137: Swallowing the thunder tribulation, the top-grade Nascent Soul!

That pure black Soul Extinguishing Divine Lightning, devoid of any light, tore through the sky like a death decree from the Nine Hells.

It wasn't targeting the Physical Body.

It was the Divine Soul.

Daoist Master Tianyi's face, covered in Death Qi, lost all color, leaving only uncontrollable horror.

"Soul Extinguishing Divine Lightning!"

"Retreat quickly!"

His final roar, made with the last shred of his strength, was no longer a warning but a primal scream of fear.

The Nascent Soul Old Monsters present were all old monsters who had Cultivated for thousands of years, their Heart-Nature as firm as a rock.

But at this moment, they felt their Nascent Soul trembling, as if targeted by a natural enemy, unable to even muster a thought of resistance.

This was not Undergoing Tribulation at all.

This was Heavenly Punishment.

It was annihilation.

Su Meier, who had just felt her heart settle with Lin Fan's return, now felt it rise to her throat.

That black lightning made her feel as if her Soul was about to be frozen and torn apart.

She subconsciously wanted to rush over, but her body was firmly pinned to the spot by that terrifying Heavenly Might, unable to move.

Fear once again engulfed her.

However, the figure at the center of the Heavenly Punishment made a gesture that no one could comprehend.

Lin Fan slowly spread his arms.

He did not summon any Magic Treasure.

He didn't even circulate spiritual Qi to construct any defense.

He merely looked up, facing the Soul Extinguishing Divine Lightning that could make even a Late Stage Nascent Soul Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, and a strange, almost intoxicated smile appeared on his face.

His body was craving.

His new Physical Body, recently reshaped by the System and named "Soul-Devouring Dao Body," was humming with excitement and hunger.

It was like a dying traveler in the desert seeing an oasis.

It was like a glutton smelling the finest delicacies in the world.

Come on.

Let me taste.

What does this Heavenly Tribulation taste like?

Boom!

There was no earth-shattering bang.

The black Soul Extinguishing Divine Lightning accurately and precisely struck Lin Fan's head.

The anticipated scene of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering did not occur.

That terrifying power, capable of annihilating all Divine Souls, upon touching Lin Fan's skin, seemed to encounter a bottomless black hole.

On Lin Fan's body surface, countless tiny black runes, invisible to the naked eye, suddenly lit up and spun wildly.

They formed a thin, yet seemingly all-devouring, vortex-like membrane.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—

A strange sound, like boiling water poured on a hot iron, rang out.

The Soul Extinguishing Divine Lightning was forcibly, inch by inch, pulled, devoured, and absorbed into Lin Fan's body.

The entire process lasted only a fleeting moment.

When the last wisp of black lightning disappeared.

The battlefield was left with only deathly silence.

All the Nascent Soul Old Monsters' movements froze.

Old Ancestor Chiyang's mouth hung wide open, his eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.

Azure Mystery Sect Master's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably.

Daoist Master Tianyi, even more so, pointed at Lin Fan as if he had seen a ghost, his lips trembling, unable to utter a single word.

He ate it?

He... he ate the Soul Extinguishing Divine Lightning?

This could no longer be described as a "Prodigy."

This was a demon.

No, a being a million times more terrifying than a demon.

Lin Fan closed his eyes, savoring the taste.

An unimaginably pure Soul energy exploded within him.

That energy carried the Law aura of destruction, decay, and nirvana, enough to instantly destroy the will of any Nascent Soul Cultivator.

But under the transformation of the Soul-Devouring Dao Body, these negative Laws were easily purged and purified, like Impurities.

What remained was the most fundamental, purest, Divine Soul nourishment.

This nourishment, like sweet dew, frantically nourished his Golden Core, which was about to shatter and give birth to a Nascent Soul.

"Burp."

Lin Fan even let out a satisfied burp, a contented expression on his face.

"The taste is not bad."

He murmured softly.

This understated remark, falling into the ears of the distant Nascent Soul Old Monsters, was no less than a Divine Lightning from the Nine Heavens.

They felt their worldview had been repeatedly, mercilessly, crushed countless times on this day.

Rumble—!

The tribulation clouds above the sky seemed to be thoroughly enraged by Lin Fan's contemptuous attitude.

The black clouds churned even more violently, expanding their range by more than tenfold.

A pressure ten times more terrifying than before descended with a crash.

The Heavenly Dao was truly enraged.

"There's more?"

Lin Fan looked up, his expression of anticipation growing stronger.

"Very good, I'm not full yet."

The second Heavenly Tribulation did not form.

Instead, an invisible, insidious power, targeting the Heart-Nature, descended instantly.

Heart Demon Tribulation!

Before Lin Fan's eyes, the scene abruptly changed.

He saw his past life on Blue Star, living a mundane and unremarkable existence as an ordinary office worker.

He saw his parents' expectations and disappointments.

He saw the helplessness and fear of struggling at the bottom of Qingyun Sect at the beginning of his Transmigration.

He saw his own deaths, over and over again.

Torn apart by Yao Beasts, backstabbed by fellow disciples, blasted into ashes by Magic Treasures, crushed into meat paste by Restrictions... hundreds of times the pain, despair, and unwillingness of death, like a tidal wave, assaulted his consciousness.

Any Cultivator facing such a realistic Heart Demon illusion would have their Dao Heart collapse instantly.

However.

Lin Fan merely watched all of this calmly.

His eyes showed no ripples of emotion.

He even felt a little like laughing.

That's it?

For a Transmigrator who treated death as a way to gain experience, these so-called painful memories were like watching a clichéd movie.

He could even, from a professional perspective, comment on which death was more creative.

"Too boring."

Lin Fan yawned and took a step forward.

Boom.

All illusions shattered instantly.

He still stood on the ruins, completely unharmed.

The distant Nascent Soul Old Monsters were completely numb.

Even the Heart Demon Tribulation was ineffective against him?

This child... to what extent was this child's Dao Heart firm?

The Heavenly Tribulation seemed to freeze for a moment.

Immediately after, an even more violent rage erupted.

Whoosh!

Above the sky, it was no longer lightning that descended.

Instead, it started to "rain."

Streaks of "Law Rain," composed of pure, violent Law fragments, poured down on Lin Fan, covering the sky and earth.

Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, darkness, ice... all imaginable Laws transformed into the sharpest blades, intending to slice him into a thousand pieces.

"Law Tribulation!"

Daoist Master Tianyi had completely given up thinking.

He only knew that everything he witnessed today was enough to overturn the entire Cultivation World's understanding.

Facing this Law Rain, which was capable of instantly reducing even a Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator to nothingness.

Lin Fan's face finally showed a hint of seriousness.

In his Dantian, that dormant "Dao Seed" gently vibrated.

In an instant.

In his eyes, that violent, chaotic Law Rain became incredibly clear.

The trajectory of every Law fragment.

The composition of every Law power.

All appeared before him, as if slowed down countless times, in the simplest and most direct way.

He stretched out his hand.

He didn't try to block it.

Instead, he was like a poet picking flowers in a garden.

He precisely, from the sky-filling Law Rain, pinched a fragment of space Law.

With a gentle rub of his fingertips, the violent power instantly became docile, absorbed into his Dao Seed.

He then casually scooped up a fire Law and an ice Law.

Two completely opposite forces, in his palm, actually achieved perfect balance, ultimately transforming into the purest energy, which he absorbed.

He was like a child standing under a waterfall, wantonly and greedily playing with these world-destroying powers.

Turning them, one by one, into nourishment for his own growth.

This scene completely shattered the psychological defenses of all the Nascent Soul Old Monsters.

They had Cultivated their entire lives, struggling to comprehend a single Law without success.

Yet, this Golden Core kid before them was treating thousands of Laws as toys.

Can the gap between people truly be this vast?

After an unknown amount of time.

The Law Rain stopped.

Above the sky, the thick, impenetrable tribulation clouds finally began to slowly dissipate.

It seemed even the Heavenly Dao had given up.

It had no way to deal with this monster.

And Lin Fan, after devouring a massive amount of Heavenly Tribulation power, his internal energy finally accumulated to an unprecedented peak.

Crack.

A crisp sound, like glass shattering, echoed from his Dantian.

That Golden Core, which had accompanied him for so long and had reached Perfection, completely shattered.

However, there was no energy leakage.

All the fragments, all the energy, under the guidance of a higher-level will, began to reorganize and condense.

Boom!

At this very moment.

The entire Secret Realm of Souls changed dramatically.

A vast purple auspicious cloud, coming from an unknown source, stretched out from the eastern horizon, covering a distance of thirty thousand li!

Purple Qi coming from the East for thirty thousand li!

Above the sky, golden lotus flowers appeared out of thin air, slowly drifting down, carrying a refreshing and exotic fragrance.

Golden Lotuses descending from the Heavens!

In the Void Realm, an indistinct yet incomparably sacred and solemn immortal music quietly played.

Immortal music lingering!

"This... this is..."

Daoist Master Tianyi used all his strength to squeeze out a few words from his throat, his voice hoarse like an old bellows.

"Peerless Grade Dao Foundation... Nascent Soul phenomenon!"

"It's the highest Rank phenomenon, rumored to only appear when ancient Saints achieve the Dao!"

Everyone stared blankly at this scene.

They watched the figure bathed in purple Qi, golden lotuses, and immortal music.

That figure seemed to merge with heaven and earth, becoming the sole center of this world.

Lin Fan slowly opened his eyes.

He looked within himself.

In his Dantian, a small figure, about an inch tall, identical to himself, sat cross-legged.

The small figure was crystal clear, flawless, without a trace of Impurities.

Even more startling was that on the small figure's brow, there was a faint, ethereal wisp of Immortal Dao charm, transcending this heaven and earth.

Immortal Grade Nascent Soul!

No, this even surpassed the Immortal Grade category recorded in ancient texts.

This was a unique, monster Nascent Soul that had devoured Heavenly Tribulation and fused with the aura of the Immortal Dao!

An unprecedented, vast and boundless power filled Lin Fan's limbs and bones.

He felt that at this moment, with a single thought, he could overturn rivers and seas.

He slowly raised his head, his gaze sweeping past the stunned Nascent Soul Old Monsters, and accurately landed on Su Meier in the distance.

He saw her beautiful face, tear-streaked yet filled with shock and ecstasy.

Lin Fan smiled brightly at her, a smile filled with endless peace.

I have formed my Nascent Soul.

Su Meier's heart, at this moment, was filled with immense joy and happiness.

All worries, all fears, vanished into thin air.

Her man had not only returned.

He had returned as a king, in a glorious and ultimate manner she had never dared to dream of!

However.

At this moment of universal celebration and attention.

A deeply venomous will, ignored by everyone, suddenly erupted!

"Such a perfect Dao Body!"

"Such a Heaven-Defying Nascent Soul!"

"It's mine! It's mine now!"

The Source of the Heavenly Demon, which had been severely wounded to only the size of a human head and had been feigning death in a corner, suddenly transformed into a distorted black light, abandoning all paths of survival without hesitation.

With a resolute stance of burning its Origin, it flashed towards Lin Fan, who had just successfully Undergone Tribulation and was in a "weak period" of Qi transformation!

Its target was Lin Fan's brow.

It wanted to Possess him!

To Possess this most perfect Cauldron, which had never appeared in all of eternity!