Something was taking shape within the bottomless darkness at the center of the vortex.
The next second, a five-meter-thick bolt of blue lightning struck down. Lu Yun had lived for nearly seventy years, seen countless thunderstorms and lightning bolts, but he had never seen one this thick.
The thickest ordinary lightning bolts were only about the width of an arm, and they were terrifying enough when they struck down.
But the bolt before him was nearly five meters thick, like a giant blue pillar plunging down from the heavens. It then crashed down upon his head with world-ending power.
’Holy shit!!!’ Lu Yun’s mind went blank. He stared at the pillar of lightning, a single thought racing through his mind.
’Heavens, are you fucking with me? You son of a bitch, who the hell can withstand a lightning bolt this thick!’
The pillar of lightning looked deceptively simple, but the power it carried far exceeded Lu Yun’s imagination.
This wasn’t merely a physical attack. The power of the lightning tore through his flesh, seared his sinews and bones, and turned his entire body into a live wire coursing with high-voltage electricity.
Extreme heat ravaged his insides like a volcano erupting in his blood vessels. Every cell in Lu Yun’s body was burning, every inch of his muscle wailing in agony.
At the same time, another, even more terrifying power followed the lightning and drilled into the depths of his mind.
It was an attack on a spiritual level. The sensation of his physical body being incinerated was already agonizing enough, but he never expected this spiritual pain to be even worse.
What was most fucking frustrating was that Lu Yun found he couldn’t escape at all. The lightning bolt, as if it had eyes, struck him unerringly on the top of his head. All he could do was endure the full force of the blow with his physical body.
The extreme heat and paralyzing sensation put Lu Yun through hell. His physical body had just achieved the Golden Indestructible Body, with flesh that even rifle bullets couldn’t penetrate, yet now it was scorched black under the lightning’s searing heat.
His hair was burned away, leaving his scalp covered in scorched-black marks. His clothes were completely incinerated, without a single scrap remaining.
But to Lu Yun, none of that mattered. The instant the lightning struck, he had instinctively made a decision.
Lu Yun had specifically gathered a massive amount of his Divine Thought Golden Core power to protect his family jewels, wrapping them in layer upon layer of energy to ensure the area was completely sealed and solid as a fortress.
’If other parts get scorched, they get scorched. If they get blackened, they get blackened. If they get burned, they get burned. Those are all just trivial, fatal wounds; I can recover with a little rest.’
’But not *that* place. If anything serious happened down there, my happiness for the rest of my life would be over.’
But after the physical assault, the spiritual world deep within Lu Yun’s mind was a scene of pure apocalypse.
The power of the lightning didn’t just affect his physical body; his spiritual world was enduring an equally terrifying impact.
His once vast and boundless spiritual landscape was now completely unrecognizable.
Thunder boomed and lightning flashed. Countless bolts crisscrossed in the void, weaving a dense, inescapable net of electricity that enveloped the entire world.
This wasn’t just a storm of lightning; it was a sea of lightning—a vast ocean formed from pure thunderous power, and it was rapidly devouring everything.
The towering mountain peaks of Martial Dao Will that had once floated in the sky crumbled into dust one after another under the onslaught of the lightning sea.
Even the three Jade Cyan Great Buddha Martial Dao Wills were not spared. Before the ocean of lightning, their divine light was blasted into countless specks of cyan light.
A purple-gold phantom of an old man, bearing Lu Yun’s likeness, stood at the very center of the lightning sea. The corner of his mouth twitched as he witnessed the devastating scene.
’Why didn’t anyone tell me that recklessly breaking through to the Manifest Saint True Monarch realm would involve such a terrifying tribulation?’
Lu Yun cursed inwardly. ’Isn’t this just trying to fucking kill me?’
Fortunately, at this moment, the power of the ocean of lightning seemed to be depleted. The roaring thunder gradually subsided, and the crisscrossing bolts of lightning extinguished one by one, finally fading into silence.
Back in the outside world, Lu Yun, who had been struck by lightning until he was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, was now sitting cross-legged in the shallow crater his body had smashed into the ground.
His body was covered in a thick, charred crust, but from beneath it, a golden light was slowly seeping out. His Golden Indestructible Body was taking effect.
The charred, dead skin flaked off piece by piece, like a snake shedding its skin or a cicada molting its shell, revealing a brand-new body underneath.
Half a day passed. It was already dusk. The sun sank low, setting the horizon ablaze with a brilliant sunset, its glow intertwining with the golden light emanating from Lu Yun’s body.
Lu Yun slowly opened his eyes. He looked down at his unharmed body, then raised his hand to touch the top of his head.
His hair had grown back. Lu Yun breathed a small sigh of relief, but when he twirled a strand of white hair between his fingertips, his brow furrowed slightly.
’Damn it! I really took a serious hit this time. I’m back to square one.’
He raised his hands and looked at his withered, wrinkled, and calloused hands.
His hands were even more withered and ancient than before the breakthrough. The wrinkles that had previously faded from his face had crept back, and he once again looked like the old man he was before, with one foot in the grave.
Fortunately, this was only superficial. Lu Yun wasn’t particularly concerned about his appearance.
He only needed to know that, internally, he was brimming with vitality. Though his physical form was ancient, beneath this fleshy exterior lay the supreme power of the Golden Indestructible Body.
His current decrepit appearance was merely a shell. Lu Yun stood up from the shallow crater, glanced down at his completely naked body, then nonchalantly directed a portion of his consciousness into his mind.
[Extreme Blue Martial Arts Modifier]
Name: Lu Yun
Gender: Male
Realm: Manifest Saint True Monarch (Early Stage)
Cultivation Techniques: Ten Directions Annihilation Fist (First Layer), Golden Indestructible Body (First Layer)
Modified Value: 10
Lu Yun’s gaze paused for a moment on the four words "Manifest Saint True Monarch." He had successfully broken through.

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