Su Mo simply couldn’t take it anymore and began shouting defiantly at the heavens.
He had originally wanted to test his strength, but who would have thought the Celestial Tribulation would be so pathetic? It wasn’t even qualified to scratch an itch for him.
Resigned, Su Mo had no choice but to disperse the True Dragon Golden Armor.
This time, he planned to face it with his physical body alone.
Seeing Su Mo shout defiantly at the heavens and even disperse his True Dragon Golden Armor, the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, Master Jia, and the others were all stunned.
"Elder Su actually gave up his defense. This can’t be good."
"There’s nothing wrong with it."
"Exactly. Elder Su is just too powerful—so powerful he can completely ignore the Celestial Tribulation."
The group exclaimed in amazement.
Meanwhile, Han Sect, who was off to the side, was completely dumbfounded.
’Isn’t the Celestial Tribulation supposed to be incredibly powerful?’
’Throughout history, countless peerless prodigies have perished under the Celestial Tribulation, reduced to ash, yet Su Mo is completely unscathed.’
’This has to be fake!’
Dumbfounded, Han Sect muttered, "Are my old eyes playing tricks on me? Am I hallucinating?"
He rubbed his eyes forcefully, but nothing changed.
Su Mo still stood ramrod straight under the Celestial Tribulation, letting the bolts strike him repeatedly, seemingly without feeling a thing.
BOOM...
The sixth tribulation bolt struck down.
However, Su Mo didn’t even spare it a glance. He simply lay down on the ground, casually picked up a stalk of straw to chew on, and began to sunbathe.
"Oh, the sun is shining bright, take your pants off, what a sight..."
Su Mo hummed lazily, singing a nursery rhyme from his childhood.
This scene left everyone completely dumbfounded.
That was the Celestial Tribulation they were talking about!
It was one thing for Su Mo to not defend himself, given his powerful physique, but to choose to just lie flat under the Celestial Tribulation was another thing entirely.
Everyone was so shocked their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
RUMBLE...
Just then, the black clouds in the sky began to churn madly once again.
An even more terrifying pressure from the heavens and the earth swept across the land.
"Is this... Did Elder Su anger the heavens?"
"I think so!"
The group was utterly speechless.
No one could have imagined that the Celestial Tribulation, a trial of near-certain death, would be completely broken by Su Mo.
The heavens couldn’t stand it any longer and had flown into a rage.
It was like scolding someone, only for them to look completely indifferent and even act like they wanted to hit you back. How could you not get angry?
BOOM!
The seventh tribulation bolt coalesced, its power a hundred times greater than the previous six, causing the expressions of everyone in Medicine King Valley to change drastically.
"Sure enough, Elder Su angered the heavens."
the group said, trembling.
Normally, a Celestial Tribulation consists of nine bolts, each one stronger than the last, with their power increasing incrementally.
But there was always a limit to this increase.
Never before had it jumped by a terrifying hundredfold at once.
"Hahaha, he brought this on himself!"
Han Sect burst into arrogant laughter.
He had been worried Su Mo would kill him after passing the tribulation, but who would have thought Su Mo would be so arrogant in the face of the heavens?
Now, he had thoroughly enraged the heavens.
Su Mo was a dead man.
Han Sect flicked his sleeves and sneered, "This is what you call... courting death."
BOOM!
The seventh tribulation bolt crashed down, exploding violently around Su Mo and completely flattening the mountain peak beneath him.
Rubble flew everywhere, and smoke and dust filled the air.
Fan Jian asked worriedly, "Master, do you think Elder Su could be..."
"Don’t talk nonsense. Elder Su will be fine,"
Daoist Xuanqing chided.
Although he said to have faith in Su Mo, he was secretly worried and breaking out in a cold sweat for him.
His fists clenched involuntarily, so tight that his palms began to bleed.
Han Sect sneered, "Heh, stop pretending to be calm. If he doesn’t die, I’ll take all your surnames."
However, when the smoke and dust cleared, Su Mo wasn’t dead.
His clothes were merely a little dirty.
Still lying lazily amidst the rubble, Su Mo called out, "That’s right, hit me with all you’ve got! Put some strength into it! I can take it."
"This..."
Everyone was utterly shaken.
Such a terrifying tribulation bolt had only managed to dirty his clothes, without even leaving a scratch on him.
Just how powerful was Su Mo’s physical body?
Han Sect was dumbfounded.
’The tribulation didn’t kill him? Instead, he’s taunting it, telling the heavens to try harder?’
’What in the world was going on?’
Fan Jian sneered, "Han the Dog, didn’t you say you’d take our surnames if Elder Su survived? So, should we call you Fan the Dog now? Or Mo the Dog? Or maybe Jia the Dog...?"
"You little brat, you’re spouting nonsense!"
Han Sect’s face was livid with rage.
Daoist Xuanqing stepped in front of Fan Jian and said coldly, "Do you want me to call Elder Su over right now to annihilate you?"
Han Sect’s face turned ashen.
He was certain that if he showed even a sliver of killing intent, Su Mo would come over and beat him to a pulp. His fate would be gruesome.
Fan Jian asked with a cold smile, "There are dozens of us here. If you’re going to take all our surnames, doesn’t that mean you’ll have dozens of new names? Can you even keep track of them all?"
"Excuse me, but we don’t want him taking our surname,"
Master Mo said, waving a hand in disgust.
Master Jia added with equal disgust, "The Jia Family has consisted of loyal and righteous people for generations. We’ve never had such trash in our lineage. I don’t want him taking my name and ruining our family’s feng shui."
"We don’t want him taking our surnames!"
Everyone unanimously rejected the idea of Han Sect taking their surnames.
Han Sect was on the verge of a breakdown.
As the Grand Elder of the Celestial Moon Sect, an expert at the Martial Monarch Perfection Level, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?
’This is so fucking humiliating!’
BOOM! BOOM!
The eighth and ninth tribulation bolts struck Su Mo in quick succession, but they still failed to cause him the slightest harm.
The black clouds began to dissipate.
Su Mo frowned. "Is that it?"
He had thought the Celestial Tribulation would be terrifying, but he never expected it to be so weak. All it had done was get his clothes a little dirty.
This so-called terrifying Celestial Tribulation wasn’t even satisfying enough to scratch an itch.
Su Mo stood up. "How boring."
RUMBLE!
As if having heard Su Mo’s complaint, the black clouds, which had already begun to dissipate, instantly reconverged, brimming with lightning.
What?
’Didn’t the Celestial Tribulation already pass? Why is it forming again?’
And this time, it seemed even more terrifying.
Everyone was utterly bewildered.
The ancient texts all stated that a Celestial Tribulation only had nine bolts. A tenth had never been recorded.
What was happening?
Master Jia speculated, "Could it be that Elder Su angered the heavens again by calling it boring, so they’ve conjured a tenth tribulation bolt?"
"That’s possible!"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Just then, Fan Jian suddenly shouted, "Look! It looks like there are nine tribulation bolts inside it!"
Everyone looked up at his cry and saw that, sure enough, nine distinct tribulation bolts were brewing within the black clouds.
Each and every bolt was exceptionally terrifying.
Han Sect gloated, "This is all his fault for courting death and challenging the heavens. They couldn’t stand it any longer, so they’re going to send down nine tribulation bolts at once to take his pathetic life."
Although Su Mo had weathered the previous tribulation bolts, survival was impossible this time.
Because this time, all nine bolts would fall at once.
A nine-bolt Celestial Tribulation is known as a trial of near-certain death. A ten-bolt one means absolute death.
Not even the Celestial King himself could survive this.
However, not only was Su Mo unafraid, he was actually incredibly excited. "Yes! Now this is more like it! Hurry up and strike me!"