Within the void, thunder roared. A divine general swung his hammer, forging the divine mountain.
At this moment, to outsiders, this was indeed a rare and wondrous sight of heaven and earth. But for the cultivators within Azure Firmament Mountain, it was absolutely no good thing. Who knew how many cultivators had been shaken to death alive by such a divine ability? Only beings at the Celestial Phenomenon level could protect themselves.
"Damn it, I almost failed."
Pale-faced, Gu Lingxiao barely united the Five Elements as one and drew them all into his body.
At this moment, his Dao body was truly forged. His aura changed, stepping into an entirely new realm, though it faintly carried a hint of instability.
His breakthrough had originally gone smoothly. Although he had not received the cleansing of the Immortal Thunder Pool to mend his flaws and reach the ideal state of perfection, even so, his foundation surpassed that of the overwhelming majority of cultivators attempting to break through to the Celestial Phenomenon realm.
Under such circumstances, his advance to the Celestial Phenomenon realm should naturally have been as smooth as water flowing into a channel, with no great surprises. Yet No-Self had formed a Dao Embryo and used a heaven-shaking divine ability to reforge Azure Firmament Mountain, directly throwing the celestial phenomena into disorder. This immediately caused problems with his breakthrough.
Had he not, at the final juncture, borrowed the power of the Five-Elements Heavenly Scripture to forcibly suppress the Five Elements, he might already have suffered severe backlash from the reversal of the Five Elements.
"It was bad enough that the Immortal Thunder Pool did not go as planned. Why did something like this have to happen during my breakthrough?"
Gu Lingxiao raised his head toward the sky, lingering fear still in