From the Heavens Descended an Immortal Sister

He only felt that some of his meridians had ruptured internally, and the flow of grey True Qi was difficult, eventually retracting back into his Spiritual Root.

At the ruptured spots within his meridians, however, there was a ceaseless surge of scorching energy sweeping into his body, and after a few seconds, not only the scorching energy but also the Void Energy Cluster began to rush into him wildly.

"What's going on!"

Fang Ren furrowed his brows deeply, not due to the agonizing pain caused by the ruptured meridians, but because these two types of energy should have been inside Jiang Ling's body, so why had they suddenly transferred to him?

Boom——

While Fang Ren was engulfed in confusion, a lightning pillar tens of meters wide suddenly descended from the sky, striking the top of Jiang Ling's head with unerring accuracy.

The power of the lightning pillar was incomparably mighty, its momentum like a stampede of myriad beasts. At the moment of its descent, Fang Ren, who was behind Jiang Ling, was directly blown away by the thunder and propelled into midair.

"What is this situation!"

Before he had time to expel the Void Energy and scorching breath from his body, Fang Ren only felt that the destructive aura of the lightning had started to flood into the severed parts of his meridians.

In an instant, the scene within his Dantian was unfolding like the end of the world.

The shock of various energies caused Fang Ren's entire body to start fracturing like shards. He felt as if he was about to be blown apart by these energies!

The energies were too wild and violent; he felt that his heart might also be destroyed at any moment, and if that happened, his body would not be able to regenerate, and he would die on the spot!

"Blood-Returning Flesh-Forming Pills!"

Fang Ren was in a panic, and had no time for anything else.

As he was blown into the air, he directly took out a whole box of pills from his Space Ring. Seeing another bolt of lightning about to strike from the sky, he didn't even have time to search for ammunition and swallowed all the Grade Four and Grade Five pills in the box in one gulp.

Boom——

At that moment, another thunderbolt struck, slamming Fang Ren fiercely into the ground.

The entire vast bamboo forest was reduced to ashes under the onslaught of the lightning, and the ground within a radius of three miles was scorched!

Before Fang Ren could react, several more bolts of lightning fell from the sky, blurring his consciousness. Just then, all the pills he had just swallowed were pulled away and absorbed by his Spiritual Root, which then released the refined essence of energy into his Dantian.

Originally, there were three foreign breaths colliding in his Dantian along with his True Qi, amounting to a total of four types of energy. The sudden influx of pill energy made these energies even more chaotic.

Meanwhile, Jiang Ling was still meditating with her eyes closed on the ground. The continuous lightning strikes above her failed to even singe a single hair on her head.

Boom boom boom——

The unending sound of thunder finally ceased after ten minutes. Fang Ren lay on the ground, his body charred, his clothes long since turned to ash. He looked like a piece of charcoal burnt over, utterly hideous.

At the lower abdomen area, various energies mingled together, still flickering with different lights, as if their struggle had not yet ceased.

Crack crack crack——

Sounds of bones cracking began to emanate from Jiang Ling's body; she had already opened her eyes, her aura vastly different from her peak period.

Her aura bore no oppressiveness, nearly imperceptible, making her seem as if she had merged with nature itself. It felt off somehow, but the problem couldn't be identified.

Jiang Ling looked blankly at her hands. The scorching breath on her body had disappeared, and the Void Energy Cluster in her Dantian was also gone, leaving only her own True Qi.

"Did I just…survive Heavenly Tribulation?"

Jiang Ling's eyes were filled with disbelief. Although in some novels, Cultivators need to overcome tribulation to break through, in the reality of the Great Cultivation Era, she had never heard of Cultivators undergoing Heavenly Tribulation.

Not even Mu Huanqing, the peak of humankind, was said to have undergone such tribulation.

"Mr. Fang... It seems I've made a breakthrough beyond my level..."

Jiang Ling's hands trembled as she immediately turned her head to look for Fang Ren. She knew that the reason she was able to break through smoothly was that Fang Ren, within that treacherous environment, had borne the brunt of the lightning to open the gate for her.

Without Fang Ren, she would have been nothing but a corpse by now.

"Mr. Fang!"

But when she turned around, she saw a body that had been struck and charred by lightning, covered in cracks, with a violent energy cluster tearing through his dantian and meridians in his abdomen.

Jiang Ling immediately lifted Fang Ren from the ground, intending to use the powerful True Qi in her body to enter his body and help force out the other energies within him.

However, just as she was about to circulate True Qi, she discovered that Fang Ren's meridians were shattered beyond recognition, and forcibly infusing True Qi at this time would only exacerbate the injuries inside Fang Ren's body.

"Void Energy Cluster..."

Jiang Ling looked at the Void Energy in Fang Ren's abdomen, and her heart sank completely.

She could never have imagined that Fang Ren, in order to help her break through safely, had not only entered her consciousness to withstand the thunder and push open the door, but also, outside of her consciousness, had attracted all of the energy from her body into his own, sparing her from a life-threatening danger.

"We've only met once... Why go to such lengths to help me!" Jiang Ling's heart was filled with grief.

She still remembered that if it hadn't been for this young man treating her body's poison, she wouldn't have survived until now, and the entire Nightfall Organization would have fallen at the hands of a first-quarter general.

Now, this young man had sacrificed himself again to help her break through...

"What can I do to help you..."

Jiang Ling was completely flustered. Although continuous breakthroughs were a great joy for her, seeing her life-saving benefactor suffer such a terrible fate was the last thing she wanted.

Whoosh—

Just at that moment, a gray light flew out from Fang Ren's lower abdomen and landed on his body.

"Hee-ha…"

A little creature covered in cracks stood feebly on Fang Ren's body, its movements shaky and nearly strengthless. It removed the already faint halo above its head and placed it into Fang Ren's lower abdomen.

Whoosh—

Little Qianye turned into a gray light and re-entered Fang Ren's body.

"Is that… a Spirit Form?"

Jiang Ling was stunned; what else could it be that flew out from the Spiritual Root if not a Spirit Form?

But wasn't Mr. Fang's Spirit Form a great tree?

Could it be... a dual Spirit Form?

And most importantly, this Spirit Form was alive!

"Buzz!"

The ethereal halo around Fang Ren suddenly merged into his flesh, heading straight for the dantian. It was like a massive vortex, and when it rushed into the dantian, it sucked in all the lightning, blistering heat, Void Energy, and the Impure Energy from medicines that were inside Fang Ren's body.

Finally, the halo expanded, firmly fixing the about-to-shatter dantian from the outside.

Gray specks began to emanate from the halo, circulating through his entire body through the meridians. In an instant, Fang Ren's meridians, which had been shattered to pieces, began regenerating at high speed, and his pitch-black flesh also began turning as hard as rock.

After a while.

Crack—

The layer of black rock covering Fang Ren's body split open.