When Erha arrived at Punishment Peak carrying Corpse Daoist, he flung him straight outside a courtyard. Corpse Daoist hit the ground with a yelp of pain.
“Tiger demon, if my cultivation had not been sealed, I would skin you alive!”
Corpse Daoist glared viciously at Erha.
He feared Mo Fan, but he felt no awe whatsoever towards the demon generals of Black Wind Mountain.
“You can run your mouth for now. Soon you will learn what it means to wish you were dead!”
Erha sneered, paid him no further attention, and bellowed towards the courtyard, “Dead cripple, are you asleep in there?”
“Which turtle grandson dares curse this Ding Mu?”
A limping old donkey demon soon charged out of the courtyard, brandishing two gleaming kitchen knives and looking ferocious.
The moment he saw Erha, however, he quickly hid the knives behind his back and laughed obsequiously, “So it is the esteemed Captain of the Personal Guard who honours us with his presence! Old Donkey failed to welcome you from afar, failed to welcome you from afar!”
“May I ask why the Captain has come?”
“Watch your filthy mouth!”
“If you were not one of that dead leopard’s subordinates, this captain would slap you across the face a few times!”
Erha gave a cold snort, then pointed at Corpse Daoist behind him and said, “This fellow is called Corpse Daoist, a human cultivator. The Great King says he is to work together with those three from the Wang family of Three Saints Island, so I am handing him over to you!”
“By the way, if he ever disobeys, you know how to deal with him, right?”
“Rest assured, Captain! Once anyone enters our Beast Garden, no matter their former status or rank, they all shovel shit and carry manure here!
If anyone refuses, we strip them naked and throw them in for breeding!
Those three from before were just as proud when they arrived, yet did they not end up completely tamed by yours truly?
Even now, two of them still walk with a limp!”
The donkey demon gave a sinister chuckle, revealing a pair of yellowed buck teeth.
“You old bastard really know how to play!”
Even Erha could not help clamping his buttocks together at those words. He cleared his throat twice and warned, “Play all you want, but do not fucking kill them. These fellows still have their uses for our Great King!”
“Understood! Understood!”
Listening to the two demons talk, Corpse Daoist off to the side was already trembling uncontrollably, his eyes blank, his heart filled with terror.
Not long afterwards, the demons of Black Wind Mountain were astonished to discover that the manure-carrying trio had gained a thin, one-armed figure, instantly turning them into the manure-carrying quartet.
Meanwhile, after leaving the Spring Pool Cave, Mo Fan and Bai Tiaoyao headed straight to the martial training square at the mountain summit.
At that moment, Sun Bai, clad in golden battle armour, sat cross-legged on the square. Above his head, storm clouds churned in the sky as endless thunderclouds gathered.
“The Great King has arrived!”
Seeing Mo Fan approach, the watching demons all called out, then bowed respectfully in unison, “We pay our respects to the Great King!”
“No need for formalities, everyone!”
Mo Fan waved his hand. His eye swept over the crowd and spotted Hei Yi, Huo Ling, Yingying Monster, Lang Xiongxiong, and the others all present.
Apart from those few, almost every demon on Black Wind Mountain who had reached the demon general realm had come.
A demon king tribulation was a major event; naturally no one wanted to miss it.
Sun Bai did not stand up. He merely nodded to Mo Fan in greeting.
Mo Fan looked at him and saw that his expression was extremely tense, so he immediately smiled and said, “No need to be so nervous. A mere thunder tribulation is not that exaggerated. Besides, have I not already lent you the Mountain-Shaking Drum?
If things get truly desperate, you can use the drum to block a little. Still, this king suggests you rely on your own body to endure it.
Although tribulation lightning is terrifying, it is also a rare opportunity in this world. Only by letting the lightning temper your flesh can your demon body be forged even stronger!”
“I understand!”
Sun Bai nodded to Mo Fan, took a deep breath, and the tension on his face gradually calmed.
Mo Fan nodded inwardly at the sight, then looked up at the thunderclouds in the sky. Seeing they had nearly finished gathering, he opened his mouth and spat out the Astonishing Thunder War Spear.
“Go!”
With a low shout from Mo Fan, the spear instantly turned into a streak of lightning and drew a huge circle on the ground around Sun Bai, encompassing almost half the training square.
The instant the ring of light formed, countless strands of lightning spread out, as if creating a barrier.
“All demons, withdraw beyond this circle. Do not disturb General Sun while he undergoes his tribulation!”
Mo Fan spoke calmly, tapped the ground lightly with his toe, and was the first to retreat outside the lightning ring.
Seeing this, the surrounding demon generals also withdrew beyond the circle.
“Normally the range of a thunder tribulation is very wide. At the smallest it affects several li, at the largest dozens or even hundreds of li. Will your light circle really work?” Bai Tiaoyao could not help asking.
“Do not worry. I used astonishing thunder to create this lightning-ring barrier. It will draw all the tribulation lightning here, so naturally it will not harm the other demons,” Mo Fan replied with a smile.
He now had a profound understanding of the power of lightning and knew how to wield it.
A tribulation was, at the end of the day, still a form of lightning. He could not erase the tribulation, but he could confine it within a certain area.
Hearing Mo Fan’s explanation, Bai Tiaoyao nodded and said no more, though a trace of anticipation appeared in her eyes.
This was the first time a demon had undergone tribulation on Black Wind Mountain itself.
When she and Hei Yi had previously transcended their tribulations, they had left Black Wind Mountain to avoid being discovered by the other demons and causing trouble.
Now that Mo Fan had stepped into the demon king realm and displayed his absolute strength before the eyes of many demon kings, he naturally had no such worries.
If any blind fool dared to take advantage of the situation and raid Black Wind Mountain, Mo Fan would probably make them join the manure-carrying quartet and contribute outstandingly to the mountain’s development.
Therefore, this tribulation was being carried out extremely openly.
Cards on the table, no more pretending!
Boom!
Soon, as the first pillar of lightning crashed down from the sky, the entire Black Wind Mountain was replaced by blinding thunderlight, becoming the only colour in the eyes of the watching demons.
“Roar!!”
Sun Bai let out a heaven-shaking roar within the lightning and met the strike head-on with his flesh.
The tribulation lightning came quickly and departed just as fast.
When the pillar vanished, the watching demons all sucked in a cold breath. They saw that Sun Bai’s entire body had practically collapsed onto the ground, charred black from head to toe. Even standing far away, they could still smell the pungent scent of burning.
Moreover, some sharp-eyed demons noticed that many places on Sun Bai’s body had split open, blood pouring from the wounds.
“This tribulation lightning does not look like much. Is Sun Bai really that useless?”
Mo Fan could not help frowning at the sight.
He could clearly sense that the power of this tribulation lightning was not even one-tenth of what he himself had faced, yet it had nearly knocked Sun Bai unconscious. That was frankly a bit ridiculous.
Yet the moment he spoke those words, all the demon kings around him rolled their eyes in unison.
“Do you think everyone is a massive freak like you? Skin so thick that even lightning cannot split it?”
