Another month passed. Throughout that month, Gu He had not stopped absorbing the vast lightning energy of the Void Lightning Pool. Under his absorption, the lightning energy within the pool rapidly diminished, and after a month, it was nearly exhausted. The vortex of lightning gathered around him could no longer be maintained, even as he did his utmost to draw in the energy of heaven and earth from outside, and it slowly began to dissipate.
All of this showed that the energy within the Void Lightning Pool was nearly drained dry by Gu He. Even the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, thousands of zhang away from him—apart from its lone lightning dragon form—the Black Demon Lightning that had once coiled around it had been completely refined and absorbed by Gu He. Now, it merely lay there listlessly.
"Ah! I was just one step away from advancing another star." Sensing the thin lightning power around him, Gu He opened his eyes helplessly and sighed.
He was now at the peak of Eight-star Dou Sheng, only one step away from Nine-star Dou Sheng. However, the energy required for that single step was no less than what had been needed to advance from Seven-Star Dou Sheng to Eight-star Dou Sheng. Even if he devoured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, he would only have a chance of breaking through to Nine-star Dou Sheng; there was no absolute certainty. If he devoured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning yet failed to advance to Nine-star Dou Sheng, the loss would outweigh the gain.
Gu He flew beside the Nine Profound Golden Lightning. Compared to the golden lightning dragon that was thousands of zhang long, his body was incomparably tiny. Yet at that moment, as Gu He stood beside the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, it strangely gave people the