Since ancient times, thunder had been closely linked to the Great Dao of heaven and earth, and undergoing tribulation to achieve transformation was a crucial trial for cultivators.
Passing this trial meant extending one's lifespan and sustaining one's life. Even eternal life, immortality, and godhood lay within reach.
Failing it meant being reduced to drifting ash and scattered smoke, one's body destroyed and one's Dao extinguished, with scarcely even a soul left behind.
The difference was as vast as heaven and earth.
Now that Li Ling had weathered the thunder tribulation in a single attempt, he truly felt the feedback from the Great Dao of heaven and earth.
Threads of tingling numbness, like electric currents, spread throughout his body, constantly stimulating his flesh and organs. They even merged into his soul, transforming his mind and strengthening the yang within his soul as never before, with effects far surpassing the sunlight he had received in the Day Wandering Realm.
Li Ling had already been capable of day wandering. After this tribulation, his mental strength surged by a substantial margin, reaching the three-hundred-jin level of late-stage Qi Refining.
Yet this increase in strength was hardly worth mentioning.
By cultivating steadily, Li Ling would have reached this point sooner or later anyway. The change in its nature was what mattered.
What truly filled Li Ling with spontaneous joy, therefore, was that the thunder tribulation had tempered all the yin baleful qi within him, bringing the balance of yin and yang in his spirit body to an entirely new peak.
Immersed in the twin joys of surviving tribulation and advancing through transformation, Li Ling did not even have time to examine his surroundings. Even if he had, he would hardly have discovered the people hiding ten li away. He simply shifted away, leaving that