Boom!
A thunderous explosion rang out, lightning flaring in every direction!
A bolt of lightning more than eighty zhang thick struck the Soul Puppet that had been cautiously scouting ahead with such speed it gave no time to cover one's ears, reducing it to not even scraps!
Immediately after!
Outside Thunder Abyss, Cheng Buzheng, hidden within a fold of space, did not hesitate. He took out another Soul Puppet and sent it forth.
To him, such low-grade Soul Puppets were consumables to begin with.
Therefore, he did not care much about them. As long as their deaths had value, that was enough.
Very soon.
The Soul Puppet that once again appeared outside Thunder Abyss followed the previous steps and entered Thunder Abyss.
Afterward.
This Soul Puppet raced along that familiar narrow path.
Likewise.
It would often stop in its tracks, as if waiting for something.
After stopping and starting all the way, spending quite some time, it arrived at the stretch where the previous Soul Puppet had been blasted to pieces.
Then.
It glanced at the crystallized ground ahead before carefully crossing over it.
Its luck was not bad this time. It did not encounter lightning descending from thin air.
After crossing that stretch of path, Cheng Buzheng controlled the Soul Puppet with even greater caution.
That was because not far ahead
lay the deepest reaches of Thunder Abyss's outer layer!
It was also about to approach Thunder Abyss's middle layer.
The clearest sign was the rolling lightning descending through the distant void.
At a glance, it seemed no different from this place—both were oceans of lightning.
Yet the lightning pouring down in the void ahead was far thicker than that in this region, each bolt fully a hundred zhang wide.
Naturally, the lightning's power was even more terrifying.
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