Chapter 318 Breaking Through to Godhood, Tribulation Not Yet Arrived
She did not feel tired.
On the contrary, she felt more energetic than ever before.
Inside the dantian, the nascent soul was radiating a dazzling golden light.
A powerful force surged through her body, washing over her limbs and every meridian.
The bottleneck at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, that once indestructible barrier, is now as easily broken through as thin paper!
boom!
A powerful shockwave emanated from her and spread outwards with a roar!
The surrounding trees were being blown wildly.
Zhou Jue slowly closed his eyes, feeling the completely different, even more vast power within his body.
Her divine sense expanded outward at an unprecedented speed.
One thousand meters, three thousand meters, five thousand meters...
Within a radius of ten miles, the rustling of grass, the chirping of insects, and the movement of ants are all under her control.
This is... the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
Zhou Jue slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp.
She looked down at her own wounds, then at the corpses scattered on the ground.
She chuckled softly.
There was no joy in that laughter, only an indescribable mix of emotions.
It turns out that true strength does not come from external things.
Rather, it comes from the will that refuses to give up after repeatedly teetering on the brink of life and death and pushing oneself into desperate situations.
The energy within his body was still surging wildly, like a volcano that had been accumulating energy for thousands of years, searching for an outlet to erupt.
That force is pushing towards a higher, newer realm.
Nascent Soul stage!
A strong impulse surged in Zhou Jue's heart.
She knew that the opportunity for a breakthrough had arrived.
But as she looked around, her brows furrowed tightly.
Breaking through to the Divine Transformation stage is no small feat; it requires absolute quiet and safety.
Here?
The smell of blood could attract the next wave, or even more terrifying, enemies at any moment.
She must find a safe place to seclude herself immediately.
Time is running out.
The energy within my body is like a volcano that has been accumulating for thousands of years, ready to erupt at any moment.
Zhou Jue clutched his chest, forcibly suppressing the surging energy that threatened to burst through the top of his head.
The bottleneck at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage has been shattered.
Now, she is aiming for the Nascent Soul stage.
Is this where I undergo tribulation?
That's practically suicide.
Zhou Jue gritted his teeth and dragged his battered body, beginning to move quickly through the pile of corpses.
She picked up crystal cores from the corpses, regardless of their attributes.
She needs energy.
A large amount of energy is needed to set up a defensive formation that can withstand at least the burning of an incense stick.
"Crack..."
She crushed a hard earth-elemental crystal core, and violent energy surged through her body.
She endured the excruciating pain, channeling her energy to her fingertips, using blood as a guide and spiritual energy as ink, and rapidly carved on the ground in front of her.
A simple Bagua defensive formation is beginning to take shape.
"roar--!"
A giant bear, as large as a small mountain, lurking in the shadows, seemed to have sensed her intentions.
It lost its patience, let out a roar that shook the mountains and forests, and charged towards Zhou Jue.
As it moved, all the lurking beasts began to stir.
It's too late.
The formation simply couldn't be completed in time.
As Zhou Jue watched the charging giant bear and felt the violent tremors from the ground, a glint of madness flashed in his eyes.
She stopped painting.
She stopped all her movements.
She stood there, motionless, facing the giant beast that was about to crush her into mincemeat, and slowly, she sat down cross-legged.
Since there's no way to avoid it.
Then let's die together!
May they all die under the lightning tribulation!
She activated all the defensive talismans of varying grades in her hands at once, forming a thin, multicolored light screen in front of her.
Then, she closed her eyes.
He abandoned all defenses against the outside world and focused all his mind on his dantian.
Guiding that surging, completely out-of-control energy, it crashed fiercely into the new gate called "Transformation into a God"!
"boom--!!!"
An invisible wave of energy erupted from Zhou Jue's body!
The giant bear charging at the very front, its massive body seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall.
It let out a painful howl, its massive body was lifted high into the air and sent flying backward, crashing through countless trees in its path.
The beasts that followed were also pressed firmly to the ground by this terrifying pressure.
Some of the weaker beasts even had their internal organs shattered by this aura, bleeding from all seven orifices and dying on the spot.
The entire jungle fell into an eerie, deathly silence.
All the strange beasts lay prostrate on the ground, trembling.
They don't understand.
Why does such terrifying power erupt from the body of this tiny human being?
Zhou Jue ignored the changes in the outside world.
A tremendous change is taking place within her dantian.
The nascent soul figure that resembled her had golden cracks covering its surface.
The next second, golden light shone brightly!
The nascent soul shattered with a crash, transforming into the purest primordial energy.
This energy did not dissipate, but instead re-gathered and condensed within the dantian.
A new "primordial spirit," more solid and more agile, with even a hint of divine radiance in its eyes, slowly took shape.
The moment his primordial spirit took shape, Zhou Jue felt an unprecedented connection between himself and the world.
Her consciousness was no longer limited by distance.
She could "see" a flower bud quietly blooming ten miles away.
She could "hear" the sound of a stream washing over pebbles, a hundred miles away.
She could even "sense" that the different types of spiritual energy in the air were like docile sheep, and could be used by her with just a thought.
This is the Nascent Soul stage.
Zhou Jue slowly opened his eyes.
The world changed in her eyes.
She stood up, and her injuries had long since healed completely thanks to the pure energy nourished by her primordial spirit.
She didn't even feel tired at all, only an unprecedented sense of power.
She looked up at the night sky above, fragmented by the tree canopy.
She is waiting.
Waiting for that baptism that belongs to the Nascent Soul cultivators.
Waiting for the tribulation lightning that is about to fall from the heavens.
One breath.
Ten breaths.
The time it takes for an incense stick to burn has passed.
All around, there was still a deathly silence.
The strange beasts that lay prostrate on the ground didn't dare to breathe loudly.
In the night sky, the moonlight is like water, and the stars twinkle.
No dark clouds gathered.
There was no thunder or lightning.
There was nothing there.
"Um?"
Zhou Jue frowned.
What about the lightning tribulation?
When a cultivator breaks through a cultivation realm, they invoke the laws of heaven and earth, and are subjected to a tribulation of lightning. This is both a test and a tempering process.
This is common knowledge in the cultivation world.
Why didn't her tribulation come?
Could it be... that the laws of this world are incomplete?
Or perhaps, something went wrong with her breakthrough?
She calmed herself down again and carefully examined her primordial spirit.
The primordial spirit is solid, the spiritual power is abundant, and the connection with heaven and earth is extremely clear.
No problem.
This is indeed a genuine Nascent Soul stage.
However, those at the Nascent Soul stage who haven't undergone the tempering of lightning tribulation always feel like they're missing something, their foundation is unstable.
What exactly happened?
Zhou Jue stood there, his heart filled with doubt and a hint of unease.
Just when she was completely baffled...
A strong sense of spatial tearing suddenly struck without warning!
"What is that?!"
Zhou Jue's expression changed drastically.
Without a second thought, she immediately mobilized her vast spiritual power, which she had just entered the Nascent Soul stage, in an attempt to resist the tearing force.
The next second, she was kicked out of that space.
At the last moment, she seemed to see a familiar, tiny crack slowly closing behind that distorted space.
When Zhou Jue stood on solid ground again, she found herself back in the small but familiar cockpit of the deep-sea submersible "Abyss".
as well as……
A face she would never forget in her life.
Sun Jiuchou stood in front of her, less than three steps away.
He still had that refined and courteous demeanor, with a perfectly measured, gentle smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.
He adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, looked at the disheveled Zhou Jue, and spoke slowly and deliberately.
There was even a hint of approval in his voice.
"Congratulations."
"Welcome back, Xiao Jue, a Nascent Soul cultivator."
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