HONG LONG
Lin Mu felt it instantly.
Lightning.
Sharp. Violent. Dominant.
"Lightning Elental Tribulation," he said quietly.
He had not specified an elent. He had simply provoked the heavens. And in their fury, they had answered with the fiercest option available.
A faint smile tugged at the corner of his lips.
"So this is your answer," he said.
Lightning was feared for good reason. Among the elents, it was the most destructive, the least forgiving. Few immortals survived their first lightning tribulation without severe injury. Fewer still erged stronger.
And Lin Mu welcod it.
The clouds continued to expand at a terrifying pace. What had begun as a localized storm rapidly ballooned outward. Ten kiloters. Twenty. Fifty.
Soon, nearly a hundred kiloters of sky were swallowed in darkness.
The ocean beneath reflected the churning clouds, turning black and turbulent. Lightning flickered faintly within the clouds, distant and ominous, like the slow awakening of a colossal beast.
The pressure was imnse.
Even Lin Mu felt it pressing down on his shoulders, testing his foundation, probing his limits. The tribulation was not fully ford yet, but its intent was already clear.
Wrath.
Far away, at the White Bubble Inn, the sky began to darken unnaturally fast. Staff paused mid-conversation, looking upward in confusion. The air grew heavy, humidity spiking as faint static tingled across skin and hair.
"This storm ford too quickly," one staff mber muttered.
Another frowned. "There was no sign of bad weather earlier."
Within one of the courtyards, Daoist Chu suddenly straightened, his expression sharpening. His senses stretched outward, catching the distant but
unmistakable fluctuation.
"That energy..." he murmured.
Cattaleya, who had been lazily reclining monts ago, stood up abruptly. Her grin vanished, replaced by a serious frown. "That's not a normal storm."
Elyon's eyes narrowed as he turned toward the darkened horizon. Shadows rippled subtly around his feet as his instincts scread warning.
"That's Lin Mu" Elyon said quietly.
The sky continued to darken.
Lightning flickered again, brighter this ti.
And sowhere far beyond the horizon, Lin Mu stood atop the sea, facing the heavens as the tribulation fully began to take shape.
The heavens finally answered in full.
The dark clouds that had gathered above Lin Mu were no longer simply storm clouds. They had beco a living sky of wrath, layered thick upon thick until no trace of blue remained. The world beneath was swallowed by shadow, the ocean turning ink black as if night itself had descended prematurely.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE
Lightning moved within the clouds like enormous serpents of light.
So bolts were thin, needle like streaks that flashed and vanished in an instant. Others were thick, pillar sized arcs that writhed slowly, illuminating the clouds from within and casting the sea below in harsh silver light.
Each discharge carried a suffocating pressure, the unmistakable authority of the heavens bearing down upon the world.
This was no ordinary storm.
This was judgnt preparing to fall.
Lin Mu stood unmoving atop the churning ocean, his robes fluttering violently in the gale that had risen around him. Wind scread past his ears, but his expression remained calm, focused, and unwavering. His gaze pierced the clouds, fixed upon the invisible rift that only he could truly perceive.
The tribulation energy had reached its peak.
The first bolt was imminent.
And yet, Lin Mu did not raise his defenses.
Instead, he raised his hand.
"Heaven Silencing Seal!" he spoke, his voice steady despite the roaring sky. The mont the words left his lips, sothing ancient stirred within him. Deep inside his Dantian, space rippled. The seal that had lain dormant for so long answered his call without hesitation. In an instant, it erged, passing through flesh, Qi, and space itself as if none of them existed.
WHOOSH
The Heaven Silencing Seal hovered before Lin Mu.
It was octagonal, its shape precise and unyielding, every edge sharp and perfect. The surface of the seal was carved with an impossibly complex structure, one that seed to shift subtly depending on how it was observed.
At its center stood a massive totem, ancient and solemn, wrapped tightly by countless tentacles and appendages that spiraled outward in layered patterns. The entire artifact was forged from erald green crystal, yet it did not feel like a physical object alone. It glowed faintly, an ethereal radiance that made the air around it shimr. The light was neither blinding nor harsh, but
srizing.
Anyone without sufficient cultivation who gazed upon it would find their thoughts slowing, their will dissolving, their mind drawn inexorably toward it.
It was not beauty.
It was pure authority.
The words etched into the totem pulsed softly as Lin Mu looked upon them, no
longer obscure or unreadable as they once had been.
Heaven Silencing, Upheaval Bringing.
The aning resonated through his soul.
With his will acting as the catalyst, the seal activated.
GONGGGGGGGG!~
At once, the erald glow intensified. The seal surged upward, accelerating so
fast that it left behind a column of green light that pierced the sky like a divine spear. The dark clouds recoiled as the pillar rose, lightning scattering chaotically as if repelled by an unseen force.
The pillar of erald light slamd straight into the heart of the tribulation. It
bypassed the clouds, the storm and pierced straight into the very connection
between the worlds.
Within Lin Mu's spatial perception, the scene was far more terrifying. The
white rift that had torn open above him trembled violently as the seal struck it. Energy constructs erupted from the seal's surface, the tentacles carved upon it coming alive in the form of vast, luminous appendages.
But they were not physical... It was as if they were embodints of divine law
itself.
Each tentacle extended outward, piercing into the fabric of space with surgical precision. So wrapped around the edges of the rift, anchoring themselves firmly. Others stabbed directly into the rift itself, boring deep as if drilling into
the tribulation dinsion beyond.
Lin Mu's breath caught.
He could not identify the nature of the energy being used. It was not Qi. It was not Immortal Essence. It was sothing older, sothing that carried the weight of authority over laws themselves.
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