The lightning tribulations came one after another. For Ye Yun, now that he could use his Great Daos as offensive and defensive means, these lightning tribulations, even though each was ten times stronger than the last, posed no threat to him. Instead, the residual energy they left behind made Ye Yun's Great Dao power even more stable and powerful.
However, Ye Yun's focus was no longer on his Great Daos but on the strength of his divine sense and physical body.
Having been baptized by the energy of the Great Daos, Ye Yun's physical body had also become more than dozens of times stronger. His divine sense had undergone earth-shattering changes with the evolution of the Great Daos. Ye Yun was no longer clear about its specific rank, but after his perceived seventh realm, it had undergone two more transformations, allowing Ye Yun's divine sense to instantly reach any part of the ten directions without needing to go through the star river in his dantian.
Even his divine sense had transcended its original level. Like radio waves, he could freely probe the communication information of others' divine senses, while others could not even detect a trace of his divine sense aura.
"The eighth realm can lock onto the identity of those using divine sense in the air, and the ninth realm can actually know the content of others' divine sense communication! This is too monstrous."
Ye Yun stared blankly at the continent forming in the center of his sea of consciousness. He found that the connection between his sea of consciousness and his dantian had become smoother with the formation of this continent of condensed divine soul.
Not only had his physical body and divine sense broken through, but after fusing four Great Daos, this piece of land had appeared in Ye Yun's sea of consciousness. Although its area was less than one-thousandth of his sea of consciousness, Ye Yun felt as if his soul had undergone a transformation. A new life flame had appeared in his divine soul, in addition to the original one.
The tribulation of an Emperor truly brought about a comprehensive transformation for the one undergoing it!
"Vast Yellow Springs road, distant Ninth Nether Gate. Punishing on behalf of heaven, Yellow Springs rolls mountains and rivers! Ninth Nether shines upon the ten directions!"
Just as Ye Yun was assessing the gains from this Emperor tribulation, the voice of the harbinger of the final Emperor tribulation, the eighty-first tribulation, resounded through heaven and earth, causing Ye Yun to turn pale with shock.
"Ninth Nether?! Didn't he die?" As a former general under Ye Yun, he was all too familiar with Ninth Nether's voice.
The tribulation of a Quasi-Emperor, he had manipulated the destinies of all those who betrayed him with the Dao of Destiny, causing them to die under the tribulation of Quasi-Emperor ascension. He had personally witnessed Ninth Nether die under the fifty-ninth lightning tribulation of his ascension, so how could he now appear in Ye Yun's Emperor tribulation?
Ye Yun stared intently at the nebula and finally saw a figure of overwhelming power emerge from it.
He was clad in pale yellow metallic armor, holding a long river, his eyebrows like stars, and exuding an unstoppable, surging momentum.
This...
If Ye Yun hadn't been familiar with Ninth Nether, he would truly have thought this was someone else.
With a flick of the long river in Ninth Nether's hand, which resembled a whip, an endless stream of Yellow Springs water surged towards Ye Yun. At the same time, his eyes were like whirlpools, causing ripples in the divine sense water within Ye Yun's sea of consciousness. Ye Yun even discovered traces of Yellow Springs water in his sea of consciousness.
Thunder tribulation phantoms had no consciousness; their mission was to destroy the one undergoing the tribulation.
"A whip can strike gods, a finger can determine the universe! My punishment, rolls the universe, determines the gods!" A white-bearded old man, wearing a bamboo hat and a straw cape, holding a fishing rod without a hook and a long whip made of hemp rope at his waist, stepped out of the nebula. The whip automatically flicked, bringing the essence of space towards Ye Yun.
Yellow Springs minor Dao, Ninth Nether!
Space minor Dao, Jiang Shang!!
At this moment, Ye Yun was utterly bewildered. Ninth Nether was dead, so why was there an Emperor's phantom of Ninth Nether? Could it be that all the previous phantoms were not the appearances of those who had achieved Emperor status after walking the Emperor's path?
And this person who appeared later, with the appearance of a human, was none other than the historical figure Jiang Ziya, who was deeply imprinted in the minds of all Chinese people on Blue Star! How did this person also achieve an Emperor tribulation?
"Where there is darkness, there must be light; where there are gods, I must be. I was originally heaven, and I can also be a god. Judgment of the gods, verdict of light!"
"The rage of a common man is to pound his head on the ground. My rage leaves the universe devoid of life!"
Just as Ye Yun used his power of space to deflect the attacks of Ninth Nether and Jiang Shang, another voice echoed from the nebula. The entire nebula shone as brightly as the sun, with endless light erupting from it. Then, a burly, bearded man appeared in Ye Yun's field of vision.
Damn it... Was that Zeus, the Western deity known as the Father of Gods?
Following Zeus was an imposing Emperor clad in black imperial robes and wearing a flat-topped crown. The moment he appeared, his aura erupted like a volcanic eruption, directly suppressing the momentum of the previous three.
"What minor Dao is this? How is it so much more terrifying than my nascent Great Dao of Imperial Authority?" As the black-robed Emperor emerged, Ye Yun immediately felt an arrogant and overbearing aura of absolute dominance, which suppressed Ye Yun's own Dao of Imperial Authority!
Who was this person?
Ye Yun looked at the standard ancient imperial attire and mentally sifted through the emperors of various dynasties he had learned about. He found that this black-robed Emperor, who radiated boundless killing intent, gradually merged with the First Emperor.
The First Emperor! Zeus, Jiang Shang, and Ninth Nether – these four phantoms were all figures Ye Yun was familiar with. What surprised Ye Yun was that the final heavenly tribulation had manifested four phantoms, each with a strength reaching two-thirds of Ye Yun's own combat power!
Compared to the other three, the First Emperor's attack methods were relatively singular, but Ye Yun had a feeling that he was the strongest among the four.
First, there was the oppressive aura emanating from the First Emperor, which inexplicably weakened Ye Yun's attack power while greatly boosting the combat effectiveness of the other three.
Secondly, his words were filled with supreme killing intent. The mere utterance of the word 'kill' could manifest hundreds or thousands of Quasi-Emperor powerhouses to launch their strongest attacks against Ye Yun!
This meant that although Ye Yun appeared to be attacked by only four Emperor tribulation phantoms, he was actually facing hundreds or thousands of Quasi-Emperor phantoms.
Unfortunately, these four were merely phantoms and possessed no self-awareness. Their attacks, like before, were nearly all-out assaults, and they expended all their energy within one or two moves. Therefore, Ye Yun could not confirm which of their moves were related to legends.
"Kill!"
As Ye Yun unleashed his Dao of Time and Space, the entire void trembled. The phantoms summoned by the First Emperor all turned into bubbles. Even the four Emperor tribulation phantoms did not last for even a second under this attack.
The difference between a Great Dao and a minor Dao that had just evolved from laws was like the difference between an ant and an elephant, a gap of thousands or tens of thousands of times.
The phantoms vanished, and the nebula dissipated. The four energy light clusters once again greatly boosted Ye Yun's strength. With this, Ye Yun's Emperor tribulation was finally over.