When Black Flood Dragon True Man lunged at him, Yu Ci was in an extraordinarily profound state.
Within Guiyan's Nine Hidden Demonic Body, the mighty power of tribulation lightning crackled and surged—destroying, yet also rebuilding.
The three barriers of longevity—Preserving Form, Seven Emotions, and Heaven's Jealousy—each concealed a path to transcendence: transcendence over the decline of one's natural form and spirit, over the turmoil of the seven emotions and six desires, over the prohibitions of Heaven and Earth's laws. The subtleties and mysteries within could only be understood by personally experiencing them and enduring a tribulation.
Yu Ci's cultivation in his true body was somewhat lacking, but in the Northern Wasteland, for various reasons, he had undergone two or three tribulations in succession and had gained some faint insight. Now that he encountered tribulation lightning again, and from such a rare angle of transcendence, his understanding became even more penetrating.
How the tribulation lightning shattered the demonic body, how the demonic body's power resisted it, how the two opposing forces remained deadlocked, and how they finally compromised, remaking the demonic body in a particular manner—he "saw" all of it with perfect clarity.
For the quality of form and spirit, the Three-Party Primordial Energy was already an exceptionally unique and superb choice. Yet it still had certain points that did not quite accord with the Netherworld Nine Hidden Secret Art or the laws of this world. These "flaws" were now being refined anew through the "joint efforts" of the tribulation lightning and the cultivation art itself.
Yu Ci thus came to understand that the so-called true form, the Yang God's Dharma body—said to grant longevity and eternal youth, indestructible as diamond—was actually only the product of a compromise between the inner and outer heavens and earth. It could be reconstructed and