Overcome the Tribulation Successfully! but Didn't Ascend?

The clouds of heavenly tribulation were extremely low, and the black and purple clouds were filled with dazzling lightning. The monks within a hundred miles around retreated for fear of being affected by the residual power of the ninth heavenly tribulation. Under the clouds, on a solitary peak, a young man in gray robe sat cross-legged, his face as calm as if the head above his head was not the nine-day divine thunder that killed people, but a continuous spring rain. "Rumble--" The ninth heavenly tribulation finally fell, and the thunder pillar as thick as a bucket struck the young man directly with a momentum that destroyed the world. The young man's entire body was instantly engulfed by lightning.