Terror lightning revolved around one person, seeking to kill this person, to destroy this person, to annihilate this person.
And Chu Feng was that person.
In the face of this, Chu Feng could only endure. He had no other choice.
After all, this was Divine Punishment.
If he couldn't endure it, even if he didn't die, he would suffer grievous injuries — and his future prospects in cultivation would end right then and there.
But as long as he endured, as long as he weathered it, Chu Feng's cultivation would break through.
Hummm—
Suddenly, the terrifying lightning began to dissipate, and in the next moment, Chu Feng's face — previously twisted in agony — turned rosy and vibrant, his aura surging with renewed power.
He had broken through. Chu Feng had successfully advanced from Rank Seven Half Ancestor to Rank Eight Half Ancestor.
However, Chu Feng still did not open his eyes. The martial power throughout his body continued to flow along special trajectories, surging into his Dantian and then pouring back out from it.
Chu Feng was attempting to continue his breakthrough — trying to charge toward Rank Nine Half Ancestor.
But in his singular focus on pushing his cultivation higher, Chu Feng had completely forgotten what kind of commotion the majesty of his Divine Punishment could cause.
At this moment, the Kong Heavenly Clan, though not actually struck by the lightning, was nonetheless thrown into utter chaos.
The irony was stark. The Kong Heavenly Clan was one of the most well-established and powerful forces in the Hundred Refinements Ordinary Realm — there was no denying that.
Yet now, the panic, the unease, the atmosphere of impending doom, hung over this colossal power like an invisible shadow.
"Could it truly have been taken?"
"But if the inheritance was stolen, how could it trigger such a phenomenon?" Kong Shuanglian did not believe that the lightning was a phenomenon caused by the theft of the inheritance.
"We don't know how powerful the Ancestor's strength truly was, but one thing is certain — the inheritance he left behind is no ordinary thing."
"And the power of our Heavenly Bloodline is inherently connected to lightning. The more terrifying the phenomenon, the more formidable the inheritance must be." Compared to Kong Shuanglian, Kong Moyu was firmly convinced that the Kong Heavenly Clan's inheritance had been taken.
Just thinking about the earlier lightning, combined with the dark clouds that still lingered high in the sky, allowed him to imagine just how powerful that inheritance must be.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. His fists clenched tight, his teeth ground together, and that killing intent radiated outward without the slightest attempt to conceal it.
In truth, within the Kong Heavenly Clan at this moment, those who knew that the Bitter Abandonment Mountain Range had been infiltrated largely fell into one of two camps.
One group believed the lightning was connected to the inheritance.
The other believed it was unrelated.
But not a single person considered that this might be the legendary Divine Punishment Mystic Art. In fact… let alone the Divine Punishment Mystic Art, they had never even laid eyes on the Heavenly Punishment Mystic Art.
Most of them cultivated the Human Punishment Mystic Art. While the Human Punishment Mystic Art also inflicted punishment upon breakthrough, that punishment originated solely from one's own bloodline.
That kind of punishment was nothing like an earth-shaking, heaven-weeping cataclysm. In fact, bystanders couldn't even perceive it — so naturally it would never trigger a phenomenon of this magnitude.
For that reason, it would never occur to them that such a spectacle could be caused by a Heavenly Bloodline cultivator breaking through.
"Could it be… that the thing has nothing to do with Chu Feng, and this is all just a coincidence?" At this moment, Kong Zheng — who had earlier suspected Chu Feng — was beginning to grow confused as well.
If one could argue that the previous bout of terrifying lightning had been caused by Chu Feng, then this time it simply didn't add up.
After all, the place where the Divine Thunder had struck was quite a considerable distance from where Chu Feng was staying.
Rumble—
And just then, the dark clouds that had yet to disperse in the depths of the sky once again gathered together, and the terrifying lightning surged anew — this time with even greater might than before.
"Again?!!"
Though the earlier lightning had fallen upon the Bitter Abandonment Mountain Range and hadn't injured a single member of the Kong Heavenly Clan, when this terrifying phenomenon manifested once more, the people of the Kong Heavenly Clan were plunged into absolute terror once again.