Ye Fan got out of bed and stretched.
Judging by the sky outside, it was already afternoon.
He had been inside for over a night.
The table was laden with food, all of it carefully prepared beast meat.
He surmised that Liang Rujing must have visited.
After washing up, Ye Fan grabbed a piece of beast meat and started eating.
A few minutes later.
Ye Fan looked at the table full of beast meat, his gaze momentarily stunned...
He had only eaten a few bites and was already full!
His appetite had completely returned to that of an ordinary person!
Ye Fan smacked his lips, "Not bad."
The fact that he had to spend so much time eating every day before had been quite a headache...
Just as Ye Fan was about to put the food into his storage ring, he suddenly remembered a problem.
While he was full now, his aura was still at the ninth layer of Qi Refining.
This meant that eating beast meat apparently couldn't help him level up?
With this thought, Ye Fan took out several fourth-tier ores from his ring.
As the ores appeared, a sense of hunger returned to his body.
However, this hunger didn't come from his stomach; it came from his body itself!
It was a very peculiar sensation.
His stomach was full, yet his body felt like a starving ghost!
Ye Fan immediately threw an ore into his mouth.
"Crunch, crunch..."
After consuming a few ores, the hunger in his body finally subsided a little.
After eating seven or eight fourth-tier ores in one go, Ye Fan's body finally felt full.
Ye Fan felt his body.
His surface aura had reached the great perfection of the tenth layer of Qi Refining.
If his assumptions were correct, the power of his fists should now be equivalent to the great perfection of Foundation Establishment.
So, the problem arose.
Based on his previous experiences, he should have directly broken through to the Golden Core stage by now.
However, that hadn't happened.
So...
How was he supposed to break through?
This stumped Ye Fan.
After all, he had never experienced such a method of advancement before, and he felt a bit lost, like a pioneer venturing into uncharted territory...
Perhaps after the next meal...
He would break through?
Ye Fan wasn't sure if that was the case, but for now, he seemed to have no other option but to wait.
Yesterday, reaching the ninth layer had taken him more than a night to "digest" the food.
Now that he was at great perfection, he estimated it would take until tomorrow to continue.
Since he could cultivate again, he certainly couldn't remain a couch potato.
For example... he could go to the Beast Forest.
Although Ye Fan's combat experience was already very rich, so much so that it had become an ingrained instinct.
He hadn't personally sparred in a while, and he was starting to get an itch for action...
Not long after, Ye Fan arrived at Liang Rujing's door.
There was a note on the door: Ye Fan, I will be in seclusion for a period of time.
Below it was a smaller line of text: My senior and junior sisters are really quite good, aren't you going to consider taking one as a wife?
At the end of the writing, a playful smiley face was crookedly drawn...
Ye Fan was speechless and ripped off the note.
Alright.
I'll entertain myself.
Ye Fan immediately took out his eight-person bed and flew towards the Beast Forest.
Although his previous flying device was faster, it wasn't as comfortable as the bed.
He wasn't in a particular hurry, anyway...
As he passed over a wilderness, Ye Fan suddenly felt a sensation!
It was a long-lost, yet familiar feeling!
Tribulation!
Ye Fan's heart immediately sank.
What the hell was this?!
He was only at the Qi Refining stage, and he was being asked to undergo a tribulation???
In mid-air.
Dark clouds began to gather, and the sky instantly darkened!
The clouds churned, accompanied by the sound of muffled thunder!
Ye Fan was completely flustered!
As a seasoned veteran who had transmigrated over a hundred times, Ye Fan had experienced countless tribulations, big and small!
He knew the grade of the lightning strikes above his head better than anyone!
Ye Fan immediately piloted his flying bed towards the ground!
This was truly a divine curse!
He could tolerate undergoing a tribulation at the Qi Refining stage!
But they wanted him, with his Qi Refining cultivation, to face the tribulation of the Nascent Soul stage?
This wasn't a tribulation!
This was clearly an attempt to strike him dead!!!
Soon, Ye Fan became even more certain that he was being targeted!
Because tribulation lightning usually took some time to condense.
It was meant to give cultivators some time to prepare.
But the tribulation clouds above his head didn't play by the rules!
From their appearance to their complete condensation, it took less than five seconds!
He hadn't even had time to land on the ground yet!
"Crack!"
The next moment!
A thick bolt of lightning engulfed the flying bed!
"Whoosh!"
The eight-person bed, which had accompanied Ye Fan for so long, instantly turned to ash!
A charred figure plunged headfirst towards the ground...
"Swoosh—!"
"Bang!"
Ye Fan crashed heavily onto the ground.
His entire body burned, and his head buzzed.
His internal organs felt like they had been churned into a pulp, and he smelled the scent of burnt meat from his nose.
Ye Fan even felt as though he could die at any moment...
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey!"
Ye Fan struggled to get up, spitting out mouthfuls of blood.
As he moved, large patches of dark, charred debris peeled off his body.
"Damn it!" Ye Fan cursed, "This Nascent Soul stage tribulation lightning is really something..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a rumbling sound echoed from above.
The next moment.
"Crack—!"
An even thicker bolt of tribulation lightning struck down directly!
"Holy crap!"
Ye Fan exclaimed and instinctively dodged to the side.
A miracle happened!
The tribulation lightning narrowly missed him!
If any other cultivator had seen this, they would have been so shocked they would have questioned their entire existence!
Ye Fan himself was also stunned.
Because he had dodged without any conscious thought, it was purely an instinctive reaction.
This was the first time he had physically dodged tribulation lightning...
However, he didn't have time to ponder why.
Because as the tribulation lightning was about to hit the ground, it suddenly braked!
Then, the lightning turned around and charged directly at him!
"Damn it!"
Without hesitation!
Ye Fan bolted and ran!
Normally.
Even for cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage undergoing tribulation, there was only one bolt of lightning.
If they survived, they advanced; if not, they died.
It was straightforward and painless!
But why was there another one for him?!
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Ye Fan felt the malevolence of the Heavenly Dao deeply!
You bastard Heavenly Dao!
You're definitely targeting me, aren't you!!!
Ye Fan ran desperately ahead.
The tribulation lightning chased closely behind!
It looked like a game of Snake,
except Ye Fan was the dot being eaten...
The astonishing part was this.
Ye Fan, relying on the speed of his physical body, actually managed to outrun the tribulation lightning!
If anyone had witnessed this scene, they would have been dumbfounded on the spot!
Because Ye Fan had turned into a blur of light, moving faster than a Golden Core stage cultivator!
The terrain here wasn't flat; it was quite undulating.
Ye Fan hadn't run far before a ditch appeared ahead.
The ditch was incredibly deep; it was dark, and he couldn't see the bottom.
Ye Fan exerted force with his feet and plunged into it!
The tribulation lightning followed suit and plunged in after him!
The ditch was about two to three zhang wide.
As Ye Fan reached the opposite wall of the ditch, he used it for leverage and sprang out.
With a flick of his body, he landed on the ground on the other side.
Looking at the tribulation lightning still falling, Ye Fan felt a surge of smugness.
Heh!
Little punk, I'll wear you down!
The next moment.
The lightning shot out of the ditch.
After flickering twice, it charged at Ye Fan again!
Ye Fan almost peed himself and bolted!
Holy crap!
You're cheating!
What kind of tribulation lightning turns corners?!
Are you equipped with heat-seeking technology?!