Visible to the naked eye, under the force of the medicinal power.
Zhang Chen's bones throughout his body began with his toes, snapping and shattering inch by inch.
The pain was a hundred times more terrifying than being slowly dismembered.
It was not just his bones—his meridians, muscles, and even his internal organs.
They all seemed to be ground into powder beneath this overbearing force!
If not for the layer of violet-gold light enveloping him.
His entire body would have long since become a pile of rotting flesh.
"Ah—!!!"
Even with the resilience of someone who had lived two lifetimes, Zhang Chen could not help letting out a roar at this moment.
This was simply pain no human could endure!
His consciousness began to blur, and even his soul seemed to tremble.
At any moment, it might collapse and scatter beneath this boundless agony.
"Guard your spiritual platform! Stay conscious!"
At the cave entrance, Old Ancestor Zhang Tianzheng's heart trembled when he heard the agonized cry, and he nearly rushed inside.
But he knew that this was a tribulation that Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment had to endure.
Outsiders could not help in the slightest. Zhang Chen could only grit his teeth and endure it himself.
"I can't pass out... I absolutely can't pass out..."
Zhang Chen clenched his teeth so hard that his lips split, and blood trickled from the corners of his mouth.
In his mind flashed Lin Qingxue's gentle smile, the tender faces of the two newborn children, and that tottering Lineage...
"If I fall... what will happen to them?"
"I still have to lead the Zhang Family to rule the world... How can I die here?!"
A conviction called "responsibility" firmly anchored his consciousness, which was on the verge of disintegrating.
Enduring the agony of having his body torn to pieces, Zhang Chen used the last trace of clarity he possessed to frantically circulate the Nine Revolutions Universe Art.
"Absorb!!!"
He roared inwardly.
As the art circulated, the destructive medicinal power that had been rampaging through his body was finally guided into a mysterious trajectory.
Immediately afterward, a huge Spiritual Energy Vortex took shape out of thin air, centered around Zhang Chen's body.
Wuuu wuuu wuuu—
A terrifying suction force erupted.
The dense Spiritual Energy filling the grotto like mist was instantly sucked dry, all of it pouring into the vortex.
But this was still far from enough!
The vortex continued expanding, directly piercing through the mountain and stretching into the outside world.
Above Dao Seeking Peak, the originally clear sky suddenly changed as winds and clouds gathered.
The Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth within a hundred-mile radius seemed to have received some kind of forceful summons.
It surged toward the Back Mountain of Dao Seeking Peak like mad.
A gigantic, visible Spiritual Energy Funnel hung upside down above the mountaintop, making for an exceedingly spectacular sight.
"What... what's going on?!"
At that moment, the Zhang Family members cultivating in the front mountain rushed out of their rooms in alarm.
They looked up at the strange phenomenon in the sky.
"A Spiritual Energy riot?! Could some supreme treasure have appeared?"
"No! That direction is the forbidden area in the Back Mountain! It's... it's the Young Master in seclusion!"
Standing before the great hall, Zhang Yunshan looked at the terrifying momentum, his throat going dry. "This is Foundation Establishment? Isn't this too exaggerated? Even when Old Ancestor achieved Core Formation back then, there wasn't this much commotion!"
Inside the grotto, Zhang Tianzheng, who was protecting him, was even more dumbfounded by the suction force.
He could sense that the Third-Grade Spirit Vein the Zhang Family took such pride in was actually wailing at this moment!
The Spiritual Power within the spirit eye was drying up at a terrifying speed.
"This is no Foundation Establishment... This is simply devouring the heavens!"
Zhang Tianzheng sucked in a cold breath, his heart shaken to the core.
But he did not stop it. Instead, he gritted his teeth, pulled tens of thousands of Spirit Stones from his Storage Bag, and shattered them directly, transforming them into surging Spiritual Power that replenished the grotto.
"Absorb! Absorb your fill!"
"This old man wants to see what kind of monster Dao Foundation Chen'er can forge!"
As vast amounts of Spiritual Energy poured in.
The changes within Zhang Chen's body finally reached the second stage: molding!
The shattered flesh and bones began to reassemble under the combined effects of the Nine Revolutions Universe Art and the Heavenly Dao medicinal power.
This time, it was no longer a mortal body.
The newly formed bones were crystal-clear and translucent, like the finest white jade.
Faintly, Dao Runes flickered across them.
The newly formed meridians were broad and tough, like golden rivers flowing with violet-gold blood.
The impurities within his body were completely expelled. They were no longer black grime, but wisps of gray smoke.
That was the Turbid Qi innately present within the human body.
As the reshaping progressed, the heart-rending pain gradually faded.
Every inch of his newly formed flesh seemed to contain the power to destroy heaven and earth.
Zhang Chen felt as if he were a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.
Welcoming the sublimation of his life level.
But this was still not the end.
The true trial had only just begun.
Rumble—
In the sky outside, what gathered was not merely Spiritual Energy, but also thick, heavy dark clouds.
Within the clouds, violet thunder rolled and churned, brewing a Heavenly Might that made every cultivator's heart tremble.
Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment defied heaven and was certain to incur heaven's jealousy!
The Thunder Tribulation had arrived!
Visible to the naked eye, dark clouds rolled and layered over the entire sky above Dao Seeking Peak.
A stifling pressure slowly seeped out from the depths of the clouds.
This was not an ordinary thunderstorm.
It was the overlooking gaze of the heavens' will.
Across the surrounding hundreds of miles of sea, the low-grade Sea Beasts that had been frolicking and foraging there seemed to sense the apocalypse approaching. One after another, they dove into the deep sea.
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