Chapter 959 - 301: The Presence Within the Bloodline_6

"This thunder pool should be that guy’s true body."

Noticing that with the slight tremor of the azure thunder pool, countless fine cracks had already appeared across the entire stone carving, Shen Chongming immediately drew out dozens of Spirit Crystals from his Storage Bag.

His palm shook, and dozens of Spirit Crystals exploded to pieces in front of him.

Whoosh!

Shen Chongming didn’t bother with anything else, swallowing like a whale as he directly inhaled the dense Spiritual Power released by the shattered Spirit Crystals, then converted it into Thunder Spiritual Power and injected it into that thunder pool!

Buzz!

After once again absorbing two thunder python arcs, the thunder pool within the stone carving suddenly let out a crisp hum!

And then—

Crack!

Crack!

The sound of the stone carving shattering rose and fell, a great many tiny stone chips rustling down!

Suddenly, a blinding bolt of lightning shot out from around the thunder pool, instantly illuminating the entire cave abode!

As the piercing lightning flickered, a simple little pool, wholly azure and inscribed with mysterious lines, slowly emerged from within the stone carving.

As this square little pool was slowly drawn out, within the entire thunder pool stone carving before him, countless fine thunder patterns seemed to come alive in an instant, rapidly flowing as they burrowed into the thunder pool.

Boom!

When the last strand of thunder pattern drilled into the pool, the stone carving before him, together with the stone wall behind it, suddenly exploded, turning into a sky full of stone fragments!

When the dust cleared, a square thunder pool, three feet three inches in length, width, and height, its surface covered in natural thunder-strike patterns, floated quietly before Shen Chongming.

Shen Chongming stood up, his gaze noting that at the bottom of this ancient square thunder pool there was still a layer of thunder essence flashing with electric light.

And that Thunderous Creature from before had transformed into a mini statue, crouching at the center of the pool bottom.

The patterns formed by those natural thunder strikes on the pool’s surface actually resembled an Array. As the energy of the thunder essence at the bottom activated them, they could autonomously absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power in the surrounding air, convert that Spiritual Power into thunder essence, and store it in the thunder pool.

"This thing actually has such a peculiar effect!?"

As a cultivator with a mutated Thunder Attribute Spirit Root, under normal circumstances, it was very difficult to directly draw Thunder Attribute Spiritual Qi from the air around him.

Only during thunderstorms or in certain special Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands.

Otherwise, in his daily cultivation he was just like a Sword Cultivator, first drawing ordinary Spiritual Qi, then slowly converting it into Thunder Attribute Spiritual Qi.

With that extra conversion process in the middle, a Thunder Cultivator had no way to replenish his own expenditure in a timely manner during battle.

Now, with this thunder pool, things were clearly different.

The thunder essence in the pool was all formed from the purest Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power, and he could draw on it directly whenever needed.

Without hesitation, as long as the thunder essence in the pool didn’t run dry, he could unleash all sorts of Techniques without restraint.

Take the [Purple Thunder Break Extreme] Secret Skill from before—for that, with a massive store of thunder essence as backup, and with himself now having reached the Purple Mansion Realm, if he was willing to be extravagant and compress it to the utmost, a [Purple Thunder Break Extreme] that killed a same-level Purple Mansion Cultivator in one strike shouldn’t be a problem.

After a round of thoughts in his heart, Shen Chongming happily moved the thunder pool before him into his Dantian.

The ancient thunder pool appeared within his Purple Mansion Dao Palace, and instantly swallowed the chaotic thunder orb he’d previously used as his Golden Core, then hovered by itself at the center of the Dao Palace, taking up the role of Shen Chongming’s Golden Core.

Seeing this, Shen Chongming, though surprised, only shook his head.

His cultivation now seemed to have completely exceeded his understanding; as for the exact path he should take from here, he couldn’t be bothered to worry about it.

For the moment, he needed to hurry back to Yunshui City and help his clansmen weather the calamity.

His figure flashed, and he left the cave abode on the peak.

At the Secret Realm’s exit, Shen Chongming’s mind stirred, and he directly summoned that Thunderous Creature.

"If I take you out, will it have any effect on this Secret Realm?"

The Thunderous Creature tilted its head, thought for a moment, then shook it: "Granddad doesn’t know. That old geezer said last time that this world is going to be destroyed anyway. Whether there’s any effect or not, doesn’t matter anymore, right?"

A strange smile appeared on Shen Chongming’s face as he said, "What I mean is, if I take you out, will those Outer World Cultivators outside be able to come in?"

The Thunderous Creature froze slightly, then seemed to think of something.

It let out two weird cackles: "You want to leave them some surprises!?"

Shen Chongming’s eyes narrowed slightly as he spoke in a deep voice: "After this calamity, my Shen Family is destined to merge into the Cangmin Sea Region Cultivation Realm."

"They’re all future competitors. If we can weaken them a bit, all the better."

"Do you have a way?"

The moment his words fell, the Thunderous Creature exclaimed excitedly:

"Yes!"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Granddad’s lived in this Secret Realm for so many years, he’s familiar with every tree and blade of grass here!"

"Just you wait!"

With that, it turned into a streak of lightning and vanished.

Shen Chongming stood alone by the exit for about an hour before the Thunderous Creature finally flew back from the distance as a streak of flowing light.

Obviously, these so-called arrangements had consumed quite a lot of its strength.

The lightning on its body was noticeably much dimmer.

"All set up?" Shen Chongming asked.

The Thunderous Creature nodded excitedly: "As long as they dare to come in, I guarantee none of them will be coming back out!"

"So ruthless?"

"But of course!"

"Hold on, Granddad will tweak the Array at the exit as well. Once they come in, they can forget about getting back out!"

"When this world completely collapses, hehe... we’ll have them buried with it!"

"To have such a pretty little world as their burial ground, they should really be thanking Granddad."

As the Thunderous Creature spoke, it tirelessly flew up into the void.

Under Shen Chongming’s watchful gaze, a great many Array Patterns suddenly surfaced in the sky at the Secret Realm’s exit!

And the Thunderous Creature was just like some master well-versed in Array Dao; with a casual wave of its hand, it easily altered those complex Array Patterns.

"All right!"

"Let’s go."

Dropping down from the void, even though the Thunderous Creature was already very weak, the excitement on its face only grew stronger.

"Brat, Granddad suddenly realizes that you and I really are cut from the same rotten cloth..."

Shen Chongming blinked and said, "Don’t make it sound so nasty. That’s called being like-minded."

"Gah?" The Thunderous Creature cackled strangely: "Right, right, right! Like-minded!"

"Let’s go, Granddad can finally leave this damned cage!"

As the Thunderous Creature spoke, it streaked into the thunder pool in Shen Chongming’s Dantian, to recover the strength it had just spent.

And Shen Chongming took a single step forward and walked out of the Seven Sages Mountain Secret Realm.

The moment his figure appeared, the Outer World Cultivators guarding outside the Seven Sages Mountain Secret Realm were all stunned.

Then, one by one, they reacted!

"Catch him!"

"Hurry and catch him, see what treasures he found in the Secret Realm!"

"Brat, tell us how to enter the Secret Realm, and we’ll grant you a quick death!"

...

The group of Outer World Cultivators shouted as they attacked.

But Shen Chongming had no desire to entangle with them.

As a Thunder Cultivator of the Purple Mansion Realm, and one who had mastered the Thunder-Light Escape Skill, if he wanted to flee, without a Nascent Soul True Monarch present, these people couldn’t even touch the hem of his robes.

His mind stirred slightly, and lightning flared around him!

By the time their attacks arrived, his body had already turned into lightning and vanished at the horizon.

"Damn it! He actually escaped!"

As the many Golden Core Purple Mansion Realm cultivators were stewing in frustration, someone suddenly noticed that the mist-shrouded cliff leading to the Secret Realm was heaving, and a bridge of light had appeared!

"The Secret Realm has opened!?"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Out of the way, out of the way!"

In an instant, the several hundred Outer World Golden Core Purple Mansion Realm cultivators gathered at the Secret Realm entrance all swarmed toward that bridge of light!