The all-around Defense Power and healing capabilities of his physical body had grown immeasurably stronger.
He was at the 3rd Floor of the Glazed Radiant Body, and Lu Yun knew this Horizontal Martial Arts Training had reached its limit.
Once he broke through this limit, his physical body would truly reach a peak that human Martial Artists could never hope to attain. He was now just one step away from becoming a Manifest Saint True Monarch.
With this in mind, Lu Yun turned his gaze back to the modifier’s interface. He looked at the words "Glazed Radiant Body 3rd Floor" and the still-glowing "Modifiable" button beside it.
He began to look inward. The illusory purple core floating within his body was undergoing a subtle change. It was shrinking, as if shedding impurities bit by bit, and slowly beginning to take a solid form.
The purple light was laced with an increasing amount of jade-green Divine Will True Qi. The two forces were inextricably intertwined, completely inseparable.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Lu Yun issued the command with his mind. ’Modify!’
Upon confirmation, the numbers on the modifier’s interface spun wildly: from over thirty thousand, to twenty thousand, to ten thousand, then a few thousand, a few hundred—before finally stopping in the double digits.
His original 34,950 modified value points dwindled down to a mere 10. Meanwhile, the entry for "Glazed Radiant Body 3rd Floor" began to undergo a qualitative change.
The illusory purple core within Lu Yun’s body began to shrink again, this time even faster. It was as if an invisible giant hand had squeezed it viciously, determined to compress every inch of its space to the absolute limit.
The illusory core trembled violently under the pressure, the purple light and the Divine Will True Qi of the Glazed Radiant Body flickering as they intertwined. This transformation even affected the world within a one-kilometer radius.
Most people within the Lu Family estate felt a silent, oppressive force. It was like a moderately heavy stone was resting on their chests—not enough to make them breathless, but just enough to make them feel inexplicably sullen, irritable, and anxious.
The workers cleaning the main hall stopped what they were doing in unison, exchanging confused glances, unsure of what was happening.
Outside the villa’s main gate, the guards on duty subconsciously tightened their grips on their guns and scanned their surroundings.
Fortunately, it was just a faint, barely perceptible feeling that didn’t truly affect them physically.
In the final moment, the illusory purple core faded away. A purple-gold Divine Thought Golden Core, the size of an adult’s fist, now floated quietly in Lu Yun’s mind.
Simultaneously, the entry for the Glazed Radiant Body on the modifier’s interface changed. Five new words appeared: Golden Indestructible Body 1st Floor.
The Glazed Radiant Body was now a thing of the past. In its place was something entirely new, a higher-level existence that transcended the category of Horizontal Martial Arts Training: the Golden Indestructible Body!
Just then, an incredibly profound mantra flooded Lu Yun’s mind. The characters it was written in were unlike any script he had ever seen.
And yet, he could understand every single character. He didn’t even need to memorize them, for the mantra had already become a part of him, as instinctual as his own heartbeat.
Before Lu Yun could even recover from the afterglow of his breakthrough, he sensed something and raised his head.
He wasn’t so much looking at the ceiling as he was at the sky beyond it. Lu Yun couldn’t explain it, but his Divine Thought perceived that something was up there, watching him.
’What is this?’
Lu Yun’s brow furrowed. In all his years, through countless life-and-death struggles, he had never felt such a bone-chilling sensation.
The next moment, with a flick of his Divine Thought, the window before him was blasted open by an immense, invisible force. He shot outside and soared straight into the clouds without pause.
...
Half an hour later, deep in the mountains on the outskirts of Yun Port City, the once clear and sunny sky suddenly changed. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, and the winds began to churn.
Dark clouds surged from all directions, scrambling over one another as they converged in the same patch of sky.
The treasure hunters and travelers at the foot of the mountain or on its slopes all assumed a violent storm was brewing and fled toward the city without a second glance.
No one knew what the dark clouds were, nor did they want to find out. In this day and age, those with too much curiosity usually didn’t live long.
"What is this thing!"
Deep in the ancient forest, Lu Yun stood upon the void. The trees around him had been forcefully pushed back by an invisible power, carving a ten-meter-wide clearing in their place.
This clearing was completely bare; not even a single leaf remained.
Lu Yun paid it no mind. He raised his head, looking with extreme wariness at the shocking whirlpool that had formed above him.
The vortex spun slowly within the clouds, like a bottomless abyss turned upside down in the heavens.
’No matter how I look at it... it looks like an eye, doesn’t it?’ A ridiculous thought popped into Lu Yun’s head.
’Could this strange phenomenon be aimed at me?’
Lu Yun took a deep breath, channeling the power of his Divine Thought Golden Core to its absolute limit. A purple-gold light erupted from his body, standing in defiance of the black clouds in the sky.
Taking another deep breath, Lu Yun summoned the purple-gold Divine Thought Golden Core.
The Golden Core flew out from between his eyebrows and hovered three feet above his head, spinning slowly. Ripples of purple-gold light spread outward, enveloping him in a sacred radiance.
In that instant, he felt an invisible barrier between himself and the world shatter.
Lu Yun’s Divine Thought stretched out infinitely, and a faint, ethereal voice echoed in his ears.
"The Saint Tribulation begins."
’Saint Tribulation?’ Lu Yun’s pupils contracted. Before he could even ponder what those two words meant, the whirlpool in the sky flashed, instantly bathing the entire world in a ghastly white light.

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