The Nine Heavens Thunder Venerable was about to speak when a sudden premonition stirred in his heart, and he made a calculation on his fingers.
Hum!
From this mighty Golden Immortal, the foremost Lightning Dao Cultivator in the Investiture of the Gods Great World, a thread of cause and effect emerged, its Power of Cause and Effect flying toward Dongfang Lei, who held the Nine Heavens Thunderbolt Battle Banner.
The thread of cause and effect was extremely faint, yet clearly discernible.
When a Golden Immortal Colossus divined heaven's secrets, threads of cause and effect would manifest on their own. The deeper the connection, the thicker and brighter the thread.
Yet although this thread was as fine as a hair, it bore an ancient gold hue-the color of cause and effect from High Antiquity, which none below Golden Immortal could glimpse.
"???" Dongfang Lei was utterly bewildered.
The Nine Heavens Thunder Venerable's expression changed. "This is... cause and effect from High Antiquity? How is that possible?"
Was it the bond between master and disciple? No, it did not quite seem so.
This seemed to be a connection of inheritance, the bond between ancestor and descendant, more ancient and far-reaching than that between master and disciple.
With a thunderous crash, a thunderclap shattered the void billions of miles away and flew toward them. It was a steel whip, covered in the Dao Rhyme of thunder, ceaselessly unleashing the might of heavenly thunder's punishment.
The steel whip tore through space, shattering the void into spiderwebs wherever it passed, while the Lightning Law submitted of its own accord.
This was not the pressure of an ordinary Law Treasure, but that of an Ancestral Artifact. The lingering might of the primordial Thunder Ancestor crossed billions of miles of space and time to manifest once more