In the starry sky where the Big Dipper Burial Emperor Star lay, nine enormous dragon corpses pulled a Bronze Ancient Coffin from the other end of the stars and landed safely at this end.
Rumble!
The Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin stretched across the Sacred Mountain of the Desolate Forbidden Land. Everything looked natural, yet utterly unnatural.
The Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin had not appeared on the Five-Colored Altar within the Desolate Forbidden Land, but outside it instead.
There was reason to suspect that the Ruthless Empress had opened her eyes at this moment and was quietly observing that kid Ye Fan.
Jiang Ming was not omnipotent either. The time he had calculated was only approximate; he simply had no way of predicting exactly when the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin would arrive at the Emperor-Burial Star.
Just as he was anxiously preparing to head for the Northern Region of the Eastern Wasteland, it arrived. Ye Fan had officially reached the Big Dipper Burial Emperor Star and begun his cheat-powered life.
Lihuo Divine Furnace!
Lihuo Divine Furnace!
How had he not thought of the Lihuo Divine Furnace from the very beginning?
Thinking back on the plot, the Lihuo Divine Furnace had appeared near Purple Mountain and had now fallen into the hands of some lineage that Ye Fan would come knocking on in the future.
That lineage possessed Dao Palace Secret Realm cultivators and was a little more formidable than the six great grotto-heavens of Yan Kingdom.
However, the journey there was rather far.
Jiang Ming fell into hesitation once more.
The distance from the Southern Region of the Eastern Wasteland to its Northern Region was far more than a million li.
At a time like this, he would need to take the teleportation formations of those great sects, such as borrowing Taixuan Sect's teleportation formation.
Forget it!
He still could not leave.
The coming plot was too important.
He needed to exchange the Yaoguang Scripture with Ye Fan for the cultivation method of the Dao Scripture: Sea of Bitterness Chapter.
He also wanted to tag along with Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue to mooch off a little Root of the Mother Qi of All Things.
There was so much Root of the Mother Qi of All Things, yet Ye Fan and Ji Ziyue had barely obtained any of it.
As for karma with the Ruthless Empress, as the saying went, the more debts one had, the less they weighed on him. He had already been forced into an inextricable entanglement with the Ruthless Empress. Perhaps she would even become his future wife. What was wrong with taking a little of her Root of the Mother Qi of All Things?
What was wrong with living off a woman?
Who dared tell Jiang Ming what to do!?
"Ah, damn it! I had clearly found the location of the ancient tomb. Why has the feng shui energy suddenly changed again?"
A little over ten li away from Thunderfall Valley, where Jiang Ming cultivated, a nimble fat man in luxurious Daoist robes formed hand seals, stabilizing the feng shui, seeking Dragon Veins, and locating tomb sites.
Yet at the critical moment, the feng shui patterns and aura of the surrounding earth suddenly underwent enormous changes.
"It is the earth vein energy in that direction undergoing a mutation. Since it is close enough to here, it caused the feng shui and Dragon Veins here to change as well."
Very quickly, the dead fat man, whose vicious face was twisted with fury and who was practically smoking from every orifice, found the cause. His eyes glowed red as he looked in that direction.
"I would like to see who is ruining my good fortune."
After muttering to himself, the fat Daoist gave a sharp "whoosh," rode a black-and-white divine rainbow into the sky, and rushed in that direction.
Jiang Ming put away his Life-Bound Sword. The earth vein Magnetism contained within this land had been completely devoured by him. Thunderfall Valley would still attract lightning in the future, but it would no longer be as frequent as it was now.
As for whether the Lightning Birds here had any objections, the fact that he did not chop them down on sight already showed remarkable grace and restraint.
It was worth mentioning that Jiang Ming had now been maintaining his original appearance. The memories of his other two personalities no longer dared provoke him for the time being, afraid that he would drag them down with him.
As the saying went, the ruthless feared the reckless, the reckless feared the mad, and the mad feared those who did not fear death.
Therefore, Jiang Ming had gone mad.
Jiang Ming transformed into a Primordial Pangolin, his body enveloped in hazy golden light. In an instant, he entered the earth veins and emerged above ground.
Boom!
At the same time!
A bolt of heavenly lightning crashed down onto him, drowning the pangolin he had transformed into and making Jiang Ming stagger. Only then did he remember. Right, something had seemed to be missing from this breakthrough all along. It was lightning.
Transform!
Jiang Ming directly returned to human form. He had been struck by lightning constantly during his recent breakthroughs and had long since grown accustomed to it. To him, lightning was merely a reward for tempering his body and Life-Bound Sword.
Within Jiang Ming's Sea of Bitterness, a humanoid bolt of lightning waved its hand and tossed a crimson lightning serpent out of the Sea of Bitterness. It coiled around his body.
Jiang Ming once again experienced the sensation of becoming part of the lightning. The lightning above his head, originally only as thick as a millstone, had become as thick as a grinding stone when he broke through to mid-stage Foundation Establishment. When he reached Late Foundation Establishment, it had become roughly as thick as a double bed.
As for now, the lightning had become a round, two-meter-wide erotic bed.
Such thick lightning was like a silver pillar that reached from heaven to earth, engulfing his entire body.
He instinctively opened his mouth and inhaled. The power of lightning transformed into pure vital essence and entered his body, tempering his limbs, organs, and extraordinary meridians before finally entering the Sea of Bitterness, where it was directly seized by the humanoid lightning.
The embryonic Divine Form of the Scarlet Lightning Serpent coiled around Jiang Ming's body not only protected him, but also devoured the lightning's power, preventing it from dissipating into heaven and earth.
With a thought from Jiang Ming, his Life-Bound Sword flew out and hovered above his head, receiving the lightning's tempering alongside him.
"Zzzzz—"
Having refined the power of Magnetism, the Life-Bound Sword had gained the ability to absorb lightning and strengthen itself. Since it was a magical treasure, lightning of this intensity could not affect it.
"So it was this damned bald donkey. It is actually a Primordial Species pangolin demon. Then could this current appearance be its true body?"
The fat Daoist, who had hurried over with murderous intent, happened to witness this scene and immediately felt that he had figured everything out.
Of course, whether he had truly figured it out was known only to himself.
Ninety-nine bolts of lightning.
Once they were done, the job was done.
Jiang Ming had calculated it clearly.
When breaking through the Foundation Establishment Stage, there had been seventy-two Heavenly Thunder Tribulation bolts.
Now they increased by nine each time, reaching ninety-nine Heavenly Thunder Tribulation bolts.
Especially the final silver bolt, which had reached a diameter of three meters. It was terrifying beyond measure. Even an ordinary Dao Palace Realm cultivator at perfection would be directly reduced to ash.
Jiang Ming had actually noticed the dead fat man, Duan De, as well. Enemies really did meet on narrow roads. After they had parted last time, the dead fat man had set his sights on the pangolin Jiang Ming had transformed into. Their interaction had been extremely unpleasant, and they had nearly come to blows.
At the time, Jiang Ming had been too wary of the dead fat man's methods and cultivation, so he had avoided his edge and made a strategic retreat.
He had not expected to encounter this dead fat man again in the Primordial Ruins.
He truly was persistent. He had the air of someone who would not rest until he found the Demon Emperor's Tomb. He had been stubbornly staying here for over eight months now, hadn't he?
The instant Jiang Ming looked at the dead fat man, the other man saw him as well. Their eyes met. Dao rhythm circulated around Jiang Ming, and the Scarlet Lightning Serpent on his body opened its mouth and spat out a crimson bolt of lightning. The crimson lightning appeared in the sky and evolved into a blurry humanoid lightning figure. It stood within Chaos, surrounded by multicolored lightning that seemed to transform into an endless world of thunder, crushing down upon Duan De.
Lightning fell like rain, crackling as it evolved into Lightning Birds and blasted Duan De's body.
"Ah! You pangolin demon brat, how dare you attack your Daoist master? Do you know that your Daoist master has already formed an alliance with the Demon Race here?"
Duan De's hair was instantly electrocuted into a broom-like mess. He let out a strange cry, but he was not actually injured. He merely looked somewhat bedraggled.
"Oh, is that so? But I do not believe you. You grave-robbing thief who digs pits everywhere in the territory of our Eastern Wasteland Demon Race deserves to be struck by heaven and lightning."
Jiang Ming spoke with a smiling expression.
Things were different now. After entering Foundation Establishment perfection, he could summon a portion of his Divine Form's power for attacks.
He reckoned that once he broke through to the Golden Core Stage, he would be able to directly command his Divine Forms in battle.
Huh?
Something was wrong. Why had his Divine Forms become twelve?
When had three additional figures, so blurry they were almost impossible to see, appeared?