Great Five Elements Thunder Body

The Heavenly Mechanism Scroll recorded that the Mystic Dragon Physique and the Great Five Elements Thunder Body were rare spiritual physiques that could only possibly appear in the Upper Realm—the Spirit Realm.

The scroll emphasized these two spiritual physiques because they possessed an extraordinarily heaven-defying ability.

Cultivators who possessed either of these spiritual physiques had at least a fifty percent chance of breaking through the Mahayana bottleneck and becoming Mahayana cultivators.

One had to know that the cultivation world divided its realms into three major tiers.

The lower realms included the Qi Refining Stage, Foundation Establishment Realm, Golden Core stage, Nascent Soul Realm, and Spirit Transformation Stage.

The middle realms included the Void Refining Stage, Body Integration Realm, and Mahayana Stage.

As for the upper realms, those were the realms of true immortals. Related records had long since been lost in the river of history.

Among the known realms, the Mahayana Stage was the highest.

The Heavenly Mechanism Scroll recorded that even in the vast, boundless Spirit Realm, Mahayana cultivators were exceedingly rare.

A race with a population in the hundreds of millions might not produce even a single Mahayana cultivator.

Only races guarded by Mahayana cultivators could truly gain a foothold in the Spirit Realm.

The scarcity of Mahayana cultivators showed just how unimaginably difficult it was to break through to the Mahayana Realm.

It also revealed the heaven-defying nature of the Mystic Dragon Physique and the Great Five Elements Thunder Body.

Once one cultivated to the Integrated Body Peak Stage, there was a great chance of breaking through to the Mahayana Realm—and one would become a powerhouse even among Mahayana cultivators.

That was enough to alter the fate of an entire race.

Thus, the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll stated that whenever a race in the Spirit Realm discovered one of its members possessed the Mystic Dragon Physique or the Great Five Elements Thunder Body, it would pour the strength of the entire race into nurturing them.

Although these two spiritual physiques were heaven-defying, the difficulty of developing them far surpassed that of ordinary cultivators, even cultivators with other spiritual physiques.

The rare resources consumed during cultivation were beyond what even an entire race could afford, or required conditions so demanding they were nearly impossible to fulfill.

For example, cultivators with the Mystic Dragon Physique, beginning with their advancement to Spirit Transformation, needed spiritual treasures on the level of true spirit blood to assist their breakthroughs.

When breaking through to the Integrated Body Realm, they even needed to devour the heart of a true spirit possessing a True Dragon bloodline as a condition for the breakthrough, in order to completely awaken the Mystic Dragon Physique.

One had to know that true spirits in the Spirit Realm possessed at least Mahayana-level strength, and many were far more powerful than ordinary Mahayana cultivators.

True Dragons were among the most powerful of all true spirits. Even other true spirits possessing only part of their bloodline were still far beyond ordinary Mahayana cultivators in strength.

This showed just how harsh the advancement requirements of the Mystic Dragon Physique were. Unless cultivators possessing this spiritual physique were born into a powerful race, they would have no way of obtaining spiritual treasures of such a level to aid their breakthroughs.

As for the Great Five Elements Thunder Body, the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll contained fewer records than it did for the Mystic Dragon Physique. This spiritual physique appeared to be even more mysterious.

Cultivators who possessed this dharma body could be called the darlings of lightning laws. They were innately proficient in lightning arts and received enormous bonuses when cultivating lightning-attribute techniques.

It also possessed an extremely formidable ability, from which this thunder body took its name.

It could wield the Divine Thunder of the Five Elements, whose power was incomparably vast.

Supreme Metal Divine Thunder—Geng Metal Tribulation Thunder; Supreme Wood Divine Thunder—Yi Wood True Thunder; Supreme Water Divine Thunder—Gui Water Yin Thunder; Supreme Fire Divine Thunder—Bing Fire Yang Thunder; Supreme Earth Divine Thunder—Wu Earth Nether Thunder.

Among them, the most famous was the Supreme Wood Divine Thunder, which had a more widely known name.

It was the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder.

The Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder was the nemesis of all evil demons and heretical paths. Its reputation was so great that even a low-level cultivator like Ning Fa had heard of it.

This Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder was said to be born within a precious spiritual bamboo called Golden Thunder Bamboo. However, this precious spiritual bamboo had vanished from the cultivation world long ago, so the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder had likewise become nothing more than legend.

Yet cultivators with the Great Five Elements Thunder Body could wield this powerful thunder art, and could also wield the other four equally powerful Divine Thunders of the Five Elements.

One could well imagine the might of the Great Five Elements Thunder Body.

Moreover, the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll specifically mentioned that cultivators with the Great Five Elements Thunder Body possessed an even more heaven-defying ability.

They could easily withstand the heavenly tribulations that struck terror into countless Spirit Realm cultivators.

The scroll recorded that once cultivators reached the Void Refining Stage, as long as they had sufficient spiritual energy, they could truly live as long as heaven and gaze upon the ages, no longer bound by a lifespan limit.

But that did not mean cultivators above the Void Refining Stage could live forever without dying.

High-level cultivators in the Spirit Realm had to undergo terrifying heavenly tribulations at regular intervals. If they failed to overcome one, the outcome would be their souls scattering and spirits dispersing.

Spirit Transformation cultivators were still relatively fortunate, facing only lesser heavenly tribulations with weaker power. Cultivators at the Void Refining Stage and above, however, faced unimaginably powerful great heavenly tribulations.

Aside from dying to accidents, these high-level cultivators all perished beneath great heavenly tribulations.

Each heavenly tribulation was stronger than the last. One might withstand this tribulation, only to fail against the next.

Thus, once cultivators reached the Void Refining Stage, their most important task was finding ways to withstand the next great heavenly tribulation—either raising their cultivation realm or refining formidable treasures.

This made the Great Five Elements Thunder Body's ability to easily resist heavenly tribulations all the more astounding, not to mention its immense benefits for advancing to the Mahayana Stage.

Thus, the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll clearly held this mysterious spiritual physique in even higher regard.

The Great Five Elements Thunder Body was likewise difficult to advance. At certain crucial realms, it also required the fulfillment of harsh conditions.

However, the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll did not explain them in detail. It was clearly not well-informed, merely speculating that they should involve precious spiritual treasures related to the Divine Thunder of the Five Elements.

Furthermore, it recorded that cultivators with the Great Five Elements Thunder Body needed to gradually awaken their thunder body.

They had to pass through four stages—Taiyi, Primordial Beginning, Taishi, and Taisu—before reaching the final peak stage, the Taiji Realm, also known as Wuji.

Thus, the ultimate form of the Great Five Elements Thunder Body was called the Wuji Thunder Body.

Yet the scroll contained no records of how these stages were divided, what abilities each stage possessed, or how one could advance through them.

Moreover, the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll stated that most recorded cultivators with the Great Five Elements Thunder Body possessed only an Incomplete Five Elements Thunder Body.

Under such circumstances, cultivators with an Incomplete Five Elements Thunder Body had aptitude inferior even to a Pseudo Spiritual Root. At most, they could cultivate only to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

As for how to distinguish a complete Great Five Elements Thunder Body from an incomplete one, the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll was vague.

It merely said that cultivators with the Great Five Elements Thunder Body seemed to possess a mysterious Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern, and whether that pattern was complete was used to distinguish them.

When Ning Fa saw this, his heart began to pound.

How could he not understand now that he possessed the legendary Great Five Elements Thunder Body?

The mysterious Thunder Rune Pattern within his Dantian was the Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern—the mark of the Great Five Elements Thunder Body!

And from the look of it, what he had possessed before was an Incomplete Five Elements Thunder Body, which was why his cultivation aptitude had been so poor.

The expert invited by his family, a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator named Hermit of East Valley, was, by all accounts, merely a low-level cultivator. Naturally, he would not know of the Great Five Elements Thunder Body, which was why he had judged Ning Fa to possess an Incomplete Lightning Spiritual Root.

Ning Fa even suspected that ordinary Golden Core cultivators, and perhaps even Nascent Soul Cultivators, did not know of the Great Five Elements Thunder Body's existence.

For the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll explicitly recorded that even in the Spirit Realm, the Mystic Dragon Physique and the Great Five Elements Thunder Body were matters of secrecy, beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators.

Then in the Lower Realm where Ning Fa lived, perhaps only those ancient cultivation sects possessed any related introductions.