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Chapter 121, Section 120: [Transcending the Tribulation of Lightning]

Just as the eldest princess of the East Sea Dragon Palace was strolling around Yongjia County.

In a secret chamber fifty feet underground at Miaochan Temple, Chen Sheng was undergoing a crucial spiritual practice.

In the closed, dark, and windless room, Chen Sheng, now an adult, sat cross-legged on a futon.

At one moment, his body suddenly swayed as if it were a double image, and then a spirit as real as a physical being stood up from his body.

The two are so similar that the spirit and the physical body have almost no difference in texture.

Only the three halos floating behind his head revealed his identity as a Yin God and his cultivation at the third realm of the Dao of Sexuality.

Chen Sheng controlled his spirit to come to a thick incense stick and lit it with his finger.

The moment he used the Taoist technique, his entire Yin spirit suddenly lit up, and its texture became transparent, revealing ethereal and dreamlike patterns imprinted within it.

There are more than sixty patterns in total, which represent more than sixty kinds of Taoist techniques that have been successfully cultivated.

Chen Sheng looked down at the tiny handprint-shaped mark on the palm of his left hand, unable to hide his excitement.

"From my previous life, I began to cultivate Taoist arts, and spent four hundred years of my life repeatedly pondering the key points of the first three stages of the Tao."

Having undergone a complete rebirth and spent over twenty years diligently cultivating, he has climbed back to the third tier. Now, he is finally about to knock on the door to the fourth tier.

That hand-shaped mark represents the [Small Dragon Binding Hand Seal], a Taoist technique passed down by Miaochan Temple.

After years of cultivation, the light of the mark was extremely bright, and none of the marks on Chen Sheng's body could rival it. He had clearly reached the perfect state of the third stage.

Having reached a high level in Taoist arts and possessing the matching Dragon-Subduing Buddhist Qi, Chen Sheng naturally set out to break through.

With his long-cherished wish about to be fulfilled, even someone with his experience of many lifetimes couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Fortunately, the delicate fragrance of the burning incense quickly calmed Chen Sheng's mind, bringing him into a state of tranquility.

If your heart is as clear as ice, you won’t be afraid even if the sky falls!
After everything was ready, Chen Sheng used his Yin spirit to quietly inhale the fragrance that filled the secret room, then turned around and walked back to his physical body, touching the fragrance on his forehead.

Instantly, golden Buddhist light illuminated the entire secret chamber!
A bundle of Dragon-Subduing Buddha energy, which Chen Sheng had carefully nurtured for twenty years and restored to its original size, fell into the hands of the Yin God.

He cupped his hands around the qi and brought them close to his face.

With a gentle inhale, the golden Buddhist energy transformed into a winding, snake-like stream of energy, falling into the Yin Spirit and being absorbed by the [Small Dragon Binding Handprint] mark.

During the absorption process, the Buddha's light became even more intense, and the size of the imprint gradually increased until it completely overlapped with the palm of the Yin God.

Finally, after the Buddha's energy was completely absorbed by the imprint, the two palms had merged into one, looking like a golden glove.

Then, starting from this golden glove, the flowing Buddhist aura began to spread upwards from the wrist, seemingly about to flow throughout the entire body, dyeing the entire Yin spirit with the same golden texture.

Yin spirits are inherently fragile, and because the Qi of Gang Sha can merge with Yin spirits and is extremely strong, it has become an essential item for advancing to the fourth rank in the various heavens of Jambudvipa.

What Chen Sheng is doing now is to initially merge the Dragon Subduing Buddha Qi with his Yin Spirit in order to increase its strength and prepare for the upcoming tribulation.

Yes! Cultivating one's sexuality requires undergoing tribulations!
Humans, with their insignificant bodies, seize the creation of heaven and earth and delve into the mysteries of the sun and moon. From human to immortal, one will naturally encounter numerous tribulations during the cultivation process.

Aside from the initial astral projection of the Yin spirit, when someone in the first stage wants to advance to the second stage, a wind tribulation will be born within the Yin spirit.

This wind is no ordinary wind; it is transformed from a naturally occurring evil yin energy within the yin spirit. Because it is self-generated, there is nowhere to hide. This soul-consuming wind will repeatedly sweep over the large particles of yin sludge within the yin spirit. If a cultivator's yin spirit foundation is not solid enough, or their will is not firm enough, they will perish under the wind tribulation.

Only after overcoming this tribulation and undergoing the initial transformation of Yin spirit into Yang can one advance to the second rank.

When the second stage of cultivation is perfected, the Yin Fire Tribulation will be born in the Yin Spirit.

That Yin Fire was no ordinary fire, but rather a manifestation of a malevolent Yin energy within the Yin spirit.

Once this fire is ignited, it will further burn away the yin residue within the yin spirit. However, if there is no corresponding protective method, this fire will burn the entire yin spirit to ashes as well.

After surviving the fire tribulation, the appearance of the Yin spirit will seem no different from that of an ordinary person, and its essence will be further enhanced.

When one diligently cultivates Daoist arts at the third-tier Thunder Tribulation Realm, and upon achieving perfect cultivation, a Thunder Tribulation will be born within one's Yin Spirit to strike again.

That lightning was no ordinary lightning; it was a tribulation lightning containing the vitality and creation of life. It was naturally generated from the absolute yin energy within the yin spirit, and there was nowhere to hide. Those struck by it would almost certainly die.

Only by absorbing the evil spirits with the Yin spirit, thereby increasing its strength a thousandfold, and then undergoing the baptism of thunder, can one possibly find a chance of survival amidst the destruction of the thunder tribulation.

Moreover, there is no distinction of quality between different types of Qi, Qi, or even between different types of Qi. When a cultivator absorbs Qi, they only need to consider whether it matches the attributes of the Daoist technique they are cultivating.

Even if the Qi of the Gang is Yang and the Qi of the Sha is Yin, as long as they can safely pass through the tribulation of lightning, they can all forge a near-Yang Yin God who has refined 90% of the Yin residue.

As for whether a cultivator excels in combat, alchemy, or enlightenment after advancing to the Thunder Tribulation Realm, it only depends on the Daoist techniques they cultivate and has nothing to do with the type of Qi they use.

Time passes slowly.

Golden light shone brightly in the secret chamber, and the protective energy gradually completely corrupted Chen Sheng's Yin spirit, turning him into a figure entirely covered in gold.

At this point, Chen Sheng took a few steps back and sat down cross-legged in front of his own body.

He has been cultivating in this world for over twenty years and has already easily overcome the wind and fire tribulations. Now, only the lightning tribulation, which he has no experience with, remains to be overcome.

Today is the day to break through to the next level.

Oh!

The sound of rapidly surging electricity filled the sealed room, like the collective chirping of thousands of birds.

At the same time, dense purple lightning flashed on the Yin God, illuminating the small secret room in a dark purple light.

As the lightning tribulation struck, Chen Sheng felt as if scorching flames were burning his soul, or as if sharp knives were shattering his thoughts.

In that instant, the intense pain rendered him incapable of thinking.

It wasn't until much time had passed, and Chen Sheng's spirit began to shatter into tiny specks of light during the tribulation of lightning, that his interrupted thoughts finally began to function again.

Feeling waves of tingling electricity, numbing one's mind, disrupting one's spirit, and plunging one's life into a desperate situation.

At this moment, he truly realized that tribulation lightning was completely different from ordinary lightning.

Even with experience in condensing thunder in thunderclouds, and cultivation experience in containing the five elements of thunder with the Yin spirit.

But when faced with the tribulation of lightning, he was still so powerless.

(End of this chapter)