"Half-step Mahayana?" He Xuan stared blankly. He had never heard of such a stage before.
Within the cultivation system, the Mahayana stage came after the Profound Tier peak. The phrase Half-step Mahayana had never appeared in any ancient records.
When a cultivator underwent the Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation, successfully passing it meant truly advancing to the Mahayana stage. If he failed, unless he perished in the Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation, he would be battered until covered in wounds, and might not even be able to retain his Profound Tier peak cultivation.
What sort of state Half-step Mahayana was, He Xuan truly did not know. It was beyond imagination.
Looking at Qin Fengming, He Xuan's face was filled with confusion. Qin Fengming's current state was extremely strange. He could sense that Qin Fengming was indeed far stronger than before. That was a change in the aura of his stage, not a manifestation of his personal might.
His aura was even richer and more powerful than it had been at the Profound Tier peak. By all rights, his cultivation stage had indeed improved.
However, Qin Fengming's tribulation this time had not summoned the Tribulation Cloud or Heavenly Tribulation Lightning. There had only been a single bombardment of lightning from beyond the realms.
It had not resembled the Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation in the traditional sense at all.
"Indeed. The lightning baptism I just underwent was truly a kind of Mahayana Heavenly Tribulation that reshaped the meridians and tempered the fleshly body. However, some steps of a normal Heavenly Tribulation were missing. There was only the lightning striking my body; it failed to allow the Pill Sea and sea of consciousness to expand completely, and the full might of the Heavenly Tribulation could not be displayed. Still, tempering my body with lightning truly gave this Qin