39: Chapter 39 The Nine-fold Thunder Tribulation

"Zhao Mo?" Liu Zhiming frowned, thinking carefully for a moment.

"Is that the Zhao Mo who killed Daqiang?"

The servant said, "It is him."

"That special white orchid fruit was grown by him."

Liu Zhiming said, "It is not strange for someone who can research hybrid spirit rice to also research special white orchid fruit. My defeat was not unjust."

"You..."

"Go down."

Waving the servant away, Liu Zhiming closed his eyes to rest his mind. After a long while, he opened them, as if he had made up his mind.

...

【You have completed plowing the field, experience +10.】

After finishing plowing the field, Zhao Mo carried Ox Martial to the cowshed as usual.

He didn't notice that Ox Martial on his shoulder was already a little different than before.

"This, what is this?"

"Is it Dharma power?"

Ox Martial had never thought that it could actually cultivate such an upright and magnificent power, without a trace of Demonic Qi.

"It's a pity that this power is too weak. It can't even support me to briefly take human form."

Zhao Mo did not know about Ox Martial's regrets. After tidying up the spirit rice field, he soaked in the Scripture Pavilion, looking at the experiences of his predecessors in breaking through to the Golden Core Stage.

This was the benefit of being in a large sect; as long as you had Spirit Stones, you could find anything.

Among the Breakthrough insights of past Golden Core True Persons, Zhao Mo discovered a very high-frequency term: obstacle breaking pill.

obstacle breaking pill, a Tier 3 Medicinal Pill, Pill Formula unknown, refining method unknown, can increase the success rate of breaking through from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Golden Core Stage, sold at the Liu Clan Apothecary.

"This?"

"Pill Formula unknown?"

"Refining method unknown?"

Zhao Mo searched in the Scripture Pavilion for several days in a row, spending an unknown amount of Spirit Stones, yet he really could not find the Pill Formula for this obstacle breaking pill.

This was exaggerated. The Scripture Pavilion was regarded as a Holy Land of ten thousand techniques by Xuan Cult Cultivators. As long as one had enough strength or enough Spirit Stones, one could basically find any Cultivation Technique or Secret Manual.

He didn't expect a single Pill Formula to be so confidential now.

*Slap.*

Zhao Mo patted his own head; he had been confused.

"I just want to break through the Foundation Establishment Stage, not do Alchemy. Why do I need to find the Pill Formula?"

"Can't I just buy the Medicinal Pill directly?"

Liu Clan Apothecary.

Zhao Mo looked up at the building that reached into the clouds and clicked his tongue inwardly. This was much more imposing than the Liu Clan Rice Shop or the wine shop.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

Before Zhao Mo could enter, he was stopped by a Foundation Establishment Cultivator. This Cultivator was wearing a white uniform, holding a sword in his hand, and pointing it at Zhao Mo.

Being pointed at by someone with a sword made Zhao Mo slightly displeased, but he was here to buy a Medicinal Pill and didn't want to cause extra trouble, so he said in a low voice, "I am here to buy a Medicinal Pill."

"Buy a Medicinal Pill?"

"Do you have an appointment?"

Zhao Mo was stunned. Does buying a Medicinal Pill require an appointment?

"No appointment?"

"If you don't have an appointment, go over there to get a number and line up. This is the VIP area; it's not a place for you. Hurry up and leave~"

Zhao Mo...

"Get a number here, hurry up, don't dawdle."

"Name?"

"What Medicinal Pill do you want to buy?"

On the left side of the apothecary, a middle-aged woman asked Zhao Mo anxiously.

"Ding Mo."

"Buying an obstacle breaking pill."

Zhao Mo did not report his real name and temporarily borrowed Ding Xin's surname.

"obstacle breaking pill? This is your number. Take the number and go to window number seven to line up."

Zhao Mo looked at the number plate the woman wrote for him: 139.

In front of window number seven, a group of Cultivators had already gathered. Some of these Cultivators were standing, some were sitting cross-legged, but their cultivation was generally at the sixth to seventh level of Foundation Establishment.

Strangely, there wasn't a single Cultivator like Zhao Mo at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

"Number 139."

After waiting for I don't know how long, Zhao Mo finally heard his number being called.

"Ding Mo, is that right?"

"Want to buy an obstacle breaking pill?"

Zhao Mo nodded.

"Six hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones. Come back in three years to get the Medicinal Pill."

"What?"

Zhao Mo almost thought he had misheard.

The beautiful Cultivator inside rolled her eyes at Zhao Mo.

"Six hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones, come back in three years to get the Medicinal Pill. Don't you understand?"

Zhao Mo: "The Medicinal Pill is expensive, I accept that, but what the hell is coming back in three years to get it?"

"Are you saying you don't have ready stock for sale now?"

"Don't you need to buy Materials for Alchemy? Doesn't Alchemy take time?"

"Three years is already fast. You are really strange. When has our Liu Clan Apothecary ever sold ready-made Medicinal Pills?"

"Are you buying or not? If not, leave quickly, don't waste my time."

Zhao Mo said angrily, "Not buying."

Three years. After three years, he could break through to the Golden Core Stage using experience points; why would he need any Medicinal Pill?

No, wait, his experience points would be enough by the end of this year.

The reason he came to buy a Medicinal Pill was just to have an extra guarantee.

He didn't expect the Medicinal Pill at the Liu Clan Apothecary to be on a pre-sale System. No wonder he didn't see any Cultivators at the eighth or ninth level of Foundation Establishment; they probably had already bought this obstacle breaking pill.

Buying a Medicinal Pill made him full of anger, and Zhao Mo returned to Leisurely Residence in a rage.

"System."

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

【Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Stage 9th Level (Insufficient experience points, cannot upgrade.)】

【Experience Points: 680 / 1200】

【Rewards: None】

Two spirit rice fields, from sowing to harvest, the experience points gained were about three hundred.

Plus the harvest rewards from the spirit rice fields, the minimum guarantee was now six hundred experience points.

Zhao Mo calculated that by autumn, he would not only have enough experience points to break through to the Golden Core Stage, but he would also have extra.

"Fine, let's just lie flat."

"Honestly farm, no more tossing about."

...

【You have completed fertilizing the spirit rice field, experience +10.】

【You have completed watering the spirit rice field, experience +10.】

【You have completed harvesting the spirit rice field, experience +10.】

【Rewards: After one hundred and sixty days of careful care, your spirit rice field has had a bumper harvest, experience +600.】

"True Person Yuxiang, all these white orchid fruits from this year are sold to you."

"Is there any news about the Tier 3 spirit rice field?"

Zhao Mo looked at the room full of mutated white orchid fruits that had just been collected; they hadn't even stayed overnight before being taken away by True Person Yuxiang, so he asked unhappily.

Now the harvest reward for the Tier 2 spirit rice field was maintained at six hundred points, and no matter how hard Zhao Mo tried, he couldn't increase it by even a bit, so he set his sights on the higher-level Tier 3 spirit rice field.

"Not yet. You should break through to the Golden Core Stage first. I heard that in two months, Old Fu and that Liu Xinzhi will be coming out of the Heavenly Phoenix Grotto-Heaven."

"If you can't break through to the Golden Core True Person within two months, you might as well wait to die. Why rent a Tier 3 spirit rice field?"

I have to say, True Person Yuxiang's tongue was really poisonous, leaving Zhao Mo stunned.

"Understood."

"Don't worry, within two months, I will definitely break through to the Golden Core Stage." Zhao Mo said affirmatively.

True Person Yuxiang said, "Hmm! I believe in you."

"Recently, all the Spirit Stones have been used to buy brewing Materials. I'll owe you the Spirit Stones for buying the white orchid fruits first, and I'll pay you back when you break through to the Golden Core Stage."

Zhao Mo: "Hmm?"

He then looked resentfully at the back of True Person Yuxiang as he left.

You are completely inconsistent in word and action. You say you believe in me, but in reality, you owe me even a few dozen Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Of course, Zhao Mo knew that True Person Yuxiang was just trying to adjust the atmosphere. After reaching the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, the True Qi that grew slowly every day made Zhao Mo's face look constantly flushed.

Once cultivation reaches this Realm, one can only move forward to break through to the Golden Core Stage; there is no turning back.

As for Ding Xin, after splitting the Spirit Stones last time, he bought a separate Leisurely Residence and lived not far from Zhao Mo.

It was just that after Zhao Mo broke through to the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, he moved further away, and even took Ox Martial with him, fearing it would affect Zhao Mo's Breakthrough.

...

October 1st, sunny.

The sky was cloudless for ten thousand miles.

Zhao Mo got up in the morning, first burning incense and bathing.

Then he walked around the two spirit rice fields a few times to calm his mood.

Finally, he returned to his Leisurely Residence, activated the Formation, and hung up a "Closed-door cultivation" sign.

"System."

The transparent panel slowly appeared in front of Zhao Mo.

【Farmer: Zhao Mo】

【Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Stage 9th Level (Can be upgraded.)】

【Experience Points: 1470 / 1200】

【Rewards: None】

"Upgrade cultivation."

Before the words fell, the number on the panel dropped sharply to two hundred and seventy.

Inside Zhao Mo's body, winds and clouds surged. The originally calm True Qi instantly became turbulent, all squeezing towards the Dantian.

At this moment, there were no more extraordinary meridians; the massive True Qi was like a hot knife through butter, squeezing from all parts of the body towards the Dantian.

Zhao Mo's face turned pale, then deep red.

At this moment, a slight carelessness would lead to exploding and dying.

With the accumulation of True Qi, Zhao Mo's Dantian was like a pressure cooker, the True Qi inside bubbling, as if it were boiling.

"Damn it, move!"

According to the current situation in the Dantian, Zhao Mo's final result would definitely be a failure, the kind where one explodes and Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

So Zhao Mo had to make the True Qi in the Dantian move to have a glimmer of survival.

Zhao Mo, in the middle of breaking through, didn't think of one problem: could there be danger in breaking through using the System?

"Move~"

"Move~"

At this moment, Zhao Mo's eyes were tightly closed, his face full of anxiety, his whole body soaked in sweat, and the floor was covered with sweat stains.

Unfortunately, everything was in vain.

*Boom.*

Zhao Mo's mind went blank.

His Dantian exploded.

"Dead, dead."

Then he reacted,

"No, I'm not dead."

Looking at the Dantian again, a grain-sized golden light was slowly rotating in the center of the Dantian, illuminating the pitch-black surroundings.

"Is this the Golden Core?"

The so-called Golden Core that one swallows into the abdomen, allowing one to say "My life is determined by me, not by Heaven"?

*Boom.*

Zhao Mo was still immersed in the joy of breaking through to the Golden Core Stage, when suddenly there was a thunderclap, and then he felt as if his head had been hit by a giant basin.

The sudden attack made Zhao Mo dizzy.

When he reacted and saw the big hole in the Leisurely Residence, he realized.

"This is the Lightning Tribulation?"

It turns out that when achieving the Golden Core, there is a second test: the descending One-Nine Lightning Tribulation.

This Lightning Tribulation is both a test and a reward.

The lightning tempering the body can help the newly born Golden Core True Person quickly achieve the Dharma body.

Of course, this is for Xuan Cult Cultivators; if it were evil paths or the Yao Race, this would be a Lightning Tribulation that could strike people and Yao into wandering ghosts.

*Boom.*

The second Lightning Tribulation, under Zhao Mo's attention, struck down.

That intense, agonizing sensation almost made Zhao Mo ascend directly to heaven.

*Boom boom.*

Two more consecutive Lightning Tribulations struck, and Zhao Mo became a black man, falling backward toward the sky.

Since then, four of the nine Lightning Tribulations had passed, and Zhao Mo had already given up resistance and lay down directly.

The sudden appearance of thunder naturally attracted Ding Xin and Ox Martial.

Then they saw a scene they would never forget.

Zhao Mo lay on the ground like a corpse.

Thunder kept descending from the sky to strike him.

Every time a bolt of lightning struck, Zhao Mo would twitch a few times.

After five bolts of lightning, the clouds dispersed.

Zhao Mo became a human-shaped charcoal, lying on the ground emitting smoke.

"Are you okay?"

After the clouds dispersed, Ding Xin ran over quickly, looking at the motionless Zhao Mo and asked.