Chapter 164: Tribulation Crossing, Cultivation Soars!!!
Your physical body was tempered by the vast power of Heavenly Lightning and broke through successfully!
With the power of a mid-stage Void Return physical body, you had already become immune to most of the Heavenly Lightning’s damage within the Lightning Tribulation. Even if you did nothing at all now, resisting it purely with your physical strength would let you cross it safely.
Only then did you have the leisure to split off a strand of divine sense and observe the battle below.
Though the three Law Avatars had been shattered by you, that tightly shut gate still showed no sign of opening.
A crowd of Human Clan cultivators kept pounding on that gate, yet they could not shake it in the slightest.
In their despair, they turned their gazes toward Princess Anle. The reason everyone had gathered together was precisely that Princess Anle had a way to deal with the Desolate.
“Princess Anle, whatever methods you have, just use them!”
“Yes, Your Highness, our lives are all entrusted to you now!”
Princess Anle looked toward you, who were undergoing Tribulation Crossing in the sky, and did not immediately answer everyone’s doubts.
Clearly, your appearance had disrupted Princess Anle’s original plans, forcing Princess Anle to endure in silence once more.
“Do not worry, everyone. This Empress holds a Seventh-Rank Defense Formation. With this formation here, it is enough to guarantee everyone’s safety!” Princess Anle took out a formation disc, and the Seventh-Rank Formation instantly unfolded, covering the surrounding Human Clan cultivators within it.
You narrowed your eyes, sizing up the formation Princess Anle had brought out. A Defense Formation capable of blocking the attacks of Fusion realm cultivators would naturally have no great problem blocking a group of Void Return Desolate.
“If that is all the means you have, why not set it up earlier?” You had witnessed the cooperation between Princess Anle and the Desolate, so deep in your subconscious you had already classified Princess Anle as an enemy.
You would never believe an enemy could be so kind-hearted.
Then you saw it: after a group of Desolate faced off against Princess Anle for a moment, they collectively surrounded you, who were undergoing Tribulation Crossing!
At the same time, you saw one of the Desolate take out formation flags and begin setting them up around the area of your Tribulation Crossing!
“So they intend to eliminate me first? Heh heh!” You let out a cold laugh, then paid it no more attention, charging alone into the Lightning Tribulation!
“Daring to provoke the Lightning Tribulation, are you tired of living?!!”
“This person is so bold!”
“I never imagined there could be such a monster among the Human Clan!”
“Indeed, if he truly manages to cross this tribulation, I fear he would be no less than our clan’s Desolate Son!”
“Today, he must die!”
Deep within the Lightning Tribulation, you absorbed the power of Heavenly Lightning while taking out the Marrow-Cleansing Fruit!
This Marrow-Cleansing Fruit was something you had deliberately kept from your last simulation, precisely to consume it during the next simulation, gambling on that ethereal sliver of a chance to improve the spirit root within your body!
The Marrow-Cleansing Fruit entered your belly, and a strange energy appeared, coursing through every limb and bone, constantly strengthening your physique, tempering your physical body, washing away filth.
Your physical body had already reached the Void Return realm, yet strands of impurity were still expelled from your body, making your physical body even more complete.
The effects of the Marrow-Cleansing Fruit quickly faded. Even if it was only a sliver of improvement, for you as you were now, that was still exceedingly difficult to come by!
The only thing that left you regretful was that your spirit root had not improved as a result.
“Sure enough, things too ethereal cannot be fully trusted!” After sighing with emotion, you continued to circulate the Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art, madly absorbing the power of Heavenly Lightning here.
Your immortal-grade Thunder Spirit Root also began to revive on its own, absorbing and refining the power of Heavenly Lightning together with your physical body. The efficiency of your absorption was greatly enhanced.
After you entered the Heavenly Tribulation, the subsequent Heavenly Lightning could never condense again, simply because the speed at which Heavenly Lightning condensed was far slower than your speed of absorption.
The absorbed power of Heavenly Lightning was filtered by your immortal-grade Thunder Spirit Root, greatly aiding your tempering of your physical body.
“Just a sliver more!!!” The power of Heavenly Lightning within the Heavenly Tribulation had already been mostly absorbed by you. The Heavenly Tribulation was about to disperse, yet your physical body’s power was still a sliver short of breaking through to late-stage Void Return!
Such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity — naturally you were unwilling to miss it. You madly circulated the Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art, continuing to snatch the power of Heavenly Lightning from the Heavenly Tribulation!
At the same time, the final strand of Heavenly Lightning power within your body was also stirred, strands of Heavenly Lightning power bursting from within you, quickly absorbed and refined by you.
In the end, the Heavenly Tribulation dispersed, and the scattered Heavenly Lightning power in the surroundings was completely absorbed by you.
Even that final strand of Heavenly Lightning power within your body was absorbed and refined by you.
Your physical body’s power broke through once more, reaching late-stage Void Return!
The Heavenly Tribulation dispersed, and a flash of holy light descended, wrapping around you, fully restoring all your injuries.
Around your body, ninety-nine strands of the Power of Law surged forth, and you sensed a change from the depths of your soul!
Your cultivation began to climb: early-stage Void Return, mid-stage Void Return, late-stage Void Return!
Your cultivation was still climbing. This was the backlash from cultivation you had suppressed for nearly two hundred years!
At the same time, it was also related to your mastery of ninety-nine strands of the Power of Law and the immense foundation you possessed.
You felt that if you broke through further, your cultivation would reach the peak of the Void Return realm, but this was not what you hoped to see.
Breaking through three minor realms in a row was already shocking enough. If you continued to break through, you worried your foundation would become unstable, affecting your subsequent path of cultivation.
Moreover, having just broken through to the Void Return realm, you still needed a great deal of time to settle.
You began to suppress your own breakthrough, ultimately stopping your cultivation at late-stage Void Return!
Your Primordial Spirit power also surged, directly breaking through to late-stage Void Return. Just a sliver short, and you could break through to the peak of the Void Return realm!
“After years of cultivation, this is the first time my body and Dharma realms have reached balance!” Having finished your breakthrough, you felt somewhat wistful.
All along, you had relied on your physical body’s power to reach where you were now. At last, you had raised your Dharma cultivation realm as well.
You looked inward at yourself, only then realizing that the Martial Way Nascent Soul within your dantian had undergone a transformation. Unknowingly, your Martial Way cultivation had actually broken through to the Three Thousandfold Heavens!
Your Martial Way cultivation was now comparable to a Spirit Transformation cultivator!
“It seems I truly do have a talent for cultivating the Martial Way!” You had never expected that the Martial Way you had practiced casually would now become so powerful.
The Martial Way progressed slowly and basically required no resources to cultivate, so you had not anticipated such a sudden breakthrough.
The tribulation clouds dispersed, and your newly broken-through cultivation began to withdraw, becoming no different from an ordinary person, as you descended from the sky.