Divine Emperor of Death

Arcs of blue-colored lightning ran through the dark clouds gathering in the skies. Each time lightning flashed, thunder resounded, shaking the hearts of everyone. Darkness spirits emerged out from their hiding spots and gathered a bit closer to look at this heavenly phenomenon, their eyes gleaming in reverence despite their dislike to lightning attribute due to lightning being yang in nature.

Nightveil also appeared solemn, her eyes revering the heavenly will that was imposed upon her. The spirits felt something different from the humans did. That was a kind of familiarity to heaven's aura that birthed them from mere energy once upon a time before they were given life to by their father and mothers, their ancestors.

"I will pass this tribulation and ascend..."

She uttered full of determination and turned to look at Davis as the skies brewed, bringing more clouds and arcs of lightning. However, when she looked at his expression, she still found him to have a carefree expression on his face and couldn't help but narrow her eyes, wondering who this narcissistic human was.

He remained disrespectful even to the heavens?

She couldn't help but think he was courting death if he had such an attitude towards the heavenly tribulation. After all, she knew that the heavens were omnipotent and could sense their intentions.

"Protect me well."

In any case, she didn't bother as she just wanted him to stop the others.

Davis nodded and flew out of the three-kilometer zone to protect himself from the heavenly tribulation. Fallen Heaven had gone into hiding, and it didn't come out even while he was out of the three-kilometer zone, making him feel confused.

Was heaven's jurisdiction during a heavenly tribulation more than that?

Last time, he was within the three-kilometer zone's center, protecting Tia, so he could understand Fallen Heaven hiding and not revealing itself until the heavenly tribulation ended, but if it didn't reveal itself even after he exited that speculated zone, then he didn't know what's wrong.

Should he be not anywhere near in the heavenly tribulation's aura that spanned across hundreds of kilometers, even getting to his women?

'Wait'¦'

Then he recalled the twenty-seven-kilometer jurisdiction that the heavenly tribulation sealed the immortals in place if they passed and decided to move out of that range.

Nightveil saw his strange actions and wondered what he was doing. Building formations to protect her from the attacks of others or trying to escape?

She bit her lips, feeling her heart race in anxiousness before she saw him stop and look excited.

'Did I make a mistake? Or is he just too cautious that I would go back on my word?'

She wondered before shaking her head and looking upwards. The tribulations clouds have almost finished gathering as they extended towards the horizon as far as she could see as though it was sealing her fate in this trial.

Taking a deep breath, she summoned her black scythe out of her spirit energy and held it in her palms, ready to counter the strikes that would rain down on her. However, she also knew that something additional was in store for her.

*Shhhh!~*

Suddenly, the skies turned crimson. The mixture of the dark crimson clouds and blue lightning made everyone suck in a significant amount of cold air. They had to calm themselves down from being overwhelmed by this additional pressure that descended from nowhere.

Without even a sound being made underneath the disrupting rumble of the heavenly tribulation, a dark crimson wisp fell from the clouds, plunging straight towards Nightveil.

"Heavenly Flames'¦"

Davis narrowed his eyes as he saw a wisp of heavenly fire fall from the skies. The others were also stunned by this phenomenon.

The heavenly flames were descending to purge Nightveil!

Nightveil's eyes shook as she saw the dark crimson wisp of flames descend. She readied her black scythe as she pulled it back, wanting to sever the heavenly flame. The wisp almost neared her when she swung the scythe. However, she suddenly stopped halfway, causing the wisp of flame to fall on her.

"Ahhhh!"

*Whissh!~*

Nightveil's body lit up in heavenly flames as screams of pain echoed.

Davis's eyes were wide as he saw the darkness spirit being burned alive before he bellowed.

"What are you doing? Defend yourself!"

Nightveil didn't reply but struggled in pain as she rolled around the mountain summit, screaming in pain as the heavenly flames burned her.

The spirits and the others were dumbfounded to see this sight, not understanding what was going on, but Davis clenched his teeth as an unnerving assumption came to his mind.

'She wants to get rid of her karmic sin by bathing in the heavenly flames?'

"Boom!~*

Nightveil destroyed a section of the mountain summit as her hand cut through a portion of the edge while she flailed. Clearly, her bodily cultivation was also at the Peak-Level Ninth Stage, somewhat capable of withstanding the burning of the heavenly flames.

Three seconds later, the heavenly flames on her body disappeared, revealing her scorched figure. Black robes instantly wrapped around her body even before the flames disappeared, seemingly protecting her own chastity against the thousands of onlookers who were watching her.

Davis couldn't understand why she was going so far before he saw another heavenly flame wisp descend. This time, Nightveil didn't even bother to raise her hand against the burning wisp. Her golden eyes shone with determination when the small yet deadly struck her head and instantly lit her up in heavenly flames.

However, this time she didn't even release a feeble moan of pain but endured it while she stood straight, all the while her body was intensely trembling from being burned alive.

'Such foolishness'¦ it will harm her enough to not be able to counter the heavenly lightning strikes...'

Davis thought while his eyes were narrowed in sympathy.

He knew how it felt to be burned alive as he endured the flames of the Ravaging Crimson Star Spirit, and it certainly was nothing to laugh at. He also felt that it would especially be painful for Nightveil since she was also a darkness spirit but didn't know if the heavenly flames differentiated in that regard and made things unfair for yin-natured living beings.

It made him want to use his Karmicseizer to remove karmic sin from her, but he didn't know what would happen if he did that.

One, two'¦ three seconds passed, and the heavenly flames disappeared from her body again.

Nightveil shuddered before she fell down on her knees.

Davis became baffled as he wondered if she had fallen before he saw her stand up again as darkness enveloped to heal her back and restore her appearance.

'Yes, she's definitely using the heavenly flames to whittle down her karmic sin...'

Davis's eyes saw that her karmic sin was lessening each second the heavenly flames burned her body.

People wouldn't dare to try this kind of stunt, 'burning in heavenly flames', just to have their karmic sin reaped from them. Instead, they would try their best to destroy it before it touches them.

After all, the heavenly flames' prowess was a level higher than the tribulation taker's cultivation base.

However, it certainly didn't seem to be the case for Nightveil to his confusion.

Although she was a level higher in prowess, and these heavenly flames somehow didn't reach a prowess higher contrary to his knowledge, he wondered if it was because the karmic sin she possessed was less than one meter tall.

After all, those who had karmic sin that stretches to eleven meters encounter three heavenly flames that are a level higher than their cultivation base. However, the two heavenly flame wisps he had seen just now were just at Peak-Level Ninth Stage, enough for her to be able to handle it with the sheer endurance of her body.

He couldn't help but wonder if this was a chance that the heavens gave sinners to redeem themselves through punishment, being burned alive for three seconds, three times.

'Perhaps, anything less than a meter tall karmic sin is considered more redeemable by the heavens? I don't know for sure...'

Davis thought as he watched another dark crimson wisp fall from the skies.

It quickly descended and lit Nightveil in heavenly flames again.

"Ahhh!"

However, this time, Nightveil couldn't endure and screamed. The flames seeped into her scorched skin and began burning her flesh, causing her to be unable to take it and flail again.

All people could see was a woman being burned alive as she danced on the mountain summit while screaming in pain. Even Natalya and the others were watching with agape mouths, wondering why she was going this, and most of them were clueless as to how many more heavenly flame wisps would fall, not knowing that this was the last.

Davis looked away as he couldn't see Nightveil's misery. It was like seeing a woman who was falsely accused as a witch and then being burned alive as she did fit the image of looking like a ghastly pale woman. Nevertheless, he instead used his soul sense to survey the area, wanting to protect her from others as he gave his word to her.

However, he wondered who would appear in this nowhere when he sensed three prominent figures approaching along with many other spirits to his surprise.

"Ahahaha! Nightveil, you evil wench. The heavens are fair! Prepare to be burned to death under the cleansing might of the heavenly flames. You deserve to suffer more than this for massacring my Lustrous Soaring Dawn Spirit Tribe!"

A mocking voice resounded out full of hatred as a spirit in white robes, glowing with a golden hue, could be seen approaching them with a twisted expression of happiness on his face.