Wan Lei held Fang Xiaoyu's hand, constantly absorbing the thunder of the Thunder Star Sea, turning it into thunder power. While absorbing it himself, he divided half of it, transforming it into spiritual energy and transferring it to Fang Xiaoyu.

At this moment, Lei Shao, saying he was a transformer was a bit of a misnomer. He was more like a thermal power station, acting as a transit point, only responsible for the process of energy conversion.

Fang Xiaoyu wasn't idle either. Although the surrounding thunder was constantly causing physical damage to her, she had been tough since she was a child. While gritting her teeth and enduring it, she also used the thunder to temper her body.

The Thunder Star Sea had a lot of thunder, but its intensity was far from comparable to Heavenly Tribulation. Lei Shao had broken through to the Jindan (Golden Core) stage in one fell swoop thanks to Heavenly Tribulation, attracting the Ferryman of Heavenly Tribulation.

But this time, he wasn't so lucky. Even if he killed all the thunder beasts in the Thunder Star Sea, he wouldn't be able to attract Heavenly Tribulation.

He could only honestly absorb thunder power to break through the shackles.

The formation of the Yuanying (Nascent Soul) within the Jindan was the same as the formation of the Jindan within the foundation, a gradual process. He had obtained the Jindan early, but it took a long time before he completely broke through to Jindan.

Cultivation knows no years. It wasn't until a month had passed that an embryonic infant gradually appeared within his Jindan.

This feeling was wonderful. He and the infant were connected, and he could feel the changes in the infant at any time.

"I feel... I'm pregnant with your child."

Lei Shao looked at Fang Xiaoyu with a mischievous smile and said.

Princess Xiaoyu rolled her eyes at him, ignoring his wicked taste.

There was also a Yuanying embryo in her Jindan.

"Pregnant my ass, you haven't even done the deed yet, and you want to get pregnant? Speaking of which, when are you two going to do the deed? I want to observe and learn... Ah!"

Before the little yellow dog could finish speaking, Fang Xiaoyu kicked it away.

Lei Shao laughed loudly, starting to imagine himself pregnant...

Bah, what pregnancy for a big man like me? If anyone's going to give birth, it's my little Xiaoyu.

Thinking of this, Lei Shao was about to ask Fang Xiaoyu when she would give birth to his child, but Fang Xiaoyu seemed to see through his thoughts and glared at him fiercely, forcing Lei Shao's words back.

In the second month, the infant gradually grew limbs.

The third month...

The fourth month...

It wasn't until five months later that the infants in their bodies were completely formed, and finally, it was time for delivery...

It was time to break through to the Yuanying stage.

After five months of gestation and constant impact on the shackles, they were very, very close to breaking through. All they needed was the final push.

And this final push required a massive amount of energy.

Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu looked at each other, neither of them speaking, and each took out a Heqi Huying Dan (Harmony Qi Protecting Infant Pill) and swallowed it.

As soon as the pill entered their stomachs, the pure medicinal power immediately entered their dantian, beginning to impact the shackles of that cultivation realm.

Soon, Fang Xiaoyu's meridians opened wide, and the process of her body automatically and frantically absorbing energy began.

But the problem was, Wan Lei was slower than her. His meridians hadn't opened wide yet, and he could only absorb power at his usual speed.

Fang Xiaoyu couldn't absorb external energy, so instinctively, she began to absorb the energy within Wan Lei's body.

Wan Lei felt the energy in his body rapidly draining away, at a rate similar to releasing ten Lei Chen Dian Nu (Thunder Wrath Lightning Fury) spells in a second.

But he didn't dare to stop it, fearing that Fang Xiaoyu would fail to break through, so he could only convert all his thunder power into spiritual energy and cooperate with Fang Xiaoyu's absorption.

The energy in Wan Lei's body decreased rapidly at an alarming rate. The speed at which he absorbed energy was far behind the speed at which he transmitted it to Fang Xiaoyu.

Soon, all the thunder power in his dantian was exhausted.

But he himself still didn't show any signs of his meridians opening wide.

There was no other way. Fang Xiaoyu couldn't be interrupted, so he could only mobilize the energy of his natal thunder source to supply Fang Xiaoyu.

He was an individual, not a world. No matter how abundant the energy in his body was, he couldn't complete the massive amount of energy required for Fang Xiaoyu to break through the shackles.

Gradually, his natal thunder source began to dry up, his meridians began to wither, and even the skin on his body visibly aged and shriveled.

Fang Xiaoyu looked at him like this, knowing that he could no longer support it, and desperately wanted to shake off Wan Lei's hand, wanting to stop absorbing.

"Let go, if this continues, you'll die from the depletion of your cultivation and vitality!"

Fang Xiaoyu struggled to break free from Wan Lei's hand.

Wan Lei's hair was gray, and his whole person looked like an old man on the verge of decay.

"Let go, you idiot, let go!!!"

Fang Xiaoyu's voice was filled with sobs, and tears glistened in her eyes.

At this moment, her heart was completely moved.

If her closeness to Wan Lei before was an act of not wanting to resist the instinctive sense of closeness within her soul,

Then now, she knew that this man in front of her truly cared about her, and was willing to sacrifice himself rather than interrupt her absorption.

The thing that cultivators feared most when breaking through was a sudden interruption. The slightest case would result in Qi Deviation and the collapse of cultivation, and the most serious case would lead to the destruction of both body and soul, resulting in on-the-spot death.

Too many cultivators had died because they failed to break through.

Wan Lei didn't want Fang Xiaoyu to die.

Fang Xiaoyu grabbed Wan Lei's neck, and her cherry lips kissed Wan Lei's shriveled lips.

"If we're going to die, we'll die together!"

Fang Xiaoyu's eyes were resolute. She wasn't an affected woman, but at this moment, she was willing to die with Wan Lei.

She raised her hand, gathering spiritual energy in her palm, and was about to shatter her own dantian with one palm.

Suddenly, at that moment, perhaps because Wan Lei's meridians were completely dry and had rebounded from the bottom, they forcibly broke open, and endless thunder and thunder power surged into his body.

This sudden, majestic force almost broke Wan Lei's dry meridians, but after the pain that went deep into his bones, there was ecstasy.

With the entry of this energy, Wan Lei's cultivation and vitality quickly recovered. His skin quickly regained its luster, and his hair turned from white to black.

"Hehe, what a pity, the tragic scene didn't continue. You looked quite good when you were crying."

Lei Shao stretched out his hand, the armor on his hand automatically retracted, and his fingers gently wiped away the tears from the beauty's eyes.

"Hmph, affected. Shouldn't you say something like, I'll never let you cry again in my life?"

"I won't say it.

I've seen you cold, I've seen you smile, I've seen you make a fuss, I've seen you angry, but this is the first time I've seen you cry.

You look good crying, don't cry in the future."

"Heh."

Fang Xiaoyu chuckled.

"Husband."

"Hmm?"

"Husband."

"Wife."

"Husband."

"Is the next sentence going to be something like I love you, I want to marry you, my life is yours from now on, I want to give you monkey babies?"

"Heh, affected."