The Prohibition of Qingfeng Temple was very easy for Yun Ran, who bore the sect’s inheritance, to apply.

It took her no more than a minute from start to finish.

With the Prohibition of Qingfeng Temple falling onto Er Dan, the degree of danger Er Dan posed in the future dropped by quite a bit again.

The Heavenly Dao had its own rules for judgment. When facing a Life with an overwhelmingly strong power and a great level of threat—

Even if it hadn’t shown the slightest bit of harm yet, just the dangerous potential would make the Heavenly Thunder do its best to strangle such a Life in the cradle.

At this moment, the consciousness of this world sensed Er Dan’s danger Level weakening, and correspondingly, the Heavenly Thunder also weakened a lot.

Judging by eye, it had dropped by at least half.

Seeing how effective this method was, the Dragon Spirit immediately itched to try. After he went up and put a shackle on Er Dan as well—

The remaining Heavenly Thunder could be left entirely for Er Dan to shoulder himself.

The Dragon Spirit impatiently squeezed Yun Ran aside, his two Dragon Claws waving nonstop in midair.

Just then, the voice of the Demon-locking Tower’s Artifact Spirit rang out in the Dragon Spirit’s head again.

That voice clearly carried a trace of temptation: [If you devour this Gu God fused with the Heavenly Dao Origin, your future self will become an existence equal to the Heavenly Dao of this world.

All Life will be under your control. Even Yun Ran, and that so-called Qingfeng Temple, can be destroyed with just a wave of your hand...]

While the Artifact Spirit of the Demon-locking Tower was still painting a bright blueprint of the future for the Dragon Spirit—

The next second, its voice abruptly cut off. Obviously, it had been stuffed back into the little dark room by the Dragon Spirit again.

The Dragon Spirit couldn’t completely lock this guy away and never let it out.

But when he didn’t feel like listening to this nonsense, that he could still manage.

The Dragon Spirit’s huge dragon head rolled its eyes in a very human way.

His claws moved nonstop as he grumbled in his heart: Nutcase, actually trying to sell grand dreams in front of the mighty Dragon King!

Although he had indeed felt his heart stir for a split second just now, that wasn’t any wiggling intent to betray Yun Ran, it was purely the desire to pursue power.

But that thought lasted only for an instant before being snuffed out.

What crap was "becoming equal to this world’s Heavenly Dao" supposed to be? Qingfeng Temple had an Immortal patriarch, and even in the Ghost World, there was a Ghost Immortal patriarch.

How stupid would he have to be to rush up and court death by offending those Immortal patriarchs.

After the Dragon Spirit quickly fastened the shackle used by Gu God Hall to control the Gu God onto Er Dan—

The Heavenly Thunder that descended again, whether in might or in size, was only one-tenth of what it used to be.

"Uhh~" A burp suddenly echoed out amid the deafening roll of thunder.

Not to mention Yun Ran and the others, who could clearly hear it.

Even those Dark Masters who had already run far away heard it.

Yun Ran’s gaze immediately lifted, looking up at the Heavenly Thunder Order floating in midair.

This was the signal that the Heavenly Thunder Order was "full" and had reached its limit.

Yun Ran raised her hand and formed a Magic Spell. The runes on the Heavenly Thunder Order, bright and dim, as if receiving some kind of signal—

Dimmed at once, and at the same time, the Heavenly Thunder Order began to shrink rapidly.

The Heavenly Thunder Order dropped down and, in no time, shrank back to palm-size. Its originally pitch-black body—

Now, having absorbed enough Heavenly Thunder, turned entirely into a violet-gold color.

Without the Heavenly Thunder Order propping things up above, the Heavenly Thunder that fell again—even at only one-tenth of its former might—was still not something ordinary people could easily withstand.

The nearby air twisted in an instant, making it hard to breathe.

"Ow!"

The Dragon Spirit was struck on the claw by a strand of Heavenly Thunder that spread out, and he was howling in pain now.

Yun Ran wasn’t doing much better. Even though she had set up an Array that could block part of the Heavenly Thunder—

She herself was the kind of person that Heavenly Thunder loved to strike, so at the moment she could only run for her life in a sorry state.

Only Xuan Chu and Er Dan—who now carried many more Prohibitions (protective ones) on his body—were the ones remaining calm and at ease.

Yun Ran: ...

Damn it, was this Heavenly Thunder striking Er Dan or striking her?

Fortunately, the Heavenly Thunder Order had taken the brunt beforehand; now Er Dan’s Heavenly Tribulation was already at its tail end. She only needed to hold on a bit longer and it would be over.

"┗|｀O′|┛ Awooo~~"

"Ow..."

...

From time to time, Yun Ran and the Dragon Spirit’s cries of pain rang out alternately, and Xuan Chu could only silently mourn for the two of them.

Above the valley, what had originally been a mass of oppressive black clouds had now thinned considerably.

Even that glaring red glow on the horizon had started to fade.

While fleeing, Yun Ran was still cursing under her breath.

After the final Heavenly Dao lightning fell, the remaining thunderclouds began to release rain.

But the air around them became extraordinarily thin, giving people a feeling of shortness of breath.

However, this was the normal situation during a Heavenly Tribulation.

They had truly relied on cheating earlier to suffer much less than they should have.

In the valley, the charred spots that had been blasted black—once doused by the rain—saw Life revive again in those places that had been cut off from vitality.

Yun Ran lay sprawled on the ground in a wretched heap, letting the rain wash over her.

The portion of Thunder Element left in her body from being struck by the Heavenly Thunder gradually dissipated.

As for Er Dan, lying in the pit and made unrecognizable by the dust, he shook himself desperately to fling off the rain clinging to him.

The rain also washed away the filth on his body, revealing Er Dan’s true face.

At a glance, he looked even more like a drenched chicken.

Panting heavily, Yun Ran looked at the bedraggled Er Dan and suddenly burst out laughing. Good, everyone was this miserable; she wasn’t the only one suffering.

The Dragon Spirit wasn’t any better off right now; his claws had been scorched.

The pain that sank into his Divine Soul made the Dragon Spirit somewhat regret not staying farther away before, and instead helping Yun Ran block a lot of Heavenly Thunder for nothing.

Although Xuan Chu hadn’t been struck by Heavenly Thunder, he’d also taken quite a bit of backlash damage earlier.

Among the group, not a single one of them was completely intact.

After resting a while, Xuan Chu finally said, "This isn’t a place we can stay long. Even though I set up an Array outside that can hold those people off for a bit—

The commotion here is just too big. I don’t know if we’ve alerted any of those old monsters who never come out."

With the three of them looking like this right now, if they had to fight another fierce battle, they really might capsize in the gutter.

Moreover, Er Dan clearly looked like a hatchling now. If someone caught him, he’d definitely end up on the menu.

"No matter where we hide now, the risk will be high before our injuries are healed. We’d better head to the Ghost World to lie low."