Green grass sprouted from beneath the crowd's feet, and the flower vines used to decorate the venue seemed to be urged to sprout. At this moment, the cup was full, the sky was clear, and the young man on the stage basked in the morning sun, in the prime of his life. His destiny was silently being moved, and the end of human reach had silently opened a new chapter.

And regarding this, no one, including Luo Jiujiang himself, has yet to realize it.

Every guest present seemed to have received some miraculous gift. Their meridians felt nurtured, their muscles relaxed as if they'd just been stretched. If anyone had taken the time to scrutinize the Luo clan leader in the audience, they would have noticed that the white hair on this "rising star"'s temples had turned half black again. Several cultivators, carrying hidden injuries from years past, touched their chests in disbelief, realizing the pain in their dantian had suddenly lessened.

This is an opportunity that can’t be found unless you come across it by chance, and it is almost a miracle that can never be replicated.

All of this is because Luo Jiujiang understood "life".

The almost unrelated people in the audience received such generous donations, so Luo Jiujiang naturally received even more. The moment the Dao Source Light illuminated, Luo Jiujiang's spiritual energy surged, and his Dantian almost expanded by two times. The meridians that had been like tributaries suddenly expanded like rivers, but he did not feel the slightest pain.

Spiritual energy flowed through Luo Jiujiang's meridians, slowly condensing, transforming from a dense gas into a solid liquid. Like rivers flowing into the sea, this spiritual liquid eventually flowed into his dantian. At the end of this spiritual power, a golden solid slowly took shape.

It is the golden elixir.

Leaping from the fourth level of foundation building to the golden elixir stage is almost like a joke that a fool dreams of. However, since the source of Tao is in hand, nothing is impossible in the world.

In the past, the alien species that held the source of the universe could leap from the Nascent Soul stage to the "Mahayana" stage in the current classification of cultivators with just a drop of the source. The trace of the source that Luo Jiujiang realized could allow him to skip the fifth level of foundation building, which is the transformation from gas to "liquid", and also skip the rest of the long transformation journey.

Luo Jiujiang opened his eyes, a faint golden hue flashing across them. He tentatively clenched his fists, a new kind of strength, akin to a giant leap, slowly taking shape within him.

Zhen Shuangliu stared at Luo Jiujiang in astonishment. As the person who had the most say in power among those present, as the master who knew Luo Jiujiang's situation very well, as the Lord of the Spirit Snake Realm who knew Luo Jiujiang's age and experience very well, he had exhausted so much air that he almost turned himself into a vacuum in just a short time.

I originally just missed Cangjiang, and saw the shadow of an old friend in Jiujiang. Zhen Shuangliu looked up at the sky, his eyes wide open, his vision numb from the severe blow in his heart: But what kind of disciple did I get?

The scene unfolding before his eyes was not only bizarre and unprecedented in his hundreds of years of life, it was also beyond his ability to accept.

If it is true that "the unification of the world ends with the help of foreign races," then Zhen Shuangliu will never consider anyone else as the candidate except his disciple Jiujiang.

In the blink of an eye, Zhen Shuangliu was distracted, and suddenly, clouds gathered rapidly above the previously cloudless sky. He snapped back to his senses, stretched out his arm, and pulled Luo Jiujiang closer, warning him, "It's the Golden Core Tribulation."

The Golden Core stage has its own Golden Core Tribulation, the Nascent Soul stage has its own Nascent Soul Tribulation, and the Mahayana stage has its own Mahayana Tribulation. These tribulations can be assisted by items such as formations and treasures, and those who have a master can simply ask the master to support them.

The thunder tribulation will not increase or decrease due to the participation of others. It will just focus on a target and strike hard until the required number of thunder strikes is reached.

Therefore, as long as the master has the ability, he will usually provide guidance for his disciples here and weaken the power of each thunder tribulation to prevent the disciples from dying tragically due to being unable to withstand the thunder tribulation.

Anyway, there were at most three Golden Core Tribulations, and no matter how big or small the one that ultimately struck a cultivator was, as long as it struck the target, it would be fine. Most mediocre people only needed to take one, and they would be done with it, successfully forming a Core.

It's said that the more gifted a person is, the stronger the thunder tribulations they face. This is a truth universally acknowledged throughout the cultivation world, so it's no wonder Zhen Shuangliu was so eager to bring Luo Jiujiang under his wing.

However, Luo Jiujiang just smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, Master, it won't hurt me."

He raised his head and looked up at the sky with a pair of smiling eyes. The light of the Dao Source in his hand had not yet dissipated, and one of its rays shot straight up to the sky, as if it had already merged with the calamity cloud. Luo Jiujiang's expression was full of certainty: "I just know it."

The clouds gathered, forming a majestic shape, yet they were surprisingly pure white, unlike the other calamity clouds that were as black as ink. Lightning also struck, but unlike the color of ordinary calamity lightning, it was pure as a beam of light.

The red thunderbolt is the blood calamity, the purple thunderbolt is the great calamity, the black thunderbolt is the heavenly calamity, the golden thunderbolt is the inner demon calamity… Then the white thunderbolt that is striking down from Luo Jiujiang’s head now is unprecedented since the creation of the cultivation world. What kind of calamity is this?

"It's not a disaster." Luo Jiujiang said, "It's my understanding, it's about endless life."

He opened his arms to meet the thunder, just like opening his arms to embrace a spring rain.

The three thunder tribulations were so close together that they were almost continuous, yet their form was completely different from any other thunder tribulation the cultivators present had ever witnessed. Compared to a test and examination from heaven, the thunder tribulation that befell Luo Jiujiang felt more like nourishment and reward.

During this time, the power of the pure white thunder tribulation flowed out slightly, silently spreading over the grass and trees within a radius of a hundred miles, and in the blink of an eye, the garden was full of flowers.

When Luo Jiujiang opened his eyes again, what greeted him was not only his new identity as a Jindan cultivator, the burning enthusiasm in everyone's eyes, but also a brand new world with flowers raining down.

Suddenly, he thought of a short song he had composed casually in the spirit of youth when he was in Qidao.

He couldn't quite remember the other words, but there was one sentence that was very appropriate for the current scene.

"I guess the beauty of youth admires me, and pursues me with the ten-mile-long flourishing flowers."

Fate favors him, time cares for him, and youth admires him.

The young man had a proud smile on his lips. He stood facing the wind, with a circle of gentle white light from the thunder tribulation on his body, which had not yet dissipated.

Just as he said, under the blue sky and above the thick earth, he should be the best in the world.

Because he is Luo Jiujiang.

The author has something to say: Thanks to Mobeijun for the rocket launcher x2

Thanks for the mines x3