Concubines Lead to Strength: The Path to Immortality Begins with Taking a Spouse
Chapter 565 - 278 Heavenly Punishment!?

Chapter 565: Chapter 278 Heavenly Punishment!?

"Don’t tell me Gu Haitang of the True Monarch Realm realized something was wrong."

At this moment, even those experts from the Northern Domain, who were from the Eighth-grade Heavenly Gate Realm and watching from a distance, shook and pointed at the Tribulation Cloud.

"What is that!?"

"This isn’t right, is it!?"

Inside the Tribulation Cloud, lightning flickered, but it was not condensing the usual Tribulation Lightning.

Instead, it showed a phantom!

That phantom had a head resembling both a dragon and a lion—it was clearly an Ancient Fierce Beast!

"Is this... one of the Ancient Fierce Beasts...Hou?"

Standing above the Palace, Wang Yue saw this scene and couldn’t help but narrow her eyes. She had read about the Ancient Fiends in her family’s ancient books.

The phantom condensed within that Tribulation Cloud looked exactly like the Fierce Beast described in the ancient books!

"Ancient Fierce Beast!?"

Liu Qingqing heard this and couldn’t help but frown even deeper, looking worriedly at her husband.

"Has the Tribulation Lightning... transformed?"

Standing under the Tribulation Cloud, Gu Changge also showed a rare expression of astonishment.

He had originally planned to charge directly into the Tribulation Cloud to refine it as usual.

But he felt a hint of danger within his heart.

He had quietly waited, and sure enough, this Heavenly Tribulation was extraordinary!

While everyone was shocked, the Fierce Beast formed from the Tribulation Lightning had already finished condensing.

"Roar——"

With a deep roar that resonated through the heavens and earth, it leaped down from the Tribulation Cloud, opened its gigantic mouth, and dove straight towards Gu Changge!

It seemed like it would swallow that tiny figure in the next second!

Seeing this, the crowd, who originally had great confidence in Saint Gu, inevitably began to waver.

They had heard that Heavenly Tribulations were terrifying, but what they saw was even more terrifying than they had heard, an inexplicable scene.

It made them doubt whether Saint Gu would really survive today!

Everyone’s heart carried various complex emotions. Some people wished he would perish under the Heavenly Tribulation, but the Gu Family, Heavenly Cold Sect, and even the current Northern Domain Royal Family hoped that Saint Gu would safely survive the Heavenly Tribulation.

After all, although the three families’ power was dominated by the Gu Family, the other two could also benefit.

If Gu Changge perished today, without him, the Northern Domain would truly fall into chaos!

Without him, the Sword Sect might not continue to provide such great help to the Gu Family, and without a foothold in the Central State, the Gu Family with a True Monarch Realm Ancestor would necessarily turn their direction back to the entire Northern Domain!

By then, no one could stop the Gu Family...

"The momentum is good, but the power is mediocre."

Facing the Ancient Fierce Beast formed from the Tribulation Lightning, Gu Changge just shook his head slightly.

He let it swallow him, then threw a punch from inside its body, a terrifying power directly shattered the phantom of the Fierce Beast.

Turned into a sky-full of Tribulation Lightning, he directly circulated his Cultivation Technique and refined the lightning into his body before it could return to the world!

"A phantom actually increased my Heavenly Tribulation Origin by a full tenth?"

After refining those Origins, Gu Changge couldn’t help but mutter in surprise.

This Tribulation Lightning was indeed different, as it seemed to have some sentience!

Though it was essentially the same as previous Tribulation Lightnings, the benefits it brought after refinement were several times greater!

This special effect stabilized his slightly uneasy heart and made him look forward to the Tribulation Clouds with an expectant gaze.

"Passed the first one so easily?"

The onlookers also narrowed their eyes at this scene.

When the first phantom of the Fierce Beast fell, even from a hundred miles away, they felt the threat of death.

Unexpectedly, Saint Gu had just swung a punch and shattered it, even actively refining and absorbing the Tribulation Lightning scattered in the air.

"Although this Heavenly Tribulation is exceptional, it seems that Husband surpasses it by a notch."

Wang Yue also breathed a sigh of relief. Since the first Heavenly Tribulation was so easily handled, the next would probably not be a problem.

At least, there would be no danger to his life.

"..." Liu Qingqing looked up at the Tribulation Cloud without speaking, unable to dispel the worry in her heart.

The power of the Tribulation Lightning was increasing exponentially. Although the first seemed easily handled by her husband, the last one would absolutely be worlds apart in power. She wondered if her husband could safely pass!

But now, other than praying for her husband in her heart, there was nothing else she could do.

Soon, under everyone’s gaze, the Tribulation Cloud indeed condensed a second phantom.

Clearly formed from Tribulation Lightning, yet faintly red, its appearance somewhat resembled a leopard, but with horns on its face and even five tails behind!

Clearly yet another Ancient Great Fiend!

Many eyes turned to Wang Yue, hoping to learn the identity of this second phantom from the Empress.

"Zhěng..."

"Also one of the Ancient Ferocious Beasts."

Wang Yue murmured softly, also identifying the name of that Fierce Beast.

Soon, that Fierce Beast phantom, accompanied by a howling sound like striking stone, charged towards Gu Changge.

Its five tails left behind five traces of purple lightning in the sky, even faintly splitting the space.

Facing this second Fierce Beast phantom, Gu Changge, feeling its contained power, also pointed indifferently.

That finger, seemingly slow, steady touched its horn just as the Fierce Beast phantom reached him.

"Break."

With his soft utterance, a terrifying force burst from his fingertips.

Directly shredding that Fierce Beast phantom, which he then immediately refined and absorbed!

Before the onlookers could react in shock,

The next Fierce Beast phantom had already condensed.

But no matter what kind of Fierce Beast phantom the Tribulation Cloud condensed, in front of Gu Changge, it broke with a single move and was absorbed and refined for his own use.