Half a year later.
Sensing something, Chen Changming rose to his feet and strode out of the Cultivation Room.
He could feel that the blood and qi within him had built to a critical point, like floodwaters about to burst through a dam, waiting only for an outlet.
He was about to break through to the third layer of the Void Refinement Realm, so he needed to find an open, deserted place as soon as possible to undergo his lesser heavenly tribulation.
The lesser heavenly tribulation would cause too much commotion. He could not undergo it near his cave abode, or it would affect Su Luo and expose his location.
After letting Su Luo know, Chen Changming left the cave abode and flew southwest.
Chen Changming flew over a thousand li before finding a deserted mountain range.
The mountains stretched endlessly, without a single blade of grass. There was no trace of any living creature within a hundred li, making it an ideal place to undergo his tribulation.
He landed on a bare mountaintop, sat cross-legged, and began circulating the Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art.
The phantom Immortal Furnace appeared above his head, purple flames blazing fiercely.
The blood and qi within him surged like a raging tide, crashing against that invisible barrier wave after wave.
The barrier grew thinner and more fragile, until at last-
Crack!
The barrier abruptly shattered.
A powerful aura erupted from Chen Changming's body. At that moment, he finally broke through to the third layer of the Void Refinement Realm!
Whoosh!
Gale-force winds sprang up, and dark clouds filled the sky.
Layer upon layer of tribulation clouds surged in from every direction, blotting out the sky and sun and shrouding the entire mountain peak in darkness.
Deep within the clouds, eerie blue lightning wove back and