Chapter 667 - 294: Thirty-Six Celestial Spirits Array, Unexpected Great Gains_2
This pressure was countless times more terrifying than that from the vast, heavy Celestial Tribulation Clouds. It was also countless times more terrifying than the individual pressures exerted by each of the thirty-six, ten-thousand-zhang-tall Celestial Tribulation Creatures. This pressure gave every living being who witnessed this scene the illusion that the entire sky was about to come crashing down, that the entire world was about to be annihilated beneath the Battle Array!
In an instant, both the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, with its thirty-six Spirit Peaks, and the vast Spiritual Crane Immortal City fell completely silent. Under the pressure of the Profound Mysterious Array formed by the thirty-six Celestial Tribulation Creatures, the faces of every Cultivator and every Earth Immortal turned drastically pale, and their breathing hitched.
In every corner, the sounds of kneeling, THUD, THUD, could be heard. Within the Spiritual Crane Immortal City, not a single one of the millions of Cultivators could withstand this pressure from the Celestial Tribulation; all their knees went weak, they knelt on one knee, trembling all over, their Qi Blood stagnating. Originally, these Cultivators were gossiping among themselves, but at this moment, no one dared to speak, no one dared to look up. In the hearts of each of these millions of Cultivators, a terrifying notion arose: if they dared to speak arbitrarily, dared to look up, the terrifying array formed by the thirty-six Celestial Tribulation Creatures would immediately annihilate their bodies and Divine Souls...
It wasn’t just the Cultivators in the Spiritual Crane Immortal City. Under the pressure of the Profound Mysterious Array formed by the thirty-six Celestial Tribulation Creatures, the disciples in the Transcendence Realm from the thirty-six Spirit Peaks of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect also turned deathly pale and knelt on one knee. Not one of them could remain standing under such terrifying pressure! Even those Earth Immortals who had personally experienced multiple Celestial Tribulations, including Sect Leader Li of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect and the Five Elements Wanderer, turned pale, as if they had witnessed the most terrifying power in this world! The two Crane Ancestors of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, had their feathers standing on end, their crane eyes’ pupils contracted, as if they had seen some Demon Beast that specifically hunted Spiritual Cranes!
Seeing this, a flicker of dread also appeared in the eyes of Lin Xuankong, who was continuously absorbing the Celestial Tribulation Special Immortal Essence to enhance his strength. The millions of Cultivators in the Spiritual Crane Immortal City, the tens of thousands of disciples of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, and the hundreds of Earth Immortals were already trembling all over merely from enduring the pressure leaking from the Celestial Tribulation Grand Array. What then for him, the direct target of the Celestial Tribulation? If his Divine Soul hadn’t undergone Metamorphosis to the Immortal Tier from absorbing the Celestial Tribulation Special Immortal Essence, he would have likely kneeled immediately, utterly defeated, and surrendered on the spot, even before the thirty-six Celestial Tribulation Creatures activated the true offensive power of their Grand Array!
Taking a deep breath, Lin Xuankong suppressed the deep-seated trembling in his Divine Soul caused by the Celestial Tribulation Grand Array. Without the slightest hesitation, he directly activated the Third-Grade Cyan Nether Immortal Sword, slashing towards one of the Celestial Tribulation Creatures!
Lin Xuankong had recently been studying the Arrays of the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, gaining significant knowledge in the arrangement and destruction of various Grand Arrays. With the sixty-fold bonus from ’Old and Wise,’ his Array Mastery, though not the foremost in the Spiritual Crane Immortal Sect, already ranked him among the top Earth Immortals of the sect. Yet, facing the Grand Array formed by the thirty-six Celestial Tribulation Creatures, Lin Xuankong still couldn’t discern its crucial point. This clearly indicated that this Grand Array was far from an ordinary Battle Array... Therefore, Lin Xuankong knew very well that the only way to deal with such a terrifying Grand Array was to launch a preemptive strike. If he could directly destroy one of the Celestial Tribulation Creatures, perhaps the entire Grand Array’s power would significantly diminish due to the lack of an Array Hub. Otherwise, once the thirty-six Celestial Tribulation Creatures simultaneously activated the Grand Array, he would likely be forced into a passive position!
At this moment, urged by Lin Xuankong, who was at the Initial Tier Earth Immortal Realm, the Third-Grade Cyan Nether Immortal Sword reached its peak speed, piercing towards the westernmost, ten-thousand-zhang-tall Celestial Tribulation Creature in an instant! To Lin Xuankong’s surprise, the two-thousand-zhang-long and enormously heavy Third-Grade Cyan Nether Immortal Sword, as it thrust towards the Celestial Tribulation Creature, was utterly unable to pierce it. The tip of the Third-Grade Cyan Nether Immortal Sword was halted three chi away from the Celestial Tribulation Creature by an invisible and immensely powerful force! No matter how Lin Xuankong channeled his vast Immortal Yuan, no matter how the Third-Grade Cyan Nether Immortal Sword rotated, vibrated, and emitted Spiritual Light, it simply could not break through that short distance of three chi. It was as if an entire world separated the Third-Grade Cyan Nether Immortal Sword from the Celestial Tribulation Creature!
Meanwhile, the thirty-six ten-thousand-zhang-tall Celestial Tribulation Creatures, having formed the Profound Mysterious Array, began to swing their gigantic, several-thousand-zhang-long arms in the air. Hundreds of streaks of lightning erupted from their bodies, converging towards the center of the Grand Array they had formed. Moments later, these lightning streaks intertwined, coalescing into a Thunderball covered with various Runes. As more lightning converged, the Thunderball grew larger, the lightning Runes upon it becoming increasingly complex and brilliant, and the terrifying energy it contained growing ever more potent!
Witnessing this, Lin Xuankong’s pupils involuntarily contracted. Those countless streaks of lightning erupting from the Celestial Tribulation Creatures’ bodies were no ordinary lightning... Having once cultivated the Yin Talisman Thunder Skill, Lin Xuankong was absolutely certain that the hundreds of lightning streaks forming the Thunderball were, in fact, Divine Thunder Roots—the very source from which thunder and lightning originated!