Chapter 654: Heavenly Lightning Tempers the Body

High in the sky, the cold wind was biting, like a dwarf rubbing against one's face.

Tang Luo's clothes and white hair fluttered in the wind, without the slightest discomfort.

Ao Yulie flew beside him, looking around; all around was blue sky, and above that a layer of incomparably thick clouds, white tinged with gray, covering the entire horizon, endless at a glance.

"Can't fly any higher, Master," Ao Yulie said in a muffled, sullen voice.

A flight talisman slapped onto armor, and directly acting on a person's body, there is still some difference.

Moreover, Ao Yulie clearly felt that the higher he flew, the greater the difficulty, his body growing heavier and heavier; this heaviness came more from the armor.

As if a pair of invisible hands had seized the armor, dragging him down bit by bit.

Being able to fly to this height was already the limit.

Since he couldn't fly up, then he wouldn't; breaking limits and such had nothing to do with Ao Yulie.

And this isn't something you can just break through by wanting to.

Ao Yulie was a very open-minded person (dragon); where he fell, there he would lie, and could even change posture to lie more comfortably.

This was the great wisdom of dragon life; many people don't understand it.

"Then you go down," Tang Luo said.

The armor on Ao Yulie couldn't be taken off for now; it might be useful later.

"Okay, Master." Ao Yulie dropped like a lump of iron, and before long vanished without a trace.

Tang Luo raised his head, lifted his right foot, and his whole person instantly disappeared, already having entered the thick cloud layer.

"Sure enough, there's something strange."

He thought silently in his heart.

Actually, flying upward wasn't just Ao Yulie feeling heavy pressure; Tang Luo was the same — the higher he went, the more difficult it became.

Only that heaviness wasn't as severe as for Ao Yulie wearing armor.

This mission world, to a certain extent, "forbids flight"?

At least, behavior like Tang Luo's, charging straight into the clouds, is definitely prohibited.

No wonder aerospace development is basically zero; being able to manufacture planes that fly hundreds or thousands of meters high is already the limit.

From a conspiracy theory perspective, however you look at it, it's the work of the Tianjian aliens.

No wonder the surrender faction still has a market.

Our goal is the stars and seas... but we've been sealed; even if not sealed, we might not necessarily reach the stars and seas.

But that feeling is different.

Especially with Tianjian aliens constantly descending from the sky.

Anyone with normal IQ would definitely want to desperately develop "flight technology" to go above the sky and see what's really going on.

Too bad the technology isn't up to par; can't fly up, nothing can be done.

Can only fight a defensive counterattack war; the saying goes, long defense must fail; wanting victory under pure resistance isn't simple.

Humanity's knowledge of the Tianjian aliens can almost be described as none.

"Scattered and fragmentary," constant infighting, fought for hundreds or thousands of years, yet don't even know "what they look like."

Indeed easy to make people despondent.

Fortunately, Homeguard isn't one person, but an organization; humanity's confrontation with the Tianjian aliens continues generation after generation.

Those "emotions" of discouragement and disappointment won't accumulate.

Moreover, Tang Luo believes that the higher one flies the harder it gets; those who know this matter of suspected Tianjian alien sky blockade, in Homeguard probably won't exceed one percent.

After all, combat with the Tianjian aliens, according to records, began as early as a thousand years ago.

The Homeguard global united front was established a hundred years ago.

A thousand years ago, people had no "flight" ability.

There's even a possibility the whole world thinks this is a normal phenomenon, just that technology hasn't met standards, so they can only fly that high.

Same category as water flowing downhill — a natural phenomenon, not feeling anything strange at all.

Tang Luo feels it's strange, based on general circumstances, an analytical inference drawn from experience.

What are general circumstances? In the Shanhai Realm, the real world, and various mission worlds, aside from heaven-and-earth Qi, there aren't many differences.

In the real world, one punch can shatter a stubborn rock; going to other worlds, it's roughly the same situation.

Basically no "Kryptonian phenomenon" — go to another world, bask in the sun, and become Superman.

There are some worlds that instead heavily suppress, like the world formed after the Demon-Suppressing Tower's destruction.

But also can't say all places are one appearance.

The appearance of "special places" in mission worlds and the Shanhai Realm isn't anything unexpected.

Various blessed lands and caves, or forbidden death zones, actually all count as special places.

Maybe this world is just like this — the higher the heavier, nothing to do with Tianjian aliens at all.

Tang Luo judges based on experience; empiricism errors may also occur.

And this time, whether it's an empiricism error, hard to judge; need to personally test it.

Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.

In Tang Luo's case, it's "why think, just brute-force through and see, done!"

Inside the thick cloud layer, all around were rolling cloud waves; the original high-altitude low temperature, upon entering the cloud layer, abruptly vanished.

The surroundings gradually grew warm; as Tang Luo continued flying upward, the temperature instead increased.

Before long it was already close to forty degrees, which could be called high temperature.

Suddenly, Tang Luo stopped, brows slightly furrowed.

His upward flying speed was very fast; normal cloud layers would have been pierced through long ago, but this white-tinged-with-gray cloud layer was different.

Looking up, not even a sliver of a gap was revealed.

Not only that, Tang Luo keenly sensed that his position had changed.

In utter silence, he had been moved...

"A formation? Interesting."

Tang Luo smiled. If it truly was a formation, it could be called masterful.

Among the five master-disciple "people," Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing had some research into formations; Zhu Bajie could be considered a grandmaster.

Of the other three, Ao Yulie was slightly better by a hair; the other two were completely clueless.

Although they didn't understand formations, Tang Luo and Sun Wukong had rich experience in breaking formations!

Having experienced much, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing would occasionally discuss it afterward, so they had a bit of an eye for it.

Not understanding formations, but grasping the method of breaking formations.

This was Tang Luo, Sun Wukong.

Smiling, Tang Luo raised both hands; palm shadows filled the sky, surging and spreading like a gale!

A Thousand Hands Cannot Defend!

Tang Luo and Sun Wukong's method of breaking formations was just this simple and crude.

Smash the formation to pieces — isn't that breaking the formation?

What Life Gate, Death Gate, key points, keys — none of them were needed.

The instant Tang Luo unleashed A Thousand Hands Cannot Defend.

Purple-black lightning instantly spawned from the gray-white mist, weaving into a net, covering toward Tang Luo.

Palm and lightning collided.

Both dissipated simultaneously; before Tang Luo could strike a second blow, a heavenly thunderbolt descended from the sky, landing atop Tang Luo's head in an instant.

Its power had already surpassed the heavenly thunder of the Tribulation Crossing stage.

Tang Luo raised a hand, grabbed upward, and that giant lightning tearing through the cloud sea and sky shattered in his grasp.

Only some lightning glow and electric arcs lingered on his palm, not leaving a single black trace.

But this lightning was only just the beginning.

Almost the moment Tang Luo crushed this bolt, the cloud sea above scattered, a black dome flashing past.

Then, massive amounts of lightning tore the sky, bombarding Tang Luo.

Like a thousand sharp blades falling, and like a thousand thunder dragons roaring.

Tang Luo's outstretched hand simply lowered; the Brocade Kasaya on his body stirred slightly.

A faint light curtain enveloped his whole body.

Xuanjin Indestructible Body.

Lightning fell on the light curtain, rippling, yet unable to truly shatter it.

Tang Luo's surroundings, however, were a vast white expanse.

Tang Luo didn't mind either, enduring the continuous lightning as he slowly flew upward.

His expression was exceedingly leisurely, describable as "strolling in a courtyard."

Lightning of this level, to him, truly didn't count as anything.

Speaking of it, this was still the first time Tang Luo had been struck by this kind of lightning.

Generally speaking, on the cultivation path, whether cultivating Buddhism, Daoism, or being a demon, once reaching a certain cultivation base, one must undergo tribulation — be struck by lightning, burned by fire, various forms.

Passing it means a step higher, becoming a "Xian," achieving a "Fruit Position," honored like a Sage.

Wanting to avoid the calamity is also possible — for instance, entering the Investiture of the Gods List works.

Perhaps due to a special cultivation method, Sun Wukong's Seventy-Two Transformations don't require undergoing tribulation, directly evading the Three Calamities.

Tang Luo was the same.

The method he cultivated was actually the Seventy-Two Transformations, also known as the Eight Nine Profound Art.

This method was special, having no completely fixed form, more like a general outline.

No matter who cultivated it, it seemed they wouldn't be struck by lightning.

Normal lightning strikes — other people's divine ability lightning doesn't count — like Ao Yulie's lightning, Zhu Bajie's Yin Lightning.

The lightning right now could be called tribulation heavenly thunder without exaggeration.

To Tang Luo, being struck by so much lightning at once was a novel experience.

After being struck for a while, Tang Luo had a sudden whim, instantly dispersing his defense, retracting the Brocade Kasaya.

Completely letting go on his own initiative, placing himself within the endless lightning.

In an instant, Tang Luo's body was thoroughly shrouded in endless lightning radiance; only a blurry ball of light could be seen.

Blindingly bright.

Even giving a bit of a cocoon-forming feeling.

Without any defensive posture, even deliberately opening up to receive it, letting lightning fall directly on his body, Tang Luo wasn't charred into a lump of coke.

His body, within the lightning cocoon, amid countless lightning bombardments penetrating through, began to gradually turn transparent.

Within this transparency, there was still a piercing sensation.

Tang Luo was using this endless lightning to temper his body.

Being able to produce this kind of lightning was undoubtedly a grand hand; opportunities to temper the body with lightning are rare.

Only Tang Luo, relying on having cultivated the Vajra Glazed Bones, dared to act so recklessly.

This kind of lightning tempering and resisting/enduring lightning are not the same concept at all.

If resisting is equivalent to the whole body tensing up, being lightly stabbed with a knife, then actively accepting is equal to directly swallowing the knife.

Time passed, from the initial pain, to stinging pain, to numbness, to basically no sensation at all.

The lightning radiance on his body abruptly extinguished!

Tang Luo opened his eyes again, a sharp glint flashing through them, even suppressing the dazzling lightning around him in a single instant.

As if only the radiance flashing through his eyes remained between heaven and earth.

"Not bad effect." Tang Luo extended his left hand, five fingers spread, palm rotating slightly, then clenched his fist!

All the lightning shattered instantly.

A few residual electric arcs flickered and vanished, like a final whimper.