``` [Whoosh!]
[Little Black descended from the sky.]
[Amid the hazy gray mist, you sat cross-legged on the ground, your clothes in tatters, exposing skin and flesh riddled with wounds from the heavenly tribulation.]
[Huff-]
[You gently exhaled. The blood and vital energy within you spread like roaring mountains and a surging sea, enveloping an area one or two li across.]
[Little Black flapped a few times, feeling immense pressure.]
[Only a third-tier great demon of the same level could exert such pressure.]
[Inhale-]
[You drew a deep breath, and the wounds on your body rapidly healed.]
[At the same time, a powerful oppressive force spread outward with you at its center.]
["Third-tier body cultivation!"]
[You opened your eyes, your gaze blazing like torches, and clearly sensed that your physique had improved tremendously.]
[You had fully crossed into the core formation level.]
[Now, even without using magical power or your many other methods, your physical body alone was enough to contend with an ordinary core formation True Person.]
["What a pity..."]
[You sighed inwardly.]
[At the very end of the heavenly tribulation, you had used a little magical power to protect yourself.]
[Without it, even if you had survived the heavenly tribulation, you would have suffered irreversible injuries.]
[That was not what you sought.]
[Your primary path was still spell cultivation.]
[Body cultivation was merely a secondary pursuit. There was no need to take that risk.]
[The finest spell cultivators of the Ancient Era were no weaker than the finest body cultivators of the Ancient Era. Their paths simply led in different directions.]
[Moreover, the current environment of heaven and earth clearly favored spell cultivation.]
[Body cultivation? If the third-tier body cultivation tribulation was already this difficult, what about the fourth tribulation?]
[You were not like Dachun, who had awakened