2155 Live or die together
Song Shuhang rode the wind and the waves, carrying with him his Holy Ape Choir, the virtuous lamia, and Fairy Creation as he headed to the depths of the lightning sea.
Eventually, he caught sight of the heavenly tribulation that had made him feel threatened.
There was a huge ball of lightning in the depths of the sea, and beneath this lightning ball was a palm made of tribulation clouds.
The scene gave him a familiar feeling, and he could not help but glance at the palm.
Above his head, the virtuous lamia sang while playing the zither, “Lightning~ Palm~”
“Nonsense.” Song Shuhang pointed at the huge lightning ball ahead of him and said, “How could a Lightning Palm be so big?”
The tribulation lightning unceasingly gathered around the huge palm. If this continued, the power of this Lightning Palm would become high enough to instantly wipe out a city.
Just as if it had sensed Song Shuhang’s aura, the hand made of tribulation clouds rose up and aimed at him. In the palm of this hand, a terrifying lightning ball crackled.
Then, as if a chain reaction had been set off, hands made of tribulation clouds emerged from the sea of lightning one after the other. Each of these hands was as large as a pillar, and they all locked onto Song Shuhang.
Song Shuhang: “…”
If so many giant palms were to slap me at the same time, even if I was made of steel, I would be scorched black.
The atmosphere became heavy.
The music of the two fairies came to a halt, and the 123 holy apes also stopped singing.
The giant hands that had risen out of the sea did not attack Song Shuhang immediately. They simply locked onto him and started gathering strength.
After about three breaths of time, above Song Shuhang’s head, the two fairy maidens began playing again.
It was an ensemble consisting of a zither and a lute.
However, the style of the music had changed; it was no longer a passionate melody but rather a sad and familiar tune.
Even Song Shuhang, who had lost his memory, felt as if he had heard this tune somewhere.
What the two fairy maidens were playing was funeral music.
When a person was being laid to rest and lowered into their grave, it was customary in numerous places to arrange a band to play and sing on the side. The band would play mournful music as the dead were sent into the grave where they would have their final rest.
What the two fairies were playing at this moment was exactly the kind of music that would be played during those times.
Their only regret was that they only had string instruments. They lacked the sad tones that were brought about by wind instruments, and this resulted in the sad atmosphere brought about by their playing to be rather lacking.
Under the leadership of the large holy ape, the holy apes lowered their voices and sang dirges with sad tones.
In the future, if Song Shuhang were to truly die, he would not only have brought his own gravestone with him, but even his personal band of scholarly apes to play and sing for his funeral.
He would not need to trouble anyone else to take care of his death.
As if stimulated by the sorrowful music, the tribulation hands slapped fiercely at Song Shuhang despite not being at the height of their power.
Song Shuhang hastily stretched out his hand to lift up the turtle shell shield. After all, his purpose of entering the depths of the lightning sea alone was to test the power of the heavenly tribulation that was brewing there.
“There are too many Lightning Palms. Is there any way to get rid of a few of them?” Song Shuhang mused. With him having come here to investigate the strength of the tribulation, he only needed to withstand one Lightning Palm.
As this thought flashed through his mind, the eight nascent souls in his dantian moved as if they had received a command.
The seven little nascent souls raised their hands, and seven life wheels appeared in their hands.
The serrated blades wheel, broadswords wheel, metal pages wheel, spiraling swords ball wheel, interlocked gears wheel, thread wheel, and the seemingly ordinary octagonal wheel were all summoned.
The seven life wheels shot out toward the giant Lightning Palms.
At the same time, the life wheel of his original dantian materialized on the top of Song Shuhang’s head. It was a bristly cannon wheel that looked like a crown of sorts, and it was a long-range life wheel.
Life wheels were different from magical techniques, and they were considered an innate attack. Even if Song Shuhang lost his memory, as long as the thought of attacking appeared in his mind, his life wheel would automatically appear. It followed the same principles as the Lotus Blossoming Steps, which was an innate skill.
The life wheels, a means of attack unique to cultivators at the Sixth Stage Realm, were enhanced by Shuhang’s nascent souls.
Moreover, the phantom of thirty-three magical treasures appeared behind every life wheel. It was the projection of Song Shuhang’s life-bound magical treasure, which further enhanced the life wheels.
After these two buffs, the life wheels unleashed power far exceeding that of the Sixth Stage.
The giant palms, which acted prematurely, each possessed a might equivalent to a full-strength strike of a Seventh Stage Venerable.
The life wheels swiftly cut through the air and slashed apart the giant Lightning Palms. At the same time, the bristly cannon wheel above Song Shuhang’s head opened fire, destroying these giant palms that had been sliced in half.
After the life wheels concluded their onslaught, a single Lightning Palms was left, exactly what Song Shuhang wanted.
“Boom~”
The giant Lightning Palm, which was deliberately left intact, slapped Song Shuhang and hit the turtle shell shield.
Song Shuhang remained motionless.
The power of the Lightning Palm was completely blocked by the turtle shell, and the numbing effect of the lightning was also useless.
Song Shuhang shook his hands. He had obtained a general understanding of the power of the Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Palm.
If it’s just that, I should be able to survive it as long as I’m careful, Song Shuhang thought to himself.
As long as the heavenly tribulation does not mutate, I should not have much to—
When he was halfway through his thought…
“F*ck!” Song Shuhang cussed and hugged his turtle shell shield tightly.
There was a sudden change in the lightning sea.
This heavenly tribulation had deviated from its normal route.
All the energy in the lightning sea condensed in the blink of an eye.
It was as if a black hole had suddenly appeared in the lightning sea.
It was possible that the heavenly tribulation had come to believe that it was a waste of time to go through the standard procedure. As such, it directly went from the opening scenes to the finale.
All of the power of the Heavenly Tribulation Realm gathered for one final tribulation.
The final tribulation—the invisible death tribulation.
In the early period of the ancient era, if the cultivator transcending the Profound Sage Tribulation was too lively, there was a small chance that they would trigger this tribulation.
This tribulation was not a physical or magical attack, neither was it an inner demon.
It was an attack that made use of the power of laws.
In addition, there was another prerequisite for this tribulation to appear.
The cultivators that it targeted were those who were favored by the heavens and had already come into contact with a “path” while they were still in the Seventh Stage.
For example, when Scarlet Heaven was in the Venerable Realm, he had already comprehended the path that he would tread in the future and had begun to lay the foundation for it.
Only those who transcended the tribulation and carried the aura of a path would be able to trigger this tribulation.
The invisible death tribulation turned into a black light, shining on Song Shuhang. The light passed through Song Shuhang’s body and shone on Sixteen, who was in the distance.
An ominous light connected the two.
They would either live or die together.
In the meantime.
The white horse, who was outside the fog, let out a sigh of relief.
Its body began to dissipate into countless particles.
The black Scarlet Heaven Sword, who had been in its stomach all along, fell to the ground.