Dark clouds blanketed the sky, while bursts of Purple Lightning scattered the dust and clamor.
Beneath that sky, an enormous Tower-Ship Flying Boat suddenly plunged from above the clouds and burst through them with unstoppable force.
Bolts of lightning struck it along the way, but the Formation surrounding the ship blocked them all.
"The thunderstorm caused by two Third-Order Demon Beasts fighting is this fierce? If Uncle-Master Liexiao hadn't stepped in, I'd have worried we might die here."
Once they had escaped the Tribulation Clouds, Liu Yuan let out a breath. He went over to Ji Yuan in the corner, sat down beside him, and sighed.
"Indeed. Good thing Uncle-Master Liexiao was here."
Ji Yuan gazed at the man standing at the bow, his wide sleeves billowing and the hem of his robe snapping in the wind, and spoke from the heart.
He had heard that cultivators who practiced lightning arts were formidable, but he had never imagined they were this formidable.
The thunderstorm behind them had been created by several Third-Order Rift-Splitting Thunder Falcons fighting. Earlier, when the Water Dragon Sect's Tower-Ship Flying Boat had passed through the Thunderstorm Zone,
a Rift-Splitting Thunder Falcon at the Late Third Tier had spotted it and moved in for the kill.
But Liexiao True Person, who was at the Middle Golden Core, had driven it back single-handedly with a Thunder Seal. Only then had the Tower-Ship Flying Boat made it through the thunderstorm with a fright but no harm done.
Otherwise, a detour would have cost them at least another two weeks.
Seeing Liu Yuan sit down, Li Changhe came over as well. "There's something you two probably don't know."
"What?"
"What is it?"
Ji Yuan and Liu Yuan both looked up at him.
"Since the Orthodox-Demonic War began, Demon Beasts across