Once Jian Shen made a decision to ascend right away, he travelled to the biggest ice-covered mountain he found in the distance.
Sitting cross-legged on the mountain's peak, Jian Shen took a deep breath to calm himself before proceeding to close his eyes.
Not too long after he did that, the skies which were clear until a few seconds back turned dark immediately as think black clouds covered every inch of the sky above Jian Shen.
In fact, the entire region that Jian Shen was inside right now was filled with the clouds which made everyone tremble from imagining what thunderstorm was awaiting then.
All of this was because, Jian Shen communicated with the heaven and earth using the Intent of Heaven and Earth just like he did when he was in the Mortal Realm.
Having to do this was one of the reasons why many cultivators despite reaching the Eternal Palace Realm in the Divine Realm failed to ascend into the Dao Realm.
Still, the number of individuals who ascended from the Divine Realm into the Dao Realm was quite a lot more than those who ascended from the Mortal Realm to the Divine Realm every ten years.
Opening his eyes, Jian Shen who could feel the surging of Qi and Soul Essence inside him didn't show any signs of nervousness towards the bright golden lightning which was building in the clouds above him.
After all, having already faced the lightning tribulation in the past, Jian Shen didn't put the lightning which had gathered to strike him in his eyes at all.
Especially when he learnt that he would only have face three lightning strikes before the sky would split open and let him proceed to enter the Dao Realm.
There was one thing which Jian Shen didn't like about this though, and that was how he needed to wait for an entire week for the tribulation to get ready and strike him three times consecutively.
For someone like him though, one week wasn't much and passed in the blink of an eye.
By the end of the week though, everyone in the ice-covered region understood that someone was attempting to ascend into the Dao Realm.
Still, no one had any thoughts of approaching whoever it was that was attempting to do this unless they wanted to bear the mysterious expert's wrath or end up being struck by a stray bolt of the tribulation's lightning and end up dying for no reason.
Due to this, the one week passed by for Jian Shen without any troubles and he opened his eyes which had remained closed for an entire week and looked towards the heaven with clear provocation in his eyes.
Almost as if having seen this, the heavens roared loudly in the form of a thunderclap as the bright golden lightning which had been accumulated for the past week.
Bang!
Crashing down onto Jian Shen with unbelievable momentum, the lightning made Jian Shen feel a little weird when he didn't feel like anything had even touched him.
But this only lasted for an instant before a blood-curdling scream came out of him due to how the lightning had utterly ignored his physical body and chose to strike his Nascent Soul inside his middle dantian instead!
Throwing up blood and turning the snow in front of him red, Jian Shen glared towards the sky since he didn't expect such a thing to happen.
Still, even though he was surprised and caught off guard, Jian Shen while blaming this on his overconfidence shot another look or provocation towards the sky which was getting ready to strike him with lightning doe the second time.
This time however Jian Shen instead of passively waiting for the tribulation to come and strike his Nascent Soul switched it with his split soul which he had fused the spirit of the Divine Kun Peng with.
Therefore, even with the lightning struck him Jian Shen didn't even as much as tremble and faced the final tribulation which was many times stronger and dangerous than the previous two with ease.
Sure what Jian Shen did was the same as using a cheat, but not even the heavens could fall our injustice towards this.
Instead, as per how it had been since the time memorial, since Jian Shen managed to face the three tribulations and not die, his soul, Nascent Soul, and the nine split souls had been baptised to make them purer and many times stronger.
While receiving the blessing, Jian Shen stood up and looked towards the hole which appeared in the sky for him to pass through and enter the Dao Realm.
As for those fools who might try to take advantage of this situation and try to enter the Dao Realm with the qualifications obtained by Jian Shen, all they would do was invite death to take them away since such the heaven never let anyone take advantage of it.
Flying upwards, Jian Shen who reached the location where the sky had been split open grinned from seeing images of Dao Realm through the entrance which was explicitly opened for him.
Seeing this, Jian Shen began thinking to himself that his real journey was destined to commence after he entered the Dao Realm.