A Secret Deal

On another battlefield.

The star-studded heavenly vault had already been shrouded by an endless black cloud.

Within those pitch-black clouds, white light flashed from time to time, accompanied by peals of thunder. The spectacle was immense, like some mythic war from ancient times that belonged to the heavens.

The black cloud pressed lower and lower, and the atmosphere grew increasingly oppressive. At this moment, the several million living beings across Penglai Island trembled in fear. The clouds had even formed a massive vortex, hanging upside down over the land in all directions.

The vast spiritual qi of the surroundings and the Sun and Moon Essence from above the heavenly vault surged madly into the thunderclouds like layer upon layer of rushing waves.

As this continued, the blue sea of lightning not only failed to expand, but steadily shrank, until it finally became a thundercloud barely a hundred miles wide.

Yet its color changed from the purest blue into five colors in succession—gold, azure, blue, red, and yellow—transforming from ordinary spirit lightning into terrifying Five Elements Divine Thunder.

Then, endless lightning descended from the Ninth Heaven, as though tens of thousands of pillars of light had suddenly fallen between heaven and earth, dyeing this place into a grand and magnificent Sacred Hall.

Amid the boundless lightning stood a weathered youth within the sea of thunder. A Thunder Mark showed between his brows, and his entire body radiated terrifying pressure.

In his hand, he held a seal the size of his palm, seemingly forged from the finest jade.

Cloud Seal Heavenly Script was engraved upon it, resonating with the Worldly Laws. Countless arcs of Lightning Radiance coiled around it, while rolling thunder resounded for a thousand miles.

He was the head of Divine Firmament Gang Law Dao, one of the Nine Great