Shua.
The mummy, about to shatter the realm of life and death to devour it, suddenly turned around.
Behind it, the youth wielding the thunder sword had instantly ascended to the seventh tier.
"How is this possible?" he exclaimed in shock.
How could this lightning be so easily absorbed by the other party?
This was the Great Dao of the Thunder Domain.
The power of the Great Dao of a ninth-tier supreme being, actually swallowed by someone else?
How was this possible?
The Thunder Domain was vast, and it wasn't as if no one had ever coveted its lightning.
Everyone knew that this lightning was the purest form of thunder dao power.
Many had ideas, but none had succeeded.
Even those in the eighth tier couldn't achieve this.
Yet, here, the sixth-tier youth had succeeded, and at the same time... broken through to the seventh tier.
The rolling thunder power converged, making the youth appear as if a thunder lord had been reborn.
The youth's figure seemed to stand at the very center of the entire Thunder Domain.
"Heh."
Chen Fan's lips curved upwards as he looked at the shocked mummy. "You people have too many deep-rooted flaws."
Footsteps began to sound, slow and deliberate.
The youth walked leisurely. "After being suppressed for a million years, has your brain been fried by lightning?"
"I didn't sign a Dao contract with you, nor did I make a Dao oath, nor did I even need a single promise."
"Do you think, without some trump cards, I would have easily let you out?"
He used the word "let."
Not "rescued," nor "freed," but "let."
"..."
The mummy suddenly had a bad premonition.
"This City Lord dares to let you out, naturally, I have some confidence."
He continued speaking, continuing to stride forward.
With every step he took, the thunder converged a little more.
"An eighth-tier being with a withered Dao, I want to test, just how strong you truly are."
As he said this, a smile appeared on his face.
Crack.
At this moment, the realm gate, which had been absorbing thunder, closed.
"Can't absorb any more,"
Chen Fan said with a hint of regret. "If I absorb any more, the heavenly pillar will collapse."
On the opposite side, the mummy's expression turned grim.
Clang.
The sword moved.
The Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi transformed into a thunder sword.
As the sword was unsheathed, myriad thunders roared.
One sword split the heavens.
It was too fast, so fast that the mummy had no time to react before it was upon him.
Crack.
The lightning struck the mummy's body, instantly shattering it.
"Heh heh."
The mummy suddenly calmed down.
With a ferocious grin, he said, "My physical body has already been assimilated by the lightning; lightning... is useless against me."
Being imprisoned for a million years was a torment, but also an opportunity.
No one who could endure being struck by lightning for a million years without dying would not develop resistance in their body.
The mummy was such a case.
At this moment, he regained his confidence.
A violent killing intent began to spread. "For letting you go, I originally intended to spare you, but you are so uncooperative. Since that's the case, I shall devour you as well. To be devoured by me is your fortune."
Clang.
The long sword landed on the mummy's brow.
Starting from the brow, a silver line spread downwards.
From the brow, all the way to the feet.
"Haha, nothing more than..."
The mummy's words were cut short.
Then, he stared blankly downwards, looking at his own body.
His left eye saw half of his body.
His right eye also saw half of his body.
Who could have imagined that a person's two eyes could meet?
"..."
The mummy was stunned.
His body had been split in two by a single sword.
The next moment...
Boom.
The sword dao lightning that had invaded his body instantly erupted.
His physical body was like steel and iron, but his flesh and blood were still flesh and blood.
...
Emperor Yuhua pressed forward through the sky filled with incoming threats, amidst the lightning.
"Lord of Light, where is the passage?" he urged, anxious.
The three pursuers behind him were becoming more ferocious.
Suddenly, he sensed a cleared space amidst the lightning ahead.
The lightning power somewhere ahead was very weak, as if it had been cleared away.
"Found it."
Emperor Yuhua's eyes shone with divine light.
The next moment, he plunged into it without hesitation.
The massive figure finally rushed into the open space.
Screech.
Abruptly, he saw a sword.
That sword was incredibly sharp.
With a single strike, it severed a person.
Emperor Yuhua: "???"
What was going on?
Then, he saw the figure that had been split into two halves by a sword.
"Emperor Lietian."
Emperor Yuhua's shock was beyond words, and a horrified voice involuntarily escaped his lips. "How did you escape?"
Emperor Lietian, the mummy.
"Ah..."
A piercing scream echoed through heaven and earth.
The mummy screamed.
The erupting lightning blasted his two halves, causing them to continuously shatter.
After a million years of being hammered by lightning, the mummy's body had long since lost all its blood, leaving only a dried husk.
"Lock."
Then, something that no one expected happened.
Chen Fan actually manipulated the lightning chains on the heavenly pillar.
Eighty-one lightning chains, swift as lightning, descended upon the mummy, directly yanking his two halves back towards the Thunder Lord.
Snap.
The mummy, who had just broken free, Emperor Lietian, had once again become a prisoner.
"No..."
If I had never seen the light, I could have endured the darkness.
But Emperor Lietian had tasted freedom just moments ago. To be imprisoned again, to lose his freedom once more, would drive him mad.
His voice was incredibly mournful. "Let me go, I was wrong, let me go..."
He had gone mad.
He struggled wildly.
Snap.
Lightning struck down from the sky, falling upon the mummy.
Now, even if he wanted to die, he couldn't.
"I was wrong,"
The mummy cried out loudly. "Please spare me, I am willing to be your slave, willing to serve you as my master..."
At this moment, the mummy didn't even consider why the other party could control the lightning.
All he wanted now was freedom.
"I gave you a chance."
Chen Fan's voice drifted out faintly. "Unfortunately, you didn't seize it. Heh heh..."
With a cold laugh, he withdrew his gaze.
He then turned to look at Emperor Yuhua, who was still recovering from his shock, and smiled. "Emperor Yuhua, you're really fast."
At this moment, facing Emperor Yuhua, he felt completely confident.
He was no longer the mere sixth-tier cultivator who could only flee.
He was seventh-tier.
Although his cultivation level was still inferior to the other party's, this was... the heavenly pillar region.
Chen Fan looked down at the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi in his hand, his eyes filled with indescribable excitement.
He never expected that the internal world of the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi was the Thunder Domain.
When his divine sense had invaded the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi earlier, the scene he witnessed had stunned him completely.
The current Thunder Domain was merely an empty shell.
The Thunder Domain was a ninth-tier Great World, and its Great Dao universe was contained within the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi.
This was also the source of his courage to release the mummy.
This Thunder Domain... was his, Chen Fan's territory.
Boom.
Three powerful auras jolted him out of his shock.
The Dragon King and the other two had arrived.
Within the lightning-covered expanse, there was a single area of peace.
Here, there was no lightning.
Only two figures, one large and one small, facing each other.
Chen Fan and Emperor Yuhua.
For a moment, the Dragon King and the other two were stunned.
What was going on?
They had expected to see the most dreaded scene upon entering, but instead... they saw the young man who had recently become famous in the Thunder Domain.
That young man, holding the Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, stood calmly.
"Everyone has arrived."
A smile spread across Chen Fan's face.
Good, it saved him the trouble of running around.