Destruction and rebirth!

Pain.

Pain etched into his bones and seared into his heart.

Chaos lightning cut through Li Qingshan's skin like countless razor-sharp blades, tearing his flesh, invading his meridians, and reaching deep into his marrow.

It was not a burning pain on the surface, but destruction from the inside out.

The laws of destruction within the chaos lightning rampaged through his flesh, turning every inch of muscle, every bone, and every meridian upside down.

Li Qingshan's body was already riddled with wounds. Most of his azure-gold dragon scales had shattered, exposing the lightning-charred flesh beneath.

Blood mingled with electric arcs dripped steadily from his body, gathering into a crimson puddle at his feet.

For an ordinary Golden Immortal, the very first bolt would probably have been enough to blast them to dust.

But Li Qingshan was no ordinary Golden Immortal.

Two hundred and eighty thousand strands of immortal golden essence circulated furiously within him. Whenever the chaos lightning tore his body apart, his immortal golden essence released a vast surge of life essence, repairing and reforming the shattered flesh.

Destruction... recovery... destruction... recovery...

The cycle repeated endlessly.

Li Qingshan felt like a lump of stubborn iron on an anvil, hammered again and again. Every blow brought unbearable agony, but every blow also made him tougher.

Amid this alternation of destruction and rebirth, Li Qingshan suddenly noticed a subtle change.

His understanding of the laws of chaos was advancing at astonishing speed.

Although the chaos lightning invading his flesh tore his body apart, it also carved imprints of the laws of lightning into every inch of his flesh.

As his immortal golden essence repaired his body, it absorbed those imprints of the laws of lightning and incorporated them into itself.

Every strand of immortal golden essence radiated dense chaos light, and faint