Rumble— However, the terrifying Nine-colored Divine Thunder did not last long before it struck downward, descending toward a distant location.
"It really is a lightning phenomenon."
"Is that Chu Feng?"
"He's made another breakthrough?"
"Damn it — has he already obtained the opportunity?"
Zuoqiu Yanliang stared in the direction where the Nine-colored Divine Thunder had fallen, his expression turning extremely ugly.
He glanced at the ground beneath his feet — this land that might conceal the opportunity he sought, yet one he had been unable to crack. Ultimately, he gritted his teeth and launched himself forward, swiftly flying toward the direction where the lightning had descended.
He intended to track it down.
Because he believed that the only person capable of triggering such a lightning phenomenon was none other than Chu Feng.
Not even his own brother could summon a phenomenon of such magnitude.
Chu Feng's rate of breakthrough was far too fast. From what he knew, when Chu Feng had first entered the Wolong Martial Sect, his cultivation had been quite weak.
Yet he had broken through one after another in rapid succession. At this rate, it wouldn't be long before his brother was surpassed by Chu Feng, let alone himself.
Therefore… he had to eliminate Chu Feng as soon as possible.
Though the Nine-colored Divine Thunder had struck very far away, its residual power still lingered in the area.
Strangely, not only did the residual power persist for a considerable time, but the desert that lay along the way — the same one that had blocked Chu Feng with its eerie anomalies before — showed no such irregularity now.
Before Zuoqiu Yanliang, the desert behaved like an ordinary expanse, and he crossed it swiftly.
Thus, tracking the trail, Zuoqiu Yanliang quickly arrived before the stone forest.
Gazing at the residual lightning that still swirled high above the sky, Zuoqiu Yanliang knew that Chu Feng was still here and had not yet departed.
He released Xia Yan, Li Muzhi, and the others from his confinement.
Xia Yan and Li Muzhi, along with the rest, still had no idea what the current situation was.
Xia Yan immediately launched into a torrent of curses directed at Zuoqiu Yanliang.
But Zuoqiu Yanliang, wielding his Martial Venerable weapon without a word, drove his blade straight through Xia Yan's shoulder.
"Zuoqiu Yanliang, what are you doing?!"
Seeing this, Li Muzhi — who had been silent until now — spoke up in fury.
Yet who could have anticipated that Zuoqiu Yanliang would withdraw his weapon only to thrust the next strike straight at Li Muzhi? The blade pierced clean through Li Muzhi's throat.
At the sight of this, the remaining captives turned green with terror.
They assumed Zuoqiu Yanliang intended to silence them all.
That is, until Zuoqiu Yanliang shouted toward the stone forest.
"Chu Feng, get out here right now."
"If you don't show yourself, I'll take their miserable lives."
Only then did Xia Yan and the others finally understand why Zuoqiu Yanliang had suddenly turned on them.
It was because Chu Feng was hidden inside that stone forest, and Zuoqiu Yanliang wanted to force him out.
…
Chu Feng was still within that sacred world.
And he had successfully broken through — his cultivation had now entered the First Level Martial Venerable realm.
Not only had he entered the First Level Martial Venerable realm, but the Spirit World gate that had remained sealed all this time was finally able to open, allowing Chu Feng to harness the power of Yusha once more.
Yet at this moment, his eyes remained shut. The reason was… the power that the monstrous old man had bestowed upon him — the temporary enhancement of his comprehension — had not yet faded.
Chu Feng intended to seize this opportunity to breach the seal of the Wolong Soul Armor once more, attempting to push through to the second level in one bold stroke.
Because he knew better than anyone what he had just experienced.
The power currently swirling through his body was far more than a simple enhancement of comprehension.
What he had just undergone was no ordinary Lightning Tribulation — it had been a truly terrifying Divine Lightning Tribulation.