I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

Lin Che took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the surging, boundless internal energy caused by the condensation of the nascent golden core, as well as the violent spiritual power in his meridians that had not yet fully subsided.

His eyes were sharp as he stared directly at the oppressive clouds of calamity.

His aura began to rise without reservation, soaring into the sky!

"Let me see just how powerful this Golden Core Tribulation truly is!"

As if in response to his provocation, a sudden burst of light appeared in the center of the calamity cloud!

"Snap—!!!"

A deafening roar that tore apart the "sky" of the secret realm exploded!

The first lightning bolt of the Heavenly Tribulation of the Forty-Nine Heavens struck down fiercely!

The bolt of lightning was as thick as an arm and had a dazzling, bright silver color.

It wasn't particularly fast, but it carried a majestic and awe-inspiring power that swept across the heavens and earth, hurtling straight toward Lin Che!

Faced with this first strike, which contained the righteous energy of heaven and earth, Lin Che neither dodged nor evaded.

Even the protective aura did not rise, nor did it summon any defensive magical artifacts.

He took a deep breath, and a low hum emanated from his muscles and bones, with faint five-colored spiritual light flowing beneath his skin.

"boom!"

The silver lightning struck Lin Che squarely on the head!

In an instant, his body was crackling with electricity, his hair stood on end, and a violent surge of lightning power entered his body, raging wildly!

A tearing pain shot through his muscles, his bones felt as if they were being struck by a heavy hammer, and his meridians trembled under the force of thunder.

"Hmph!" Lin Che grunted, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, but his body remained motionless.

He circulated his internal energy, forcibly guiding the invading thunderous power along specific meridian pathways.

Utilizing the sliver of life contained within its destruction, it brutally tempers every minute detail of the physical body.

After a few breaths, the electric light on his body dissipated.

Lin Che wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes gleaming even brighter.

The first lightning tribulation has been withstood!

Although he suffered minor injuries, his physical body seemed to have become more solidified under the tempering of lightning.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third bolts of lightning struck down in succession!

Each one is thicker than the last, and their power is significantly increased.

The bombardment tore at my body, leaving my skin charred and blackened, causing excruciating pain.

Lin Che continued to withstand the attack with his bare hands!

The five-colored true essence and the surging blood and qi within his body were frantically repairing the damage caused by the lightning.

At the same time, his body was like a piece of ore being refined. Under the repeated forging of lightning and fire, impurities were removed, and his essence became more and more brilliant.

He easily withstood the first nine bolts of heavenly lightning.

The second wave of lightning tribulation continues to gather!

Lin Che remained unmoved, relying on his physical strength to continue to endure!

This wasn't a test; it was a reward for him!

The second round has ended.

When the nineteenth bolt of lightning struck, it had already transformed into a golden bolt as thick as a bucket, carrying scorching heat and terrifying penetrating power.

Lin Che's injuries began to worsen, leaving his flesh mangled and bloody.

But his eyes remained as bright as stars, and with his amazing will and terrifyingly solid foundation, he held on!

"That's it? Want me to tickle you again? Again!" he hissed, activating his body-refining technique to accelerate the absorption of lightning power.

The twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh bolts of heavenly lightning merged into one.

A terrifying pillar of lightning, thicker and darker in color, with crimson sparks dancing on its surface, slammed down like a spear of divine punishment!

"Pfft—!" Lin Che finally couldn't take it anymore and spat out a mouthful of blood. His chest was charred black, and the white bones were clearly visible. It seemed that several of his ribs were broken.

But his feet seemed to be rooted to the ground, firmly planted in place, without taking a single step back!

After twenty-seven lightning tribulations, he was covered in blood, looked extremely miserable, and his aura was clearly weakened.

However, upon closer inspection, one can discover that beneath his broken body lies an even more refined and fierce aura, radiating a chilling sharpness.

Thus, he endured the first three waves of the Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, a total of twenty-seven tribulation lightning bolts, entirely by relying on his own physical body!

Above the island in the middle of the lake, the tribulation clouds seemed to fall into a furious silence, churning violently like never before. The destructive aura brewing within them made all living beings in the entire Qingxuan Secret Realm feel suffocated.

After a brief, heart-pounding build-up.

The final and most dangerous wave of nine lightning tribulations has begun!

These last nine are completely different in form!

It was no longer a simple pillar of lightning, but transformed into a blue lightning net covering a large portion of the island in the lake!

The lightning net is intricately woven and is not known for its pure destructive power.

It contains the powerful force of the laws of "tearing" and "paralysis".

Specializing in the most vulnerable meridian network and the origin of the soul of cultivators!

Once entangled by it, your meridians will be severed and your soul will be scattered in an instant!

Lin Che's pupils suddenly contracted, and alarm bells rang in his mind.

He knew that he could no longer rely solely on his brute strength to withstand this targeted lightning tribulation.

In the blink of an eye, a second-tier top-grade shield-shaped magic weapon, entirely earthen yellow, as heavy as a mountain, and carved with a tortoise totem, flew out of the storage bag.

It swelled with the wind, transforming into a giant shield the size of a door panel, radiating spiritual light, and hovering above his head.

At the same time, a set of second-tier top-grade full-body armor, as red as blood, engraved with phoenix patterns, and exuding a scorching aura, instantly wrapped tightly around his battered body!

"Myriad Transformations Golden Scale Armor!"

"Earth-based Rock-Solid Technique!"

He instantly unleashed several defensive spells that he had long since mastered, layers of spiritual light superimposed on the armor and his body.

"Splash—"

The storage bag flashed with light, and dozens of talismans full of spiritual energy flew out automatically, hovering around his body.

All of them are second-tier top-grade defensive talismans!

Vajra Talisman, Lightning Protection Talisman, Soul-Suppressing Talisman, Rejuvenation Talisman...

Various lights intertwined, forming a dazzling and stable talisman barrier!

With the upgrade system, he has no shortage of high-level magical artifacts and talismans.

In the past, when spirit beasts went into battle, their strength had to be concealed, and these treasures could only remain unseen.

Today, their time to shine has finally come!

Faced with the ever-growing, unpredictable net of blue lightning.

Lin Che felt no pity whatsoever.

The giant shield met the attack head-on, only to be torn apart by the lightning net?

Replace it with a large, antique-style bronze bell!

The armor's radiance has dimmed and cracks have appeared.

Instantly transforming into a set of soft armor that is as blue as the sea and flows with water ripple patterns!

The talisman barrier has been depleted?

New talismans will be added immediately!

In this way, relying on his inhumanly extravagant reserves of magical artifacts and talismans, he managed to withstand the final nine tribulations of lightning in an almost luxurious manner!

The process was even "easier" than the previous twenty-seven rounds when it was purely a matter of physical endurance.

However, when the last lightning tribulation dissipated, according to common sense, the thirty-six lightning tribulations of the Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribulations had ended, and the tribulation clouds should have dissipated.

However, the dark cloud of calamity hovering above the island in the middle of the lake showed no signs of dissipating.

Instead, it seemed to possess a life of its own, violently contracting and condensing inward!

All the lightning, the aura of destruction, and even a portion of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth were forcibly absorbed into a single point at the very center of the clouds!

That point, the light became increasingly dazzling, and its shape began to distort and change!

In the blink of an eye, a colossal beast formed entirely from pure lightning took shape!

It is three zhang long, resembles a fierce tiger, but has a pair of majestic dragon horns on its head.

Its entire body shimmered with dazzling platinum lightning, and purple arcs of destructive electricity danced in its tiger eyes.

As soon as it took shape, it let out a furious roar that shook the entire secret realm!

The oppressive force contained in the roar was far more terrifying than any of the previous tribulation lightning bolts.

The five spirit beasts watching from afar felt their hearts pound with fear, their bloodlines subtly suppressed, and they looked with even greater worry at the blood-soaked figure in the arena.

The Thunder Tiger took shape without the slightest pause, its purple eyes, composed entirely of lightning, locked onto Lin Che below, radiating killing intent!

The next moment, it stepped into the air with all four feet, and lightning flashed beneath its feet, transforming into a platinum lightning bolt that tore through the sky, carrying a violent aura that could destroy everything, and rushed straight towards Lin Che!

Wherever it passed, the air was ionized, crackling and popping, and the space itself seemed to distort!

He gazed at the terrifying thunder tiger, which seemed to come from ancient lightning punishment and was about to tear him apart, body and core.

Lin Che felt no fear whatsoever; instead, an unprecedented surge of pride and fighting spirit rose within him!

"Well done!"

A fiery and noble crimson-gold light, originating from the depths of his bloodline, suddenly shone brightly from the deepest part of his pupils!

That was a divine power he had shared with his natal spirit beast, the Burning Heaven Sacred Sparrow!

Phoenix Blood True Fire!

"boom--!"

The crimson-gold flames, as if born from the void, burst forth from every pore of Lin Che's body!

The flames coalesced into a gigantic battle blade hundreds of feet long!

On the blade, the faint phantom of a phoenix hovered and cried out.

Lin Che held the giant flaming blade in his hands, and his spirit instantly soared to its peak, merging with the blade.

A fierce, unyielding, and selfless sword intent surged into the sky!

It was the final move of the Three Slashes of Breaking Army that he had mastered—No Return!

There is no way out, and there is no need to retreat!

Once the blade is drawn, it goes forward without hesitation, with no chance of survival!

"cut--!"

Lin Che let out a long roar, his feet stomped on the ground, and his body surged upwards.

With a massive crimson-gold phoenix fire blade in his hand, he cleaved through space, carrying a resolute will to annihilate everything and incinerate all laws, and fiercely met the oncoming platinum thunder tiger!

"Break!!!"

"BOOM—!!!!"

Crimson gold and purple gold, flames and lightning, collided violently in mid-air above the island in the middle of the lake!

A deafening roar and a blinding flash erupted instantly, engulfing everything!

The terrifying shockwave spread wildly in a ring, scraping away a thick layer of the ground from the entire island in the lake, and causing the lake water in the distance to be whipped up into waves hundreds of meters high!

The light lasted for several breaths before slowly dissipating.

In mid-air, the fierce and imposing Thunder Tiger was actually cleaved in two by the giant crimson-gold phoenix fire blade, starting from the center of its dragon horn and going all the way down!

Lei Hu's body froze, then exploded with a bang.

It transformed into countless tiny, pure lightning bolts, like a magnificent thunderstorm, slowly falling down.

These lightning sparks, having lost their berserk will and now only possessing pure energy, did not dissipate into the world.

Instead, as if drawn by some force, they all surged towards Lin Che's dantian below.

It was being absorbed and devoured by that golden core that was about to be fully formed, as if it were starving!

"Buzz—!"

The Golden Core absorbed the last and purest essence of the tribulation lightning, and with a sudden tremor, emitted a clear and melodious buzzing sound!

The surface shone brightly, and the mysterious red patterns became completely clear and stable, totaling ten!

In an instant, the wind stopped, the thunder ceased, and the clouds dispersed.

Instead, strange phenomena filled the sky.

A dazzling array of seven-colored rays of light descended from the void of the secret realm, like a jeweled canopy, enveloping the island in the center of the lake.

A gentle, spiritual rain, imbued with pure vitality and spiritual energy, began to fall from the sky.

Nourishing the land ravaged by the heavenly tribulation, spiritual herbs grew wildly.

Landing upon all the spirit beasts within the secret realm, their cultivation levels began to loosen, and their strength began to increase...

It landed on Lin Che's broken body, accelerating the healing of his injuries.

Lin Che, who was suspended in mid-air, slowly opened his eyes.

All the previous fatigue, injuries, and dishevelment vanished.

He focused his inner vision on his dantian.

A perfectly round and flawless golden elixir, as radiant as the sun, floats quietly in the center of the dantian, slowly rotating.

Above the golden core, ten clear and profound pill patterns, like naturally formed Dao seals, flickered and changed with each rotation.

With each rotation, it spontaneously absorbs and releases a massive amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, transforming it into pure and powerful elixir energy, which nourishes the meridians, flesh, bones, and soul throughout the body.

An unprecedented sense of power filled his limbs and bones, as if he could stir up the wind and clouds and control the thunder with every move he made!

Golden Core Realm achieved!