138: Chapter 138 Breakthrough

On the outskirts of the Wanshou Mountain Range, the heaven and earth anomalies had lasted for a full half-incense stick of time.

The sky within a radius of a hundred miles was swallowed by thunderclouds, and lightning snakes surged and exploded within the dark clouds, illuminating the Misty Marsh in alternating light and shadow.

The venomous creatures that had lived in the marsh for I don't know how many years had already fled completely, and those that couldn't run were struck by scattered lightning, turning into charred powder.

The entire toxic marsh had now completely transformed into a thunder pool; electricity surged wildly within the pool, thunder shook the heavens, and even the air was filled with a pungent, scorching smell.

A Second-Tier High Grade venomous Thunder Toad leaped out from the mud pit at the edge of the marsh.

It had lived here for over three hundred years, devouring venomous insects and absorbing toxic fog every day, never having encountered anything that could threaten its territory.

But today, not only did it not flee, but it was trembling with excitement instead.

It opened its big mouth, greedily swallowing and exhaling the surging thunder spiritual energy in the air; the lingering electric light in the fog fell on its body, causing the bumps all over its back to burst open one by one, and highly toxic pus splashed everywhere.

"Croak, croak, croak—"

It jumped faster and faster, rushing toward the deepest part of the thunder pool.

There was an aura there that made all its blood boil; it didn't feel danger, only hunger, madly hungry.

It had lived for more than three hundred years, and never had it been so eager to swallow something into its belly as it was now.

The Lightning Tribulation had not truly descended yet, but the thunder scattered in the thunder pool had already exceeded the limit that ordinary Yao Beasts could bear.

Charred splits opened up on its back, and the webbing of its hind legs was burned through by the electric light, but it simply couldn't stop.

At this moment, there was only one thought left in its brain—rush over and swallow it.

In the center of the thunder pool, a white figure stood suspended in the air.

Purple light flowed within Wang Shouren's eyes, and the black lotus mark between his brows completely disappeared.

Before him, that peeled-off black lotus had transformed into a pitch-black stream of light, silently merging into the lower part of his lower abdomen and sinking deep into his Dantian.

His Dantian underwent earth-shaking changes at this moment—the Dantian, which was originally as clear as a lake, completely transformed into a blooming black lotus.

The lotus was pitch-black all over, its petals overlapping like an abyss, and the surface of every single lotus petal was covered with dense purple thunder patterns, as if poured by a Lightning Tribulation, or as if it were thunder bred by the black lotus itself.

If the Thunder Emperor were here, he would surely be shocked as well.

This was no longer a Dantian that Heavenly Grade Foundation Establishment should possess.

Heavenly Grade Foundation Establishment used spiritual objects of heaven and earth as a guide, forming the Dantian with a Foundation like an abyss, and its magical power was more than ten times thicker than Human Grade Foundation Establishment.

But the black lotus transformed from this Dantian before his eyes clearly exceeded the scope of Dantian formation, and the aura circulating within the black lotus vaguely affected a certain power of rules between heaven and earth.

This was the "Nine Nether Thunder Lotus Dantian"—legend has it that only a few words had ever appeared in records where treasures of the netherworld and thunder prison coexisted.

That was no longer a Cultivator's Foundation, but a Dao Foundation, one of the top-most Cultivation Foundations between heaven and earth.

"This black lotus is actually not as simple as a mere spiritual object of heaven and earth."

Wang Shouren felt the terrifying power coming from the black lotus in his Dantian, his thoughts moving like lightning.

Able to devour Divine Souls, able to control people's minds, able to enter a person's Sea of Consciousness without perishing, and able to make existences like the Thunder Emperor quite wary yet helpless—how could such a black lotus be a mere spiritual object of heaven and earth?

This was completely a supreme treasure of heaven and earth, even more unfathomable than a supreme treasure of heaven and earth.

Today, he used a supreme treasure of heaven and earth for Foundation Establishment; Core Formation was within reach, and the Nascent Soul stage could be anticipated.

If he could really reach that step, the Wang family would no longer be just the leading clan of the Three Counties, but the top faction in the Yue Kingdom's cultivation world.

And even step out of the Yue Kingdom...

But these were all stories for another day; a Genius without strength was merely an ant with slightly stronger power.

"Croak!"

A deafening frog croak exploded.

Wang Shouren turned his head, his gaze falling upon the charred giant frog.

It had already rushed to a position less than ten zhang away from him, arching its hind legs and preparing to pounce.

Its eyes were filled with greed, ignoring even the split bumps all over its body and its burned-through hind legs.

Wang Shouren let out a cold snort: "Noisy."

He didn't make a move, just took a glance. A streak of purple lightning carrying a black lotus phantom shot out from Wang Shouren's eyes, sinking into the Thunder Toad's body.

The Thunder Toad's huge body suddenly stiffened, its hind legs still maintaining the posture of pushing against the ground, and its entire huge meatball lost its support, collapsing heavily to the ground.

Its limbs completely lost the ability to move, and it couldn't even complete a scream, only squeezing out an extremely light and weak "croak" from the depths of its throat.

Its body was trembling, not because of pain, but because of submission—the most instinctive submission of a low-tier Yao Beast facing the Lord of Heaven and Earth Thunder.

Wang Shouren didn't look at it again, simply raising his head to look at the sky.

The spiritual energy around his body had not yet completely liquefied, and he had not truly stepped into the Foundation Establishment realm, currently only considered half-step Foundation Establishment.

Yet his aura was already more robust and violent than ordinary Early Stage Foundation Establishment.

The thunderclouds overhead were brewing, and the first heavenly thunder had not yet fallen, but that destructive will between heaven and earth pressed down like a substance, as if trying to wipe out him and his Nine Nether Thunder Lotus, which shouldn't exist in this world, together.

"Heaven and Earth Lightning Tribulation?" Wang Shouren laughed to the sky, his laughter filled with the gratification of fully releasing ten years of forbearance, "Come well! Today I will let you see the true power of the Ten Directions Fierce Thunder Transformation!"

Before his voice faded, a purple heavenly thunder as thick as a mountain violently cleaved down from the clouds.

The thunder light arrived in an instant, dyeing half the sky into a scorching white, and the water vapor of the Misty Marsh was completely evaporated under this single strike of thunder.

The Thunder Toad lay by Wang Shouren's feet, its eyes wide open in shock.

It saw that those heavenly thunders, which were enough to split it into flying ash, struck the human before its eyes as if they had been thrown into a bottomless nether pool, not even splashing a single drop of water.

That person neither moved nor avoided, letting the thunder light pour into his body; his robes shattered to dust in the thunder light, and crimson-gold thunder patterns flowed beneath his skin. With every heavenly thunder that fell, his aura grew stronger by a fraction.

The second, third, and fourth heavenly thunders cleaved down one after another, each one thicker and more violent than the last.