Although Fang Yu wasn’t sure, what would happen when he broke through to ten thousand layers.
But he was certain something would happen.
Because, currently, his dantian is in an extremely swollen state.
In this case, reaching the ten thousandth layer of the Qi Refining Stage will either bring him to the peak or cause a qualitative change in his dantian.
In any case, it will be no less than the previous nine thousand layers. The breakthrough is a breakthrough, unremarkable.
After nearly a month of continuous refining, the Immortal King’s Heart in Fang Yu’s hand had shrunk from the size of two heads to the size of a fist.
The energy within is dwindling.
And the capacity of the dantian has also nearly reached its limit.
Because the spiritual energy refined within the meridians has become extremely difficult to enter the dantian.
Every strand of spiritual energy entering the dantian makes it expand more.
During this period, Fang Yu was able to feel pain.
The pain caused by the expansion of the dantian barrier is almost unbearable for ordinary cultivators, comparable to the feeling of one’s soul being torn apart.
But for Fang Yu, who had completed 101 tempering cycles, this pain was completely bearable, and he didn’t even frown.
Now, he just wants to completely refine the heart in his hand.
As for whether I can break through the 9,999th layer in one go, that depends on fate.
One day, two days, three days…
Time flew by swiftly, and the pain in Fang Yu’s dantian intensified, as if it were about to burst at any moment.
This feeling, Fang Yu was very clear.
The two layers before that, were broken through under this condition!
It should be done soon!
Fang Yu’s eyes lit up, becoming even more focused.
In a blink of an eye, five days have passed again.
In Fang Yu’s hand, the heart had been completely refined and vanished.
All the spiritual energy entered Fang Yu’s dantian.
At this point, the dantian has reached a state of extreme expansion.
Fang Yu was very clear that this should be the limit of his dantian.
If you continue to pour spiritual energy in, your dantian will inevitably burst.
“Since I can no longer absorb external spiritual energy, I’ll directly use the spiritual energy within my dantian to forcibly break through the bottleneck,” Fang Yu thought.
Thinking this way, Fang Yu immediately circulated the spiritual energy within his body, forcibly condensing the spiritual energy within his dantian into a ball.
And the spiritual sea within the dantian was already under extreme pressure.
As Fang Yu moved his Qi, he felt a dull thud in his dantian.
“Pffft!”
Fang Yu spat out a mouthful of blood.
A monstrous aura suddenly erupted from his body.
“Boom!”
The entire cave was instantly shattered by this surge of energy, with rocks flying everywhere.
Fang Yu sat cross-legged on the ground, his body radiating dazzling golden light.
The little golden dragon that was previously circling around Fang Yu’s dantian flew directly out of Fang Yu’s body and circled around him.
Fang Yu’s aura is still surging!
“Boom…”
The surrounding earth trembled, and the waterfall and spring beside the cave gushed with water!
“Click click click…”
The ground beneath Fang Yu was unable to withstand this overwhelming aura, crumbling and caving in continuously.
During this process, the little golden dragon circling around Fang Yu moved incredibly fast, opening its mouth wide and letting out a long, echoing dragon roar.
“Oh…”
All creatures in the jungle, as if facing imminent death, fled frantically outward!
The once bright blue sky instantly turned gloomy!
Countless dark clouds gathered directly above Fang Yu’s head, with flashes of lightning and thunder!
At this moment, Fang Yu opened his eyes and looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with a hint of excitement.
“This… is a tribulation? Am I going to ascend directly!?”
“Boom!”
A deafening roar echoed through the sky as a bolt of lightning descended from above, striking Fang Yu’s golden body directly.
Normally, this level of lightning wouldn’t even pose a threat to Fang Yu. It wasn’t even as much as an itch.
Now this thunderbolt, splitting onto Fang Yu’s body, though it didn’t cause any physical pain, instantly made Fang Yu’s entire brain go blank!
Fang Yu’s entire brain was in a state of emptiness!
And in this state, the aura on Fang Yu’s body gradually weakened. The little golden dragon that was circling rapidly above him also changed from its initial high fighting spirit to flying slower and slower until it finally burrowed back into Fang Yu’s body.
When Fang Yu regained consciousness, everything was over.
His cultivation level was still at the 9,999th layer of the Qi Refining Period, half a step away from the 10,000th layer.
“What is this…?”
Fang Yu’s eyes were shocked, he looked up, looking at the midair.
At this point, the gathering storm clouds had dispersed.
Fang Yu lowered his head and looked at his own hands, clenching them.
There were no wounds on his body, and the dantian within him was still at its peak of expansion.
The feeling of being just about to break through ten thousand layers, has disappeared.
That bolt of heavenly thunder forcibly pulled Fang Yu, who was about to step into the tenth thousand layer of the Qi Refining Stage, back!
“Damn it! I just wanted to break through to the Qi Refining Stage, why did a lightning tribulation appear?!” Fang Yu looked up at the sky and couldn’t help but curse.
The gathering of dark clouds in the sky moments ago, now thunderously falling, was quite familiar to Fang Yu.
When his master and senior brother ascended, he was standing by watching.
Basically, what just happened was a situation during a tribulation.
However, the scale was much smaller.
Back then, when those powerful cultivators at the peak of the Transcending Tribulation Stage crossed the Thunder Tribulation, the surrounding area within dozens of kilometers would be greatly affected!
“What is going on…”
Fang Yu scratched his head, looking at the sky that had returned to clear. He was unwilling to accept it.
Just now, he felt that he was only half a step away from the Qi Refining Stage, a distance of ten thousand miles!
If that bolt of lightning had struck five seconds later, Fang Yu might have succeeded in breaking through!
“Alas…”
Gazing at the sky for a long time, Fang Yu let out a heavy sigh.
Although the dantian within his body was still at its utmost expansion, Fang Yu had already lost that feeling of being about to break through.
Such a breakthrough opportunity like that is hard to come by again in the near future.
His cultivation level had returned to the stable and solid stage of Qi Refining, at the 9,999th layer.
“I really…forget it.” Fang Yu looked up at the sky, wanting to swear, but ultimately held back.
He lowered his head and looked around.
At this moment, the circumstances around him flashed a hint of surprise in his eyes.
The cave exploded, turning the nearby spring into a crater and causing the small mountain where the waterfall hung to collapse.
The entire grove of trees ahead was snapped in half, all leaning outwards.
From these situations, it can be seen how powerful the aura he released when he was about to break through just now.
“Well, this failure can only be attributed to the timing not being right. Next time, we will definitely succeed.”
FANG Yu said to himself in his heart.
Then, he glanced around, raised his right hand, activated the Kongling Ring, and vanished.
……
In recent times, many major events have occurred throughout China.
In Dongdu, the Martial Arts Association has issued a major bounty. A nationwide manhunt is underway for a martial artist named Fang Changsheng who is described as extremely fierce in appearance.
It is said that this martial artist caused a great disturbance at the East Capital Martial Arts Association, injuring numerous martial artists within the association and even killing the high-ranking expert hired by the association’s president. His crimes are heinous.
The amount of the bounty was astronomical, nearly emptying the East Capital Martial Arts Association’s treasury. This caused a frenzy throughout the Chinese martial arts world.
Many martial artists have been dispatched, searching for Fang Changsheng’s whereabouts.
And on the side of Huaibei, news of the invasion by foreign tribes eventually spread.
However, because the Immortal Clan had already been wiped out, this event did not receive much attention.
People in other regions mostly regard this as a minor incident, such as a riot by a monster tribe.
While the Huaibei region is rapidly cleaning up the traces left by the Immortal Clan and repairing the damage they caused.
That day, the families of the secular upper echelons who had been to Weizhentai were all discussing the true identity of the man who appeared at Weizhentai that day and saved the entire Huaibei region.
The Huaibei martial arts world had fallen into a certain degree of silence.
After this incident, all the major martial arts families realized one thing.
Before truly powerful beings, these so-called top families are utterly weak.
To such an extent that before the immortals, they had to kneel and submit, only then could they earn their survival.
This deep-seated shame, etched into the hearts of every member of the noble families, is a scar that will never truly fade.