533: Chapter 533 The Threat

Liu Mansion.

"Boom~""Boom-boom~"

Dark clouds gathered and thunder rumbled. Since the establishment of the Star Array, this was the first time rainy weather with thunder had appeared.

"What are the Liu Family Cultivators doing? Why are they making it rain for no reason?"

"Exactly, it just ruins the mood!"

The Liu Family controlled the Formation, so the weather within the Immortal City was entirely under their control; some Cultivators who disliked rain couldn't help but complain.

"Everyone, keep your voices down!" an elderly Cultivator warned. "Everything in the city is controlled by the Liu Family. If these complaints of yours are heard by someone with ulterior motives, you'll be in for a rough time."

"Hmph!" A young Cultivator ignored the advice, cupped his hands in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion, and shouted, "Fairy Yun Miao is fair and just; I don't believe the Liu Family can just do whatever they want!"

"This Fellow Daoist is quite right. Although the Liu Family acts in a domineering manner, they generally follow the rules; otherwise, we wouldn't be living here long-term." A Cultivator dressed like a scholar agreed.

"Actually, I think it's not bad to have rain occasionally..."

Outsiders thought this thunderstorm was caused by Liu Mansion Cultivators having nothing better to do, but in reality, that was not the case. What triggered all of this was Bai Jie's soon-to-be-born child.

Bai Jie's residence. Bedroom.

Bai Jie lay on the bed, her lower abdomen glowing with a brilliant white light, with blinding lightning and electric light roaming around it.

"I... what am I about to give birth to?"

Having been pregnant for three years, the child was finally about to be born. Bai Jie was both nervous and a little scared.

This child was too exaggerated. Before even being born, it had caused such a huge commotion, and it was even slowly enhancing her own Bloodline.

Lightning represented the might of the Heavens, and many Heavenly Tribulations descended in the form of Lightning Tribulation.

Therefore, there were very few Yao Beasts in the world that mastered lightning, and very few Cultivation Techniques that could Cultivate lightning arts, and the difficulty was extremely high.

Yao Beasts that mastered lightning and Cultivators who cultivated lightning arts would have a much easier time Undergoing Tribulation in the future, but during the cultivation process, it was extremely easy to be backlashed by the violent lightning power, causing them to electrocute themselves to death.

"Do not fear!" Liu Xuan, standing to the side, heard her and comforted her. "This is the child's innate Bloodline talent; it won't harm you or the child."

The worry on Bai Jie's face slowly dissipated, replaced by a thick sense of confusion as she looked at Liu Xuan and asked, "Husband, what exactly is your Bloodline? Why is our child's Bloodline rank so high?"

"Is it high?" Liu Xuan sighed lightly, putting on a pretentious look. "You'll know in the future. This kind of Bloodline doesn't really count for much in my hands."

"Tch~ You only know how to lie to me..."

"Ah~"

A bolt of lightning flashed by, and the phantom image of a Lightning Dragon streaked through the room. At the same time, the child was born.

[Ding! Congratulations to the Host on the birth of the 988th offspring. Sixth-tier top-grade Lightning Flood Dragon Bloodline obtained. Fifth-tier top-grade Spirit Treasure, Nine Heavens Lightning Source Pearl obtained.]

[Lightning Flood Dragon: A variant species formed by the combination of heaven and earth lightning and Dragon Qi, innately mastering the Lightning Law. Its belly swells to create thunder, and its attacks are like the descent of Heavenly might...]

The little child stood on the bed, dazed and ignorant, his entire body surrounded by a layer of electric light. He neither cried nor fussed, and his bright, large eyes held only the purest curiosity.

Liu Xuan reached out and scooped him into his arms, then took out a magic robe and put it on him.

"You were born in response to lightning, and you are of the 'Jing' generation, so I shall call you Liu Jinglei!"

Liu Jinglei was Liu Xuan's 988th offspring, ranked 878th among his children. According to the rule of one generation name per two hundred people, he belonged to the 'Jing' generation.

"The little guy is quite cold and cool; he hasn't even opened his mouth once. It fits the 'Jing' character quite well."

Liu Xuan reached out and pinched his chubby little cheeks. "Call me Dad and let me hear it."

The little guy ignored him completely, continuing to look around curiously, his gaze lingering more on his mother, Bai Jie.

"You brat, you can't talk, but you can at least cry, right?" Liu Xuan pinched his cheek and tugged at it.

Bai Jie hurriedly snatched the child away from Liu Xuan, glared at him, and said with dissatisfaction, "Don't scare the child!"

She held the child with one hand and also reached out to pinch his cheek. "Child, call me Mother!"

...

Until Liu Xuan left, the little guy didn't open his mouth once, let alone call him Dad.

Underground Yin Sha Hall.

Liu Xuan's mind stirred, and a purple lightning bead appeared in his hand. The moment the bead appeared, the surrounding yin fiend retreated in droves. All the ghost Cultivators suddenly opened their eyes; had it not been for the restrictions of the ten thousand soul banner, they would have instinctively fled in a panic.

[Nine Heavens Lightning Source Pearl: Extremely rigid and Yang, Heavenly Punishment lightning, formed from the Origin of the Lightning Dao. With a single thought, it can summon Nine Heavens Divine Lightning to execute evil, destroy demons, and slay Immortals.]

[Those who Cultivate lightning arts can achieve the effect of acting on behalf of the Heavens to mete out punishment if they fully refine the Lightning Source Pearl.]

"A fifth-tier top-grade Spirit Treasure is truly extraordinary!"

This was the second fifth-tier top-grade Spirit Treasure Liu Xuan had obtained, and it was the same rank as his genealogy.

"Acting on behalf of the Heavens to mete out Lightning Tribulation—if fully mastered, one could basically be called invincible below the Immortal Realm!"

Unfortunately, Liu Xuan's cultivation level was insufficient, and his comprehension of the Lightning Law was also lacking. He had only recognized it as master through the System; it would be good if he could unleash even one ten-thousandth of its power.

To unleash the power of the Nine Heavens Lightning Source Pearl, on one hand, he had to increase his cultivation Realm, and on the other hand, he needed to wait for Jinglei to grow up and provide feedback on his comprehension of the Lightning Law.

"Such a treasure, yet I cannot use it after obtaining it; what a pity!"

Liu Xuan planned to use a Formation to make it exert greater effects ahead of time.

yin fiend could be used for Body Tempering, and lightning could also be used for Body Tempering, with even better results.

He planned to use the Nine Heavens Lightning Source Pearl as the core to set up a Formation similar to a 'Lightning Pool'.

It could be used not only to Cultivate his offspring but also to accelerate Jinglei's growth rate. If there was any excess lightning-type Origin, it could also be used to nurture some Heaven And Earth Treasure, which could be said to be killing many birds with one stone.

However, the Lightning Pool Formation must be set up with caution; not a single accident could occur. Otherwise, if the lightning power were to riot and electrocute people to death, the loss would be too great!

Several days later.

Liu Xuan already had some ideas. Under normal circumstances, a Lightning Pool Formation would be extremely difficult to set up, but since the Nine Heavens Lightning Source Pearl had already recognized him as master, he only needed to use a Formation to divide the lightning Origin power within it into different intensities and restrict them to certain areas. It wasn't as difficult as he had imagined.

The Liu Family descendants' cultivation was currently only below the Golden Core Realm, so he only needed to draw out a sliver of lightning Origin, which was very simple for Liu Xuan, a fourth-tier Formation Great Master.

After considering for a long time, Liu Xuan decided to set up the Lightning Pool Formation directly inside the Yin Sha Hall.

At that time, the children could first use the yin fiend for Body Tempering cultivation, and after finishing, they could seamlessly transition to lightning Body Tempering—one Yin and one Yang, one cold and one hot; it would be absolutely exhilarating...

Thinking of the children's excited expressions, Liu Xuan was full of motivation and took less than three days to establish the 'Lightning Pool'.

On the left side of the Yin Sha Hall, the original hall was moved away by Liu Xuan, and a courtyard was re-condensed using Yin Qi.

Eldest Son, Ninth Son, Ling Miao, and the others stood curiously at the courtyard entrance, watching the lightning roaming above the courtyard.

After entering, there were individual bathing pools in the courtyard, distributed in the form of the Taiji Bagua, divided into male and female sections.

There was no water in the pools, only flickering electric light. The closer one got to the Yin-Yang fish-eye positions, the stronger the electric light, resembling lightning plasma.

"Ah!!""Ah!!"...

As the children jumped into the Lightning Pool, their excited roars rang out above the courtyard.