Bai Xiaowen hurriedly pulled his summoned creatures back, but the Death Knight and Terror Knights closest to the center weren't so lucky. Lightning struck them head-on.
Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, and Han Xu also retreated at top speed.
Ji Xiaolou, the beautiful assassin Li Shuyi had hounded so relentlessly that she had nowhere left to run, finally caught her breath. With seven or eight wounds of varying severity, she ducked behind Tang Fan and bandaged herself to stop the bleeding.
For all the spectacle of Thundercloud Storm, it had achieved little.
Qiao Rui activated Drifting Ice from her Dark Gold Tier boots. She kept playing her bamboo flute as she moved, piling more stacks of weakness onto the Yangji Team. Several bolts struck her, but with every breathing cycle, the Jade Tempering Formula's true qi circulated automatically to reduce the damage. She was almost unscathed.
Han Xu had already been some distance from the center of Thundercloud Storm. When the lightning came down, his body reacted faster than his mind, carrying him straight out of the storm.
As for Li Shuyi, her agility exceeded a hundred even before any boosts. She had no trouble escaping.
Only the Death Knight and three Terror Knights were badly hurt. Even Butcher and Rageclaw had escaped the storm with minor injuries.
Most of the lightning had struck empty ground.
"Why use his Thundercloud Storm Awakening Skill so soon when it did so little damage? What is Tang Fan thinking?" Qiao Rui asked in the Team Channel.
Before Bai Xiaowen could answer, Tang Fan raised both hands.
Spheres of lightning rose from every patch of ground the storm had struck. They gathered across an area spanning dozens of meters around Tang Fan, then began circling him at a steady speed like satellites.
Thundercloud Storm's second-stage