The vast and boundless Heavenly Martial Realm held the turbulent waves of the endless Boundless Sea.
Deep within these waters lay an unnamed island shrouded in mist.
At the island's center, a bottomless rift stretched ten thousand zhang deep, like the gaping bloody maw of a colossal beast.
Its depths could not be seen, and it exuded an aura of utter deathly stillness.
Amid this silent, oppressive atmosphere, ripples suddenly spread through the space beneath the rift.
A spatial crack abruptly appeared like a phantom, tearing apart the formerly tranquil void.
Dazzling light surged endlessly within the crack, as though something was about to descend upon the world.
In an instant, a black-gold streak shot out from the crack, slashing across the sky.
It plunged directly into the body seated cross-legged in the void ahead.
Yet the anomaly did not end there.
Just as the spatial crack was slowly about to close, a Purple-Gold bolt of lightning streaked out after it.
The Purple-Gold lightning then descended with the force of withering dead wood, hacking toward the body suspended in the void.
Wherever the Purple-Gold lightning passed, space crumbled inch by inch, and the air filled with a heart-pounding force of destruction.
At that critical moment, the body, whose eyes had been shut and whose aura had been steady, suddenly opened its eyes.
The illusory river of stars flowing within his gaze instantly solidified.
His raised right hand seemed to move slowly, yet it caught the Thunder Dragon precisely by its vital spot.
The Purple-Gold Divine Thunder, enough to destroy everything, became as docile as a snake between his fingers.
"The thunder tribulation from that world actually followed me here!" A trace of puzzlement flashed through Lu Xuan's eyes as he muttered.
"Interesting!"
Immediately afterward, that streak of Purple-Gold lightning containing