leonardwarren #310 - The clone successfully established the foundation! Huge benefits!
#310 - The clone successfully established the foundation! Huge benefits!
Rumble!
The wind and rain were as dark as night.
Fierce wind, heavy rain.
Crack!
A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky.
Like a silver dragon of wrath.
Its fangs and claws tore through the sky.
Heading straight for the mountain peak below.
Heading for the handsome young Daoist on the summit.
He wore a Daoist robe, sitting cross-legged on the head of a giant, patterned snake.
Beneath him was a massive, patterned snake, coiled around half the mountain.
The spiritual energy around him boiled to the extreme, forming a thick shield, firmly enveloping him.
This tribulation lightning struck down with a deafening roar upon colliding with the shield, the entire mountain seeming to tremble.
Lightning added to his body.
Lightning and spiritual energy intertwined, erupting with dazzling light, completely engulfing the Daoist's figure.
Instantly piercing through that layer of protective spiritual light.
Striking his physical body.
Even as the lightning burned his meridians and acupoints, the Daoist's expression remained calm, accepting it with equanimity.
Although surrounded by layers of blood-red clouds, his face showed no sign of ferocity, but rather an air of transcendence, untouched by worldly dust.
The corner of his mouth even seemed to hold a resolute and unyielding smile, as if he did not find this tribulation lightning, containing the power of heaven and earth, to be difficult to endure.
… Fake.
"Ugh!"
Xu Chengxian immediately bared his teeth and grimaced.
Couldn't keep up the act for even a moment!
The rumble was like a hammer blow.
Pain!
Pain! Pain!
Especially painful!
He felt like he was about to crack open!
The clone was experiencing the lightning tribulation.
Lightning was burning in his meridians, fighting with spiritual energy in his acupoints.
What does 'pain that penetrates the bone marrow' mean?
He now had a personal understanding!
Every inch of his body felt like it had been crushed and then reassembled.
In the mutual annihilation of spiritual energy and lightning, his meridians were forcibly widened.
During this process, it was inevitable that some meridians and acupoints would be improperly handled, resulting in damage.
Fortunately, he still had the blood energy of his main body, which could be mobilized to make up for it.
Because the clone was sitting directly on the main body.
Only a thought was needed.
Just like now.
Streams of warm blood energy, like a torrent, surged forth, but then transformed into trickles, instantly enveloping and permeating every inch of his flesh.
Continuously pouring into his meridians and acupoints.
Repairing the physical body while also extinguishing the remaining lightning fire.
So it was not only painful, but also burning and unbearably itchy.
But that was not all.
Even more painful was the process of opening up and expanding the dantian.
That was a feeling of the physical body and soul being torn apart together.
A cultivator's dantian would be like a chaos.
Within the chaos, there would be spiritual energy obtained from previous cultivation.
The spiritual energy was like clouds, in clumps, each scattered within.
Foundation Establishment was to use divine sense to guide this spiritual energy, gather it in one place, and form a rotating ball of energy. Then, with spiritual energy, open up a space in this chaos.
Currently, Xu Chengxian's dantian and purple palace were already faintly taking shape.
This was also the reason why he could attract the lightning tribulation.
Foundation Establishment Lightning Tribulation.
One could succeed in Foundation Establishment before undergoing the tribulation.
One could also use the lightning tribulation to establish the foundation.
This was no different from the demon race breaking through the realm.
It all depended on the cultivator's choice.
In order to swallow all the incense and faith power of the people, Xu Chengxian chose the latter.
He even dared to boldly draw a trace of lightning fire into his dantian, relying on the support of his blood energy.
Let the lightning fire stir the spiritual energy cloud, accelerating the speed of expanding the dantian.
The biggest fear of doing this was that the physical meridians and acupoints would be damaged, which would damage the origin.
If it could not be repaired in time, it would be difficult to improve the cultivation base in the future.
But that was the least of his worries.
"Blood energy!"
"There is plenty!"
Xu Chengxian was happy to see the consumption of blood energy.
After all, the point he was still worried about now was how to disperse the blood energy that exceeded the main body's tolerance.
Moreover, this process was also a tempering of the clone's physical body.
After a dozen or so tribulation lightning strikes, his physical body had grown significantly.
It was already faintly changing towards the appearance of a young man.
This change in age also foreshadowed the improvement in strength.
So the most difficult thing to endure was injecting divine sense into the spiritual energy ball, and while being burned by the lightning fire, he also had to gather spiritual energy to form a vortex, building a purple palace in the dantian.
"Ugh!"
Taking advantage of the gap between the tribulation lightning strikes, Xu Chengxian's divine sense had to return to the main body for a moment.
He had to go back.
To ensure that the divine soul in the sea of consciousness was intact, and that the main body's physical body would not lose control or collapse.
The main body was also undergoing suffering.
"Hiss, hiss!"
The moment he returned, Xu Chengxian's snake face could not help but open its mouth and hiss.
Swelling!
About to explode!
The result of all the blood energy desperately refining the power of faith was that a large amount of blood energy was constantly surging and surging in the snake's body.
Scouring his physical body, testing his ability to withstand it.
And he had to take care of both, which was enduring two kinds of torment!
But he could not give up!
Enduring it would definitely be a huge gain!
"Crap!"
In this danger of wandering on the edge of destruction, Xu Chengxian's ruthlessness, beyond his salted fish character, seemed to be stimulated.
His aura suddenly soared at this moment, surprisingly having a rare kind of indomitable, domineering aura!
Hold on!
I can win!
Rumble!
Crack!
The lightning tribulation was coming again.
In the next instant, Xu Chengxian's divine sense immediately returned to the clone.
Immediately afterwards, one after another of tribulation lightning strikes followed one after another.
Each one was more violent than the last, as if to tear this world apart.
On the mountaintop, the Daoist's figure loomed in the lightning.
Each bombardment of the lightning tribulation made him miserable, but he always gritted his teeth and persevered.
The spiritual energy in his body became purer and stronger under the tempering of the lightning tribulation.
Finally.
When the last tribulation lightning dissipated into the sky.
[Ding Dong!]
[Congratulations to the host's clone for advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage!]
The light around Xu Chengxian also slowly converged.
He opened his eyes.
His eyes sparkled with unprecedented brilliance.
Foundation Establishment success!
"Damn it, that was too hard to endure!"
Next time, he would never do this again!
…
The thunderclouds dissipated.
The sky was bright.
Suddenly, a radiant glow appeared.
Countless spiritual energies gathered and poured into Xu Chengxian's clone.
This was a spiritual rain from the heavens!
Spiritual energy instantly nourished the meridians and dantian.
In a short period of time, Xu Chengxian felt a surge of vigorous power in his body.
This kind of power increase, crossing a level, as if the whole world was in his control, was really a taste that, no matter how many times he had experienced it, was still exciting!
[Ding Dong!]
[Congratulations to the host!]
[Refined a pool of incense and faith power spiritual liquid!]
[Gained blood energy + 83909389, essence blood energy + 3899! Physique realm + 4097, divine soul realm + 4152!]
"What?"
Xu Chengxian was shocked.
Although he had a feeling that this harvest would be very amazing.
When the system prompt reported the number of essence blood energy increases, his heart jumped a few times.
Immediately opened the data panel.
[Host: Xu Chengxian]
[Race: Water-Avoiding Snake]
[Rank: Demon General Realm (To advance to the Demon Commander Realm, 50000 points of essence blood energy are required)]
[Blood Energy: 191603229]
[Essence Blood Energy: 16709]
[Physique Realm: Essence Yuan Realm (69816 / 100000)]
[Divine Soul Realm: Essence Soul Realm (70159 / 100000)]
[Divine Power Combat Skills: (Divine Power: Devouring and Refining, Bewitching Hissing, Size Change, Snake Shedding (Combat Skills: Snake Bite, Snake Entanglement, Five Elements Arts, Snake Tail Swing)]
[Refining Points: 0 / 20]
"… Holy crap!" He hadn't been so excited in a long time.
He had stayed in the Eastern Earth Human Realm for less than a month!
Putting aside everything else, this time alone, his essence blood energy had increased by nearly four thousand!
"… Next time, if there is such a harvest…" Xu Chengxian blinked.
It wasn't that he couldn't consider doing it again!