#142 - Chapter 142: Thunder Tribulation

“After a century of cultivation and seven lifetimes, I've finally reached this point today.”

Inside the mountain cave, Lin Changqing looked at the storage bag before him and sighed, for today, he would form his Nascent Soul.

With a 'bang,' Lin Changqing slapped the storage bag, and instantly, seven types of Nascent Soul spiritual objects with the attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, yin, and yang appeared before him.

Without hesitation, Lin Changqing began to absorb these seven types of Nascent Soul spiritual objects.

[In the first hour, you absorbed the wood attribute Nascent Soul spiritual object. Your spiritual root is of the wood attribute. Generally speaking, cultivators should first absorb the Nascent Soul spiritual object that matches their spiritual root, as this increases the probability of forming the Nascent Soul.]

[You slowly began to absorb the wood attribute Nascent Soul spiritual object. The wood attribute spiritual energy began to enter your dantian, and then began to rise. Instantly, the nine-纹 golden core within your body began to be entwined by strands of cyan wood energy.]

[Your golden core began to absorb the cyan wood energy. With each bit of wood energy absorbed, the golden core began to expand. You felt your power increasing. After absorbing for half an hour, you finished absorbing the wood attribute Nascent Soul spiritual object. Your golden core expanded by a circle, and a cyan tree pattern appeared on the surface of the golden core.]

[Subsequently, you began to absorb the metal attribute Nascent Soul spiritual object. Golden sword energy began to enter your dantian, and then rose to surround and entwine your golden core.]

[The golden core began to absorb the golden sword energy. After an hour of absorption, a golden sword pattern appeared on your golden core.]

[In the third hour, you began to absorb the earth attribute Nascent Soul spiritual object. The earth energy of the earth attribute entered your dantian, and then began to surround your golden core. After an hour of absorption, a desolate mountain pattern appeared on your golden core.]

[Afterward, you absorbed the water and fire attributes. Two more patterns, a fish representing water and a bird representing fire, appeared on your golden core. Finally, you began to absorb the two most important attributes, which are the yin and yang spiritual objects.]

“Yin and yang are the foundation of heaven and earth. The so-called Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. Yin and yang are the 'two' of the Great Dao, the foundation of everything, and their status is even above the five elements.” Lin Changqing looked at the black and white spiritual objects before him, lost in thought.

He could feel that the Great Dao laws on the yin and yang spiritual objects were more profound than the five attribute spiritual objects he had just absorbed.

In fact, this was normal, after all, yin and yang were above the five elements.

[You gradually comprehended the yin and yang laws on the yin and yang spiritual objects for a while. You did not immediately begin to absorb them like you did with the five attribute spiritual objects. You were very cautious. After all, you previously had the Five Elements Elemental Body, and you were relatively familiar with the five elements, so absorbing the five attribute spiritual objects was not a burden. However, you did not have the yin and yang attributes before, so you planned to first familiarize yourself with the specific laws of the yin and yang attributes.]

[After an hour, you felt familiar with the yin and yang attributes, and then began to absorb these two Nascent Soul spiritual objects.]

[At the very beginning of absorption, you felt a great pain. Yin and yang transformed into two strands of black and white energy, revolving around your golden core. But when the golden core began to absorb these two strands of black and white energy, you felt as if your golden core was being stretched to the point of explosion, with an aura of explosion. Moreover, your body also felt great pain.]

[You gritted your teeth and persevered. You knew that this was a critical moment. If you couldn't hold on, your golden core would probably explode immediately, and the formation of the Nascent Soul would fail immediately.]

[One hour, two hours, three hours, and finally you completed the absorption of the yin and yang attribute Nascent Soul spiritual objects. In the end, a yin-yang taijitu pattern also appeared on your golden core.]

[At this moment, your golden core had a cyan tree, a golden sword, a desolate mountain, and patterns representing various attributes. You knew you had reached the final moment.]

[You began to guide your spiritual power and worked hard to merge these patterns together. Finally, after a day and a night, the patterns representing the seven attributes began to gradually intertwine and merge together. At the same time, cracks began to appear on your golden core, as if an explosive force was brewing inside the golden core.]

[You knew that you were about to enter the final moment of Nascent Soul transformation. After another day and a night, you suffered great pain during this day and night, because a thunder tribulation descended and began to bombard your body. You finally knew why so many geniuses in ancient times fell on the path of Nascent Soul formation, because Nascent Soul formation was too difficult, especially for a genius like you with a nine-纹 golden core. The thunder tribulation was ten times more difficult than that of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.]

[The thunder tribulation of ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators is just one thunderbolt, three thunderbolts, but the thunder tribulation targeting you is the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, one thunderbolt after another, a total of ninety-nine eighty-one thunderbolts. Fortunately, your physical body is the Five Elements Elemental Body, so you were able to withstand this thunder tribulation!]

[Finally, after another three days and three nights, you survived the thunder tribulation. Your whole body was scorched black, but at this moment, your dantian was like undergoing a rebirth. The cracks in the golden core became larger and larger. You could feel that something seemed to be brewing inside.]

[Finally, after another three hours, you heard a 'bang.' The cracks in the golden core in your body completely cracked open, replaced by an infant standing on a yin-yang taijitu, wearing a five elements daoist robe. The daoist robe was embroidered with a cyan tree, a golden sword… There was a kind of aura of the Great Dao swirling around… This infant looked exactly like you.]

“This is the Yin-Yang Five Elements Nascent Soul?”

[Looking at the infant that appeared in your dantian, you were a little surprised. As far as you knew, other people's Nascent Souls were naked, but your Nascent Soul seemed to be different, standing on a yin-yang taijitu, wearing a five elements daoist robe, with an aura that conformed to the Great Dao.]

[You had a feeling that the Nascent Soul in your dantian seemed to have completely mastered the power of a total of seven attributes of yin and yang and the five elements.]

[You once again felt the difference of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Nascent Soul. At this moment, you clenched your hands tightly. After breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, you felt your power increase several times over!]

“Nascent Soul First Layer, I can now at least fight cultivators in the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm three minor realms above me. If I fight with all my strength, it is not impossible to defy the odds and defeat a middle-stage cultivator at the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul realm.” Lin Changqing muttered to himself, his eyes filled with excitement.

He had finally reached the Nascent Soul stage. In the cultivation world, Nascent Soul cultivators were figures who could be called ancestors. Now he had reached this step, and he was not an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

As far as he knew, even the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess could not cross three minor realms to defeat opponents in the Nascent Soul realm. After all, which of those who could cultivate a Nascent Soul was not a genius among geniuses? The gap between everyone was shrinking.

Just because you could defeat enemies beyond your realm when you formed your golden core did not mean that you could also defeat enemies beyond your realm in the Nascent Soul stage.

Because those who reached the Nascent Soul stage were all legends in their own lives, and it was not so easy to fight beyond your realm again.

It was already very good to be able to cross one or two realms to defeat opponents in the Nascent Soul stage.

But now Lin Changqing had the confidence to cross four realms to defeat opponents, which was the terror of the Yin-Yang Nascent Soul.

If he had not formed the Yin-Yang Nascent Soul, Lin Changqing would have been an ordinary Five Elements Nascent Soul like the Fourth Prince and the Thirteenth Princess, and at most he would have been able to defeat enemies three minor realms above him.