101: Chapter 101 The Messenger of Nuclear Peace!

"Xiao Mo, Third Uncle can't take it anymore. Can I rest for a bit?"

Seven days later, Su Datie weakly pleaded with Su Mo.

His eyes were dark-rimmed, his steps were unsteady, and his face was an unhealthy pale white.

"I haven't rested for seven full days and nights. I've been continuously adding materials to the Artifact Refining Platform, retrieving Magical Artifacts... and adding more materials..."

Su Datie's enthusiasm for refining High Grade Magical Artifacts had been completely worn away days ago, leaving only despair over the endless repetitive labor.

"Third Uncle, think about before, when you struggled to refine even a Low Grade Magical Artifact."

Su Mo pointed to the High Grade Magical Artifacts casually placed nearby and spoke earnestly.

"And now? Every time you refine a Magical Artifact, it's a High Grade one, bringing in dozens of times the previous income."

"This is a blessing others dream of but can't obtain! Furthermore, the revitalization of our Xiao Shan Sect rests entirely on your hands!"

Su Datie was dizzied by this grand promise, and an inexplicable sense of responsibility and mission spontaneously arose.

That's right, for the Xiao Shan Sect... perhaps... maybe... he could endure a little longer?

Seeing Su Datie waver, Su Mo patted his shoulder:

"Third Uncle, don't say that I, your nephew, am inconsiderate."

"How about this: you work for three days and rest for one?"

Su Mo extended a finger and tapped his glabella, transmitting a Cultivation Technique to him.

"Don't be idle when you rest. This is a Cultivation Technique I specifically modified; it's much better than the one you currently use."

"Practice it often during your rest time. Grandmother has Medicinal Pills; take as many as you want. There's plenty!"

Light reappeared in Su Datie's dim eyes. He straightened his back abruptly and shouted:

"Xiao Mo, I understand! Revitalizing the Xiao Shan Sect is my bounden duty!"

"That's the spirit! Young people... err, I mean, Immortals must endure hardships. Sweat more now, and your future Cultivation path will be smooth, with the Great Dao within reach!"

Seeing this, Su Mo smiled contentedly and patted his shoulder with an air of seniority.

Watching Su Datie walk back toward the Artifact Refining Platform, Su Mo nodded in satisfaction.

Sorry, Third Uncle. Since I haven't yet deduced how to create an Intelligent Puppet, I can only make you suffer for now.

"Oh, right, Xiao Mo, we're running low on Spiritual Materials! What we bought last time is almost gone. This precious platform of yours consumes materials too quickly!"

"It's fine. I'll just go sell these Magical Artifacts and buy some more Spiritual Materials."

After Su Mo left the Artifact Refining Pavilion, he went to the Scripture Pavilion to check on Su Dashan, and casually made a grand promise to him; Grandmother Wang Jinhua's situation was similar.

"It seems it's time to go to Tianyuan Market again, and while I'm at it, make a Breakthrough and undergo a Tribulation."

At this moment, Su Mo's physique, refined by the endless light particles, was already comparable to a Low Grade Spiritual Artifact, so Undergoing Tribulation was naturally no difficult task.

This time, Su Mo chose to go alone. Although Su Dashan and Bai Xiaohua's eyes were filled with worry, they opened their mouths but ultimately did not refuse.

They knew clearly that with only Qi Refinement Stage cultivation, following him would not only be unhelpful but would also become a burden to Su Mo, greatly slowing him down.

Watching Su Mo's rapidly departing figure, the two of them exchanged glances, seeing determination in each other's eyes.

They must raise their cultivation Realm as quickly as possible! They absolutely cannot drag their son down!

...After Su Mo left the Xiao Shan Sect, he chose a spacious location and sat down cross-legged.

The reason he dared to openly undergo a Tribulation was that any Cultivator who intruded into the Lightning Tribulation's range would be considered to be helping the person Undergoing Tribulation, thus being pulled into the Lightning Tribulation and drawing a lightning strike stronger than their own cultivation.

This was tantamount to suicide, so ordinary Cultivators didn't even have time to flee, let alone dare to approach.

Su Mo sank his mind into his Dantian. A luminous, round crystal core, freely emitting white light, floated above his Spiritual Foundation Dao Platform.

This was completely different from a regular Cultivator's Golden Core; it resembled a small sun, formed by the compression and condensation of countless light particles. Su Mo called it the 'Nuclear Golden Core'.

Amidst the endless light particles he emitted, Su Mo did not need Medicinal Pills to assist in Breaking Through major Realms.

All he needed was—Overwhelming Force!

"Condense!"

With a shift of his thought, his Dantian spontaneously began to emit dazzling light, which was clearly visible even outside his body.

Countless light particles were forcibly restrained by the Dantian, compressing toward the Golden Core and frantically pouring into the Golden Core, which was already in a state of energy saturation.

The brightness on the surface of the Golden Core surged rapidly, while its volume slightly contracted under the extreme internal pressure, becoming more solidified, and the energy fluctuations it emitted grew increasingly terrifying.

"Boom—!"

A massive sound exploded in Su Mo's mind. His Divine Sense seemed to have unlocked some kind of shackles and began to transform rapidly.

This familiar feeling let Su Mo know that his Golden Core had successfully condensed, and the next step was Undergoing the Lightning Tribulation.

"Huh?! Where is my massive Lightning Tribulation?!"

Su Mo looked up and saw a cloudless sky and bright sunshine; there was no sign of Tribulation Clouds gathering.

His mind was instantly thrown into confusion, caught off guard. He was waiting to pull some stunts and further Temper his Body, but nothing happened.

"What's going on?"

Su Mo frowned and began to analyze the situation rapidly in his mind.

"The essence of Cultivating Immortality is absorbing external Spiritual Qi, refining it for one's own use, raising the energy level, and achieving life level transcendence..."

"And Undergoing Tribulation is the Heavenly Dao's tempering and selection process for Cultivators, as well as a balancing mechanism."

"I absorb the infinite light particles generated by myself; I haven't absorbed Spiritual Qi..."

His eyes suddenly lit up; he had grasped the key!

"In other words, the energy I Cultivate is self-generated and self-consumed, so the Heavenly Dao has no reason to strike me down?!"

Thinking of this possibility, Su Mo's expression became extremely strange.

"Did I exploit a bug in the Heavenly Dao?"

"Damn it! My precious Lightning Tribulation! Just gone like that!"

Although being lashed by the Lightning Tribulation was painful, the rapid improvement of his physique was concrete!

"Should I piggyback on Big Uncle and the others' Lightning Tribulations later?"

Su Mo rubbed his chin, his gaze wandering, as a bold idea emerged.

"But that's for later."

He shook off his wild thoughts and rushed toward Tianyuan Market.

Su Mo was surprised to find that immediately after Breaking Through to the Golden Core, even before he had time to stabilize his cultivation, merely by moving his thoughts and circulating the light particles around his body, his speed was already comparable to the Nascent Soul Stage!

"This..."

Even Su Mo himself was a little surprised, but then he understood.

This seemed to be the benefit brought by Cultivating and Body Tempering using light particles.

The floating Golden Core in his Dantian resembled a small sun, slightly reddish-white, emitting scorching light.

Su Mo looked at the familiar light and energy reaction pattern, and a concept that only existed in textbooks and news reports in his previous life suddenly flooded his mind!

"This high temperature, this intense light, this terrifying energy release... this feeling..."

His eyes widened, and an excited expression appeared on his face:

"Isn't this damn Nuclear Fusion?!"

Su Mo swallowed and carefully separated a small portion of energy from the Golden Core.

The violent energy mass floated quietly in Su Mo's palm, scorching and dazzling, causing the surrounding air to slightly distort.

Su Mo held his breath, injected a thread of Divine Sense into it, and threw the energy mass toward a towering, uninhabited mountain peak below.

"Go!"

With a thought, the palm-sized energy mass instantly disappeared into the mountain peak.

Su Mo activated his Divine Sense, and the originally stable structure within the energy mass was instantly destroyed.

The next moment, the massive mountain peak instantly turned fiery red—

"BOOM!!!"

Unimaginable high temperatures and light frantically erupted from every crack inside the mountain.

Accompanied by a terrifying, earth-shaking roar, a monstrous Mushroom Cloud slowly rose into the air.

"Holy crap!"

The massive shockwave forced Su Mo to quickly retreat.

After a long moment, Su Mo looked at the mountain peak below him, which had been completely leveled and turned into scorched earth, and the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

"This power... it's probably comparable to the full-strength attack of a Late Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, right?"

"Truly, a Nuclear Peace Messenger."