Tales of the Spirit Field: Growing Immortal Herbs in the Modern Age

1. Thunder roared deafeningly in my ears. I looked up at the pitch-black sky as the ninth bolt of heavenly lightning gathered in the clouds. This was my first tribulation since forming my Golden Core. Everything depended on this one moment. The Golden Core in my dantian spun wildly as I summoned all my spiritual energy and layered protections around myself. But when the lightning struck, I realized just how badly I'd misjudged the situation. It wasn't a single bolt, but a sea of lightning. Blinding white light swallowed my vision in an instant. I felt my body disintegrating inch by inch in the lightning, my soul seeming to tear into millions of pieces. As my consciousness blurred, I thought I heard