Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations corresponded to the number of the Heavenly Spirits!
The Seventy-Two Transformations corresponded to the number of the Earthly Fiends!
The Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations were not merely an Art of Transformation; they contained thirty-six divine abilities!
They were: Manipulating Creation, Reversing Yin and Yang, Moving Stars and Shifting Constellations, Turning Back the Heavens and Returning the Sun, Summoning Rain and Calling Wind, Shaking Mountains and Rending Earth, Riding Mist and Soaring Through Clouds, Dividing Rivers into Land, Soaring Through Ground with Golden Light, Overturning Rivers and Churning Seas, Finger-Ground-Into-Steel, Five Elements Grand Escape, Six Jia Mystic Gates, Precognition of the Future, Whipping Mountains and Moving Stones, Resurrect the Dead, Flying Body and Supporting Traces, Nine Breaths Consuming Qi, Drawing Out Primordial Yang, Subduing Dragon and Taming Tiger, Mending the Heavens and Bathing the Sun, Pushing Mountains and Filling Seas, Turning Stone into Gold, Standing Upright Without a Shadow, Fetal Transformation and Shape Shifting, Size Manipulation, Blossom in an Instant, Roaming Spirit and Commanding Qi, Seeing Through Walls, Returning Wind and Reversing Fire, Mastering the Five Thunders, Diving into Abysses and Shrinking the Earth, Flying Sand and Moving Stones, Carrying Mountains Across Seas, Scattering Beans into Soldiers, Nail-Head Seven Arrows.
Every one of these divine abilities was vast and profound. Fully mastering them truly qualified one to be called an immortal!
Marshal Tian Peng in Journey to the West had been a high-ranking Heavenly Court official who commanded the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals, a mighty figure among immortals!
He had merely violated the heavenly laws and been demoted into a pig, causing his strength to plummet. At least, Qin Jun did not believe that Zhu Bajie from Journey to the West had the ability to command the Hundred Thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals. Any random demon could easily capture him. In Qin Jun's view, either he had been hiding his strength, or transforming into a pig had greatly reduced his power.
Fortunately, the system had drawn Marshal Tian Peng's Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations. If it had been Zhu Wuneng's, Qin Jun would have cried himself to death.
Rumble—
Under the night sky, patches of thunderclouds gathered above the Xuanling Sect. Lightning like dragons and pythons tore through the clouds and plunged downward, startling every disciple awake and forcing them out of their cultivation states.
Inside one of the Xuanling Sect's halls, Chang Qianqian, who had been recounting her experiences outside to her father, jumped up from where she sat in fright. Even Chang Hao shuddered violently.
That thunderclap had been utterly terrifying!
"What is going on?"
Chang Qianqian's father, Chang Tianyou, abruptly rose to his feet. Though not particularly burly in his white robes, he exuded the steady, imposing air of Mount Tai. A few strands of gray were faintly visible in the hair by his ears, adding to his mature masculine charm.
"Why is there suddenly thunder?" Chang Hao asked with a frown. The Xuanling Sect was protected by an array; it had not suffered a lightning strike in decades.
Unless someone within the Xuanling Sect was undergoing tribulation!
What did undergoing tribulation mean?
Cultivating qi to attain immortality was an act against the heavens. Whenever a cultivator broke through, the Heavenly Dao would unleash a Heavenly Tribulation in an attempt to stop them. Once they endured it, the Heavenly Dao would acknowledge them. From the Golden Core Realm onward, every breakthrough into a major realm of cultivation would draw a Heavenly Tribulation!
There were fewer than ten Golden Core Realm experts in the Xuanling Sect.
Could another Core Disciple have broken through to the Golden Core Realm?
Chang Tianyou immediately grew excited and hurried toward the hall's exit, with Chang Qianqian and Chang Hao following closely behind.
They were not the only ones who thought so. The disciples throughout the sect guessed the same thing.
"Someone actually broke through to the Golden Core Realm!"
"Who is it? Senior Sister Zhong or Senior Brother Zhuo?"
"It must be Zhuo Junjie!"
"Senior Brother Zhuo has been stuck at the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm for more than a year or two. It looks like he is going to break through in one go this time!"
"Good heavens, this Heavenly Tribulation is even more terrifying than when Elder Li broke through decades ago!"
The thunderclouds looming over the Xuanling Sect churned without cease. Terrifying bolts of lightning flashed and intertwined, while an apocalyptic aura descended, filling every Xuanling Sect disciple with fear.
Before such a Heavenly Tribulation, the Xuanling Sect seemed as though it could be blasted into oblivion at any moment.
"Quick, have someone activate the array!"
Chang Tianyou shouted, his expression changing drastically. The elders emerging from the nearby pavilions hurriedly flew toward the mountaintop.
Qin Jun had no idea that the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations he had drawn had thrown the entire Xuanling Sect into chaos. Fortunately, the Xuanling Sect's array would help him withstand the Heavenly Tribulation!
Divine abilities differed from cultivation methods and spells. Since they bore the word "divine," one could imagine just how powerful they were. The Heavenly Dao would not allow them to mature so easily.
Elsewhere, in the courtyard where Qin Jun was staying, Daji and the Howling Celestial Dog stood silently outside the guest room where he resided.
"The young master is comprehending a divine ability..."
After a long while, the Howling Celestial Dog was the first to break the silence, though its voice trembled slightly.
Qin Jun was only sixteen years old and already at the fifth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, yet he could comprehend a divine ability!
To the Howling Celestial Dog, which had lived for an unknown number of years, this was simply unbelievable!
Daji frowned. "And it is no ordinary divine ability!"
She could sense an aura from Qin Jun's room that made even her, a Void Transformation Realm expert, feel palpitations. The Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations were among the few great divine abilities even in Journey to the West. Those who mastered them were all great gods of heaven and earth, such as Marshal Tian Peng and Patriarch Bodhi.
All thirty-six divine abilities were completely imprinted in Qin Jun's mind. Although he had learned them, his cultivation was too low. At most, he could use two divine abilities consecutively before exhausting all his spiritual energy, and the power he displayed would not be earth-shattering.
As expected, one's foundational cultivation was the most important thing!
Qin Jun slowly opened his eyes, and two sharp gleams shot from them, looking especially frightening in the pitch-black room.
Rumble—
Peals of thunder came from outside the window, but they did not frighten him. He was merely puzzled. Why had it suddenly begun to thunder?
Little did he know that the entire Xuanling Sect was at its wits' end over the Heavenly Tribulation he had brought about.
"System, continue the random Skill Inheritance!"
Qin Jun silently muttered in his heart. He could sense Daji and the Howling Celestial Dog standing outside the door. With them guarding him, Qin Jun naturally had nothing to fear.
What he needed most right now was a cultivation method.
The Qi Refining Art was a Mortal Grade Middle Rank cultivation method, equivalent to common street goods. Though he could kill monsters and complete missions to level up, he still needed a cultivation method.
The spiritual energy cultivated through a cultivation method was immensely important to a cultivator. For example, among those at the fifth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, a cultivator who mastered a Spirit Grade cultivation method would possess several times, or even more than ten times, Qin Jun's amount of spiritual energy, not to mention its quality.
If the spiritual energy cultivated by a Mortal Grade method was like a wooden sword, then that cultivated by a Spirit Grade method was an iron sword!
Not to mention Earth Grade and Heaven Grade cultivation methods!
As for grades beyond those, Qin Jun had only heard the system mention them. There were no records of them at all within the Gan Yue Kingdom.
"Ding! Beginning random Skill Inheritance!"
It had to be a cultivation method!
A cultivation method!
Preferably some super cultivation method above Heaven Grade!
"Ding! Congratulations, host. You have drawn the 'Purple Rainbow Lightning Method' of an unknown character, a top-grade Heaven Grade cultivation method!"
An unknown character?
Did that mean some nameless extra...
Qin Jun's mouth twitched, but a top-grade Heaven Grade cultivation method was not bad. At the very least, it was over a hundred times stronger than the Qi Refining Art!
Just as his thoughts ran wild, the inherited memories of the Purple Rainbow Lightning Method flooded into his mind. The discomfort was far less severe than when he received the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations, but his consciousness still went blank, and he no longer had any guard against his surroundings.
If someone attacked him now, they would definitely succeed with ease.
Fortunately, Daji and the Howling Celestial Dog were guarding outside.
At the same time, the Heavenly Tribulation summoned by the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Transformations began to display its might. Bolts of lightning dragons descended with world-destroying power. The Xuanling Sect's protective array activated instantly, and a pale blue barrier covered the mountain range. The falling lightning struck the array's barrier, sending ripples spreading outward like stones cast into a lake.
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