The Seal Falls upon the Azure Firmament

At Accumulated Thunder Mountain, the life plaque Little Peng King had left behind suddenly cracked with fissures. Though it had not completely shattered, its radiance had dimmed to the extreme. At that very moment, wind and thunder erupted, and a dormant consciousness abruptly awakened.

"Something happened to Lei Qing?"

His gaze fell upon the life plaque on the verge of breaking, and the Wind-Thunder Demon Emperor's expression turned razor-sharp.

Unlike himself, who possessed only half of the Azure Luan bloodline, Lei Qing carried the purest Thunder Peng bloodline. With the Thunder Roc Clan's bloodline now withering away, he represented both the clan's orthodox lineage and its future. If something happened to him, the Thunder Roc Clan would truly have no hope of revival. "How could this be? In a place like the Western Region, with the Ancient Thunder Seal, a supreme Dao artifact, in hand, who could force Lei Qing into such a state? Could that old bastard Xuan Qiong have acted? But even he should not be able to do it."

"Unless he was willing to abandon Impermanence Sect's incomplete grotto-heaven and send his true body into the Western Region. Aside from Xuan Qiong, the other True Lords of the Impermanence Sect should be unable to do anything to Lei Qing."

In the span of a thought, countless thoughts whirled through the Wind-Thunder Demon Emperor's mind.

The main reason he had agreed to Lei Qing's plan before was because he believed Lei Qing now possessed sufficient power to protect himself. So long as he did nothing foolish, in a place like the Western Region, he was virtually invincible; the role he could play might even surpass that of the Wind-Thunder Demon Emperor himself, who was at the middle stage of Heavenly Phenomenon. Not to mention that, to cooperate with