202: Your thunder is too gentle

Deep within the Heavenly Thunder Sea.

Lei Jingtian sat cross-legged beneath a ten-thousand-zhang waterfall of lightning.

Every wisp of thunder here was enough to tear an ordinary Heavenly Immortal to shreds.

Yet, he looked as comfortable as if he were basking in a spring breeze.

Purple divine thunder swirled around him like docile pets.

The violent thunder of heaven and earth automatically diverted when it came within three zhang of him.

It was as if they were paying homage to their king.

The "heart of chaos thunder source" throbbed slowly within his body.

With every beat, it sucked in a massive amount of thunder power, refining it and merging it into his limbs and bones.

The barrier of the Heavenly Immortal Early Stage was beginning to loosen.

Ever since he had crippled those fee-collecting Shenxiao Sect Disciples with a single move three days ago,

The entire Heavenly Thunder Sea had become much quieter.

Many Loose Cultivators who had long been oppressed by the Shenxiao Sect cautiously entered the outer regions to Cultivate.

They did not dare to approach the depths.

They only watched that figure, who looked like a god of thunder, from afar, their eyes filled with awe and gratitude.

"This is a true thunder cultivator! Drawing the thunder of heaven and earth for one's own use, rather than occupying a mountain to act like a king!"

"Myriad Dao Divine Sect... I've never heard of it before, to think they have such a Prodigy Disciple."

"The Shenxiao Sect has really kicked a steel plate this time."

The discussions were quiet but clear.

Lei Jingtian paid them no mind.

His entire mind was immersed in his Cultivation.

The "General Outline of the Nine Heavens Response to the Primordial World-Destroying Divine Thunder" bestowed by his Revered Master was vast and profound.

What he had comprehended was but a drop in the ocean.

But just then,

A terrifying pressure, far exceeding anyone from before, came rolling in from the horizon.

Rumble!

A giant beast, a thousand zhang long and covered in azure thunder scales, tore through the clouds and descended over the Heavenly Thunder Sea.

Standing on the beast's back was a youth with a sinister face, wearing a silver thunder-patterned Daoist robe.

True Immortal Middle Stage.

His gaze was like lightning as it swept over the Loose Cultivators below, his eyes cold.

"A bunch of ants."

"Who gave you the courage to step into my Shenxiao Sect's Forbidden Ground?"

All the Loose Cultivators instantly felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

That was the Eldest Senior Brother of the Shenxiao Sect, Lei Ao!

A ruthless character known for his cruelty!

"Lei... Senior Brother Lei Ao! This has nothing to do with us!"

"It's... it's that person! He's the one who crippled your sect's Disciples and said the Heavenly Thunder Sea is open to everyone!"

Someone pointed toward the depths of the thunder sea with a trembling hand.

Lei Ao's gaze finally landed on Lei Jingtian.

A flicker of surprise flashed in his eyes, which then turned into deep disdain.

"Heavenly Immortal Early Stage?"

"You're the one who injured my Shenxiao Sect's people?"

His voice was like a thunderclap, exploding over the sea.

Lei Jingtian slowly opened his eyes.

Those eyes, flickering with purple thunder, looked calmly at Lei Ao in the sky.

"It was me."

"Very well." Lei Ao smiled, a cruel smile. "You have the guts to admit it, but not the brains to stay alive."

He looked down from above, like a deity passing judgment.

"Kneel."

"Cripple your own cultivation."

"Then, crawl over here and lick the soles of my shoes clean."

"I might consider leaving you an intact corpse."

The thunder beast beneath him let out a roar, the terrifying sound waves causing the sea surface to churn.

The Loose Cultivators were scared out of their wits, scrambling and crawling away into the distance.

Lei Jingtian stood up.

He looked at Lei Ao as if he were looking at a clown.

"This routine again."

He shook his head, his tone carrying a hint of weariness.

"You so-called righteous sects all sound the same."

"You're looking for death!"

Lei Ao's face darkened.

What he hated most was others looking at him with that kind of gaze.

"Thunder-Dashing Beast! Tear him apart!"

Roar!

The thousand-zhang thunder beast opened its bloody maw, and an azure thunder ball containing an aura of destruction was spat out!

Wherever the thunder ball passed, space itself was distorted!

Lei Jingtian did not move.

He simply raised his right hand and pointed lightly at the massive thunder ball.

"Disperse."

A single word.

The thunder ball, which was enough to heavily injure a True Immortal, suddenly froze in mid-air.

Then, like a popped balloon, it turned into a sky full of electric arcs with a "poof" and vanished without a trace.

The entire world went silent.

The cruel grin on Lei Ao's face froze.

In his sinister eyes, for the first time, a look of disbelief appeared.

"You..."

At some point, Lei Jingtian's figure had already appeared before him.

Looking him levelly in the eye.

"Your rules aren't tough enough."

He paused and added a sentence.

"Your thunder is also too gentle."

"Arrogant!"

Lei Ao finally snapped out of his shock, replaced by endless fury!

He, a dignified Prodigy of the True Immortal Middle Stage, was actually being so humiliated by a brat at the Heavenly Immortal Early Stage!

"Shenxiao Heavenly Thunder Induction! Ten Thousand Thunder Strike!"

His hands formed seals, channeling the power of the entire Heavenly Thunder Sea!

Rumble!

Tens of thousands of thick azure heavenly thunders struck down from the firmament, turning into a purgatory of lightning that completely enveloped Lei Jingtian!

This was the ultimate technique of the Shenxiao Sect!

It was enough to make even a True Immortal of the same level lose both body and Divine Soul!

"Die for me!"

Lei Ao roared with a distorted face.

However.

From within the thunder purgatory,

Lei Jingtian's voice calmly drifted out.

"I'll borrow your thunder for a bit."

Buzz—

Behind him,

A blurred yet extremely majestic purple phantom of a Thunder Emperor slowly emerged.

The Thunder Emperor phantom simply opened its eyes.

That lightning purgatory, capable of destroying heaven and earth, instantly froze!

All the azure heavenly thunders reversed their direction.

Like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, they surged toward that Thunder Emperor phantom!

"No! Impossible!"

Lei Ao's eyes nearly bulged out of his head.

He felt his connection with the Heavenly Thunder Sea being forcibly severed by a higher-level, irresistible power!

The Divine Ability he took pride in had become the opponent's nourishment!

"Now."

Lei Jingtian looked at him and slowly raised his hand.

"It's my turn."

The Thunder Emperor phantom behind him also raised its hand in sync.

That hand seemed to condense all the punishment and judgment in the world.

"Nine Heavens Response."

"World-Destroying."

There was no world-shaking commotion.

Only a wisp of purple divine thunder, as thin as a strand of hair, flicked out from the Thunder Emperor's fingertip.

That purple thunder ignored space and time.

In an instant, it marked itself on Lei Ao's brow.

Lei Ao's body suddenly stiffened.

The fear and malice on his face were frozen into eternity.

He felt his immortal essence, his Dao foundation, his Divine Soul... all being completely erased by that single wisp of purple divine thunder.

From the very source, he was turned into nothingness.

Not even a trace was left behind.

"Poof."

A light sound.

The insufferably arrogant Eldest Senior Brother of the Shenxiao Sect, along with his thousand-zhang thunder beast, turned into a sky full of dust.

Scattered by the wind.

Lei Jingtian withdrew his hand.

He could feel the power within his body improve by another margin.

He turned around, his gaze fixed on the deepest part of the Heavenly Thunder Sea.

There,

He could feel an aura that shared the same source as the "heart of chaos thunder source" in his body, yet was even more ancient and vast.

He did not linger, turning into a purple stream of light and rushing into the depths of the thunder sea.

Leaving only a domineering statement echoing over the sea.

"If the Shenxiao Sect wants revenge,"

"I will be waiting inside."}],