High above the sky, Qin Tiangang, the Sect Master of the Demonic Lightning Sect who was struggling to fend off Jiu You, sensed the tremor below and could not help sparing a moment to glance back.
What he saw immediately made his eyes split with rage.
"You little beast, you killed my disciples and destroyed my sect. I will kill you!"
Completely overwhelmed by fury, Qin Tiangang let out a furious roar. Spiritual energy surged wildly in his hands as he prepared to strike down with a palm.
"Do you still have the ability to worry about others right now?"
A cold and clear voice suddenly rang out. High in the heavens, Jiu You flapped the wings behind her, and her figure instantly turned into an afterimage as she swept forward. Those wings were like the sharpest divine weapons, tearing through space and transforming into a storm that swept toward Qin Tiangang.
Sensing the terrifying presence behind him, Qin Tiangang's heart trembled violently. Gritting his teeth, he was forced to redirect his palm strike toward the storm of feather blades.
Boom!
Violent spiritual energy exploded outward, mixed with razor sharp feather blades that instantly erased one of Qin Tiangang's arms. Even his massive Demonic Lightning Celestial Body was blasted apart.
Puff!
Qin Tiangang was sent flying back tens of thousands of zhang, blood spraying wildly as his body smashed heavily into a mountain, his entire form seemingly embedded into it.
Liu Bai, who had just finished annihilating Qin Ling and the Demonic Lightning troops, was about to turn his head when he saw Qin Tiangang flying past from the side. He also sensed that Qin Tiangang's aura was weakening at a visible rate.
Just as Jiu You was about to follow up with another strike, Liu Bai suddenly shouted loudly, "Wait, do not attack. Let me handle this."
This was the final boss of the Demonic Lightning Mountain instance. The finishing blow had to be delivered by him.
While stopping Jiu You from continuing her attack, Liu Bai immediately mobilized the strongest strike of his Five Spirit Deiy Celestial Body. Five faces, ten eyes, five colors.
The power of the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light was still absolutely reliable. A single strike wiped out the severely injured Qin Tiangang, which instead made Liu Bai slightly surprised.
"What is going on? I admit that my Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light is very strong, but the Demonic Lightning Sect specializes in body refinement. A Fifth Grade Sovereign who specializes in body refinement should not be so fragile even when injured."
Liu Bai muttered softly.
He still had many follow up methods prepared, and originally expected Qin Tiangang to hold out for several more rounds.
At this moment, Jiu You had already walked over. Hearing Liu Bai's words, she glanced at him and slightly parted her red lips. "You do not think my Undying Flame Feather Blades only severed one of his arms, do you?"
"Ah. I see."
Liu Bai nodded. He had complete confidence in the power of Jiu You's Undying Flames.
After Qin Tiangang and Qin Ling were killed one after the other, the morale of the allied forces from the Hundred Battle Region completely collapsed. Everyone lost the will to fight and began fleeing in panic.
Meanwhile, the many forces of the Great Heavenlaw Domain launched a frenzied pursuit.
Jiu You did not stop them.
It was time for them to enjoy the spoils of war. How much they obtained would depend on their own ability. As for Demonic Lightning Mountain, it was the spoils of Nine Nether Palace, and naturally no one dared to covet it.
Nine Nether Palace directly took over the entire Demonic Lightning Mountain. Jiu You then led Liu Bai along with Tang Bing, Tang Rou, and the core members of Nine Nether Palace straight toward the most important location, the spirit treasure vault.
After all, such a massive disturbance had just occurred. Even Demonic Lightning Mountain had split open, and nearly all the buildings of the Demonic Lightning Sect had collapsed. It was unknown whether the spirit treasure vault had been destroyed.
Fortunately, they soon found the spirit treasure vault built within the mountain. Judging from the bronze giant gate outside, it appeared to have suffered little damage.
After all, Demonic Lightning Mountain had cracked open, not collapsed.
Outside the vault, Liu Bai easily dismantled the defensive array, sparing Jiu You the trouble of forcibly breaking the gate.
The moment the bronze giant gate opened, a vast and pure surge of spiritual energy poured out like a flood. For a moment, even the air between heaven and earth became thick and viscous.
Jiu You entered first, followed closely by Liu Bai. Inside the vault, he saw streams of crystal clear torrents winding and coiling like giant serpents, constantly emitting pure spiritual energy fluctuations.
They were all formed from condensed Sovereign Spiritual Liquid.
The Tang Bing sisters behind them were completely stunned. Having lived through hardship for so long, when had they ever seen such a scene?
Although Nine Nether Palace had recently acquired massive quantities of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid, the consumption was also enormous. Not to mention what Jiu You consumed for her breakthrough, just the distribution to subordinates alone was a terrifying amount.
After all, if you wanted others to risk their lives, how could you not provide benefits?
Moreover, Nine Nether Palace was currently maintaining five thousand Nine Nether Guards. This alone was a massive consumer of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid. At times, even Tang Bing felt that such rapid expansion was too fast and the expenditure made her heart ache.
However, compared to them, Liu Bai appeared very calm about these Sovereign Spiritual Liquids.
"At most no more than one hundred fifty thousand Sovereign Spiritual Liquid. Such a massive Demonic Lightning Sect only has this much stored?"
Liu Bai frowned.
Tang Bing's eyes widened as she thought inwardly, Brother, you think one hundred fifty thousand Sovereign Spiritual Liquid is little? Even at Nine Nether Palace's peak before Sister Jiu You left, the annual reserves were at most ten thousand Sovereign Spiritual Liquid.
The recent gains did not count, as that was not a normal state. Nine Nether Palace could not keep plundering forever.
Although they now controlled the Thunder Flame Plain and their income would certainly increase, they also had more people to support. Under normal circumstances, Nine Nether Palace's annual surplus would not increase by much.
Furthermore, as Jiu You and Liu Bai continued to improve their cultivation, the Sovereign Spiritual Liquid required for cultivation would likely become the largest expenditure. At that time, they would probably have to tighten their belts again.
Liu Bai naturally had no idea about Tang Bing's thoughts. After all, he was not the chief steward of Nine Nether Palace and did not concern himself with such trivial matters.
"There are also many divine artifacts and divine techniques here. They should be worth around fifty to sixty thousand Sovereign Spiritual Liquid. This haul from the Demonic Lightning Palace should greatly ease Nine Nether Palace's finances."
After inventorying the vault's contents, Tang Bing finally let out a sigh of relief.
Liu Bai flipped through the items. Most of them were thunder attribute minor divine techniques. After acquiring the Five Elements Divine Thunder, these things were of little use to him.
"This Demonic Lightning Body is not bad. It could help cultivate our Nine Nether Guards."
Tang Rou held a scroll glowing with lightning light and said with a cheerful smile.
Liu Bai shook his head. "The cultivation requirement for this technique is assistance from Demonic Earth Lightning. Without planning to occupy Demonic Lightning Mountain, this technique is useless to us. Moreover, you have seen those Demonic Lightning troops. They were practically devoid of humanity. This technique clearly has strict requirements on physique and is not suitable for large scale cultivation."
"Oh."
After hearing Liu Bai's explanation, Tang Rou stuck out her tongue and quickly handed the scroll to her sister.
"The Demonic Lightning Body will not work, but I have something good here."
Jiu You suddenly smiled as she walked over from the other side. In her hand was a bamboo slip that looked dull and gray.
Judging from its appearance alone, one could tell that this item was definitely an ancient relic and was most likely some kind of secret art passed down from ancient times.
Liu Bai's eyes lit up as a thought flashed through his mind, and he directly took the bamboo slip from Jiu You's hand.
"Ding. Special divine artifact Demon Heart Lightning Lotus forging blueprint detected. Do you wish to record it?"
"As expected." A smile curled at the corner of Liu Bai's mouth.
In his memories, after Mu Chen and the others captured Demonic Lightning Mountain, the most useful thing they obtained seemed to be only this.
The Demon Heart Lightning Lotus was refined using Nether Demon Heart Lightning as its material and cultivated through a special condensation method. It belonged to the category of divine artifacts, but was similar to a single use divine artifact. Once detonated, even a Fifth Grade Sovereign would have to avoid its power.
If the Demonic Lightning Sect had possessed such an item earlier, their mountain would not have fallen so easily this time.
However, the refining conditions for this item were extremely harsh, and the Nether Demon Heart Lightning was not something easily encountered. Thus, over so many years, the Demonic Lightning Sect had not managed to refine even a single Demon Heart Lightning Lotus.
"Aren't you already planning to look for the Nether Demon Heart Lightning? Now there's an additional special use for it. Since the army needs time to rest and reorganize anyway, we might as well go take a look at the Demonic Lightning Abyss." Jiu You said with a smile.
Although she always felt that Liu Bai was hiding something from her, she had never thought of probing deeper. Because Jiu You was very confident that no matter what Liu Bai did, he would never harm her.
And that was enough.
"Alright." Liu Bai nodded lightly with a smile.
After that, the two once again became hands off managers, tossing everything to Tang Bing. Amid the latter's dissatisfied gaze, they directly headed toward a location where violent lightning fluctuations were present.
Deep within the Demonic Lightning Sect.
The figures of Liu Bai and Jiu You appeared in the sky, their gazes directed downward.
On the ground below, a massive crack had been torn open. The fissure was about a thousand zhang wide, pitch black and bottomless. Rumbling thunder echoed continuously from the depths of the abyss, causing the earth itself to tremble faintly.
"This is the Demonic Lightning Abyss." Jiu You stared at the dark abyss as her cold and beautiful face grew solemn. "Beneath this abyss, Demonic Earth Lightning is born. This kind of lightning is extremely special. Although it is lightning, it can communicate with the earth itself. Once activated, it can easily shatter the land and cause devastation similar to a massive earthquake."
Liu Bai nodded. He had already tested this personally. The surrounding mountains and the Lightning Demon Mountain that had been split into two were all proving this point.
Fortunately, the Demonic Lightning Abyss itself seemed unharmed, which greatly reassured Liu Bai.
The two exchanged a glance, then directly transformed into two streaks of light and plunged rapidly toward the Demonic Lightning Abyss. The sound of rushing wind rang out as darkness swiftly swallowed their figures.
As they descended deeper, the thunderous sounds grew increasingly intense, as if exploding right beside their ears.
After barely more than a dozen breaths, the two had reached the bottom. The distance from the entrance was already over ten thousand zhang. Liu Bai raised his hand and waved it, sending clusters of golden spiritual energy scattering outward, completely illuminating the surrounding darkness.
With the arrival of light, Liu Bai saw a scene that made one's scalp go numb.
The surrounding rock walls were densely packed with black holes about one zhang in size. Within those holes, gray black lightning slithered back and forth like serpents. Low thunderous sounds echoed continuously, causing the earth to tremble without pause.
Not to mention whether this gray black lightning was powerful or not, just this scene alone would be an extreme form of torment for anyone with trypophobia.
With the arrival of the two, fluctuations in spiritual energy inevitably appeared. The Demonic Earth Lightning within the surrounding holes seemed to sense intruders. Immediately, countless bolts of lightning shot out from the holes, sweeping directly toward them.
Seeing this, Jiu You raised her jade hand, and a flame barrier formed from purple Undying Flame enveloped both of them. The Demonic Earth Lightning that came into contact with the barrier was quickly burned into nothingness by the Undying Flame.
Jiu You paid no attention to this and instead pointed downward, signaling Liu Bai to look.
Liu Bai lowered his head, and his eyelids instantly twitched.
Because beneath them, within the endless dark space, gray black lightning had formed into an ocean.
"No wonder Qin Tiangang was able to cultivate so many Demon Lighting warriors. With this endless supply of Demonic Earth Lightning, the speed at which these people cultivate the Demonic Lightning Body would reach a terrifying level." Jiu You could not help but say. "Seeing this, even I feel tempted to bring the Nine Nether Guards over."
"Better not." Liu Bai shook his head.
Cultivating the Demonic Lightning Body had significant flaws. In the original story, Mu Chen ultimately chose to pass his Thunder God Body to the Nine Nether Guards, allowing them to cultivate it here.
Unfortunately, Liu Bai did not have such a thing, so he did not recommend Jiu You doing that.
"The Nine Nether Guards cultivate Nine Nether Battle Intent. In truth, using your Undying Flame for cultivation would be the most suitable."
"Are you trying to burn them all to death?" Jiu You rolled her eyes at him and said.
"You are not unaware of the danger of cultivating with Undying Flame."
Liu Bai chuckled softly and said, "I am not talking about forcefully fusing it like I did. I will set up a special array. You only need to place a source of Undying Flame within the array. I will specifically create a cultivation ground for them."
Jiu You looked over in surprise. "You can do that too?"
Liu Bai smiled mysteriously. "I could not before, but now I can."
Within the array compendium obtained from that mysterious relic, there was a Sixth-Rank array that was specifically explained as a special case. Although it could only support Sovereigns below Third Grade at most, it was more than enough for the current Nine Nether Guards.
Jiu You did not pursue the matter further and directly nodded. "Alright, after we return, I will leave this matter to you."
"For now, let us go down and search for the Nether Demon Heart Lightning…"
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