Naturally, Yu Lei was oblivious to the events unfolding in the Nuwa Palace.
At that moment, he was immersed in the joy of his breakthrough.
The resources needed to improve one's Yuan Shen (Spirit Soul) were significantly less than those needed for the physical body.
The abundant spiritual energy within the entire Cave Heaven and Blessed Land was enough to elevate his Yuan Shen to a higher realm!
Yu Lei had already met the conditions for his Yuan Shen to reach the Golden Immortal realm - to achieve Golden Immortal, one needed to comprehend at least one principle of the Dao.
Yu Lei had already comprehended dozens of principles.
With the help of the vast spiritual energy, Yu Lei effortlessly pushed his realm to the peak of Xuan Immortal!
Then, with another surge of energy, he broke through to the initial stage of Golden Immortal!
The entire process was as smooth as flowing water, without any bottlenecks.
Thus, Yu Lei became a genuine Golden Immortal!
Gold, represents immortality.
Once the Yuan Shen achieved Golden Immortal, lifespan ceased to be a limitation, becoming endless, truly attaining eternal life.
For cultivators, although the physical body and Yuan Shen could be cultivated simultaneously, the Yuan Shen was ultimately the foundation.
Take the Golden Immortal realm as an example. While a physical Golden Immortal remained incorruptible, essentially achieving immortality, if the Yuan Shen's lifespan ran out, there was no use to the physical body.
But if it was the Yuan Shen that reached Golden Immortal, with infinite lifespan, even if the physical body aged, there were countless ways to replenish vitality.
It was simply one of the disadvantages of physical body cultivation.
After all, the current physical body cultivation techniques were derived from the Witch Clan's body-tempering techniques, and the Witch Clan, from the start, didn't possess Yuan Shens, so they didn't need to consider this aspect.
Of course, Yu Lei, who cultivated both the physical body and the Yuan Shen, didn't have to worry about such issues.
With both the physical body and the Yuan Shen achieving the Golden Immortal realm, coupled with the numerous techniques he had mastered before, even without relying on the innate Primordial Overpowering Sea Array, Yu Lei would be difficult to defeat among Golden Immortals.
However, at this level of Golden Immortal, talented individuals were abundant, and surpassing one's realm to fight wasn't so easy.
But at the very least, Yu Lei was no longer cannon fodder in the upcoming Conferred God War, but rather a character with a name and a history!
After all, the Ten Heavenly Kings of the Intercepting Sect, among others, were also Golden Immortals.
The Primordial Overpowering Sea Array Yu Lei had set up with the innate Primordial Water Spirit Pearl wasn't inferior to the Ten Absolute Arrays in terms of power.
Not to mention, Yu Lei's magic treasures, divine abilities, and principles were superior to those of the Ten Heavenly Kings.
Yu Lei estimated that his strength surpassed that of the Ten Heavenly Kings, and he could even handle ordinary Taichi Golden Immortals, but against powerful Taichi Golden Immortals, it would be difficult.
For a newly-promoted Golden Immortal, this level of combat power was already shocking.
Naturally, Yu Lei was very satisfied.
After consolidating his cultivation, Yu Lei immediately prepared to leave the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.
Before leaving, Yu Lei, of course, didn't forget to put the massive five-colored divine stone in his storage.
This was something that could mend the heavens, its preciousness surpassed that of ordinary innate spiritual treasures.
Yu Lei didn't intend to use it for alchemy or refining artifacts, but he didn't want the five-colored divine stone to fall back into the Western Teach's schemes.
As his fate was beyond calculation, he didn't have to worry about Nuwa or the Western Teach coming to him.
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As Yu Lei had predicted, just as he put away the five-colored divine stone, on Mount Sumeru, the Quasi-Saint, Zhunti, felt a sudden tremor in his heart, as if he had sensed something, and turned towards the east.
"What's going on? Why do I suddenly feel this ominous feeling, as if I missed a great opportunity?"
Zhunti frowned, his heart filled with speculation.
At their level, a sudden ominous feeling was no longer a simple sensing, but a warning from fate.
The Dao of Fate, as one of the ten pillars of the Dao, while ethereal and difficult to comprehend, was something that the Heavenly Saints all tried to comprehend somewhat.
On one hand, it facilitated the divination of fate, and on the other hand, it allowed them to sense changes in their own destiny more clearly.
The reason Zhunti had felt this ominous feeling just now was precisely because his future fate had undergone a significant change.
Such changes were difficult for ordinary people to notice, but they couldn't escape the Heavenly Saints' perception.
And indeed, the five-colored divine stone was destined to nurture the Enlightened Stone Monkey, Sun Wukong, who would become the protagonist of the future Western Journey Calamity.
And the Western Journey Calamity was crucial for the Western Teach's future rise to become the Buddhist Teach!
Now that Yu Lei had directly taken it, Zhunti found it hard not to sense it.
Zhunti's face turned serious, and he immediately summoned the Western Teach's treasured teaching artifact, the Twelve Grade Merit Lotus!
Zhunti sat on the Twelve Grade Merit Lotus, holding the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, his Dao principles flowing around him, as he focused all his efforts on divination.
For a time, the entire Mount Sumeru was enveloped in dazzling golden light.
But no matter how Zhunti divined, the results were all blank.
He couldn't deduce a single piece of information.
Zhunti's face turned grim. The change in fate was real, but with his realm and capabilities, he shouldn't have been unable to deduce even a single piece of information.
The only explanation was that a Heavenly Saint stronger than him was behind this, concealing all related fate!
After all, there were only a few Heavenly Saints in the Primordial World.
Thinking of this, Zhunti's expression fluctuated.
Who was scheming against him? What were they scheming?
For a Heavenly Saint who was usually omniscient and omnipotent, the feeling of being clueless was truly unbearable.
Zhunti, in his frustration, could only go to his senior brother, Jie Yin, to discuss it.
Of course, it wouldn't lead to any results.
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Yu Lei, far away, naturally didn't know that his actions had caused so much trouble for the two Heavenly Saints of the Western Teach.
Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
At this time, Yu Lei had just thoroughly searched the entire Cave Heaven, packing everything he could into the Hundred Herbs Diagram.
After satisfyingly plundering everything, Yu Lei set off and left the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.
Upon returning to the East Sea, Yu Lei couldn't help but frown.
He had spent a considerable amount of time in the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, as cultivation takes time.
But what he hadn't expected was that in this short period of time, the entire world had already begun to change.
Wisps of calamity 煞气 (shà qì) had begun to emerge in the world.
For ordinary people, this wasn't a big deal, they wouldn't even notice it.
But for cultivators, the appearance of calamity 煞气 meant that a new round of terrifying calamities was about to descend!
The entire world was virtually unable to escape the influence of calamity 煞气.
Even immortals would gradually lose themselves under the influence of calamity 煞气, and most immortals wouldn't even realize their own changes.
Yu Lei estimated that if he hadn't become a Golden Immortal, he probably wouldn't have been able to detect the calamity 煞气 in the world.
But what good did it do to notice it?
His name was already on the Conferred God List, there was no escape.
Yu Lei sighed, then his eyes hardened, and he flew towards the depths of the East Sea.