Chapter 464: The Thunder Tribulation Descends
Inside the city, countless Reclassers dropped to their knees.
With fanatical and fearful expressions, they looked toward the City Lord’s Mansion.
Under this terrifying heavenly pressure, even Venerables above level 90 could only kneel on the ground, trembling in fear.
Outside the closed-door training room.
Cheryl clenched her delicate fists tightly.
Her knuckles turned slightly white from the force.
"Aiden, you have to survive this..."
She prayed silently in her heart.
Her beautiful eyes were filled with worry and determination.
Just then-
Crack!
The first bolt of heavenly lightning could no longer hold back its violent will.
It came crashing down with the power to tear an entire planet apart!
In that instant, the terrifying purple-gold lightning lit up half the sky, turning all of Celestial Imperial City as bright as day.
The endless pressure of destruction came down like a mountain.
Everyone in the city was forced flat onto the ground, unable to move.
Boom!
The stone door of the training room exploded into pieces, turning into dust that filled the air.
From within the dust, a tall figure stepped out.
In the next instant, he appeared in the sky.
Aiden’s black hair danced wildly.
His clothes snapped loudly in the storm wind.
He stood with his hands behind his back.
Facing the terrifying lightning that seemed strong enough to destroy everything, he slowly raised his head.
There was not a trace of fear in his eyes.
Only endless coldness and wild pride!
Boom!
The first purple-gold heavenly lightning roared as if it could tear the sky apart.
Carrying world-destroying power, it smashed down toward Aiden’s head.
Aiden did not dodge.
He simply raised his right hand slowly.
In his palm, arcs of lightning flickered and surged.
"Law of Thunder. 10,000x critical hit."
[Ding! Law of Thunder attack detected. The 10,000x critical hit system has been triggered. Law of Thunder has been enhanced by 10,000 times!]
Rumble!
The once violent and unstoppable purple-gold heavenly lightning struck Aiden’s palm.
But in an instant, it turned into a tame spirit snake.
Aiden tore it apart by force, devoured it, and turned it into pure energy to strengthen his own body.
The sky seemed completely enraged by what Aiden had done.
Deep within the thunderclouds, another deafening roar rang out.
Right after that, the second and third bolts of heavenly lightning turned into two massive thunder dragons.
They twisted together and dove down from the sky.
Everywhere they passed, space itself collapsed.
"Space. Fold."
Aiden’s expression was cold.
He raised one hand and gently swept it across the void.
[Ding! Law of Space has triggered a 10,000x critical hit!]
Buzz!
The space within a hundred yards in front of Aiden instantly folded and warped like the surface of water.
The two thunder dragons were forcefully pushed off course.
They brushed past his body and crashed into the empty void, blasting a huge black hole in the distance.
The terrifying shockwave swept back toward him.
Aiden took it head-on with his physical body.
The blood and energy inside him surged violently.
"Good! Again!"
Aiden threw his head back and laughed wildly.
His laughter shattered layers of clouds.
As if responding to his challenge, the color of the heavenly tribulation suddenly changed from purple-gold to dark red.
It looked like blood tears falling from the death of a god.
The fourth and fifth bolts of heavenly lightning descended at the same time.
This was no longer simple lightning.
It was a storm of laws formed from pure destruction!
Boom!
Under that terrifying pressure, Aiden’s robes turned to ash in an instant.
His strong body was revealed, looking as if it had been forged from divine iron.
Pfft!
Warm divine blood spilled from the corner of Aiden’s mouth.
In an instant, countless thin cracks split open across his skin.
Golden divine blood sprayed into the void.
"System, lock my life force!"
[Ding! The 10,000x critical hit system has deeply fused with the host’s soul. Life force has been forcibly locked. Injury recovery speed increased by 10,000 times!]
Buzz!
His body, which had almost collapsed, began to rebuild at a terrifying speed under the power of the system.
New skin grew over him, shining with a faint golden light.
Just then, the sixth bolt of heavenly lightning slowly emerged from the depths of the black clouds.
It was a strange, pure black lightning tribulation.
There was not a single trace of light in it.
Yet it gave off a terrifying aura that made the entire Earth tremble.
The pressure from this attack had already surpassed the full-strength strike of a Greater God!
Inside Celestial Imperial City, countless Reclassers trembled under this pressure.
They could not even stand.
Their eyes were filled with despair.
"This isn’t a godhood tribulation at all... The Heavenly Dao wants to erase him completely!"
Aiden threw his head back and laughed wildly.
On his right fist, the Law of Slaughter and the Law of Fire erupted at the same time.
They turned into a blood-red flaming divine weapon that seemed to pierce through heaven and earth.
"Break for me!"
[Ding! Law of Slaughter and Law of Fire have triggered a 10,000x critical hit!]
Boom!
A crimson flame giant, ten thousand feet tall, rose from behind Aiden.
As Aiden threw his punch, the giant punched out with him.
It carried endless killing intent and smashed hard into the black lightning.
At that moment, heaven and earth fell completely silent.
The pure black lightning tribulation was shattered by Aiden’s punch.
It turned into a rain of black light that poured down from the sky.
Aiden coughed up mouthfuls of blood.
Half of his body had been reduced to white bone.
His divine blood soaked the void around him, making the scene look tragic.
But his eyes were frighteningly bright.
The heavenly tribulation gave him no chance to catch his breath.
The seventh and eighth lightning tribulations came one after another, carrying even more terrifying waves of destruction.
"Fight!"
Aiden’s eyes turned blood-red.
He did not retreat at all.
With his broken body, he charged straight toward the world-destroying lightning tribulations.
Boom! Boom!
Each collision came with the sharp sound of divine bones shattering.
Divine blood fell like rain over Celestial Imperial City.
Below, Cheryl watched that tall figure inside the lightning.
Again and again, he was badly wounded.
Yet he never fell.
Tears had already poured from her eyes.
She bit her red lips hard, letting blood seep out.
Her fingers dug deep into her palms.
Even when her nails pierced her skin, she did not notice.
"Aiden... survive. You must survive!"
At last, the endless thunderclouds began to shrink wildly toward the center.
In that moment, the void within ten thousand miles collapsed on a massive scale.
Large areas of pitch-black emptiness were revealed.
At the center of the clouds, a black lightning sphere slowly appeared.
It was formed from pure Law of Destruction.
It swallowed all the light around it.
The ninth heavenly tribulation.
Its power was now terrifying enough to instantly kill any Greater God.
It even caused the laws of the entire Earth to begin collapsing.
Aiden floated in the broken void.
Under the power of the system, his shattered body was pulled back together and rebuilt once more.
He took a deep breath.
Countless rays of divine light burst from his eyes.
"So... this is the final strike?"
A wild and arrogant smile appeared on Aiden’s face.
At that moment, all the Force of Laws inside his body began to boil.
[Ding! Extreme fatal danger detected. 10,000x critical hit system... activating at full power!]
The black lightning sphere hanging high in the sky moved.
It made no sound.
Carrying absolute destructive will, it fell fiercely from the depths of the clouds.
Crack!
Wherever the lightning sphere passed, space shattered like fragile glass.
Large pieces of it broke apart, revealing the deep, cold emptiness behind it.
Just a small wave of law energy leaking from it was enough to shave dozens of meters off the ground within ten miles outside Celestial Imperial City.
The earth trembled.
The laws cried out in pain.
Aiden stood in the broken void and looked up at the black lightning sphere that could erase even a god.
There was no fear in his eyes.
Only battle intent, burning to the limit.
[Ding! The 10,000x critical hit system is now running at full power. Law fusion function activated!]
The system’s cold mechanical voice exploded in his mind.
At that moment, the four Force of Laws inside Aiden went completely wild.
"Space, overlap."
"Thunder, rage."
"Slaughter, form a weapon."
"Fire, burn the sky."
Aiden’s voice was low and hoarse.
Every time he spoke a word, a terrifying law phenomenon appeared between heaven and earth.
Buzz!
Under the forceful control of the 10,000x critical hit system, the four supreme laws-Space, Thunder, Slaughter, and Fire-began to fuse in front of Aiden.
These laws should have rejected one another.
But now, they were being forced together.
With the 10,000x law boost, this fused power reached an unimaginable breaking point.
Aiden suddenly clenched his right fist.
He compressed this world-destroying fused law power tightly onto his fist.
In an instant, the skin and flesh on his right arm split open.
Golden divine blood had just begun to flow out when it was completely evaporated by the violent Force of Laws.
"This punch will take your life!"
Aiden laughed wildly.
Instead of retreating, he charged forward and punched straight at the falling black lightning sphere.
Boom!
The moment his fist collided with the lightning, the entire Earth seemed to fall into absolute silence.
Then came a sight that swept across the whole planet.
Golden divine light and violent purple-black lightning twisted and tore at each other in the void.
The dark night sky was lit up as bright as day.
The terrifying shockwave turned into visible ripples and spread wildly in a circle for hundreds of miles.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The defensive shield of Celestial Imperial City activated on its own.
The bright barrier shook violently and let out a sharp alarm, as if it could no longer hold.
Cheryl stared hard at the brightest point of the light.
The fierce wind almost made it impossible for her to open her eyes.
But she refused to look away, not even for a second.
Crack.
A clear breaking sound rang out.
Even amid the thunder filling the sky, it was strangely clear.
On the surface of the black lightning sphere that had swallowed all light, a golden crack suddenly appeared.
Then came a second crack.
A third.
"Break for me!"
Aiden let out a beast-like roar from deep in his throat.
The fused power of the four laws on his right fist exploded completely.
Rumble!
The ninth heavenly lightning, powerful enough to instantly kill a Greater God, was actually smashed apart by Aiden’s punch.
It turned into a rain of black light and scattered into the void.
Pfft!
Aiden’s body fell heavily from the sky and crashed into the ruins in front of Celestial Imperial City.