Chapter 690: Lightning Rods Gone Rogue (2/2)

“Wu Tulong is also progressively getting out of control. It seems I need to find time to refine another soul seed and plant it inside of him.” Random thoughts flitted through his mind.

Unbeknownst to him unease had begun to take hold inside his heart. He carefully studied the lightning rods inserted beside him. These were all one-time-use and would be destroyed once his tribulation was over.

He’d already examined them individually and even used the Sword of Chaos to scan them, but found no formations or restrictions on them, nor any consciousness hidden inside. The judgment of the Sword of Chaos was infallible. No one was controlling these lightning rods from afar, no one had left anything hidden inside. More importantly, Lu Yun wouldn’t ruin his own business brand.

Otherwise, why would Dongfang Hao have spent such a large sum to buy three hundred and sixty-five lightning rods?

Of course, as a prudent man, he’d brought them indirectly from Dusk Province through unrelated people, or second-hand from previous buyers.

Boom!

The sky suddenly trembled violently. Thick tribulation clouds quickly materialized in the sky, dyeing the entire dome dark-red. Soon, navy bolts of lightning snaked inside the clouds.

“It’s not the Diabolical Tribulation of World Refinement!” Dongfang Hao sprang to his feet and looked at the dark-blue lightning above, his voice soft as a whisper. “The Navy Thunder of World Extinction!”

The Navy Thunder of World Extinction! It was a phenomenon comparable in magnitude to the Diabolical Tribulation of World Refinement, but also as different as night from day...

The Diabolical Tribulation of World Refinement was a prison in which countless demons were shackled. When the lightning struck, demons arrived into the world to tear the tribulation’s target apart.

As for the Navy Thunder of World Extinction… it was simple destruction in its purest form. With the infinite power of lightning, it destroyed its target… and everyone else in the process!

“What a pity it’s not a heavenly judgment. Is Lu Yun truly better than me?”

Dongfang Hao tightly knitted his brows together, taking exception to the notion.

While Lu Yun’s phenomenon of ascension had seemed insignificant, that strange, gigantic snake had made the Sword of Chaos tremble.

During Lu Yun’s phenomenon of ascension, when a purple aura four hundred kilometers across had come from the east, Dongfang Hao had clearly observed an ephemeral six-colored radiance flickering in and then out of existence. That light must have been Lu Yun’s true phenomenon of ascension, but it’d been promptly concealed by something.

After all, heavenly judgments were the strongest tribulations of them all.

While the Navy Thunder of World Extinction was strong, it didn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Divine thunder welled up in the sky and roared into fearsome, gigantic beasts, and the claps of thunder gradually turned into bestial howls. A second later, lightning struck from above. A dark-blue lightning dragon slithered down from the heavens and cruelly struck Dongfang Hao.

Bzzzt.

Three hundred and sixty-five lightning rods lit up at the same time, producing a dream-light radiance. They disintegrated the lightning dragon before it could touch him, reducing it to sparks that streamed toward the iron.

“It really works!” Dongfang Hao’s eyes lit up, his fears finally allayed.

But suddenly, the unexpected happened!

The dreamy glow around the lightning bolts winked out, and the previously diffused lightning coalesced back into a dragon and pounced on him, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws.

Caught by surprise by the sudden attack, Dongfang Hao was blasted away like a broken kite!

“Lu Yun… You tricked me!!!” he screamed in anger. He’d sensed Lu Yun’s presence on the premises!