"Boom...!"
As thoughts raced through Xu Taiping's mind, the spiritual power of the Thirteenfold Crown of Heaven gathered within his golden core slammed heavily against its walls once more.
"Bang!"
This time, what Xu Taiping heard was no longer the cracking of the core's walls, but a heavy crash of collision and shattering.
The pain that followed far exceeded what he had felt before.
Like the pain of soul weeping, this pain would not fade simply because he passed out.
He could only endure it himself.
"Bang!!"
Although Xu Taiping had prepared himself beforehand, the pain still nearly scattered his mind.
It was like having his divine soul torn apart and ground to pieces, bit by bit.
And this process never stopped, with no end in sight.
The legendary suffering of Avīci Purgatory... could hardly be worse than this.
Xu Taiping thought this as he endured it.
At this moment, he could fully understand why some cultivators suffered the collapse of their dao hearts and the scattering of their minds while breaking through to the Dao Integration Realm.
"Bang!!"
Then, as another deafening crash rang out, Xu Taiping suddenly had the illusion that his divine soul was about to scatter.
But just then, a thread of coolness suddenly enveloped his divine soul.
In an instant, the pain that threatened to scatter his divine soul eased somewhat.
Feeling as though he had been granted a pardon, Xu Taiping thought gratefully:
It's the Soul-Merging Pill's medicinal power!
Indeed, it was the Soul-Merging Pill's medicinal power that had just protected his mind.
Immediately afterward, the Soul-Merging Pill's medicinal power surged from meridians throughout his body into his primordial spirit like streams of clear spring water.
The pain caused by the spiritual power battering his golden core eased by thirty to forty percent.
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