Eternal Life Begins with Learning

Chapter 446: Chapter 411: Celestial Thunder Refining Golden Pill, 3 Pill Patterns Formed

The Celestial Thunder Power paralyzed Chu Mu completely, preventing even his Magical Power from circulating normally.

At the same time, after destroying his physical body, the surging Thunder Tribulation Power unexpectedly converged. It surged like a tide toward the embryonic Golden Core floating in his Dantian.

Chu Mu was horrified. But before he could react, the tide of Celestial Thunder Power had already poured into his Dantian, enveloping the newly formed embryonic Golden Core!

An excruciating pain that felt like it was piercing his very soul swept through him. Chu Mu grunted, forcing himself to endure it. As he focused his Divine Sense on his Dantian, his tightly furrowed brow suddenly smoothed out.

’The tribulation cloud is performing Alchemy... refining... a Pill with Pill Patterns?’

As Chu Mu sensed the embryonic Golden Core being tempered by the Thunder Tribulation Power, his eyes grew brighter and brighter!

This scene was so similar to Alchemy!

He had originally thought the Celestial Thunder was simply forging a Golden Core.

But now it seemed that while the Celestial Thunder was indeed forging a Golden Core, it wasn’t an ordinary one. It was... a Golden Core with Pill Patterns!

The quality of the final Formed Pill would depend entirely on how he crossed this Thunder Tribulation!

"Hahahaha..."

Chu Mu laughed with wild abandon. ’When it comes to refining a Pill with Pill Patterns, how many people could possibly know more than me?’

With a wave of his hand, the phantom Flaming Blade he was holding dissipated.

The searing pain in his body and soul was completely suppressed. He controlled the flow of Magical Power within him and, facing the next descending bolt of the Thunder Tribulation, he didn’t dodge or evade. Instead, he leaped up to meet it head-on!

BOOM—

His skin and flesh were instantly torn asunder, leaving him a bloody mess!

Yet Chu Mu seemed completely unaware. With an expression of serene indifference, he shrouded his Dantian with his Divine Sense, manipulating the embryonic Golden Core to actively welcome the tempering of the Thunder Tribulation Power!

’Rather than passively accepting the Tribulation Thunder’s tempering, I trust myself more. I’ll turn this situation around. This is my Golden Core... I’ll refine it myself!’

The Thunder Tribulation Power roiled in his Dantian. Chu Mu used his Dantian as a Pill Furnace, the embryonic Golden Core as the Pill, and the Thunder Tribulation Power as the flame!

Alchemy!

Under the Spiritual Radiance Blessing, his mind was completely focused, every minute detail rendered in perfect clarity!

Under this refinement, a faint and nearly imperceptible line began to emerge on the glittering Golden Core.

It was completely natural, as if a creation of heaven and earth. It resembled a Pill Pattern, yet it was not...

BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

One after another, the bolts of the Thunder Tribulation descended. As Chu Mu refused to dodge, each one struck his body directly. Amidst the carnage, his Magical Power instinctively began to circulate at high speed, repairing his broken body.

Chu Mu spared a sliver of his attention to down several Upper Grade Healing Elixirs as if they were candy. Once the rate of healing reached a relative equilibrium with the destruction caused by the Thunder Tribulation Power, he once again ignored everything else and immersed himself in the unique Pill Furnace that was his Dantian, continuing to refine this special, patterned Pill!

When the ninth bolt of the Thunder Tribulation finally descended, the churning thunderclouds suddenly went still, and the tribulation paused.

But immediately after, the thunderclouds abruptly expanded. Amidst lightning and thunder, a world-shaking roar echoed as the light purple Celestial Thunder turned a deep violet. The terrifying celestial might was nearly suffocating.

The Thunder Tribulation struck. Like a sandbag with its strings cut, Chu Mu plummeted from the sky, smashing a deep crater into the already ruined hall. Splattering blood and flesh instantly stained a large patch of the ink-black floor tiles red.

Chu Mu shot back into the sky, hovering in mid-air, seemingly oblivious to the horrific injuries covering his body. When the next bolt fell, he once again met it head-on.

He shot into the sky again and again, only to be smashed back down to the ground by the Thunder Tribulation time after time.

This cycle repeated for another nine bolts of the Thunder Tribulation!

After the nine bolts ended, the tribulation paused again. Then, the thunderclouds expanded once more, and the deep violet Tribulation Thunder transformed into... crimson!

A crimson bolt of Celestial Thunder descended, bringing with it wisps of crimson flame.

BOOM!

The crimson Celestial Thunder struck Chu Mu’s body. As his flesh was torn open yet again, crimson flames engulfed him, threatening to burn him to cinders.

"Good!"

Instead of being alarmed, Chu Mu was delighted. ’Although I don’t know the specifics of this Thunder Tribulation, it’s easy to see that the first two waves were a progressive, pure Celestial Thunder ordeal.’

’This wave of Tribulation Thunder, with its crimson flames, must be targeting my Cultivation Attribute.’

’A Thunder Tribulation is a trial... but it can also be a great opportunity!’

’When Tribulation Thunder performs Alchemy, it naturally refines a Pill that shares the same source as the Tribulation Crosser’s Cultivation!’

The surging Celestial Thunder Power poured into his Dantian, tempering the "Pill Furnace" and refining the Golden Core. At the same time, the Celestial Thunder Flame that descended with the bolt also flooded his Dantian like a tide.

This time, however, the Celestial Thunder Flame didn’t run rampant. The moment it entered his Dantian, it was completely devoured by his Great Sun True Flame.

He took his proactive stance one step further. Seizing the opportunity, his True Flame surged into the "Pill Furnace" and joined the Celestial Thunder Power in refining the Immortal Golden Core!

One crimson bolt of Celestial Thunder fell after another. As the Golden Core was refined and the Pill Patterns formed with natural perfection, a profound and mysterious insight slowly dawned in Chu Mu’s mind.

BOOM!

The ninth crimson Celestial Thunder fell. This time, nine bowl-sized bolts of crimson thunder merged into a single, much larger and thicker pillar of crimson lightning that instantly struck down.

BOOM!

The terrifying power of this falling crimson pillar of lightning far surpassed all the Celestial Thunder from the first two waves combined.

In an instant, the bloody, mangled figure in the sky was smashed into the ground by this terrifying bolt of Celestial Thunder.

A massive crater, several times larger than the last, was instantly formed in the hall’s floor. The crater was bottomless, and the power of lightning and fire roiled within it, persisting for several seconds before slowly dissipating.

Chu Mu looked as if he had been blasted into a meat paste. His entire body was a bloody mess, no longer resembling a human form. Only at his Dantian did a dazzling golden light seem to grow ever more brilliant.

In the sky above, as the final bolt of the Thunder Tribulation struck, the roiling thunderclouds seemed to have exhausted their power. With a final flicker, they began to visibly dissipate.

At the bottom of the massive crater, the pile of mangled flesh that resembled a heap of rotten meat began to slowly squirm and twist, reforming into a human shape.

The process took nearly a full quarter of an hour before Chu Mu completely regained his human form.

Once his human form was restored, Chu Mu took out several bottles of Healing Elixirs and downed them. He then closed his eyes once more, his Divine Sense returning to his Dantian.

Through his Divine Sense Perception, he saw a jade-like, crimson Golden Core floating within his Dantian. As the Golden Core pulsed, an indescribable sense of terrifying power surged through his consciousness.

It felt as though a single thought from him now could instantly annihilate his former self from before Core Formation.

’If I were to find a clearer point of comparison...’

’...that True Master Yun Xiao, even after taking the Heavenly Deceit Pill, doesn’t seem that much stronger than I am right now...’

The thought was fleeting. His attention returned to the Golden Core itself.

The Golden Core was crimson, with wisps of Great Sun True Flame coiling around it. Three faint, ephemeral patterns were inscribed upon its body, hidden beneath the True Flame, a work of natural perfection, a creation of heaven and earth.

Although he wasn’t yet sure what a Three-Patterned Golden Core truly signified, he knew as an Alchemist that any Elixir that formed even one Pill Pattern was a Supreme Treasure. An Elixir with three patterns would be an unparalleled, priceless treasure!

That was the case for Elixirs.

So for a Celestial Thunder Refining Golden Pill...

’The same must be true!’

"Hahahaha..."

Chu Mu laughed with wild abandon. It was a laugh of pure, unadulterated joy, but coming from his mangled, bloody form, it was unspeakably eerie and terrifying...

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