Furthermore, the old blind man said that the slovenly old Daoist had once tried to use a treasure to determine Su Yi’s fate, only to fail. Worse, he ruined his treasure in the process.


    None of that had particrly surprised Su Yi.


    It was just that he hadn’t anticipated that the elderly, slovenly Daoist of suspicious origins would show up just as he was about to undergo tribtion.


    “Are you here as a friend or as a foe?” Su Yi got straight to the point.


    Over on the distant seas, the unkempt old Daoist hurriedly waved. “Fellow Daoist, please, focus on oveing your tribtion. This old Daoist is absolutely not your enemy!”


    “Oh?” said Su Yi before paying the man no further heed.


    The unkempt old Daoist inwardly sighed in relief. He stared at Su Yi’s distant, upright figure in a daze, as if recalling something.


    Boom!!


    Suddenly, a crack of thunder rang out. It seemed to have umted power for a long time, and it shook the skies throughout a thousand-mile radius.


    Above Su Yi, the depths of the silently umting tribtion clouds suddenly churned, interspersed with terrifying, intermittent shes of electrical light.


    Su Yi’s expression was calm as he sensed the destructive aura of the impending tribtion.


    “Back in the Wilds, when Holy Maiden Yan Suni of the Nine Extremes Profound Capital proved her Dao and entered the Spiritual Manifestation Realm, she faced a tribtion of?nigh?unprecedented power. They said it was the strongest Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation in thirty thousand years, and it terrified countless old fogies.


    “However, it ultimately pales inparison to the tribtion before me.


    “Throughout the Wilds’ long history, there really haven’t been any Tribtions of Spiritual Manifestationparable to this one.”


    A faint smile tugged at Su Yi’s lips.


    It was faint, but so radiant, so carefree, and so proud.


    Only an unprecedented tribtion like this could satisfy him! This was what he’d reincarnated for!


    Meanwhile, thunder boomed overhead, and the terrifying tribtion covering a thousand-mile radius finally began.


    At that moment.


    Every living thing in the vast Sea of Chaotic Spirits quivered in fear, and those on drynd flung themselves to the ground. They dared not utter even the slightest sound.


    Even Ning Sihua and the others who’d sought refuge in the ruins of the Immortals’ Sword House felt stifled. They trembled, both body and soul.


    All of them felt as if the apocalypse were upon them!


    Boom!


    Thunder shook the nine heavens, and dazzling electrical light illuminated the world.


    The denseyers of ck tribtion clouds split apart. Deep within theyers of cloud, the surging, rampaging tribtion lightning was now clearly visible.


    The Lightning of Spiritual Execution, the Lightning of Celestial Annihtion, the Lightning of the Eight Winds, Maic Origin Lightning… Dozens of different types of rare, matchless tribtion lightning shone within the clouds.


    Each type of lightning represented a power capable of destroying heaven and earth. When they fell, they’d reduce an entire area to powder.


    “This… this… How is this a Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation? Even Tribtions of the Spiritual Revolution are nowhere near this terrifying!”


    Over on the distant seas, the unkempt old Daoist trembled and visibly lost hisposure.


    However, Su Yi just stood there proudly, hands behind his back as he gazed up into the sky.


    Boom!


    As a crack of thunder rang out, roaring pirs of lightning descended from the heavens.


    Ordinarily speaking, the firstyer of a Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation was the weakest.


    However, the lightning bolts descending upon Su Yi were thick enough for several people to wrap their arms around. They shed with radiant purple light, illuminating the Sea of Chaotic Spirits.


    Their power shocked the world!


    “My heavens!” Ying Que couldn’t help but blurt.


    This was just the firstyer of the tribtion, but its power far surpassed his Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation. Even a Spiritual Incarnation Realm cultivator would have stood little chance of blocking it, never mind Ying Que! Had he faced such a tribtion back then, one lightning bolt would have reduced him to ash!


    “Excellent!” Su Yi hesitated no further. He charged directly into the heavens, making no attempt to block. He just took the tribtion lightning with his body.


    His blue robes and ck hair fluttered around him, and his entire body emanated an unrestrained air. He was like a frenzied immortal, the very opposite of his typical calm, casual demeanor.


    It was as if a sword long left to gather dust had finally left its sheath, revealing its sharp edge!


    Bang bang bang!


    As the terrifying purple lightning mmed into Su Yi, smaller streaks of electricity traveled across his skin, as if jumping about on every bone and muscle. The lightning released an utterly terrifying destructive aura and attacked him inside and out.


    Su Yi didn’t so much as furrow his brow. Rather, he used this opportunity to call upon the full extent of his cultivation base.


    The Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation was dangerous, but it was a fortuitous encounter in its own right.


    It was born of the Laws of Heaven and Earth. It could both quench the flesh and temper the cultivation base.


    Spiritual Manifestation cultivators were powerful because they’d undergone a baptism by tribtion lightning. Without oveing a lightning tribtion, it was impossible to step into the Spirit Dao.


    Whoosh~


    Five-colored Dao Light circted around Su Yi, and Yin and Yang fused into one another, creating a perfect cycle of the Grand Dao. Wind and lightning revolved inside it, creating a whirlpool.


    As the circle of Dao Light revolved, it wore away the attacking purple tribtion lightning. Before long, some of the lightning had beenpletely neutralized.


    The rest had been absorbed into the whirlpool and refined.


    In the end——


    ch! ch!


    Wisps of ck smoke rose from Su Yi’s body like serpents. This was the turbid qi he’d umted within his body over the course of his daily cultivation. The power of the tribtion was an opportunity to cleanse his impurities, one by one.


    Su Yi’s fleshly body shone increasingly brilliantly, like a diamond.


    “He blocked it, just like that?” The unkempt old Daoist widened his eyes.


    There was no scattered flesh or spraying blood. There was no hysterical struggle. Throughout the entire process, Su Yi looked calm and at ease. He’d neutralized the firstyer of his tribtion in a single attempt!


    The old Daoist couldn’t possibly have known this, but Su Yi had tempered his cultivation and mental state to the pinnacle of his current realm months ago.


    Furthermore, with the power of the Strongest Dao Seed he’d condensed as an Origin Dao cultivator, he could already y even Spiritual Incarnation Realm cultivators. Of course he could ovee the firstyer of his tribtion!


    Rumble! Boom!


    Before long, nine bolts of lightning fell in rapid session.


    This was the secondyer of the tribtion, and each bolt was thicker and brighter than the one before.


    In the end, they were like silver pirs of light, and they shook heaven and earth. This was far more terrifying than the firstyer of the tribtion.


    Su Yi didn’t dodge. He just stood proudly in the sky, blocking the lightning with his fleshly body!


    Beams of lightning and electrical light scattered. Thunder reverberated throughout heaven and earth.


    The cycle of the Grand Dao revolving behind Su Yi neutralized all nine bolts of silver lightning, one by one.


    Su Yi, meanwhile, was entirely unharmed, without so much as a hair out of ce!


    Heaven and earth were deathly silent.


    “Isn’t this a bit… too damn terrifying?” The sloppy old Daoist was wide-eyed and so stunned he could barely speak. He practically jumped.


    Every cultivator’s Tribtion of Spiritual Manifestation was different.


    Particrly powerful tribtions could obliterate even miraculous geniuses or chosen sons of heaven, ending their Dao and destroying them both body and soul.


    Even more terrifying tribtions could result in almost certain death despite ample preparations. Dharma protectors, formations, and miraculous secret treasures sometimes weren’t enough to save you.


    Throughout history, no small number of?peerless?chosen of heaven had fallen while undergoing such tribtions. Less than one in a thousand made it through unharmed.


    However, Su Yi’s grand tribtion was different; it was so terrifying that it?boggled?the imagination.


    Were a Spiritual Revolution Realm cultivator here to see this, even they would feel a certain degree of dread, and their hearts would quiver in terror.


    However, Su Yi made oveing lightning tribtion seem as easy as eating or drinking. This was simply unheard of!


    Boom!


    The lightning tribtion didn’t stop. On the contrary, its light grew even more searing and intense.


    Before long, the thirdyer of the tribtion arrived, the lightning bolts roaring like dragons as they poured from the depths of the clouds. Each lightning dragon was fully one thousand feet long, and they shone with dazzling, jade-like hues.


    Nine lightning dragons suddenly gathered together, forming a singr lightning bolt like a primordial divine mountain. It came crashing down from the heavens.


    This attack was inestimably more powerful than the secondyer of the lightning tribtion!


    This time, Su Yi finally looked a bit solemn.


    However, he didn’t retreat. He still blocked it with his body.


    Bang!!!


    The instant the jade lightning pir came crashing down, he was envelopedpletely in endless, overflowing, jade electric light.


    When they saw this, hispanions’ hearts clenched, and their expressions shifted dramatically.


    But before long, they watched as the mountainous, overflowing electric light suddenly swayed. A momentter, a long, thin rift appeared…


    In the end, the lightning bolt reminiscent of a primordial divine mountain disintegrated with a bang and copsed.


    And a tall, upright figure appeared within the searing electric radiance.


    A perfect cycle of the light of the Grand Dao revolved, continuously absorbing and refining the rain of scattering, dissipating electricity. In the process, it illuminated the entire area, creating a magnificent scene.


    This only made Su Yi seem even more like a god or immortal!