Chapter 100: Heaven Shaking Thunder (1/2)

Chapter 100: Heaven Shaking Thunder

At the visible edges of the sky, bolt after bolt of thick lightning raged like a crazed dragon, accompanied by heaven-shocking earth-shaking thunder. The sky here was like a purgatory of thunder and lightning.

Xie Jingxuan, who sat atop the Profound Nether Beast, still wore the Blackscale Armor. Originally, she had wanted to leave and report the unfavorable situation that had transpired to Dark Asura Hall so that they could dispatch other people to come over and deal with it.

However, as she watched the sky change, she motioned for the group to stop.

The Na Nuo, Xiong Ba, Tu Ze, and the rest’s faces all displayed with panic as they didn’t quite understand why the thunder and lightning suddenly became so violent. Moreover, they were still in a state of unrest.

By this time, Qin Lie had already begun walking towards the blazing valley, the full sky thunder and lightning following after him.

“Qin Lie! It’s Qin Lie!” exclaimed Na Nuo, who was the first to recover her senses. Her delicate body slightly trembled as the dazzling light of surprise shot out from within her eyes.

Tu Ze and Xiong Ba’s expressions also quivered as their line of sight, along with the line of sight of the generals of Dark Asura Hall, all landed on Qin Lie’s body, which advanced step by step into the valley.

The fiercely burning flames seemingly had little effect on Qin Lie as he unexpectedly entered the valley without issue.

The heavenly lightning above their heads began to converge above the valley from all sides. A bolt of twisting lightning which looked like a flying dragon was discharged from the sky, rapidly shooting down like a silver chain.

An earth-moving mountain-shaking roar immediately emanated out from within the valley.

“Gao Yu?” whispered Zhuo Qian as she slightly furrowed her brows, her pretty face full of uncertainty. “What’s wrong?”

Everyone all looked over.

All they saw was Gao Yu’s trembling body and his colorless face. His dark, ice-cold eyes were filled with fear and unrest as he backed up step by step towards the outskirts, becoming increasingly tense with every passing moment.

“There are packs of spirit beasts out there!” hurriedly and loudly reminded Tu Ze after a moment “Once you move into the midst of a spirit beast horde, it will be very hard to calmly deal with it. Stop backing up!”

Gao Yu ignored Tu Ze’s reminder, still proceeding further and further away.

He could feel the deep terror from the giant demon soul within his Ogre-faced Ring…

He finally understood why the giant demon mirage that had formed earlier urged him to stay as far away from Qin Lie as possible and it wanted him to go to the outskirts of the valley earlier.

The giant demon mirage was extremely afraid of the thunder and lightning which descended from the depths of the Ninth Heaven. The heavenly thunder and wild lightning was precisely its bane, able to instantly turn it to ashes where not even the slightest trace of it would remain.

“Boooom!”

Heavenly thunder incessantly rumbled, causing Gao Yu’s soul to tremble with instinctive fear.

He gradually understood that, following his years of cultivation of the Nine Hell Wandering Soul Record, his soul was different from normal people’s. His soul was terrified of thunder and lightning. If he was ever not cautious and struck by the heavenly lightning which descended from the sky, he would suffer severe injuries, perhaps even to the point where his soul would dissipate.

Thunder and lightning were the bane of all evil ghosts as it was able to exterminate evil…

“Now I understand.” Gao Yu lowered his head, his expression weird and undecipherable. “I, who have cultivated the Nine Hell Wandering Soul Record and wield the Ogre-faced Ring, am no different from the giant demon mirage… We are both heretical, and thus we are terrified of it.”

Ignoring Tu Ze and Zhuo Qian’s efforts to dissuade him, Gao Yu left by himself amidst everyone’s shocked gazes.

A spirit beast suddenly roared from the direction Gao Yu had left to. Everyone looked over. Tu Ze swore and was about to go and assist, but was stopped by Zhuo Qian.

“Don’t go,” said Zhuo Qian, shaking her head. “There are at least ten Rank Two spirit beasts out there and around three hundred Rank Ones. If we end up surrounded by them, we will have essentially no chance of surviving or breaking out. Gao Yu can form a Demon God’s shadow and should have ways of protecting himself. Don’t go out there seeking your death.”

Tu Ze stopped, and after silently pondering for a few seconds, he slightly nodded.

“Miss?” asked Liang Zhong, requesting instructions.

Xie Jingxuan made a silent gesture as she sat high above on top of the Profound Nether Beast, then closed her eyes.

An extremely obvious fluctuation of mind energy spilled out from her body and rippled towards the blazing valley.

Within the valley.

Qin Lie’s body was completely enveloped by serene blue lightning and the sound of rumbling thunder surrounded him as he walked amidst the vast sea of flames.

He suddenly raised his head to look at the thunder and lightning raging in the sky. Then, after pondering for a moment, he shouted, “Come!”

He focused all the energy he could muster towards channeling Heavenly Thunder Eradication.

The energy of thunder and lightning within his body’s acupoints, bones, muscles, veins, and flesh wildly surged towards the spirit sea within his dantian, agitating his spirit sea and causing waves to billow across it as purified spirit energy mixed with thunder and lightning energy.

His body, which had been stripped of all thunder and lightning, became exposed amidst the blazing valley and began to act like a giant magnet.

—A magnet which attracted all of the thunder and lightning that had yet to enter.

“…Heavenly Thunder Sacred Body. So the first step of forming Heavenly Thunder Sacred Body, the very first stage, actually requires one to withstand the wild and crazed tempering of thunder and lightning.”

A boom echoed within Qin Lie’s mind as he raised his head towards the sky, his eyes blazing.

“Booom! Boooom!”

Bolt after bolt of lightning emerged from within the depths of the clouds, amalgamating above Qin Lie’s head. Like a dragon it quickly rushed down, directly striking his body which was amidst the sea of fire.

“Bzzt bzzt bzzt!”

As the lightning descended into the valley, the Soul Devouring Beast’s black, mushroom shaped soul fragments started to emit dense smoke.

The moment one of the Soul Devouring Beast’s soul fragments made contact with a bolt of lightning, it would immediately disperse like dissipating smoke. Unexpectedly, all the fragments disappeared within a short moment.

The Soul Devouring Beast itself felt pain penetrate the depths of its soul as it crazily howled, startled by the heavenly lightning.

But it definitely didn’t dare to approach Qin Lie.

“Bang bang bang!”

The stone pillars beside Qin Lie were all crushed to pieces by the heavenly thunder. The sky became filled with rocks flying around and flowers of fire as the Eight Extreme Trigram Fire Formation was once again damaged.

“Th-this is all caused by that little guy?” Outside the valley, Xiong Ba looked up at the sky, his expression startled and pale. “The thunder and lightning from within the depths of the clouds can overthrow the heavens and extinguish the earth, able to cleanse the world of all evil! How can he attract such a terrifying power?”

The people of the Crimson Flame Association were all extremely frightened as they looked at the burning valley.

Within the sky, there were at least several hundred parallel bolts of lightning, all as thick as a person’s waist. With a glance, it was as if there were several-hundred, long electric dragons wildly twisting above.

A heaven and earth shattering sound of thunder echoed amidst the sky, causing many of the stone pillars within this part of the stone forest to explode.