Chapter 689: Golden Thunder Hands and Taiyin Vat
Lei Jinglong immediately took out a pair of gloves and a large vat.
The gloves radiated golden light, extraordinary in their aura.
This pair of gloves was called the Golden Thunder Hands.
They were woven from strands of golden thunder.
Only by wearing the Golden Thunder Hands could one touch a Great Dao sacred artifact.
Otherwise, even as a cultivator of the Supreme Realm, he would be grievously wounded by it!
The vat appeared ordinary at first glance, yet it was dark and unfathomable.
It seemed to carry all manner of sinister darkness.
This vat was called the Taiyin Vat.
It was forged from the three thousand six hundred pages of the White Bone Yinsha Scripture.
Lei Jinglong had exhausted endless efforts to obtain the Taiyin Vat from the Five Sacred Demon Nation.
It was a crucial treasure needed to merge the Myriad Tribulation Thunder Prison with the White Bone Yinsha Scripture!
The Myriad Tribulation Thunder Prison and the White Bone Yinsha Scripture were both Great Dao sacred artifacts.
Ordinarily, a cultivator like Lei Jinglong, who had only comprehended a sliver of heaven and earth's truth, could not possibly merge such artifacts.
However, the Myriad Tribulation Thunder Prison and the White Bone Yinsha Scripture had battled for nearly one hundred thousand years.
Their powers intertwined, clashed, and annihilated one another endlessly.
In the end, they even gave birth to a unique baleful thunder force.
Thus was formed this sinister and deadly land—the Thousandfold Thunder Prison.
The powers of the two sacred artifacts already had the foundation of fusion.
Moreover, they were highly compatible.
By now, their fusion was already seventy to eighty percent complete.
You in me, I in you.
Difficult to separate.
Yet, there had never been an external force to truly bring about their union.
And no one had ever imagined merging these two sacred artifacts.
After all, one was the treasured heirloom of the Thunder Prison clan, the other the trump card of the Impure Tribe demons.
No matter how one looked at it, their fusion was impossible.
That would turn everything upside down.
Only Lei Jinglong had thought of it.
And he had thought of it many times.
His idea was simple and pure.
The White Bone Yinsha Scripture was indeed the trump card of the Impure Tribe, but it was still a Great Dao sacred artifact.
Moreover, its spirit remained intact.
The Myriad Tribulation Thunder Prison's spirit, however, was already gone.
If the two sacred artifacts could merge, they would complement each other's strengths, creating an even greater sacred artifact!
If Lei Jinglong could control it, then the Impure Tribe demons who came to steal the White Bone Yinsha Scripture could be wiped out with ease.
With such a sacred artifact in hand, the status of the Thunder Prison clan would rise without limit.
Even the Eastern Li Dynasty would have to show them reverence!
In Lei Jinglong's plan, this was not some distant future, but a reality within his grasp.
He was never a traitor.
He sought, with his own strength, to bring about the resurgence of the Thunder Prison clan.
Even if it meant gambling everything! Sacrificing everything!
"The Taiyin Vat?"
"Which traitor sold this to you?!"
The Demon Venerate curled into a ball cried out in shock.
Lei Jinglong sneered, "That is not something you need to know."
In his hand appeared a severed arm of the Demon Venerate.
He spat out a mouthful of essence blood upon the arm's surface, then infused it with spiritual power.
Moments later, the severed arm seemed to regain life, twitching with movement!
He then hurled it suddenly.
The Taiyin Vat shot forth.
From within the severed arm, demonic energy surged, driving the Taiyin Vat.
He was a human cultivator, wielding spiritual power.
Naturally, spiritual power could not activate a demonic sacred artifact like the Taiyin Vat.
Thus, he had to employ such sinister means, using the Demon Venerate's severed arm to produce demonic energy to drive the Taiyin Vat.
These methods had long been prepared by Lei Jinglong.
Now was the moment to use them.
The Demon Venerate's body was suddenly pulled uncontrollably into the Taiyin Vat.
His face twisted in terror. "No… no!"
No matter how desperately the Demon Venerate of the Impure Tribe clung to the ground, his body was still inexorably drawn into the Taiyin Vat.
Dozens of breaths later, he could no longer resist.
His body was dragged completely into the vat.
The most precious pages of the White Bone Yinsha Scripture were not made from human skin, beast skin, or dragon hide.
They were made from… demon skin.
Thus, the Taiyin Vat could kill demons.
And it killed them quickly.
Like slaughtering a chicken or butchering a cow.
Lei Jinglong had long known this.
This was precisely the reliance that left him unafraid of the Demon Venerates of the Impure Tribe.
"Flay! Kill the demon!"
Lei Jinglong gave a low roar.
From within the Taiyin Vat came a scream of agony.
A mighty Demon Venerate of the Impure Tribe, dying worse than swine or dogs.
It happened too suddenly.
Not only the other Demon Venerates like Huixie, even Supreme experts such as Lei Daoheng and Xiang Gu had not yet reacted.
In the blink of an eye, a Demon Venerate of the Impure Tribe was gone.
Dying so cheaply.
Bai Zhizun, Hu Qing, and the others stared at Lei Jinglong, instinctively sensing something amiss.
The trump cards in Lei Jinglong's hands were too many.
And each one frighteningly strong.
Why had he not revealed them at the beginning, but only now?
Could it be that Lei Jinglong harbored some scheme?
Huixie was both shocked and enraged. "Lei Jinglong, what are you doing! You swore to let us have the White Bone Yinsha Scripture!"
Lei Jinglong turned a deaf ear, silent.
He walked straight up to the scripture, picked it up, and hurled it into the Taiyin Vat.
But the moment it entered, a strained groaning sound came from within.
The Taiyin Vat was but a high-grade sacred artifact.
The White Bone Yinsha Scripture, however, was a Great Dao sacred artifact!
The difference was like heaven and earth.
It spun, and spun, and spun again.
The Taiyin Vat dutifully fulfilled its role.
Until it cracked and shattered.
With a sharp snap, the high-grade sacred artifact broke apart violently, fragments scattering in all directions.
Of its three thousand six hundred pages, more than half had already melted.
But the spine, the strongest part, had never dissolved.
It was that which pierced and broke the vat.
"You… what are you trying to do?!"
Huixie's shock and fury deepened.
He could never comprehend what Lei Jinglong intended.
Lei Daoheng, however, seemed to have some faint guess, his eyes filled with doubt and uncertainty as he gazed at Lei Jinglong.
"Should we stop him?" Hu Qing asked Xiang Gu.
Xiang Gu shook his head. "I cannot understand what he is doing."
Hu Qing sighed. "Nor can I. This newly risen Supreme of the Eastern Province is truly unfathomable."
Lei Jinglong directly gathered up the melted pages of the White Bone Yinsha Scripture and smeared them upon the bars and instruments of the Myriad Tribulation Thunder Prison.
The Golden Thunder Hands, after all, were only a sacred artifact. They could not withstand the corrosion of a Great Dao sacred artifact for long.
Now cracks had already begun to appear.
Through those fissures, the melted scripture pages came into direct contact with Lei Jinglong's palm and skin.
At the points of contact, an intense burning pain erupted instantly.
When he lowered his head, he saw that his palm had already been corroded.
In the blink of an eye, only stark white bone remained.
Yet Lei Jinglong had not the slightest thought of giving up.
Holding the melted pages, he continued smearing them upon the Myriad Tribulation Thunder Prison.
One bar, two bars, three bars…
More and more bars and instruments were smeared.
Instead of clashing with the Thunder Prison, the melted pages fused with it in a strange, unnatural way.
Everyone could feel it—though outwardly subtle, immense changes were taking place within the Myriad Tribulation Thunder Prison.
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