Chapter 61: Tribulation Crossing, Physical Body Breakthrough, Might of the Golden Core
Boom!
The first bolt of the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation falls!
You rely on the physical strength of your Nascent Soul stage body and forcibly withstand it!
The Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art operates at full power. Every muscle, bone, and meridian in your body is tempered by the power of Heavenly Lightning, growing stronger still.
After the previous few Tribulation Crossings, you no longer sit and wait for the Heavenly Tribulation to fall.
You take to the air, flying straight into the tribulation clouds. You are going on the offensive!
“This… this is truly audacious beyond belief!!!”
Outside the cave residence, Li Wuyou was completely stunned by your actions.
“Worthy of him, all right. Even crossing tribulation is different for him!” Bai Ruoxi said, her face full of admiration.
“You’re still praising him? Do you really think charging into tribulation clouds is that easy?” Li Wuyou felt you had all gone mad.
“Back during the pill tribulation, didn’t he do the same thing?” Bai Ruoxi said, speechless.
“How is that the same? The pill tribulation only had a few bolts of lightning. His has a full thirty-six bolts of Heavenly Lightning!”
“If all that Heavenly Lightning power erupts at once, even a Spirit Transformation cultivator like me would probably perish on the spot!”
“Hissss, that dangerous? Then why aren’t you going to save him!” Bai Ruoxi finally realized the severity of the situation.
“Me, save him? Heh heh… whoever wants those six hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones can have them. I’m out!” Li Wuyou chose to give up. There were only a few days left, and six hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones would have been in hand. Who could have imagined something like this happening at the critical moment?
Within the tribulation clouds, you sensed the Heavenly Lightning power all around you and did not act rashly.
The Lightning Tribulation was full of violent power. The slightest carelessness could trigger a full eruption, and that was not what you wanted.
You arrived at a relatively safe location. Watching the second bolt of Heavenly Lightning about to finish condensing, you fully activated the Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art and absorbed the Heavenly Lightning power.
Under your absorption, the second bolt of Heavenly Lightning could not fully condense.
Under your reckless absorption, your body became filled with Heavenly Lightning power.
More and more Heavenly Lightning power was drawn into your body, but the speed at which your body could refine it could not keep up with the speed of absorption.
This caused more and more Heavenly Lightning power to accumulate inside you. If this continued, there was even the danger of your body exploding!
You took ten bottles of pills from your storage ring and shoved them all into your mouth at once.
These were specially prepared for this Tribulation Crossing: fourth-grade healing pills!
With these healing pills treating your body, you could refine Heavenly Lightning power without regard for the cost.
Who knew how much time passed. At this moment, two forces were locked in battle within your body.
On one side, Heavenly Lightning power ceaselessly tempered your flesh. On the other, various powers restored the wounds in your body caused by the tempering.
Your skin peeled away layer after layer. Chunks of your flesh died off. Even the bones inside your body were mercilessly destroyed by Heavenly Lightning power.
But fortunately, another force ceaselessly repaired your shattered flesh and bones.
The newborn flesh and bones were even stronger than before.
In this method of cultivation, you were in both pain and bliss.
Finally, at a certain moment, the third layer of your Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art successfully entered the Grandmaster Realm. Your physical strength was comparable to Nascent Soul ninth layer!
You raised your head and let out a long howl. At this moment, Heavenly Lightning power could no longer harm your body in the slightest!
The Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation for breaking through to Nascent Soul had been crossed by you, just like that!
After crossing the Lightning Tribulation, you did not grow careless, because the Heart Demon Tribulation had not yet been crossed!
Moreover, you were not sure whether even more powerful lightning tribulation would still fall afterward.
To deal with unknown dangers, you rapidly absorbed pills to recover your internal injuries.
The Heart Demon Tribulation did not appear. Instead, the tribulation clouds in the sky grew deeper and darker.
You looked up, your expression grave. Compared to the monstrous Heavenly Lightning that would follow, you would rather face the Heart Demon Tribulation.
Under this kind of Heavenly Lightning, even the current you could face life-threatening danger at any moment!
“This… what exactly is going on? Why do these tribulation clouds give off an aura of death?” Bai Ruoxi raised her head toward the tribulation clouds in the sky and murmured to herself.
“Sigh, this is probably the price of offending Heavenly Lightning. After all, almost no one who offends Heavenly Lightning survives!” Li Wuyou sighed.
“Fellow Daoist Wuji has such strength, yet I never imagined he wouldn’t even last until the Heart Demon Tribulation and would perish here!” (TN: missed section)
“It’s not over yet! I won’t let you curse him!” Bai Ruoxi said angrily.
Li Wuyou shook his head and said nothing.
Facing a Heavenly Lightning never heard of before, you could only choose to meet it head-on.
You did everything in your power to continue absorbing Heavenly Lightning power and weaken the Heavenly Lightning.
Boom——————!
In the end, you still had absolutely no way to stop the unknown Heavenly Lightning from descending. It directly struck you down from the tribulation clouds, slamming you ruthlessly into the ground!
Heavenly Lightning power far beyond your imagination ran rampant through your body.
A single bolt of Heavenly Lightning had actually directly blasted you into severe injury!
You lay on the ground, feeling as though every bone in your body had come apart. You could not summon the slightest strength.
But fortunately, the meridians in your body were intact, and your cultivation at Golden Core ninth layer could still be used.
Through spiritual power, you shoved all the healing pills prepared in your storage bag into your mouth, rapidly recovering your injuries.
By the time your severely wounded body could barely move, the second bolt of Heavenly Lightning power was about to descend.
You took out the Broken Sword. All the spiritual power in your body poured into it, activating a trace of the immortal sword’s power.
One sword strike, colliding with the second bolt of Heavenly Lightning power!
“This, this, this — how is that possible! He’s only at the Golden Core stage!” Watching you cross tribulation, Li Wuyou’s face was filled with dread. Within that sword qi, he had sensed the threat of death!
Boom——————!
A trace of the immortal sword’s power actually directly split apart the second bolt of Heavenly Lightning. Its lingering force did not diminish, charging into the tribulation clouds.
Even the tribulation clouds grew a few degrees thinner because of it, and the Heavenly Lightning power within the clouds grew a few degrees sparser.
You seized this opportunity and hurriedly used the Life-Seizing Origin-Restoring Art, stripping away all nearby vitality and spiritual qi to rapidly recover your internal injuries.
By the time your internal injuries had fully recovered and your exhausted spiritual power had been replenished, you charged into the tribulation clouds once more, activating the Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art.
While refining your body, you also released the Golden Core within you.
On your Golden Core, seven Heavenly Lightning Marks shone brightly, actually absorbing this incomparably powerful Heavenly Lightning force together with you!
This time, with both the Golden Core and the physical body exerting force together, you actually managed to suppress the condensation of the Heavenly Lightning.
On your Golden Core, an eighth Heavenly Lightning Mark slowly emerged…