Long before they reached the Kunwu Continent,
Ji Yuan had heard Xu Youxia say that their eldest senior sister's cultivation grounds were at the Thunder Pool.
So even on the way from Jade Parasol City, he had kept wondering what kind of place the Thunder Pool was.
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Was it really a vast pool where heavenly thunder rolled without end?
Only now, seeing it with his own eyes, did he learn the truth.
The Thunder Pool was no pool. It was a lake, without a trace of heavenly thunder.
Ji Yuan hovered a hundred yards above the ground beyond the lake.
The breeze against his face carried the crisp scent of lake water, nothing like the lightning-ravaged hellscape he had imagined.
Below him, the lake lay smooth as a mirror, reflecting wisps of cloud drifting across the sky.
An island rested peacefully at its center. Greenery spread from its shores to the gentle slope in the middle, where several upturned eaves peeked through the treetops.
Mountain ranges stretched across the distant horizon. Their peaks above the snowline gleamed silver-white in the sunlight, encircling the entire lake.
No wind stirred the water. Now and then, a bird skimmed the surface, the tip of its wing raising a fine ring of ripples that vanished almost at once.
Ji Yuan stared for a long while before he could reconcile the scene with the words "Thunder Pool."
Beside him, Xu Youxia could not help laughing. "Junior brother, not quite the Thunder Pool you imagined?"
Ji Yuan nodded. "I expected rolling thunder and a thousand miles of scorched earth. How come there isn't even a spark of lightning?"
Shen Xisheng laughed.
Perhaps because she was back on her own ground, the fierce presence that usually made people afraid to approach her had softened