The fourth strike! The fifth strike! The sixth strike...

Gu Feng was starting to worry. Was something going wrong?

Is this what crossing a tribulation is like? This is way too much of a joke!

Outside the thunderclouds, Gu Liantian and Jiu Long stood on either side.

Jiu Long watched as bolts of lightning continuously struck down from the sky and said with interest, "What do you think, how many strikes will Gu Feng's Golden Elixir tribulation have?"

"I've been counting, and it's currently at the thirty-first strike. However, for a Golden Elixir Realm cultivator, the tribulation usually has no more than a hundred or so strikes. It's the last few strikes of the Heaven and Earth Drought Thunder that are the most worrisome," Gu Liantian said with a serious expression.

In theory, the more strikes of the thunder tribulation, the greater the benefits a cultivator receives after surviving it. It's a dual tempering of the physical body and the Dao foundation.

For an ordinary Golden Elixir Realm tribulation, having a hundred or so strikes is already quite impressive. Those who surpass one hundred and fifty strikes are often renowned prodigies in history, and when they grow, they usually become formidable figures.

What happened next almost made Gu Liantian question reality!

Countless thunder strikes fell, and Gu Liantian kept counting. In the end, he discovered that the number of strikes had reached over two hundred and thirty!

And it wasn't stopping; the trend of the strikes continued. The spiritual energy in the sky was stirred into a roaring frenzy. When would it end?

"How can this be?!" Gu Liantian was shocked.

Jiu Long looked at the massive tribulation cloud in the sky and said coldly, "Looking at this tribulation cloud, it's almost like an Elemental Infant Realm tribulation..."

Inside the tribulation cloud, Gu Feng was unaware of the astonishment of the two outside. From the hundredth strike, he had already felt the pressure. Now, he was stark naked, his clothes long turned to ash by the tribulation lightning, and his body emitted a radiant glow.

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With each strike, his body grew stronger, and the Innate Dao Embryo within him continuously devoured the power of the thunder tribulation. The True Core force in his spiritual sea had already condensed into a greasy mud pill!

His seven meridians and eight vessels became incredibly resilient, and his Divine Sense could extend thousands of miles!

If anyone knew all this, they would be envious to the point of spitting blood!

For an ordinary Golden Elixir Realm cultivator, the coverage of their Divine Sense is only a few hundred miles at most. But Gu Feng's Divine Sense was as strong as that of an Elemental Infant Realm cultivator. More crucially, his Golden Elixir had not yet fully formed!

In other words, strictly speaking, Gu Feng was still just a Qi Refining Realm cultivator!

As the strikes of the thunder tribulation continued to fall, Gu Feng felt an excruciating pain from head to toe. He wanted to scream but couldn't open his mouth. The Innate Dao Embryo inside him was also struggling, constantly absorbing the rampant power of the thunder tribulation, its little mouth never stopping.

Five hundred seventy-nine strikes, five hundred eighty strikes, five hundred eighty-one strikes...

Suddenly, the tribulation cloud became calm, and after a while, no more strikes fell.

Gu Feng curiously probed his spiritual sea, and beneath the Innate Dao Embryo, a chaotic mud pill hovered in the spiritual sea.

The Golden Elixir hadn't formed yet, so why had it stopped?

While he was puzzled, a rumbling sound came from the sky above. Gu Feng looked up to see countless bolts of lightning converging into a massive, illusory finger!

"This... how is this possible?!" Gu Liantian also saw the anomaly in the sky from the outside, his mouth agape in disbelief!

Jiu Long looked at the slowly forming thunder finger in the sky and smiled, "You've got a good son. This kid must have done something to trigger a Sage Tribulation..."

The Sage Tribulation is the most terrifying existence among heavenly tribulations, usually only triggered by those who have created some heaven-defying cultivation method.

Cultivators who have experienced the Sage Tribulation are as rare as phoenix feathers in the long history of the Cultivation World!

Each one is a monstrous, heaven-defying figure!

The first patriarch of the Gu Family, the ancestor of the Gu clan in Heroic Spirit City—Gu Zhan, once created the Haoran Carefree Art, and his Void Shattering Hand shook the Eastern Region Divine Continent, establishing the foundation of Heroic Spirit City for tens of thousands of years. It is said that during his tribulation crossing, a Sage Thunder Tribulation once descended!

Creating a heaven-defying cultivation method and pioneering a path in the Cultivation World, though it benefits future generations, is intolerable by the heavens!

The Sage Tribulation is a calamity prepared for such cultivators!

Gu Liantian racked his brains but couldn't understand how his son, during his heavenly tribulation, could trigger such an anomaly!

Could it be that this kid created some kind of cultivation method?!

After this absurd thought appeared, Gu Liantian chuckled to himself.

The thunder finger in the sky had already taken shape, and in an instant, the massive finger, accompanied by countless bolts of lightning, crashed down towards Gu Feng, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground!

"Boom!"

It was as if the entire Boundless Sea was shaken. Gu Feng, at the center of the tribulation cloud, immediately felt worse than death!

The sensation was like being crushed by a massive mountain, with his entire meridians on the verge of collapse, and the Innate Dao Embryo in his spiritual sea let out a painful groan!

What worried Gu Feng even more was that his spiritual sea showed signs of breaking apart, with the spiritual energy within being suppressed by the overbearing and pure will of the heavens, resulting in numerous tiny cracks!

The thunder finger formed by the Sage Thunder Tribulation continued to press down, and Gu Feng spat out a mouthful of blood!

"Going against the natural order! The Dao is ruthless!"

A series of Buddhist chants echoed in his ears, and these eight words struck heavily at Gu Feng's mind!

It almost shattered his mind and soul!

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Gu Feng suddenly looked up. He knew this was the fundamental power of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, intent on obliterating his will.