A sea of thunder roared, its rumbling explosions echoing through the boundless void, interspersed with earth-shaking roars.
Anyone who reached the depths of the void's thunder pool at this moment would be stunned by the scene before them.
"Dragon, I'm here. You can't catch me."
"Roar!"
"Boom!"
The once deadly still depths of the thunder pool were now a turmoil.
Above the void, dozens of golden figures shone in all directions. With each tap of their feet, a flash of golden light appeared, and figures appeared thousands of feet away. Space seemed to have completely disappeared beneath their feet. A few feet seemed to be the end of the world, and the end of the world was also a few feet away.
Behind these figures, a giant dragon, shimmering as if cast from gold, its body thousands of feet long, snaked in pursuit, its body splattering with golden lightning.
The golden thunder dragon roared furiously, its speed exceeding its bounds. In a single swift leap, it appeared in the distant sky. Every time it pressed its claws and swung its tail, it shattered countless figures.
However, the figures, radiating golden light, seemed endlessly slain. Some who had escaped trembled, and more figures splintered into existence.
Over and over again, this infuriated the golden thunder dragon to the point of utter indignation. Its immense power proved powerless, yet it proved helpless.
The entire depths of the thunder pool seemed to have become a playground for the figure and the dragon. The aftermath of their occasional collisions prevented the massive, hundred-foot-long black demonic lightning from approaching, leaving them to rage helplessly at the edges, crackling and roaring as if cheering on their king.
"Dragon, give up! My Nine Profound Thunder Illusionary Body was created because of you. We are destined to be powerless."
Chen Guan fled ahead, occasionally turning back to greet the golden thunder dragon, a smile on his face, a trace of no nervousness.
He had been battling this Nine Profound Golden Thunder Dragon for almost a month now, and had already acquired a wealth of experience.
This Nine Profound Golden Thunder possessed the power of a Seven-Star Dou Sheng. Even though Chen Guan had a plan in mind, he was still cautious upon first encountering it.
But soon, a bold idea struck him.
He thought of the Three Thousand Thunder Movements and the Three Thousand Thunder Illusionary Bodies of the Wind and Thunder Pavilion!
Chen Guan had only practiced the former, but he was familiar with the latter. He could
draw upon a strand of wind and thunder power, first cultivating the Three Thousand Thunder Movements to perfection, then cultivating it with his soul to achieve the Three Thousand Thunder Illusionary Bodies!
This was the Wind and Thunder Pavilion's most powerful form, ranked at the advanced level of the Earth Rank.
Seeing that a single, relatively ordinary wind and thunder force could yield such a powerful fighting skill, Chen Guan couldn't help but wonder: what if he could cultivate with the Nine Profound Golden Thunder?
On a fine line between madness and genius, Chen Guan boldly put this idea into practice.
With his current strength, he had already surpassed the founder of the Wind
and Thunder Pavilion in every aspect. Building upon the foundations of the Three Thousand Thunder Movements and the Three Thousand Thunder Illusionary Bodies, it wasn't difficult to innovate this technique. Thus, the chase between Chen Guan and the Nine Profound Golden Thunders began.
Under the pressure of the Nine Profound Golden Thunders, Chen Guan narrowly escaped death time and again, yet he had no shortage of golden thunder power for experimentation.
Finally, on the eighteenth day, leveraging the energy Xiao Wu had absorbed from countless black demonic thunders, Chen Guan's strength advanced even further, reaching the late Five-Star Dou Sheng realm.
Simultaneously, he successfully cultivated a new technique, triggering a series of strange phenomena within the heavens and earth.
At this point, despite its terrifying power, the Nine Profound Golden Thunders no longer posed a threat to Chen Guan.
In a sense, their speed was comparable.
Chen Guan named this technique
"Nine Profound Thunder Illusionary Bodies"!
Observing the tiny golden dots within his sight, the Nine Profound Golden Thunders roared angrily. This time, unusually, it stopped, discontinuing the pursuit.
Chen Guan paused, and with a thought, the scattered figures in the sky automatically dissipated, transforming into invisible strands of spiritual energy that merged into one.
"Long, aren't you going to continue?"
Chen Guan was not intimidated by the Nine Profound Golden Thunder. His words were perfectly natural, not as if he were addressing an enemy, but more like a pair of friends with a complex relationship.
As the chase continued, Chen Guan was able to continuously refine his Nine Profound Thunder illusion. He could also sense that the Nine Profound Golden Thunder, seemingly furious, eager to tear him to pieces, was tinged with a subtle joy.
It was like a bored Husky cooped up in its home for too long, suddenly led outside to have some fun...
He fled, it chased, and Chen Guan felt as if he had returned to his childhood encounter with the giant python in the Monster Mountain Range.
However, both Chen Guan and the Nine Profound Golden Thunder were a million times more powerful than they had been in that memory.
Unfortunately, despite its terrifying power, the Nine Profound Golden Thunder lacked much in intelligence, even surpassing the giant python, possessing only a few simple instincts and an incomplete soul.
This was true of the Nine Profound Golden Thunder, and also of the ancient Bodhi tree that appeared in the ancient wilderness.
Heaven had endowed them with overwhelming strength, but stripped them of their spirits, opening a door while also closing a window.
Watching the Nine Profound Golden Thunder turn back, seemingly throwing a tantrum and ignoring him, Chen Guan's feet flashed with golden light, and he appeared beside the enormous pupil.
A month of contact had imbued those pupils, once filled with emptiness and loneliness, with a hint of living emotion, no longer so empty and muddled.
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"Dragon, are you ready to gather your spirits?"
From its birth, the Nine Profound Golden Thunder had been in a state of confusion. It didn't know where it came from, where it was going, or what it should do. For thousands of years, ten thousand years, it remained the same.
Gathering spirits was its instinct.
It had a feeling that only by successfully gathering them would the answers to all its questions be revealed.
For millennia, it had tried again and again, but without exception, it had failed.
Its immense power, when gathering spirits, offered no help; it was only an obstacle. This was the suppression of the laws of heaven and earth.
Without a warning, even a thousand or ten thousand years would have been impossible to change the outcome.
When Chen Guan encountered the Nine Profound Golden Thunder a month ago, it was about to begin its next gathering, but was forcibly delayed by Chen Guan.
Sensing Chen Guan's calm and gentle demeanor, a lack of malice, the Nine Profound Golden Thunder's enormous pupils blinked, and it refrained from attacking again. A fragmented stream of soul resonance entered Chen Guan's mind.
"This... this time... the hope... is great."
Chen Guan sensed a hint of tenderness in the mountain-like eyes as they looked at him.
Clearly, Jiuxuan Jinlei had also sensed that chasing him for a month had yielded considerable benefits.
Unfortunately, Chen Guan knew full well that such a tiny increase in spiritual power was insufficient to overcome the laws of this world.
With a soft sigh, Chen Guan, through soul resonance, transmitted a message to Jiuxuan Jinlei, allowing him to understand.
"Long, let me help you. You've tried to gather spiritual power time and time again, but always failed. The reason is that your immense power hinders the gathering of spiritual power. This is the law of heaven and earth, and we are powerless to change it."
"If you want to successfully gather spiritual power, there is only one way: to give up this power. There is always a reward. The more you give up, the greater the chance of success. Are you willing to give up this power?"
"If you are willing, I will help you draw on it."
Jiuxuan Jinlei, at the Seven-Star Dou Sheng realm, possessed true combat power that even an Eight-Star Dou Sheng would find it difficult to suppress.
For a being like this, unless it was willing, Chen Guan had no way to force it.
"Draw... Believe... Believe you."
Without a second thought, a soul-resonating message echoed through Chen Guan's mind.
He believed Chen Guan so easily, his naivety was unbelievable.
Chen Guan laughed dumbly and nodded seriously.
"Long, we are all very lucky!"
As soon as the words fell, Chen Guan's mind moved, and a palm-sized, chubby fire baby suddenly rushed in from the outer edge of the deep void thunder pool.
After a month of swallowing the black magic thunder, Xiao Wu's originally pale green body was covered with circles of black lightning-like patterns, like tattoos, and looked extremely civilized.
"Long, don't resist."
Chen Guan instructed, and moved to the front of the huge dragon head of the Nine Profound Golden Thunder. He slowly extended his palm and pressed it on the dragon scale in the center of the other party's dragon head.
A pale green flame surged from within, spreading along Chen Guan's arm. A terrifying purifying and devouring force instantly erupted. With a fierce jerk, a brilliant golden lightning flash was drawn directly from the Nine Profound Golden Thunder's body. Faintly, the golden lightning converged into a giant lightning dragon several dozen feet in size.
And this was only a fraction of its power.
Chen Guan quickly formed hand seals, and a wave of light, stained with blood, shot out, swiftly sealing the raging energy. With a thought, Xiao Wu pitifully opened his mouth and swallowed the trapped raging energy, temporarily sealing it.
"Roar!"
The Nine Profound Golden Thunder let out a shrill, low wail. The pain was no less than that of a normal person being torn apart and skinned, but it remained motionless, suppressing its instinct to resist and remaining firmly planted within the sea of lightning.
It had experienced this kind of pain many times, the same backlash after each failed attempt to gather spiritual energy.
At the edge of the thunder pool, black magic thunder exploded frantically, as if praying for their king, but no black magic thunder entered within ten thousand feet of Chen Guan.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
Accompanied by roars, Chen Guan drew out more and more golden lightning and sealed it. The massive body of the Nine Profound Golden Thunder also shrank rapidly, from thousands of feet at first, to hundreds of feet, until now, it had become a 'mini' golden dragon only a few dozen feet in size.
Waving his hand to send Xiao Wu away, Chen Guan stopped drawing power. His hand seal suddenly changed, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth quickly gathered, condensing into a seed shape, slowly invading the body of the Nine Profound Golden Thunder.
"Dragon, hurry, now!"