When Huo Yuhao left the thunder zone, his entire person was black.
He had originally thought that the ability of the Son of Nature could bring him some resistance. He had not expected it to still be so painful.
Gu Yuena looked at his black and shiny appearance, plus the head of a curly afro. The smile on the corner of her mouth was like a certain rifle that couldn't be suppressed.
A heavenly tribulation, how could it be so easy to withstand?
"Are you alright?" Although the Snow Empress also had a smile on her face, her tone rarely had an extra bit of concern. This made the Gu Yuena at the side's eyes instantly become vigilant.
"I'm fine. Not a single bit of injury. It just hurts," Huo Yuhao said truthfully.
"Then why don't I, when I welcome the heavenly tribulation in a moment, have you share a little less?" The Snow Empress was very worried about his appearance. Her beautiful pupils dimmed slightly. She could only say so.
"Don't be silly. Your physique is not guaranteed to get through this heavenly tribulation. Since I have promised you, I will absolutely not go back on my word," Huo Yuhao's face turned serious. He grabbed the Snow Empress's shoulder and said solemnly.
Just now, after continuously taking a few bolts of lightning, Huo Yuhao's body had also begun to adapt a little. His Thunderflame Purgatory Vine was even more so emitting an emotion of cheering and jumping for joy. He and his soul spirit were of one mind. He could sense that the few bolts of lightning had at least improved the Thunderflame Purgatory Vine's cultivation by ten years.
Those were just very ordinary bolts of lightning! It could only be said that, as expected of a soul beast that grew by eating this. Truly a sin!
The sky gradually became dim. Huo Yuhao knew that the Snow Empress's heavenly tribulation was about to arrive in another half a shichen (one hour). At this time, no matter what he did, he could not change the fact that she had to endure the heavenly tribulation.
Huo Yuhao no longer dallied and immediately sat down cross-legged on the spot. He had to adjust himself to his best state in order to share a certain amount of pressure for the Snow Empress's tribulation.
Seeing that Huo Yuhao was insistent on sharing for the Snow Empress, Gu Yuena could not say anything more. She couldn't even intervene. The heavenly tribulation would not mistake a person. Once she, a half-step God-King, intervened, then what the three of them would face would undoubtedly be a death tribulation.
"Don't worry. If it really comes to that step, I will push him away," the Snow Empress seemed to have seen the worry in Gu Yuena's heart and said softly.
Gu Yuena was silent. She just sighed lightly and flew away into the distance.
She could only watch all of this from afar.
The sky was undergoing a drastic change. Countless soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest were as if they had sensed something. One after another, they moved far away from this thunder valley area.
The Snow Empress's figure floated and landed on a cliff's peak, like a goddess from the nine heavens descending to the mortal world. A head of long, snow-white hair fluttered in the wind. On her pure, pretty face, there was not a trace of panic.
The entire sky was dark. One after another of lightning bolts crisscrossed in the air. A huge pressure descended from the sky, oppressing countless soul beasts until they prostrated on the ground. Only some particularly powerful ninety-thousand-year soul beasts dared to roar up to the sky in the lightning, as if wanting to fight against the might of heaven.
The Snow Empress stood there quietly, appearing exceptionally calm. The gaze she looked at the sky with was deep and distant, and even carried a bit of self-mockery and contempt.
Huo Yuhao then woke up. He knew that the Snow Empress's great calamity was about to begin. The Thunderflame Purgatory Vine drilled out from his shoulder and, towards the dark-cloud-covered sky, transmitted a greedy emotion.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning descended from the sky, fiercely striking the Snow Empress's delicate body. She let out a charming cry up to the sky. Her long, snow-white hair instantly stood on end. A layer of an ice-blue light boldly met the lightning, intertwining and colliding with each other. The lightning collapsed. Her body swayed for a moment, a bit more of a lightning brilliance in her eyes.
Just at this time, another bolt of lightning descended from the sky. The Snow Empress had an even more difficult time resisting this time. Not only did she stagger back, but her body had also become a sheet of a charred black.
According to the Snow Empress's words, Huo Yuhao could not rush up at the very beginning. She had to first comprehend on her own in the heavenly tribulation. The heavenly tribulation was her disaster, and was also her opportunity.
These lightning bolts were only aimed at the Snow Empress. The sky grew darker and darker. Thick clouds lingered above the valley. If this lightning could also be aimed at the other unmovable plant-system soul beasts, I'm afraid this time the Star Dou Great Forest would suffer a heavy loss.
"Rumble!" Two consecutive bolts of lightning crashed down. The Snow Empress, with her formidable strength, had released her soul power to its extreme. A layer of an ice-blue protective shield was suspended around her body, boldly holding back these two bolts of lightning. But Huo Yuhao clearly felt that after this time, the Snow Empress's aura had suddenly become even stronger.
The power of lightning was vast and great, filled with the righteous qi of heaven and earth. To personally feel the lightning at such a close distance, Huo Yuhao only felt as if his own body and mind had been baptized.
"Hah—" The Snow Empress's huge body slightly curled up, and then immediately after, she once again let out a long roar up to the sky. A huge, ice-blue giant sword shot up to the sky, boldly bombarding the tribulation cloud. In an instant, with this Snow Sword as the center, within a radius of several thousand square meters, it had completely turned into an ice and snow world. Snowflakes were flying and dancing in the air, and the temperature had dropped sharply. It was precisely the two great ultimate skills, the Snow Sword plus the Snow Dance Radiant Sun.
In fact, the Snow Empress's attack did not have too great an effect.
One after another of heavenly thunder continuously fell, forcefully disintegrating the power she had released. Although in the end there was still a cold intent that had rushed into the tribulation cloud, which had clearly weakened the tribulation cloud a little, but when the cold intent had collapsed, the Snow Empress's delicate body was already continuously swaying. But the soul power fluctuation released from her body was still incomparably formidable.
The tribulation cloud seemed to have been provoked. One after another of lightning bolts descended one after another, fiercely chopping down at the Snow Empress.
The Snow Empress raised her head to look at the sky. In her eyes, there was no despair, only a look of formidability. At her forehead, an ice-blue vortex slowly appeared. The surrounding airflow immediately fluctuated violently. She had just like that withstood the attack of the heavenly thunder.
At the core of the rapidly rotating airflow, Huo Yuhao saw two cores in the shape of snowflakes—soul cores. This should be the soul cores that the Snow Empress had cultivated. A soul core could actually still be used like this.
"Boom boom boom..." One after another of heavenly thunder fell. At the very beginning, the Snow Empress's soul cores could still completely block them. But gradually, the aura of the soul cores began to weaken and fluctuated unstably. In this state, the power of the soul cores could no longer completely protect her delicate and soft body. The Snow Empress's body began to show patches of a charred black, and she was struck by the lightning until she slowly squatted on the ground. Her beautiful pupils began to become more and more dim.
"Rumble!" A huge ball of lightning descended from the sky. Amidst a fierce roaring sound, the Snow Empress's delicate and soft body was forcefully sent flying. The airflow around her soul cores instantly turned to nothingness. Only the two soul cores, like snowflakes, were still there.
"Snow Woman!" Huo Yuhao shouted. Without thinking, he was about to rush up but was intercepted by a sound transmission from Gu Yuena.
"This is something she must experience. Even if you can completely withstand all the subsequent heavenly tribulations, she will not have too great an improvement after she has passed this great limit!"
Huo Yuhao's eyes were all red. He had never personally seen the appearance of a soul beast undergoing a tribulation before. Now he had seen it, and the other party was the Snow Empress, with whom he had a close relationship.
In the original novel, it was precisely because the Snow Empress had no confidence in passing this great limit that she had chosen to re-cultivate as a human! Normally, with the Snow Empress's pride, if not for being sure that she would surely die in the heavenly tribulation, how could she be willing to transform into a human?
In the sky, another ball of lightning had condensed and was boldly attacking in the Snow Empress's direction. The Snow Empress stood up proudly. The aura on her body did not decrease but on the contrary, increased. She tightly held her Snow Sword in her hand and furiously chopped at this ball of lightning.
"Beautiful!" Huo Yuhao couldn't help but cheer. The Snow Empress seemed to have already been able to face this kind of ball lightning. It showed that her power was continuously becoming stronger in the heavenly tribulation.
Large patches of lightning had condensed into a ball shape, crisscrossing in the air. Just by looking with one's eyes, one could feel its world-destroying, terrifying energy.
The Thunderflame Purgatory Vine, sensing the boundless heavenly tribulation, was continuously urging Huo Yuhao, wanting to go deep into it to absorb the vast energy.
To absorb thunder was its instinct. At this time, it was as if it had been hungry for countless years and had suddenly seen such a high-quality delicacy. How could it possibly hold back?
With the blessing of the Son of Nature's aura, it simply did not have to worry about the energy it had absorbed being overly violent and destroying it. What's more, its host was not just the Son of Nature, but was also the Son of Fortune who had received the blessing of the Auspicious Beast!
However, it was still not yet the time for Huo Yuhao to make a move.
The Snow Empress's aura gradually became stronger. The frequency with which she swung her Snow Sword also gradually increased. The one after another of lightning balls that were attacking her were broken by her one by one. And she looked so at ease.
Suddenly, an unprecedented, huge roar sounded. The sky, in an instant, seemed to have changed its color.
The sky suddenly presented an unprecedented purple-gold color and was rapidly spreading, rendering all the lightning the same color.
One after another of a thunderball, like a giant falling raindrop, descended from the sky. A radius of several kilometers of the sky instantly turned into a piece of a purple-gold precious jade, showing its majesty to the world.
A purple-gold thunder rain.
A trace of a determination appeared in the Snow Empress's beautiful pupils. She knew that this one tribulation, I'm afraid she had to get through it. Back then, it was in this thunder rain that she had been heavily injured, which had led to her being tormented by a hidden injury for a hundred thousand years, until she had been healed by Huo Yuhao not long ago.
"Come on!"
The Snow Empress held her sword and was bathed in the thunder rain. The thunder poured down like a torrential rain. Large and large, they bombarded her delicate body. In just one exchange, the Snow Sword in her hand had turned to dust. Her clothes had also been torn to shreds at this moment. The extreme pain had made her lose consciousness on the spot.
"Snow Woman—" Huo Yuhao's eyes were about to split. Gu Yuena had clearly told him that this was also something she had to endure. But why was the Snow Empress so miserable?
What Huo Yuhao didn't know was that a ferocious beast, from its fifty-thousand-year great limit onwards, had to face a thunder rain's invasion. If fifty thousand years required experiencing one thunder rain, then six hundred thousand years required withstanding two thunder rain's baptism. And seventy thousand years was not as simple as just withstanding a thunder rain. The good show later had not yet appeared.
So, whether Huo Yuhao's heart ached or not, the Snow Empress still had to rely on herself to get through these two thunder rains. Even the Ice Empress didn't know that back then, after she had passed the two thunder rains of her six-hundred-thousandth year, the Snow Empress had been on the verge of being scattered into ashes and dust. She had even lain on the spot for a full twenty thousand years before she had recovered her consciousness.
Although the current Snow Empress was much stronger than back then, when she had once again faced such a heavenly might, she could still feel her own smallness and powerlessness.
She suddenly didn't want Huo Yuhao to intervene anymore. How was this something a human could withstand? Why add another human life for a heavenly tribulation?
The Snow Empress's gaze became hazy. She really wanted, really wanted to be like in the original world line, to transform into Huo Yuhao's soul spirit and foolishly call him 'daddy'. At the very least, she could still accompany him in another form.
However, after truly spending a short period of time with Huo Yuhao, she really was unwilling to be a carefree little snow woman, watching with wide eyes as those girls were with him.
So she had resolutely given up on becoming his soul spirit.
However, in the end, she was unable to get through her own seventy-thousand-year great limit. In the current world, only the Beast God Di Tian and that large eyeball, one relying on his own formidable physical body, and one relying on his formidable spiritual power, had successfully passed this seventh great calamity.
"Yuhao..." The Snow Empress looked at the sky in a daze. The falling thunder rain was continuously destroying her body. At the end of her life, she softly called out the youth's name.
"I am here," Huo Yuhao's entire body was blooming with a purple-gold light released by the Thunderflame Purgatory Vine, as if he were wearing a layer of a luxurious armor. He walked forward and, with one hand, took the Snow Empress into his embrace.
Let the storm come more fiercely!
The light was shattered in an instant. A hundred-year-old Thunderflame Purgatory Vine was, in the end, a little too fragile. But it would absolutely not be destroyed just like this. The next instant, it had poked out a vine from Huo Yuhao's back. After receiving a drop of thunder rain, it had exploded again.
At this point, Huo Yuhao and the Snow Empress no longer had any obstacles. The bodies of the two had truly come into zero-distance contact.