In Chapter 46, given the enchanting atmosphere, they had no choice but to accept...

After Zhong Jiuli finished setting up the sealing formation, Liu Xianyue took out a communication jade talisman and contacted Bai Ye, "Hey, little guy, the plan has changed. Your sister Zhong and I have a new plan."

A clear, melodious voice came from the other end of the jade talisman, "What are your orders, Sister Liu?"

"Listen carefully, later you can absorb as much spiritual energy as you want, swallow as much as you can, and when you break through, you can just use the heavenly tribulation to punish the heavens." Liu Xianyue said coldly.

Deep inside the mine, Bai frowned as he looked at the disconnected communication jade talisman, wondering what had happened outside to make them so angry.

But since the two older sisters want to make a scene, then let them make a scene.

Jiaojiao peeked out from her arms and asked, "Yezai, what do we do next?"

"Next up is Sun Wukong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace! But we can't bring Ms. Long Jiaojiao along." Bai chuckled and put Jiaojiao into Xiao Lü's space.

Little Green's space can accommodate living creatures. She's about to break through to the next level, and she's worried about leaving Jiao Jiao, the turtle, outside.

After doing all that, Bai began to run wildly. The deeper they went, the denser the spiritual ore embedded in the rock walls became. The unmined ore emitted a lustrous spiritual light in the darkness, like dim, sleeping galaxies.

After walking along the excavated mine shaft for a long time, Bai stopped and smelled a fishy odor.

It was the scent of snakes. Bai looked around and released his divine sense to investigate. In the next instant, the attacker was already close by.

A green shadow appeared from the depths of the mine. Although it was a bit strange that there would be a snake in the mine, Bai had already drawn his heavy sword.

Sparks flew as the sword clashed with the snake's scales. Bai looked at the giant snake before him, surprised by the incredible hardness of its scales. The heavy sword struck them as if it had struck solid iron.

The giant serpent roared and swung its head violently, pushing away the heavy sword pressed against its forehead.

A tremendous force came from below, pushing him back several steps until he hit the top of the rock wall. Bai also felt a tingling sensation in his hand.

"Wow, it's so strong and sturdy, it must taste great. My Jiaojiao will definitely love it." Bai Ye said casually, without any sense of urgency about being at a disadvantage.

The giant snake hissed and flicked its tongue, its vertical pupils shrinking to thin slits, and its thick tail swept across.

"Boom!" The rock wall was shattered by the whip, and the giant snake looked towards the smoke and dust, searching for Bai Ye's figure.

"I'm here." Bai Ye's figure appeared above the giant serpent, his heavy sword raised high, and he brought it down towards the serpent's vital spot.

"Clang!" The heavy sword fell, only severing a few scales, without damaging the core.

The giant snake, in pain, frantically swung its tail at Bai Ye.

Bai also used the Void Escape Technique, her figure moving swiftly and nimbly in the small mine. Fighting this giant snake in such a narrow place was somewhat disadvantageous for her.

Fortunately, Bai Ye was agile enough that even if the giant snake was strong, it would be an ineffective attack if it couldn't hit anyone.

Bai Ye's sword strikes landed precisely on the giant snake's vital spot, causing the scales there to gradually fall off completely.

Sensing danger, the giant snake began to twist its body frantically, fleeing deeper into the mine.

"You dare to turn your back to the enemy? You snake are clearly not a smart snake." Bai Ye stomped against the rock wall, leaping into the air and channeling all his spiritual power into the sword's blade. "Break!"

With a "thud," the heavy sword pierced into the giant snake's body, penetrating from its seventh inch and almost piercing through the entire snake's body.

The snake's blood, imbued with spiritual energy, gushed out wildly, staining the rock wall red. After struggling for a few breaths in its death throes, the giant snake collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"You're not pretending to be dead to lure me over, are you?" Bai didn't rush forward, but waited in place for a while. It was said that snake-like monsters were very good at playing dead to lure enemies, and she didn't want to be bitten by this big guy.

Only after confirming that the snake was absolutely dead did Bai Ye go over to draw her sword. But as soon as she pulled the sword out, the snake, which had been dead for a long time, actually came back to life and opened its blood-red mouth to bite Bai Ye.

Bai Ye flashed back to the giant snake's head and swung his fist at it, saying, "I knew you'd play dead. Take this invincible iron fist."

The deep mine echoed with continuous "bang bang" sounds, the dull thuds of punches landing on flesh lasting for a long time before finally stopping.

Bai stopped what she was doing, panting heavily. Looking at the snake's deflated head, she knew it was really dead now. She leaped off the snake's head and casually put the snake's body away.

I'm going out to feed it to Jiao Jiao. This snake is clearly of a higher level than Jiao Jiao, so it will be very beneficial for her to eat it.

"Jiaojiao, you're so lucky to have a boss like me," Bai muttered to himself, then randomly picked a direction and continued running deeper into the mine.

She ran along the mine for a long time until there was no more road ahead, then she stopped in front of the stone wall, placed her palm on the rock, and carefully sensed it.

She could sense that this place was not the most spiritually rich; deeper inside, there was a dense mass of spiritual energy that was almost impossible to dissolve.

"This is it!" Bai Ye's eyes lit up. He pointed his fingers into a sword and made a light slash in the void. A void passage briefly appeared, and through the void passage, the scene deep in the mine could be vaguely seen.

A hazy glow flowed there, and patches of spiritual essence emitted an intense, almost liquefied, spiritual energy in the darkness.

"Phew!" Bai also let out a soft breath. "It's actually spirit marrow. Fortunately, the Sima family hasn't dug it up yet." She muttered to herself, her voice filled with a sense of relief.

In places where spiritual energy gathers, it is not difficult to give birth to spirit stone veins. However, for them to condense into spiritual essence, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth must have accumulated over millions of years and become extremely concentrated before it is possible for them to appear.

Bai steadied herself and stepped into the void passage. The moment her body was enveloped by the misty glow, she felt as if she were swimming in spiritual liquid.

She didn't even need to circulate her cultivation technique; the dense spiritual energy, almost overflowing, rushed into her body.

Bai wasted no more time. He sat cross-legged on a vein of spiritual marrow, closed his eyes, formed hand seals, and began to circulate the Great Creation Scripture. All the acupoints in his body lit up, and his whole body radiated a dazzling spiritual light.

The depths of the ore vein began to boil, and countless streams of spiritual energy surged in from all directions, forming a vortex of spiritual liquid around her.

More and more spiritual energy surged into the body, and the spiritual liquid in the dantian began to rotate and compress wildly, finally turning into a golden light spot the size of a grain of rice.

This point of light greedily devoured the surrounding spiritual energy like a bottomless pit, growing larger with each rotation. The spiritual energy was so abundant that even Bai felt like he was being stretched to his limit.

As the cultivation technique was activated, the light around Bai Ye grew stronger and stronger, eventually forming a huge spiritual cocoon that illuminated the entire mine as bright as day.

Inside the cocoon of light, Bai Ye's mind was completely immersed in his dantian. He watched as the golden light spot absorbed a massive amount of spiritual energy, gradually growing larger and rounder, and finally transforming into a perfectly round golden core.

Golden Core Realm, achieved!

Above the sky, dark clouds rapidly gathered, and lightning danced within them. The Golden Core Tribulation was silently brewing.

Bai stared at the dazzling golden core in his dantian, a hint of hesitation flashing in his eyes. Recalling his cultivation path, he realized that he had refined his body to its limit before drawing qi into his body, and had built a flawless foundation during the foundation-building process.

Now that you've reached the Core Formation stage, how can you stop here?

For cultivators, the Core Formation Realm is a true watershed moment.

Shedding the mortal body and forging the foundation of the Dao, one's lifespan is extended by five hundred years. With a mere gesture, one can shatter mountains and split rocks, and ride the wind. In those remote small sects, such cultivation would be enough to govern a region, be revered as an elder, and receive offerings from the sect.

However, Bai also felt that forming a core should not be so simple.

Deep within Bai Ye's consciousness, a golden light flickered, and Xiao Jin's figure suddenly appeared. She stood with her paws behind her back, a faint smile playing on her lips, clearly quite satisfied with Bai Ye's comprehension.

"Young man, have you ever heard of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir technique?"

Bai's eyes lit up upon hearing this, "Little Jin, teach me!"

“The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir requires nine shatterings of the core, and each shattering carries the risk of losing all cultivation.” After saying this, Xiao Jin pondered for a moment and continued, “You have already forged a flawless Golden Elixir, so perhaps you don’t need to take this risk.”

When Bai heard that her cultivation had been completely destroyed, a hint of hesitation flashed in her eyes. She knew all too well how weak one was without cultivation. Once a person has experienced the thrill of having power, they will never want to be a weakling.

But he only hesitated for a moment. Bai always firmly believed in the saying, "The bolder the person, the greater the harvest."

At this moment, we are deep in the spirit mine, with rich spiritual energy flowing around us. With the right time, place, and people, there is no reason for us to back down.

Bai took a deep breath, and his spiritual energy rapidly condensed in his dantian, transforming into a pair of giant spiritual energy hands.

Without the slightest hesitation, the giant palm appeared and struck the golden core in the dantian.

"Boom!" A thunderous sound seemed to emanate from within his dantian.

The perfectly round golden elixir trembled violently under the blow, its surface instantly covered with cracks, and then it shattered into nine fragments of varying sizes with a crisp "crack".

"Pfft!" Bai Ye's body trembled, and she suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. Her face turned ashen, and fine beads of cold sweat appeared on her forehead. She swayed precariously.

At the same time, the thick thunderclouds that had gathered outside the mine suddenly surged violently, as if they were somewhat surprised that the guy who was supposed to be struck by lightning had suddenly disappeared.

In the end, the thunderclouds could only dissipate unwillingly, and in the blink of an eye, the world returned to clarity, as if the strange phenomenon had never existed.

On the mountaintop, Zhong Jiuli and Liu Xianyue exchanged a glance. They simultaneously released their divine senses to investigate. When they saw Bai Ye below with a faint aura, they were both startled. However, in the next instant, they both realized what had happened.

"This little guy has quite the nerve," Liu Xianyue murmured in admiration.

Zhong Jiuli did not reply, her gaze remaining fixed on Bai Ye's bloodless, pale face.

Bai did not sense the two people's spiritual sense probing. Even at her peak, with her cultivation level, it would be difficult for her to sense the two people's spiritual sense.

Moreover, she is currently enduring unimaginable pain.

Nine fragments of the golden elixir floated erratically in his dantian, each collision bringing excruciating pain, and blood seeped from his clenched teeth.

Even so, Bai continued to frantically absorb the spiritual energy from the mine. The spiritual energy that surged into his body traveled through his meridians and then entered his dantian.

"Turning the tide!" A hoarse roar resounded, and after absorbing a massive amount of spiritual energy, the nine golden core fragments gradually transformed into nine smaller golden core prototypes.

Bai endured the excruciating pain and used his divine sense as a guide to direct the nine golden pills along the path of the cultivation technique.

The spiritual energy in the ore vein transformed into a visible, misty spiritual liquid, flowing into her body like rivers flowing into the sea. After countless cycles, the nine golden cores finally became perfectly whole again.

Bai also opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of bloody foam mixed with fragments of internal organs. Despite his serious injuries, the light in his eyes was astonishing.

She could clearly feel that the purity of the spiritual energy in her body was now far greater than before, and this was only the first stage.

As the nine golden cores within his body circulated with the cultivation technique, they gradually formed a chain. Bai seized the opportunity and, when the golden cores reached their peak rotation speed, urged them to collide.

"Boom!" An invisible shockwave exploded once again in the dantian. This time, the golden core did not shatter. The nine golden cores began to devour and merge with each other amidst the violent fluctuations of spiritual energy, eventually transforming into an even more dazzling giant golden core.

Bai also spat out another mouthful of blood, looked at the newly formed golden core in his dantian, and once again channeled his spiritual power to strike it down.

"Second Transformation of Yin and Yang!" The shattered golden core transformed into the shape of yin and yang fish, slowly swimming within her dantian. With each circle, a wisp of chaotic energy descended from the void and merged into her dantian.

Outside the mine, the newly formed thunderclouds had not yet struck when they were once again helplessly dissipated due to Bai Ye's sudden disappearance of his aura.

Zhong Jiuli and Liu Xianyue stood on the mountaintop, watching the dissipating thunderclouds, and felt a sense of bewilderment.

The two exchanged a smile, both reading the same thought in each other's eyes: this little tiger would surely leave a significant mark on the Kunxu Continent in the future.

Next, the two witnessed firsthand how the thunderclouds in the sky went from being confused to being furious, appearing again and again, and then dissipating each time.

Deep within the mine, Bai was at her last gasp. She was covered in blood, her coarse linen clothes soaked through. Only her eyes remained astonishingly bright, as if an inextinguishable divine fire burned within them. With each shattering and reformation of her golden core, her aura grew increasingly solid, like a divine weapon forged through countless trials.

"Eight cycles of reincarnation..." A low, hoarse voice uttered, and the golden core shattered for the eighth time. This time, the fragments of the golden core transformed into a nebula-like shape, floating irregularly within the dantian.

Bai also observed the fragments of the golden core circulating in her dantian, a strange light appearing in her eyes. In that instant, she seemed to be truly experiencing the scene of the beginning of the universe.

Outside the cave, the ninth thundercloud finally erupted in fury. The dark clouds, blotting out the sun, covered an area of ​​tens of thousands of miles. The lightning surging within the clouds was no longer ordinary purple lightning, but a deep, dark thunderbolt, more profound than the night itself. Every flash of lightning caused the void to tremble.

"What is this? The Primordial Thunder of the Void?" Liu Xianyue's voice was somewhat surprised.

"It seems that the great formation cannot stop the aura of this tribulation lightning." Zhong Jiuli sighed softly. She flicked her sleeve, and the wide sleeve seemed to turn the world upside down, instantly taking all the miners within tens of thousands of miles into her sleeve.

After collecting the people, the two figures quickly retreated.

It wasn't that they were afraid of the Void Thunder, but rather that cultivators are most wary of interference from others when undergoing tribulation. Especially with their cultivation levels, if they remained within the tribulation clouds, the resulting backlash from the heavenly tribulation would likely obliterate the little tiger undergoing tribulation in an instant.

As for the cultivators trapped in the formation, whether they live or die is none of their concern. After all, it's not uncommon for these people to have committed countless evil deeds and incurred divine punishment.

"This is bad! Who is undergoing tribulation here? The range of this lightning tribulation is too wide; it will affect the entire spirit mine." A Nascent Soul elder of the Sima family, who was in charge of guarding this place, finally noticed the anomaly. He roared, grabbed the collar of the steward next to him, and turned into a streak of light to escape.

"Hey, Elder, I forgot the storage bag!" The steward stretched out his chubby hands and struggled in mid-air, trying to retrieve the storage bag that was placed on the table.

"What time is it? Why are you still worrying about material possessions?" the elder roared, a look of fear in his eyes. Something was wrong; they seemed to be trapped. Someone had set up a trap.

"Elder?" The steward's voice held a hint of doubt. He had also noticed that the two did not seem to have left their residence and were still standing in the same spot.

The elder's pupils contracted, his hands formed hand seals, and his aura surged. He unleashed a barrage of attacks into the void, but none could break through the invisible barrier. The guards who had been fleeing in the distance were now circling around like headless flies within a fixed area.

"Who are you, esteemed expert!" The elder's hair and beard bristled, and the oppressive aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator erupted instantly. "Do you know the consequences of making an enemy of the Sima family?!"

His response was a deafening roar of profound lightning from the clouds. The Great Void Thunder crashed down, silencing the entire world. Wherever the ink-black lightning passed, the Sima family cultivators who were fleeing in all directions turned to ashes before they could even scream.

Even the Nascent Soul Elder could only hold on for one more breath.

Meanwhile, deep within the spirit mine, the true target of the tribulation, Bai slowly opened his eyes. His blood-stained robes fluttered in the wind, a result of the surging spiritual energy within his body and the outward release of his aura.

"Nine cycles return to one!" A clear and resonant shout echoed throughout the mine.

Nine illusory golden cores appeared one after another behind her, eventually merging into one, transforming into a perfectly round golden core the size of a pigeon's egg. This seemingly ordinary golden sphere appeared to contain countless galaxies.

Bai Ye looked at the extraordinary golden core in her dantian, and her aura surged to its peak. At this moment, she was probably more than ten times stronger than when she first formed her core.

She looked up at the bolt of lightning that pierced the heavens and the earth, a wild smile playing on her lips, her eyes gleaming with fiery golden light.

The Eye of Truth pierced through layers of void, and deep within the devastating Xuan Thunder, it glimpsed the shadow of chains of law.

They also saw the mountainside peeling away layer by layer in the thunder, like melted butter, turning into scalding lava flowing in all directions.

A huge, deep pit appeared in the entire mountain until her figure was exposed. The moment her aura appeared, the power of the mysterious lightning intensified.

"Come on," Bai chuckled, his eyes showing no fear. "Let me see if you can really kill me!"

With a powerful stomp of his toes on the tarnished fragment of spiritual marrow, Bai Ye's figure shot into the sky like an arrow released from a bow.

The moment Xuan Lei and Bai Ye collided, the heavens and earth trembled. Several ancient thunder dragons manifested in the thunderclouds, their bodies coiled in the sky, their roars shattering the void. At the same time, they opened their mouths and spewed out dark lightning pillars powerful enough to annihilate all things, slamming them fiercely towards Bai Ye.

Even Bai Ye, whose physical body had been tempered to the extreme, could not resist at this moment. Under the attack of this terrifying lightning, his body cracked inch by inch, with spider web-like cracks covering his entire body. As soon as the blood seeped out, it was evaporated into a scarlet blood mist by the lightning.

The violent lightning surged wildly into the wound, and the tendons and bones were constantly cracking and disintegrating under the destructive power. The originally pale golden bones were also eroded by the lightning and fine cracks appeared.

"It really hurts a bit!" Bai murmured, his eyes flashing with golden light, like two burning suns, staring intently at the phantom images of thunder dragons.

"Ye Zai, are you alright? Ah, Ye Zai, you're about to split open!" Xiao Wang's voice was very anxious. How could this little brat be undergoing such a fierce tribulation? He's about to be struck to dust.

"I'm fine, Xiao Wang, don't make a fuss." Bai replied in a moment, his golden pupils still reflecting the scene in the sky.

All things in the universe are mutually generating and mutually restraining.

Even within this thunder that symbolizes destruction, there must be a glimmer of hope.

What she was looking for was that glimmer of hope.

Bai Ye faced the torrent of lightning, her figure struggling to climb upwards like a boat going against the current. With each inch she rose, thousands of bolts of profound lightning struck her body. Her body began to disintegrate under the destructive power, and charred fragments kept peeling off her body, turning into ashes and dissipating in the violent lightning.

In the distance, Zhong Jiuli clenched her fists tightly, her nails digging deep into her palms. She watched helplessly as the tall figure gradually disintegrated in the lightning tribulation, eventually unable to even maintain its human form, transforming back into a little tiger.

Several times, she almost couldn't control her urge to rush into the lightning tribulation, but she stopped herself. Rushing in would only cause Bai Ye to perish on the spot.

She chose to believe Bai Ye.

Bai also chose to believe in herself, believing that she would not die in the lightning tribulation. Although her figure was broken, her aura became even more fierce, like a peerless divine weapon undergoing a thousand hammers and forgings.

The remnants that fall off during the tribulation of lightning are nothing more than the impurities and shackles accumulated in the body over the years. Crossing this baptism will usher in a new life.

Amidst the lightning, Bai Ye's figure soared higher and higher, breaking through layers of thunderstorms, finally facing the ancient thunder dragon head-on. The lightning dancing in the dragon's eyes reflected her blood-stained face, and the two confronted each other in this vortex of destruction, time seemingly frozen at this moment.

The next instant, Bai also made a sudden move, activating the Instant Step Sky-Splitting Claw. The golden claw light was like the first ray of sunlight after the creation of the world, forcefully tearing three ferocious cracks in the thick thunderclouds and piercing into the phantom of the thunder dragon.

"Got you!" Blood trickled from Bai Ye's lips, a hint of joy flashing in her eyes. In her palm, she firmly grasped a wisp of pulsating lightning magic essence, and in the next instant, she stuffed it into her mouth without hesitation.

"Crackling sounds!" Bai also painfully closed her mouth tightly, and popping sounds kept coming from her tightly closed lips and teeth, as if thousands of lightning snakes were churning in her mouth.

Before the wisp of essence in his mouth could be fully refined, Bai Ye's figure flashed again, appearing in front of another thunder dragon, and once again tried to seize the essence.

Each wisp of lightning essence entering her body etched profound lightning patterns into Bai Ye's form. A destructive aura, identical to that of the tribulation clouds, began to circulate around her. The originally violent lightning began to flow gently within her body, nourishing her damaged meridians, bones, and flesh.

The thunderclouds above the sky churned violently, as if an angered god had discovered that his power had been stolen by the little thief below.

The power of the gods cannot be coveted by mortals.

The strongest attack was brewing within the thunderclouds. Accompanied by deafening thunder, a black lightning pillar as thick as a mountain struck down directly at Bai Ye!

This final divine wrath cleaved Bai Ye from a height of ten thousand feet into the earth, instantly turning the ground within a thousand miles into an abyss.

Smoke and dust billowed into the sky, and the thunderclouds in the sky reluctantly dissipated. Deep underground, a faint trace of profound lightning power was slowly pulsating within Bai Ye's body.

A myriad of rays of light appeared in the sky, and spiritual rain containing the power of creation descended from the heavens, nourishing this scorched land that had been baptized by lightning.

"Tick-tock!"

A drop of spiritual rain fell on Bai Ye's blood-stained eyelashes. She struggled to open her eyes, and through her blurred vision, she gradually saw Zhong Jiuli's breathtakingly beautiful face.

Seeing the woman's concerned expression, Bai tried to move the corners of his mouth, forcing a smile tinged with blood, "Zhong Jiuli... I'm still alive."

Her response was a sudden gust of fragrant wind. Zhong Jiuli knelt on the muddy, scorched earth, pressing the blood-soaked little white tiger tightly against her chest, with such force that it almost crushed its bones.

The rain intensified, washing over the intertwined figures of the two, and a pool of scarlet water gradually formed on the ground.

Zhong Jiuli rested her chin on Bai Ye's head, inhaling the burnt smell and the strong stench of blood emanating from her.

In the distance, new grass and trees are sprouting, while the two people embracing tightly have only each other in their eyes.

Bai was once again somewhat annoyed, wondering why he had reverted to his original form.

If they were still in human form, their clothes soaked by the rain clinging to their bodies, their body heat mingling in their embrace, their eyes meeting, in this romantic atmosphere, they would surely kiss, wouldn't they?

Wouldn't that mean giving away your first kiss?

But in the current situation, unless Zhong Jiuli is crazy, she wouldn't kiss a little tiger.

"Zhong Jiuli," Bai called out to her, "would you like to loosen your grip a little?"

"Did I hurt you?" Zhong Jiuli loosened her grip on her arm a little.

Bai shook his head, his nose brushing against the other's neck, his voice muffled, "I wanted to turn back into human form so we could hug again."