The Legend of Qingpeng: Starting from the Costinus

Finally, after hundreds of days and nights of hard training, Li Qing slowly opened his eyes.

There was a brighter light in his eyes, as if he could see through everything in the world.

Standing up, Li Qing stretched his muscles, feeling the unprecedented powerful force in his body, his heart filled with confidence and expectation.

"The time is coming, and everything that can be done is ready." Li Qing said silently in his heart, then walked out of the training room, ready to meet his challenge.

Li Qing walked out of the training room, the sunlight shone through the clouds onto his body, covering him with a layer of golden glow.

He turned around and looked at Chi Feng who was waiting outside, his eyes flashing with determination. "Madam, I am ready. I will break through immediately."

Chi Feng smiled slightly, her eyes full of tenderness and encouragement. "My dear husband, I believe you will be able to successfully break through and reach a higher level. I will wait for you here, come back safely."

Li Qing nodded slightly, exchanged an affectionate look with Chi Feng, then stretched out his body, turned into a stream of light, and quickly flew towards a lonely reef not far from the ship.

The reef stood abruptly above the sea surface. The waves surged around it, but it seemed unable to shake it in the slightest. It was exactly the perfect location he had chosen to overcome his tribulation.

After reaching the reef, Li Qing took a deep breath, then sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and began to adjust his state.

He let his mind completely relax, as if he had merged into one with the world, feeling the fluctuations and changes of the spiritual energy around him.

An unknown amount of time had passed. When Li Qing felt that he had reached his best condition, he slowly took out a crystal clear pill from his storage ring - the Xuanling Huashen Pill.

This pill was precisely made by his wife. It was extremely precious to cultivators in the human world. It could help people break through the bottleneck of the spiritual realm and achieve a leap in cultivation.

And now he will rely on this pill to break through the fifth-level bottleneck.

Then, dozens of spiritual objects appeared out of thin air. These spiritual objects were exactly the magical elixirs he needed to awaken his supernatural powers.

Li Qing stared at the pill and the magical medicine, and a surge of ambition surged in his heart. "Right now, I, Li Qing, vow to break through the siege and reach the top!"

After saying that, he no longer hesitated and sucked the Xuanling Huashen Pill and the Shentong Medicine into his mouth.

The moment he swallowed it all, an indescribable power instantly exploded in his body, like a river bursting its banks, surging violently.

It was as if thousands of stars were spinning and colliding inside his body, releasing dazzling light.

Li Qing gritted his teeth and endured the huge impact of the energy.

All the bones in his body made crackling sounds, as if they were being reforged.

The demonic power in the meridians was surging like boiling river water.

He activated his internal skills, guiding the energy to flow throughout his body along a predetermined trajectory, quickly penetrating into his limbs and bones, awakening the dormant potential in his body.

As the medicinal power penetrated deeper, Li Qing felt as if the demonic power in his body was being pulled by an invisible force. Like birds returning to their nests, they all gathered towards the demonic pill in his dantian.

Under the nourishment of this power, the demon pill began to emit dazzling light, and the patterns on its surface became more complex and profound, as if containing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth.

As time went by, the energy inside the demon pill gradually reached a critical point, and an expanding force formed around it, as if it would break through the shackles at any time and usher in a new transformation.

Li Qing clenched his teeth and tensed all his muscles. He could clearly feel the struggle and desire coming from deep within the demon pill.

At this moment, the demon pill finally broke through the limit and made a crisp cracking sound.

Immediately afterwards, an even more powerful force burst out from the demon pill and instantly filled his entire body.

This force was so powerful that Li Qing felt as if he was breathing and sharing the same fate with the heaven and earth.

However, just as he was immersed in the joy of the breakthrough, a chilling aura quietly came over him, which was the precursor to the inner demon calamity.

The inner demon calamity is one of the greatest tests for cultivators when they break through. It directly affects the cultivator's mind, causing them to fall into endless illusions and desires, and the slightest carelessness will lead to eternal damnation.

Not daring to delay, Li Qing quickly swallowed a pill, which was the "Demon-Suppressing Pill" used to suppress the inner demon calamity.

The next moment, Li Qing felt a flash before his eyes, and then he was pulled into a strange space by a powerful force.

This place seems to be a microcosm of reincarnation. Sometimes he becomes an emperor or a general, experiencing the pinnacle of power and loneliness.

Sometimes they become ordinary people and experience the hardships and helplessness of life.

Sometimes, he became a powerful demon in the world of cultivation, but lost himself in the pursuit of power.

Every reincarnation is a test of his Taoist faith.

He must stick to his original intention and not be swayed by external things in order to break free from the illusion.

In this endless cycle, Li Qing experienced various emotions such as joy, pain, confusion, determination, etc., and his Tao heart was also honed and sublimated unprecedentedly in this process.

Finally, after struggling and persisting again and again, Li Qing found the flaw in the illusion. He shouted loudly, and the demonic power surged throughout his body, and he tore himself out of the illusion.

After breaking through the inner demon tribulation, Li Qing's state of mind underwent a drastic change.

He seemed to have experienced a baptism of the soul, and his entire temperament became more calm and profound.

Slowly opening his eyes, the light in Li Qing's eyes was restrained, it was a kind of calmness and composure that came from having experienced vicissitudes of life and seeing through the world.

He seemed to no longer be affected by the turmoil of the outside world, and his heart was like a bottomless spring, calm and peaceful, yet full of endless power.

The repeated reincarnations in the inner demon calamity brought his understanding of cultivation to a new level.

Once upon a time, he might have been obsessed with the pursuit of power, eager to gain a higher status and greater power through practice.

But now, he understands that the true meaning of practice lies in inner growth and transcendence.

Furthermore, his attitude towards worldly matters such as life and death, honor and disgrace has become more open-minded.

He knew very well that on the path of cultivation, life and death were just a part of the cycle of reincarnation, and honor and disgrace were fleeting.

He was no longer burdened by these illusory things, but instead devoted more energy to self-improvement and exploration of the mysteries of heaven and earth.

After this test of the inner demon calamity, Li Qing's cultivation and state of mind have achieved a qualitative leap.