Not only had Xing Ming personally experienced the tribulation of forming a golden core, he had also protected Lin Xinghe in the past, and had also seen several other people forming a golden core.
Even so, he is considered experienced, but he has never seen a true physical practitioner form a golden core.
They fought against the heavenly calamity, trying their best to prevent it from touching their own bodies. Of course, after the heavenly calamity was shattered, it was inevitable that those strange powers would spread to their bodies.
However, in that case, the amount of strange power from the heavenly tribulation that could be transmitted would be much less, which would give them more energy to deal with the heavenly tribulation.
In the end, when their magic power is no longer enough, they will use magic weapons, talismans and other things to deal with the natural calamity.
They must prepare at least one or two kinds of various defensive magic weapons, formations, and even rare tortoise shell-like treasures from heaven and earth.
Their elders told them about these defensive treasures when they were in the foundation-building stage, asking them to collect and prepare as many as possible, which would provide more protection during the formation of the elixir and give them more hope of saving their lives.
In fact, there are more cultivators who pursue the path of body refining in the Lost Continent, especially those from the body refining clan who are mainly composed of demons.
However, when the monks of these races were forming their elixirs, they would never allow strangers to watch. Even as a Star Moth, he had only seen it four times, and all of them were humans.
Although he had expected the way Zhang Ming would fight against the heavenly tribulation today, this person used his physical body to fight against the heavenly tribulation the entire time and did not use any magic weapons or defensive treasures at all. This was something he had never seen before.
Not to mention him, even Tian Xingzi was stunned and petrified when he saw Zhang Ming disperse the six heavenly tribulations in one breath.
The power of the subsequent heavenly tribulations is such that any one of them can easily destroy a town and annihilate the souls of all the living beings inside.
When Tian Xingzi was forming the elixir, that is, the first dozen or so he resisted with his own magic power. Later on, he could only take out defensive treasures one by one, and then watch these precious treasures being destroyed one by one.
They thought that although Zhang Ming was a physical cultivator with a strong body, he would still have to use defensive formations, talismans and other treasures to help him at least after the seventeenth level.
But the opponent actually began to actively counterattack with his pure physical body, which made the two of them a little dazed. It was a natural calamity that was stronger than the last.
They didn't know that Li Yan came to this world by chance during the great battle with the Black Demon Clan. They didn't expect that the Dan formation would come so suddenly and they were not prepared.
Li Yan had planned to prepare things to overcome the tribulation after refining his natal magic weapon, and then leave here to practice hard in seclusion, but now everything has been disrupted.
Although he had many looted magic weapons, they were all offensive magic weapons. Those defensive magic weapons were too weak to resist the heavenly calamity.
He self-destructed those magic weapons to fight against the heavenly calamity. He was still in the center of the heavenly calamity, so innocent people would be the first to be affected. Moreover, he was now in someone else's territory. It would be hard for him not to be remembered if he self-destructed those magic weapons one after another.
“Although he is very strong, if he continues to survive the tribulation with only his physical body, the twenty-seventh tribulation may kill him!”
Tian Xingzi said quietly. Although he was shocked, he was not optimistic about Zhang Ming's way of overcoming the tribulation.
Heavenly tribulation is one of the laws of heaven. According to the understanding of cultivators in the mortal world, it is divided into small heavenly tribulation, big heavenly tribulation and calamity.
They correspond to the three stages of Danjie, Yingjie and Huashen respectively. There are thirty minor heavenly tribulations, forty-nine major heavenly tribulations and eighty-one disaster tribulations.
But no matter whether it is a small heavenly calamity, a big heavenly calamity, or a disaster, encountering the number "nine" is a small difficulty, just like the nine and eighteen that Li Yan encountered just now, both of which are small difficulties.
Needless to say, the ninth heavenly tribulation is something that anyone, whether a physical cultivator or a magic cultivator, can basically get through.
So when Li Yan faced the eighteenth heavenly tribulation, Tian Xingzi and the other two thought that he was going to use defensive treasures, but the result was unexpected.
The eighteenth heavenly tribulation is at least three times more powerful than the seventeenth. By the nineteenth, although it is still increasing, its destructive power will not increase by several times.
And now Li Yan encountered the third minor difficulty, the twenty-seventh heavenly tribulation.
If he can pass this level, he will have stepped into the half-step golden elixir stage. Even if he fails to survive the final heavenly tribulation, as long as he is not seriously injured, his combat power will have completely surpassed the foundation-building stage.
However, it is still not the Golden Core realm, and if one wants to form a golden core again in the future, the power of the heavenly tribulation will be twice as strong as it is now, which is almost a certain death for any cultivator.
Therefore, all monks try their best to overcome the tribulation successfully in one go.
Li Yan's body was already covered in blood, and his clothes had long since become the same as those of a beggar. The tattered clothes had been stained with blood into thick black strips, hanging down from his body.
The exposed dark skin was covered with deep gashes, like the mouth of a fish. Because he had temporarily shrunk and wrapped them with his spiritual power, no blood continued to flow out.
But the red flesh and white bones inside are clearly visible, which makes people feel terrified at the sight of it.
Another drop of "melted bamboo shoots" quietly rolled into his stomach. Li Yan kept breathing heavily. His state at this time was his real condition, not a deliberate pretend.
Although his spiritual power can be restored instantly through "melting bamboo shoots", the same cannot be done for his spiritual consciousness and physical injuries.
At this time, his spiritual consciousness had declined sharply, with less than 40% remaining. His body had reached a bottleneck stage of recovery due to repeated splitting and recovery.
There was no need to conceal the silver light anymore, as it had already faded away and was almost invisible.
"This... This... is the heaven... the calamity!"
Li Yan was breathing heavily, thinking in his heart that since he had survived by relying on his physical body to be squeezed from the barrier between the two worlds, he was actually 60% sure that he would be able to form a pill and survive the tribulation one day.
All of this came from the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique, which was blessed by the essence and blood of the "Immortal Dark Phoenix", allowing him to survive in the barrier between the two worlds.
In the past two years, Qiongqi's Purgatory Technique has made further progress and has already reached the peak of the middle second level, while the blood essence of the "Immortal Dark Phoenix" has almost been refined to 20%.
This allowed his body to continuously strengthen and improve.
Another major reason for Li Yan's confidence was that he had seen Li Wuyi survive the tribulation. Those tribulations had frightened him at the time, but now it seemed that he could withstand them. In addition, the foundation of the Wuliang Sect was certainly not comparable to that of a small sect like the "Falling Star Valley". There were relevant records of cultivators' formation of Dan and Infant.
This is the blessing that a large sect bestows upon its disciples. Li Yan has of course also read some detailed descriptions of forming a golden elixir and overcoming the tribulation, from which he gained some inspiration and experience.
Li Yan had not expected that the power of the heavenly calamity he had brought upon himself would be so great. It had far exceeded all his previous expectations.
Blue arcs of electricity flickered outside Li Yan's body, concealing the signs that his external injuries were slowly healing.
Tian Xingzi and the others did not dare to use their spiritual sense to forcibly probe into the heavenly tribulation. They could only rely on the cultivators' extraordinary eyesight and their spiritual sense that was wandering outside to observe.
They could see the scars of fear all over Zhang Ming's body when the arc occasionally went out.
"Why hasn't the third difficulty come yet?"
After Xingming saw Zhang Ming disperse the 26th heavenly tribulation, almost five breaths had passed, but the powerful 27th heavenly tribulation still hadn't fallen. This was different from what he knew.
"This has something to do with the fact that this person shattered the previous twenty-six heavenly tribulations too quickly. This heavenly tribulation... hehe..."
Tian Xingzi is more knowledgeable and experienced.
When he shifted his gaze to the thick black cumulus cloud above Zhang Ming's head that was spinning faster and faster, he felt extremely uneasy.
When he traveled all over the world, he was discussing the Dao with someone once. When the topic came to small and big heavenly tribulations, the other person once said this.
“Fighting against the Heavenly Tribulation should not be a process that is as short as possible. The Heavenly Tribulation is born from the laws of Heaven and has a trace of intelligence. Therefore, whether or not one can safely survive the Heavenly Tribulation is also related to the entire process.
If you disperse the heavenly tribulation too quickly, the opponent's intelligence will think that you are challenging the power of heaven with your strength, and it will accumulate more power and make a terrible blow beyond the normal heavenly tribulation. "
But Tian Xingzi did not continue to say these words. He just stared blankly into the distance and fell into deep thought again.
Li Yan also felt something was wrong. There was almost no interval between each of the previous heavenly tribulations. They were continuous, as if they were going to drown him and kill him in one blow.
Now, almost ten breaths have passed, and the heavenly calamity has still not fallen. Li Yan looked up at the cumulus clouds in the sky that were spinning faster and faster.
"Is this accumulating strength? The third difficulty... the third..."
Just after Li Yan stared at the top of his head for a moment, his expression suddenly changed drastically in the constantly rotating vortex of cumulus clouds.
In addition to the increasingly dense and hair-raising thick lightning, the center of the black cloud turned into a large, flashing gray-white area.
In the center of the vortex, as it spun rapidly, an extremely huge eye slowly appeared. This giant eye continued to expand and became clearer and clearer.
As if slowly emerging from a whirlpool, his eyes were filled with boundless indifference and murderous intent, and one could not see any emotion or warmth in them at all.
"This... is the 3rd... the 30th heavenly... heavenly tribulation!"
Just as this giant eye slowly emerged from the vortex, the Star Moth in the distance screamed in surprise. His scream immediately awakened Tian Xingzi who was deep in thought.
"This... This is not just the 30th heavenly tribulation, but four heavenly tribulations combined into one!"
Tianxing looked up and immediately took a breath of cold air.
He didn't even notice that his voice had become a little strange. The originally childish voice had become very sharp. He reacted very quickly and pulled the Star Moth away quickly.
"Quick, quick, start the sect protection formation and protect other areas! Quick!"
He shouted at the Star Moth quickly, cursing wildly in his heart.
"This damn thief, how could he make the little bit of intelligence in the Heavenly Tribulation become so angry that he actually... actually awakened the 30th strongest Heavenly Tribulation in advance.
And with the powerful twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, and twenty-ninth heavenly tribulations added to the mix, this area of three to five hundred miles will be destroyed!"
As he shouted, Xingming had already reacted, and although he was always very steady, he also burst out with swear words.
"Damn it Zhang Ming, you are going to destroy the sect!"
As he spoke, he raised the sect leader's token in his hand to the sky. As the token and rapid incantations rang out, the "Falling Star Valley" sect protection formation, which had been quiet for nearly twenty years, rumbled again.
Zhu Luomu and a group of foundation-building monks who were still far away were suddenly swept up by a robe sleeve that covered the sky and the sun.
All of them had no time to react, only to let out a cry of surprise before they were swept away from the spot.
At the same time, the core disciples' courtyards a hundred miles away from Li Yan's courtyard were the first to be covered by the falling starlight, and brilliant light curtains formed outside them in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, rays of forbidden light suddenly lit up one after another in various places in the valley, like stars lighting up in the dark night.
This was another sudden change that left many disciples confused for a moment, not knowing what had happened.
At the same time, the majestic voice of Star Moth sounded in their minds, and finally temporarily covered up the loud noise in the distant sky.
"All disciples, hide in the nearby defensive restrictions, immediately!"