No Predecessor

Shen Luo brought his hands together. A golden light flashed in his eyes, and his aura erupted.

Before the surrounding dragon-shaped lightning could close in, the six pairs of Golden Dragons and Golden Elephants charged out. Golden light linked them together like a wall, pushing outward in every direction.

The dragon-shaped lightning struck the golden wall with a string of earth-shaking booms. Countless golden sparks burst from the collisions, engulfing everything within a thousand zhang.

In the blink of an eye, the lightning swallowed Shen Luo and the Golden Dragons and Golden Elephants whole. They vanished from sight.

"He actually summoned a Thunder Pool to temper his body. It seems he truly is the one we've been waiting for..." The Golden Armored Heavenly General's voice rang out from the hall again. His once unruffled tone now brimmed with delight.

Amid the lightning filling the sky, dragon-shaped bolts kept darting from the clouds and crashing into that blazing region. Each explosion compressed the space within it further.

Inside the thunderous domain, the Six Dragons Six Elephants were forced steadily back. Lightning converged from all sides, squeezing Shen Luo at the center.

Straight ahead, a colossal lightning Golden Dragon over a hundred zhang long reared up. Its cavernous jaws opened, electric filaments crisscrossing within as thunder rumbled, and it lunged to bite him.

Shen Luo felt its immense pressure bearing down on him. Rather than fear it, he felt the stubborn refusal to lose that had lived in him since childhood flare up.

When Yin Fiend invaded my body, I searched far and wide!

When evil ghosts assailed me, I fought them to the death!

When my lifespan ran short, I did everything I could to make up the loss!

*The threat of death had never left me, but I had never