"What a pity. He belongs to the Ice Profound Lineage, not my Ice Soul Lineage. With his talent, he could have taken my place with ease and supported the entire Ice Soul Lineage. He might even have restored it to glory."
"Alas."
Ice Soul Old Celestial Monarch watched Ling Pengyun face the tribulation lightning in the sky and could not help feeling deeply envious of Ice Profound Celestial Monarch nearby.
"Who is that? Not only did he break through the Void Refinement bottleneck and trigger the Void Refinement tribulation, he even dared to temper his foundation with tribulation lightning?"
"I think he's the Guest Elder the Ice Profound Lineage recruited a few decades ago..."
The other Frost Immortal Sect disciples watching nearby grew endlessly curious about Ling Pengyun, and deeply awed by him.
Meanwhile.
As time passed.
High in the sky, Ling Pengyun drew on his formidable cultivation and gradually refined the ninth-to-last bolt of Five-Colored Void-Refining Tribulation Lightning completely.
And because that bolt contained a great deal of Creation Qi,
Ling Pengyun benefited enormously. His foundation improved by leaps and bounds.
"The benefit of refining this one bolt might equal that of refining a full hundred ordinary Spirit Transformation tribulation bolts. This Five-Colored Void-Refining Tribulation Lightning is truly perfect for tempering a foundation."
Feeling the benefits of refining that bolt, Ling Pengyun was beside himself with delight.
Yet he also noticed a subtle change: as his foundation improved so dramatically, heaven and earth rejected him even more fiercely.
The Tribulation Cloud overhead even expanded somewhat, adding another measure of difficulty to the tribulation.
But to Ling Pengyun, that was a good thing too.
*The stronger the Tribulation Cloud, the stronger the bolts it sends down next. And the stronger those bolts, the greater the benefit of tempering my