That night, when the darkness had thoroughly soaked the mountains and forests like thick ink, Su Fan had already slipped back into the Portable Secret Realm.
The bluestone beside the pool still held the warmth left behind by his meditation during the day. He sat down cross-legged, lightly tapping his knee with a fingertip, while his gaze remained firmly fixed on the Lightning Seal in his palm.
The pale violet glow flowing through the seal was proof that he had mastered the "Taixiao Dao-Transforming Chaos Divine Lightning."
Yet what occupied his thoughts was another, even more mysterious ancient lightning technique: the "Taiyi Soul-Swaying Extremity-Born Heaven-Rending Tribulation Lightning."
To uncover the secrets of this lightning technique, Su Fan first took out the tattered ancient scroll recording it from his Storage Bag.
On the yellowed, brittle silk, only a few words had been carved in ancient seal script: "Taiyi Lightning draws upon the Essence of Nine Heavens Yang Energy, tempers the soul, destroys evil, births the extreme and annihilates it; its tribulation power is peerless."
Those scant twenty-odd words nevertheless made Su Fan's brows slowly knit together.
The six words "Essence of Nine Heavens Yang Energy" happened to be utterly opposed to the Evil Spirit Qi currently fused within his body.
"First, I'll try drawing on basic lightning power..."
Suppressing his doubts, Su Fan followed the method recorded in the ancient text and slowly circulated the magical power within him.
He deliberately avoided the Evil Spirit Qi, mobilizing only pure Heaven and Earth Lightning, attempting to condense the embryonic form of "Taiyi Lightning" in his palm.
But as soon as his magical power surged along his meridians toward his fingertips, it abruptly stopped as though it had struck a copper wall or iron barrier. Not only did not a single arc of