Six hours passed!

Ling Feng felt that his dantian world had expanded so far that he could no longer see its limits. At the same time, the barrier of the Creation Realm was riddled with cracks. Only the final push remained before he could step fully into the Human Emperor realm!

"One final push! Breakthrough!"

He drew in a deep breath. Choosing the spiritual will of Sacred Emperor Yan Tian had been the right decision. The evolution of heaven and earth and the insights of the Great Dao were far more valuable to him than any divine skill or secret art.

Time flowed on. The world seemed to shift and turn.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

His dantian space continued to expand wildly, though the rate of expansion had begun to slow.

At that point, the inner world within him was already comparable to that of a great emperor. However, it remained in a primitive state, shrouded in chaos. There was no sky, no earth, no mountains, no rivers, no stars or sun.

This transformation had only just begun. The Human Emperor realm was merely the starting point.

At last, Ling Feng's aura reached its peak. His dantian world had expanded to its limit.

Without hesitation, he gathered all his strength and launched a final assault against the barrier of the Creation Realm!

Breakthrough! Breakthrough!

The heavens and earth changed color as winds surged and clouds churned!

This was the sign of his imminent ascension into the Human Emperor realm!

...

Outside the War God Temple.

Dark clouds gathered from across the sky, converging above the temple until they formed a massive layer of tribulation clouds. Within them, streaks of blood-red lightning coiled and surged, about to break at any moment.

"Hm?"

Elder Yi Feng's eyes twitched.

Someone inside the War God Temple is about to breakthrough?

The temple existed as a separate small world, isolated by a layer of space-time. Yet even so, the tribulation clouds had still formed. That alone was rare.

Under normal circumstances, only a breakthrough to the great emperor level would trigger a lightning tribulation. Among the five who had entered, only Ling Feng had not yet reached that realm.

"Could it be that kid?"

Yi Feng immediately thought of Ling Feng. When he entered, he had already reached the peak of the Spiritual Sea Realm and seemed ready to step into the Human Emperor realm at any moment. However...

How could advancing to the Human Emperor realm trigger a tribulation?

And for the tribulation to form across separate layers of space, what kind of monster was this?

Looking up at the sky, even Yi Feng felt his scalp prickle at the sight of those blood-red bolts.

Judging from the scale of the clouds and the color of the lightning, this was likely the legendary Blood Echelon tribulation.

Ling Feng truly seemed to have a strange connection with it. When he once refined a supreme god pill, he had triggered a Blood Echelon pill tribulation. Now, as he advanced to the Human Emperor realm, the same phenomenon had appeared again!

The gathering storm quickly drew the attention of disciples and elders throughout the Hall of War.

"What the hell? Tribulation clouds?"

"Are you kidding me? Look at that thing. What kind of sin did someone commit to attract this?"

"That poor guy is dead for sure!"

In the Hall of War, breakthroughs from peak Human Emperor to early-tier great emperor were not uncommon. Lightning tribulations appeared regularly.

But nothing like this.

The clouds spread endlessly, blotting out the sky, covering the entire Hall of War. No one had seen anything like it in centuries.

Worse still, the clouds continued to thicken, yet the lightning refused to fall.

It made everyone uneasy.

Were they trying to destroy the entire Hall of War?

A full day passed. The tribulation still had not descended. The lightning within the clouds grew thicker and more terrifying, to the point that even great emperor experts began to feel uneasy.

"Damn... I've lived over a hundred years and never seen a lightning tribulation build up this long!"

"At this rate, the Hall of War might be in danger!"

"Should we retreat? That lightning looks like it won't stop until it kills whoever triggered it."

Another day passed.

Now even the upper ranks grew alarmed. Orders were given for all disciples to retreat eight hundred li away. Meanwhile, elders at the fifth level of the Divine Destiny Realm and above gathered near the War God Temple.

A lightning tribulation of this scale had to be contained. If its power spilled outward, the Hall of War, which had stood for thousands of years without falling to enemies, might be destroyed by this single event.

Xu Zhengfeng's expression was grave as he turned to Yi Feng.

"What exactly is going on?"

Yi Feng forced a bitter smile. "Half a day after they entered, the tribulation clouds began to form. If I had to guess, that boy Ling Feng triggered it inside the temple. The moment he comes out, the lightning tribulation will descend."

"That little monster!"

Xu Zhengfeng rubbed his forehead, clearly exasperated. "He can trigger a tribulation across space, and it is only a Human Emperor breakthrough. Does it really need to be this outrageous?"

Even the Blood Echelon tribulation had appeared!

Normally, reaching Human Emperor realm did not require a tribulation. But for someone like Ling Feng, it was not entirely surprising. What was excessive was the sheer scale of it.

"Supreme Elder Xu, what should we do?" another elder asked. "If that lightning falls, the War God Temple might be destroyed."

"We will have to block it ourselves!" Xu Zhengfeng said with a sigh. "Once that brat gets through this, I will make sure to give him a proper scolding! If he wants to undergo tribulation, he should at least pick a better place!"

If Ling Feng could hear him, he would not know whether to laugh or cry.

As if he could control when and where a tribulation struck!

...

Inside the War God Temple, Ling Feng had no idea what chaos he had caused outside.

Because of the separation between worlds, he could faintly sense that a tribulation was coming, yet no lightning struck no matter how long he waited.

"That is strange. I have already stepped into the Human Emperor realm. Why does something still feel off?"

He frowned but did not dwell on it.

Light flickered around him as the spiritual will of Sacred Emperor Yan Tian finally dissolved completely and merged into his body.

Crack!

With the disappearance of the spiritual will, the stone monument shattered and lost all its power.

At that moment, a beam of light descended from above and enveloped him.

Ling Feng understood what it meant.

He had completed his comprehension and was about to be transported out of the War God Temple.

What he did not know was that the moment he stepped outside, he would be facing a truly terrifying lightning tribulation!