Chapter 171: Lightning Spirit Body

Xu Qing was surprised.

He glanced at the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, feeling that the words the other party had suddenly spoken were a bit strange.

"Are you sure?" Xu Qing asked slowly.

He could feel that although the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's aura was much stronger than before and seemed to have reached some kind of critical point, it was ultimately still somewhat unstable, not like it was about to break through.

"This little one is absolutely sure!" The Jin Gang Sect ancestor quickly glanced at the shadow and shouted loudly.

Xu Qing had never been an artifact spirit and did not know what the state of an artifact spirit's breakthrough was like. Hearing the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's words, he pondered slightly.

Seeing Xu Qing pondering, the Jin Gang Sect ancestor became nervous.

He worried that Xu Qing would refuse him in order to focus all his efforts on taking care of the shadow, and at the same time, he remembered a plot from one of the countless ancient books and stories he had read.

The plot described a protagonist who, after refusing his pet once, for some reason grew to like the feeling of refusal, and from then on, refused everything.

So much so that in the end, under this refusal, his pet was treated as food.

"The Soul-Devouring Evil Fire Scripture that the Demon Xu cultivates... could it be that he had already started planning to devour me back then?"

Although the Jin Gang Sect ancestor was a crafty person, he had a habit when he was alive of being superstitious and rambling. Now that he had become an artifact spirit, he had become even more sensitive amidst his constant daily fear.

He felt that he was going to die; this was a sign that the Demon Xu was going to devour him. So, in his panic, he didn't wait for Xu Qing's consent and hurriedly shouted.

"Master, I can't hold it anymore, I'm coming..." As he spoke, the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's soul body erupted with a boom, forcibly initiating the breakthrough. His eyes even turned red, and his heart was completely crazed.

"I must break through before the shadow!" he roared in his heart. Amidst this eruption, his soul shadow rose from the black iron skewer, and clusters of mist like dark clouds rapidly formed within his body.

They collided with each other continuously, and wisps of lightning flashed and traveled throughout his body, causing the Jin Gang Sect ancestor to let out miserable screams, which were shocking to Xu Qing.

The cultivation technique the Jin Gang Sect ancestor practiced was a fragment that could turn a person into an artifact spirit, and the name of this technique also revealed something extraordinary: it was called... the Taiyin Lightning Spirit Transformation!

The origin of this technique could not be verified; it seemed to have been created by some great expert in the past who studied the lightning spirit.

Once the cultivation reached a minor success, one could transform oneself into a Lightning Spirit Body.

The first part of practicing this technique required talent, and it was also a process of accumulation.

As for the second part, it required the perseverance to commit suicide, turning oneself into a soul body, and then using the accumulation from the first part of the practice to erupt and transform into an artifact spirit, which would allow one to begin the third part: transforming into a Lightning Spirit Body.

Once one became a Lightning Spirit Body, it was considered a minor success.

But this was only an acquired lightning spirit; only by reaching medium success could one transform into an innate lightning spirit. As for great success... the technique did not have it.

At this moment, what the Jin Gang Sect ancestor was desperately trying to break through to was the transformation into an acquired lightning spirit. This process was extremely painful and required him to use the collision of clouds and mist within his body to generate more lightning.

Finally, he had to let the lightning penetrate his soul body to attract heavenly lightning, which would then baptize his soul.

Seeing the Jin Gang Sect ancestor screaming and wailing, Xu Qing took a breath.

He shifted his gaze completely away from the shadow and focused most of his attention on the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, as the other party's current state made Xu Qing vaguely feel that something was very wrong.

At the same time, he was also quickly weighing in his heart whether his iron skewer would be damaged if the Jin Gang Sect ancestor collapsed.

The Jin Gang Sect ancestor's screams not only attracted Xu Qing's attention, but the bubbles on the black pool formed by the shadow also paused for a moment, then accelerated their rate of emergence...

Just like that, amidst the competition and madness between the shadow and the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, the clouds and mist within the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's body grew more numerous, and the collisions became stronger.

Bolts of lightning slowly accumulated within his soul body, constantly roaming. After filling the entire soul body, at the moment when the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's body seemed about to collapse, a bolt of lightning finally broke through a gap and drilled out from his crown.

Instantly, a large amount of lightning poured out through this gap, surrounding the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's entire body, making his aura astonishing while his cultivation base also climbed rapidly.

All of this made the Jin Gang Sect ancestor feel relieved in his heart; he felt that he had not had it easy, but thinking of the upcoming baptism, he still wailed in his heart.

He knew very well that the process of breaking through was extremely dangerous; if something went wrong, he could vanish into thin air. If it were when he was alive, he would have chosen to give up without hesitation.

And this personality was one of the reasons why his dharma apertures opened so slowly.

In his life, there were actually a few opportunities to accelerate the opening of his dharma apertures, but they required him to risk his life, so in the end, he always gritted his teeth and backed down.

This hesitation surfaced again at this moment, but just then, the roaring and howling within the black pool formed by the shadow became even more intense, and the pool even began to bulge!

What was bulging was not water bubbles, but a new existence forming within the pool, struggling to stand up from within. Furthermore, as it continued to form upward, an aura that surpassed Qi Condensation spread out from the pool.

This aura was very strong, and in the next instant, it reached the level of Foundation Establishment, but it didn't end there; it was still continuing.

This scene was clearly at a critical moment of breakthrough, ready to succeed at any time. This made the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's expression ferocious; he stared fixedly at the black pool formed by the shadow, then his eyes turned blood-red, revealing madness, and he roared.

"Lightning, come!"

As soon as his words fell, the sky outside suddenly rumbled. Dark clouds rapidly spread across the firmament, and amidst the continuous accumulation, a huge bolt of lightning traveled segment by segment with a crackling sound, forming a twisted, Z-shaped shape, and roared toward the island.

This lightning landed on the ground, penetrated the soil, seeped into the depths of the mine, appeared above the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's head, and fell fiercely toward him.

Instantly, the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's whole body shook. A large amount of external lightning poured into his entire body, and amidst the crazy flashing and roaming, it merged with the lightning he had emitted himself.

Subsequently, these bolts of lightning continuously gathered, becoming more and more numerous and astonishing. The Jin Gang Sect ancestor within them screamed even more miserably, and his body began to become transparent, as if it were about to collapse.

The black pool formed by the shadow was also startled by this scene, but soon the figure within it struggled intensely and suddenly rose upward, clearly also desperately trying to complete the breakthrough as quickly as possible.

Xu Qing was moved.

He looked at the shadow, then at the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, a strange look appearing in his eyes, but he did not speak.

Time passed, and soon the time it takes for an incense stick to burn had passed. As the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's screams became more and more miserable, the lightning outside his body finally finished gathering. In the end, amidst the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's low roar, all the lightning slammed into his body through his crown.

During this influx, the Jin Gang Sect ancestor's whole body trembled, and his body was visibly being changed by the lightning. His entire soul body was affected and reorganized.

Gradually, when all the lightning had been completely absorbed by the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, he suddenly looked at the black iron skewer to the side and opened his mouth to swallow. The black iron skewer arrived instantly, and after being swallowed by the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, countless bolts of lightning within his body struck it directly.

This scene used his body as a furnace, the lightning of heaven and earth as a hammer, and his soul body as fire to recreate the black iron skewer.

The lightning struck continuously, and the Jin Gang Sect ancestor trembled more and more.

With every strike, the black iron skewer was tempered a bit more, an extra lightning rune appeared on it, and the Jin Gang Sect ancestor also trembled.

He roared and screamed, but he did not give up, until the strikes reached ten, twenty, thirty, forty times...

The black iron skewer became increasingly pitch-black, its sharpness exceeding the past, and the lightning runes on it shone violently, their light so dazzling that even Xu Qing felt it stinging his eyes.

Finally, after the lightning struck for the forty-ninth time, the Jin Gang Sect ancestor reached his limit. He had to spit out the black iron skewer, and his body suddenly drilled into it.

In the next instant, all forty-nine runes on the black iron skewer shone, and an aura that surpassed Qi Condensation and was even quite impressive among Foundation Establishment cultivators erupted with a boom.

Furthermore, amidst this eruption, the figure of the Jin Gang Sect ancestor emerged from within the black iron skewer.

This time, his body had changed greatly.

Although his appearance was still the same as before, his whole body shone with countless bolts of lightning, which constantly circled and roamed, his aura was astonishing, and his body was even semi-transparent, looking as if he had turned into a lightning body.

And those bolts of lightning did not cause him any harm; they seemed to be one with him.

An incomparably violent aura spread out from the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, giving Xu Qing the feeling of facing a cultivator with a Life Fire.

And Xu Qing could also clearly sense from the lightning runes on the black iron skewer that there was an even more terrifying fluctuation within.

Clearly, his current state was not the combat form of his magic treasure. One could imagine that once he unleashed his full power, he might even be able to fight... two Life Fires.

The reason for this was related to the fact that the Jin Gang Sect ancestor himself was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and it was also highly related to his cultivation technique. After they superimposed on each other, it formed this earth-shattering, accumulated-strength-and-thin-outbreak breakthrough!

"I have finally lived up to Master's expectations, this little one..." The Jin Gang Sect ancestor felt his own strength and was excited in his heart; he felt that he had not had it easy.

But he did not forget that his life soul was with Xu Qing, so he would not get carried away. At this moment, he was about to say some words of loyalty that Xu Qing liked to hear.

But just at this moment, the black pool formed by the shadow seemed to have been stimulated as never before and erupted with a boom. The existence within it finally rushed out completely.

The shadow... also had a greatly changed appearance!

It was no longer its previous form, but had transformed into the shape of a large tree on the ground. Before the eyes of Xu Qing and the Jin Gang Sect ancestor, the black shadow in the shape of a large tree rapidly spread its branches and leaves, gradually growing one fruit-like shape after another.

Then these fruits all split open, and shockingly, red eyes appeared from within them!

These eyes were dense and numbered in the hundreds. At this moment, they all opened and suddenly looked at Xu Qing.

A trace of ferocity erupted from its hundred-plus eyes.

At the same time, a sinister, large mouth appeared on its tree body, filled with sharp teeth, and it emitted a strange sound that Xu Qing felt he had heard somewhere before.

"Kaka, kaka... kaka, kaka..."

This sound was like grinding teeth.

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