An eerie scene unfolded—
No matter how terrifying the lightning's power was, it could not inflict the slightest damage on it.
Instead, that incomparably violent lightning energy was rapidly and continuously strengthening the sinews, flesh, and armor within its body.
From afar, Lei Chenzi looked like a thunder god descending upon the world, hovering in midair.
Within a hundred-meter radius around it, lightning flashed and intertwined, arcs of electricity danced, and terrifying pressure piled upon itself, making people instinctively feel awed.
After enduring half an hour of Pill Lightning, Lei Chenzi's aura had surged severalfold compared to before, and its strength had reached the Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong level.
The energy fluctuations within the clouds gradually calmed, while the Five-Colored thunderclouds ravaging the sky slowly dispersed after the Pill Lightning was exhausted.
Lightning still coiled around Lei Chenzi's body, and several profound thunder patterns had appeared on its icy-blue armor. Its aura was steady and deep as an abyss; it had firmly reached the Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong realm and was only one step away from entering the ranks of Dou Zun.
It stood in the air as the remaining lightning around it slowly receded. Then, with a flicker, it respectfully landed beside Xiao Yao, concealing its aura and losing none of its earlier world-destroying ferocity.
Xiao Yao watched the scene, the corners of his lips rising slightly as satisfaction flashed through his eyes. When the chance arose, he had to let it reach the Dou Saint level.
The next moment, everyone's gaze turned in unison toward the gradually fading crimson pillar of light at the center of the back mountain.
Within the pillar floated a blood-red pill covered in Five-Colored pill patterns. Its medicinal fragrance was pure and boundless; merely a trace of it drifting out made the Dou