With Yun Gui joining their group, their travel plans shifted slightly.
Since there was a divine inheritor nearby, Lin Rong wasn't in a rush to get to Thunderclap Canyon to claim the Thunder God Inheritance.
The location of the Thunder God's divine artifact was hidden and protected by lightning, so arriving at Thunderclap Canyon a day or two later wouldn't make a difference.
Right now, before returning to Heaven Dou City, making sure Yun Gui's favorability and dependence on them were maxed out seemed more important.
Lin Rong entrusted this task to the old butler, who was a professional when it came to taking care of people.
However, there was a difference between men and women, and their relationship wasn't that close yet, so the old butler would have to gauge the appropriate level of interaction himself.
Seven days later.
At the entrance of Thunderclap Canyon, their group stood there.
In those seven days, Yun Gui had transformed completely.
Her original patched greyish-white clothing had been replaced with a simple, ordinary, yet very respectable set of women's clothes purchased in town.
Her sallow and thin face had regained the youthful glow that a young girl should have, and her tone of speech was no longer timid but filled with ease and casualness.
"Grandpa, is this your destination?"
Yun Gui looked up at the thick dark clouds in the sky above Thunderclap Canyon, occasionally hearing a massive clap of thunder, and her expression showed a hint of fear.
It was the first time she had seen such dark clouds and heard such loud thunder, and she couldn't help but feel scared.
The old butler looked at Yun Gui, giving her a reassuring look, then turned to their young master, intending to say something.
Lin Rong, however, spoke first.
"Grandpa Yu, I'll go in alone. You can wait here for me."
The implication was that the old butler should stay and accompany Yun Gui.
Although Yun Gui was a divine inheritor, she hadn't formally accepted the divine position inheritance yet; she was just an ordinary person without Soul Power.
Bringing her into Thunderclap Canyon would inevitably be a hindrance and too troublesome.
Moreover, Yun Gui wasn't truly one of them yet, so it wasn't appropriate for her to know about the Thunder God Inheritance.
The old butler understood Lin Rong's concern. Thinking that there wouldn't be any danger on this trip, he replied with relief, "Young master, you go ahead. This old servant will wait for you here."
Lin Rong activated the flight soul skill "Soaring Through Clouds and Riding the Mist" from his hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone and soon disappeared at the entrance of Thunderclap Canyon.
Flying through the canyon filled with lightning, Lin Rong carefully searched for the hidden cave that Dugu Bo had mentioned.
According to Dugu Bo, the cave was located deep within Thunderclap Canyon.
Half an hour later.
Deep within Thunderclap Canyon, at a steep cliff face.
Behind the dense thorny vines, there was an extremely hidden cave.
Lin Rong walked further into the cave and soon reached its end, where he saw the hammer Dugu Bo had spoken of.
"No mistake, it's the Thunder God's aura." Sensing the aura emanating from the hammer, Lin Rong quickly walked forward.
Having refined the Thunder God Bloodline himself, he was all too familiar with the Thunder God's aura.
All of Lin Rong's soul bones had been refined by the Marrow Cleansing Scripture, making them completely his own.
As a result, the Thunderclap Nether Vine Left Leg Bone he had absorbed showed no signs of agitation at the appearance of the Thunder God's divine artifact; instead, it quietly fused with his own left leg bone.
"Thunder God's divine artifact, such abundant lightning power. After obtaining this hammer, I won't need to specifically set aside time to come to Thunderclap Canyon to enhance the Thunderclap Nether Vine Left Leg Bone's lifespan."
"Moreover, with this hammer, the Thunderclap Nether Vine Left Leg Bone's lifespan will increase much faster. It's a certainty that it will break free from its ranking at the bottom among soul bones, though I don't know how long it will take to reach the hundred-thousand-year mark."
Lin Rong pondered this, simultaneously activating the Marrow Cleansing Scripture's reverse tracing back to the source (sù yuán) to transform the attribute-less Divinity within him into Thunder God Divinity.
The process of tracing the origin was smooth. Within seconds, all the Divinity in Lin Rong's body had been transformed.
Hum~ Hum~
The Thunder God's divine artifact seemed to sense the Thunder God's aura, its body shaking non-stop and emitting waves of humming sounds.
Lin Rong extended his right hand. The Thunder God Bloodline within him gathered in the blood of his right palm, and in response to the Thunder God's divine artifact's call, he grasped the hammer's handle.
The ferocious purplish-black lightning touched Lin Rong's right hand but caused no harm. Instead, as he lifted the hammer from the ground, it gradually retracted back into the hammer's body.
"Very good, very smooth."
The Thunder God had already fallen, and the Thunder God's imprint within the Thunder God's Hammer had also dissipated.
Therefore, Lin Rong took this opportunity to imprint his own mark within the Thunder God's Hammer.
During the imprinting process, the Thunder God's Hammer offered no resistance because the person imprinting it possessed the pure aura of the Thunder God.
Lin Rong was not yet a god, so imprinting his mark on a genuine divine artifact took a considerable amount of time.
An incense stick's worth of time passed.
As the final part of the imprint within the Thunder God's Hammer was completed, it declared that the divine artifact now completely belonged to Lin Rong.
From this day forward, he was the true owner of the Thunder God's Hammer.
Having completed the artifact's acknowledgment of its master, Lin Rong immediately stopped the reverse tracing and his Thunder God Bloodline within his body returned to its unassigned divine nature.
"A purely offensive artifact, let me test its power!"
Lin Rong gripped the Thunder God's Hammer, infusing it with divine nature and Soul Power. Immediately, lightning erupted from the hammer's body.
Looking at the stone wall at the end of the mountain cave before him, Lin Rong lightly swung the Thunder God's Hammer at it from a distance.
A flash of purple-black lightning streaked past, and with a massive roar, the stone wall, over ten meters thick, shattered and collapsed, revealing the other side of the cliff behind it.
"The power is impressive. It truly lives up to being a purely offensive artifact, and its element is lightning, which has always been known for its explosive power among the elements."
"While Moonlight Love is useful, the Love God is not a combat-focused deity after all, and her artifact primarily possesses supportive abilities; its offensive power isn't particularly strong."
Currently, Lin Rong himself possessed two divine artifacts, the Love God's Lyre and the Thunder God's Hammer. Ma Hongjun had the Fire God's artifact, the Skyflame Divine Pestle, and Feng Xiaotian had the Wind God's artifact, the Eye of Storms.
There was still no news from the Peerless Dragon Snake couple, so the Earth God's artifact would not be discussed for now.
Therefore, including Yun Gui, who was highly likely to pledge allegiance to him, and with her possessing the God of Goodness's artifact, he would have a total of five divine artifacts in his possession.
Five divine artifacts, five divine position inheritances.
Among these, the Thunder God and Love God divine positions had no inheritors, and he currently had no suitable candidates to inherit these two divine positions.
As for the old butler, Lin Rong was determined to help him find a suitable divine position inheritance.
From the divine beings of the God Realm known from his past life, there was no Star God.
Therefore, the divine position that best suited the old butler was undoubtedly the Bright God divine position among the Seven Elemental Gods.
However, Lin Rong couldn't pinpoint where the Bright God divine position inheritance would appear.
If he had to guess the location of the Bright God divine position inheritance based on elemental theory, the inheritance space of the Angel God within Spirit Hall had the highest probability. However, the Bright God would not place the divine position inheritance in the same location as the Angel God's inheritance space, so that possibility could be directly ruled out.
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