Cultivating Immortality in Two Realms: Sunflower Lord

The deep, hoarse voice of the three-headed python still echoed in everyone's ears. Its three heads were raised simultaneously, and its six scarlet snake eyes stared intently at a point in the night sky, as if waiting for something.

The look in his eyes was no longer one of indifference and greed, but of solemnity, vigilance, and a deep-seated longing.

The next moment, everyone—everyone in the entire Qinglan County—heard that sound.

"Rumble..."

It was not the usual thunder, but a deeper, more resonant rumble, like the slow turning of a giant wheel of heaven and earth.

The sound was not loud, but it was everywhere. It did not come from a certain direction, but rather it resounded directly from the depths of everyone's heart, from the surrounding air, and even from the earth's veins beneath their feet.

The pitch-black night sky that had perpetually shrouded the territory of the Great Yu Dynasty underwent an incredible transformation at this moment!

A glimmer of light, initially extremely faint, like the pale light on the farthest horizon before dawn, quietly tore through the boundless darkness.

But in just a moment, this glimmer of light became like a fuse that ignited the entire sky!

"boom--!!!"

It wasn't thunder, it was the sound of light exploding!

An indescribable, intense white light poured down from the heavens!

The light was so intense, so fierce, and so domineering that it instantly illuminated the entire Qinglan County, along with the mountains, rivers, and the distant Black Mountain silhouette, in a blinding white!

It was as if the heavens had opened their furious, gigantic eyes and cast down pillars of fiery judgment!

Countless people screamed and covered their eyes, blood seeping from between their fingers. Even though they had instinctively closed their eyes when the first ray of light appeared, the penetrating radiance was still like thousands of scorching golden needles, mercilessly piercing their pupils and burning their retinas and fragile souls.

There was nowhere to hide—on the streets, inside houses, in cellars.

This light does not belong to the human world.

At that moment when the light illuminated the heavens and the earth, Ji Ruchang did something almost instinctively.

He didn't even think about it.

The countless experiences of activating the ancient bronze mirror in the courtyard and in battle, and the painful lessons of having his eyes burned by the mirror's light time and time again, had already etched the action of "closing his eyes" deep into his soul, faster than any conscious reaction.

In the fraction of a second that the light poured down from the sky, his eyelids were already tightly shut!

That is the awe and avoidance of the ultimate light that is imprinted deep in muscle memory.

A blazing white torrent swept across the heavens and earth, but before Ji Ruchang's eyes, there was only a safe darkness that had arrived ahead of time.

He "dodged" the first hurdle that the vast power of heaven would inflict on all living beings.

However, true power followed closely behind.

Light is not the sky's ultimate weapon.

That blazing white light that tore through the sky was merely the prelude to an even more terrifying power.

"Crack—!!!"

A bolt of lightning tore through the sky, which was already as bright as day!

It was not the twisted, forked form of ordinary lightning, but a straight, condensed golden whip, like a god's strike, which lashed down with perfect precision from the top of the heavens!

The target was the towering giant demon in the center of the county town, with its three snake heads pointing proudly to the sky!

This whip was so fast that even the giant python only had time to slightly retract its three heads and suddenly tighten all its scales!

"boom!!!"

The golden lightning whip struck the thickest head in the center, the one with the single black horn on top, without any fancy moves!

Although Ji Ruchang had her eyes closed, she could still "feel" the light that burst forth in that instant, a light powerful enough to scorch mortals, through her thin eyelids!

Furthermore, through star chart perception, they clearly "saw" that scene:

Golden lightning, like a divine spear descending from the sky, pierced through the top of the snake's head, exploding, raging, and surging along its spine!

The giant python's massive body convulsed violently, every single dark green scale trembling, lifting, and even its edges turning black and curling up!

The ground beneath its feet suddenly collapsed, and rubble and dust swept outwards like a storm!

"Roar—!!!"

The three-headed serpent let out a hiss that was completely different from before!

No longer composure, no longer arrogance, but a mixture of excruciating pain, shock and anger, and a hint of barely concealed fear!

But it is, after all, an ancient monster that dared to trigger a heavenly tribulation, a powerful being that has traversed countless years and awakened from some unknown abyss.

The first lightning strike, though heavy, was far from fatal.

After raging within its body for several breaths, the golden lightning whip finally exhausted itself and shattered, transforming into countless tiny golden arcs of electricity, like golden fireflies in a rainstorm, which bounced off its massive body and scattered across countless corners of the county town!

Each arc of electricity is a wisp of the condensed residual power of a celestial calamity.

These tiny golden arcs of electricity, like embers of divine punishment, scattered aimlessly.

Some of the fires struck houses, instantly igniting a raging fire that engulfed the wooden beams and pillars, along with any creatures inside that couldn't escape in time.

Some fell into the well, stirring up billowing steam and a scorching hiss, boiling the well water and purifying any lurking evil spirits within.

Some drifted in the air and encountered the lingering, ghostly mist that had persisted for centuries—a dense, hissing sound, like boiling oil splashing, was heard as golden arcs of electricity fiercely clashed with and annihilated the gray-black mist. Large swaths of mist, like morning dew directly exposed to sunlight, rapidly melted and evaporated!

That night, the night sky over Qinglan County was clearer than ever before.

Countless embers of tribulation lightning fell like rain or fireflies.

Three of them—each only a foot long and as thick as a thumb—were like fireflies compared to the magnificent power that struck the giant python—crooked and erratic, like lost fish, and with perfect accuracy…smashed into Ji Ruchang!

When the first arc of electricity struck, Ji Ruchang felt a numbness in his right shoulder, as if he had been pierced by a red-hot iron needle.

He was startled and instinctively tried to dodge, but the speed of the electric arc was so fast that he didn't even have time to finish thinking.

The second and third strikes followed closely, hitting his left rib and back respectively.

In an instant, an indescribable tingling sensation erupted from the three points of impact simultaneously, flowing through my entire body!

The feeling wasn't pure pain; it was more like immersing your entire body in a warm, thick liquid with electric currents surging through it. Every muscle, every bone, and every meridian was involuntarily spasming and trembling slightly!

"It's over!" This thought flashed through Ji Ruchang's mind.

That was the residual power of a heavenly tribulation capable of severely injuring the three-headed giant python!

Even the smallest and weakest fragment, if it fell on a mere Qi Refining stage cultivator like myself, would be enough to turn him into charcoal!

However, the expected excruciating pain and death did not occur.

The tingling sensation spread throughout my body, lasting for less than a breath—and then it disappeared.

Like a clay ox entering the sea, like all rivers flowing into the same stream.

Ji Ruchang looked inward in astonishment at himself, only to see a sight that left him speechless:

The three golden arcs of electricity, each about a foot long, did not wreak havoc or cause destruction within his body.

As soon as they entered the meridians, before they even had a chance to unleash their terrifying thunderous power, they were as if they had been summoned by an irresistible force, and were forcibly pulled out of the meridians by an even stronger suction force!

The source of this suction force is not one, but five!

An ancient bronze mirror, a bronze lamp, a second-tier Golden Sunflower, a first-tier Golden Sunflower, and... that pale Holy Sunflower seed lying quietly between the two!

Five entities, exerting their power simultaneously!

The three remaining embers of the Heavenly Tribulation were devoured by these five invisible "giant mouths" before they could even struggle!

A flash of brilliant golden light appeared on the surface of the ancient bronze mirror, then faded away.

The golden veins inside the short bronze lamppost seemed to have been illuminated by an extremely faint glimmer of light.

The second-tier Golden Sunflower swayed slightly, and the golden luster on its flower head seemed to have solidified a little more.

Growth rate increased by 20 points!

The light of the first-tier Golden Sunflower also brightened slightly, and its growth rate increased by twenty points!

As for that Sunflower Seed... its pale and mottled surface, after absorbing an arc of electricity, and with the influence of the sun essence it had previously absorbed and the light domain of the second-tier Sunflower Seed combined with the first-tier Sunflower Seed, seemed to have lost an extremely subtle, almost imperceptible layer. The milky white halo brightened a little bit... It sprouted!

Ji Ruchang didn't even have time to feel fortunate for her "escape from death" before she was stunned by the tacit understanding and efficiency of the five beings in "grabbing food".

Therefore... the residual power of the heavenly tribulation is not a calamity for these individuals, but rather a great tonic.