Opening his eyes, Heaven and Earth were without light, with dark clouds rolling above.

The Heavenly Tribulation had arrived!

"Idiot, what are you so happy about?"

Off to the side, lying sideways in the void, Mu Hongyuan was hanging on a Red Rhombus, seemingly taking a light nap.

Wang Mu moved his lips and asked, "How much time has passed?"

"Five months."

So long?

Wang Mu was taken aback.

The Golden Core that took so long to condense, I wonder how strong it is?

This process was inevitable.

"The Heavenly Tribulation has come."

Mu Hongyuan casually threw out a delicate little tower, twelve layers high, engraved with thunder patterns, exuding a surging aura. "This is an Immortal Spiritual Artifact, the Thunder Tower, capable of absorbing Thunder Power, mainly for defense."

"Your tribulation is quite powerful. It's the Mixed Element Thunder Tribulation, above the common ninety-nine tribulations. Mixed Element Energy is the mother energy of all things, a wisp of primal spiritual energy from when Heaven and Earth first opened. A Golden Core condensed with it will trigger a tribulation far exceeding that of a First Grade Golden Core."

"The Heavenly Dao does not permit such power easily, so the tribulation is extremely strong."

"This Mixed Element Thunder Tribulation is enough to obliterate any Golden Core cultivator."

Mu Hongyuan waved her hand and passed the little tower to Wang Mu. "Take it, you'll need it later."

... Wang Mu.

Is she really, so blatantly, allowing me to freeload?

"I don't need it," Wang Mu shook his head.

Mu Hongyuan's eyebrows shot up. "Take it or leave it."

Having said that, she placed the little tower aside, letting it float in mid-air.

Wang Mu glanced at her.

"What are you looking at?" Mu Hongyuan said coldly. "I've just been idle these past few months. Surely you don't think I've been staying here specifically to act as your protector, do you? Brother Mu, what are you thinking?"

She looked so aloof, a complete change from her previous charming, sweet, and bewitching demeanor. Now, she was truly imposing and cold, her eyes holding a hint of icy allure, somewhat resembling Yan Qingwu. It always gave Wang Mu the strange impression that she had entered some kind of sage-like state of clarity... Just a shoulder massage, loosening her shoulders a bit, and she's like this?

Wang Mu shook his head, not quite understanding what was going on with Mu Hongyuan.

There was no helping it; this was the ever-capricious Mu Hongyuan.

Taking a deep breath and looking at the roiling Heavenly Tribulation, Wang Mu narrowed his eyes and flew straight up.

As a proper practitioner of Body Cultivation, how could he be afraid of a Heavenly Tribulation?

In the past, the Hundred Refinement Body Technique had even involved drawing upon ordinary thunder for body refining, but that was merely the common thunder of the Mortal World.

However, what he faced now was a tribulation containing the rules of the Heavenly Dao.

"Stay further away," Wang Mu transmitted to Mu Hongyuan below.

Mu Hongyuan was silent for a few seconds. The Red Rhombus she was on gently swayed, and then she flew to a distance to watch.

As Wang Mu ascended, the sky full of thunder descended, and endless thunder instantly enveloped the entire Tianluo Mountain.

Mu Hongyuan's gaze flickered. Although she watched in silence, one of her hands was twisting a corner of the Red Rhombus, coiling it tightly into an umbrella-like shape, taut...

In an instant, Wang Mu was engulfed by the relentless thunder.

In the sky, the dark clouds swirled as if they were the eye of the heavens.

「Within the thunderclouds...」

I feel that the power of this tribulation... I should be able to withstand it...

As the thunder struck, the light-and-dark-intertwined Golden Core trembled slightly, unleashing a boundless surge of Spiritual Power that nourished his entire body, seemingly without end.

Wang Mu closed his eyes, feeling the power of the Heavenly Tribulation.

Ordinary Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators, when Crossing Tribulation, would mostly first use a Spiritual Power Shield to resist, then Magic Treasures, and only as a last resort, their own physical bodies. When their Spiritual Power was almost depleted, they would use Spiritual Artifacts to resist. If the artifacts were destroyed and there were truly no other options, only then would they use their bodies.

Wang Mu, being a Body Cultivation practitioner, didn't want to waste too much Spiritual Power, let alone his Spiritual Artifacts.

The power of this Heavenly Tribulation, when it struck a cultivator, contained rules within the thunder that would greatly damage the cultivator's physical body and internal organs.

To shed mortality and become an Immortal, one must cleanse oneself of the worldly karma accumulated. Some say this Heavenly Tribulation is a rule-based process, a way to wash away the various karmic debts and entanglements a cultivator has accrued.

The Heavenly Tribulation doesn't strike the cultivator, but rather, your karma.

The higher your Cultivation, the stronger the karma you must bear, and thus the more terrifying the Heavenly Tribulation.

Wang Mu's Primordial Golden Pill originated from the Great Yin Yang Union Diagram and was intricately linked with Mu Hongyuan. Although he had severed the emotions, this connection had not disappeared since he re-entered the Fengyue Sect.

In addition, over the past few months, Mu Hongyuan had given him a Taoist-grade defensive Spiritual Artifact, likely because she feared this Heavenly Tribulation would be too intense.

However, by the same token, if Wang Mu were to accept the little tower now, it might also bring some karmic variables to Mu Hongyuan.

The Thunder Snakes, formed from the descending thunder, instantly slithered all over Wang Mu's body.

The Mountain and Sea patterns on his back emerged, shining like a rainbow. Utterly still, Wang Mu looked up at the deep, swirling vortex in the sky, vaguely feeling as if he could see an ancient gaze watching him.

Time trickled by. Beneath the swirling dark clouds, there was no sense of time passing; only space continuously folded and distorted.

This continued gradually, until at a certain moment, the power of thunder within the vortex intensified by another third.

HUM...

Suddenly, a thought struck Wang Mu. He remembered the Little Thunder Spirit born during the Ten Thousand Beast Heavenly Tribulation, and also recalled something Miss You had once said.

That Little Thunder Spirit possesses spiritual awareness and potential for growth; perhaps it could absorb some of this powerful thunder and evolve? I wonder... this thunder from the Heavenly Tribulation...

Wang Mu felt that the Heavenly Tribulation shouldn't last much longer.

The Eighth Layer of the Mountain and Sea Body Refining Technique had granted him immense strength, making Wang Mu's physical body far surpass that of others in his current Realm.

The damage this Heavenly Tribulation is inflicting on my body is quite ordinary; enduring it shouldn't be too difficult.

He took out the Ten Thousand Beast Heavenly Tribulation.

Instantly, the arrow-shaped Little Thunder Spirit zipped around frantically, appearing agitated, clearly having not been out for any activity in a long time.

It was unclear whether it sensed the power of the thunder or not, but the Little Thunder Spirit, while fearful, was also extremely excited. It then burst forth directly from the Ten Thousand Beast Heavenly Tribulation, recklessly hurtling toward a bolt of thunder.

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