201: Your rules aren't strict enough.

The border of the Immortal Realm's Eastern Region.

Heavenly Thunder Sea.

This place is shrouded in violent thunder year-round, making it a sacred cultivation ground that Thunder Cultivators dream of.

A tall and straight figure stood at the edge of the Heavenly Thunder Sea.

Lei Jingtian.

He wore the purple-gold Daoist robe of a Myriad Dao Divine Sect Personal Disciple. His short hair stood on end, and a faint purple lightning glow remained between his brows.

Several months had passed since he joined the Sect.

His crippled Spiritual Root had long since been reborn under his Revered Master's 'heart of chaos thunder source'.

He was now at the Early Stage Heavenly Immortal realm.

Furthermore, he was the Lord of Thunder, wielder of the 'General Outline of the Nine Heavens Response to the Primordial World-Destroying Divine Thunder'.

"Revered Master said that rules are established by one's own hands."

Lei Jingtian looked at the violent sea of thunder before him, his gaze calm.

"My Dao is Thunder."

"My rules shall be like thunder: overbearing and direct."

He lifted his foot, preparing to step into the sea of thunder.

"Stop!"

A sharp shout came from behind him.

Three Cultivators wearing Daoist robes embroidered with electric snake patterns blocked his path.

The leading youth had the aura of a Mid-stage Heavenly Immortal, with undisguised arrogance plastered on his face.

"New here?"

The youth sized Lei Jingtian up, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes.

"Don't you know the rules here?"

Lei Jingtian frowned slightly.

"What rules?"

"Haha, what rules?"

The youth laughed as if he had heard a massive joke.

"This Heavenly Thunder Sea is the territory of my Shenxiao Sect."

"If you want to go in and Cultivate, fine."

He held up three fingers.

"One day costs three thousand High Grade Immortal Stones."

"Or, hand over half of the Magic Treasures on your person."

"Otherwise, get back to wherever you came from!"

The two Early Stage Heavenly Immortal Disciples behind him also revealed playful smiles.

They did this kind of thing every day.

Lei Jingtian looked at them, his gaze turning cold.

"The Heavenly Thunder Sea is a creation of heaven and earth. Since when did it become the private property of your Shenxiao Sect?"

"Oh? You dare talk back?"

The leading youth's face darkened.

"Kid, I don't care what Sect you're from."

"Here, my Shenxiao Sect's fists are the rules!"

His Mid-stage Heavenly Immortal pressure erupted violently.

"I'll give you one last chance."

"Pay up, or die!"

Lei Jingtian smiled.

In that smile, there was a bit of violence and a bit of disdain.

He thought back to the Purple Cloud Sacred Land he was once part of.

They were also full of talk about benevolence and morality, yet acted with unparalleled tyranny.

"Your rules."

Lei Jingtian slowly raised his hand, a faint purple electric arc dancing in his palm.

"Aren't hard enough."

"You're looking for death!"

The leading youth was furious.

"Cripple him for me!"

The two Disciples behind him pounced forward with sinister grins.

"Rushing Thunder Fist!"

"Electric Snake Hand!"

Two violent forces of thunder intertwined into a net, sealing off all of Lei Jingtian's paths of retreat.

In their eyes.

A mere Early Stage Heavenly Immortal facing their combined attack had only one ending.

That was the total destruction of his Divine Soul!

However.

Lei Jingtian didn't even move.

He just looked at those two masses of thunder that appeared "feeble and weak" in his eyes and shook his head slightly.

"You call this thunder?"

He slowly raised that palm where the purple electric arc was dancing.

Then, he gently clenched it.

"Let me show you."

"What is called..."

"...Divine Thunder."

BOOM!!!!

A terrifying thunderclap that didn't seem to belong to the mortal world exploded!

A thick bolt of World-Extinguishing Purple Thunder, enough to pierce through heaven and earth, shot up from his palm!

That purple thunder had no violent aura.

There was only a supreme majesty from above the Nine Heavens that judged all things!

The Heavenly Thunder Sea, that ocean of thunder that had been violent for eons, strangely went still at this moment!

All the thunder shivered under the pressure of that World-Extinguishing Purple Thunder!

As if subjects meeting their Emperor!

The sinister grins on the faces of the two Shenxiao Sect Disciples completely froze.

The thunder Law Divine Abilities they were proud of were like fireflies meeting the bright moon before that purple thunder!

With a 'pfft', they were silently annihilated!

"No! What kind of thunder technique is this!"

The two of them let out screams of extreme terror and turned to flee.

But that purple thunder split into two electric arcs as thin as hair, arriving first despite starting later.

There were no screams.

There were no explosions.

Those two electric arcs simply and gently imprinted themselves upon their Dantians.

The bodies of the two overbearing Heavenly Immortal experts suddenly stiffened.

They discovered in horror.

The immortal essence they had cultivated for a thousand years and the thunder Dao foundation they were proud of were collapsing at an irreversible speed!

Their cultivation had been crippled!

Thud.

The two bodies, drained of all power, slumped to the ground like dead dogs.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

The leading Mid-stage Heavenly Immortal youth was completely dumbfounded.

He stared blankly at the figure bathed in World-Extinguishing Purple Thunder, feeling his very Divine Soul tremble.

What kind of thunder was that?

That was simply not a power that should exist in the Immortal Realm!

That was the wrath of the Heavenly Dao!

It was Divine Punishment!

"Now."

Lei Jingtian withdrew his hand, and the purple thunder that pierced the heavens also dissipated.

He walked step by step to the front of the youth.

"Can we talk about the new rules now?"

The youth's whole body shook, and his legs went weak as he knelt directly.

"Sen... Senior, spare my life! Senior, spare my life!"

He kowtowed frantically, his forehead hitting the hard black stone ground until it was bloody.

"I was blind to your greatness! I was just a dog acting tough on behalf of my Revered Master!"

"I beg Senior to spare my life for the sake of my Shenxiao Sect!"

"Shenxiao Sect?"

Lei Jingtian smiled.

"Today, I came specifically for your Shenxiao Sect."

He grabbed the youth's hair and lifted him up.

"Go back and tell your Sect Master."

"From today onwards, my Myriad Dao Divine Sect is taking over this Heavenly Thunder Sea."

"All Cultivators may enter to Cultivate without paying a single cent."

He paused, a violent flash of thunder appearing in his eyes.

"If anyone is dissatisfied."

"Tell him to come find me."

After saying that, he tossed the youth aside.

The youth was thrown ten thousand feet away like a kite with a broken string.

Lei Jingtian did not kill them.

Because Revered Master had said that killing is the final resort.

Sometimes, letting an enemy live makes them more terrified than death.

He turned around, no longer paying attention to the trash slumped on the ground.

He looked at the sea of thunder that had resumed its violence, yet seemed to show a hint of "closeness" towards him.

He stood with his hands behind his back. His voice wasn't loud, but with the enhancement of thunder Law, it spread across a million miles.

"Myriad Dao Divine Sect, Lei Jingtian."

"Today, I establish the rules here."

"The Heavenly Thunder Sea shall be shared by all Thunder Cultivators in the world."

"If the Shenxiao Sect dares to act tyrannically again..."

"...I will surely flatten their gates and sever their Legacy!"

"Next."

His voice echoed between heaven and earth like rolling thunder.

"Who is dissatisfied?"

---

Filler filler filler filler filler filler