Ascension of the immortal Asura

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Thunderous booms, louder than anything that had been unleashed before blasted from out of the clouds above as the Heaven's raged beyond all compare. The wind kicked up and the rain continued to fall, as if the Heavens were about to unleash one final onslaught on the victims below.

John's defiant gaze stared up at the heavenly eyes above, whose gaze was locked onto him with fiery fury. However, there was no more caution or wariness in his gaze, as he could tell that the Heaven's had already thrown everything it could at him.

"You've lost. Now give me what is mine," John said firmly as he pointed his finger at the eyes above. His Asura Transformation Art and Bloodline Ability faded away as his body was on the verge of collapse. A wave of pain and exhaustion beyond anything he had ever felt before washed over him, but he ignored it as best he could as he struggled to stay awake.

Boom!

A thunderous boom answered his statement, but no attack followed, confirming John's suspicions. The clouds above churned once more, but more sluggish than usual, as if it were trying to resist the process with all its might, but was unable to change the course of what was to come.

A point of light gathered below the clouds once more, illuminating the dark world below the clouds with a bright and warm light. The point of light continued to grow in power, but there was no lethal threat behind its might.

John's gaze continued to linger on the Heavenly eyes above, as the point of light exploded outwards, unleashing a beam of lightning down onto his body. He did not move or attempt to dodge the beam, as it was unlike any of the others that had been thrown at him yet. The beam of lightning contained the most vibrant of heavenly energy, which slammed onto his body in an instant and continued to channel from the clouds above down onto his body.

The energy from the beam of lightning invaded his body, which John allowed to roam freely and unhindered. The energy washed over his muscles, bones, sinew, and each and every single cell of his body. His body greedily absorbed the energy as fast as it could, as if it were the most nourishing thing in the world. His body was like desert sand in a rainstorm, parched beyond all compare and wanting to drink as much as possible.

As his cells absorbed the energy, they transformed at a visible rate. John's divine sense inspected the changes within his body, and even he couldn't help but be shocked at the level of the changes. With the energy from the heaven's above, each and every cell was transformed, becoming stronger, more vibrant, more durable, and more profound. It was as if his entire body was transcending to a higher state of being; from a man to something more.

At the same time, he could feel his soul become nourished as well, growing in size and profundity in a similar manner. His soul core rapidly expanded, as if it were floodwaters being unleashed upon the world. His soul continued to greedily drink the heavenly energy and transform it into more soul essence, further adding to the flood. Before long, his soul core had completely transformed, becoming something more akin to an ocean. His liquid soul essence stretched for miles in each direction as the spatial realm that harbored his soul also grew as well. Before long, it was truly as if it had become the most beautiful and tranquil of oceans. His soul essence emanated a soft blue hue, while some soul-mists above drifted about like clouds; the scene beyond picturesque.

Both his soul power and soul defenses grew at an equally shocking rate, far eclipsing what he was capable of before. With his enhanced soul, John felt like his comprehensions had skyrocketed at an unbelievable rate, as if he were looking at a completely different world before him for the first time.

His soul finally reached a maximum after expanding for miles, and the heavenly energy began to flood into his dantian afterwards. His twenty times compressed dantian greedily absorbed the heavenly energy, as if it had no limits. It drank and drank and drank, as if it were the most parched being in existence, and the heavenly energy the most quenching of nectars.

As the energy flooded into his dantian, it too began to transform in a similar manner to his body and his soul. Each and every aspect of his dantian grew in power and profundity, while his dantian itself expanded in a similar manner to his soul as a spatial realm within his dantian was formed.

Up to this point, the dantian would physically store the essence Qi within the dantian itself, but thanks to the heavenly energy's unique properties, a spatial realm had formed within the dantian. The dantian's spatial realm's size was equivalent to the level of the dantian, with more compressions resulting in a larger spatial realm.

His dantian spatial realm continued to stretch and grow, as it had no limits. The heavenly Qi continued to surge within the spatial realm, stretching it outwards and forcing it to grow. The spatial growth continued for quite some time before it finally stopped, forming a spatial realm many miles wide. With the transformation complete, he had finally stepped into the Heaven Tribulation Realm.

With the spatial realm formed, John felt as if his dantian had never been emptier. It had grown in size and profundity but was now completely empty. However, he ignored that feeling of emptiness and hunger as he focused on the rest of the process.

The Heavenly energy washed over his body dantian, but seemed to not notice its existence at all. It ignored it completely as it surged through the rest of his body, not missing a single cell. The process continued for fifteen minutes, far longer than the normal few minutes of other tribulations.

The clouds above continued to become thinner and weaker as John drained its heavenly energy, while Laia's exhausted yet relieved eyes stared at John the entire time. His absorption of the heavenly tribulation energy was far beyond anything she thought possible, but at this point she was no longer surprised with anything John was able to do.

The last of the blackened clouds above faded away, and the heavenly eyes also began to dissipate. At the same time, John's body finally reached its full, no longer able to absorb any more heavenly energy. His eyes opened and gazed up at the Heaven's above as they finally faded away for good.

A deep breath filled his lungs as if he were breathing the most refreshing air, before his eyes closed once more and his consciousness started to fade away.

'My tribulation…is finally over!'