Mortal Alchemy

“Bang——”

A lightning serpent, as thick as a water bucket, suddenly descended from the clouds, lunging towards Chen Ping!

Chen Ping combined his two swords, employing the Sword Qi Embodiment technique.

As a third-level body cultivator, the earlier lightning strikes posed little threat to him; instead, they tempered Chen Ping's physical body and both of his natal sword treasures.

Magical treasures could develop spirituality and withstand the tribulation of heavenly lightning, making the sword treasures even more powerful. Otherwise, how could they be called treasures?

The first lightning strike landed, leaving Chen Ping expressionless and unfazed.

The Aurora Sword even transmitted a light, joyous sound, as if it had become slightly smarter.

“Rumble!!!”

The second tribulation lightning followed closely, not giving Chen Ping a chance to catch his breath.

The power of destruction permeated his entire body, tempering Chen Ping's flesh.

It was both uncomfortable and numbing. Chen Ping activated his vital blood to heal, and he could clearly feel his physical strength advancing, and his lifespan also increased.

“A gain with every tribulation?” Chen Ping frowned slightly.

He couldn't use the Three Lights Divine Water yet. It was meant to deal with the inner demon tribulation, protecting Chen Ping's golden core and divine soul.

“Rumble!!!”

The third, fourth, and fifth lightning strikes descended simultaneously.

“Hiss!!!” The strikes made Chen Ping's entire body numb, his body began to tremble, and the sword qi armor around him vibrated, showing signs of cracking and collapsing.

This time, Chen Ping felt an intense, electrifying sensation.

The remaining lightning power entered Chen Ping's body, transforming into vital energy, allowing Chen Ping's physical body to further transform. The golden core also absorbed some residual tribulation power, becoming stronger, more golden, and flawlessly pure.

At the same time, Chen Ping's Sword Dao Spiritual Body began to officially transform.

It seemed to be replacing Chen Ping's Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Roots!

This process was like a blood exchange, causing Chen Ping to experience a heart-wrenching pain.

It was as if the blood vessels extending throughout his body were being pulled out inch by inch, cut off, and replaced with new ones!

“Miscalculated.” Chen Ping did not expect this transformation, this advancement to a spiritual body, to be so painful!

“Rumble!!!”

This time.

The sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth, five tribulation lightning strikes descended simultaneously!

In the center of the world, only a blinding white light of lightning remained, causing people to tremble in fear.

“Pain! Too painful!!!”

Under this dual torment, Chen Ping experienced an unprecedented level of pain!

It was so agonizing that Chen Ping, whose Dao Heart was so firm, having walked step by step from mortal to his current state,

felt an urge to bite his tongue and commit suicide, just to end the pain!

But there was good news too. The five heavenly tribulations struck simultaneously, accelerating the transformation and evolution of Chen Ping's spiritual body.

Chen Ping now completely possessed this spiritual body, and within his golden core, the Sword Lotus Dharma Idol was already shining brightly.

The Spiritual Body Sword Aspect also involuntarily flew out from the top of Chen Ping's head, seemingly wanting to use the tribulation to make Chen Ping's spiritual body and Sword Aspect even stronger.

In the world, there were tens of thousands of people observing this situation.

“It really is a Sword Dao Spiritual Body!”

“That's Junior Brother's Spiritual Body Sword Aspect! Junior Brother is indeed a hidden Sword Dao Spiritual Body of some kind…” Bai Jianjia's eyes were filled with worry, and her heart was both joyous and concerned for Chen Ping.

Nascent Soul cultivators were the core pillars of a sect, the foundation that supported the sect for thousands of years, so the East Xuan Sect would vigorously and proactively nurture special spiritual bodies.

If you were an ordinary physique, you could only rely on your own efforts.

Simply because only with a special spiritual body would you have a one in ten chance of advancing to the Nascent Soul stage!

“Judging from Junior Brother's Sword Aspect, it should be some kind of top-tier spiritual body that has been lost for a long time…”

After the initial formation of the spiritual body, the pain of the blood vessels being torn apart receded like a tide.

What replaced it was a lightness that Chen Ping had never felt before, and the spiritual energy of the world was much more amiable to him.

Chen Ping was like an old man suffering from a serious illness, and now all his ailments were gone, and he was rejuvenated, living a new life!

After more than sixty years of cultivation, Chen Ping felt the spiritual energy of the world so amiable for the first time: “Is this the world of cultivation in the eyes of those geniuses?”

Thinking of his Five Elements Mixed Spiritual Roots, without the inheritance of his ancestors, he would not have been able to cultivate even to the fifth level of Qi Refining. He encountered bottlenecks in cultivation at the second and third levels of Qi Refining and had to rely on swallowing pills to cultivate.

Now he finally felt the spiritual energy amiable to him.

Chen Ping smiled wryly, his eyes glowing with vitality:

“It's good that the effort wasn't wasted!”

It was just that the spiritual energy amiable to him was no longer of much significance. At most, it would allow him to maintain the same cultivation speed as other Golden Core cultivators. If he wanted to quickly improve his cultivation, he would still have to rely on pills!

“Rumble!!!”

A flash of white light streaked across the sky, and ten tribulation lightning bolts struck Chen Ping simultaneously, as if they would not be satisfied until Chen Ping was blasted into ashes!

Under the impact of these ten lightning bolts, the sword qi armor on Chen Ping's body completely collapsed, and the lightning finally directly faced Chen Ping's physical body.

In just an instant, Chen Ping was blasted open, his bloody muscles and bones exposed, and large amounts of flesh and blood were blasted into coke and fell off Chen Ping's body.

With this one strike, Chen Ping was seriously injured.

Chen Ping gritted his teeth and hurriedly activated his vital blood to heal, but his whole body trembled, and he was already unable to hold his sword and use sword qi to protect himself!

“As a last resort, I must activate the Qianlong Armor and the second-tier high-quality armor refined by Senior Sister Luo Fei…”

Chen Ping's thoughts surged, and bursts of light appeared on his body.

Among those watching the battle from afar.

Someone frowned, his eyes displeased: “Ten heavenly tribulations struck together, but he didn't die, only suffered a serious injury?”

“Hehe, so what? If the remaining ten heavenly tribulations strike together again, he may not be able to survive in such a seriously injured state?”

“He's bound to die!”

More people showed nervousness in their eyes, believing that this was the consequence of Chen Ping not healing his injuries and hastily triggering the heavenly tribulation to advance to the Golden Core stage.

If Chen Ping had prepared more fully, he would definitely not be in this state.

“Junior Brother!!!” Mu Luofei's face was pale, and two lines of clear tears fell.

Meng Huang'er and Zhou Ying were sobbing.

Madam Guo also had a pale face.

Wang Funi sat in front of the mirror, not daring to raise her head, not daring to look directly.

Bai Jianjia was even more extremely self-reproachful: “Junior Brother, you must persevere!”

“Alas…” Real Person Changkong and Real Person Ningguang sighed: “Junior Brother Chen seems to be unable to persevere…”

“In the end, the East Xuan Sect was too hasty and did not give Junior Brother enough preparation.”

Every family has its own problems, and no one dared to say that the East Xuan Sect was not good in person. Even Bai Jianjia did not dare to say a word of disapproval in this situation.

However, at this time.

Chen Ping seemed to be experiencing a final burst of energy, and his wounds were recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye. He staggered out of the lightning pit.

Only Chen Ping could be seen breathing heavily, his eyes full of unyielding, unwillingness, arrogance, and determination.

Before Chen Ping's next reaction could be seen, ten world-destroying lightning bolts struck down again!

In a white expanse, no one could clearly discern the situation inside, and no one knew whether Chen Ping was alive or dead!