Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine's deep voice sounded again, though this time there was an unmistakable lightness to it.
The next instant, purple light flashed across its vines, and countless bolts of lightning gathered around them.
"I'm going to sacrifice myself to you. During the process, the lightning will temper your body. But you've already forged a golden body in the Icefire Yin Yang Well, so this should be nothing you can't handle."
As Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine finished speaking, a deafening rumble suddenly rang out above the valley.
A bolt of purple-black lightning tore through the dense poison clouds formed by the Jade Phosphorus Seven-Absolute Flowers and struck Thunderclap Hell Prison Vine. Its vines shook violently. Countless arcs of electricity raced along their coils, turning the surrounding area into a domain of pure lightning.
Then the lightning traveled down the vines and poured into Ye An's seated body.
"Urgh—"
Ye An grunted, his back snapping straight.
He had felt pain while becoming Unaffected by Ice and Fire in the Icefire Yin Yang Well, but with his Heart Martial Soul already having undergone Golden-Tier Martial Soul Awakening, that pain had been bearable. This was different. It was not necessarily more painful; the simultaneous numbness and pain simply felt entirely unlike anything before.
To Ye An's delight, the lightning immediately began coursing along the inner surfaces of his bones. He could feel it rushing through every bone in his body.
Of course, its passage brought indescribable agony. Even though his White Bone Martial Soul had completed a Silver-Rank Second Martial Soul Awakening, the pain was still difficult to bear. But the tempering also brought him immense benefits.
His bones gave off a faint hum beneath the lightning's assault, like metal vibrating under repeated blows. The sound reached deep into him and rang