Above a desolate plain, Xiao Mo and Daoist Tianqiong were still fiercely battling.
"Rumble!"
The second tribulation lightning struck down violently toward Bai Ruxue.
Scales on Bai Ruxue's body scattered like flying snow, cracks appeared on the surface of her dragon body, but she showed no fear, still raising her head to meet that destructive thunder.
Following this, the third and fourth tribulation lightnings struck down consecutively.
Due to the Dragon Clan's destiny being sealed, the intensity of a flood dragon's tribulation to transform into a dragon far exceeded the tribulation experienced by ordinary Ascension realm cultivators.
It seemed the Heavenly Dao wanted Bai Ruxue's form and spirit completely destroyed before it would relent.
Fortunately, the human race merit power within Bai Ruxue that had not yet completely dissipated provided her with some invisible protection.
Combined with Bai Ruxue's own physique being much more resilient than ordinary flood dragons, she could still barely endure at this moment.
The fifth tribulation lightning thundered down."Roar!"
Bai Ruxue let out an unyielding roar toward the firmament, showing no intention of retreat.
After forcibly enduring the fifth tribulation lightning, her originally silver-white body had become completely charred black, but those golden vertical pupils remained incomparably resolute.
Even Daoist Tianqiong, witnessing this scene, couldn't help but feel a trace of amazement in his heart.
Ordinary flood dragons undergoing tribulation to transform into dragons would at most be reduced to ashes under the fifth tribulation lightning.
Yet she had not only endured five tribulation lightnings, but even seemed to have strength remaining.
The sixth tribulation lightning mercilessly struck down.
Bai Ruxue's massive dragon body was violently smashed down, heavily crashing into the plain below.
Xiao Mo instinctively wanted to rush forward, but then forced himself to calm down.
He understood very clearly that if he forcibly interfered with this Ascension tribulation lightning, not only would he be unable to help Ruxue at all, he himself would end up with his soul scattered.
Following immediately after was the seventh tribulation lightning.
The seventh tribulation lightning transformed into a torrential river formed from pure thunder, pouring down toward Bai Ruxue's dragon body.
"Roar——!"
Bai Ruxue let out a heart-rending, agonized roar.
When the aftermath of the seventh tribulation lightning finally subsided, the eighth tribulation lightning was ready to strike, gathering but not releasing, brewing even more terrifying might.
Bai Ruxue struggled to rise again, dragging her broken dragon body, once more striving to charge toward the firmament.
The eighth tribulation lightning struck down.
The tribulation lightning transformed into the forms of fifteen ancient fierce beasts, roaring as they engaged in brutal combat with Bai Ruxue.
Every time Bai Ruxue exhausted all her strength to crush one ancient fierce beast formed by thunder, the opponent would explode thunderously.
At this moment, hardly a single intact scale could be found on Bai Ruxue's body.
Through that charred and broken dragon body, one could even faintly see stark white bones exposed outside.
Bai Ruxue had come close to collapse several times, almost wanting to give up.
But every time her gaze swept below and saw Xiao Mo struggling more and more against Daoist Tianqiong, his massive Heaven and Earth Law Body becoming increasingly illusory and dim, Bai Ruxue would immediately grit her teeth and force herself to persist.
She knew she had to succeed in tribulation.
She could die.
But she absolutely could not watch Xiao Mo die before her eyes again!
The eighth tribulation lightning finally ended.
The thunder in the sky seemed to temporarily cease.
But Bai Ruxue knew clearly this was merely the last calm before the storm.
She forcefully shook her heavy head, golden vertical pupils staring fixedly at the firmament.
The next moment, above the firmament, thick dark clouds suddenly broke open.
Illusory dharma bodies of human race sages formed by thunder stood in the high heavens.
These human race sages manifested by tribulation lightning had no consciousness, they were merely dead objects.
However, when they looked down at this flood dragon below trying to break through the Heavenly Dao's seal, their gazes were also like viewing a dead object.
At the same time, nearby Upper Three Realms cultivators who had sensed the anomaly had successively arrived at the battlefield's edge, among them even including an Ascension realm cultivator.
When they saw clearly that heart-palpitating tribulation lightning scene above the firmament, everyone was mentally shaken, their eyes filled with incredulous horror.
The Heavenly Dao's intuition clearly told them this was precisely that legendary ninth tribulation lightning.
This was the first time in their lives they had seen a flood dragon capable of enduring to this final tribulation.
Those sage dharma bodies condensed from tribulation lightning began diving down toward Bai Ruxue, wanting to completely annihilate her.
Bai Ruxue dragged her nearly exhausted broken body, fighting these human race sage dharma bodies.
Bai Ruxue was already weakened to the extreme, and these sage dharma bodies transformed from the ninth tribulation lightning still retained some of their divine abilities from life.
This meant Bai Ruxue was currently equivalent to facing the siege of nine Ascension realm powerhouses with her own strength alone.
This was fundamentally an impossible deadly tribulation to overcome.
The result was exactly as everyone expected. A Buddhist Arhat dharma body stepped forward, a dragon-tiger dharma body formed by thunder bit down firmly on Bai Ruxue's front claw, making her unable to break free.
Immediately after, a Confucian Sage dharma body turned the pages of the book in his hand.
The book-turning wind instantly transformed into countless thunder chains, one end connected to the firmament, the other end firmly locking Bai Ruxue's dragon body in mid-air.
Finally, a human race sword immortal's dharma body carried a long sword, walking step by step toward Bai Ruxue, like an executioner about to carry out an execution.
And just at this moment, Xiao Mo distanced himself from Daoist Tianqiong and rushed toward Bai Ruxue.
"Xiao Mo! What are you doing! Don't you want your life?" The Dao sect leader, Tianxuan Sect's Sect Master Feng Qianqiu shouted loudly.
When he arrived at this battlefield and saw the tens of thousands of dead North Sea demon race, seeing this North Sea master, he had already deduced the course of events.
"Xiao Mo, don't come over," Bai Ruxue also called out weakly but Xiao Mo only gave Bai Ruxue a gentle smile.
"Boom!"
Just as the human race sage was about to strike Bai Ruxue's dragon head, Xiao Mo raised the Immortal Slayer, forcibly blocking this human race sage's sword.
Thunder scattered wildly, Xiao Mo's skin cracked inch by inch, like parched and cracked earth.
Looking at her beloved's nearly shattered back, Bai Ruxue's eyes trembled, her mind completely blank.
Xiao Mo swept his sword horizontally, deflecting the opponent.
All the human race sages looked toward Xiao Mo.
Everyone saw Xiao Mo continuously burning his essence blood, righteous qi surging out like ocean waves, several ink-colored dragons charging toward the clouds.
Immediately after, Xiao Mo's right hand pierced into his own chest, digging out an ink-colored heart!
"Xiao Mo, what are you doing? Stop!" Bai Ruxue continuously writhed her dragon body, trying to break free from the chains from the firmament.
"Could it be!"
Tianxuan Sect's Sect Master Feng Qianqiu's heart jumped in alarm, his face deathly pale as he angrily shouted.
"Xiao Mo! Have you gone mad? You, as a Confucian Sage, actually going to such lengths for a demonic beast, do you know what it means for the Dragon Clan's destiny to be unsealed?"
Xiao Mo did not answer Feng Qianqiu.
That heart floated in the air, radiating ink-colored light, the fragrance of brush and ink drifting throughout the entire Ten Thousand Laws Realm.
"Xiao Mo, have you thought this through?"
A dharma voice came from the firmament above, a wisp of a Confucian Sage's remnant soul appeared between heaven and earth.
"I have thought it through."
Xiao Mo bowed respectfully, his voice resounding between heaven and earth.
"Junior Xiao Mo, with the heart of a sage, protects Bai Ruxue's tribulation!"