"Roar!!"
The Wind Baboon struggled on the ground several times but still couldn't get up. All it could do was let out a pained roar.
Clearly, Yu Tianchen's slap had just dealt it a serious injury.
Seeing that his opponent couldn't even stand, Yu Tianchen didn't linger. He continued deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.
Soul Beasts were highly hostile toward humans.
Yu Tianchen had only covered half the distance through the outskirts when he encountered more than a dozen Soul Beasts, each around a hundred years old, trying to attack him.
The farther in he went, the older the Soul Beasts became.
He had barely passed the halfway point of the outskirts when he encountered several thousand-year-old Soul Beasts.
Fortunately, he had experience fighting Soul Beasts in the Sunset Forest.
The Soul Beasts in the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest were basically no threat to Yu Tianchen now.
By the time afternoon came,
Yu Tianchen had finally reached his destination.
Thunder Pattern Cliff.
This was where Yu Yuanzhen had brought him when he obtained his first Soul Ring.
When Yu Tianchen decided to come to the Star Dou Great Forest, he had already picked out a place where he could live in the future.
As for its location, Thunder Pattern Cliff sat at the border where the Mixed Zone met the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
There was no shortage of either high-level thousand-year Soul Beasts or low-age ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts here.
Moreover, Thunder Pattern Cliff was a natural training ground, perfectly suited for cultivating his Great Sun Thunder Body and Five Thunder Shock Drums.
If this place had any flaw,
it was that it was too perfect.
"Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions, I'm here, damn it!"
Standing at the entrance to Thunder Pattern Cliff, Yu Tianchen raised both arms and gazed toward the cliffs, his eyes brimming with indescribable excitement.
"Roar!!"
The hundred-year-old Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions prowling the outskirts had spotted Yu Tianchen. They roared one after another, the purple thunder patterns on their bodies lighting up as they charged toward him.
"Just what I was hoping for!"
A fierce grin tugged at Yu Tianchen's lips. He clapped his hands, and the Five Thunder Shock Drums appeared behind him. Three Soul Rings—purple, purple, and black—shimmered beneath his feet.
"First Soul Skill, Azure Thunder Tyrant Body!"
"Second Soul Skill, Mysterious Underworld Thunder Armor!"
Two thousand-year purple Soul Rings lit up at once.
Faint thunder patterns surfaced on Yu Tianchen's body.
At the same time, armor woven from purple-red and black-blue lightning clad him.
It seemed that after gaining Extreme Yin Lightning and Extreme Yang Lightning, the way his Soul Skills manifested had changed too...
After taking a brief look at the armor's starkly different colors, Yu Tianchen beckoned with both hands. Two lightning swords, one containing Extreme Yin Lightning and the other Extreme Yang Lightning, took shape in his grasp.
"Let's see how this move I came up with on the way works!"
Yu Tianchen pressed the two sword hilts together and drove the lightning to spin them at high speed.
The Five Thunder Shock Drums hummed repeatedly as lightning gradually shrouded their surface.
The two forces of lightning, Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang, each carrying an extreme power, began gathering on the rapidly spinning double-ended sword.
The violent aura made the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions, which had been charging at Yu Tianchen, stop in their tracks.
Fear instantly showed in their beastly eyes.
Several of the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions even collapsed to the ground. Their legs trembled, and they whimpered and wailed without pause.
But it was already too late for them to be afraid.
Yu Tianchen planted one foot and soared into the air.
"Go!"
He flung the double-ended sword, charged with two kinds of extreme lightning and spinning at high speed, straight toward the ground.
Rumble!!
The instant it hit the ground,
Extreme Yin and Extreme Yang Lightning exploded.
The two extreme forces, amplified by lightning's fearsome destructive power, tore the charging Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions to shreds and left a massive, deep crater in the ground.
"Hmm... the power looks pretty good?"
Yu Tianchen landed and admired the mark he had made.
He could probably use Extreme Yin Lightning and Extreme Yang Lightning to create something like Buddha Fury Fire Lotus—a Buddha Fury Thunder Lotus.
It ought to work pretty well.
He looked up at the surrounding area.
All the hundred-year-old Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions nearby had been startled by his attack.
But whether his attack had cowed them or something else, the Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions now only encircled him from a distance. None seemed inclined to charge.
Closer to Thunder Pattern Cliff, Yu Tianchen also spotted several thousand-year-old Azure Thunder Purple-Patterned Lions watching him warily.
"Forget it. Killing low-age Soul Beasts like you would only waste my Soul Power."
"I'll go find some ten-thousand-year ones to play with!"
Yu Tianchen didn't want to waste too much time in the outskirts of Thunder Pattern Cliff. He activated his Great Sun Thunder Body and charged into the depths.
Just as Yu Tianchen began his challenge at Thunder Pattern Cliff,
not far away,
deep in the Mixed Zone,
a massive ape stood like a mountain.
Before the giant ape stood a pretty, adorable little girl, gazing sadly into the forest before her.
"Mom..."
The girl murmured softly. As if something painful had come to mind, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes.
"Sister Xiao Wu..."
Behind her, the giant ape's voice rumbled like muffled thunder.
"I'm fine, Er Ming."
Xiao Wu wiped away her tears, her eyes filled with resolve.
"In two years, I'll be able to enter the human world and cultivate."
"Then I'll be able to avenge Mom!"
"But the human world is dangerous!"
At the mention of this, Er Ming's voice grew anxious.
"But I have to go to the human world to cultivate, don't I?"
Xiao Wu looked at the giant ape, her expression unwavering.
"Don't worry, Er Ming. I'll protect myself."
"Come on, we should head back."
As she spoke, she lightly pushed off with her toes and nimbly landed on Er Ming's shoulder.
Just then, a faint rumble came from far away, catching Er Ming and Xiao Wu's attention.
"Hm?"
Xiao Wu looked toward the purple-red and black-blue lightning glowing in the distance, curiosity in her eyes.
"Is that what lightning looks like?"
"That direction... Thunder Pattern Cliff."
Er Ming's voice remained deep and rumbling, but now held a trace of confusion.
"Hasn't Thunder Pattern Cliff ever had lightning like that before?"
"Could something be there?"
"Er Ming, how about we go take a look?"
Xiao Wu thought for a moment, then patted the giant ape's shoulder.
"I feel like those two kinds of lightning are unusual. They don't seem like ordinary lightning."
"All right."
The Titan Giant Ape nodded, then headed toward Thunder Pattern Cliff.
The Mixed Zone's center was still some distance from the edge where Thunder Pattern Cliff lay.
But for the Titan Giant Ape's enormous body, it wouldn't take long to cross that distance.
Before long, they reached the edge of Thunder Pattern Cliff.
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