To comprehend all laws and attain immortality

Chapter 387 The Essence of Heavenly Tribulation

The Guiyuan Furnace landed with a thud, its seven-colored spiritual light flowing around in a hazy, dreamlike manner.

Over the years, Gu Fan has obtained a large number of rare spiritual materials. With his understanding of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, he has reforged the Guiyuan Furnace and raised the restrictions to the limit of the nineteenth level.

He was slightly disappointed that he could not attract any more heavenly tribulations.

He was also pondering repeatedly how to enhance the charm of the vessel so as to give birth to its spirit, but unfortunately he had no clue.

It seems that only by obtaining a more advanced weapon-refining inheritance can this be achieved.

Opening the furnace lid, Gu Fan took out five jade bottles and slowly poured them out. What flowed out was not spiritual spring water, but bright red demonic blood essence.

The blood essence of the five demonic beasts fell into the furnace, immediately producing a reaction of mutual generation and restraint, and began to boil violently.

Gu Fan quickly patted the furnace body to activate the Creation Spirit Forging Array, and at the same time threw a crystal pearl into it. Instantly, the essence blood in the furnace calmed down.

This precious pearl is not a spiritual material, but a magical artifact with a very simple function: to harmonize the five elements of spiritual energy and forcibly maintain a balance according to the relationships of mutual generation and restraint.

The person who refined it was not Gu Fan, but Xu Yunqi.

The gourd originally had three attributes: wood, water, and fire. Gu Fan added the essence blood of metal and earth elemental beasts in an attempt to forge the other two attributes.

Thank you again, Jin Jiao, for your contributions!

Xu Yunqi's Five Elements Spiritual Body was something he really envied. Since he didn't have one himself, he would try to create one.

He wasn't very confident about this.

After all, spiritual root physique is a gift from heaven, and its formation is far from simple. But at least it won't damage the gourd; at most, it will just waste some spiritual materials.

With the Yan family's sponsorship, Gu Fan didn't feel any pain.

After tossing a few more medicinal herbs into the furnace, Gu Fan looked at the gourd and ordered, "Go in!"

The gourd shrunk to the size of a palm, nimbly climbed onto the edge of the stove, stretched its limbs, and then leaped down, splashing a spray of blood.

Gu Fan looked into the furnace and saw the gourd lying on the essence blood winking at him.

He chuckled softly and then closed the stove lid.

With a "boom," the spiritual fire suddenly burst into flames.

Gu Fan placed his palm on the furnace body, sensing the changes inside with his divine sense. The nascent soul in his dantian emitted a seven-colored glow, which was the Myriad Transformations Furnace responding to.

As the temperature rises, the medicinal herbs and the essence of the demon beasts seep into the gourd.

It felt as if countless needles were piercing into the body from all directions, tearing apart the flesh and meridians bit by bit, and then reshaping and healing it.

Until the medicinal properties penetrated into the dantian, like a cleansing process, they seeped into the demon core.

The pain of this process is indescribable.

Gu Fan heard the gourd hissing in his ears, his eyes trembled, but the magical power he poured in did not stop at all.

"Hold on, stay focused, you absolutely mustn't faint!"

"Only in this way can the spirit forging be successful. If you can't endure it, just think of Chang Yuan!"

Noticing that the gourd's consciousness was slipping into a coma due to the intense pain, Gu Fan quickly woke it up.

During the spirit-forging process, Gu Fan's understanding of the spirit-forging technique was important, but the gourd's own will was even more crucial.

If he shows resistance, or if his consciousness falls into chaos, his magic power will reject the medicinal properties and essence.

It would be good if all previous efforts were wasted; it might even destroy the demon core, causing the god to perish and the Dao to vanish.

Inside the Guiyuan Furnace, the gourd with drooping eyelids perked up immediately upon hearing Chang Yuan's name, gritting its teeth and enduring the pain, even suppressing its groans.

"The gourd will definitely work!"

Gu Fan noticed this and was immediately overjoyed.

Half a day later, the gourd's spiritual consciousness began to weaken again.

Gu Fan's eyes darted around twice, and he sent a divine sense into the side hall.

A moment later, Chang Yuan floated to the Guiyuan Furnace and mocked, "Are you even capable? If you really can't stand it, just come out. Being a third-tier demon beast for the rest of your life isn't so bad."

"It was a waste of one drop of my essence blood, as well as so many spiritual materials."

"Oh well, consider it feeding the dog."

The gourd couldn't bear such mockery. It roared and became energetic, its divine sense rising like flames.

Gu Fan and Chang Yuan exchanged a glance, and the corners of their mouths slightly lifted.

This spirit forging process took a full year.

Gu Fan claimed that he was going into seclusion to cultivate, so no one disturbed him.

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The flames in the Guiyuan Furnace had dissipated, and a faint fragrance wafted out, as if a elixir had just been produced.

"rise!"

Gu Fan gave a low shout, and the furnace lid opened. A beam of spiritual light shot into the sky, but was blocked by the formation in the Azure Sky Palace.

A multicolored egg slowly floated out.

"Gourd!" Gu Fan called out.

"Click, click"

Cracks spread across the eggshell, accompanied by a series of crisp sounds, before it suddenly burst open, revealing a gourd the size of a palm.

It had blue scales, dark gold horns, crimson mane, and dark green pupils. Its body had become three times longer, and its thick snake tail had become thinner.

The characteristics of the Wind-breathing Rat have almost disappeared, losing some of its cuteness but gaining more ruggedness.

More importantly, Gu Fan could sense that the powerful magic within the gourd was stirring, as if it could trigger a tribulation of transformation at any moment.

When Hulu saw Gu Fan, it broke into a bright smile and jumped onto his shoulder, rubbing against him vigorously.

The unicorn horn poked his cheek, and even with his third-level body refinement cultivation, it still caused him a slight pain.

Gu Fan affectionately ruffled the gourd's mane and chuckled, "Next, we need to prepare for the Transformation Tribulation. We must not be careless!"

"Aww!" the gourd responded.

A valley a thousand miles away from the Yan family's territory.

Gu Fan and Yan Guiyun stood in mid-air, gazing at the thick tribulation clouds in the distance, their faces solemn.

The calamity clouds stretched for more than ten miles and were still gathering. Purple lightning flashed like dragons and snakes, and wild beasts from all directions had already fled for their lives.

The Heavenly Tribulation of Transformation was too tumultuous to take place within the Yan family's territory.

Yan Guiren said that he rarely saw the Heavenly Tribulation of Transformation, so he came to witness the ceremony. Although he knew the deeper meaning behind it, Gu Fan did not refuse.

The dangers of the Heavenly Tribulation of Transformation are far beyond what can be summarized as a matter of nine deaths and one life.

Seeing the power of the heavenly tribulation gathering, Gu Fan also became worried about the gourd, and Chang Yuan's face appeared in his mind.

Before setting off, he asked Chang Yuan if he could be spared the heavenly tribulation of the gourd, just like he had when he transformed into human form, but he received a big eye roll in return.

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Chang Yuan scoffed and asked, "Do you know where the Heavenly Tribulation comes from?"

Gu Fan was slightly taken aback upon hearing this. Recalling the fragments in the scripture, he tentatively said, "Cultivating immortality is going against the will of Heaven, therefore Heaven and Earth send down tribulations to test one's abilities..."

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"Bullshit!" Chang Yuan scoffed.

Gu Fan blinked and bowed, saying, "Please enlighten me, senior."

Chang Yuan's serpentine body floated slowly on a wisp of spiritual mist, and he said in a deep voice, "Cultivating immortality has never been about defying the heavens!"

"All things in heaven and earth exist within the Great Dao, which originates from the Dao Ancestor. How can we, who cultivate the methods passed down by the Dao Ancestor and comprehend the Dao taught by him, be going against the will of Heaven?"

"Heaven and earth do not test anyone; the so-called heavenly tribulation is merely a process for cultivators to adapt to heaven and earth!"

"Cultivators...adapt to the world?" Gu Fan's eyes flickered slightly, as if he were deep in thought.

"That's right, it's about adapting."

Chang Yuan continued, "Whether it is a cultivator or a demon beast, the heavenly tribulation is triggered at the moment of breakthrough, simply because the resonance with heaven and earth is suddenly enhanced at this moment."

"Like a sapling, it receives little sunlight when it is young, but it will also be protected from the onslaught of strong winds."

"As the saplings grow taller, they will also be subjected to more intense wind and rain. Only those that persevere can continue to grow; those that cannot adapt will perish."

"The moment of breakthrough is the moment when the sapling grows tall."

Gu Fan pondered for a moment, then realized, "So, when you transformed, you weren't exempt from the Heavenly Tribulation, but rather you had already adapted to the world after you grew up, and the Heavenly Tribulation was waived after you revealed yourself?"

"Not too stupid," Chang Yuan mocked.

"Boom!" 6

A deafening roar pulled Gu Fan from his memories.

A bolt of purple lightning, as thick as a water bucket, descended from the sky and struck the gourd.

The gourd displayed its fifty-foot-tall body, majestic and awe-inspiring, roaring to the sky. Even though a large part of its scales were scorched by lightning, its fighting spirit remained undiminished.

Compared to the excruciating pain within the Returning Origin Furnace, the current tribulation is nothing.

As if enraged, another bolt of lightning crashed down.