Fearsome lightning surrounded one person, seeking to kill this person, to destroy this person, to annihilate this person.
And that person was Chu Feng.
In this situation, 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 grave injuries — his future prospects cut short forever.
But as long as he endured, as long as he weathered through it, Chu Feng's cultivation would break through.
Hmm— Suddenly, that fearsome lightning began to dissipate, and in the next moment, Chu Feng — whose face had been contorted in agony — took on a rosy hue once more. His aura grew powerful again.
He had broken through. Chu Feng had successfully advanced from the Seventh Rank Half Ancestor to the Eighth Rank Half Ancestor.
However, Chu Feng still had not opened his eyes. The martial power throughout his body continued to flow along special trajectories, surging into his Dantian before flowing back out again.
Chu Feng was attempting to continue his breakthrough, trying to push toward the Ninth Rank Half Ancestor.
But in his focus on pushing his cultivation, Chu Feng had forgotten the kind of sensation his Divine Punishment would cause.
At this moment, the Kong Heavenly Clan — though they had not truly been struck by the lightning — were nonetheless thrown into complete chaos.
It was deeply ironic. The Kong Heavenly Clan was one of the most formidable and powerful forces in the Hundred Refinements Ordinary Realm, blessed with the deepest heritage and the greatest strength.
Yet now, an aura of panic, unease, and impending doom hung over this colossal power like an invisible shadow.
"Could it really have been taken?"
"But if the inheritance was stolen, how could it cause such an anomaly?" Kong Xunlian did not believe that the lightning was the anomaly triggered by the theft of the inheritance.
"We may not know just 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 has always been connected to lightning. The more terrifying the anomaly, the more powerful the inheritance must be." Unlike Kong Xunlian, Kong Moyu firmly believed that the Kong Heavenly Clan's inheritance had been stolen.
Just thinking about the earlier lightning and the dark clouds that still lingered in the sky was enough for 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 his killing intent spread outward without the slightest attempt at concealment.
In truth, at this moment, those within the Kong Heavenly Clan who knew that the Misfortune Mountain Range had been breached generally held one of two views.
One was that the lightning was connected to the inheritance.
The other was that the lightning was unrelated to the inheritance.
But not a single person considered that this might be the legendary Divine Punishment Mystic Art. In truth… never mind the Divine Punishment Mystic Art — they had never even seen the Heavenly Punishment Mystic Art.
Most of them practiced the Human Punishment Mystic Art. While the Human Punishment Mystic Art also inflicted punishment during a breakthrough, it was merely punishment stemming from one's own bloodline.
That kind of punishment was nothing that could shake the heavens and earth or move gods and spirits. Bystanders couldn't even perceive it, let alone would it cause such a phenomenon.
So it would never occur to them that such a phenomenon could be triggered by a Heavenly Bloodline holder breaking through in cultivation.
"Could it be that those things have nothing to do with Chu Feng — just a coincidence?" At this moment, Kong Zheng, who had previously suspected Chu Feng, was also growing confused.
If one could argue that the earlier fearsome lightning had been caused by Chu Feng, that much was still plausible. But this time, that explanation no longer held up.
Because the place where the divine lightning had struck was truly quite a distance from where Chu Feng resided.
Rumble— And just then, the dark clouds deep in the sky that had not yet dispersed began to gather once more. That fearsome lightning raged again, its might even greater than before.
"Not again?!!"
Although the earlier lightning had fallen upon the Misfortune Mountain Range and hadn't harmed a single member of the Kong Heavenly Clan…
…when this terrifying phenomenon appeared once more, every member of the Kong Heavenly Clan was plunged into abject terror.
They had no idea just how powerful that divine lightning truly was, but()