’So this is what it feels like to physically enter the Otherworld?’

Wang Xiao found himself on a mountaintop.

The wind brushed against his skin, bringing a slight chill.

There was none of the rejection he had felt before in the Void Heaven and Earth.

He could even faintly sense the fluctuations between Heaven and Earth, making his entire body feel as if it were about to merge with them.

’Is this... is this world welcoming me?’

Wang Xiao looked up at the sky.

The sky was vast and high—seemingly impassive, yet full of feeling.

He knew that he had once helped this world resolve the great tribulation of Heaven and Earth, and had even returned his physical body to it.

Although he had now traveled here in his true body, the aura of his soul remained unchanged.

It was still in perfect harmony with this world.

’Good. Otherwise, when I cross the tribulation later, I’d have to resist the world’s rejection. That would be a huge problem. I’m here in my physical body this time; if I die, it’s for real.’

Without another thought, Wang Xiao soared into the air, shooting straight toward the heavens to find a suitable place for Crossing the Celestial Tribulation!

「Half a day later.」

He finally found a region teeming with thunderbolts and charged right in.

The thunderbolts in this world were quite different from those in the Real World.

They contained an aura of life, which could help a Cultivator temper their Lifebound essence and, in turn, form a Lifebound Golden Core.

The thunderbolts of the Real World were purely destructive.

The difference was night and day.

Crossing a thunder tribulation in the Real World would not only make it impossible to transform one’s Dantian into a Purple Mansion, temper Gang Qi, and generate the Purple Mansion True Flame, but it might even shatter the Dantian completely!

RUMBLE—

The heavens trembled as vast thunderclouds swirled through the sky.

Wang Xiao released the Gang Qi around his body, drawing the thunderbolts into himself.

In his hand, he held a piece of a tree root, blood-red in color and shaped like a long dragon.

It was the Saint Level Fourth Grade Dragon Blood Sacred Wood, and its effects were similar to the Seven-Colored Divine Stone he had previously obtained from the Mountain God of Great Yin Mountain.

It could also protect the Yin Spirit and repair the physical body, among other things. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

It had cost Wang Xiao nearly 150,000 Contribution Points.

Endless thunderbolts crashed down, striking Wang Xiao’s body and sending arcs of electricity crackling across his skin.

Enduring the excruciating pain, Wang Xiao drew all the lightning into his body and directed it to slam into his Dantian!

BOOM!

His Dantian instantly let out a deafening roar and began to rapidly transform.

A Purple Mansion that seemed connected to the Void Heaven and Earth slowly took shape.

Wang Xiao didn’t immediately use the Dragon Blood Sacred Wood, instead enduring the Celestial Tribulation with his physical body alone.

Only when the sixtieth bolt of the Celestial Tribulation crashed down did Wang Xiao begin to refine the Dragon Blood Sacred Wood, restoring his physical body and Yin Spirit.

Dragon roars echoed from the Dragon Blood Sacred Wood, transforming the thunderbolts into a liquid Thunder Pool that merged into Wang Xiao’s body.

A few breaths later, Wang Xiao’s entire body became as brilliant as glazed jade. The Purple Mansion True Flame blazed within him, radiating a power that could destroy anything.

The Dragon Blood Sacred Wood in his hand, however, had turned to dust and vanished without a trace.

’Having enough resources is awesome! I broke through three stages in the blink of an eye, reaching my sixth Limit Breaking!’

Relying solely on the Dragon Blood Sacred Wood, Wang Xiao had achieved Limit Breaking Three Times in a row, advancing from the Purple Mansion Heaven and Earth, to the Purple Mansion True Flame, and finally to the Glazed Jade Body!

He was now only three realms away from Vacuum Shattering: Five Viscera Concealed God, Great Daoist Nascent Soul, and Heaven and Earth!

The Five Viscera Concealed God realm involved making the Five Viscera form a Five Elements Cycle, then merging them with Gang Qi to create a divine resonance.

This required the power of the Ten Thousand Lights to temper one’s Gang Qi, which would ultimately allow the Five Viscera to transform.

However, the Real World had something even better than the Ten Thousand Lights that could serve as a substitute.

This could save Wang Xiao a great deal of arduous training.

After all, he now had sufficient enlightenment and didn’t need to be fixated on specific external aids.

The same was true for the subsequent Great Daoist Nascent Soul realm.

’Once I form the Great Daoist Nascent Soul, I can use this world’s Celestial Tribulation to transform my Purple Mansion True Flame into Samadhi True Flame, multiplying its power!’

’Speaking of which, I wonder what the time flow rate is here compared to the Real World. If the ratio is high, I could just cultivate in the Incense Realm in the future. That would save me a significant amount of time!’

’Last time, I spent one hundred and twenty years here while only seven days passed in the Real World. But that was a Soul Projection. This time, I’ve crossed over with my physical body, so there’s bound to be a difference.’

’I’ll have to check the exact time-flow ratio myself.’

Wang Xiao mused to himself.

He swept his Divine Thought outward, quickly searching for a city on the land below.

Before long, a magnificent city appeared before him.

The city had it all—tall towers, palaces, multi-story buildings, and shops—and was already quite sprawling.

An endless stream of people bustled through the city streets.

Among them were merchants, peddlers, travelers, and even Cultivators and Martial Artists, creating an extraordinarily lively scene.

There was no longer the slightest sign that this place had endured the great tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

’Life really does find a way.’

Wang Xiao sighed to himself with emotion.

During the great tribulation of Heaven and Earth, less than a tenth of this world’s population had survived, leaving fewer than a million people.

All the cities had been destroyed, reduced to ruins.

Now, as Wang Xiao’s Divine Thought swept over the area, he discovered that this city alone had a population of four or five hundred thousand.

And this was just a small, relatively unremarkable city.

In a major city, the population would likely be in the millions.

Moreover, Wang Xiao discovered a stone statue standing in the center of the city.

The statue bore a striking resemblance to him.

He landed inconspicuously inside the city.

Wang Xiao found a Cultivator and subtly inquired about when the great tribulation had ended, as well as the time of the Ascension in the Daylight of the Celestial Master from Dragon Tiger Mountain.