Chapter Twenty
Hongjun had just finished speaking, and the crowd began to file out. As they left the gate, each person bid farewell and departed on their own. Kunpeng was about to look for Zhunti and Jieying, but no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find them anywhere. When he asked the others, he finally learned that the two had run away long ago. Kunpeng thought about the vastness of the Honghuang world and realized that even if he knew they were in the Western region, he wouldn't know where to start looking. And as for Zhunti, who was a cunning and evil person, who knows whether his claim of coming from the West was true or false?
No sooner had Zhou Bofu stepped out of the Purple Cloud Palace than he was stopped by a three-legged crow, who introduced himself as Taiyi and said: "I am honored to be called 'Dong Huang' by my fellow demons from all sides. You must be Bohu, the renowned master of the Southern Wilderness?"
"Dong Huang indeed has good eyesight, it's me who was wrong. I wonder what teachings Dong Huang has for pulling me back?" Zhou Bosymbol replied.
Then the two big bird demons chatted about some topics like "Today's weather, haha", and sincerely exchanged their insights on Hong Jun's lecture. Kun Peng also chimed in with his own thoughts. The three demons then scolded a certain Western guy for being shameless. The three guys did develop some camaraderie, and Zhou Bofu thought to himself: "Dong Huang Tai Yi is indeed a natural-born leader, just like in the Honghuang scriptures. His ability to win people over is truly impressive... and even more formidable is that he absolutely believes in his own words..."
If a demon or cultivator saw this scene in the future, they would definitely be shocked. This is almost all of the top flying demons from the Primordial Era gathered together, and it's unlikely that anyone will surpass them in the future.
Three big monsters chatted happily for a long time, during which they bid farewell to the three Qing who came out later, and were interrupted by Fuxi and Nüwa. When it was mentioned why Fuxi and Nüwa didn't come together, Fuxi sighed and said that they were blown away by the chaotic wind of the heavenly outside on the way, resulting in Nüwa arriving one step ahead, and also felt embarrassed to take a position for her own brother. At this point, they again spoke in unison and despised Zhuanti.
Before long, several people were eager to return and consolidate the lectures they had heard, so they bid farewell one by one. Finally, Zhou Bofu asked Taiyi with a sincere heart: "How did you change into this form?" Taiyi replied: "This is Pan Gu's body... We cultivators can only cultivate and improve our bodies to merge with the Heavenly Way, how could you not know, fellow Taoist?"
Zhou Bofu chuckled to himself, thinking: "I knew it all along, this is just a play. To avoid trouble in the future." He casually made up an excuse and fooled them, but Taiyi didn't care about the truth or falsehood, and everyone laughed and said goodbye.
All the way, Zhou Bofu happily used short-range space jumps, never thinking that once he left the chaotic space outside the sky, he would crash into the sky... When he arrived at the Hongyuan Sky, the space jump couldn't be used. Only after careful observation did he realize that the space jump was not his own ability, but rather Hongyuan had opened "permissions" in the chaotic space outside the sky, allowing those with talent and ability to jump..."This is really frustrating," Zhou Bofu sighed.
Since there was no space jump, he had to fly honestly. Fortunately, Zhou Bofu is now one of the top flying birds and demons in the world, with extremely fast flight speed, and soon found a place with beautiful scenery and abundant spiritual energy to land.
After falling, Zhou Bofu began to enter the state of meditation, diving deep into the ocean of consciousness to sort out and summarize the great teachings of Hong Jun. As soon as he entered the meditative state, he saw that the five-colored divine light was about to be startled again, and it turned out that countless mysterious skills and techniques were born from the five-colored divine light. He looked at each one, and under the divine light, countless methods were divided into five elements, and countless changes in the five elements occurred. For example, in the fire element, there appeared Three Samadhi True Fire, Red Lotus Karma Fire, Heavenly Pure Fire, South Ming Li Fire, and the strongest Taiyang True Fire; the water element was no exception, with one yuan heavy water, xuan yin true water, three light divine water, heavenly weak water, and Huangquan Ming Water. At this moment, Zhou Bofu was surprised to find that when he first saw Donghuang Taishi, it was clear that Taishi's body was fire, without any distinction between Taiyang True Fire and South Ming Li Fire, although it was extremely hot, but there was no division. After listening to Hong Jun's teachings, Taishi's body clearly had Taiyang True Fire, which was even more intense. However, what was strange was that at the time, including Zhou Bofu, not a single person felt surprised or uncomfortable, as if it were a matter of course. In the past, when Zhou Bofu wandered around the world, there were no such distinctions, and even Zhurong was just a flame, but now, in retrospect, it had become the feeling of South Ming Li Fire...
Zhou Bofu thought for a long time and came to a possible conclusion: "Hongjun is using the opportunity of lecturing on the Tao to clarify the rules of the world... In other words, Hongjun 'lectured' and then was 'heard' by us, which became the rule of the vast expanse, like that 'fire' was divided into ordinary fire and various different kinds of 'fire'. And I estimate that except for 'me', this special one, all others have become what they originally were from the beginning." Zhou Bofu developed his idea from here and thought that the meditation cushion in front of the cloud bed was probably not comfortable to sit on... He secretly told himself that maybe not sitting was a good thing, and his intuition should be correct.
Zhou Bofu's five-colored divine light, after listening to the lecture, has become infinitely changeable and has given rise to many wonderful methods. Not only that, but the five-colored divine light is also close to the Great Way. By reversing it, the Five Elements can return to Yin and Yang, and Yin and Yang can be transformed into one Qi. From this one Qi, Yin and Yang and the four images can be divided again. Pushing down further, it can change into the eight trigrams and even the sixty-four trigrams infinitely. The wonderful changes of the Five Elements have already reached the point where they can ascend to the Great Way. At this stage, the five-colored divine light can finally be called the technique of the Great Way. However, as for the infinite changes that follow, returning to one Qi and transforming into the void, Zhou Bofu's current cultivation is still far from it. "Still need to cultivate slowly..." Zhou Bofu thought, but his heart was filled with great joy.
Time flies, and soon it will be 500 years. On this day, Zhou Bofu was sitting on the mountain top, suddenly feeling something in his heart, he looked up at the sky and saw dark clouds gathering, and a strong aura appeared around him, locking his body. As the dark clouds gathered, there were faint flashes of lightning, and Zhou Bofu's heart had a premonition, knowing that it was time for his transformation, this was the Heavenly Tribulation of Transformation.
However, he looked up at the dark clouds in the sky with a puzzled expression, "It's just a transformation, is it that serious? It's not as if there will be a heavenly court era in the future, so why come and make such a big deal out of this heavenly tribulation?"
He didn't know that others' transformation wasn't so severe, just losing a few thunders to cope with it. As the top fierce bird, he was also a blood-eater who had eaten countless numbers, and relied on the great Tao's divine communication, so the heavenly tribulation naturally came more severely than others.
In the blink of an eye, the lightning began to strike. As soon as the lightning entered his body, Zhou Bofu lost his smile "Five Elements Thunder... even if it comes again, it's just a tickle. I'm disappointed! I thought it would be more formidable..."
At this point, he didn't even bother to defend himself, letting the thunder and lightning strike him as if it were just a massage. Before long, the 3,600 five-element thunderbolts had finished striking, and the black clouds in the sky transformed, splitting apart and recombining into the Five Elements Reunion Thunder, which began to strike. The Metal-Water Thunder, Wood-Fire Thunder, Water-Earth Thunder, Earth-Wood Thunder, and Fire-Metal Thunder struck one after another, each accompanied by the others, their power increasing layer upon layer, completely incomparable to the simple five-element thunder from before. Each individual thunderbolt's power far surpassed the total of the 3,600 five-element thunderbolts.
Zhou Bofu was getting impatient, and he started acting recklessly again... Originally, this Tribulation of the Heavens wasn't that severe, and it could have been endured like a grey grandson. But he insisted on being reckless and used the Five-Colored Divine Light to sweep away the tribulation clouds at the top of the heavens, directly transforming the combined Five Elements Thunder into Original Qi to cultivate and send into his Dantian... This stirred up the hornet's nest of the Heavenly Tribulation, and the tribulation clouds reassembled at an extremely fast speed. The level of the heavenly tribulation suddenly increased by a lot. The tribulation clouds split and merged in all directions, changing and transforming, and in the blink of an eye, thirty-six purple thunderbolts struck down. What was even more detestable was that the lightning didn't all come from the sky, but instead emerged from underground, as if piercing through space, making it impossible to avoid being directly struck by the lightning on Zhou Bofu's body.
The first lightning strike hit, Zhou Bofu sensed the chaotic purple energy in this lightning strike and shouted "Purple Xiaolai Lightning!" He immediately activated his five-colored divine light to protect himself. The thirty-six lightning bolts also had a name: "Doutu Thirty-Six Lightning Calamity", divided into four directions. East Heaven Nine Lightnings: Yu Zhuan Lei, Yu Fu Lei, Yu Zhu Lei, Shang Qing Da Dong Lei, Huo Lun Lei, Guan Dou Lei, Feng Huo Lei, Fei Jie Lei, Bei Ji Lei; North Heaven Nine Lightnings: Zi Wei Xuan Zhuan Lei, Shen Xiao Lei, Xian Du Lei, Tai Yi Chong Tian Lei, Zi Fu Lei, Tie Jia Lei, Shao Yang Lei, Kou Huo Lei, She Ling Man Lei; West Heaven Nine Lightnings: Di Zhen Ming Lei, San Jie Lei, Jian Kuang Lei, Da Wei Lei, Liu Bo Lei, Qing Cao Lei, Ba Gua Lei, Hun Yuan Ying Quan Lei, Xiao Ming Feng Lei; South Heaven Nine Lightnings: Huo Yun Lei, Yu Bu Da Tong She Lei, Tai Ji Lei, Jian Huo Lei, Wai Jian Lei, Nei Jian Lei, Shen Fu Tian Zhuan Lei, Da Fan Dou Zhuan Lei, Yu Chen Lei. In total, the thirty-six pre-heavenly purple lightnings were boundless in power and were known as the number one lightning law, also carrying chaotic purple energy. Zhou Bofu made a mistake, and it brought him a huge trouble...
Those thirty-six thunderbolts were inescapable, and could only be resisted with his own physical strength... Zhou Bofu activated all his power, launching the five-colored divine light to counter the thunder method. After a long time, the mountain peak that was originally tens of miles high and thousands of meters wide had been struck into a huge depression, and there were no living creatures within a thousand miles. Zhou Bofu managed to withstand those thirty-six thunderbolts, thanks to Hongjun's lecture on the five-colored divine light becoming a great use of the Tao. Otherwise, with his reputation as a poor ghost in the Primordial Era, he would have turned into dust long ago.
The heavenly tribulation has ended, and Lei Dong's body refinement has begun. Zhou Bofu's body started to change, shedding his old skin, rearranging his muscles and veins... The kind of pain that is not enough for outsiders to describe... A large bird disappeared, and a person stood up. Zhou Bofu looked at his hands and feet, extremely excited, after thousands of years, he had finally become human again. He casually conjured up a water mirror, took a look, and still had the same ordinary face as before, compared to the noble aura of Dong Huang Tai Yi, or Liu Dehua's appearance after transforming into Kun Peng, there was some distance, but at least it looked better than the blood-sucking Daoist brother's face.
