A pearl no bigger than an infant's fist appeared within the spatial rift.
If Chen Wen had not searched for it with his consciousness, he would never have discovered its existence.
It could only be said that it had hidden itself deeply enough.
The pearl was entirely black, with only a few strands of black lightning dancing across its surface.
As it trembled and moved, it resembled a beating heart.
Yet Chen Wen could sense within it a power even greater than the Nine Heavens Thunder.
Whoosh!
At that moment, the pearl moved. It transformed into a flash of lightning and swiftly entered his body.
From the Heavy Thunder Pearl's appearance to its disappearance, only an instant had passed.
This...
Chen Wen was immediately stunned.
Before he could react, that berserk yet dark and heavy power exploded inside him, sweeping outward at the fiercest speed.
Aah!
Chen Wen let out a savage roar, his agonized cry echoing through the air.
Before everyone's eyes, Chen Wen was swiftly engulfed by black lightning and exploded into a cluster of lightning blossoms.
Hm?
What was going on?
Everyone was dumbfounded once more.
Just moments ago, they had still been reeling from the shock Chen Wen had brought them.
But now, everything had changed.
Only the suddenly erupting black lightning remained in midair. There was not even half a trace of Chen Wen left.
Seeing this, Mu Jiuzhou was so excited that he could barely contain himself.
Though he did not know what had happened, Chen Wen's aura had now completely vanished.
Under such circumstances, he refused to believe Chen Wen could still survive.
What did it mean when heaven never barred every path?
This was exactly what it meant.
All he needed to do next was wait for the people from the Divine Demon Hall to arrive. The final victor would still be him.
At this thought, Mu Jiuzhou cast off his previous despair, his entire body brimming with surging excitement.
"Young Lady, that brat's aura has completely vanished." Lou Lan Lü'er drew a deep breath as she spoke.
Lou Lan Shengxue's expression was no longer as calm as before. After a moment of silence, she said, "Let's wait and see."
Lou Lan Lü'er knew that even Lou Lan Shengxue could not gauge this situation accurately, which was why she had given such an ambiguous reply.
Very soon, everyone's attention was drawn back to the black lightning.
The instant the black lightning appeared, the very momentum of the entire space changed.
Originally, that Gravity Heavenly Thunder Array had at most made them feel its berserk and oppressive force.
But now, berserk and oppressive were utterly insufficient to describe it all.
It could only be said that endless destruction filled the surroundings, as though the entire heaven and earth had been submerged in the depths of the nether hell.
Standing at the scene, they felt as if they could be blasted into flying ash at any moment.
At the same time.
Chen Wen had already endured the bombardment of Heavy Thunder and regained sensation and control over his body.
Upon closer inspection, one could see Chen Wen's Chaos Sequence crazily absorbing the Heavy Thunder Pearl's power.
The Heavy Thunder Pearl, on the other hand, no longer possessed its former arrogance and kept trying to pull that power back.
But faced with the bandit-like plunder of the Chaos Sequence Body, it did not have the strength to resist at all.
It could only curl up in a corner of his body like a resentful young wife.
The Chaos Sequence Body really was fierce.
Seeing all this, Chen Wen nearly burst out laughing.
Originally, the Heavy Thunder Pearl had come for the Heavenly Thunder source within his body.
Now it had delivered itself into the tiger's mouth. Even the power it had painstakingly recovered had been plundered by the Sequence Body.
"What the hell are you laughing at? If you don't get your divine body under control, this old lady's last reserves will be turned inside out!"
Just as Chen Wen was watching everything with great interest, an angry female voice rang out.
Uh.
Was this the intelligence Sister Shaozi had mentioned?
No wonder it had hidden itself within the spatial rift on its own, to prevent anyone with ulterior motives from discovering it.
"What are you spacing out for? This old lady is about to be drained dry!" the female voice cried out again.
Chen Wen gathered his thoughts. "Watch your attitude. Whether you live or die is now mine to decide."
"You..." The female voice was both furious and enraged. "You little bastard, you win."
"Tell me. What do you want?"
"Submit to me," Chen Wen said.
"This old lady has only just come back to life. I will never become anyone's tool again," the female voice said directly.
"Oh, then you can disappear." Chen Wen immediately pushed his physique to its limit.
"Stop, stop, stop! Everything can be discussed, everything can be discussed!" the female voice shouted anxiously.
Chen Wen did not respond to it. Instead, he said, "Sister Shaozi, do you have a way to erase its consciousness?"
"So ruthless?" Xian Hongshao hesitated for a moment before speaking.
Chen Wen said blandly, "Ruthless? I don't think so."
"I admit that its former self was one of the Ten Great Divine Artifacts, but what is it now?"
"It is merely a spiritual item with potential."
"Besides, it rushed into my body because it wanted to drain me dry."
"If I did not possess the Chaos Sequence Body, how would I have had the right to stand here and bargain with it?"
"Since it cannot tell what is good for it, I can only send it on its way."
"There is a way, but it may cause some damage to the Heavy Thunder Pearl's future growth. You should think it through."
After hesitating, Xian Hongshao still told him the truth.
"What kind of damage?" Chen Wen frowned slightly.
"This intelligence knows the direction in which the Heavy Thunder Pearl should develop and can consciously help it restore its former power."
"If it no longer exists, then how the pearl improves will rely entirely on the Heavy Thunder Pearl's own instincts."
"Under such circumstances, whether the Heavy Thunder Pearl can fully recover, or even recover to what it was before, is another matter altogether."
Xian Hongshao spoke slowly.
"Isn't that a kind of fun too?" The corner of Chen Wen's lips curled up slightly.
"Fine. Use the Sequence Body to suppress it. Leave the rest to me."
Seeing that Chen Wen had made his decision, Xian Hongshao said no more.
"What are you doing? No... you can't do this."
"I am willing to submit. This lowly one is willing to submit..."
The instant Xian Hongshao sent streams of power into the Heavy Thunder Pearl, its intelligence finally became afraid.
It had never imagined Chen Wen would be so ruthless and decisive, leaving it no room whatsoever for negotiation.
Now, it regretted it, and it was afraid.
"With me, there is only one chance. Since you want freedom, I'll send you to heaven."
"Heaven and earth are vast enough for you to roam as you please."
Chen Wen spoke blandly.
"No, no, no. This lowly one regrets it. This lowly one should not have bargained."
"As long as you are willing to give this lowly one a chance, this lowly one will definitely assist you with all its strength, with absolutely no second thoughts."
The female voice hurriedly began pleading for mercy.
But Chen Wen answered it only with silence and decisiveness.
"No..."
The intelligence struggled madly.
Yet no matter how fiercely it struggled, it could not change that fact.
No one outside knew what was happening within the black lightning.
When they saw that Chen Wen had remained motionless for so long, the last shred of luck they had been clinging to gradually vanished as well.
After all, there had been no sign of Chen Wen for so long, and his aura had disappeared.
There was only one possibility: Chen Wen had already died within that mass of black lightning.
Just then, a towering demonic power suddenly appeared in midair and swept across the entire scene at the fastest speed.
He's here. My master is here.
Mu Jiuzhou's eyes instantly lit up, and excitement surged through his entire body uncontrollably.
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