Purple-red vines crisscrossed deep within White Ground. Patterns unique to lightning ran across their surfaces, while faint purple lightning shone through them.
When Tie Li's martial soul underwent its first evolution, a strand of purple lightning released by the Thundering Nether Prison Vine had played a crucial role.
"Boom!"
The Thunder God Hammer martial soul appeared before Tie Li of its own accord, resonating with the Thundering Nether Prison Vine. The two carried an aura of the same origin.
This was also Tie Li's first time sensing the Thundering Nether Prison Vine's aura from up close. Possessing the ultimate lightning attribute and born from the Thunder God's bloodline, it was a super soul beast and the foremost destroyer among plant-type soul beasts.
Even though Tie Li had mastered the ultimate attribute, he could still feel stinging pain as he approached it.
The Thundering Nether Prison Vine paused when it sensed Tie Li's presence. Its violent lightning power halted as it detected a unique aura.
It had been born from the Thunder God's bloodline, and that aura felt familiar to it.
Tie Li had undergone a special trial. This so-called aura had been born during that trial, yet even Tie Li himself had not noticed it.
However, the Thundering Nether Prison Vine could easily sense the emergence of that aura.
The content of the Thunder God's Ninth Trial was to absorb the Thundering Nether Prison Vine as his tenth soul ring.
Do not underestimate it merely because it was only a ten-thousand-year soul beast. With the Thunder God's bloodline, only by absorbing this soul ring could he complete the Thunder God's power within his body and restore the incomplete divine position left behind by the Thunder God's fall.
Tie Li was neither creating his own divine position nor receiving an orthodox