The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 905 - 902

Just then, a strange noise suddenly came from inside the tree hole in the dead tree, and waves of intense spiritual power surged out, causing the area to erupt in turmoil, with countless golden streaks of light emerging immediately afterward.

The man in black robes stopped his hand just less than an inch from Bai Ling’s forehead, shifted his palm slightly, and gently stroked Bai Ling’s head.

"You should be grateful that he’s not dead, otherwise... there wouldn’t be any need to keep you around." The man grinned, revealing a row of ghastly white teeth, and spoke.

Having said that, the man withdrew his hand and returned to where he had been standing before, waiting quietly once more.

Bai Ling, having had a narrow escape from death, was already scared out of her wits; at this moment, she was in tears, praying incessantly in her heart for Shen Luo to come back alive.

Meanwhile, inside the cave, Shen Luo was still sitting on the ground, but he had now assumed the same position as Sun Wukong depicted in the mural, with hands joined in prayer and sitting cross-legged — the earlier phantoms that had surrounded him had all disappeared without a trace.

Shen Luo slowly opened his eyes, still vibrating with the afterglow of the mana fluctuations, and a smile appeared on his face.

He stretched out his hands and clenched them tightly, his knuckles cracking crisply, and he felt as if a current of electricity was flowing through the muscles in his arms, making him feel full of explosive power.

"From the Huangting Technique to the Seventy-two Changes, it seems that the changes aren’t limited to the mystic arts; this body also seems much more resilient than before. I just don’t know whether the power of the Three-Star Demonic Extermination Technique will be increased if I were to use it now?" Shen Luo pondered the changes in his body, murmuring to himself.

Just then, a streak of light passed over the stone wall opposite him, and a flash of green light in the eyes of the Sun Wukong mural caused a layer of light shadow to fly out from within.

Shen Luo focused and saw that within the light shadow, two exceedingly complex prohibition amulets emerged.

As he wondered how to respond, the two green light amulets suddenly dissipated into a burst of light and vanished.

Soon after, the pair of eyes etched into the mural seemed to come alive, the layer of stone skin covering them peeling away to reveal two gem-like round sapphire eyes.

"What is this..." Sensing the strong waves of spiritual power emanating from it, Shen Luo couldn’t help but be surprised.

But in the next instant, a sudden change occurred.

The two red orbs suddenly shot out, flying from the eye sockets of the stone sculpture and heading straight for Shen Luo.

The speed of the two gems was incredibly fast, tearing a visible trail in the void the instant they flew out and arriving right before Shen Luo’s eyes in a blink. Before he could react, they pierced directly into his eyes.

"Ah..." Shen Luo couldn’t help but cry out in agony.

An intense, unbearable pain filled his eye sockets, accompanied by a sense of scorching heat that almost overwhelmed him.

His vision blurred, he flailed his hands wildly toward his eyes.

However, the moment Shen Luo’s hands touched his cheeks, they were immediately greeted with a searing sensation, as if flames were scorching him; his eye sockets were indeed ablaze with raging fire.

"What’s happening?"

Shen Luo was utterly baffled and quickly tried to control liquid water to pour into his eyes.

However, the ordinary water didn’t even have the chance to touch his cheeks before being incinerated by the burning air, evaporating into thick white steam.

Before long, Shen Luo felt as if flames were about to pierce through his eyes and hastily began to employ the Great Unsealing Technique, attempting to repair them.

However, the moment he activated the technique, the scorching temperature at the location of his eyes suddenly began to drop. When he brushed them with his hands, he discovered that the raging flames had actually extinguished.

Yet, the pain in his eyes persisted without diminishing in the slightest.

Without giving it much thought, Shen Luo focused all his efforts on the Great Unsealing Technique, continuing the repair of his eyes.

However, as his mana surged into his pupils, an intense abnormal sensation emerged from the sockets, where golden and red lights converged, gradually forming two massive spiritual energy vortices.

The moment the spiritual energy vortices took shape, they started spinning rapidly, stirring the surrounding Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi once again, frantically surging into the maelstroms.

Shen Luo felt an unbearable weight on his eyes as if a great force was pressing down on them, causing his entire head to feel heavy and stifled.

However, a moment later, the burning sensation on his eyes gradually faded away, replaced by a cool and refreshing feeling spreading throughout.

The Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi rushing into his eyes not only lingered there but also traveled along the meridians deep within his body, converging into his Dantian. That sensation of fullness within his body also began to intensify.

Shen Luo sensed it, the opportunity for a breakthrough had arrived.

At this moment, his eyes, which were obscured by flames and pain, snapped open, the upper and lower eyelids still not fully repaired by the Great Unsealing Technique, with visible blackened scars remaining.

The pair of eyes that were revealed, however, were incredibly divine; within the pupils shone rings of golden lines, while the whites of his eyes were completely red as if stained with blood.

Shen Luo scanned his surroundings but didn’t notice anything unusual. Instead, he felt as if a dark red shadow veiled his vision, still making things somewhat unclear.

He blinked hard several times, exerting the Great Unsealing Technique to its fullest to repair his eyes.

A moment later, when he opened his eyes again, the blood color in them had entirely receded, leaving only the golden lines around the pupils still visible.

Just then, Shen Luo suddenly had an intuition and looked up sharply.

With that one look, the golden light in his eyes shined brilliantly, his sight piercing directly through the thick layers of rock above his head, through the thousand feet of void above the mountain peak, seeing the ceaseless flow of clouds in the sky.

"The Thunder Tribulation is coming..." Shen Luo’s brows furrowed slightly.

About advancing to the Taiyi Realm, he had already gained some understanding beforehand, knowing that, like when advancing to the True Immortal Realm, he would also undergo a Thunder Tribulation, though there is a vast difference between the two.

Moreover, once one advances to the True Immortal Realm and continues to cultivate further, each major realm thereafter has different emphases.

The Taiyi Realm focuses on refining the body, seeking a pure, colored glaze-like unblemished form, which is why the Thunder Tribulation it faces, though also responding to the Heavenly Dao and descending from the Nine Heavens, every bolt of lightning can penetrate deep into the flesh, striking directly on bones and internal organs.

Human bodies, with their five organs and six entrails, are like a tree’s roots; bones are like the branches, and the flesh and blood are like the veins and leaves. There’s a saying about cultivating the physique called "Gold Branch Jade Leaf," which means that the refined body and bones are like gold, and the flesh is like jade, achieving purity and colorlessness.

As long as one endures this challenge, after reaching the Taiyi Realm, the cultivator’s body itself will be stronger than most ordinary magical artifacts. With profound cultivation, it’s not entirely impossible to even withstand powerful magical treasures like the Six Chen Whip.

When the flesh becomes pure to the point of containing not a trace of impurity, there emerges the possibility of advancing further, cultivating to the Heavenly Venerate Realm.