Chapter 488: You Can Do That?

The depths of cosmic space.

A majestic heavenly might billowed out, vast and unending.

Standing tall in the void, Chen Yu completely unleashed his aura. A celestial might swept out as a potent Power of Rules descended from the depths of space.

It roiled the river of stars!

“This Divine Tribulation… It’s going to be incredibly powerful. I can’t imagine what level it will reach…”

On a desolate star, Feng Miaotian and the others watched Chen Yu in the deep. They could feel the boundless celestial might and the Power of Rules. Even from such a great distance, a tremor wracked them from the depths of their very souls, as if they could be torn apart at any moment.

For someone who has mastered the Nine Laws and forged a Supreme Divine Kingdom, their Divine Tribulation would naturally far surpass that of an ordinary True God.

The deeper one’s foundation, the more terrifying the Divine Tribulation!

Furthermore, Chen Yu had refined the World Tree. His Divine Tribulation was imbued with the will of the universe’s own rules. They had no idea just how powerful it could become.

Yet, just from the descent of the celestial might of the rules, even someone as powerful as Feng Miaotian felt the chilling specter of death loom over her.

Her intuition screamed that if she were to face this Divine Tribulation with her current power, she wouldn’t survive a single strike!

She remembered her own tribulation to become a god with perfect clarity.

This Divine Tribulation was likely hundreds, if not thousands, of times more intense.

—

His aura spread, sweeping through the starry sky. Countless meteoroids were blasted aside by its sheer force.

The celestial might intensified, and the Power of the Rules of the cosmos continued to climb.

A boundless aura surged forth.

In the depths of space, a blood-red eye, as massive as a sun, materialized above Chen Yu.

A destructive power spread throughout the star-filled void.

Arcs of electricity crackled across the blood-red eye, which was suffused with a power capable of extinguishing all existence.

“The Eye of Heavenly Punishment!”

“It’s this intense and it’s only just begun!”

Watching the blood-red eye appear, Dongfang Yao and the other two on the distant, desolate star felt their eyes twitching uncontrollably.

The very first strike of the Divine Tribulation manifested the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. Just how terrifying would the rest of it be?!

“Here it comes.”

As the Divine Tribulation’s Eye of Heavenly Punishment descended, Chen Yu felt not a shred of fear. Instead, he was filled with anticipation.

‘The stronger, the better.’

‘An ordinary Divine Tribulation probably wouldn’t be enough to completely transform me.’

‘Only a world-ending heavenly punishment like this could be truly exhilarating.’

VMMMM—!!

The Eye of Heavenly Punishment opened, and a colossal beam of scarlet light shot out.

Like the blast from a supernova, the beam instantly illuminated the Dark Deep Space.

Divine Light of Heavenly Punishment!

It contained the destructive power of the Divine Tribulation, and was also imbued with the Power of the universe’s Rules.

“Retreat!”

As the Divine Light of Heavenly Punishment descended, Feng Miaotian and her two companions felt the touch of death and retreated in a frenzy.

Even the aftershocks from the Divine Light’s residual power were enough to grievously injure, or even kill them!

At that moment, the scarlet Divine Light completely enveloped Chen Yu’s body.

Within the Divine Light, destructive Divine Thunder continuously bombarded his physical form.

It was like a cosmic thunderstorm!

Bathing in the Destruction Divine Thunder, Chen Yu didn’t resist in the slightest. Instead, he activated his Celestial Destiny Skill and began absorbing the power of the Divine Light.

He was refining his physical body and his spirit in unison.

The Divine Thunder, imbued with the Power of the universe’s Rules, caused his Nine Laws to grow significantly stronger.

The Nine Laws manifested, with the World Law at their core.

The first strike, an ‘appetizer.’ Chen Yu ‘devoured’ it without feeling the slightest pressure!

The scarlet Divine Light sank into his body, completely devoured. His own vast Divine Power was tempered in the process.

However, his Divine Power was so immense that this single beam of heavenly punishment only managed to temper one percent of it.

The enhancement from the World Tree was simply too great.

It had continuously shattered the limits of his Divine Power.

His Divine Power alone was likely more formidable than that of thousands, even tens of thousands, of Tier One True Gods combined!

In the span of a single breath, he had devoured it all. Chen Yu’s figure reappeared, completely unharmed.

GULP~

In the distant void, the three onlookers watched the scene unfold, swallowing hard without even realizing it.

‘Unbelievable.’

‘He’s just tanking it head-on!’

‘Not even trying to defend?’

‘And… does Chen Yu look like he’s actually… enjoying it?!’

The three of them were utterly dumbfounded.

This method of undergoing tribulation was something else entirely. It was a real eye-opener!

TCHH!!!

A mere breath after he absorbed the first beam of divine light, the Eye of Heavenly Punishment erupted once more, unleashing a destructive divine light that was even more brilliant.

Its power had climbed a hundredfold!

The scarlet Divine Light descended, visible even from a thousand light-years away.

This spectacle also drew the attention of many titans from the surrounding Life Worlds.

From over a thousand light-years away, figures emerged one by one, stepping into the Cosmic Deep Space.

The range of the Divine Tribulation’s fluctuations was immense, extending well beyond a thousand light-years.

Even though Chen Yu had chosen a location with no inhabited planets within a five-hundred-light-year radius, the area was still too small.

But he paid them no mind.

He didn’t care if his Divine Tribulation caused a commotion.

No one would dare approach the center of a Divine Tribulation. Not even a top-tier True God like Wu Wudi would dare to intrude.

The more powerful the intruder, the stronger the tribulation’s retaliation against them.

Unless they were a being at the Great Emperor Level, no True God below that realm could possibly withstand it.

……

“This is… a Divine Tribulation!”

“The Eye of Heavenly Punishment… My heavens, what kind of Divine Tribulation is this?”

“The one undergoing the tribulation seems to be a Tier One True God.”

“This must be a Tier Two Divine Tribulation.”

“The Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and you’re telling me this is a Tier Two Divine Tribulation?”

“But the facts are the facts. The person facing the tribulation is indeed a Tier One True God, so this has to be his Tier Two Divine Tribulation.”

“The power of this Divine Tribulation… I’m afraid it’s even stronger than a tribulation for Tier Three, Tier Four, or even Tier Five.”

“Nine Laws… In the Celestial River Star System? When did such a prodigy emerge?”

“That’s the aura of the Human Race. Could the one facing the tribulation be that infamous prodigy of theirs, Chen?”

“Fuck, how could he possibly have mastered the Nine Laws so quickly?”

“The rumors say he’s the reincarnation of a Great Emperor. Perhaps that’s why he’s so fast—he has a Great Emperor’s insights to draw upon.”

……

In the Cosmic Deep Space, Alien Race True Gods appeared one after another.

The range of the Divine Tribulation’s fluctuations continued to expand, and the immense commotion instantly drew the attention of numerous Alien Race True Gods.

All eyes were fixed on the figure beneath the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

Scoured by the Divine Light of Heavenly Punishment, Chen Yu’s figure was almost completely submerged within it.

Chen Yu paid no mind to the events unfolding outside.

Unleashing his Celestial Destiny Skill to its fullest, he once again offered no resistance.

He continued to absorb the power of the divine light.

Using the power of the Divine Tribulation for tempering was only the beginning; it was not yet enough to overwhelm him.

The destructive power contained within the second wave of divine light was even greater.

Even his True God Body sustained some damage.

But it healed almost instantly.

His Divine Power was almost endless.

For him, this level of damage was no problem at all.

As the Celestial Destiny Skill absorbed and devoured the energy, his Divine Power was tempered to an even greater degree.

At the same time, his Nine Laws were also continuously growing stronger.

While enduring the scouring of the divine light, Chen Yu faintly seemed to gain new insight into a Law.

The Destruction Law!

The cosmic power of destruction contained within the Eye of Heavenly Punishment had, in that moment, granted him a shred of insight into this new Law.

However, this insight was merely in its nascent stage.

The scarlet Divine Light illuminated the Dark Deep Space, but its intensity was steadily fading.

Chen Yu’s figure reappeared as the second wave of divine light was completely absorbed.

“Not enough. Far from enough.”

Half of his Divine Power had been tempered, but it was still not yet completely refined.

This feeling of being only halfway there was unsettling.

He looked up at the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. Before it could unleash the next wave of the Divine Tribulation, Chen Yu plunged headfirst directly into the eye itself.

“…”

You can do that?