The main peak of the Tang Clan was filled with thunder and lightning.
Bolts of heavenly lightning kept striking at the same place, as if there was something there that had angered them.
In the middle of the Lightning Pool, a figure stumbled as he walked towards the inside.
The Heavenly Dragon Shield in his hand formed a thick and solid green light, isolating the lightning and flames.
In addition, he used the long saber in his hand to slash a path, as though he was looking for something.
Wasn't this person Ling Xiao who went into the lightning pool?
"Damned pearl, come back, where did it go?" Ling Xiao wanted to find the Blue Demon Fire Pearl even though he would be struck by lightning.
It was one of his life-saving trump cards, and he couldn't lose it. Moreover, he still needed it to refine elixirs.
Ling Xiao really couldn't understand. What on earth was attracting the Blue Demon Fire Pearl to fly out of his control? It even attracted the punishment of the Heavenly Thunder. Even he was implicated. He felt even more wronged than Dou E!
The power of the lightning was not random. Even Ling Xiao felt rather strained with the Heavenly Dragon Shield. There were a few times when he almost lost his grip.
After holding on for a while, Ling Xiao finally saw the Blue Demon Fire Pearl that was struck by the lightning.
However, he saw that the Blue Demon Fire Pearl's situation was not good. It was about to be smashed by the lightning.
At this moment, Ling Xiao didn't dare to go any closer because the power of the lightning was even more terrifying. Even the pearl couldn't withstand it, so the spirit weapon in his hand wouldn't be able to withstand it.
"Damned pearl, come back!" Ling Xiao used his spiritual power to send a strong will to pull the Blue Demon Fire Pearl back into his sea of consciousness.
The Blue Demon Fire Pearl seemed to have sensed Ling Xiao's summon and gave a strong response. It flew towards Ling Xiao and entered between his eyebrows.
Ling Xiao was overjoyed, but the next moment, he was dumbfounded. The most powerful lightning was chasing after him.
The lightning arrived in an instant, and the Heavenly Dragon Shield in his hand was almost shaken off.
"Obsidian Cauldron, transform!"
Ling Xiao's entire body was trembling, and blood was flowing out of his seven orifices. The power of the thunder and lightning was too much for him. The Heavenly Dragon Shield seemed to be on the verge of breaking. In desperation, he could only take out the Heavenly Cauldron to defend himself.
The Obsidian Cauldron instantly expanded to the size of a house, shielding Ling Xiao from the lightning strikes.
Ling Xiao heaved a sigh of relief and thought to himself, "If I had known, I would have called Tian Ding out earlier!"
Suddenly, in Ling Xiao's sea of consciousness, there was an intense pain, causing him to scream miserably.
Ling Xiao covered his head and rolled on the ground. Hot air was coming out of his seven orifices, as if his head was going to be burned.
"What's going on?" Ling Xiao endured the pain and dove into his sea of consciousness to see what was going on.
He saw that there was a blue sea of flames in his sea of consciousness, and the small tree had retreated far away. The other bead was faintly emitting a gray baleful aura to block it, but it had also been forced into a corner. The remnant soul of the Savage Leopard was scurrying in all directions in a terrible situation.
"Old Lü, what's going on?" Ling Xiao asked the small tree.
A green figure flashed out, and a powerful green barrier of light isolated the sea of flames.
Lü Weng frowned and stroked his beard. "It's advancing!"
"What, it … it can also advance?" Ling Xiao was shocked to hear this.
"What's so surprising about that? Everything can grow. It's a foreign object condensed from heaven and earth, so of course it can advance," Lü Weng replied.
"Then what should I do? If this continues, it'll destroy my place," Ling Xiao replied, at a loss.
"It's absorbing too much energy, so it can't digest it in a short amount of time. So you need to help it share some of the energy. That way, you might be able to resolve it," Lü Weng said.
"I'll help it resolve it?" Ling Xiao was stunned, but he didn't know how to help it.
"That's right, guide its energy for your own use," Lü Weng replied.
Ling Xiao thought for a moment, and felt that the blue sea of flames was surging even more fiercely.
"I'll try!" Ling Xiao said, and then immediately used his heart to sense the Blue Demon Firebead, making his request.
He had already branded the Blue Demon Firebead with his imprint, so it could naturally sense his intentions. The Blue Demon Firebead agreed without hesitation.
Ling Xiao used his mental strength to guide the extra fire attribute energy out of his sea of consciousness.
The extra fire attribute energy seemed to have found an outlet, and immediately rushed out in the direction that Ling Xiao had come from.
Ling Xiao felt his body instantly surge. He knew that this was the extra energy from the Blue Demon Firebead. Without waiting for his instructions, the Three Parts Restoration Qi also began to circulate at high speed.
The energy turned into a whirlpool, and in an instant, it passed through Ling Xiao's meridians and squeezed into Ling Xiao's dantian.
Boom!
Ling Xiao's dantian was attacked by a large amount of energy, and it almost shook.
Fortunately, Ling Xiao's dantian had already condensed three layers of defense around it, so the energy was not able to destroy it.
The energy was quickly absorbed by the stabilized dantian.
With the addition of such a large amount of energy, the dantian instantly expanded. The three layers of defense around it instantly overlapped, gradually forming a five-colored screen of light.
He had thought that this was already very strange, but the most surprising thing was yet to come.
He saw that the dantian actually began to crack and evolve from its solid state.
A person's dantian was the foundation of a martial artist. Once it was destroyed, it meant that the martial artist's path of martial arts would be reduced to nothingness.
Could it be that Ling Xiao's dantian was broken by the powerful energy and destroyed?
This was clearly impossible.
Although Ling Xiao had never seen this situation before, he knew that this should be a sign that he had broken through a barrier that had been stuck for a long time.
That's right, this was actually the sign of the Three Parts Restoration Qi breaking through the fifth level of spirit transformation.
He saw that after the dantian was broken, the energy turned into a whirlpool, constantly absorbing the energy that was still rushing in. The whirlpool of dantian spun faster and faster, and the change was also getting bigger and bigger.
Ling Xiao's five elemental powers — metal, fire, ice, wood, and wind — were softened and transformed into a colorful whirlpool in his dantian.
As the energy continued to rush in, the whirlpool of dantian grew larger and larger. It looked like a boundless starry sky, beautiful and mysterious.
In Ling Xiao's sea of consciousness, Lu Weng also seemed to sense the changes in Ling Xiao's dantian, and he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "This kid has actually evolved source energy, it's really incredible!"
Ling Xiao was at a loss about all of this. He only knew that his limbs were in shock, his organs were being washed by the most violent energy, and his dantian was being attacked like never before.
At first, it was extremely uncomfortable, but in the end, it was like being washed in cold water in the summer, or the wonderful feeling of being bathed in a hot spring in the winter.
After an unknown amount of time, the heavenly lightning in the sky knew that it could not break through the Heaven Cauldron's defense, so it could only return to the clouds and calm returned.
The Tang family members not far away all let out a sigh of relief.
The continuous thunder and lightning these past few days had made them panic, and they almost wanted to abandon the camp and escape.
Fortunately, the heavenly lightning was only targeting the main peak, and the other places were fine, so they stayed.
"Three days, a full three days. What exactly made the heavenly lightning so angry!" Tang Tianhao said with a pained expression.
Looking at the main peak that had been flattened, leaving only smoke and the sea of fire that was still surging, making it difficult for people to get close, he felt extremely uncomfortable.
"I wonder if Brother Ling will …" Tang Luiguo looked at the lightning pool with a complicated expression and sighed.
Tang Tianhao frowned and said, "The old man said that he saw Little Brother Ling go in with his own eyes that day. Even if he did something … it has nothing to do with our Tang family."
"Although that's what he said, the people of the Gu Clan might not believe it," Tang Luiguo replied.
"Sigh, the sky really is unpredictable. Little Brother Ling has just come to our Tang family, and such a thing has already happened. The foundation of our Tang family has been destroyed. It's really a pity for the Ten Thousand Year Iron and Ten Thousand Year Deep Silver." Tang Tianhao sighed heavily.
"Father, maybe the situation is not as bad as we think," Tang Luiguo comforted.
Just as Tang Tianhao was about to say something, Tang Jin walked over and said, "Patriarch, the old man has gone over again."
Tang Tianhao replied, "We can't control the old man's actions. I hope that he can find some clues. Oh right, where is the lord of the Gu Clan?"
"He has been resting and hasn't made any movements," Tang Jin replied.
"Isn't he worried at all?" Tang Tianhao asked doubtfully.
"Elder Jin, could he have used some secret method to inform the Gu Clan?" Tang Luiguo guessed.
As soon as he said this, the expressions of the three of them became complicated.
If that was really the case, their Tang family would be in trouble.
"Forget it, we can't avoid it no matter if it's a blessing or a curse. Let's wait for the old man to come out," Tang Tianhao sighed.
In the sky above the lightning pool, a fiery figure floated high in the air, balls of fire emitting a dazzling light.
Old Man Tang stared at the place where the lightning and fire intersected, his expression incomparably solemn.
"Could it be that the Heavenly Lightning Bead has really been condensed?" Old Man Tang muttered.
Immediately after, a fiery spirit blade and a large square shield appeared in his hands. His entire body turned into a shooting star as he plunged towards the lightning pool.
Zi zi!
Just as a living being approached, the lightning and fire immediately shot towards it.
However, the power of the lightning and fire was much weaker than the power of the Heavenly Lightning, so it was unable to touch Old Man Tang at all.
With a single slash, he broke through the lightning and fire, intending to dive deeper.
Who knew that at this moment, there would be a powerful rebound that shook his saber attack back to him.
Fortunately, Old Man Tang's reaction was fast enough, or else he would have suffered a backlash from his own slash.
"There really is a foreign object down there!" Old Man Tang was overjoyed.
He had observed the Heavenly Lightning for the past few days, and its power was more than ten times stronger than before, so he had guessed that there must be a foreign object being born here. Now that there was a reaction, how could he not be happy?
"It's no use. Ancestor's many years of setting up the array here has finally yielded results," Old Man Tang's eyes shone as he muttered. A few more spiritual objects appeared in his spatial ring.