Familiar voices echoed in Lu Li's ears, gradually waking him from his slumber.
The heavenly fire continued to destroy and burn his soul, leaving him numb and cold, but the voices kept lingering in his ears, gradually bringing him to his senses and making him more resolute.
"How could I, Lu Li, possibly fall here?" Lu Li murmured.
He gritted his teeth and endured it, using the last shred of his remaining sanity to mobilize all his strength to drive away the heavenly fire and resist the torment deep within his soul.
"boom!"
The heavenly fire engulfed him, and endless pain swept over him, as if it would tear Lu Li apart.
Lu Li gritted his teeth, desperately resisting the pain, refusing to relax even for a moment.
Time passed by, second by second.
Amidst such terrifying heavenly fire, Lu Li's shattered soul gradually coalesced and reformed.
His body, which was on the verge of collapse, was revitalized.
A dazzling light shone from Lu Li's body, as if a blazing sun was hanging in the sky.
"boom!"
In Lu Li's dantian, his internal energy surged, like molten lava, transforming into countless tiny waves that continuously pounded against his meridians and bones, tempering his muscles and internal organs, making Lu Li stronger.
However, he did not feel the sensation of entering the realm of seeing the heavens at all. These flowing energies were like mud entering the ocean, unable to even stir up a wave.
"Is the realm of peering into the heavens really that difficult?"
Lu Li looked up at the sky, as if gazing at the Dao of Heaven.
He should have suffered forty-nine lightning tribulations, but he was burned by heavenly fire instead. Could it be that it wasn't a lightning tribulation at all?
Or are they the legendary Three Calamities?
The three disasters refer to fire, wind, and flood.
I've heard that the tribulations of lightning are not as frightening as the lightning tribulation, but these three calamities are far more terrifying than the lightning tribulation.
The heavenly fire burns the soul; without a strong will, it is impossible to persevere and one will surely perish in the torment of pain, turning to ashes.
This kind of pain is simply unbearable for ordinary people.
Lu Li, however, persevered.
We've weathered the first fire, but two more disasters are yet to come, and we don't know when they'll strike.
Suddenly, the surrounding celestial fire subsided, and a strong gale swept in, howling and blowing into the distance.
The strong wind, carrying sand and gravel, lashed against Lu Li's body, causing him intense pain. His skin cracked, and even the blood vessels beneath his skin were faintly visible, displaying hideous marks like age spots, a shocking sight.
"Wind disaster!"
This wind is not an ordinary wind at all, but a Xun wind.
This is an extremely special attribute element, completely different from ordinary wind.
The Xunfeng wind possesses the power to cut and tear everything apart, and this power is all-pervasive, making it difficult even for a Martial Venerable to resist.
"Sizzle!"
Sure enough, there was a tearing sound from Lu Li's body, followed by a huge white wind blade slicing through his body, leaving a scar several meters long that was enough to shock people, with blood gushing out.
Immediately following, a second wind blade attacked from the other side.
This time, the wind blade only grazed Lu Li's arm, but the wound quickly spread and turned into a hideous scar.
Lu Li's body was soon covered with various wounds, densely packed and crisscrossing, a shocking sight.
Lu Li's body trembled slightly, writhing in excruciating pain. His wounds were so deep that bone was visible, and his face was contorted in agony. Yet, he stubbornly held on, refusing to give up...
However, as time went on, Lu Li's condition worsened. He had more and more wounds, and the wounds were getting deeper and deeper. Almost every moment, he could see his body being torn apart.
That feeling was more painful than being slowly sliced to death!
He tried his best to grip the Heavenly Question Sword and block the wind blades, but the wind was too strong, and he couldn't move at all, let alone block the wind blades.
"Pfft!" A wind blade sliced across Lu Li's wrist, and the Heavenly Question Sword slipped from his hand.
Lu Li's body was instantly torn apart, and he was covered in blood.
The wind grew stronger and stronger, and Lu Li's body was tossed about by the gale, swaying precariously like a withered leaf, ready to be swept away at any moment.
"Ah!" Lu Li roared to the sky, his voice hoarse and his eyes bloodshot.
The wind almost swallowed Lu Li whole, making him feel suffocated, as if the whole world had turned into darkness.
Tear, heal, tear, heal.
His body was slashed countless times by the wind blades, and then healed, in a continuous cycle.
Lu Li's aura also quickly weakened, and he felt his life force slowly fading away.
However, his soul has not yet been extinguished.
He was still conscious.
However, the Xunfeng was too cruel, its wind blades constantly cutting and destroying him, like a tattered cloth being slashed with a knife until it was riddled with holes.
Finally, Lu Li's life essence was completely depleted.
All life had vanished from him; he seemed to have become a walking corpse.
The southeast wind still showed no signs of dissipating.
Lu Li did not actually die, or rather, his soul and consciousness did not die, but his body had no vitality left.
This state is a very strange state.
Lu Li remained conscious; only a sliver of obsession kept his body from completely extinguishing.
He felt pain!
That kind of tearing, excruciating pain.
But he always maintained a sliver of consciousness.
Because he was unwilling to accept it!
He wanted to turn the tide! He wanted to struggle!
He was an immortal being, possessing boundless vitality within him.
Lu Li gradually lost consciousness under the torment of the Xunfeng wind, but his body helped him recover time and time again.
After an unknown amount of time, the wind subsided, and a ray of bright dawn shone in, warming Lu Li's cold body.
Bathed in the first rays of dawn, the surroundings were teeming with life, and wisps of green sprouted and spread rapidly.
Just as green shoots sprouted from the soil, Lu Li's torn wounds healed in a short time.
"Buzz—"
A throbbing sensation ran through Lu Li's mind. He suddenly opened his eyes and found that his body was emitting a faint blue glow, like a piece of crystal.
At this point, his physical strength had reached an astonishing level.
"Transformation of the physical body?"
Lu Li was stunned: "My physical body has already broken through the shackles?"
The so-called physical transcendence means tempering the body to its extreme, undergoing a complete transformation, and achieving physical sainthood!
Lu Li seemed to have a sudden realization: Heavenly Fire burns the soul, and Xun Wind tempers the body, but what about the flood?
He seemed to understand why the Realm of Gazing at the Heavens was so difficult to enter. If one could not even withstand the Three Calamities, how could one dare to gaze at the Heavens?
At this moment, he was already prepared to face the final disaster, the arrival of the flood!
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