The Long Journey to Immortality

Noticing that Jieyun had lost most of its "strength," Han Lu couldn't help but murmur, "Is that all?"

But upon closer reflection, it seems that such a heavenly tribulation is quite reasonable.

Otherwise, wouldn't all the good karma she accumulated over the years be wasted?

Having figured out the details of the Heavenly Tribulation, Han Lu no longer hesitated and took out the token again.

This time, she wasn't trying to increase the array's output "power," but rather to shut it down and face the heavenly lightning with her own abilities.

The reason is simple: a heavenly tribulation is both a test and an opportunity.

If a cultivator can withstand the heavenly lightning with their physical body and successfully pass the tribulation, the heavenly lightning will also have the effect of tempering the cultivator's physical body.

In addition, magical treasures that survive the heavenly lightning without being completely destroyed can also receive the "boost" from the overwhelming heavenly power within the lightning.

When used again, the magic weapon will contain a trace of "heavenly might," making its power even greater than before it experienced the heavenly lightning.

With the light barrier removed, Han Lu did not hesitate to use her aerial flight technique to face the tribulation clouds that still had 60% of their power remaining.

Just as they took off, the tribulation clouds unleashed a second bolt of heavenly lightning.

With her eyes fixed on the oncoming lightning, Han Lu whispered "Go!" Her sword pellet spirit sword, which had been fully restored in the past few days, left her body and transformed into a spirit sword that plunged straight into the lightning.

Under Han Lu's deliberate control, she used a small technique she had learned from the "Nine Dragons Thunder Formation" to make the spirit sword act like a magnet, drawing in the descending heavenly lightning and forcing it onto her body.

The lightning pierced through the blade of the spirit sword, but it did not have the slightest substantial impact on Han Lu's sword pellet spirit sword.

Trapped within the pillar of lightning, the spirit sword, like a fish, darted in and out of it, inhaling and exhaling the majesty of the heavenly Dao within the lightning, attempting to integrate this wisp of "heavenly tribulation breath" into itself.

Heavenly lightning was not strong to begin with; it was only equivalent to the full-force attack of an ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

After the spirit sword helped to draw away 60% of the pressure from the second bolt of heavenly lightning, Han Lu, who had already transformed into a phoenix, simply let the lightning strike her directly.

The electric current flowed through Han Lu's body, which had transformed into three true phoenix feathers. It did not cause her any discomfort; on the contrary, it made her feel as if every muscle and feather in her body had been activated.

Even its flapping wings seemed to have three times more strength than usual.

The way they handled the crisis left the onlookers speechless.

Feng You even specifically instructed the few young phoenixes beside him not to emulate Han Lu, lest these young phoenixes lose their respect for the Heavenly Tribulation because of Han Lu's domineering methods, and go astray when facing the threat of the Heavenly Tribulation on their future cultivation path.

After the two lightning strikes passed, only a faint brown color remained in the sky.

The tribulation cloud, which was already just a paper tiger, was now barely able to maintain its empty shell.

Seeing this, Han Lu couldn't help but feel triumphant and wanted to test the power of the sword pellet spirit sword that had just been tempered by the heavenly might.

With a wave of her hand, a golden rainbow shot straight into the sky with lightning speed.

The spirit sword used some of the "piercing" techniques, forcefully piercing through the already teetering and weak tribulation cloud.

As the spirit sword flew out from the other side of the tribulation clouds, it spun around and returned to Han Lu's side.

In the blink of an eye, the sky returned to its normal color, and the once arrogant tribulation clouds had completely disappeared, leaving only the chaotic spiritual energy around the Phoenix Thunder Pool to tell others that it had once been there.

Chapter 695 Heavenly Dao Mantra

As the heavenly tribulation dissipated, Han Lu, who was flying in the air, transformed back into human form and swallowed the sword pellet back into her stomach.

Suddenly, she felt a unique sensation in her heart after just surviving the ordeal.

Looking up at the sky, Han Lu squinted her eyes, as if she could hear someone whispering in her ear, telling her some mysterious and profound scriptures.

Without hesitation, Han Lu sat cross-legged again in the center of the Phoenix Thunder Pool, closed her eyes slightly, listened quietly to the words of Heaven's Will, and tried to memorize and understand these words that she could not understand at all but could vaguely comprehend.

Han Lu felt that this scene was similar to the scene of Wang Han preaching in the legends of the ancient cultivation era.

By calmly reflecting, Han Lu, despite not understanding anything, was able to grasp some of the profound meanings and use them to improve herself.

The hazy, ambiguous feeling is both frustrating and captivating.

This strange state lasted for about fifteen minutes.

These "true words of heaven" echoed in Han Lu's mind a thousand times, until they suddenly stopped at a certain moment.

It was as if I had been startled awake from a dream.

Opening her eyes, Han Lu, having emerged from this mystical state, felt a sudden emptiness and a sense of loss, as if she had lost her soul.

After feeling lost and depressed for a moment, she seized the last bit of her energy, circulated her cultivation technique, and sat down in the Phoenix Thunder Pool to cultivate.

"The Great Zhou Heavenly Condensation Water Technique", "The Seven Killings Sword Technique", and "The True Phoenix Treasure Book".

As Han Lu practiced the three cultivation techniques in sequence, a series of changes, such as the flow of spiritual energy in her dantian and spiritual meridians, brought her great joy.

It seems that a large amount of hidden "information" within the true spiritual bloodline of the body has been unearthed.

The operation of the True Phoenix Manual was 50% smoother than before the tribulation.

Han Lu vaguely felt that she had once again reached a small threshold in the fundamental techniques of the Phoenix Clan.

Once you cross the threshold, you can once again take on the form of a phoenix, awaken several innate divine abilities, enrich your combat tactics, and enhance your combat power.

While circulating her fundamental cultivation technique, the "Great Zhou Heavenly Water Condensation Technique," and breathing in spiritual energy, Han Lu even had the illusion that her spiritual root quality had been struck by heavenly lightning and had been elevated to a higher level after hearing the "Heavenly Dao Mantra."

However, the more obvious change occurs when "painting" the cinnabar patterns.

If Han Lu's previous work on applying cinnabar patterns seemed like a superficial exercise...

Now, after listening to the "True Words of Heaven," when Han Lu applied the cinnabar patterns again, she felt that her "brushstrokes" could penetrate deep into the golden core.

The achievement of drawing a single cinnabar pattern is superior to the previous three.

Feeling unsatisfied, Han Lu finished her cultivation and once again took out the sword pellet from her dantian, transforming it into a spirit sword and examining it in her hands.

Having been tempered by heavenly lightning, the sword pellet, which had already reached the quality of a first-grade spiritual weapon, has been further improved.

In terms of quality alone, it is already very close to Lingbao.

Not only that, the sword pellet successfully collected a trace of the majestic aura of the heavenly tribulation during the lightning tribulation and integrated it into itself.

Han Lu could imagine that in the future, when she used the sword pellet spirit sword to perform thunder magic or set up a formation similar to the "Nine Dragons Thunder Formation" that mainly uses thunder magic, she would definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort.

As for the changes in her body after being struck by lightning, Han Lu had no way to verify it, but based on her senses, she could feel that her body had become much stronger after being struck by lightning.

Although it's not quite like some cultivators who are proficient in external martial arts, who are invulnerable to swords and spears, and whose ordinary magical treasures cannot harm them in the slightest.

But performing a head-breaking boulder act in public shouldn't be a problem.

Feeling great, Han Lu would have loved to sit cross-legged in the Phoenix Thunder Pool for three more days and three nights to cultivate, if it weren't for her father and friends waiting outside the pool, and to enjoy the physical and mental pleasure brought by this "rapid progress".

Han Lu quickly got up and lightly leaped to Feng You's side, saying apologetically, "Father, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

Feng You smiled and said, "It's alright. But what insights did you gain about cultivation after surviving the Heavenly Tribulation?"

Watching from the sidelines, Feng You guessed most of the story just by observing Han Lu's every move.

Han Lu nodded slightly and said, "Indeed, I have gained something."

Following that, Han Lu briefly described her experience after reading "The Tribulation of Lightning" and shared all her insights.

Feng Wuyi, who had come over to listen, couldn't help but marvel after hearing Han Lu's words. He said that this was the first time he had ever heard of a cultivator hearing "Heavenly Dao Mantras" while undergoing the Tribulation of Core Formation.

Feng You then said, "I have only heard about this by chance. It seems that you, my daughter, are indeed a cultivator with great fortune and favored by the heavens."

Hearing their words, Han Lu felt a little conflicted.

She was delighted to have encountered another good thing, but frustrated that she hadn't been able to fully enjoy the benefits it brought.

At the same time, based on this experience, she postponed her plan to enter the Moon Pearl World again to listen to Senior Wang Han's sermon.

She has already figured out her own limitations. Given her current cultivation level, she will most likely be just as confused and only have a superficial understanding at Senior Wang Han's Daoist Assembly as she was just now.

Even if you listen in and participate, you won't gain much.

If she misses this opportunity again, she will really regret it.

However, having ultimately benefited from the tribulation and the enlightenment, Han Lu still wore a smile as she exchanged pleasantries with the phoenixes who came to offer their congratulations.

Several fledgling phoenixes chattered excitedly about Han Lu's tribulation, enthusiastically planning their own future.

Such a scene is extremely rare in Phoenix Perch Forest.

Han Lu's arrival was like a catfish.

This made the fledgling phoenixes, who still had the mindset of children, more interested in the tedious matter of cultivation.

Having successfully passed the tribulation, Han Lu was able to refocus her attention on the matter of He Ming.

Han Lu took the medicine daily and did not slacken in her cultivation practices.

These past few months of traveling around have prevented her from having a peaceful time for spiritual practice.

Now, not only has her cultivation efficiency improved, but she has also finally found a stable and excellent cultivation environment. Han Lu, who is already proactive in cultivation, will naturally not miss such an opportunity.

For the remaining 90 days of the 100-day period, Han Lu spent 95% of her time holed up in her room cultivating.

In terms of efficiency alone, these ninety days of work are equivalent to a year of cultivation in the Zhengyi Sect.

Although there is still no sign of the formation of the Danwen pattern.

However, Han Lu judged that with this efficiency, if everything went smoothly, she would probably only need twenty years to accomplish what other cultivators took a hundred years to achieve.

Time flies, and the hundred days have passed in the blink of an eye.

On the hundredth day, when Han Lu wanted to visit Feng Hanchi to ask for his essence blood, Feng Wuyi had already delivered three drops of essence blood under Feng Hanchi's arrangement.

Besides the blood essence, there were also several words of blessing, each of which revealed Feng Hanchi's earnest expectations for Han Lu, his junior.

Feng Hanchi, who is devoted to the Phoenix Clan, may even want to see the Four True Phoenixes appear in the Phoenix Clan more than Han Lu does.

Chapter 696 Harmonious Bloodline

Using the essence and blood of the same clan and the bloodline of Ming, this matter was already a piece of cake for Han Lu, who already had two bloodlines of Ming.

However, this time was slightly different from the previous two.

The Ice Phoenix bloodline and Fire Phoenix bloodline that she had harmonized with in the previous two times already flowed in her veins to some extent.

The Three Phoenix Forest, where the Illusion Phoenix Clan resides, is home to Fire Phoenix, Ice Phoenix, and Illusion Phoenix. The three families have complex and close kinship ties. Counting back from Han Lu's generation, there are several relatives who are Fire Phoenix or Ice Phoenix within just three generations. This is one of the reasons why she was able to smoothly connect with both of Ming's bloodlines.

The same applies to the Three-Feathered Illusion Phoenix, another member of the Phoenix Clan.

This time, He Ming's fierce phoenix bloodline has little to do with Han Lu's clan.