Reincarnation: The Soul of Dashul

"My God, look! That's... lightning punishment?"

"The Judgment of Fate... Besides the light of judgment, there is also a terrifying lightning punishment!"

"...This messenger of darkness will probably be reduced to ashes!"

"Those who covet the evil energy of the underworld will naturally be completely annihilated by the god Barrett!"

"You brat... letting you die so easily is too good for you!"

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A dark, thick cloud suddenly gathered above the Ministry of Magic. The cloud was dense and layered, with visible storms and lightning tearing through the golden sky.

Suddenly, a terrifying bolt of lightning struck vertically down, hitting the center of Honor Square with lightning speed. The jade floor beneath Leido's feet shattered into four or five pieces, some of which even instantly turned into dust. The entire ground trembled slightly from the shock.

A moment later, under the orderly energy of the Tree of Life, the damaged areas of the plaza were immediately restored. Only Leido was struck by lightning, causing his whole body to go numb and the circulation of spiritual energy in his meridians to slow down.

"I knew it... I forcibly suppressed my cultivation level to avoid the tribulation last time, and now it's happening again!"

Not long ago, when Leido was promoted to Archmage, his martial arts cultivation also reached the critical point of breakthrough. However, before using the Yin-Yang Stone, Leido had to actively suppress it and not advance to the Void Returning Realm, otherwise he would be severely restricted in the future.

But now, the power of the ancient gods brought by the Light of Judgment far exceeds the energy of order in the Ancient Tree Secret Realm. It has enabled Leido to reach the level of a beginner level two archmage in an instant, and just like before, it has also filled Leido's spiritual sea with surging spiritual power.

"The seal between the spiritual sea and the nascent soul has also been broken... No! We have to try again!"

Last time, Leido used the magic blocker to forcibly cut off the vast elemental energy of the Tree of Life, preventing it from continuing to enter the Furnace of Life. As a result, no energy from the Tree of Life was diverted into the Sea of ​​Spirits, causing a sudden increase in spiritual power.

Leido wanted to repeat his old trick, using the magic blocker to block the vast energy from entering his body again, and then applying a special seal to suppress the breakthrough of his martial arts realm.

But he suddenly froze. His life furnace was damaged. Was he going to prevent the entire spiritual sea from absorbing external energy? That was simply impossible!

"Your body and nascent soul are very special, so there's no need to worry about the imbalance of Yin and Yang in the Five Elements spiritual energy... Focus on fighting the lightning tribulation, and your advancement will not affect your future path to becoming a sword immortal!"

Just as Ledo was racking his brains without finding a solution, an old voice suddenly entered his mind. It was the old sweeper's voice transmission. As the Supreme Dharma King, he was the pinnacle existence on this planet and had long seen through the secret of Ledo.

"This is... how could the cleaning teacher know so much? But should I believe him?"

Leido couldn't easily trust someone he'd only met a few times. After careful consideration, he figured that if the old sweeper wanted to harm him, it would only be a matter of a single spell, and there was no need for such a complicated scheme.

Moreover, it now seems that the Light of Judgment is not judging Ledo, but rather giving him an opportunity and a stroke of good fortune.

"...There's no other way. We've even lost the Life Forge, and the magic-blocking agent is probably ineffective too. We can only undergo tribulation!"

After much hesitation, Leido decided to confront the Heavenly Tribulation and Earthly Calamity first. This Five Elements Wood Tribulation was the fourth Earthly Calamity Leido had faced, and it was the most powerful lightning tribulation among the Five Elements Wood Tribulations, consisting of a total of thirty-six waves.

Leido dared not be careless. He activated the Moonfall Pendant with all his might to shield the spiritual energy within a fifty-meter radius around him. Then he accelerated the circulation of his spiritual energy and carefully examined his body inside and out.

"The fusion of the five elements' spiritual power and elemental magic power is so high? Could this be a new cultivation system?"

After the examination, Leido looked inward at the Tree of Life located in his dantian and sensed that his energy had perfectly merged. Outsiders probably couldn't tell the difference. The degree of fusion was higher and more natural than the previous fusion of energy.

"Perhaps... in the future, Luo Yue won't need to shield herself from the aura of the five elements' spiritual power!"

Just as Ledo was distracted, a second bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, hitting Ledo squarely on the top of his head. He felt a tingling sensation, and the energy flow within his body fluctuated a few times, but he was still unharmed.

Last time when he was undergoing tribulation in the Ancient Tree Secret Realm, Leido used his physical body to fight against the lightning and was not injured even by the fifth wave. He still planned to use his physical body to fight against the lightning tribulation and use the rare lightning of heaven and earth to temper his physical body.

"The nature and patterns of change of this energy are very different from the refined fused energy. It is closer to the energy absorbed from the creation ruins of Napoli Peak. But after all, they are both formed by the fusion of elements and spiritual power, and are consistent in their origin!"

Leido sensed that the power of the lightning tribulation would need to exceed twenty waves before it posed a real threat to him. While waiting, he immersed himself in researching new energies.

Since the Furnace of Life shattered and fell into the Spirit Sea, and the Tree of Life took root again in the Spirit Sea, Leido could clearly sense that the naturally formed fusion energy this time was fundamentally different from the energy refined by the Nascent Soul cultivator before.

Leido first sensed the fusion energy on Green Pearl Island, also known as the Hidden Forest Realm. Under the guidance of the Eight Winds Thunder Flame Beast, he initially felt the changing patterns when elements and spiritual power fused, and successfully integrated elemental magic into the Eight Winds Eight Transformations Technique.

Later, in Sovero's hometown of Napoli Peak, Ledo unexpectedly entered a wondrous creation ruin. The Mountain and Sea Map sucked a mysterious long, narrow object from the ruin into its small world, which contained a natural fusion energy, which Ledo also absorbed.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul stage of the third level of the Divine Transformation realm, Laido's golden core transformed into a Nascent Soul, inexplicably merging with the golden soul body in the Life Furnace. Subsequently, Laido's golden Nascent Soul was able to actively refine fusion energy.

However, the scale of the fused energy that is refined is very small, the refining process is extremely slow, and it is very rare. Even though it has many magical effects, Leido cannot use it as freely as he can with the Five Elements spiritual power or elemental magic power.

The energy absorbed by Leido from the Mountain and Sea Map within the Creation Ruins was not Leido's own energy, so he could not use it freely.

This energy can only be channeled when using the miraculous Earth Divine Technique—Mountain Shifting Seal—and can only be used occasionally in normal times, which inevitably leads to overconfidence in emergency combat.

But now, the entire spiritual sea in Ledo's dantian is filled with this naturally formed fusion energy, the nature of which is very similar to the energy in the Creation Ruins.

The circulation and grand cycle of spiritual energy still rely on the Five Elements Wheel and the spiritual sea, and the methods are no different from before, except that everything turns golden after entering the spiritual sea.

The absorption of elemental power still begins at the Life Core, but its operation takes place within the Innate Magic Array above the Spirit Sea before flowing into the Spirit Sea.

In other words, whether it is the spiritual power of the five elements or the magical power of the elements, their final destination is the spiritual sea, and they naturally merge without needing to be refined.

Leido tried it a few times and found that whether casting the Five Elements Technique or elemental magic, he was using this same energy, no longer needing to convert it into spiritual power and magical power separately.

Moreover, Ledo's Five Elements Wheel and Tree of Life can call upon and absorb this fused energy more smoothly than before, and the energy flow is also more robust and solid.

Leido was unaware that this was a symbol of taking a step closer to the Great Dao. He could only sense that now, if he wanted to use the Five Elements Techniques and elemental magic, he no longer needed to conceal the nature of the energy.

The fusion energy extracted from the golden nascent soul was so potent that even Bai Kongqing and Master Raziel couldn't distinguish whether it was spiritual power or elemental energy; only a Saint-level mage king or a sword immortal of the same level could tell the difference.

This new, naturally fused energy could perhaps only be perceived and identified by beings at the level of a Supreme Dharma King. Leido was overjoyed; he was finally certain that this was a completely new energy attribute, and perhaps even an unprecedented cultivation system.

As Ledo pondered, the twentieth wave of lightning was about to arrive, and Ledo's attention returned to the tribulation. Although the first few waves of lightning were not threatening, Ledo, who had survived three Five Elements Tribulations, knew that the most dangerous ones were the last few waves of lightning.

Looking at the thunderclouds in the sky, he was a little worried about whether he could survive this tribulation. After all, this was a tribulation that crossed a major realm of martial arts cultivation, which was no small matter. If he was not careful, he would be reduced to ashes and die.

"Elements... spiritual power... let's call this new energy 'Primal Power'! I hope you can... help me overcome this tribulation!"