After Yang Qingxue and the other four women had all advanced to Void Refinement, Liu Changxu accelerated his preparations for advancing to Body Integration.
He first read through all the sect's accounts and insights on undergoing the Body Integration tribulation, then sought advice from the Body Integration Realm Grand Supreme Elders, including his father-in-law, Zhao Wenhao.
Only after Liu Changxu believed he had made every possible preparation did he enter seclusion in May of year 3825 of the Great Tang Calendar, on the seventh-tier spirit mountain the sect had prepared for his tribulation.
Inside the mountain's cave abode, after bringing himself into peak condition, Liu Changxu took a white jade box from his Storage Bracelet.
He unsealed the jade box and lifted its lid, revealing a brilliantly gleaming golden apple. An extraordinarily rich fruit fragrance washed over him, making his magic power circulate much faster of its own accord.
This golden apple was precisely the seventh-tier low-grade Golden Apple Liu Changxu had obtained from a powerful member of the Angel Race.
After taking the Golden Apple out of the jade box, Liu Changxu bit into it without the slightest hesitation!
With a crisp crunch, his strong teeth broke through the skin, which was as hard as metal, taking it into his mouth along with the enticing, snow-white flesh.
Next came the sternest test: twenty-seven bolts of yellow tribulation lightning.
This cyan tribulation lightning was far from ordinary. Not only was it twice as powerful as ordinary silver tribulation lightning, but it could also inflict damage on a cultivator's divine soul. It was utterly terrifying.
For Liu Changxu, then, the true test was only just beginning.
When the thirtieth bolt of cyan tribulation lightning descended, Liu Changxu immediately sent a Red Lotus Immortal Sword out to meet it.
With an earth-shaking