Qi Zhiheng helped the person sit down: "I'll go to the kitchen to prepare some food for you first."

"I'll come too!" Yang Yitian couldn't wait any longer!

"No, the kitchen fumes are too strong. You can just wait here," Qi Zhiheng refused.

The twins followed Qi Zhiheng like two little tails.

Qi Zhiheng went to the kitchen, where there were some ordinary spiritual vegetables and rice. High-level beast meat was rarely kept in the kitchen, as it was easy for it to lose its spiritual energy.

Fortunately, he had plenty of ingredients in his space, so he took some out and started processing them.

When Qi Zhiheng started guiding the spiritual energy, he noticed something unusual. The spiritual energy that was originally under his control seemed to have more vitality today. After being guided by him, it caught up quickly. He could even sense the intimacy of this spiritual energy towards him.

Qi Zhiheng's knife stopped. Could this be the power of the gray mist?

He released some of his spiritual energy, which turned into a layer of gray mist, and covered the kitchen knife with it.

With a single slice, Qi Zhiheng locked in the essence of the ingredients.

This gray mist is more useful than the previous spiritual energy, but its shape and color are too eye-catching.

He tried to convert this spiritual energy into wood-attribute spiritual energy, and the gray mist indeed turned green in his observation!

He became even more adept at using this spiritual energy.

I seemed to hear some voices in the darkness...

Qi Zhiheng focused his mind and immersed himself in this state.

--what would you like?

—What do you want? "Mountain, and. Water, evening."

A series of ethereal sounds directly entered Qi Zhiheng's soul.

In an instant, Qi Zhiheng seemed to be pulled into a strange world, a world where there was nothing but scattered spiritual energy passing by.

Looking at the various kinds of spiritual energy flying past, I couldn't even tell where the sound came from.

Qi Zhiheng listened to the incessant sounds, repeatedly asking himself what he wanted.

What do I want?

What does he want? What does he want? He wants to go further, he wants to form the Golden Core!

The wisp of spiritual energy swirled around him, then gradually dissipated into a huge gray mist, a meter in diameter, which dwarfed Qi Zhiheng's size when standing in front of him.

What do you want?

I want to take it a step further and achieve the Golden Core!

Thinking this way, Qi Zhiheng gave the same answer.

The gray mist in front of him began to transform into various colors, changing into ten colors in succession. These were the colors of the ten spiritual roots in the world. Finally, it returned to gray.

He reached out and touched the gray mist, and a sense of intimacy welled up within him. It was as if they were Qi Zhiheng's closest friends, entwined and playing with him.

As Qi Zhiheng's thoughts dictated, they transformed into spiritual energy of various attributes.

After Qi Zhiheng transformed each of his spiritual roots, the gray mist dispersed and turned into specks of light.

They stretched in one direction, as if pointing the way for Qi Zhiheng.

A long beam of light pointed into the distance.

Qi Zhiheng ran along this road, and the light gradually disappeared behind him...

"Big brother?" Qi Zhirui looked at Qi Zhiheng, who was not moving, with some confusion.

"Second brother, what's wrong with eldest brother?" Qi Zhiwu was also a little confused. His eldest brother said he was going to cook, and after cutting a piece of vegetable, he froze and didn't move at all!

"Could it be that my brother has been poisoned!" Qi Zhirui thought of a possibility: "Grandpa's pills are poisonous. My brother must have accidentally touched Grandpa's poisonous pills! We must go and find Grandpa to get the antidote!"

"Then let's go quickly!" Qi Zhiwu felt that this was very likely, otherwise why would his all-powerful elder brother remain motionless?

The two children ran hurriedly into Qi Dong's yard.

"Grandpa, something terrible has happened! Big brother has been poisoned!" Qi Zhirui shouted as soon as he saw Qi Dong!

Qi Dong was tending to his flowers and plants when he heard his two grandsons' words. His expression turned serious, and he picked up the twins and went out of his yard: "What happened? Where is your eldest brother?"

The twins were in Qi Dong's arms. Qi Dong was running quite fast, and the two children were suddenly blasted by the wind. Qi Zhirui, after being hit by a mouthful of wind, spat twice and replied, "Big brother is in the kitchen! We went to prepare the meal together, but after he chopped a vegetable, he stopped moving. He must have been poisoned!"

Qi Dong didn't know what was going on, but after hearing what the two children were saying, he rushed to the kitchen as quickly as possible.

Just then, dark clouds suddenly filled the sky, and a powerful pressure spread outwards. Qi Dong paused in his steps toward the kitchen.

This... this is actually someone undergoing tribulation!

Qi Dong also snapped out of his daze from his grandson's poisoning. What kind of poison was this?! This was probably an epiphany about to lead to a breakthrough!

Qi Dong, who was heading towards the kitchen, quickly changed direction and headed towards the main gate. At the same time, he transmitted his voice to the surroundings: "There are people inside the house, get out immediately!"

The twins, confused, thought Qi Dong was lost. Qi Zhirui kindly reminded him, "Grandpa, you're going the wrong way. This isn't the way to the kitchen!" He even thoughtfully pointed in a direction.

Qi Dong smiled and said, "We didn't go to the wrong place. Your older brother is fine. Let's go out and wait for him."

He quickened his pace as he spoke.

The courtyard was inhabited by members of the Qi family. Upon hearing Qi Dong's words, they all ran towards the gate.

Yang Yitian, clutching his stomach, also ran out. At the door, many members of the Qi family were already there.

"Who's about to undergo tribulation?" Yang Yitian asked, taking a deep breath after looking around and not seeing Qi Zhiheng.

Qi Dong replied, "It should be Zhi Heng." He repeated what the twins had said and his own guess.

Yang Yitian was dumbfounded: "This luck is too good!" He was so envious. He was currently pregnant and had no chance of advancing!

The tribulation lightning had been brewing for quite some time, and even cultivators from nearby courtyards came out to watch the spectacle.

Qi Zhenhe sighed, "We're doomed! If this lightning tribulation destroys this house, how many spirit stones will we have to pay in compensation?"

We're new here, so we have to save as much as we can! This house doesn't look very sturdy; a bolt of lightning could probably cause it to collapse.

Qi Zhenhe didn't think Qi Zhiheng would fail the tribulation. Most of his family members had reached the Golden Core stage, so there was no reason why Qi Zhiheng couldn't.

However, as the first lightning tribulation was brewing, Qi Zhenhe's mood tightened: "Why hasn't this lightning tribulation come down yet after so long?"

"It is said that the longer this tribulation lightning is brewing, the greater its power!" Qi Wantian frowned slightly.

Generally speaking, there are two possibilities for a tribulation of lightning to be so fierce. One is that the person undergoing the tribulation has too much karma, has killed too many people, and has accumulated too much karmic debt.

Qi Wantian certainly didn't think his grandson was a professional. He was more inclined to believe the second possibility: that this person's aptitude and potential were so good that Heaven valued him, and such a person needed to undergo more severe trials! Therefore, the tribulation lightning would be stronger.

The first lightning bolt struck, sending rubble flying everywhere. A section of the houses in the courtyard collapsed, revealing the interior.

Qi Zhiheng sat on the ground. The lightning struck him, but apart from some damage to his clothes, he was not seriously injured.

This put the Qi family at ease a little.

At this moment, people around came out to watch.

"Is someone undergoing tribulation?"

"What kind of tribulation? Judging from the intensity of the tribulation, could it be the Nascent Soul stage tribulation?"

"The Nascent Soul Tribulation seems a bit too weak, while the Golden Core Tribulation seems a bit too strong."

"Perhaps the person undergoing tribulation is an utterly wicked individual."

Everyone will feel a bit of jealousy towards those who are undergoing tribulation. Naturally, they are unwilling to acknowledge that others are geniuses, so they can only speculate in more malicious directions.

"Who lives here? They've obviously killed too many living beings. I don't think this group of people are good people."

At this moment, the expressions of everyone in the courtyard turned grim. They couldn't really judge what kind of person Qi Zhiheng was, but they didn't want to be labeled as a villain!

At this moment, someone looked at the Qi family members.

The Qi family didn't care about these people's comments at all.

Qi Wantian snorted coldly: "My Qi family members are upright and honest! How could we possibly be wicked and evil people?"

Qi Wantian could be considered the strongest among their group of humans. As soon as he spoke, the cultivators from Xuanling Continent who had been looking at them all started to gesticulate in agreement.

The second lightning bolt struck down immediately. Qi Zhiheng was completely blackened. His clothes were also tattered even more.

Those around him could hardly bear to look at Qi Zhiheng; he looked truly pitiful. It seemed that even the final tribulation they faced was only this bad.

However, Qi Zhiheng in reality was not as disheveled as they imagined. After his sudden breakthrough in understanding spiritual energy, he not only gained some insights into attacks of various attributes, but also made a deal with it using his own gray mist.

His understanding of his own cultivation was based on equivalent exchange!

He traded his own gray mist with various types of spiritual energy, making these spiritual energies more obedient to his control. Under his trade, the lightning tribulation became somewhat docile, and the actual attack on him was reduced by five-tenths.

At the same time, he also cultivated the "Five Elements Body Forging Technique"! Transforming heavenly lightning into body forging was not difficult. He transformed three-tenths of the weakened lightning tribulation into energy to forge his body. His meridians and muscles were constantly being strengthened, and his meridians were also widened slightly under the flow of lightning.

This feeling was better than ever before. While forging his body, he rotated and compressed the gray mist in his body, determined to condense it into a golden elixir.

Of course, by this time the gray mist had already condensed and was nearing its end, and it was only waiting for the lightning tribulation to be completed before the golden core could be formed!