Fang Ming, the body he had transmigrated into, was that of a "half-immortal."
This individual had already passed the trials of magical power and the physical body.
He had endured the lightning tribulation and the fire tribulation.
Having overcome these two tribulations, his physical body had achieved immortality, never to wither, and his magical power had been sublimated into immortal energy, his strength forever unwavering.
However, his primordial spirit was still imperfect, having not yet passed the wind tribulation, and thus he was not a true immortal.
Not being a true immortal meant that even with an immortal body, when his primordial spirit's power was depleted, death was the inevitable outcome.
The targets Fang Ming had possessed all had issues.
For instance, Lin Xuan was in a sealed state, unawakened through countless cycles of reincarnation.
And now, this half-immortal's body had, after passing two tribulations, encountered a third, which was meant to perfect his primordial spirit and allow him to attain the true immortal fruit, achieving eternal life.
As it turned out, upon truly facing the wind tribulation, he had unfortunately failed and perished beneath it.
It was at this precise moment that Fang Ming had transmigrated.
"This primordial spirit, destroyed by the wind tribulation, should not have the same problem as Lin Xuan from World Number Five."
Fang Ming made his assessment.
Lin Xuan from World Number Five had been an immortal lord reincarnated, which had terrified him immensely.
If not for the superior means of advanced technological civilization, Fang Ming's body would have eventually been surrendered to Lin Xuan.
But in this world, such a problem should not exist.
The half-immortal's primordial spirit had been annihilated, but his physical body remained.
This body was incredibly powerful.
Fang Ming could feel that the body itself was capable of immortality, of eternal existence. Its vital energy was so vigorous, far surpassing anything that gene serums could offer.
With its vital energy, Fang Ming was confident he could contend with the top-tier sword immortals of the previous world, those at level one hundred.
"This physical body is equivalent to a body-cultivator at the Ascension Realm."
"I've reached the Ascension Realm already?"
Fang Ming felt a surge of emotion.
Previously, after cultivating his spiritual meridians and taking gene serums, and then practicing the One Qi Art, he could only be compared to the mid-stage Foundation Establishment realm of the Jiuzhou World.
Even in World Number Six, directly learning from and consulting with those high-level sword immortal professionals, he could only barely be considered to have progressed from mid-stage Foundation Establishment to the peak of mid-stage Foundation Establishment, not even reaching the late-stage Foundation Establishment.
Now, merely by his true spirit transmigrating worlds and occupying another's identity, he possessed the strength of the Ascension Realm.
This far surpassed what Fang Ming had achieved through his previous efforts.
This indicated that while world-hopping talent sometimes carried high risks, it also yielded high rewards.
Lin Xuan from before had been useless; his past life memories had not awakened, he had not cultivated, and possessed no cultivation base whatsoever, not even reaching the first layer of Meridian Condensation. This prevented Fang Ming from inheriting his cultivation, and he hadn't discovered the advantage of inheriting cultivation.
Now, encountering this cultivator comparable to the Ascension Realm, Fang Ming had inherited his cultivation, allowing him to understand the benefits of true spirit transmigration.
Simply by occupying the body and gaining its magical power, the harvest was far greater than the combined efforts of traversing six worlds.
The gains from a single world surpassed the gains from six worlds.
"Ascension Realm cultivation..."
"Half-immortal..."
"Just one step away from true immortal?"
Fang Ming hastily examined the magical power within his body.
The magical power within this body was also immense, far exceeding the magical power Fang Ming had obtained from cultivating the One Qi Scripture and opening his meridians.
With a surge, the magical power was capable of moving mountains and draining seas, of shattering the stars in the sky.
The strength of the physical body could be described as that of an immortal's physique.
Furthermore, it seemed that due to the true spirit's transmigration, this magical power and physical body could be commanded as if they were his own limbs.
This meant Fang Ming had completely mastered this body that had passed two tribulations.
Only the wind tribulation remained, and upon passing it, he could directly achieve true immortality.
However, the mere thought of the wind tribulation's power made Fang Ming frown. The original owner of this body had not managed to pass the wind tribulation. Although he had gained mastery of this body that had passed two tribulations upon arrival, and in terms of magical power and physical body, there was no difference from the original owner, the wind tribulation was not a test of the physical body, nor of magical power, but of the primordial spirit.
Its tribulations were entirely aimed at the primordial spirit.
The original owner's primordial spirit power had been completely destroyed, and Fang Ming had not inherited even a shred of it.
Fang Ming's own primordial spirit power was very weak.
Comparatively speaking, it was at most at the early-stage Foundation Establishment.
To face a tribulation that even those at the peak of the Ascension Realm might not overcome with the divine sense of an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator...
This could essentially be called courting death.
Fang Ming did not want to court death.
Therefore, Fang Ming would not do so.
"Besides, with my primordial spirit's power... it's too weak... I can't even draw down the wind tribulation."
Fang Ming sighed and shook his head.
"Right, what was the name of this body?"
"Didn't it have a Daoist title, something like Daoist Taixu?"
Fang Ming searched for this Daoist title.
He confirmed the name of this half-immortal.
...
Taishang Peak.
This was a peak in World Number Seven renowned among ordinary cultivators.
The half-immortal residing within was also famous among many cultivators.
Old Monster Cheng Fu!
This was an existence who had broken through the wind tribulation and the lightning tribulation, with only the fire tribulation remaining!
Normally, Old Monster Cheng Fu remained motionless atop his peak.
At this moment, a message arrived from the outside world. This message, which traveled for hundreds of millions of miles, startled Old Monster Cheng Fu.
"Daoist Taixu, failed to pass the wind tribulation, yet did not die."
The message was simple.
Just these few sentences.
Yet, they caused Old Monster Cheng Fu to frown.
He stepped down from his seat, stood up, and gazed out from the high peak across the boundless land.
He seemed to see, far beyond the infinite distance, Daoist Taixu—or more accurately, he sensed the aura from that direction.
He sighed softly, his tone filled with regret.
"A time of turmoil, truly a time of turmoil."
"Can't even have a moment of leisure."
"And now this happens!"
"Truly..."
Why did Old Monster Cheng Fu react this way?
This was due to the mechanics of this world.
This world had three tribulations that needed to be overcome.
Under normal circumstances, those who successfully passed would naturally ascend to immortality.
And those who failed would naturally perish.
But this was not the entire truth.
It was only a partial truth.
The world was vast, and there were always anomalies. Some individuals could survive even after failing the lightning tribulation.
Of course, whether the one who survived was truly the same person was a question mark.
Especially when it came to tribulations that tested the primordial spirit.