Chapter 322 - 175: A Powerful Constitution, the Celestial Thunder Dao Body

"You are the only one to have successfully cleared the One-Star Tower under the age of one hundred—to be precise, in less than forty years. Such talent would make you an upper-tier prodigy even in the vast Cangwu Immortal Continent. Here in the Celestial Essence Realm, you are simply a peerless genius, the kind one might never have the fortune to encounter. A true piece of uncarved jade!"

The Spirit’s voice grew more and more excited as it spoke.

But this was only natural. Opening the Holy Origin Secret Realm this time was also the last time it could do so, having exhausted all its energy. It had thought no one in the Celestial Essence Realm would be able to pass.

Only when a true prodigy passed the One-Star Tower could it exercise certain permissions.

It was a Tower Spirit, true, but alas, it was not the master.

The previous master of the Seven-Star Tower had long since fallen in the great war that swept across the Vast Immortal Continent, and his fall had landed him in the Celestial Essence Realm, at the edge of the Cangwu Immortal Continent.

To select a new master, it needed someone to pass the lowest-level One-Star Tower. Only then could it reactivate its permissions.

But who would have thought that in ten thousand years, not a single prodigy from the Celestial Essence Realm had passed the One-Star Tower before the age of one hundred? For a Spirit that had grown up in the Cangwu Immortal Continent and witnessed countless top-tier geniuses, this was utterly unimaginable.

It had nearly fallen into despair. Its last wisp of energy was almost depleted, and still, no one had been able to pass the One-Star Tower and activate its related permissions. But who could have predicted the fickle nature of fate? Just at its most desperate moment, the clouds parted to reveal a new village. Heaven had sent it someone who would be considered a genius even in the immeasurably vast Immortal Continents of the Canglan Great Realm!

’Passing all ten floors of the One-Star Tower is certainly difficult.’ Gu Yun recalled his journey through the tower, where he first encountered the Six-winged Flood Dragon, and then the two incredibly powerful figures, Qin Wushuang and Shen Congwu. ’If not for my heaven-defying Great Dream Star Soul Refining Technique, I’m afraid I would have been stopped by Qin Wushuang’s Nine Tribulations Celestial Sword Array!’

"Spirit, why can’t I continue on to the Two-Star Tower?"

Gu Yun asked his question.

The towering Tower Spirit, clad in Black Battle Armor, said with a hint of a smile,

"To challenge the Two-Star Tower, you must at a minimum have a Cultivation at the Tongxuan Realm. The final opponent you would face possesses combat power at the Harmonization Level."

"Harmonization-level combat power?!" Gu Yun’s eyes shot wide in shock.

’No wonder. With my current strength, I don’t even meet the minimum qualification of being in the Tongxuan Realm, let alone possessing the combat power of the Unity Realm.’

"Very well. As I said before, for clearing the One-Star Tower, you will receive an Energy Crystal Source sufficient to break through to the Tongxuan Realm, and a special gift."

The Spirit’s deep, resonant voice declared.

"What special gift?" Gu Yun curbed his excitement about the Energy Crystal Source that could help him break into the Realm of Tongxuan and asked about the gift first.

"Dao, Technique, Physique, Artifact, Source."

"You may choose one of these five as your gift." The Tower Spirit’s gaze was solemn as its deep voice sounded.

A trace of surprise appeared in Gu Yun’s eyes. ’Choosing a gift, huh? That really is special!’

"Can I have them all?"

Gu Yun asked, testing the waters cautiously.

"No. You have only one chance, and ten seconds to choose. If you have not made a decision when the time is up, you will be considered to have forfeited.

Ten... nine..." The Spirit’s deep voice echoed in the vast hall.

Hearing this, Gu Yun quickly calmed down.

’Dao?! Is it the Great Dao? Or something else?’ Gu Yun wondered. ’Technique? Does that mean a Cultivation Technique, or a martial Technique?’

’Then Physique. Does it mean my physical body, or something more?’

’Artifact. Does that mean a weapon? A Dao Artifact, or something else?’

’Source? That’s even more mysterious. Origin Power? Or some kind of energy?’ Gu Yun’s mind raced with speculation.

"Three... two... one..."

"Dao!"

Gu Yun shouted his choice just as the Spirit’s final syllable was about to fall.

’Since Dao is listed first, and I don’t have any better options, I’ll just have to take a blind gamble and pick ’Dao’.’

"The Dao is fundamental. You can never go wrong with it." A slight smile appeared on the face of the tall, imposing Spirit.

Immediately after, the Spirit’s deep voice once again echoed through the boundless hall,

"Trace back to the source, Daoist Heaven and Earth."

Suddenly, the space filled with countless specks of pale blue mist, as brilliant as starlight. They seemed to contain some special, immense power. The mist swirled around Gu Yun before pouring into his body, traveling along his bones and limbs, and swiftly penetrating every corner of his being.

His skull, chest, heart, arms, legs, organs, meridians, and bones... As this pale blue energy fused with him, Gu Yun’s body underwent a world-shaking transformation.

At this moment, countless profoundly mysterious, pale blue patterns appeared within his flesh and skin, as if they were tracing back to his origin and constructing a new constitution.

At the same time, arcs of Thunder suddenly erupted from his body, tearing at the space around him. Bathed in the pale blue mist, his entire being began to radiate an aura of the purest origin.

Thunder annihilates all things, destroys everything.

So why not seek life within destruction, and create life!

Nurturing life to maturity is far more difficult than destroying it.

Suddenly, Gu Yun’s understanding of the Thunder Dao reached a new level, as if he had grasped its very origin!

’So that’s how it is!

This is the gift of ’Dao’. It wasn’t a Daoist Technique or an enlightenment, but a complete reforging and upgrade of my body’s fundamental nature.

Then my current constitution is the legendary Celestial Thunder Dao Body!’ Gu Yun marveled internally. ’No wonder my understanding of the Thunder Dao suddenly skyrocketed. It’s because I now possess a Dao Body.’

’And that pale blue mist that poured into me must have contained Origin Power. It reshaped my fundamental constitution to construct a Dao Body perfectly suited for me.’

’How Heaven-Defying!’

’Just what level of treasure is this Holy Origin Seven-Star Tower to be so incredibly Heaven-Defying?’

"It seems you can already feel the benefits brought by ’Dao’. How is it? Does the reward far exceed your expectations?" A smile emerged on the face of the tall, powerfully built Tower Spirit.

"Yes. The reward is so great it’s almost unimaginable. To think it was a Dao Body—and the Celestial Thunder Dao Body, which is perfectly suited for me." Gu Yun’s face was a mask of irrepressible shock and joy.

The entire reason he had taken the large-scale Cross-Domain Teleportation Array from the Eastern Profound Domain to the Southern Wilderness Domain was to subdue the Vermilion Bird Heaven-Burning Thunder, one of the Heaven and Earth Divine Thunders. Then, by using the Secret Technique: Extreme Spirit Thunder Method he had obtained from the Black Flame Sword Sect ruins, he could have forged a postnatal Celestial Thunder Dao Body.

A Dao Body forged in such a way would have been incomplete, but it was better than nothing.

But who could have imagined that fate would have it so? Here in the Holy Origin Seven-Star Tower, his constitution was directly reforged by Supreme Origin Power, granting him a Celestial Thunder Dao Body—a complete one at that!!

"You already possessed excellent comprehension, trained diligently, and had unparalleled combat strength. Now, with a Dao Body, your aptitude likely ranks among the very top across all the Immortal Continent Planes of the Canglan Great Realm." The Spirit’s face held a smile.

In its view, Gu Yun had no special constitution before, yet he had managed to reach the Half-Step Tongxuan Realm at such a young age. He must have been incredibly diligent in his daily Cultivation.

Gu Yun didn’t know the Spirit’s thoughts, but if he did, he would have agreed completely. He had gotten this far entirely because Heaven Rewards Diligence!

"The gift has been absorbed. It is now time for you to absorb the Energy Crystal Source and break through to the Tongxuan Realm." The Spirit’s deep, heavy voice rang out in the boundless hall.

Gu Yun nodded slowly.

With a wave of its large hand, the Spirit manifested a cube-shaped Crystal Stone in the air above. It radiated a pale blue light and contained an energy of utmost purity.

"This is a Spirit Crystal. The energy contained within is more than enough for you to break through to the Tongxuan Realm.

However, after you finish absorbing it, you will need to leave the Secret Realm and trigger a Celestial Tribulation. Only after being baptized and tempered by the Celestial Tribulation can you truly break through to the Realm of Tongxuan."

After it finished speaking, the Spirit’s tall, imposing figure vanished from the spacious hall.

"A Spirit Crystal, huh? Well then, let’s begin!"

Gu Yun gazed at the cube-shaped Crystal Stone floating before him, which pulsed with a faint light and contained ultimate energy. His eyes shone with an unprecedented, fervent glow!!