The might of a Thunderbolt Rune depended on the amount of power being channeled into it. Without the stone, Ou Yangming could not guarantee how mighty the rune could be even if he sent all of his mental power into it in one go.
This time, the rune that he gathered contained his and the peculiar stone’s power.
When the energies from the stone were also channeled into the rune, it absorbed so much energy that even Ou Yangming became fearful. He could sense that if the rune was released at him, he probably would not survive even if he wore a full Thunderbolt-resistant Suit.
Ou Yangming’s eyes lit up because he knew the rune would wreak havoc in the universe if it was released. He was not even confident if he could survive the chaotic situation, but he knew that there would only be one outcome if he did not put up a fight.
He would die if he did not fight and might live or die if he fought. Was he left with any other choice?
At the spur of the moment, Ou Yangming widened his eyes and roared to vent his unyielding spirit. Concurrently, he turned his wrist to throw out the uncontrollable Thunderbolt Rune.
“Boom—”
The instant he threw the rune, it hit the strange space wall around him.
Subsequently, the entire space shook violently, and purple electric lights quickly filled the space.
The electric lights flickered and grew in power, so much so that they almost became unbelievable.
Ou Yangming and Big Yellow shuddered. Without the Thunderbolt-resistant Suits, which reduced the thunderbolts’ harmful powers to a tenth of their original powers, they would have been turned into ashes long ago.
Even so, they would not be able to endure for too long. Their suits began to crack, so they would certainly be doomed if the situation continued.
‘Did I really outsmart myself? Am I going to die here?’ Ou Yangming smiled bitterly.
As soon as he had the thought, a deafening pop was heard. Afterward, his and the big yellow dog’s body sprung up and flew out of the unusual and sealed space.
The potent thunderbolts finally unleashed their powers and left a crack in the place.
As a result, Ou Yangming and Big Yellow, which could almost not resist the thunderbolts anymore, were lucky enough to fly out through the crack.
Overflowing thunderbolts powers gushed out through the gap, whereas the space’s auto-recovery ability was activated, allowing the slit to be automatically fixed.
The gigantic yet odd space brought the remaining powers, which resonated with thunderbolts, and continued to fly toward an unknown depth. While its interior suffered an intense attack, its flight path did not change at all.
Chapter 546 - Can’t Coexist
A giant light suddenly appeared deep in a dark underground.
Inside the spacious burrow, which looked like a gigantic mountain was dug out of it, a humongous creature and an illusory figure could be seen.
The enormous creature was an underground lizard, which was also the well-known Ghost-clawed Venerable One among the Insects. It was staring at the glowing spot of nothingness in front of it at the moment, and a cruel look could be seen in its ice-cold eyes.
Nonetheless, its consciousness enveloped the entire underground. In particular, it paid extra attention to the illusory figure beside it.
This was because it was deeply in awe of how capable the Sky-devouring Devil God’s follower was.
In terms of absolute strength, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One did not think it was inferior to its opponent. Even so, discreetly lurking in an interspatial passage to kidnap a specific living being without being known was beyond its ability.
Back then, the Sky-devouring Devil God was known as the greatest devil god in the world, so much so that it could devour worlds.
Although the legendary Almighty Being had fallen, its believer still grasped some unbelievable secret techniques, such that even the Ghost-clawed Venerable One was astonished.
“How did you do it?” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One asked in a deep voice after a moment of hesitation.
The illusory figure let out a spine-chilling laugh and responded with another question, “Is that very important?”
“Hmph, your secret technique’s quite good, but you’re only half-successful.” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One sneered.
“Half-successful? What do you mean?” The illusory figure was surprised.
“You were supposed to only capture that little human, but you caught something else too,” the Ghost-clawed Venerable One ridiculed the illusory figure, “There’s a spirit beast inside too.”
“That’s impossible!” A fluctuation could be seen around the figure, which was evident that he was very affected. “That secret technique was left behind by my master. Unless one carries my master’s ability, one won’t be led here no matter what.”
“Oh, in that case, that spirit beast also has…” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One was stunned, and it mumbled.
Even though it released its mental power to verify it earlier, the prying process that only lasted for a split second caused it to consume many precious resources. Those consumptions felt like physical pains to the lizard, hence it gave up wanting to pry what was inside the flickering light.
The illusory figure looked deeply at the Ghost-clawed Venerable One and slowly calmed down.
He had not come in his real body. While he borrowed a treasure left behind by Sir Devil God to complete the magnificent feat of stopping people halfway, he did not know who he stopped. Instead, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One knew better.
At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind, ‘Is there more than one person from the lower realm that obtained Sir Devil God’s inheritance?’
Nevertheless, it was extremely difficult to be approved by the devil god. The illusory figure could not believe that 2 such living beings were continuously born in the lower realm, but it did not seem like the Ghost-clawed Venerable One was speaking carelessly. If that was the case, this was the only explanation he could think of.
The 2 powerful beings fell silent at the same time as though they were pondering about something.
There were other small lizards of different sizes in the cave too. They were not powerful but had gained wisdom, and they were the most potential younger generation among the Lizards.
The Ghost-clawed Venerable One had gathered them this time to let them witness an interspatial miracle.
This was because sensing such an intense change in space at a close distance would cause certain impacts on their bodies. Despite that, the impacts could also cause them to mutate. As long as a small lizard mutated, the observation would be worthwhile.
In terms of bringing up the younger generation, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One had truly racked its brain and went all-out.
All of a sudden, the light at the center of the cave became more intense and emitted more dazzling rays.
Apart from the Ghost-clawed Venerable One and the floating figure in mid-air, the small lizards squinted their eyes because their cultivation bases did not allow them to ignore such a harsh light.
The Ghost-clawed Venerable One’s eyes lit up, and it ordered softly, “The space is going to change soon, so sense it carefully.”
Many small lizards immediately concentrated. They endured the pain in their eyes and stared at the dazzling light without blinking at all.
The internal competition among the Insects was much crueler than the Humans’. The small lizards could only be in this cave because of the Ghost-clawed Venerable One’s grace, but if their performances were not worthy of that grace, they would only end up miserably.
Therefore, no matter how uncomfortable they were feeling, they dared not appear to be inferior to their partners.
“Pow…”
Without warning, a strange sound was heard coming from the light, then an electric light appeared.
“Hey?” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One widened its eyes and looked at the light in confusion. It clearly remembered that there was no
flickering light in the peculiar space when it pried it earlier.
It was then when the illusory figure quivered. It finally sensed the fearsome and destructive power that filled the treasure, which traversed space to come here.
“Sh*t, quickly leave!”
As soon as the illusory figure roared, the treasure finally completed the traverse and jumped out from the light.
Next, thunderbolts with lethal energies were released. They were unbelievably violent and concentrated, by which their electric lights were released to every inch of space in the cave.
Ou Yangming’s ability was limited, after all. Even if he gave his all, he could not have gathered electric lights of such a scale.
In actuality, not to mention him, even Multi-armed King Kong could not have done this too.
Having said that, Ou Yangming was in a sealed, weird space when he released the Thunderbolt Rune. The space was filled with greater interspatial power, but the young fellow sent the Military Fire and the little red bird’s energies into the rune.
As such, the Phoenixes’ distinctive space property was fully unleashed, and the Thunderbolt Rune became a bottomless hole, which converted the endless interspatial power into more potent thunderbolts.
The space inside the treasure was sealed, but it could draw limitless power from the outside space to fill what it lacked inside.
When Ou Yangming left through the crack, the Thunderbolt Rune still existed and did not fully burst. Moreover, due to the sealed space, its power kept accumulating and flowed without restraint inside the space.
For the rest of the journey, the thunderbolt power inside the treasure’s space grew stronger. Fortunately, the treasure was unordinary and could bear the power until the end, or it would have exploded long ago, and nothing would be left of it.
When the treasure finally returned to its starting point, it instantly released everything inside.
Hence, what the Ghost-clawed Venerable One and the floating figure saw was not Ou Yangming and Big Yellow, but zapping thunderbolts, which seemed like the end of the world.
“Pow, pow, pow…”
Without any delay, every thunderbolt contained in the space was freed and formed unparalleled powers.
Being attacked by such powers, even the Ghost-clawed Venerable One was not safe because it was caught off guard. It held up its defensive shield right away, but its skin was still burnt, and its scales were cracked.
The small lizards in the cave suffered a more miserable fate. They had gained wisdom and were regarded as rising stars among the Lizards, but they could not survive such severe attacks from the thunderbolts. Amidst the thunderbolts, their bodies twitched as if they were dancing, and they somehow looked oddly fascinating along with the electric lights.
However, they were not moving on their own because it was due to the natural responses of their muscles under the stimulation of the thunderbolts.
As for themselves, they were already utterly dead when the first wave of thunderbolts struck them.
The floating figure in the void fluttered backward. It feared the thunderbolt powers very much and dared not get close to them at all.
That said, the thunderbolt powers were too potent. If his real body was present, he could use different methods to resist the lights, but only his projection was here.
The projection had incredibly wonderful control over powers, but he could not resist the savage and unreasonable thunderbolts.
Using an ant as an example—it could carry things heavier than its body by a few times, but it would be easily crushed if a car or a dog stepped on it.
The disparity between absolute powers could not be made up by sheer skills.
Thus, the projection yelled as he was not resigned to the outcome, but it suddenly exploded and disappeared.
The powers released by the thunderbolts were forceful, but they dispersed very soon.
When the rune gathered by Ou Yangming left the sealed environment, it finally fully released the powers that it previously absorbed. In the end, it exploded and vanished in the void too.
By the time the Ghost-clawed Venerable One opened its eyes and looked at the mess everywhere, as well as the countless dead descendants, it was furious.
It roared madly but turned to look, only to find that the illusory figure had disappeared.
The enraged Ghost-clawed Venerable One then turned to look at the secret interspatial treasure at the center of the cave. It gritted its teeth and approached the object to grab it, but as soon as its claws touched it, the object flashed and escaped into the void like a swimming fish.
After being stunned for a while, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One looked up and shouted with hatred. Its voice echoed in the entire underworld.
“Blood Shadow, there’s no way the Bloods and I can live at the same time—we can’t coexist…”
Its thunderous voice spread far and wide, causing the other insect to curl up their bodies, and they could not help but shudder with fear.
Chapter 547 - Interspatial Node
A ball of electric light suddenly appeared in the endless void.
It seemed to be a light ball with calluses, and it looked like something was squirming inside.
The electric light was mighty, but it was in the boundless void, which could accommodate even the greatest powers and could make them vanish very quickly.
After just a split second, the initially violent and destructive thunderbolt powers disappeared and were replaced by the endless dark space.
Ou Yangming and Big Yellow sensed the change in their environment, as well as the compression from the fearsome interspatial power. The power was so strong that they instantly felt pressures from death.
Without any hesitation, Ou Yangming and Big Yellow released their powers at the same time to form a defensive net each around them.
It was a unique power that they acquired after advancing to Extreme Grade. They would have unquestionably died if they entered this environment before they entered Extreme Grade, but while they could protect their lives now, they still felt bitter.
At the end of the day, their powers were not omnipotent. When would they be able to break free from the limitless void?
Once they finished consuming their powers, would they only be able to wait to die?
The human and the dog were helpless as they looked at each other. Nonetheless, this was better than being stuck in an odd space and being sent to the Ghost-clawed Venerable One.
At this point, they could only comfort themselves through this method.
Ou Yangming looked into the distance as much as he could, but he saw nothing but the intense darkness in this environment.
In fact, even the light beam that connected the 2 realms dimmed. Although the passage was built, unless it was activated, it would not usually appear.
The dark environment was dead silent. If one stayed in this environment for too long, one might even suffer a mental breakdown before one’s power was depleted.
Ou Yangming was not used to waiting helplessly for death. Even though there was no hope to break free at the moment, he still did not plan to give up, hence he kept observing his surroundings. Nevertheless, there was nothing but darkness everywhere, and there were no signs of abnormality anywhere.
“Where’s this place?” All of a sudden, Big Yellow’s voice appeared in Ou Yangming’s mind.
The young fellow shook his head and responded through his mental conception, “I’m not sure either, but it looks like we’re in the space of nothingness.
“Ah, why did we end up here?” Big Yellow turned its head and asked, “Where are Multi-armed King Kong and the goshawk?”
Ou Yangming sighed and answered, “They went miss… Not, we’re probably the ones that went missing.”
He did not understand what happened, but he was certain of one thing; the Ghost-clawed Venerable One had used a unique ability to snatch him and Big Yellow out from the light beam that headed to the Spiritual Realm.
‘Tha
t Venerable One from the Insects actually possess such an unbelievable divine ability. Given its remarkable powers and profound foundation, it must be superior to human cultivators in the Spiritual Realm.’
Ou Yangming did not know the reason behind everything and thought the Ghost-clawed Venerable One was the mastermind, which was why he overestimated it.
“What should we do?” Big Yellow twitched its ears and asked, “Can we still go back?”
Its series of questions caused Ou Yangming to shake his head with a bitter smile because he felt extremely helpless.
A red figure suddenly appeared in his mind as he thought about the little red bird. Perhaps that would be his only hope because other than the little bird, he could not think of anyone that would be capable enough to find him.
Ou Yangming pondered for a brief moment and finally curbed his thought. “Big Yellow, maintain your spiritual power at the lowest as much as possible. We might need to stay here for a long time.”
Big Yellow nodded seriously. After taking a good look at the environment it was in, it made the same deduction.
It would probably be very difficult for them to find a way to leave the endless space within a short time…
With that, they quietly drifted in the unbounded space. Whether it was Ou Yangming or Big Yellow, they did not know where they would drift to. Perhaps they would one day run out of resources, and the day they became exhausted would probably be their doomsday.
Even so, before that, they would not give up easily no matter what.
Their lives were at stake, after all. Nobody could anyhow give up on their lives.
Time did not exist in the space, so they did not know how long they had been drifting. One day, the seemingly sick Big Yellow, which was not willing to waste even a bit of its energy, suddenly opened its eyes and twitched its nose as though it was smelling something.
Ou Yangming looked at it in shock then remarked with a bitter smile, “Big Yellow, stop fooling around.”
He would have questioned the big yellow dog curiously if it did the same thing in the lower realm. This was because it had definitely picked up something unordinary if it had such an expression on its face.
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