344: Chapter 344 Heavenly Tribulation Tempering the Body

She subconsciously clenched her fists, her fingertips digging into her palms, yet she could not feel even a shred of pain—only a scorching power surging out from the depths of her Dantian, rushing along her Meridians to her limbs and bones!

"Feel it."

Chu Changsheng's voice sounded once more, carrying a strange rhythm that harmonized with the supreme truths of Heaven and Earth. "Feel the 'wrath' of this Heavenly Dao, feel the 'destruction' and 'life' within this thunder, feel the 'defiance' and 'longing' of the Bloodline within you. Your body, your Dao, will give you the answer."

The moment his words fell—the pillar of Chaos Lightning Tribulation, fused with several types of forbidden powers and capable of reducing a Saint Lord to ashes, arrived with the force of ten thousand jun, violently drowning Luo Xiaojiu's petite figure completely!

The blinding purple-gold lightning instantly swallowed that figure!

The intense light was scorching to the eyes, causing all the Cultivators secretly watching to subconsciously close their eyes, not even daring to let their Divine Soul leak out in the slightest!

"No—!"

In the distance, some Cultivator, perhaps out of pity or holding a sliver of different hope, subconsciously cried out—the voice filled with regret and horror, yet it vanished instantly amidst the roaring thunder.

But the next moment—everyone's hearts tightened!

Their breathing suddenly stopped!

Their hearts felt as if they were being ruthlessly gripped by an invisible hand, and they did not even dare to breathe—

Within the lightning, there were no miserable screams as imagined, no annihilation of body and Soul as imagined, and not even a single trace of struggle had come forth!

Replacing it was a ball of increasingly brilliant and increasingly pure golden radiance, stubbornly projecting out from the center of the destructive Chaos lightning!

This light was warm and intense, carrying an overbearing aura that looked down upon the world and remained inviolable by all Laws—it actually forced the purple-gold lightning back by a fraction!

Luo Xiaojiu's figure could no longer be seen clearly; there was only a hazy silhouette sitting cross-legged, tightly wrapped by that ball of golden radiance—like a newborn sun, blooming with vitality amidst destruction!

Around her body, substantial golden flames were burning!

These were not mundane flames, nor were they ordinary fires of Spiritual Qi—they were the highly concentrated, boiling-to-the-extreme Bloodline energy of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body!

The Bloodline energy surged, sweeping around her body like golden waves, the heat radiating from it scorching the surrounding Void Realm until it twisted, even causing the space to ripple with layers of folds!

Within the Bloodline energy, an ancient scripture quietly circulated—it was none other than the "Record of the Simplest Dao" passed down by Chu Changsheng!

Those primitive and archaic runes, as if coming alive, floated and rotated in the golden light, transforming into the purest Dao marks, layering themselves to protect her Divine Soul Origin—completely isolating the destructive power of the thunder outside!

And deep within her flesh, a dark golden mark was slowly lighting up—this was the Legacy mark of the Heavenly Horned Ant!

Within the mark, the true intent of power that dominated the heavens and earth and swept across everything was released, resonating strongly with the Bloodline energy of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body—causing the golden flames to burn even more vigorously, almost breaking through the wrapping of the lightning!

Sizzle—sizzle—sizzle—a scene that was terrifying to the extreme was playing out above the firmament!

The Nine Heavens divine thunder that struck down, those intertwined chains of the Heavenly Dao—the moment they touched these golden Bloodline flames, they actually emitted bursts of harsh, searing sounds!

Wisps of blue smoke rose, carrying a burnt scent, slowly dissipating in the Void Realm!

It was not the thunder destroying the Sacred Body—it was the Bloodline energy of the Sacred Body, being extremely rigid and Yang, and inviolable by all Laws, that was inversely refining and devouring the power of the Heavenly Tribulation!

Inside Luo Xiaojiu's body, her blood rushed like a great river, emitting thunderous roars—shaking her limbs and bones until they trembled slightly!

Every inch of bone was emitting creaking sounds under the tempering of the lightning—on the originally pale bones, faint golden patterns were being branded bit by bit!

As the patterns circulated, they revealed an indestructible aura, as if they could withstand the force of ten thousand jun!

Every Meridian was being crazily expanded under the washing of the thunder's power—like a riverbed that had been dried up for hundreds of millions of years, welcoming the pouring of the Nine Heavens Milky Way! It instantly became tough and wide, sufficient to accommodate even more majestic power rushing through!

The Origin of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, which had been silent for over a decade—at this moment, completely awakened!

Like hundreds of millions of miniature suns igniting simultaneously within her limbs, bones, and internal organs—releasing endless light and heat, sweeping through her body, and cleansing her Dao foundation!

Is it painful? That is extreme pain!

It was as if her whole person had been thrown into the furnace of Heaven and Earth, repeatedly calcined by thousands of thunderbolts—every inch of flesh and skin was tearing, every inch of bone was trembling, and every wisp of her Divine Soul was enduring the excruciating pain of being pricked by needles and scorched by fire!

Her sweat had long since been evaporated by the lightning, and her skin had been scorched with fine bloody marks—as soon as beads of blood seeped out, they were instantly nourished and healed by the Sacred Body's Bloodline energy, and the newly born skin was even more resilient, carrying a faint golden light!

But accompanying this heart-tearing pain—was an unprecedented sense of fulfillment and power!

It was the pleasure and freedom of the shackles deep within her Bloodline, which had been sealed for who knows how many years, being broken inch by inch!

She could clearly feel that her Physical Body was undergoing a fundamental leap—her power was increasing geometrically, and with just one punch, it felt as if she could shatter mountains and crack rivers!

She could clearly feel that her perception of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had become incomparably sharp—the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a hundred miles was crazily gathering towards her, like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea, forming a dense Spiritual Qi vortex around her!

She could even faintly "touch" the cold and cruel Law fragments belonging to the Heavenly Dao contained within the thunder—under the wrapping of the Sacred Body's Bloodline energy, these fragments were being devoured and refined bit by bit, becoming nutrients to nourish her Dao path and merging into her Dao foundation!

Luo Xiaojiu slowly closed her eyes.

No longer resisting, no longer fearing—she let the destructive thunder wash over her body, tempering her Dao Heart.

The corners of her mouth actually curled up slowly into a faint smile, carrying a touch of relief and determination!

Guided by her Revered Master's words, which were as clear and cold as the striking of jade, her consciousness did not sink into the heart-piercing pain of the Lightning Tribulation tearing at her Divine Soul—instead, like a peerless sword that had been sealed for ten thousand ancient years and finally unsheathed today, she wrapped herself in a desperate, do-or-die determination and fiercely and actively welcomed the world-destroying thunder tide!

She wanted to personally feel—to personally feel the supreme truths of the Heavenly Dao contained within the lightning that tore through the firmament!

She wanted to thoroughly comprehend—to thoroughly comprehend the sliver of life hidden within the destruction of the tribulation that burned the body!

She wanted to defy—to defy the iron limits of life and death delineated by the Heavenly Dao to which all living beings must bow!

The golden Bloodline energy surging around her body became increasingly hot and intense, rising into the sky like a prairie fire—at first, it could barely contend with the Chaos lightning, but in an instant, it was like an angry dragon that had been dormant for ten thousand years emerging from the sea, violently shattering the purple and black intertwined lightning snakes, wrapping Luo Xiaojiu in a layer of brilliant, undying golden light that made the Heaven and Earth lose their color!

Fine, pale golden patterns slowly protruded from beneath her skin—resembling the Innate Dao marks engraved on the Origin of living beings when Heaven and Earth first opened, circulating with an ancient and profound, misty luster!

The stretching and spreading of every pattern was accompanied by the deep, muffled sound of bones popping—hiding the secret of a Physical Body capable of shaking Heaven and Earth and remaining immortal, as if wanting to burst through her mortal shell and forge a Saint Body!

Under the extreme tempering of the Lightning Tribulation, which grew more intense each time, her aura did not weaken or wither in the slightest—instead, like peerless divine iron that had been tempered a thousand times and ground of all Impurities, it became increasingly refined and increasingly heavy!

Like a deep pool or a towering mountain, calm and majestic—the bottomless pressure overflowed, causing the surrounding Void Realm to tremble slightly!

"Using the tribulation to temper the body... She is actually using the Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation to complete the final, and most critical, Nirvana baptism of the Sacred Body Awakening!"

Deep in the Void Realm, a voice so old it seemed to have stumbled out from the primordial ages suddenly exploded—dry and hoarse, wrapped in undisguisable shock and disbelief, "The Desolate Ancient Sacred Body... That legendary Desolate Ancient Sacred Body that can live as long as Heaven and Earth and shine as brightly as the sun and moon, is it actually this overbearing?!"

"This girl... If she is really allowed to grow up smoothly..."

From another part of the Void Realm, covered by layers of Restrictions, came a complex and difficult-to-understand whisper—hiding bone-eroding fear, and even a trace of irrepressible, chilling murderous intent quietly permeated, like a poisonous vine wanting to wrap around that golden figure!

But when the source of that murderous intent caught a glimpse of the figure standing with hands behind his back beneath the firmament, dressed in white as snow, standing as motionless and solid as a monument suppressing the world—

That wisp of bone-chilling murderous intent was as if struck by ten thousand years of ice, instantly freezing!

Then it turned into bone-deep icy fear, was ruthlessly extinguished, and pressed back into the deepest part of the Soul—not even daring to leak a shred of aura, fearing to be detected by that figure in white in the slightest!

Chu Changsheng quietly gazed at that increasingly brilliant and dazzling golden figure within the lightning.

Deep in his ink-colored eyes, a flash of barely perceptible, faint satisfaction swept by.

He had long known of this girl's resilience, but he had not expected it to be even a few points greater than he had anticipated—and the endless potential hidden within the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, under the extreme stimulation of this world-destroying Lightning Tribulation, had also violently broken through the final layer of shackles, like a sleeping primordial beast, finally revealing its imposing sharpness!

But—how could the wrath of the Heavenly Dao be so easily appeased?

As if it had sensed that this ant born against the Heaven, not only had it not been crushed by the thunder, but it had instead treated this world-destroying tribulation punishment as nourishment to temper itself—

The tribulation clouds churning above the Nine Heavens suddenly emitted a thunderous roar of extreme rage, shaking the entire Heaven and Earth until it hummed!

Those lead-colored clouds, thick enough to seemingly crush the firmament, spun crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye, condensing into a huge cloud vortex that blotted out the sky and sun—in the center of the cloud vortex, a bottomless pitch-black crack split open!

From within the crack, the aura of destruction surged out like a flood breaking a dam—rapidly rising, crazily transforming in quality, and the surrounding Heaven and Earth Laws were twisted and wailing under this terrifying aura, as if they were about to completely collapse!

Dark purple annihilation lightning! Pitch-black Chaos electricity! Crimson burning Heaven fire! Gray-misty Void Realm wind...

All the Origin powers in the world containing extreme destructive power were completely gathered, compressed, and fused by the cloud vortex—transforming into a terrifying pressure far exceeding that of before by a hundred or a thousand times, like a primordial divine mountain pressing down, violently enveloping Luo Xiaojiu below!