Chapter 99: Borrowing Thunder to Refine the Body

  Boom!

  Ding Yan's right hand clenched into a fist, and with a stiff motion, he crushed a bolt of lightning into powder. In the air, threads of lightning snakes overflowed from his fingers, spreading out along the air, and the power contained within made one's heart palpitate.

  This is already the seventh heavenly tribulation.

  Seven Thunderbolts, Ding Yan didn't use any magical tools or cast any spells, yet he grabbed the heavenly thunder with his bare hands and crushed it. Withstanding the heavenly thunder with his bare hands, if this news were to spread, it would likely shock the entire Scattered Immortal Continent, and Ding Yan's name would resound throughout the Eastern Domain Continent in an instant.

  However, at this time, Ding Yan was still in the mortal world, so it was destined that no one knew about this news.

  "Is it extreme?"

  Ding Yan stretched out his right hand, with a faint wisp of green smoke rising from the center of his palm. His physical endurance had already reached its limit.

  Although he had remade his physical body during the Tribulation of the Mortal World, Ding Yan had eliminated many impurities and achieved a scattered immortal body. However, the foundation of this scattered immortal body was still his original physical body, and the vital energy that shaped the scattered immortal body was also taken from his original physical body.

  This time, I resisted the heavenly calamity with my bare hands in order to use the power of the heavenly calamity to temper my physical body.

  Under the seven layers of thunder, there were many fine thunder snakes that merged into the flesh along the hole paths. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that whether it was the skeleton or the meridians, they were all covered with surging thunder snakes. These small thunder snakes seemed to have life, constantly moving about, and wherever they passed, it was as if a sharp blade had cut through, causing heart-piercing pain.

  His feet treading on empty air, Ding Yan's face was devoid of any expression, his robes fluttering and rustling in the cold wind.

  Relying on the heavenly tribulation to temper his physical body, Dingshen had a sudden idea. With his current realm, he could easily pass through the first nine scattered immortal calamities with just a wave of his hand. However, if he were to get through it this way, there might be some hidden dangers in the future. After all, passing through the scattered immortal calamity wasn't just about one's cultivation and realm; the physical body also had to face the heavenly tribulation. If the physical body was too weak, it might still be possible to forcibly pass through the first few lightning calamities relying on his cultivation and realm. However, by the time of the seventh scattered immortal calamity, he would definitely fail to pass through, and in severe cases, even lose his life and have his Dao disappear.

  Crash!

  Another bolt of lightning struck down.

  Ding Yan's eyes gazed at the heavenly thunder, and with a wave of his sleeve, a broken ancient tripod appeared in his hand.

  The ancient tripod is a treasure obtained by Ding Yan in the Wheel of Reincarnation. Although it has only been used a few times, it can be seen that this ancient tripod is at least an inferior spiritual instrument. Spiritual instruments are existences that surpass magical instruments, and there are only three in the entire Eastern Domain. This shows the power of the ancient tripod.

  After the ancient tripod flew out, it rotated in Ding Yan's hand for a circle and rapidly expanded. In an instant, it transformed into the size of a small mountain.

  The eighth Thunder Calamity was nearly twice as powerful as the previous seven, and a massive thunderbolt condensed into a Thunder Beast that slammed heavily onto the Ancient Cauldron.

  On top of the ancient tripod, light flows and transforms.

  Fierce thunderbolts struck from above, yet didn't even produce a single ripple.

  At first in the city of wrong death, even the momentum of the magic stele could be resisted, let alone this thunderbolt.

  "Seal!" Ding Yan waved his right hand, and a strand of yuan energy was imprinted on the bottom of the ancient cauldron.

  The gigantic ancient tripod shook violently, its heavy lid flying silently into the air. In an instant, a terrifying pulling force burst forth from within the ancient tripod, and the massive Thunder Beast was directly pulled into it.

  Bam!

  The lid of the tripod fell, and the Thunder Beast that was trapped inside let out a frantic roar, colliding with the lid and sending out waves of thunder. However, for the ancient tripod, this force was still not enough to break through the seal within it. As it spun around, the massive ancient tripod rapidly shrunk down, eventually transforming into a blue light that returned to Ding Yan's body.

  The sky, the thunderclouds became even more violent.

  The eight heavenly thunders have passed, and as long as he crosses the last hurdle, Ding Yan's cultivation will break through to the next realm, becoming a revered Thunder Tribulation Scattered Immortal. A Thunder Tribulation Scattered Immortal is almost countable on one's fingers in the Eastern Domain; each of these individuals is a supreme elder who dominates a region.

  The ninth heavenly thunder did not fall rapidly like the previous eight thunders, but instead gathered and brewed.

  The sky, the violent thunderclouds began to shrink.

  Invisible forces seemed to be compressing them.

  Ding Yan looked at Lei Jie's eyes for the first time with a serious expression.

  It's not that he was afraid of the power of the tribulation, but rather that he feared these nine heavenly tribulations would destroy his physical body.

  The thunderclouds grew smaller and smaller, until finally, only the size of a palm was left. The compressed heavenly thunder had turned deep blue, gathering together into something only the size of an adult's fist, but the power contained within was even stronger than the combined force of the eight previous heavenly thunders.

  "No wonder the scattered immortals who have survived the tribulation of thunder in the Eastern Domain are so rare, this one tribulation is enough to destroy most existences." Ding Yan looked at the heavenly thunder in the sky.

  Below him, a massive sea vessel struggled in the roaring waves, as if it would sink at any moment.

  As for the ship below, Ding Yan had already discovered it and directly trampled on the huge waves with ease. After all, the change in the seawater was mainly due to the heavenly tribulation above. To say that he was also the main culprit who led these people into trouble.

  "It's quite troublesome..." Ding Yan sighed.

  Unnecessary karma is what cultivators fear most. Dīng Yuàn is not afraid, but he also doesn't want to casually get involved.

  With a flick of his sleeve, a huge painting scroll flew out from his cuff.

  An ancient painting scroll unfolded slowly in the void, a huge painting scroll, like the sky curtain, completely covered everything below. The people on the sea boat only felt that the sky had suddenly entered the night.

  The enlightenment painting scroll of Huang Quan Lao Xian.

  At this time, Ding Yan did not have a refined law enforcement tool of his own, the only thing he could take out was the ancient tripod and the Wudao painting scroll.

  After all, Ding Yan's time in this world is not very long, and at most it's just over a decade or two. A decade or so of time, for ordinary people, may be quite long, but for a profound loose immortal, it's just a short period of closed-door meditation. Although Ding Yan has not yet reached that level, he also spends most of his time on cultivation; otherwise, even if he were reborn, it would be impossible to become a loose immortal in less than twenty years and then trigger the 19th Loose Immortal Tribulation.

  However, although he didn't have a refined artifact of his own, the realm from his previous life was still there. After obtaining the ancient cauldron and the painting scroll, Ding Yan immediately saw through their uses, and even skipped the ritual refining process altogether.

  The massive painting unfolded, and the mighty thunderbolt in the sky was also severed. The sea surface below, under the suppression of the Wu Dao painting, returned to calmness.

  Standing below the painting, Ding Yan's right hand lightly tapped.

  In the void, a simple array of symbols was carved out, and then a fifth-level symbol was taken from his sleeve and placed in the center.

  The power of Tianjie is the best force for refining the flesh, and naturally, Dingyan will not waste it in vain.

  The symbols formed an array, gradually disappearing into the void, returning to nothingness.

  Then, Ding Yan's sleeves fluttered, and the yuan force transformed into a whirlwind. The huge Wu Dao painting scroll was swept up by the whirlwind and flew upwards, surprisingly moving towards that ball of lightning on its own accord.