Chapter 71: Advancement to Golden Immortal

  After calming down, Leihao finally calmed down to feel the situation in his body. The punch just now had almost exhausted all of Leihao's magic power, but at this time, Leihao found that in less than half a stick of incense, the magic power in his body had recovered more than half.

  At this time, Lei Hao finally confirmed that he had indeed advanced to the Golden Immortal level.

  "Monkey, how was that punch just now?" Lei Hao looked at Sun Wukong with a pleased expression.

  Sun Wukong, who had been hanging his head like a child who had done something wrong, looked up at Lei Hao and said with some resentment: "Your punch just now was indeed very powerful, but my martial arts are all in the Golden Cudgel, and I'm not very skilled in fist techniques. If I had the Golden Cudgel in hand, you definitely wouldn't be able to beat me, old Sun."

  Lei Hao listened, raised an eyebrow, and pointed to the sky: "My martial arts skills are all on it." As soon as Lei Hao spoke, a clear and cold sword hum came from afar, a purple sword light rushed forward quickly, circled around Lei Hao countless times, and stopped at Lei Hao's palm, still trembling constantly, it was Tulong after crossing the tribulation.

  Sun Wukong took a look at the mighty Thunder Slayer and suddenly let out a breath, saying with some annoyance: "Alright, alright, I admit it, I'm no match for you now. Your Thunder Slayer is no worse than my Golden Hoop Rod, your knife skills are beyond mine, and your ultimate move 'Violent Thunder Origin' is something I can't even compare to." Sun Wukong listed out Lei Hao's trump cards one by one, not bad for a brother who had interacted with him for so many years.

  Lei Hao smiled triumphantly and said, "I've long wanted to beat you up, but I couldn't before. Every time we sparred, you went easy on me. Now that I can finally beat you, how about we find another place to practice?"

  Sun Wukong pushed with both hands and said, "I'm not stupid, only fools would bother to argue with you. Let me practice my skills first, then I'll come back to spar with you." After finishing speaking, he leaped into the air, transformed into a golden light, and headed straight back to Mount Huaguo.

  He just finished speaking and only then did he realize that Lei Hao still had many desperate moves left, at least he knew that Lei Hao's Violent Thunder could temporarily boost his power to almost the same level as him, but apart from his stick technique, he didn't have any other ultimate moves, a few staff techniques were not even as proficient as Lei Hao's knife techniques, let alone the divine art of Heaven and Earth, which Lei Hao could also learn after advancing to Golden Immortal, so his Violent Ape body was now useless against Lei Hao, so he retreated back to Mount Huaguo with a single Cloud Stride.

  Lei Hao saw Sun Wukong's almost rascal appearance, and scolded with a bad temper: "This dead monkey, how arrogant was he when bullying the Great Ox in the past? In the past, I found him to spar, but he ran faster than anyone else. Now that he can't beat me, he just doesn't fight at all, really has his style."

  Lei Da Niu, who was standing by, suddenly thought of the miserable scene where he was brutally beaten by Sun Wukong in the past, and couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time.

  "Just, the head's cultivation has been raised again, but we are still stuck in the bottleneck of the inner elixir realm, the gap is getting bigger and bigger, how can I still help the head?" Big Cow thought with some loss.

  It's not just Lei Da Niu who has this idea, but almost all of the Lei Wei brothers present have such thoughts in their minds.

  They are different from other demons, they are brothers who have transformed with Lei Hao, tempered their flesh and blood together, and cultivated together! They witnessed Lei Hao's growth and also witnessed Lei Hao's efforts, so now Lei Hao has the current strength and status.

  And though they were called Lei Wei, it was always Lei Hao who protected them. Every one of Lei Hao's outbursts of rage had something to do with them, and he feared that one of them would be hurt. They saw all this, remembered it in their hearts, and though they never mentioned it, they worked hard at their cultivation, trying to improve their abilities so as to share some of the burden for Lei Hao. But despite their efforts, the gap between their abilities only grew wider. In the past, they could still see Lei Hao's back, but now...

  For a moment, most of the Lei Wei brothers' faces showed a resolute expression, but only Lei Hao was excited and didn't notice.

  "Tulong, you can now be considered a postnatal spiritual treasure. What kind of magical powers do you have?" Lei Hao curiously asked Tulong.

  The dragon spirit nodded its head, which was similar to the hilt of a sword, and then flew into the sky. With a flash of purple light, it transformed into a five-clawed divine dragon. It proudly showed off its might, roaring loudly with its mouth open wide, revealing rows of sharp teeth. The sound it made didn't seem like that of a divine dragon, but rather similar to the roar of a fierce beast.

  Lei Hao laughed so hard his face was about to cramp, and with great enthusiasm he beckoned to Tulong: "Is there anything else? Come on, one more, one more."

  The dragon-like butcher's knife suddenly transformed into a war knife, and after another spin around Lei Hao, it flew back into the sky. The blade trembled lightly, and in an instant, it changed from a large knife that was one zhang two wide and eight chi long to a gigantic knife that pierced the heavens and stood upright on the earth. The hilt of the knife sank deep into the clouds, and even with Lei Hao's sharp eyesight, he couldn't see where the hilt was located.

  Lei Hao stood still, looking up at the sky for a while before lowering his head to concentrate on recalling the "Sixth Grade Fire Gold Immortal's Secret". After a few breaths, Lei Hao pinched a hand seal, muttered to himself, and suddenly his body violently expanded. In just one breath, he transformed into a gigantic figure standing tall like Tulong.

  Lei Hao, now a giant, wielded the Dragon Slayer with a wave of his hand. The Dragon Slayer shrunk in size and transformed into a massive battle knife that Lei Hao could barely swing. After swinging it for a while, he felt as if the knife weighed tens of thousands of kilograms, and he couldn't help but feel extremely satisfied. With the Dragon Slayer by his side, even if Lei Hao were to use his divine abilities, Heaven's Will or Earth's Will, he would still have a blade to wield.

  Lei Hao and Tu Long suddenly turned into giants like the four pillars that hold up the sky, shocking all living beings on the Eastern Shengshen Continent to kneel down in fear. At this time, prayers filled the air. On that day, all temples and Taoist monasteries on the Eastern Shengshen Continent were crowded with incense offerings, and the number of people becoming monks or Taoists also increased simultaneously. However, all of this had nothing to do with Lei Hao anymore.

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  Lei Hao sat quietly in the grand hall of the Water Temple, his eyes listlessly staring at the dancing flames in the fire basin, lost in thought.

  "So that's how it is..." After a long time, Lei Hao slowly let out a breath and muttered to himself with a somewhat solemn expression.

  It wasn't until several days after he had advanced to the Golden Immortal Realm that Lei Hao finally understood what had happened on the day of the Dragon Slaughter Crossing Tribulation, and why his strength had suddenly and inexplicably surged from the Heavenly Immortal Realm to the Golden Immortal Realm.

  After that day, Lei Hao looked up some records of the demon clan and understood what the Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure was all about. He also figured out what the Apotheosis was all about.

  It turns out that the Dragon Slayer is also a kind of magic treasure, and magic treasures are divided into two categories: innate and acquired. Innate magic treasures are called innate spiritual treasures, which are born before heaven and earth, rather than being refined by immortals, gods, ghosts, or demons. Each innate spiritual treasure has its own unique mission, regardless of whether its effect is good or bad, it is a tool for the Heavenly Way to perfect this world.

  Just like the famous Chaos Treasure, the Heaven-Opening Axe of Pangu, it was the most precious treasure of Pangu, the Great God who opened up the sky. Its power was unmatched and it was the strongest attacking treasure in this world. However, it shouldered the heavy responsibility of opening up the sky and earth. After Pangu opened up the sky, because its attacking power was too strong, it was not tolerated by this world and was forced to disintegrate. The axe head transformed into the Pre-Heavenly Treasure, the Taiji Diagram, the axe blade transformed into the Pre-Heavenly Treasure, the Pangu Flag, and the axe handle transformed into the Pre-Heavenly Treasure, the Hunyuan Bell.

  Later, the Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure actually has some similarities with the Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasure. Both have some will of the Heavenly Way within them. However, the vast majority of Post-Heaven Spirit Treasures are created by powerful beings for this world, either to promote the progress of the Heavenly Way or to eliminate obstacles that hinder its progress. This is why there were many Post-Heaven Spirit Treasures when the gods were sealed away, but very few after the sealing was over. One reason is that not enough cultivation is insufficient to create one, but it's also because the cause and effect of creation are unrelated to the Heavenly Way.

  Taking the Golden Cudgel of Sun Wukong as an example, the Golden Cudgel is a postnatal spiritual treasure without discount, but its previous body was not a weapon, but a measuring needle for measuring seawater, which was only after completing its perfect task, leaving behind Da Yu's water control, and even the prosperity of human beings.

  "But why can Tulong become a postnatal spiritual treasure?" Lei Hao muttered to himself.

  Why Tulong became a post-heavenly spiritual treasure is unknown, but one thing is certain: Tulong has indeed become a post-heavenly spiritual treasure. The divine tribulation that descended from the heavens was also certainly something that would appear after refining a post-heavenly spiritual treasure. After Tulong passed through the divine tribulation, the pillar of light that descended was clearly the mysteries of the Great Dao. Leihao's cultivation suddenly skyrocketed because his divine sense was all within the Tulong sword, and he had hitched a ride on the lucky break of Tulong being upgraded from a spiritual sword to a post-heavenly spiritual treasure. As a result, his understanding of the source of thunder suddenly increased, causing his cultivation to skyrocket in just a few moments, directly crossing over one level, advancing from the Tianxian realm to the Jinxian realm.

  In the past, those who could refine the acquired spiritual treasure were all mighty and powerful, with abilities that reached the heavens. They didn't care about this tiny bit of profound truth in the Great Way. However, when the acquired spiritual treasures born from heaven and earth came into being, they didn't have an owner at first, so there was no way to infuse divine consciousness into them. Naturally, it was impossible for them to catch a lucky break during their reincarnation cycle. So, who knows what kind of great luck Lei Hao had encountered to catch this rare lucky break that only comes once in ten thousand years?

  "Could it be that Dragon Slayer still has a mission? Is there still some kind of karma?" Lei Hao thought carefully for a long time, but again felt it was impossible. Dragon Slayer was something he had personally refined, and the materials used were also melted by his own hands. Unless...

  "Unless I have some predestined mission or what kind of heavenly cause and effect?" The result that was pushed out shocked Lei Hao greatly.

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