Chapter 1668
Late Stage of Physical Transformation
Immediately afterwards, Ling Pengyun began to absorb the rich spiritual energy within Demon Rock Mountain to refine his physical body.
Because of the large quantity of spiritual energy, it formed a massive torrent of spiritual energy.
Under normal circumstances, Ling Pengyun's physical body would not be able to withstand it and would be directly burst by the enormous spiritual energy.
However, with the help of numerous spiritual treasures that have broken through to higher realms, its foundation is extraordinary, and it easily suppressed that spiritual energy.
He then transformed it into his own power, quickly refining it into streams of incredibly pure spiritual energy to break through the physical body's bottleneck.
……
at the same time.
Outside the cave.
"I only hope that my husband's breakthrough will be successful this time."
Yan Siyi and a large group of family Nascent Soul cultivators sat cross-legged here to protect Ling Pengyun. When she noticed the unusual activity, she immediately felt a sense of anticipation.
The same applies to the other families who have achieved the status of deity.
In addition, Ling Pengyun caused too much of a stir during his breakthrough.
Those Cangxuan lineage experts who were temporarily cultivating in high-level spiritual lands around Demon Rock Mountain also noticed the unusual activity and looked towards Ling Pengyun's cave.
"I never expected that Peng Yun's physique would reach such a level so quickly."
"This matter is also a great thing. Once it is successful, coupled with his spiritual power cultivation that has already entered the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage, Peng Yun's strength will probably increase dramatically."
"At that time, the overall strength of my Cangxuan lineage will undoubtedly be stronger, thus making it possible to plan for even greater opportunities."
Ancestor Xinghai was extremely pleased with this.
"Young friend Pengyun's talent is truly remarkable. First, his spiritual power cultivation reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and now he is also striving to break through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm in terms of physical strength."
"Moreover, judging from his current progress in breaking through realms, this matter is likely to succeed."
"This is truly enviable. I wish I had such great fortune in physical strength."
The righteous Taoist master Zhengyuan of the Righteous Path Alliance was extremely envious.
In his early years, he spent countless efforts and resources to finally break through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm in his spiritual cultivation.
This is worlds apart from Ling Pengyun.
In addition, although his aptitude for sword cultivation is quite good.
However, like most cultivators, he was not particularly skilled in physical cultivation and could not achieve the dual cultivation of body and mind that Ling Pengyun did.
"Fellow Daoist Pengyun is truly a role model for our Cangxuan Realm."
"Moreover, he is a reliable person, and if his path can be smoother, our Cangxuan lineage will have more confidence."
"..."
The powerful figures of the Supreme Buddhist Sect and the Four Immortals Alliance are relatively weak because they have not yet reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm. They have been clinging tightly to the Ling family as their powerful backer.
For a time, the powerful figures of those forces had different ideas.
However, like Yan Siyi and other family members who have reached the Nascent Soul stage, they all desperately want Ling Pengyun to succeed in breaking through this time.
After all, although Ling Pengyun is a member of the Ling clan, he is also a member of the Cangxuan lineage.
……
Half a year has passed.
This day.
Inside the cave on Demon Rock Mountain, where strange noises were emanating.
Ling Pengyun sat cross-legged on the ground, constantly using a surge of spiritual energy to break through the bottleneck in his physical body.
Although the bottleneck was sturdy, it inevitably began to waver under the impact of massive torrents of spiritual energy.
"Break it for me!"
Ling Pengyun mustered all his strength and charged forward with all his might.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
As a strange, shattering sound emanated from within him, his entire physical body instantly entered a new level.
This even triggered a celestial calamity.
It was enormous, covering half of the Vajra Secret Realm, and it was a dark, oppressive mass.
Lightning bolts constantly crackled within, creating an extremely terrifying aura.
Even the atmosphere in the entire Vajra Secret Realm became somewhat oppressive.
However, Ling Pengyun was overjoyed upon seeing this scene.
"This is the final hurdle, and we must overcome it, otherwise all our previous efforts will have been in vain."
"Furthermore, the tribulation lightning that will subsequently be generated by those tribulation clouds is an excellent method for tempering the body!"
It would be a real shame to miss out.
Ling Pengyun slowly opened his eyes, staring at the thunder falling from the sky, his eyes filled with a fierce light.
Then, he put on his fifth-grade superior natal black dragon armor and gripped the top-grade fifth-grade mid-grade natal blood and qi spiritual treasure, the Hunyuan Axe.
It also activated the powerful innate divine ability 'Lingxiao Hunyuan Body' recorded in the body-refining technique 'Lingxiao Hunyuan Gong'.
This method can greatly enhance a cultivator's physical body, strength, and so on in a short period of time.
In fact, Ling Pengyun had already comprehended it to perfection.
It is also a powerful innate divine ability attached to the cultivation technique, so Ling Pengyun's power is relatively strong when he uses it.
Ling Pengyun's current physical strength is barely comparable to a top-tier fifth-grade defensive spiritual treasure.
If you add to that the incredibly sturdy black dragon armor he was wearing.
I'm afraid he could withstand the attack of a fifth-grade high-level attack magic weapon without any problem.
His strength was worth hundreds of millions of kilograms, enough to easily shatter the heavens.
Moreover, the Hunyuan Axe in his hand was also extraordinary. Although its grade was the same as before, its foundation had increased considerably.
It was even just one step away from being a top-grade fifth-tier spiritual treasure.
During the previous battle when the Cangxuan lineage attacked the Jinqian Demon City, a key border town of the Vajra Demon Rock Sect, Ling Pengyun had acquired quite a few powerful fifth-order Qi and Blood Demon Treasures.
He then refined it into an excellent material and had the Hunyuan Axe gradually refine it.
Gradually, the power of the Hunyuan Axe grew stronger and stronger.
Moreover, once he has thoroughly refined those precious materials, Ling Pengyun can reforge the artifact patterns within them.
It is estimated that he may reach the fifth-grade upper level.
Therefore, its current power is extremely terrifying.
With the help of this treasure, Ling Pengyun may even be able to unleash several attack methods comparable to those of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
And this moment.
The tribulation clouds in the sky showed unusual movement.
Boom.
A loud bang followed.
A great flash of lightning finally brought forth the first tribulation lightning.
The tribulation lightning was pitch black, as thick as a water bucket, and contained boundless destructive intent, its power approaching that of a full-force strike from a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
Moreover, it seemed to shake the surrounding world, causing people to tremble.
"Well done!"
Seeing this, Ling Pengyun was filled with fighting spirit. He exerted force with both feet and took off into the air. As if he were not afraid of death, he held the mountain-splitting axe and went to meet the enemy.
The two collided quickly.
boom! !
Countless fluctuations of spiritual energy immediately spread outwards, tearing apart the surrounding void and creating spatial cracks.
A massive amount of boundless gale-force winds surged forth, ravaging the sky beyond recognition.
But Ling Pengyun stood firmly within it, and with a sudden burst of strength, he directly used the mountain-splitting axe in his hand to split the tribulation lightning in two.
'Soaring Thunder Body Tempering Technique!'
'Freeze!'
Immediately afterwards, Ling Pengyun unleashed an extremely domineering body tempering technique recorded in the cultivation manual.
It can use the power of thunder to quickly temper its body.
However, ordinary lightning power can hardly accomplish this; only powerful lightning can.
And the remaining power of the tribulation lightning today just meets this standard.
However... there was still a considerable amount of residual power from the tribulation lightning, and if something went wrong next, Ling Pengyun's physical body would be very easily damaged.
This is also the shortcoming of that method.
But Ling Pengyun didn't care much about this, after all, he had a very high level of skill in thunder magic.
He even comprehended the incredibly powerful Dao of Destructive Thunder, giving him a stronger control over lightning. Even in the worst-case scenario, he could stabilize the situation in time.
Moreover, he summoned the powerful fifth-grade high-quality lightning-attribute spiritual treasure, the Nine Heavens Thunder Banner, to protect himself.
In an instant, the remaining power of the tribulation lightning that had been split in two was suppressed and forcibly absorbed into Ling Pengyun's body.
Waves of pain suddenly washed over me.
However, upon closer inspection, it can be discovered that the benefits of tempering the body with tribulation lightning are extraordinary, far surpassing those of tempering the body with ordinary, powerful lightning.
His physical body is strengthening at an extremely rapid pace.
'The body-tempering effect of this tribulation lightning is truly powerful.'
Ling Pengyun endured the pain with a furrowed brow, but a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.
quite a while.
Not long after he refined the first bolt of tribulation lightning, the tribulation cloud gradually gathered the remaining bolts of tribulation lightning, which then struck down fiercely.
However, those tribulation lightning bolts did not harm Ling Pengyun in the slightest. Instead, Ling Pengyun transformed them into excellent resources for body tempering.
Moreover, the more powerful the tribulation lightning became, the faster Ling Pengyun's physical body improved.
However, he was already struggling to withstand the last few bolts of tribulation lightning.
The power of those tribulation lightning bolts had reached the level of a veteran late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and even reached the peak of Nascent Soul cultivation.
'We have no choice but to give it our all.'
Ling Pengyun's expression hardened, and he quickly summoned the Morning Gourd, the Pine Tree Pearl, and the Five Elements River—three spiritual treasures.
The first two spiritual treasures and the Nine Heavens Thunder Banner that he had summoned earlier immediately merged into one, and successively summoned three incomparably powerful Ancient Pine Morning Glow Thunder Dragons.
The Five Elements River transformed into a raging torrent, sweeping out with the power to crush everything, its might extremely fierce.
In addition, Ling Pengyun continuously channeled his spiritual power into the Black Dragon Armor, causing it to erect a thick defensive light barrier that protected him.
Soon, his various techniques collided with the final few bolts of tribulation lightning.
Although his methods were powerful, they were no match for the even greater power of the tribulation lightning.
They were eventually destroyed one after another.
Fortunately, the defensive light barrier erected by the Black Dragon Armor was extremely sturdy, and Ling Pengyun also possessed a good physique and skill.
He managed to withstand them all.
In the end, everything came to an end.
The remaining power of the tribulation clouds in the sky was exhausted, and finally a piece of sweet dew fell before gradually dissipating.
……
at the same time.
Inside the cave.
With the help of that sweet dew, Ling Pengyun's physical body gradually transformed.
His physical strength and cultivation level also increased dramatically.
Late stage of Body Transformation into Divine Power!
become!
A surge of vital energy suddenly appeared.
Moreover, the upper limit of his blood and qi power has also become higher.
'My body has finally reached this level.'
Ling Pengyun was overjoyed at the boost he received from this breakthrough.
In addition, because he had previously tempered his body with tribulation lightning, his physique had only just entered the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
However, his physical strength is extremely solid.
If he were to unleash his full physical prowess, his physical body might be comparable to some ordinary fifth-grade high-quality defensive spiritual treasures.
His strength also reached nearly a billion jin.
This is extremely terrifying, comparable to some mid-to-high-level Nascent Soul stage experts.
Even upon closer examination, if he were to use his spiritual power cultivation, which had already reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, to fight against the enemy...
Even if he were to encounter someone at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, he could probably only manage a 30/70 split against them.
Although he is three, the perfect transformation of the spirit is seven.
But this is something that ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators would find difficult to achieve.
However, as his physical body entered the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, he also faced two troubles.
First, there's the issue of the training method.
The Lingxiao Hunyuan Gong he practiced was perfected based on the many high-level body cultivation techniques his family had acquired over the years.
However, in the past, because his cultivation level in body cultivation had been stuck at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, he had not gained much insight into body cultivation.
He only perfected that technique to the middle level of the fifth rank, which was not of much help to cultivators in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
Therefore, his top priority is to improve it to a higher level.
Only in this way can he hope to make further progress in his physical cultivation; otherwise, he will probably stop here.
This is extremely difficult for ordinary people.
But his comprehension is exceptional after all.
Moreover, after his cultivation reached the Nascent Soul stage, the Primordial Scripture in his sea of consciousness gained the ability to deduce and pass on knowledge.
In addition, after breaking through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, his understanding of body cultivation has deepened considerably.
The family acquired many high-level body cultivation inheritances in their early years, including some of the fifth-order superior quality ones.
Ling Pengyun had a good chance of using this as a reference to improve his technique.
It will just take time, probably several hundred years.
In addition, he switched to cultivating the family's advanced body cultivation techniques, which could resolve this problem in a short period of time.
However, those physical cultivation techniques were created by others.
In contrast, the Lingxiao Hunyuan Gong was created by Ling Pengyun based on his own circumstances.
Indirectly, the Hunyuan Gong can perfectly utilize his physical advantages, greatly helping his strength.
And this is also one of his advantages.
He really didn't want to give up this advantage.
His second question concerned the Lingbao (a type of magical artifact).
Although he had the assistance of a fifth-grade high-quality black dragon armor, he did not need to worry about the matter of his blood and qi defense magic treasure.
However, his Hunyuan Axe was still only at the mid-grade level of the fifth rank.
However, a spiritual treasure of this grade would be insufficient to unleash his immense strength.
Fortunately, it now has a large amount of precious materials to help it.
However, this matter will also take time, probably several decades.
'It's time to leave the pass.'
Ling Pengyun's thoughts returned, and with a joyful expression, he stood up and walked out of the cave.
……
quite a while.
Outside the cave.
"Congratulations, my husband, on your physical body reaching the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm."
"This is a fifth-grade superior spiritual food, Jade Blood Jade Medicinal Cuisine, which I recently prepared for you using many spiritual materials. It is an excellent resource for nourishing blood and qi and strengthening the body for cultivation."
"I hope my husband will not find it offensive."
Seeing that Ling Pengyun's physical aura was far superior to before, Yan Siyi's eyes lit up. She quickly took out a medicine jar that was constantly emitting a medicinal fragrance and handed it to Ling Pengyun.
Although her culinary skills are still hovering around the middle level of the fifth rank.
However, the family has two fifth-level spirit plant masters, Ling Pengyun and Ling Chengxin, who are in charge, and the family also has many high-level spirit lands in various places.
The family cultivated many medicinal herbs that could be used to make special medicinal dishes.
Indirectly, Yan Siyi had enough spiritual materials to join forces.
Moreover, the family has inherited the legacy of many powerful forces, thus having ample resources to support it.
Her mastery of culinary arts is getting closer and closer to the fifth-tier superior level.
However, the path of a master chef is the same as most other arts and crafts; the only way to improve is through practice.
In the last hundred years, she would often take out some spiritual materials and try to brew a few batches of fifth-grade high-quality medicinal cuisine in order to accumulate experience.
During this period, although the success rate of preparing such medicinal cuisine was less than 10%, it was still quite difficult.
However, she did manage to brew some high-grade fifth-tier medicinal dishes. (End of Chapter)