Hidden Blades Behind Smiles, a Treacherous Alliance

In the days that followed, Lei Zhan Marquis Manor seemed to have regained its superficial calm.

Blood Hidden Elder kept a low profile, spending most of his time within Purple Thunder Pavilion.

He did not rush to refine the priceless Blood Thunder Bodhi Fruit and Nine Revolutions Thunder Tribulation Liquid. Instead, he took out the Chaos Thunder Source Crystal and began refining it.

The Thunder Source Crystal was exceedingly pure. It could not enhance the bloodline on the Golden Finger panel, but it could greatly stimulate the cultivation progress of the "Radiant Golden Body," allowing it to advance to a higher level!

The pure thunder origin and Chaos Dao essence contained within the Chaos Thunder Source Crystal were exceptional supplementary cultivation resources for a body-refining technique like the "Radiant Golden Body," which required devouring vast amounts of precious resources.

Strands of pure purple lightning were drawn from the crystal and slowly merged into his flesh, blood, and bones.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..."

The faint sounds of lightning tempering echoed continuously through the quiet chamber.

Deep within Blood Hidden Elder's seemingly withered body, his blood surged as though it contained low rumbling thunder. His bones and muscles underwent an extremely subtle yet fundamental slow transformation amid lightning that intertwined destruction and creation.

A faint purple lightning pattern occasionally flashed across his skin before vanishing beneath his vast blood vitality. With the power of thunder's destruction and creation, his body was further tempered and strengthened.

Thunder was also a vessel of the Dao of life and extinction!

Every act of thunder's destruction contained an opportunity for creation. Every act of thunder's creation likewise contained a trace of destruction's lingering ember.

This had much in common with his Dao of Life and Death Cycle. Such comprehension and tempering were greatly beneficial to strengthening his