"Come, lightning!"
Li Qingyuan and Dongfang Lei strode forward, letting the myriad thunderbolts between heaven, earth, and the cosmos strike them and temper their bodies.
Soon, the two ventured fifty thousand zhang into the Thunder Domain Forbidden Zone. The might of the five-nine tribulation lightning grew ever stronger, and their thunder methods and physical strength approached their limits.
To ensure fairness, Li Qingyuan sealed his own primordial spirit to the same realm as Dongfang Lei's-merely Mahayana peak. He also sealed his law power cultivation at late Mahayana stage completion.
Indeed, Dongfang Lei's primordial spirit realm was Mahayana peak, and he was very, very close to attaining an Immortal Venerable primordial spirit. As long as either his body or his law power broke through, his primordial spirit could reach that level.
Dongfang Lei was First Yuji's true disciple. Master and disciple were as close as father and son, and Dongfang Lei's character and personal charisma resembled First Yuji's.
Li Qingyuan did not wish to take advantage of him. He wanted a fair contest with this worthy opponent, who was also his friend.
Both cultivated the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation Technique and the Thunder Emperor Indestructible Scripture, along with various high-level lightning-attribute cultivation methods and divine abilities from the Myriad Heavens and Myriad Domains, as well as some strange, fragmentary thunder methods from High Antiquity.
In talent and attainment in thunder methods alone, they were almost evenly matched, with neither gaining the upper hand.
Their physical cultivation and thunder dao divine abilities were also at very similar levels.
At fifty thousand zhang, every step became a struggle, and they could hardly venture deeper. The surrounding thunderbolts had already reached the limit of what they could withstand; merely holding their ground took everything they had.
"Whew..."
Li Qingyuan and Dongfang Lei sat cross-legged