Before the lightning-element Origin Dao Pattern within the Acquired Spirit Treasure, the Lightning Bead, the layer of Thunderbolt Guardian covering the Thunderbolt Sacred Guards' bodies was no more than papier-mâché. As for their fleshly bodies and the Soul Artifacts gleaming with lightning on their bodies, before Ye Zhen's fists, whose strength rivaled a mid-grade Artifact, they were even flimsier than papier-mâché.
This was the true reason Ye Zhen could so easily slaughter the Thunderbolt Sacred Guards.
Even more mysteriously, whenever Ye Zhen slew a Thunderbolt Sacred Guard, the lightning runes densely covering its body and the streams of incomparably pure Lightning Power contained within it surged into the Lightning Bead like a raging flood.
After killing nine Thunderbolt Sacred Guards in succession, the Lightning Bead within Ye Zhen's spirit palace had received nine such torrents of power. Its aura was rapidly rising at an unprecedented speed.
In particular, every stream of incomparably pure Lightning Power from the Thunderbolt Sacred Guards contained countless hidden Dao Pattern forces.
These Dao Pattern forces were likely the reason the Thunderbolt Sacred Guards were so powerful. Moreover, Ye Zhen could clearly sense that these Dao Pattern forces did not belong to the Thunderbolt Sacred Guards themselves, which was why they remained hidden.
Yet for the Acquired Spirit Treasure, the Lightning Bead, they could be freely converted for its own use.
Ye Zhen made a comparison. The Lightning Power absorbed from one Thunderbolt Sacred Guard was equivalent to the Lightning Power contained in nearly a hundred Thunder Clams.
After killing just nine Thunderbolt Sacred Guards, the Lightning Bead's grade had swiftly been pushed to the peak of a high-grade Soul Artifact, only one step away from becoming an Artifact!
The deaths of the nine Thunderbolt Sacred Guards put the others on alert. More than thirty Thunderbolt