"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...!"
At the foot of Five-Thunder Divine Mountain, Gu Chenfeng sat cross-legged on the mountain path, his body trembling violently. Fine arcs of electricity spewed from his pores, and even his hair stood on end.
At that moment, every part of Gu Chenfeng's body, including his five viscera and six bowels and meridians, was submerged in a surge of violent lightning.
Even as a late-stage Immortal Realm body cultivator, he was enduring immense pain.
His incomparably handsome face twisted slightly, revealing an expression of extreme agony.
But at that moment, Gu Chenfeng had no attention to spare for any of it.
He looked within, at the location of that profound aperture.
A distinct "energy vortex" had already formed and was spinning rapidly.
At the center of the vortex, a fine crack faintly appeared in space.
Yet an unseen, mysterious force seemed to be restraining the crack from appearing, causing it to begin slowly healing.
As the crack gradually healed, even the vortex began to slow.
Seeing this, Gu Chenfeng could not help cursing inwardly.
Damn it, I still can't break it open!
The difficulty of opening this first profound aperture alone far exceeded Gu Chenfeng's expectations.
He had already used all the power of the dozen or so strands of wood origin lightning essence in his body to assault this profound aperture, yet he had still failed to open it.
Meanwhile, the wood origin lightning essence went completely out of control, rampaging through Gu Chenfeng's body, crashing wildly and wreaking wanton destruction.
Had Gu Chenfeng not possessed the formidable physique of a late-stage Immortal Realm cultivator, his flesh might already have been overwhelmed.
More critically, he could not spare any attention to suppress the rampaging lightning essence.
Otherwise, his attempt to open this profound aperture, already halfway complete,