Chapter 766 - - 557 Divine Body Immortal Refinement_3

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Upon witnessing this scene,

the many Immortal Gods observing Duge’s tribulation were simultaneously dumbfounded.

Wan Ji, the eldest disciple of Emperor Donghua, asked, “Master, why does Senior Tiandao not dispel the Heavenly Tribulation, instead choosing to endure the agony of lightning consuming his flesh?”

The tribulation is divided into the Nineteen Tribulations, the Forty-Nine Tribulations, the Seventy-Nine Tribulations, and the Ninety-Nine Tribulations.

Each corresponds to the cultivation level of the cultivators; the stronger the cultivation level, the more formidable the lightning tribulation, with the mightiest Ninety-Nine Tribulation requiring one to endure eighty-one thunder strikes.

The clouds of tribulation above Duge’s head were the legendary Ninety-Nine Great Tribulations, the most terrifying of them all.

The first eighty strikes of the Ninety-Nine Tribulation can be dispelled by using magical treasures or one’s cultivation level, but only the last strike is the bodily refining trial after the world has recognized one’s strength. Surviving it means acquiring a Divine Body; failing it means ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

For Duge to endure the first strike head-on was unprecedented; no one had ever dared attempt such a feat.

“The senior must want to forge the strongest Divine Body!” Emperor Donghua muttered to himself, “After all, he is the Incarnation of Heaven, not like us mortals.”

Everyone fell silent.

Gazing at the tiny figure engulfed in thunder, their eyes filled with nothing but admiration…

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Indeed.

Duge had indeed allowed the Tribulation Thunder to strike him. The key phrases and his Divine Body granted him a terrifying recovery ability. Moreover, outside the Immortal Mountain lay the vast ocean, with endless moisture in the air, giving him an absolute geographical advantage.

Under these conditions, the likelihood of him being killed by a lightning strike was incredibly low.

Duge had endured many battles on Alien Battlefields, suffered much pain, his body nearly tore apart while vying with Jannie for the Sea God Scepter; his meridians broke and flesh shattered during the refinement of his cultivation technique in the simulation field; he also withstood the scorching heat and direct hits from cosmic rays in a vacuum environment; endured the agony of Split Soul; poisons, amputation, and more were all too common…

Having been through so much, his endurance of pain had reached its pinnacle. Why then, should only the final thunder be allowed to temper the body?

If one is to temper, then temper the body to the utmost;

His enemies were too powerful, and Duge did not have much time. He must use every means possible to grow stronger…

The Tribulation Thunder entered Duge’s body without hindrance, the intense heat destroying his body’s cells, but his formidable recovery ability reactivated the dead cells the instant the lightning passed through;

One strike, two strikes, three strikes, four strikes…

Under the baptism of Tribulation Thunder, Duge’s tolerance for the lightning grew increasingly higher.

And within his body, the Nascent Soul was composed of light, darkness, and water Divine Powers. These three powers were on par with the lightning, and the Nascent Soul easily kept the Tribulation Thunder at bay.

After enduring the Tribulation Thunder and rapidly recovering, Duge relied eighty percent on the Divine Power provided by his Divine Body and Nascent Soul. Were he to rely solely on key phrases, he would have been dead long ago.

However, the Tribulation Thunder grew increasingly powerful, and Duge’s accumulation of Divine Power was insufficient. Finally, on the fiftieth strike, the lightning broke through the Nascent Soul’s defenses, surged into the Nascent Soul, and in an instant, wreaked havoc on its meridians.

Puh!

Duge spat out a mouthful of blood, carrying fragments of his inner organs.

But the previous fifty strikes that tempered his Divine Body were not entirely without effect; unbeknownst to him, his body had taken on a hint of the thunder’s property.

Therefore,

after the Nascent Soul’s defenses were breached, it did not dissipate but forcibly confined the lightning within.

Light, darkness, and water Divine Powers began to forcibly suppress the Tribulation Thunder, and the Dragon Vein also wrapped around the Nascent Soul, lending its strength to suppress the Tribulation Thunder.

Duge hurriedly moved about the Zhou Tian, circulating his cultivation technique.

Ultimately,

the Nascent Soul completely locked away the Tribulation Thunder, merging it with itself…

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