Thunder Lord appears!
"Roar!!!"
The Purple-winged Sky Tiger, in its Thunder Lord form, roared, overturning the entire Thunder Prison. The towering bronze statues were kneaded by an invisible giant hand, twisting and deforming in the dazzling lightning. Ling Tian's Flame Dragon Fire Shield had barely begun to form when the gale stirred by the four purple crystal lightning wings tore it into flowing flames. Su Meier's Moon Essence Array, formed by her nine tails, had just revealed its trigrams when it was blasted into stardust by the lightning storm from the tiger's paw—the paw print hadn't even arrived, yet five deep ravines had already collapsed from the cliffs a hundred miles away!
"Get out of the way quickly!"
Ling Tian, with his right arm in Dragon form, yanked Su Meier by the back of her collar. Thunder Lord's fangs grazed past her hair. The highly toxic lightning mercury saliva splattered onto the jade dragon sword, corroding the Dragon head on the sword's spine until it roared incessantly. The two tumbled into the Thunder Pool. Amidst the scorching smell of their robes being corroded by the lightning plasma, they glimpsed the lightning lines on the Sky Tiger's forehead gathering the World-Ending Lightning Tribulation.
When the first crimson Li Fire Thunderbolt struck, Ling Tian pressed Su Meier into a lava crevice. The lightning fire exploded past his back, melting his Dragon scale armor like wax, and instantly carbonizing the exposed flesh. Amidst Su Meier's screams, her nine tails ignited her life-bound fox fire, but it froze into an ice sculpture in the second profound ice lightning storm. Thunder Lord's four wings retracted into a drill, piercing through, carrying the concentrated Origin of the Thunder Prison—the moment Ling Tian crossed his sword to block, the jade dragon sword was instantly flung away by the immense force, spinning as it plunged into the Thunder Pool!
"Whoosh!!"
Thunder Lord's tail hammer slammed towards Su Meier's Crown of the Head. Ling Tian's broken right leg vigorously pushed off the rock wall, using his shoulder blade to take the heavy blow head-on. Before the sound of shattering bones ceased, the Thunder Throne at the end of the tiger's tail had already locked around his neck.
"The hunt is over."
Thunder Lord's cold laughter mingled with the roar of the lightning storm, as his nine-layered lightning eyes concentrated a World-Ending Beam.
In his dying moments, Ling Tian seemed to see Su Meier's exquisite face, now tear-streaked like pear blossoms in the rain. He saw the promise the young man made to the young woman that night to protect her for life. He saw Thunder Lord's tail hammer smashing towards Su Meier, and her green wood vine armor exploding into three thousand wood splinters under the lightning Qi.
"Bang!!" The roar of Su Meier being slammed into the mountain wall awakened Ling Tian's Chaos Divine Sense.
No! I cannot die! I still have vengeance to exact! And people I need to protect!!
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
"Blazing Dragon Three Revolutions—Heaven Incineration!"
As the incantation fell, golden flowing flames burst from Ling Tian's seven orifices, and his dark hair instantly turned snow-white. Dragon scales pierced through his skin from his spine, covering his entire body layer by layer with droplets of blood, each crimson scale imbued with flowing crimson Dragon inscriptions. His pupils melted into molten gold vertical slits, and the Dragon's Breath he spewed melted a ten-zhang radius into glazed glass. When the third revolution's Restriction was broken, a massive Blazing Dragon illusory image appeared behind him, and the flames igniting his hair actually vaporized the falling Lightning Tribulation into mist.
"Bone Talisman! Heal!"
His broken right leg and arm instantly recovered. The jade dragon sword flew out of the Thunder Pool, caught steadily by Ling Tian. "I'll have to rely on you again, old friend." The Jade Dragon let out bursts of Dragon roars, as if it understood!
"Forbidden Art! Weapon Devourer, Aid Master!" With that, Ling Tian plunged the Jade Dragon towards his Dantian. The moment the sword tip pierced his Dantian, the sword body instantly glowed with dense, ancient runes. The Heaven Incineration crimson flames of Blazing Dragon Three Revolutions erupted from his seven orifices. The Jade Dragon pierced through his Purple Mansion, and amidst the excruciating pain of the Dragon head on the sword's spine gnawing at his Nascent Soul, the Soul Emergence shackles shattered with a roar!
"Sky Tiger, now it's my turn!!"
The instant Thunder Lord's World-Ending Lightning Tribulation struck, Ling Tian's Dragon-transformed right arm suddenly shot out, actually seizing the lightning pillar bare-handed. The Heaven Incineration crimson flames poured back along the lightning, refining the hundred-mile Thunder Pool into a sea of fire!
"Soul Emergence Dharma Idol · Blazing Dragon Xiangliu!"
The roaring sound wave shattered three floating mountains. Ling Tian, treading on lava, ascended into the sky. A crimson-gold beam of light burst from Ling Tian's glabella, and a nine-headed Xiangliu illusory image erupted from his body. Each snake head held a segment of the jade dragon sword's edge. The Dharma Idol's true body was dozens of zhang tall, its left half covered in Heaven Incineration Dragon scales, its right half entwined with Xiangliu soul mist. When its feet touched the Thunder Pool, the boiling lightning plasma actually flowed backward; with a wave of its arm, a hundred thousand tribulation lightning bolts were kneaded into lightning swords and hurled back at the enraged Thunder Lord.
"Roar!!"
Thunder Lord's Sky Tiger's four wings spread angrily, its purple crystal lightning blades cleaving open the sky-filling lightning swords. Its tiger claws, carrying ten thousand jun of lightning, clawed at the Xiangliu Dharma Idol's throat. The nine heads of the Blazing Dragon Xiangliu shrieked, three snake heads spewing Heaven Incineration fire pillars, while the remaining six heads coiled around Thunder Lord's four limbs like chains. Where the lightning plasma and Dragon fire mingled, an annihilation light sphere exploded, melting the hundred-mile floating mountain into a glazed rainstorm!
The Dharma Idol's Dragon tail swept across, Thunder Lord's fangs bit through three Dragon scales, but the Thunder Hammer at the end of its tiger tail was, in turn, caught by a Xiangliu head. The two colossal beasts tumbled and crashed into the Thunder Pool, lightning plasma and dragon blood steaming into a scarlet blood mist. Thunder Lord's World-Ending Lightning Eye on its forehead shot out a World-Ending Beam, but the Xiangliu Dharma Idol actually opened its abyssal maw and swallowed the World-Ending Lightning whole!
"Boom!!!" The two behemoths flew into the sky together, colliding violently!
The most perilous battle now unfolded at the cloud's summit. Thunder Lord's four wings transformed into a lightning blade storm, while Xiangliu's nine heads ignited with Heaven Incineration karmic fire. Each clash of claws and fangs shattered spatial barriers, and the overflowing lightning fire falling into the mountains turned into natural disasters. When Thunder Lord bit into a Dharma Idol snake head, three of Xiangliu's heads suddenly self-destructed, and the erupting Heaven Incineration fire wave forcibly melted half of Thunder Lord's body!
At this point, the Sky Tiger's purple crystal lightning wings were largely damaged, its shattered wing membranes drooped over its charred skeleton, and its exposed lightning core sputtered with electric sparks. Only three of its nine-layered lightning eyes remained, and within the cracked pupils, the World-Ending Lightning Tribulation flickered like a dying candle. Its profound black tiger skin was covered in holes burned by Heaven Incineration fire, and a purplish-black slurry of lightning mercury and dragon blood dripped from its broken lightning spikes, forming corrosive poison pools.
"Damn human!!"
The Sky Tiger roared, raising its head to gather its final World-Ending Beam, preparing to flatten everything in sight with one strike.
"Sky Tiger, you have no chance!"
As the Dharma Idol shattered, Ling Tian held the Jade Dragon, recalling his master's appearance at that time.
"Dragon Spirit, Transform!"
Ling Tian formed a hand seal! The Jade Dragon suddenly burst with dazzling light, rapidly ascending!
Accompanied by a piercing sound of tearing air, this white stream of light expanded to a hundred zhang in length and ten zhang in width in the blink of an eye, transforming into a gigantic, sky-obscuring treasure sword, stretching across the horizon.
"Azure Dragon Sky Splitting Slash!!"
In an instant, the sword light slashed across. The Sky Tiger's eyes widened, watching the scene before it in disbelief. The last thing it saw was its own headless body, like a statue, still standing in the Thunder Pool.
"Bang!!"
With a loud crash, the Sky Tiger's massive head slammed heavily onto the ground.
"This... how is this possible..." The Sky Tiger murmured, its voice filled with shock and unwillingness. As the Sky Tiger's body slowly dissipated, a purplish-black pearl glowing with lightning floated before Ling Tian. The pearl's surface was covered in dense lightning patterns, exuding a mysterious and powerful aura—this was the sky tiger inner core!