Chapter 156

Looking at the remains of the Ice Phoenix Demon Venerable, Lu Runping revealed a satisfied expression.

Physical cultivation, spiritual power cultivation, and divine soul cultivation—he already possessed the foundation for all three to step into a higher level and achieve the Land Immortal status; what he lacked was the time to absorb and integrate it all.

And he had a long lifespan, so he was not short on time.

Cultivating steadily, there would definitely be a place for him at the Land Immortal level in the future.

Lu Runping stopped fussing over anything else; his main body was in the West Sea Glacier Domain, and his avatar was in the Tianyu Immortal Sect, both fully concentrating on comprehending and improving his Small Self Dao.

His divine soul cultivation was already perfect, and his physical and spiritual power cultivation could be rapidly improved under the blessing of the 【Swallowing Heaven and Earth】 supernatural power.

The only thing he lacked to achieve the strength of the Great Vehicle Realm perfection was his comprehension of the Small Self Dao.

Taking it slowly would suffice.

It took a year for the Treasure Mirror to successfully deduce the 【Shenzhao Heavenly Scripture】 to a level that a Land Immortal could practice. His control over the Sun True Fire was stronger, but it naturally couldn't compare to his control over the Taiyin True Water.

The existence of the supernatural power Dao Seed was very overbearing, allowing Lu Runping to directly control the extremely powerful force of Taiyin True Water.

Comprehending after mastering it was much faster than comprehending bit by bit to master it.

But this didn't matter; being able to satisfy his body-tempering needs was enough.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, forty-five years passed. In the 960th year of the Supernatural Power Era, a new supernatural power appeared.

【Three Heads and Six Arms】: Split into three heads and six arms to fight with divided attention.

This supernatural power seemed like a chicken rib; after all, let alone three heads, even nine heads, Lu Runping could achieve with the 【Embryonic Transformation】 supernatural power.

But in reality, this supernatural power was very powerful, and its characteristic lay in divided-attention control.

This meant that Lu Runping could actually fight with three dharma treasures at once. The "three" here was also an imaginary number; if he could master it deeply, fighting with ten dharma treasures was not impossible.

Fighting with divided attention also meant he could release three spells simultaneously, while the enemy could only release one. Who was stronger and who was weaker went without saying.

Moreover, Lu Runping also had the 【Fractal Phantom】 supernatural power; the two combined were enough to skyrocket his single-target combat power by dozens of times. You think you're dueling me, but in reality, I'm ganging up on you all by myself!

Thinking about this kind of crushing combat style felt great.

Over the past forty-five years, nothing major had happened. The only thing worth noting was that Sect Master Miaoyun of the Luoyun Immortal Sect survived the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and became a Three-Turn Heavenly Monarch, which meant that in the near future, the Luoyun Immortal Sect would be able to give birth to a Land Immortal.

Back then, the Nanman Demon Venerable was rampant and arrogant; the Luoyun Immortal Sect's Caixia Fairy and the Wuyue Immortal Sect's Longding Xianren fought him and fell. Since then, the Luoyun Immortal Sect had declined for a period, and now someone had finally achieved the Land Immortal status to revitalize the immortal sect.

It was a joyous and congratulatory event.

Lu Runping noticed this matter mainly because Miaoyun Immortal was the only tribulation-transcending cultivator in the Luoyun Immortal Sect who had obtained the 【Size as Desired】 Dao Seed, and now she had stepped into the Land Immortal realm.

This matter would certainly put a certain amount of pressure on Yangming Xianren of the Qingyang Immortal Sect and Yun Tuan Xianren of the Tianyu Immortal Sect; after all, the successors they were looking forward to had not yet been able to transcend the tribulation.

Twenty years later, on this day, Yanhuadao Ren of the Qingyang Immortal Sect failed the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation; his physical body was destroyed. Fortunately, he preserved his primordial spirit and did not die completely, but he was already cut off from the immortal path.

Four years later, the Sect Master of the Tianyu Immortal Sect, Nong Yunqian, transcended the tribulation.

He had refined a portion of the Ice Phoenix Demon Venerable's flesh and blood and digested it through the 【Size as Desired】 supernatural power, but this supernatural power was not focused on devouring, so the effect was limited.

Nong Yunqian felt that he had hit a bottleneck and could not continue to break through, so he decided to transcend the tribulation.

After surviving the first eighteen heavenly thunders, he truly couldn't hold on anymore. He used the 【Size as Desired】 supernatural power to shrink his figure, but in the final tribulation thunder, he was still reduced to ashes.

The heavenly tribulation was too terrifying; one must be cautious when transcending the tribulation.

When the Beihuang Lietian Corpse King transcended the tribulation, he used a set of dharma treasures comparable to mid-grade spirit treasures, and only by relying on the toughness of his zombie body could he successfully transcend the tribulation.

Nong Yunqian had prepared a lot, but it was still not enough.

His death was a major event for the entire Tianyu Immortal Sect. A Two-Turn Heavenly Monarch had fallen, and the position of Sect Master was passed on, assumed by a designated Supreme Elder.

To become a Sect Master, one needed at least the cultivation of a One-Turn Heavenly Monarch; those in the Dao Integration Realm were not qualified.

Another forty years later, in the 1020th year of the Supernatural Power Era, Lu Runping obtained a new supernatural power again.

【Taking Objects from Afar】: Across endless space, one can reach out and take objects.

Lu Runping's expression after obtaining this supernatural power was spectacular. As a former tomb raider, he had also fantasized about having such a supernatural power, because this supernatural power was too powerful.

At the same time, in any space, all things could be taken at will.

With the 【Round Light Image Projection】 supernatural power, he could view things in any time and space; combined with the 【Taking Objects from Afar】 supernatural power, taking anything was unrestricted!

If this were used for tomb raiding, who would know it was him who stole it?

Moreover, being tens of thousands of miles away, the safety was high, and he also had the 【Covering the Sky and Hiding the Sun】 supernatural power to isolate karma detection, making stealing things completely without taboos.

But the premise for the application of this supernatural power was needing to know where the good things were; he could pay attention to news in this regard in the future.

In the same year, Lu Runping's constitution finally completed its transformation.

The Spirit Treasure Dao Body was refined, and his physical body became immortal.

Feeling the heavenly might in his heart, Lu Runping immediately flew above the West Sea, and the next moment, heavenly thunders rolled!

In a sense, Lu Runping had already become an immortal, but he had not accepted the test of the heavenly tribulation; now, he was making up for it in one go.

The power of the first heavenly thunder was not great, and Lu Runping did not set up defenses. He was stark naked, enveloped in a layer of spirit light, and took this thunder head-on.

He was naturally doing it on purpose.

Letting the thunder temper his body—others might be taking a risky attempt, but for him, who possessed the 【Five Thunders Orthodox Method】 supernatural power, this was something without any risk.

Heavenly tribulation body-tempering had a great effect, and his physical strength increased by another fraction.

Then came the second and third; after nine in a row, the color of the thunderclouds deepened a bit.

If a normal spirit cultivator transcended the tribulation, they needed to pass through three thunder tribulations: the One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, the Two-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, with the power gradually increasing, giving an adaptation process.

But for a cultivator whose physical body became immortal, it was clearly a one-step process, directly opening the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation!

Bathed in the thunder, Lu Runping stood motionless in mid-air, his whole body flashing with electricity, entering a state of Dao enlightenment.

The supernatural power 【Reviewing the Old to Learn the New】 operated at full capacity. Relying on this heavenly tribulation divine thunder, he deduced his mastery of the 【Five Thunders Orthodox Method】 supernatural power, gaining huge harvests, and could also better deal with the subsequent thunder tribulations.

The heavenly thunders rolled in and crashed down.

The vast majority of the thunder landed on Lu Runping's body, which he grabbed firmly and absorbed into his body, while a portion was guided underneath, falling onto the seawater and exploding into surging waves.

The nearby demonic beasts all fled.

With such magnificent heavenly might, no one dared to approach.

For the second batch of nine tribulation thunders, Lu Runping still set no defenses, letting his body be ravaged by the thunder.

But entering the stage of the final nine tribulation thunders, Lu Runping finally had a reaction.

His figure suddenly became tall, directly transforming into a thirty-three-zhang-tall giant. His palms opened, thunder flashed, and when the heavenly thunder fell, the thunder in his palms flew out and merged with it.

A portion still landed on his body, but the majority was grasped in his hands.

When the next thunder descended, he did the same.

Finally, after the ninth heavenly thunder fell, the clouds dissipated, and Lu Runping was still wrapped in thunder, holding two incredibly terrifying heavenly tribulation thunder balls in his hands!

Sitting cross-legged in mid-air, holding the thunder in his hands, Lu Runping entered into cultivation.

Thereafter, every month, the thunder balls shrank by a fraction, and his figure also shrank by a fraction; five years later, he finally returned to normal human size.

Most of the energy in the two thunder balls in his hands was absorbed, and a small portion turned into two Heavenly Tribulation Beads.

The Heavenly Tribulation Beads contained the heavenly tribulation divine thunder of the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation; once released, the power was enough to wipe out all cultivators below the Great Vehicle stage, and only Land Immortals at the Great Vehicle stage could resist it a little.

Caught off guard, even a Land Immortal could be taken away by the tribulation thunder.

The two beads were preserved as an inheritance.

After being tempered by the heavenly tribulation, although the level of the Spirit Treasure Dao Body was still low-grade, it was not the kind of thing that had just entered the low-grade; it should be a leader among the low-grade.

With this defensive power, even if he stood there and let a Land Immortal hit him, it might not necessarily break his defense.

At this time, his cultivation of the Small Self Dao had already stepped into the late Great Vehicle stage; it was time to push it, advance the Small Self Dao to perfection, and then find an opportunity to transcend the tribulation.

Four years later, just after coming out of seclusion having used the Creation Spirit Light to perfect his Small Self Dao of Taiyin True Water, Lu Runping heard a piece of news.

Shangyi Tianjun of the Qingyang Immortal Sect successfully transcended the tribulation and became a Three-Turn Heavenly Monarch; the Qingyang Immortal Sect had a successor for its Land Immortal.

After hearing this news, Lu Runping decided to conduct his first tribulation transcendence of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm; his main body went first, and his avatar followed.

Since his main body had already transcended the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation once, this One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation was naturally just a breeze.

He mainly wanted to feel what level the power of this heavenly tribulation was at, so that when his avatar transcended the tribulation, he would have a grasp of it.

Tianyu Immortal Sect, back mountain, Yun Tuan Xianren stared ahead.

Lu Runping's avatar began to transcend the tribulation.

With the fall of Nong Yunqian, Yun Tuan Xianren's final hope was placed on Lu Runping and Chiyangzi.

And the one he favored most was not the Two-Turn Heavenly Monarch Chiyangzi, but Lu Runping, who had not yet completed a single tribulation transcendence.

Hmm, it should be Lv Gong.

The avatar did not possess the many supernatural power blessings of the main body, but with the assistance of the 【Embryonic Transformation】 supernatural power, having refined so much of the Ice Phoenix Demon Venerable's flesh and blood over the years, if he couldn't even pass a mere One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, it would really be unjustifiable.

After the nine tribulation thunders fell, Lu Runping completed his final comprehension, his cultivation advanced, and he reached the One-Turn Heavenly Monarch level of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

In the 1029th year of the Supernatural Power Era, Lv Gong, at three hundred and sixteen years old, entered the One-Turn Heavenly Monarch Realm!