Cultivating with Symbiosis Panel-Chapter 259 - 177: Fortune Flows, Golden Core True Man
Most of the Thunder Tribulation was resolved by Emotion Song, transformed by Li Ye, with only a small portion distributed among the cultivators.
Yet the essence of Thunder Tribulation is essentially no different from the Celestial Vein.
Both are manifestations of the Celestial Dao, representing this world. The more perfected the world, the more unique the Thunder Tribulation becomes; this small fragment made them feel as if they personally experienced the seasonal changes of spring.
All benefited immensely.
As for those who chose not to participate, three swords belonging to Nascent Soul True Men were thrust into the ground there, and they didn’t dare to make any complaints.
They could only watch as the participating cultivators each reaped substantial benefits:
The explosive vitality of spring was an extremely rare experience for their physical bodies, mana, and Divine Sense, equivalent to experiencing some benefits of tribulation without crossing it.
And at this moment, the summer Thunder Tribulation, carrying the heat, arrived.
Compared to the fluctuating and unique spring Thunder Tribulation, the summer Thunder Tribulation tended towards a comprehensive testing of mana, with the thunder becoming stronger with each passing day after the beginning of summer.
From all directions, the entire Ring Heaven Domain within a radius of ten thousand miles surged with summer lightning towards this place.
"Wow!"
"No wonder it’s said that after summer begins, it gets hotter day by day."
"The thunder truly gets stronger with each strike!"
At this time, it was a more straightforward confrontation of Spiritual Power and physical endurance, with Li Ye seated in the earth cave, feeling that his extended mana, Emotion Song, was being scorched by Thunder Fire.
This heat, instead, accelerated the melting of more Celestial Vein fragments.
His Golden Core became increasingly solid.
"Is it just like this?"
For Li Ye and those disciples rich in heritage from major sects, this was actually the easiest stage to overcome.
Soon, a desolate autumn wind swept through the summer thunder, and as the autumn wind blew, the monotonous thunder suddenly seemed like an autumn harvest, "producing" countless different kinds of thunder.
Five Elements thunder of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; thunder with Yin-Yang attributes, thunder with surging turbidity, thunder from mountains, rivers, and trees—like a grand gathering of thunder, it has everything.
"Heavens, why are there so many?"
"A harvest in autumn isn’t supposed to be thunder!"
"There’s even the extremely rare demon lightning!"
For a moment, the cultivators were in disarray, and Li Ye’s Emotion Song felt immense pressure, being somewhat caught off guard by the countless different thunders.
However, he quickly adjusted his state.
Use the unchanging to respond to the ever-changing, use one technique to counter all techniques!
The brilliance of the Golden Core was gradually taking form, indicating the cultivator’s initial Tao Fruit achievement, with layers of immortal golden light rising, enveloping the branches of Emotion Song.
This was a simple method, but indeed effective.
Emotion Song stood unwavering amidst various thunders and absorbed much of the Original Power within the thunder, helping Li Ye further refine his Golden Core, and the excess was sent into the Jianmu world.
By the end, Li Ye was even like a farmer harvesting various vegetables, actively extracting the special Spiritual Power within the thunder to temper the Golden Core and collect it.
The Golden Core was already two-thirds complete!
Then, winter arrived.
This was the first season Li Ye truly experienced after coming to this world. Once upon a time, his meridians were riddled with wounds, feeling the bitter chill of winter.
With the beginning of winter, minor snow, major snow, winter solstice, minor cold, major cold...
The thunder transformed from fierce and varied to boundless "snow and wind," starting to fall upon this land, fluttering silently, enveloping everything in quietude.
The Ring Heaven Domain, untouched by any celestial phenomena for thousands of years, was suddenly covered in snow, and even around the Celestial Vein Sword Mountain at its center, it began to snow.
At first glance, it’s just snow, but the cultivators who could originally, even slightly, hold their ground against Thunder Tribulation with the help of Celestial Vein fragments and Emotion Song were slowed in their actions, and later even buried by the snow, barely able to guard their own minds.
There was simply no possibility of battling the snow.
The loose cultivators without Emotion Song’s aid fell first, followed by Sword Cultivator disciples lacking strength, those from Qiongguan Mountain, Bitter Journey Academy, Spirit Refining Sect... in the end, even the robed Demon Path female cultivator silently collapsed into the snowbanks.
Only Wei Qingye remained standing, fighting with a willow branch lifted over his head.
"This is bad."
He shouted to Li Ye: "How’s your situation over there? Can you still hold on?"
"I’m fine."
Li Ye’s voice was still calm and gentle, as if nothing could challenge him, even jesting with Wei Qingye: "Was your Golden Core Tribulation less peculiar than mine?
Earlier you saved me, I called you Senior Wei.
When my Golden Core comes, what will you call me?"
"..."
"It seems Brother Li is still in good shape."
Wei Qingye also let out a sigh of relief, but his sword was increasingly burdensome.
Winter is the most unique season; within the "principles" of the Celestial Dao, this season is one of utmost quietude, where even the human race, the leader of all beings, must obediently hide at home, hibernating.
Just when he was struggling to hold on, a bracelet emanating warm light suddenly flew over, with the Eight Trigrams pattern upon it flickering madly.
The next moment—
First, a crow flew out of it, entirely black, only its feathers tinged with a hint of golden light, cawing.
Following that, a seemingly endless group of various gourds and turtles crawled out, and then also emerged the Profound Water Flood Dragon, resembling a carp but with a dragon’s tail, its forehead marked with an inverted triangle water spirit, the Earth Demon Ginseng cradling a lotus, the massive Mist-Imbibing Magnolia Tree occupying dozens of acres, and its Spirit Bee guardians...
