Chapter 31: Heavenly Thunder? No, this is the nourishment for cultivation

[The moment your spirit-infused punch made contact with the opponent, something unexpected happened.]

[You saw the opponent instantly turn into a mist of blood, leaving no corpse behind.]

[You stared at your own hands, momentarily stunned.]

[It was then you realized that, without you even noticing, you were no longer the weakling you once were.]

[Now, not all Immortal Slaves could render you powerless.]

[After a brief moment of shock, you noticed that although the shadowy figure had turned into a mist of blood, his storage ring had fallen to the ground.]

[You quickly went over and picked up the storage ring.]

[You didn't rush to check its contents but chose to leave the area immediately.]

[You were worried there might be other Immortal Slaves around. Although you had killed one, you were still aware of your own limitations.]

[You didn't think you could defeat all Immortal Slaves just because of this.]

[After all, in many previous simulations, the Immortal Slaves you encountered could fly through the air, clearly the experts among them.]

[This time, you had only encountered a small fry.]

[Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and you arrived at a small border town called Youyue, where you settled down.]

[It was only then that you opened the storage ring you had obtained from the shadowy Immortal Slave.]

[Upon opening it, you found numerous items, mostly pills, and over five thousand spirit stones.]

[You decided to use the spirit stones directly for cultivation, but you didn't recognize the pills and didn't dare to take them recklessly.]

[You didn't pay much attention to this; after all, it was unexpected wealth. If you could use it, great; if not, so be it.]

[In the days that followed, you resumed refining your Golden Core.]

[With the buff from the spirit stones, you could clearly feel a significant increase in the efficiency of your refining.]

[A year passed in the blink of an eye, and you ran out of spirit stones again, but the quality of your Golden Core did not improve.]

[By the fiftieth year, your Golden Core was still only at the eighth grade.]

[In fact, due to the acceleration from those thousands of spirit stones, a faint line had appeared on your Golden Core three years ago.]

[But no matter how hard you tried to refine it, it seemed unable to fully form, as if you had reached some kind of bottleneck.]

[You looked at the half-fist-sized Golden Core within you, feeling that it didn't seem too small to continue refining.]

[But that wasn't the end; a large amount of purple-blue electric arcs had already entered your Qi Sea, trying to destroy your Golden Core.]

[Cracking sounds continuously came from your Golden Core.]

[However, your Golden Core, which you had been refining for so long, was quite sturdy and held on for the time being.]

[But before you could adjust, more lightning struck from the sky, one bolt after another.]

[Gradually, you lost all sensation in your body.]

[At this point, besides your body, your Qi Sea was also filled with lightning.]

[Your Golden Core was riddled with holes, on the verge of collapse.]

[Your breath grew weaker and weaker, and you were on the brink of death.]

[With another "boom," a bolt of lightning struck, and you felt it might be the last one you could withstand.]

[At that moment, you felt primordial energy surging from your blood and flesh, as if it were angry and roaring.]

[In an instant, all the primordial energy in your body went berserk, turning from pale cyan to crimson, starting to repair your body.]

[Congratulations, your Martial Dao cultivation has broken through to the Qi Motion Realm.]

[At this moment, you looked at the lightning still coming from the sky and laughed; you had achieved Extreme Body Tempering.]

[Heavenly Thunder? Nonsense, it was just nourishment for your cultivation.]

[Due to your breakthrough in Martial Dao, your physical strength increased significantly, allowing you to withstand two more bolts of lightning.]

[But your Golden Core in the Qi Sea could no longer hold on.]

[With a few more electric arcs, your Golden Core in the Qi Sea shattered completely.]

[What you didn't know was that before your Golden Core shattered, nine lines were clearly visible on it.]

[One of the lines even had purple-blue electric arcs flashing on it.]

[Two minutes later, you couldn't hold on any longer.]

[You died at the age of 72.]

[Extreme One-for-One (Talent) triggered.]

[At the moment of your death, in the Immortal Realm above the Nine Heavens, an Immortal Lord assigned to control the lightning array suddenly choked and died from a burst of immortal energy.]

[This simulation has ended.]