Rumble—crack—
The rolling thunder sounded like a massive stone mill rumbling back and forth across the sky.
Streaks of blue-violet lightning twisted and flickered wildly through the dense black clouds like strange, misshapen snakes.
From time to time, a pale flash of lightning would flicker, followed by blue-violet bolts plunging toward the ground below, tearing through the dark mountain forest and illuminating the trees swaying in the storm. Only then would a deafening "crack-crack" of thunder arrive belatedly, shaking the mountains and woods.
From far away, it looked as though fierce winds had risen among the thirteen peaks of Hui Mountain, with dark clouds covering the heavens and lightning occasionally striking down from within the clouds into the mountains.
Some bolts even descended upon the great trees in the mountains like fiery red snakes, igniting them in an instant. Only then did a string of sharp, crackling thunder ring out, making one's scalp tingle.
Yet from nearby, one could see that in an open area within a mountain valley, a figure like a demon god sat cross-legged amid a horrifying expanse of scorched earth, radiating an abyssal, hellish aura.
Nearly every bolt of lightning that descended from the heavens fell upon him.
However, whenever lightning was about to reach his body, the long section of spine placed across his knees would release a vast, noble aura that shrouded him, instantly causing the lightning to disperse.
As the scattered electricity continued to dart about, it was struck with perfect precision by the fierce saber energy emitted from the crimson blade on the ground. The lightning completely broke down into arcs that crawled all over the figure's towering, demon-god-like body, producing crackling and sizzling currents.
The burly figure had the back of a tiger and the waist of a bear. His broad