Cultivation Begins with Daily Intelligence Reports

275: Thrown into the sea of ​​lightning”...You’ve even condensed a rudimentary ’Perfect Foundation’ within your body? Tsk tsk, truly, one cannot judge a book by its cover, nor measure the sea with a dipper.

To think that in such a remote place, you could encounter such a rare Opportunity and good fortune.” The youth’s tone was calm, yet it seemed capable of piercing through illusions and directly pointing to the Origin.

Lin Jingyu’s heart trembled violently, and he instantly understood.

This seemingly young existence possessed unfathomable true cultivation, far beyond ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators, and possibly even surpassing the Golden Core realm!

His sudden escape from a certain death situation and safe arrival on this supreme platform must have been this person’s doing!

In fact, after repeatedly using the powerful thunder fiend talisman and using it to overcome several life-or-death crises, even gaining Opportunity in return, Lin Jingyu had already made numerous guesses and high evaluations regarding the identity and strength of this mysterious youth.

Meeting him today, he realized that his previous imagination was still limited. It could be said that this mysterious youth had saved his life and guided him on multiple occasions.

He quickly suppressed his churning Qi and blood and the shock in his heart, tidied his slightly disheveled robes, and respectfully bowed deeply, his voice sincere:

”Junior Lin Jingyu pays his respects to Senior! Thank you, Senior, for saving my life multiple times! Including the previous thunder fiend talisman, Senior has rescued Junior from dire peril on several occasions.

This kindness and virtue are heavier than mountains; Junior is eternally grateful and has no means to repay it! If Senior has any commands in the future, Junior will obey them without hesitation, even if it means death!”

After a slight pause, he continued to explain, ”As for Junior’s cultivation progress, it is truly due to some fortuitous gains from a Secret Realm trip not long ago...”

He then concisely recounted his experiences in the Secret Realm: discovering Xu Li in danger, teaming up with Feng Xixi and others to explore, ultimately defeating the Demonic Cult, and fortuitously receiving the Secret Realm’s Origin infusion to condense the rudimentary Foundation.

Naturally, his greatest secret—the intelligence panel that could predict the future—was carefully omitted.

The mysterious youth listened quietly, his expression calm and unruffled, showing no surprise at Lin Jingyu’s almost legendary encounter.

It was as if everything was within reason, or perhaps, opportunities of this level were not enough to stir his emotions.

After Lin Jingyu finished speaking, the youth nodded slightly, indicating he understood.

Immediately, he pointed to the terrifying Sea of Thunder above, which made one’s Divine Soul tremble, and spoke in a calm but undeniable tone, like a Heavenly Dao decree:

”You have just begun to comprehend Thunder True Intent, and your Foundation is fairly solid, but it relies mostly on cleverness and lacks the most extreme and fundamental baptism.

The Sea of Thunder above is where the Origin essence of a million thunders from this Thunder Mountain converges, containing a trace of the primal Thunder Qi from when heaven and earth first opened.”

He looked at Lin Jingyu with profound eyes:

”Go in. If you can endure three days within it, relying on your own will and Foundation, and withstand the pain of burning your body and forging your Soul, then your Foundation can be considered initially solid, and you may hope to glimpse the path to perfection.

If you cannot endure... then you will become a part of this Sea of Thunder, turning to ashes and vanishing, which is also your Destiny; it cannot be forced.”

With that, without waiting for Lin Jingyu’s response or preparation, the mysterious youth casually flicked his sleeve.

A boundless power that Lin Jingyu could neither comprehend nor resist instantly enveloped his entire body, gently yet domineeringly isolating all his resistance.

The next moment, he felt the world spin, and his entire body was lightly tossed up by an invisible giant force, directly into that destructive Sea of Thunder, which was like a primordial beast opening its maw, ready to devour everything.

At the same time, the youth’s clear voice pierced through the deafening thunder, clearly reaching his ears, which were about to be submerged by the lightning:

”Furthermore, the rudimentary ’Perfect Foundation’ within your body, though it has assimilated the Origin Law power of a fragmented Small World.

And initially took shape nourished by it, it inevitably became tainted with the corrupt remnants of that world’s demise and decay.

If you can truly comprehend the True Intent of ’destruction, with new life at its end’ contained within the thunder in this Sea of Thunder.

And use this supreme yang and rigid primal Thunder Qi, which dispels all evil, to temper your Foundation and remove the deeply hidden corrupt dregs within it, only then can you remove the dross and preserve the essence, allowing your Foundation to take a more solid step on the path to perfection.”

”Boom!”

His consciousness, the moment it entered the Sea of Thunder, felt as if it had been struck by billions of bolts of lightning simultaneously, shattering into countless fragments.

Lin Jingyu felt that he had not fallen into a Sea of Thunder at all, but into an ultimate purgatory composed of the purest, most violent destructive energy between heaven and earth.

Every inch of his skin was being torn and carbonized by the lightning. Every bone was groaning under the unbearable pressure and shattering.

Every Meridian was being crushed inch by inch and burned through by the violent Thunder Qi.

Even every thought that arose, every wisp of Divine Sense, was enduring unimaginable crushing, forging, and tearing pain.

The thunder here, in its ferocity and primal nature, was far more terrifying than the thunder in the Immortal Cave below, which had been filtered and softened a hundred or even a thousand times by the Formation.

They seemed to possess their own will, filled with the most fundamental desire for destruction against all living beings and all tangible matter.

Lin Jingyu’s recently condensed and still nascent Thunder Origin imprint, before this torrent of heavenly might, was as fragile as a faint candle flame in a storm, its light rapidly dimming, flickering as if about to extinguish.

”Ah!”

Even with Lin Jingyu’s incredibly resilient will, honed through countless hardships, under this extreme torment, he couldn’t help but let out a desperate roar from the depths of his Soul.

His body twitched and contorted violently in the endless lightning, his skin instantly charred black and cracked open, blood oozing out only to be instantly evaporated by the extreme heat.

The Evergreen Art within his body operated at an unprecedented speed, and pure, gentle wood-attribute vital energy desperately surged towards the damaged areas.

It tried to repair the gruesome injuries, but the rate of destruction far exceeded the limits of repair; it was merely a drop in the bucket!

The Spirit Refining Art was also pushed to its limit, the three mental lakes churning and surging like a monstrous tsunami, barely maintaining the last shred of clarity in his spiritual platform with their profound mysteries.

He painstakingly analyzed and guided, attempting to understand and adapt to the most primal fragments of Thunder Law contained within this destructive energy torrent.

Destruction! Extreme destruction! Boundless destruction!

This was Lin Jingyu’s most direct and profound feeling at this moment.

Completely different from the trace of vitality hidden within the thunder he had perceived down the mountain, the thunder here seemed to have pushed the attribute of ”destruction” to its pinnacle.

Their very existence seemed to be for the purpose of destroying, annihilating, and reducing everything to nothingness!

Perhaps in the next moment, Lin Jingyu himself would be torn apart by the lightning and reduced to ashes.