Somewhere in the skies of the Candle Spirit Thunder Domain.
A blinding mass of azure lightning sped westward at an unimaginable velocity.
Within the escaping light was a man in his thirties clad in azure armor.
His face had a bluish cast, his expression was cold and sinister, and his enormous hooked nose was especially conspicuous.
Faint azure scales could be seen along the edges of his face, making him appear particularly demonic.
He was Cang Liao, the Void-Rending Thunder Eagle, one of the overlords of the Candle Spirit Thunder Domain.
He was currently in his transformed form.
At this moment, towering fury blazed from his eyes.
Then, as if sensing something, he sneered. "Damned human cultivator, the Sha Lei Jin you took this time is far from what it was before. Once I catch you, I'll skin you and tear your bones apart!"
With that, the azure lightning around him flared as he prepared to accelerate.
But just then, his expression abruptly changed as he looked toward a certain spot to his right.
A bolt of lightning appeared there out of thin air. The air immediately twisted, and a crack slowly opened.
A figure flew out from within.
The man was tall and slender, dressed in a white robe, with an exceedingly handsome face and a mysterious spiritual rune pattern between his brows.
His expression was indifferent. Though his Spiritual Pressure was not apparent, a towering aura faintly radiated from him, making even Cang Liao, at the peak of the mid-stage transformation realm, tremble in fear.
This man was precisely the hidden presence from the underground palace.
If Ning Fa had been here, he would have been greatly shocked, for this man looked exactly like the Lei Hong he had just met.
The only differences were the spiritual rune