119: The Heaven-Devouring Tribulation caused his cultivation level to soar!

"Devour!"

A single word was uttered, sounding like a clap of thunder, carrying an arrogance that defied the world.

The hall spirit in the distance, its light and shadow body that had remained unchanged for ten thousand years, completely froze at this moment, stuck in place, as if it had lost even the ability to think.

Devour?

Devour the Heavenly Tribulation?!

Is this something a human can do?

It had lived for ten thousand years, witnessing geniuses as numerous as carp crossing a river, and prodigies like stars scattered across the sky.

There were Cultivators who brought out eighteen Magic Treasures, set up nine layers of linked grand formations, barely surviving the Lightning Tribulation, experiencing nine deaths and one life.

There were Body Cultivator madmen who boasted of their Physical Body's indestructibility, using their flesh and blood to directly confront the might of the heavens, only to ultimately turn into a handful of ash and have their Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

But to open one's mouth and swallow the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation, which represented the ultimate wrath of the Heavenly Dao's Law, as if it were a blood meal... this was beyond what could be described as a madman.

This was a Prodigy! A peerless Prodigy who dared to extend his reach towards the Heavenly Dao!

"Boom—!!!"

Above the firmament, the five-colored tribulation clouds, covering the sky and obscuring the sun, seemed to be thoroughly enraged, letting out a roar that shattered the Divine Soul.

The Void Realm was wailing, and the Laws were trembling!

A golden lightning pillar, over ten zhang in diameter, entirely condensed from the purest Geng Metal Origin, tore through the dark sky!

There was no dazzling electric light, only pure, condensed destruction to the extreme!

Wherever the lightning pillar passed, space was silently sliced open like paper, leaving a dark crack.

Geng Metal Divine Thunder!

Among the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation, it commanded killing and controlled destruction!

The hall spirit's light and shadow body flickered wildly; it could foresee that this strike was enough to completely evaporate a Late Golden Core Stage Cultivator along with their protective Magic Treasure!

However, facing this certain-kill strike, Shen Yuanmo didn't even look.

He just raised his head and opened his mouth.

Deep within his throat, there seemed to be a black hole connected to Chaos.

A savage, domineering, and utterly unreasonable devouring force erupted!

That Geng Metal Divine Thunder, like an enraged Dragon choked at its vital point, let out an unwilling wail, and was actually pulled inch by inch into Shen Yuanmo's mouth by that force!

"New Master!"

The hall spirit screamed in alarm, but the next second, it saw an even more terrifying sight than devouring the Heavenly Tribulation.

Shen Yuanmo's body, the moment he swallowed the divine thunder, burst open from within with countless dazzling golden lights!

His skin cracked inch by inch, and what burst forth was not blood, but incomparably sharp Geng Metal Sword Qi!

"Ugh ah—!"

A suppressed roar of pain squeezed out from the depths of Shen Yuanmo's throat.

Those billions of divine weapons and sharp blades formed by Geng Metal Sword Qi were wildly cutting and strangling his five internal organs and extraordinary Meridians!

His Dantian, his Qi Sea, were instantly riddled with holes by this destructive force!

"Give me... suppress!"

Shen Yuanmo's eyes were bloodshot, his Divine Thought like a mountain, pressing down hard on his Dantian!

His newly formed, only longan-sized five-colored Golden Core, driven by its survival instinct, erupted with brilliant divine light and began to spin wildly!

It was no longer a docile energy core, but had transformed into an incredibly heavy Five Elements grinding disc!

The violent Geng Metal Divine Thunder power was the stubborn iron thrown into the grinding disc!

"Creak... creak, creak, creak..."

That was the sound of Laws colliding and grinding against each other!

With each rotation, countless Geng Metal Sword Qi were ground into the most fundamental golden runes.

But at the same time, Shen Yuanmo's Dantian wall was also stretched open with cracks by this force, and his Meridians were stretched like ropes about to snap by the violent energy!

Break and then establish! No breaking, no establishing!

He was actually trying to use the power of the Heavenly Tribulation to complete a most thorough transformation!

As the first wisp of crushed Geng Metal Origin merged into the Golden Core, the five-colored Golden Core violently shook, and the golden Dragon divine pattern coiled on its surface, as if injected with a Soul, suddenly lit up, its scales becoming clearly visible!

At the same time, a sharp and indestructible Dao rhyme flowed back, washing over Shen Yuanmo's limbs and bones.

His bones, under the tempering of this force, emitted 'clang clang' sounds of metal clashing! Their density and hardness were increasing at an incredible speed!

The Bottleneck of the fifth stage of the Vajra Glazed Body was actually broken through with overwhelming force during this self-mutilating refinement!

"Come!"

Shen Yuanmo tasted the sweetness, his Battle Intent burning in his eyes, and he issued an invitation to the firmament!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The Heavenly Tribulation completely ran wild!

The Yi Wood Divine Thunder, representing endless vitality!

The Kui Water Divine Thunder, representing the chilling cold of the Nine Netherworld!

The Bing Fire Divine Thunder, representing the incineration of all things!

The Wu Earth Divine Thunder, representing the suppression of everything!

Four lightning pillars of different colors, but all containing world-destroying power, struck down simultaneously, without distinction!

"It's over!" The hall spirit watched this scene in despair.

The entire Five Elements Small World violently vibrated under the pressure of these four lightning pillars, and above the dome, spatial cracks spread like a spiderweb, as if this world was about to completely collapse in the next second!

It dared not stand by any longer; its light and shadow body instantly merged into the main hall, mobilizing the Origin of the entire Small World, transforming into streaks of light curtains, desperately repairing those hideous cracks!

And Shen Yuanmo, at the center of the storm, was not surprised but rather delighted, letting out a long howl to the sky!

He opened his mouth again, swallowing all four world-destroying divine thunders into his belly!

"Rumble—!"

This time, his body completely transformed into a Chaos purgatory!

The power of Yi Wood frantically stimulated the growth of his flesh and blood, causing strange fleshy tumors to swell on his body!

The power of Kui Water froze his Divine Soul, bringing a bone-deep chill!

The power of Bing Fire sought to incinerate him into ashes, and his skin began to carbonize!

The power of Wu Earth transformed into billions of tons of pressure, attempting to crush him into a meat paste!

Four distinct destructive forces, mixed with the residual Geng Metal power from before, stirred up a world-ending storm within his Dantian!

"All of you... be annihilated!"

Shen Yuanmo's will was like a blade, firmly locking onto the Five Elements grinding disc in the center of his Dantian!

The Golden Core spun wildly, forcibly pulling, colliding, and crushing the five violent energies!

The pain of this process was ten times more intense than before!

His Physical Body, between growth and destruction, freezing and burning, repeatedly jumped at a terrifying frequency.

But the rewards were also unprecedented!

As the Yi Wood Origin surged in, the toughness of his Meridians greatly increased, and his vitality was as vast as the sea!

As the Kui Water Origin surged in, his Divine Soul was repeatedly tempered, becoming cold and tough! The Nine Revolutions Spirit Refining Art forcefully broke through its Bottleneck, stepping into the fifth revolution!

As the Bing Fire Origin surged in, his blood became scalding hot, and his Qi and blood power became even more explosive!

As the Wu Earth Origin surged in, his muscles and internal organs became thick and solid!

His Physical Body, tempered by the combined forces of the Five Elements, powerfully stepped into the sixth stage of the Vajra Glazed Body! Comparable to a Late Golden Core Stage Body Cultivator!

After an unknown amount of time, when the last trace of Heavenly Tribulation Origin was also completely ground and absorbed by the Five Elements grinding disc.

The sky, the wind dispersed, and the clouds vanished.

However, the Golden Core within Shen Yuanmo's Dantian let out a crisp 'crack' sound.

A crack appeared on the surface of the Golden Core.

Immediately after, there was a second, a third... in the blink of an eye, the Golden Core that had just absorbed a massive amount of energy was covered in cracks, as if it could shatter at any moment!

But a look of wild joy appeared on Shen Yuanmo's face.

"Break!"

His mind stirred.

Boom—!!!

The cracked Golden Core violently collapsed inward, shattering! But it was not destruction; rather, it welcomed new life at the end of destruction!

All the fragments, along with the massive Five Elements Origin, re-condensed!

A brand new Golden Core, the size of a fist, perfectly flawless with a glazed treasure light, upon which golden Dragons, green wood, black water, red fire, and yellow earth—five divine Dragons—were vividly coiled and roaring, was powerfully formed!

Supreme-grade Five Elements Golden Core!

The moment it formed, a vast magical power, hundreds, even thousands of times stronger than before, surged out from within the Golden Core like a breached Heavenly River!

Shen Yuanmo's cultivation aura soared at a terrifying speed, unprecedented and perhaps unmatched in the future!

Early Golden Core Stage!

Peak Early Golden Core Stage!

The barrier leading to the Middle Golden Core Stage was as thin as a window paper before this terrifying torrent of magical power.

Without the slightest pause!

Boom—!!!!

A terrifying pressure, more than ten times stronger than before, shot up from his body, once again shaking the Five Elements Hall, which had just been stabilized by the hall spirit, into violent tremors!

Middle Golden Core Stage!

No!

It was Peak Golden Core Middle Stage!

Just one step away from entering the Late Golden Core Stage!

From Foundation Establishment Perfection, he ascended to the heavens in one step, directly reaching the peak of the Middle Golden Core Stage!

"Hoo..."

When the violent power within his body finally subsided, Shen Yuanmo slowly opened his eyes.

The world, in his eyes, was completely different.

He could 'see' the threads of Law, and 'hear' the breathing of the elements.

He felt the harmonious and unified, seemingly endless power within him, and a powerful feeling of being able to control everything arose spontaneously.

He stood up, not even using magical power, but simply clenched his fist casually as he rose.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The space in front of his fist was actually crushed inch by inch by his pure Physical Body strength, emitting a series of muffled sonic booms!

His mind stirred slightly.

His vast Divine Sense, comparable to a Nascent Soul Early Stage, instantly enveloped the entire Small World.

Every blade of grass, every tree, every grain of sand, every stone, everything appeared in his perception with unprecedented clarity.

He was now stronger than ever before!

"Netherworld Path..."

Shen Yuanmo whispered the name, his eyes no longer holding any solemnity, only absolute coldness and indifference.

He raised his hand, his fingertip picking up a speck of dust that had been shaken off the wall and was floating in the air.

With a gentle rub.

That speck of dust silently annihilated.