The tribulation cloud on the sky resemble a familiarity on what Groot face. Not the black clouds but an unusually bright lightning. It was apparent that the property of the lightning is special that it specifically counter the growing Devil Beast Bloodline inside Coal's body.

While Cole look at the black cloud in the sky with apprehension and worry, a sudden fluctuation appear inside his Sea of Consciousness. Second after, a familiar voice sound inside his head, "Amitabha. This bald monk can't believe that he can once again encounter the Sin Enlightening Lightning!"

"Oh, Baldy, you're awake?" For a second, Cole's full attention shift inside his Sea of Consciousness and saw that there's a ball of light trying to contend with brightness on his soul reincarnated Tree of Light.

"Amitabha. Yes, young master, this bald man fully recover. Not only this bald monk fully recover from his previous state, this bald monk even believe that he somehow improve. Its a miracle indeed!"

Upon hearing that, Cole can't help but smirk. Miracle Fruit truly live by its name.

Only, after seeing the more brighter orb, Cole can't help but feel indignant. The Purifying Evil Radiance Orb is a bona fide Divine-Rank Equipment. It was made with precious materials along with precious technique. In the same sense, its recovery also needs precious materials and unknown mysterious technique.

The essence of Miracle Fruit simplify and skip many steps but Cole can't imagine of how many precious Miracle Fruit essence it absorb in order to recover to its peak!

In fact, it doesn't matter much for Cole. Although he could tell that it would take a very long time but the Miracle Tree could bore its fruit.

However, Cole had some misgivings when he remember that Baldy ultimately lies its loyalty not to him but to its Buddhism Faction as a whole!

Unfortunately for Cole, Baldy is inside his Sea of Consciousness. The latter might not be able to read his exact thought, it could still accurately guess his worry.

"Amitabha. This old monk is poor but this bald monk won't deny the miraculous work the Miracle Fruit bestowed upon me. Young master, this old equipment were created from the early times of Buddhism. This bald monk might not be rich in material objects but this old monk manage to accumulate and hold several knowledge from early times. Something that even vanish from the river of time."

"This bald monk's creator didn't put any restriction on this equipment but this bald monk is faithful to its creators word. Young master, in order for this monk to show its loyalty and sincerity, this old monk is willing to share two of secret cultivation manual it know!"

Cole feel the solemnity and sincerity of the artifact spirit, specially when it even stated that it's willing to break its faith and share of what it knew.

Cole smile since basically, Baldy announce his loyalty to him.

Just a while ago, Divine-Rank Artifact is not something rare for him. It was only because of sentiments and the thought of his talking encyclopedia vanishing didn't sit right on his preference. In the end, Baldy already become one of his precious family and companion.

"We'll get back to this later. I need to focus on this Heavenly Tribulation." He said to Baldy.

"As you wish, young master."

"Good. Then what about telling me about this Sin Enlightening Lightning?"

"Amitabha. Sin Enlightening Lightning is one of the rarest Heavenly Lightning in the world. Even in the ancient times of my creator, this type of lightning is something that is really hard to come by. Sin Enlightening Lightning is a type of lightning that contains rich amount of light energy mixed with lightning energy. In Buddhism Path, Sin Enlightening Lightning is one of the natural treasure that can be used on cultivation or turn into formidable weapon!"

Cole nod his head after hearing the brief introduction about the so called Sin Enlightening Lightning Coal have to overcome on its Heavenly Tribulation.

Of course, he won't deny that he's worried about Coal since the Sin Enlightening Lightning is something that is extremely deadly for the little lizard.

However, with his presence along with Ygdrassil, dying is almost impossible for it to experience specially since Cole is focused on the well being of his companion and always ready to provide support and healing should things starts to turn astray.

With that thought in mind, the black Heavenly Tribulation cloud stir in systematic manner and a familiar vortex right above the challenger appear. In this case, Coal.

The latter, who was already showing some characteristics of its new bloodline and is already look like an evil or demonic dragon in princess stories, look at the sky with trepidation but turn into fighting spirit and determination when the lightning gather in the middle of the vortex.

Boom! Booom! Bbrrooooom~~!

As the thunderclap turn louder and mightier as though announcing its arrival, an albeit weaker but full of might half-dragonic cry fight the thunder!

Rrooooaaaarrr!!!!

As though provoked, the lightning finish its accumulation and smash towards the challenger below.

Doooooommm—

Fortunately, the small but several crystal that envelopes the challenger neutralize huge part of the power of the tribulation lightning. The remaining amount bombard the lizard, making it bleed and its scales fall.

It was extremely painful process due to conflicting property of the challengers body and characteristics of the special lightning but it wasn't deadly.

And what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Unlike Groot, or the others normally, Coal's tribulation compose of six lightning strike rather than the usual three strikes. It was apparent that Coal's tribulation are more than twice harder.

The first and second strike, with Blue's assistance, was successfully endured by Coal.

On the third lightning strike, Coal enter an injured state. Fortunately, its dragon bloodline gave it strong regeneration ability and was able to somehow recover in the short amount of interval.

On the fourth strike, the Sin Enlightening Lightning affects the mind of the little lizard. It turn dazed on the spot as though it was having a sudden enlightenment.

On the fifth strike, Blue don't have any other choice but to use its full potential to block the lightning strike but fraction of it still hit the dazed lizard. Without defense and resistance, Coal got heavily injured.

Supposedly, Cole should start on participate on the process by providing the necessary healing. But when he remember that what the Devil Dragon Bloodline need is savagery and threat of death, seeing that his companion state is not deadly, Coal chose to remain still.

The sixth and last strike contains the most powerful force of the tribulation and this time, the development Cole anticipates start to happen!

As though feeling the life threat on it, a full of savagery and prestige of dragon explode from the critically injured body of the lizard. Crimson aura envelopes the injured body and as though the latter is the needed catalyst, Coal's body starts to balloon up, growing to the height of two three-story bus.

The injured patch of the body squirm and heal with the speed visible to the naked eye. Afterwards, scales starts to appear and form on the whole body of the giant lizard.

The scales were glinting with crimson red color and it looks more tougher than any kind of petal. It was apparent that the new scales boost the defense of the lizard into terrifying level.

As the whole body continue to replace its scales, bones also gush out of the body, increasing the savage and bloodthirsty forming form of the lizard.

The bumps of flesh on its back and head also increase in size and it looks like it was close to bursting but ultimately not.

And lastly, perhaps because the transformation brought a huge amount of pain, the dazed eyes of the lizard glints with intelligence again. The Iris of the eyes looks vertically thin and as though it was a extremely powerful predator, just the eyes alone is enough to bring fear and intimidation!

After regaining its consciousness, Coal look at the vortex in the sky that already accumulates all the lightning from the tribulation cloud. As though issuing a challenge, Coal took a deep breath and bellow out with intimidating roar that was already laced with prestige of the dragon!

Rrroooaaaoorrr!!!!

Dddoooommmmmm—

At the same time, the last pillar of lightning strike!

Rrooaaarr!!! Roooaaarr!!!

The last strike of lightning immediately send the giant lizard deep into the ground. It was so unprecedented because this was even on the consideration of Blue's assistance!

But in the next second, the crimson blood aura that envelopes the lizard suddenly explode!

And as it explodes and fight the opposing property of Sin Enlightening Lightning, blood spray as a massive, wide bones gush out of the lizards back and curved horns sprout from its head!

At the same time, the size of the lizard—no! The size of the evolving dragon boom again!

Upon seeing that Coal is finally starting on its racial metamorphosis and evolving into its planted bloodline, Cole immediately send his support.

A transparent flame appear on top of his hand and toss it towards the enduring lizard.

Although Cole didn't provide any instructions, Coal shift its eyes to the flying transparent flame and open its mouth to receive it.

In an instant, as though the growing body receive the vital nutrients it needs, its transformation speed increased drastically. Not only its transformation speed increased, even the quality of the transformation increased.

For instance, the scales become more sturdy, hard and resistant; it was now comparable into growth-type innate armor!

Not only scales, but the other things like claws and exterior bones turn more harder and fiercer. Even its body and muscles drastically improved.

The interference of the transparent [Immortal Purity True Phoenix Flame] suddenly incite the Heavenly Tribulation to increased its might. Only, Coal's evolution improved its overall state not to say that the tribulation itself was already on its final phase. It didn't pose any threat at all.

Several moments later, the pillar of lightning starts to dissipate, signifying that the Heavenly Tribulation is already finished.

At that time, black cloud emerged from Blue's body. It flew into the sky and integrates into the tribulation cloud. When the tribulation cloud dissipate, the black cloud turn more fluffier, fuller and denser as it fuse back into Blue's body.

It was the growth-type artifact Cole gifted to Blue and after absorbing tribulation clouds from the start, its growth was only inferior to the one he gave to Virgo.

Coal spend several more minutes on consolidating its new-found strength and use the [Immortal Purity True Phoenix Flame] to acquire all the needed life force his new powerful species needed which was extremely different from its former Earth-Rank Bloodline.

The one Cole gave on Coal is also a Divine-Rank Devil Beast Bloodline but since it was just a 1% of the whole bloodline, it was impossible for the latter to become Divine-Rank Beast in one evolution.

Currently, Coal only has Emperor-Rank Bloodline and it might take two more evolutions before it could fully transform into full-fledged Divine-Rank Beast. The Divine-Rank Bloodline were currently just the latter's potential and Coal would need to spend a long time bathing and absorbing the Messiah Tree's mysterious aura to refine and its bloodline.

When Coal spit out the transparent flame, Cole bond with his companion for small moment before he send it to [Tainted Divine Kingdom] of Devil Goddess of Hellish Condemnation and Divine Justice. It was the only place that has abundant Devil-Energy that Coal's new bloodline needs and the only place for it to grow and cultivate.

Afterwards, they leave the place he named the Tribulation Mountain.

Blue enter the [Inner World] as it needs to fully integrate with the new Sin Enlightening Lightning it acquire. The environment inside the [Inner World] and the mysterious aura of Messiah Tree turn the whole place a holy place for cultivation, and its wonders multiplies for Beast Race.

As for Cole, he get back on managing the city and spending most of his time challenging the Dungeon Monolith, sending his cultivation to the peak including his contracted companions.

The only difference this time is that he acquire new cultivation method from Baldy and he is now currently cultivating on it!