Although they had doubts, it was too late to test the opponent's strength again. Apart from waiting and watching, they did not dare to make any move to contact Zhang Ming.
Especially since Tian Xingzi had recovered less than 40% of his injuries after twenty years of recuperation, he did not dare to use his magic power forcefully.
After another five breaths, the fourteenth heavenly tribulation that continued to attack was finally dispersed.
Li Yan felt two powerful spiritual senses lingering around him, and he felt equally nervous.
He was under a heavenly tribulation. If the opponent attacked him recklessly, although Li Yan could draw the heavenly tribulation to the opponent, he would definitely lose his life.
When a cultivator is going through a tribulation, it is both the strongest and the weakest. The strong part is that the cultivator is at his peak state, and he is also going through a tribulation. He can pull the tribulation over to anyone who provokes him.
But it is also the time when you have no time to be distracted. If you are distracted, you may be blasted to pieces by the heavenly calamity in the next moment, and completely disappear from this world.
At this time, Li Yan did not dare to show his full strength. He could not guess the thoughts of these two people, otherwise he would be left with no way out.
He wanted to make the other party feel that he might die at any time in the next catastrophe, and give up the sneak attack again and again in hesitation.
But Li Yan knew that this trick would not last too long and the other party would see through it. For him, it would be best to delay as much time as possible.
Li Yan felt helpless about this Dan formation, as everything happened too suddenly.
He originally wanted to find a time to leave "Falling Star Valley" after refining his life-saving magic weapon, and then look for an opportunity to form a pill in a remote and desolate mountain.
He had a large amount of spirit stones on him, so he didn't have to worry about the presence or absence of spiritual energy and could practice in seclusion with peace of mind.
Who would have thought that he would have encountered the heavenly calamity without knowing it. He was quite wary of the three Jindan masters of "Falling Star Valley". The thoughts of these three people were as deep as the sea.
Li Yan couldn't see through them and was always on guard. However, things are unpredictable and nothing can go according to Li Yan's plan.
Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen...
The calamity of heaven poured down again and again...
Amid the rolling dark clouds, the world has turned into night. With Li Yan as the center, the green trees and green grass within a hundred miles are no longer there. Instead, there are gullies everywhere and the ground is cracked.
Each attack of heavenly tribulation lasted longer and longer. When there were 20 attacks, Li Yan was no longer as relaxed as before. Blood had seeped out of his skin, and his bones made crackling sounds when he moved his body slightly.
Although he dispersed the attacks of twenty heavenly tribulations, a lot of the destructive power attached to the heavenly tribulations still entered his body.
Just a trace of this power could turn a cultivator below the middle stage of foundation building into nothingness in an instant. It was running rampant in Li Yan's body, and Li Yan had to use up about 20% of his strength to suppress and refine it.
Although this force of heavenly tribulation is full of destructive power, once a cultivator refines it, it can help his body eliminate impurities, expand his tendons and veins, and temper his bone marrow.
This is the benefit that the heavenly tribulation brings to cultivators, and it is also the reason why even if they are not body-refining cultivators, their physical bodies will naturally improve as long as they succeed in forming a pill.
Cut the marrow and wash the bones, sharpen the tendons and refine the blood.
However, few people dare to actively absorb the power of the heavenly tribulation. Only a small amount enters the body when the heavenly tribulation is dispersed.
This mere trace was enough to force them to divide their strength to refine it simultaneously. If anyone dared to let it go and absorb it, they would be attacked from both inside and outside and there was a 99% chance that they would die.
During the twentieth heavenly tribulation, the skin on Li Yan's fists had already cracked into several bloody holes, revealing the white bones inside.
However, when the bloody wound burst open, a silver light flashed fleetingly on the white bones. After only a small amount of blood flowed out of the wound, the flesh around the wound quickly gathered inward and squirmed.
Li Yan shook his arms, and the last remaining power of the twentieth heavenly tribulation was shaken away by him. Blue arcs of electricity flew everywhere like dancing silver snakes.
"Even the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique and the refined blood essence of the Immortal Nether Phoenix cannot withstand the power of the heavenly tribulation. This is the power of the rules of heaven and earth!"
Li Yan took a deep breath, and as his spiritual consciousness communicated, a drop of "Melting Bamboo Shoots" quietly slipped into his mouth. In an instant, the spiritual power in his body surged like a tide.
The five-colored spiritual python, which had been circling slowly above the spiritual power cauldron, suddenly burst into bright colors and began to circle rapidly again in an instant.
Its body has shrunk by about half compared to its original size and appears to be more solid. All these abnormalities, including the fluctuations in spiritual power, remain unchanged on Li Yan's body.
“Uncle Master, why is his physical strength so strange? Even under the heavenly tribulation, his aura has always been very stable. Although it has decayed, the speed of decay is too slow!”
Tian Xingzi and the other person in the distance had been silent for a while. After Zhang Ming took on the twentieth heavenly tribulation, Xing Ming finally couldn't help but speak.
Zhang Ming's physical endurance was beyond his prediction. Even now, he felt the current tribulation was extremely troublesome. If it were when he was forming the elixir, he would probably have to use all his strength.
On the other hand, although Zhang Ming was injured, his attack power was still stable and he did not look exhausted. Although every time he fought against the heavenly calamity, it seemed extremely strenuous, he was able to hold on in the end.
This gave the two of them an illusion that every time they faced a heavenly tribulation, Zhang Ming looked like he was about to collapse and die at any time.
But after defeating this heavenly calamity, Zhang Ming gasped violently, and soon his breathing stabilized again.
"In fact, you already have the answer in your heart. This is beyond doubt. He is practicing the top-level physical training method. He has been deceiving everyone!"
The light in Tian Xingzi's eyes became brighter and brighter. He had already seen something wrong and began to doubt.
Now that Xing Ming had brought it up, he pointed out that Zhang Ming was still trying to conceal his own strength until this moment.
The aura of Xingming has already begun to stir. "He can't pretend anymore!"
Li Yan, who was in the heavenly tribulation, was at his most sensitive energy at this moment. He sensed it immediately as the aura of the Star Moth changed.
"However, this is enough. At this point, even if Tian Xingzi is at his peak, he wouldn't dare to take action again!"
The power of the heavenly tribulation is so strong now that if it is pulled over, when the heavenly tribulation senses the increase in the number of people below and its majesty is touched, who knows to what extent its power will increase.
Li Yan felt that no one below the Nascent Soul stage could withstand two or three attacks. He himself would certainly be reduced to ashes, and Tian Xingzi and Xing Ming would be seriously injured even if they did not die, unless they were carrying rare treasures.
Li Yan believed that with the abilities of these two people, they would be able to judge these things, and it would not be difficult for them to make a choice.
Well, now that he has seen through it and things have come to this, his purpose of delaying has been achieved, so he doesn't need to worry anymore.
When the twenty-first one came, Li Yan took a deep breath, and five more appeared under a dark cloud as if in heavy ink. Li Yan stood with both feet together and stomped down hard.
A burst of air burst out from the void beneath his feet, and with a "bang", Li Yan's body soared into the air like a huge rock.
He turned suddenly in mid-air, and using the strong power of his waist and abdomen, he swept his elbow towards a faint light with a thunderous sound.
"boom!"
The clothes on Li Yan's elbow exploded in an instant, and the dim light was also shattered by his elbow. With the flashing of "squeaking" electric arcs, some residual power of the heavenly tribulation penetrated into Li Yan's equally cracked skin.
Li Yan just frowned, without slowing down, and stepped heavily on the air with his left foot, as if he was stepping on solid ground.
With another "bang!" sound, the body turned into a residual shadow and rushed forward. As one foot stepped on the ground and rushed forward, the other foot bent the knee and raised the leg, and slammed forward with a fierce knee.
"Bang!" There was another loud noise, and another ray of dim light was shattered by his knee in the waist. At the same time, a ball of blood burst out on Li Yan's knee.
Before he could stop, another three dim lights came down vertically from the dark clouds. Li Yan took the initiative to rush left and right, and they were like three extremely swift snakes, changing directions like shadows.
Attack Li Yan's back of the head, back, waist and abdomen from three directions: upper, middle and lower.
Li Yan ignored the blood mist bursting out of his legs. His expression was grim. He did not look back. His legs suddenly spread apart in the air and he squatted towards him, standing in a horse stance.
At the same time, the two arms swing and change fists into palms, which are suddenly spread to both sides, while exhaling and making sounds.
"roll!"
The sound instantly drowned out the deafening thunder and lightning around him. As he exhaled and opened his arms, a powerful force in his body transformed into tangible black light, pouring out like a surging wave.
“Boom boom boom!”
There were three loud bangs in succession, and three dim lights collided violently with the black air waves when they were ten feet away from Li Yan's body.
Like three sharp cones, they plunged into the air wave, forcing the black air wave into a depression of six or seven feet.
Then the dim light began to shatter from the tip of the cone, and then completely dissipated. This time, Li Yan did not suffer any damage at all.
"Is this his true strength? He is so powerful that even if his attack is like a collision between galaxies, he may not be defeated. We have really underestimated him all along!"
Tian Xingzi was really surprised this time. It was only at this time that Zhang Ming really showed his claws.
"He hasn't succeeded in forming a golden elixir yet, but his body is already strong enough to be compared to that of a mid-stage golden elixir! Is this all the result of his twenty years of cultivation?"
Xing Ming could see Zhang Ming's strengths and weaknesses. At the same time, he still didn't believe that the other party could have such strength when he personally tested him.
But all this just flashed through the minds of the two men, and then, a scene that surprised them even more appeared.
After Li Yan was free, he no longer passively defended like he did in the previous twenty heavenly tribulations, but began to actively attack the heavenly tribulations that were falling from all directions.
The figure moved, appearing and disappearing under the strong light of lightning. It was more like a ghost than a dragon.
In less than an incense stick of time, most of Li Yan's clothes had been torn apart, and his naked, dark body was covered in blood and torn flesh.
His sturdy chest kept rising and falling violently, and the ground beneath him had already formed a huge pit that was a hundred feet deep and ten miles wide.
During his circling attacks in the sky, he was knocked down by the heavenly calamity again and again, but would then quietly reappear under the heavenly calamity in the air.
"This set of body-refining techniques includes a matching body technique. With the help of this body technique, even a practitioner at the late Jindan stage may not be able to react immediately."
Tian Xingzi was extremely shocked, and all he could see was Zhang Ming's erratic figure. However, he didn't know that Li Yan was not someone who would just reveal all his cards.
He only used 70% of "Feng Chongtian" to deal with the ubiquitous natural calamity. If he used his full strength, even he would not be able to react in time unless he was 500 feet away from Li Yan.
“Twenty-six! He was able to withstand twenty-six of these powerful heavenly tribulations with his physical body alone. This should be comparable to a demon cultivator who has reached the Dan stage!”
Xing Ming thought of other things. First, he lamented the horror of the "Hidden Dragon Blood" that would bring about a heavenly calamity, which was not something that cultivators were willing to face. Second, he was frightened by the way Zhang Ming bravely and fearlessly resisted the heavenly calamity.