Myriad Tribulations Immortal Physique

At the foot of the peak, the three exchanged looks. Ye Tianyi's face was dark, yet he had no idea what to say.

Lin Po shook his head helplessly as well. "Changsheng, your senior brother spent ten years traveling with your master and has only just returned. You must listen to his guidance from now on!"

"Don't worry, Martial Uncle!"

Lu Changsheng waved his little hand and answered earnestly.

For a moment, Ye Tianyi did not know what to say.

Seeing that attitude, he felt Lu Changsheng was not beyond saving, and his expression softened a little.

After a moment's thought, he prepared to have a proper talk with him.

But before he could speak, a sound rang out within the sect.

Clang...

The deep toll of a bell echoed in all directions. The instant Lu Changsheng heard it, his entire demeanor changed.

Without another word, he picked up a burlap sack and charged down the mountain.

"Senior Brother, I have something to do. I'll welcome you back later!"

By the time he finished speaking, he had already vanished.

Ye Tianyi frowned. "What is he going to do?"

At a loss for words, Lin Po sighed. "The sect is distributing spirit herbs to the inner disciples today..."

"I..."

Silence fell all around them. Remembering the sack as tall as a person in Lu Changsheng's hand, Ye Tianyi sank deep into thought.

"Tianyi, I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious!"

Lin Po said little more. There was nothing he could do to help with this sort of thing.

Before leaving, however, he remembered something and turned to speak.

"I forgot to tell you something. From now on, never walk alone at night!"

"Why? Are there ghosts or something?" Ye Tianyi asked in confusion.

"Worse than that. He's even scarier than a ghost!" Lin Po's brows knitted tightly as he spoke. "Around eight or nine years ago, a Nighttime Madman appeared in the sect. Every so often, he shows up and finds someone to beat senseless. At first, he only targeted inner disciples, but later he went after personal disciples. In recent years, he's become increasingly unhinged. Not long ago, he set his sights on the peak masters..."

The more Lin Po spoke, the more outrageous it sounded. When he finished and noticed it was growing late, he hurriedly took his leave.

Ye Tianyi paid it little mind. His attention remained on Lu Changsheng.

Gathering his thoughts, he resolved to properly teach this junior brother of his.

Yet he could not calm down when he thought about what he had seen today.

What did "allotted Spirit Stones" mean? Protection money? Or was he using his position as a personal disciple to bully mortals?

Soon, Lu Changsheng returned with a burlap sack taller than himself on his back. A sweep of divine sense revealed that it was filled with spirit herbs.

An inner disciple could only collect one or two stalks a month, yet he had hauled back an entire sack...

Ye Tianyi's expression grew even uglier at the sight. What kind of nonsense was this? He was doing nothing but disgracing Qingyun Peak!

Just as he was about to reprimand him, a graceful figure flew over from behind Qingyun Peak on a sword and landed before them.

"Greetings, Senior Sister!"

Ye Tianyi immediately composed himself and bowed to the woman.

Lu Changsheng smiled. "It's only been half a month, Senior Sister, but you've grown even more beautiful and otherworldly!"

"Such a sweet tongue!"

The woman laughed in playful reproach, her fondness for this junior brother plain to see.

Her name was Liu Qingcheng, and she was the eldest senior sister of Flowing Cloud Peak. As her name suggested, she possessed captivating beauty; every smile and frown left people spellbound.

"Junior Brother Ye, when did you return?" Liu Qingcheng noticed Ye Tianyi as well.

"I only returned today," Ye Tianyi said.

"Thank you for your efforts during those ten years away!"

"It was no trouble!" Ye Tianyi answered respectfully. "Senior Sister, have you come so late at night because you need something from Eldest Senior Brother?"

"No, I came to see Junior Brother Changsheng. I'd like his help with something," Liu Qingcheng said.

"What could he help with?"

"There's a problem with a formation. I want him to take a look!"

"You want him to look at a formation problem?"

Ye Tianyi stared blankly at Lu Changsheng, who was still carrying the sack.

Liu Qingcheng lightly raised her delicate hand and took Lu Changsheng straight toward the back.

The gesture left him dazed.

A while later, Liu Qingcheng walked back slowly, a faint smile on her face.

"Senior Sister, has the formation problem been resolved?" Ye Tianyi asked tentatively.

"Yes, it's resolved!"

"My junior brother resolved it?"

"That's right!"

"But he..."

Ye Tianyi wanted to say something, but Liu Qingcheng spoke instead. "It seems you've heard some rumors in the sect and developed a misunderstanding about Junior Brother Changsheng. He isn't what you think!"

"Do you see things differently, Senior Sister?"

"Get along with him, and you'll gradually understand. Treat him well. You won't lose out!" Liu Qingcheng offered no further explanation.

Still puzzled, Ye Tianyi said, "I'll go talk to him!"

"Another day," Liu Qingcheng said. "He's gone to cultivate!"

At that, Ye Tianyi's expression eased a little. It seemed he was not entirely beyond saving. At least he still knew to cultivate.

Yet just as he turned, he saw Lu Changsheng come rushing out from behind the mountain.

Without a word, he charged straight toward the old pine at the foot of the mountain.

"He's finished cultivating already?" Ye Tianyi asked his senior sister.

Liu Qingcheng ignored him and called out to Lu Changsheng instead. "Junior Brother, slow down! Don't fall!"

"???"

Ye Tianyi was stunned. Only a few words had passed since his senior sister came out and said Lu Changsheng had started cultivating, and he was already done?

At that speed, even taking a shit would have taken longer.

Liu Qingcheng, however, seemed accustomed to it. Instead, she watched Lu Changsheng with a smile in her eyes.

"Junior Brother Changsheng should be almost fully developed by now!"

"Hm?"

Ye Tianyi froze. What did that mean?

Meanwhile, Lu Changsheng reached the old pine. His brows were tightly furrowed, his face solemn, and his body trembled involuntarily, as though he were enduring tremendous pain.

Beads of sweat the size of beans already covered his forehead and had soaked his clothes.

A breeze drifted over from afar, stirring the treetops. Flecks of starlight scattered down from the old pine, and only then did his expression ease slightly.

"Can I just not have this Myriad Tribulations Immortal Physique? Every time I cultivate and break through, it feels like it's trying to kill me. How can such a revolting physique exist..."

Lu Changsheng felt helpless. Before he began cultivating, he had thought his exceptional bone structure surely made him a one-in-ten-thousand cultivation prodigy.

Reality had turned out just as he imagined. He did indeed possess a one-in-ten-thousand Myriad Tribulations Immortal Physique.

Other people cultivated by drawing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into their bodies, circulating it through their meridians, and turning it into their own cultivation, repeating the process over and over.

For him, cultivating felt like swallowing blades, smashing boulders on his chest, and plunging his bare hands into boiling oil!

Every cultivation session was torture, and breaking through nearly cost him his life. His entire body endured endless pain, as though, true to his physique's name, he really had to undergo myriad tribulations.

Not only that, he needed several times as much Spiritual Qi as others to cultivate, sometimes even more than ten times as much. As his cultivation continued to rise, he needed more and more.

However, he also had more than several times as much Law Power as others at the same realm.

By now, he had been cultivating for ten years.

The path of cultivation began with Qi Refinement, with Spirit Gathering as its foundation, followed by Essence Condensation, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Void Transformation, and so on.

He had already reached the eighth layer of Core Formation.

At that thought, he could not help glancing at a distant peak. It was Azure Cloud Peak, where the sect master resided.

"I heard the sect master started slacking off in his cultivation after breaking through to the eighth layer of Core Formation. I wonder if I could beat him now!"

As Lu Changsheng pondered this, he changed into black clothes, stepped into the air, and soared away across the sky.