With the arrival of the Heavenly Soul Sect, the Sect Master of Ghost Ridge Palace, Zhang Junwei, continuously communicated with Lu Jingshi. Finally, through the sect conference, it was decided to support Heavenly Soul Sect in opposing Guan Chao Pavilion.
This was something that had long been concluded. As part of the first batch of external reinforcements heading to Heavenly Soul Sect, Su Jie was also on the list of those providing aid.
However, Su Jie did not deeply participate in these exchanges.
Because Su Jie had already found a desolate wilderness, summoned the thousand-hand centipede, dug a deep hole, and buried himself beneath it.
Su Jie was about to breakthrough to the Dao Platform realm. Sect wars entail great risks; in a battlefield where life and death clash, it's unlikely you would suddenly have a breakthrough at the last minute, as the enemy isn't foolish enough to wait for you to complete your breakthrough before taking action.
To do things thoroughly, Su Jie first intends to boost his power to the Dao Platform realm, thereby greatly increasing safety factors.
When time reached the tenth day, Su Jie, sitting cross-legged underground, was surrounded by a faint golden light, with sweat pouring down his forehead and his brows tightly furrowed.
Inside Su Jie's body, both the physical body and primordial spirit were undergoing fierce transformations simultaneously, each meridian continually expanding, while the spiritual power inside surged like the Yangtze River, swelling and roaring.
From the void came an indescribable oppressive feeling, the gravel scattered around was crushed into powder by invisible forces, layer upon layer of ground sunk, compressed into incredible density.
Suddenly, with a crisp explosion, Su Jie's body gave a violent jolt, the layer of golden light shattered like a mirror, then reconverged to become even more dazzling.
At the position of Su Jie's left eye, the black pupil turned to a pale gold, as if able to penetrate all illusions, bright and spirited, thoroughly piercing through the eye acupoint.
In the next moment, wisps of white spiritual energy in the vicinity rushed madly towards Su Jie, surrounding him and forming a giant vortex.
Su Jie was immersed within, his left eye absorbed all the spiritual energy as if it were an unfathomable black hole.
Above Su Jie's head, layers of thick clouds rapidly gathered.
Originally, the sun was blazing high, but in an instant, dark clouds loomed overhead.
"Thunder Tribulation!"
Su Jie slowly raised his head, already understanding in his heart.
Within the tribulation cloud, thousands of silver serpents soared like dragons, intertwining and weaving together into a thick heavenly thunder, striking down heavily.
The soil overhead was blasted open directly, and the heavenly tribulation fell upon Su Jie. The heavenly thunder, which would terrify a Secret Realm cultivator, did not make Su Jie feel any discomfort. Instead, the rolling heavenly thunder on his body was completely absorbed into his body.
Su Jie had once eaten the lotus seeds of the Ninth Grade Sacred Lotus, acquiring the divine skill of Purple Cloud Heavenly Thunder, transforming his physique into the Purple Cloud Thunder Body. His resistance to heavenly thunder, which other cultivators feared, felt like a massage to Su Jie.
"Amazing, bring a few more rounds."
Su Jie laughed heartily, absorbing the heavenly thunder striking from the sky, allowing his primordial spirit to further transform and grow.
Seemingly challenging Su Jie, the heavenly thunder continuously bombarded heavily, each strike weightier than the last.
Yet Su Jie withstood them all, with no signs of damage to his body.
Many from the Secret Realm, upon reaching for the Dao Platform realm, fell under the heavenly tribulation, but Su Jie simply dismissed the thunder tribulation as insignificant.
After eighteen consecutive strikes from the thunder tribulation, Su Jie's entire primordial spirit had completely transformed.
Leaping out from Su Jie's head, his primordial spirit looked not only solidified as a real person, but within the primordial spirit, there was now an additional dazzling golden dot, akin to a miniature sun, emitting vast waves of energy.
This was just the beginning. As more heavenly thunder struck down, when 36 and 81 bolts of heavenly thunder fell, soon the second and third golden dots gradually formed.
This is called the Golden Core, the key transformation for the primordial spirit at the Yang God level. The Yangshen must condense a total of ten golden cores at key acupoints within the primordial spirit to achieve the Yang God Dao.
Now, having just broken through to the Dao Platform realm, Su Jie's primordial spirit had already refined three golden cores, a feat astonishing enough to drop jaws.
When the tribulation clouds lost their strength and gradually dispersed, the transformation of Su Jie's body slowly ceased, signaling the formal promotion of Su Jie's cultivation to the Dao Platform realm first level.
Su Jie reached out to touch his left eye, the pupil under Su Jie's control turned pale gold once more.
Su Jie directly employed the most representative move of the Dao Platform realm, channeling heavenly might with human power.
Amidst the earth shaking and mountains overturning, the ground rose high, volcanic magma erupted.
Amidst lightning and thunder, torrential rain connected the heaven and earth, transforming the forest into a swamp.
Amidst howling winds, a massive tornado hurricane swept through, uprooting large trees and obliterating everything.
Su Jie levitated mid-air, surrounded by thunder and rain, yet the space he occupied was calm, while outside lay scenes of apocalyptic disaster.
It seemed the surrounding natural forces were drawn to him, lightning, wind, rain, and flood became tame and obedient under his influence, forming a domain akin to natural calamity.
Su Jie's left eye's connection with the Tao River grew stronger. Under the control of the primordial spirit, the force of the Tao's aura was borrowed, increasing the power and range of heavenly might several-fold compared to Su Jie's previous usage.
In the future, as Su Jie refines more of the seven orifices, the power of heavenly might will continue to increase. This is the fearsome aspect of the Dao Platform realm, using one's own power as leverage to harness natural forces to obliterate the enemy, making it difficult for cultivators below the Dao Platform realm to resist.