Yellow Court Daoist

Juyun Mountain Range.

Stretching desolate hills.

Lu Qingfeng stood with his arms hanging by his sides, quietly standing.

Hoo hoo hoo!

Above the desolate hills, layers of dark clouds began to gather without warning.

Roar roar roar!

Aooo aooo!

The surrounding area was filled with the roars of wild beasts.

From initial agitation, it turned into a panic.

The majesty of heaven and earth is truly terrifying.

Wild animals, following their instincts, are particularly sensitive to this. Even before the tribulation descended, they were scared and fled in all directions.

In the game, he had undergone the Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation no fewer than dozens of times.

As his foundation grew stronger and his cultivation techniques more powerful, the might of the Thunder Tribulations that Lu Qingfeng underwent also increased.

It was no match for the first Thunder Tribulation he underwent at Fufeng Mountain.

"Finally, it has come to this point in reality."

Lu Qingfeng looked up.

The dark clouds pressed lower and lower, with electricity running like dragons and snakes, and flashes of lightning continuously flickering among them.

Under the Thunder Tribulation, Lu Qingfeng couldn't help but reminisce.

The times at Black Wood Village, at Miao Yin City, and in Upper Sun Country.

In a flash, more than a decade passed. As the Thunder Tribulation arrived, looking back suddenly, those times seemed to flow like a dream, seemingly real yet illusory, utterly ethereal.

Crackle!

The clouds flashed with lightning, drawing Lu Qingfeng's consciousness back.

He realized that he was already undergoing the Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation. After this tribulation, he would be a Foundation Establishment Practitioner, with a lifespan of three hundred years.

This was his initial transcendence beyond the ordinary.

The Thunder Tribulation was vast, displaying the might of heaven and earth.

First came a fierce storm, sweeping around Lu Qingfeng as the center. Following that, the nature's spiritual energy around him also began to shake, causing the True Qi in his body to erupt in waves of instability.

However, what truly inspired fear was the immense spiritual pressure that almost brought one to their knees in submission to this heavenly might.

Lu Qingfeng was experienced.

Although the Thunder Tribulation was strong, it couldn't shake his True Qi or his resolve.

He stood calmly, quietly waiting for the Thunder Tribulation to brew.

Among the clouds, a purple lightning snake slithered, the sense of oppression growing stronger. Lu Qingfeng even felt a throbbing pain in his brain.

"It's about time!"

Seeing the purple lightning snake, seeing it about to strike but not yet striking, Lu Qingfeng moved, soaring into the sky, piercing through the heavens.

In an instant, he entered between the clouds.

Lu Qingfeng!

He chose to undergo the Thunder Tribulation directly amidst the thunderclouds!

Crackle!

Boom boom boom!

This act immediately enraged the Thunder Tribulation. The dark clouds roared, thunder followed. Numerous bolts of lightning flashed, directly targeting Lu Qingfeng.

Lu Qingfeng, within the clouds, sat down cross-legged.

The 'Yellow Robe True Skill' continuously circulated, his True Qi traveling throughout his body, a yellow robe, faint yet visible, appeared. This was not a Divine Skill like the Taiyin Calamity Crossing Robe; it was merely a natural defensive force produced from cultivating the physical body to its limit.

Like the mortal world's Golden Bell Shield or Iron Cloth Shirt.

It was an expression of reaching the ultimate in physical defense.

Of course.

The Yellow Robe, compared to the Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt, was many times stronger.

They were as different as the immortal and the mortal, incomparable.

Boom boom boom!

Lightning struck down, one after another hitting Lu Qingfeng.

It posed no substantial threat.

The "Yellow Robe True Skill" circulated, harnessing the thunder to refine his physical body, True Qi operational, simultaneously refining the thunder and tempering the physical body.

External forces facilitated a more thorough temperance.

The physical body constantly solidified, growing ever stronger.

Within Lu Qingfeng's body, the True Qi forged by the "Luofu Sword Scripture" also solidified and transformed under the hammering of the heavenly tribulation.

Progressing from True Qi towards True Yuan.

The Zhu Rong Demon God, refined by the "Twelve Heavenly Demon God Skill", emerged from Lu Qingfeng's body, devouring the thunder with big gulps. Thunder roared within it, and lightning flickered. The body of the Demon God was continuously refined, becoming stronger and more formidable.

Switching between illusion and reality, continuously elevated.

For ordinary cultivators, the Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation represents a trial, a threshold.

For Lu Qingfeng, it was a fortunate cultivation holy site, a unique opportunity.

It was unknown when he started, but he faced the Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation in such an 'arrogant' manner during the game.

The effect was remarkable.

The thunder roamed through the clouds, enveloping him entirely.

Thunder surrounded him from all directions, his entire being as if steeped in a Thunder Prison, continuously tempered.

Regardless of whether it was True Qi or the physical body.

Eventually.

The Thunder Tribulation could do nothing to Lu Qingfeng, and the dark clouds slowly dissipated, revealing his figure.

Lu Qingfeng remained seated in meditation.

The Thunder Tribulation served both as a heavenly ordeal and a bestowed opportunity. Constant bombardment by the thunder in the tribulation clouds refined Lu Qingfeng's True Qi to be more condensed and solid. Once the Heavenly Spirit Acupoint opened, spiritual energy from all around surged toward him. With each inhalation and exhalation, a vast amount of spiritual energy was refined.

Coupled with the thunder strikes, the True Qi sublimated, akin to Inner Breath transforming into True Qi, as if it had leaped, turning into an extremely consolidated energy within moments.

Emitting a dense and powerful aura.

This was the unique True Yuan of a Foundation Establishment Practitioner!

As the saying goes, returning to the root and source, just like this.

A strand of True Yuan circulated, all acupoints throughout the body opened up, pores relaxed.

Previously, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was merely perceptible and couldn't be absorbed and refined, but now it surged toward Lu Qingfeng and entered his body.

Thereafter, drawn by that strand of True Yuan, it traveled along the meridians, refined into strands of True Qi, and then transformed into True Yuan, returning to the Dantian.

Lu Qingfeng held two spirit stones, the Cultivation Technique operated, simultaneously drawing the omnipresent spiritual energy from the void while extracting and refining the pure spiritual energy from within the stones.

His True Qi continuously transformed into True Yuan.

During the Energy Introduction Stage of Cultivation, the initial phase involved converting True Qi into True Yuan.

The later phases involved refining spiritual energy, accumulating True Yuan.

Once True Yuan filled the meridians throughout the body and the entire Dantian, after extreme compression, gaseous True Yuan was compressed into a liquid state, the condensation of the first droplet of liquid True Yuan marked the entrance into the Second Realm of Foundation Establishment—the Condensing Liquid Realm.

At this moment, although the quantity and quality of Lu Qingfeng's True Qi had greatly improved, it had yet to fully transform into True Yuan.

There was still a considerable distance to reaching the Condensing Liquid Realm.

Lu Qingfeng wasn't impatient.

Feeling the scarce amount of True Yuan within his body, a sense of strength spontaneously arose. Having gotten used to the feeling of True Yuan filling his meridians and Dantian in the game, returning to reality, the sparse True Qi gave him a great sense of disconnect.

Now, finally, it was alleviated.

Weathering the tribulation at the barren hills.

The Thunder Tribulation was tremendous, gathering dark clouds spanning dozens of miles, its oppressive force spreading over three hundred miles.

Now as the Thunder Tribulation dissipated, other cultivators approached.

Lu Qingfeng casually set up a restriction, concealing his form.

Once his cultivation stabilized, he arose and used Concealing Techniques, departing at ease.

...

"Foundation Establishment."

With the advancement to Foundation Establishment, there were many tasks to be done.

For instance, Elevating the "Twelve Heavenly Demon God Skill" to the Foundation Establishment Level, could refine a second Demon God.

Like the Taiyin Calamity Crossing Robe, Great Sun Annihilation Divine Light, Light Splitting and Shadow Transformation Void Condensing Sword Maneuver, and other Divine Skills and techniques should all be elevated, consolidating more talismans within the body.

With the advancement in cultivation, the levels of Divine Skills and techniques should naturally increase.

Moreover, besides silently cultivating and enhancing the levels of many techniques and Divine Skills, he could now begin to fuse various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to enhance their power.