Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder

The great battle in Nine Regions City finally came to an end with Qing Yanjing killing Liu Jingshan and the many experts of Liu Territory.

News of the fierce battle then swept across the entire Northern Spiritual Realm at an astonishing speed.

As expected, the Northern Spiritual Realm was shaken.

Almost everyone who heard of this earth-shattering battle found it difficult to remain calm.

That was a Fusion Heaven Realm expert!

How many years had it been since the Northern Spiritual Realm had seen someone at that level?

Yet this expert had only just emerged into the world and was slain before he could display his might.

What was even more shocking was that the one who had acted was the wife of Mu Feng, lord of Mu Territory?

No one could imagine how such an outcome had come about, but the facts witnessed by countless people allowed no room for doubt.

Only shock remained in everyone's hearts: the wife of Mu Territory's lord was actually this formidable?

Amid that shock, the name of Mu Feng, lord of Mu Territory, resounded through every corner of the Northern Spiritual Realm.

Mu Territory's prestige also rose steadily, showing signs of becoming the number one force in the Northern Spiritual Realm.

As for Liu Territory, the collapse of its ambitious plan was a fatal blow. Mu Feng and the others erased it from the Northern Spiritual Realm.

In the original story, they had also intended to do so, but failed to carry it out.

For one thing, although Liu Jingshan had died, Liu Territory still retained considerable residual strength.

For another, some forces feared that Mu Territory would grow too powerful, worrying that joining forces to destroy Liu Territory would instead leave Mu Territory dominant.

In the end, because they could not reach a consensus, Liu Territory survived by sheer luck.

However, half of Liu Territory's original lands were divided among Mu Territory and the other forces, while the enormous compensation left Liu Territory utterly destitute.

But the situation now differed from the original story.

Qing Yanjing's deterrent power was far beyond that of Mu Chen in the original story, who had only barely managed to kill Liu Jingshan by borrowing the power of the Nine Nether Sparrow.

Moreover, Liu Territory's experts had already been wiped out, so it was naturally razed outright.

While the Northern Spiritual Realm was shaken by Liu Territory's destruction, Mu Chen began closed-door cultivation.

His father, Mu Feng, was attempting to break through to the Fusion Heaven Realm, while he himself was also striving for the Divine Soul Stage.

His mother had abolished the Great Pagoda Art, so he could only choose another cultivation technique and Spiritual Art.

Among Mu Territory's collection, aside from the Great Pagoda Art, the finest was the low-grade Spirit-level Flame Dragon Art.

Mu Feng had obtained it back when he acquired the Essence Soul of a Flame Dragon Eagle.

There were also two scrolls, the Heaven-Shaking Art and the Spirit-Gathering Mirror, both of which were likewise low-grade Spirit-level.

However, after cultivating the Great Pagoda Art, these low-grade Spirit-level cultivation techniques and Spiritual Arts seemed rather beneath his notice.

He first went to the Spiritual Art chamber of the Northern Spiritual Academy.

Then he thoroughly searched through the collection seized from Liu Territory, even asking the lords of the other territories to let him inspect their stores.

Yet none of them quite measured up.

Therefore, Mu Chen planned to first break through to the Divine Soul Stage, then find and refine the Essence Soul of a Heaven-Tier Spirit Beast.

He would use the beast soul to alter his own attributes, then, after entering one of the Five Great Academies, find a suitable cultivation technique and Spiritual Art.

As for whether he should go to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy?

The current Mu Chen had not experienced the agreement to travel together with Luo Li from the original story.

Therefore, his mother's suggestion that he not go to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy had little effect on him.

Although the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy was one of the Five Great Academies, it ranked last among them.

Though the Five Great Academies were all forces not to be underestimated, the Holy Spiritual Academy still stood first in their rankings.

It was said that in the competitions between the Five Great Academies in recent years, the Holy Spiritual Academy had always held the top spot alone.

And as the holder of a seed quota,

no matter which Spiritual Academy he entered, he should receive status and resources far beyond those of ordinary students.

After entering the Five Great Academies, neither Heaven-Tier Spirit Beast Essence Souls nor all kinds of cultivation techniques should pose much of a problem.

Meanwhile, Futu Yun had also found the beast soul he intended to refine.

Before him lay an extremely dark place.

Yet deep within that darkness, a peculiar light flickered in and out of view—it was a dim gray glow.

The gray light seemed empty, but Futu Yun sensed within it a heart-palpitating fluctuation.

Something was clearly hidden there! Yet his eyes could not see it.

However, with a wave of Mandala's hand, the space within that dim land suddenly twisted.

Futu Yun vaguely glimpsed a gigantic thousand-foot python coiled within it, its snake eyes cold and merciless as they stared at him.

The giant python slowly flicked its tongue, producing a strange sound like a lullaby sung by the god of death.

"Is this the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder?" Futu Yun licked his lips.

The Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder was one of the strangest types of lightning in the world.

Its power was unlike the fierce, violent force of ordinary lightning. Its method of attack was not direct thunderbolts, but thunderous sound.

It could ignore most defenses.

It arose from the heart and acted directly upon the deepest parts of one's mind.

The thunderous sound could fill one with distracting thoughts and stir up inner demons.

It could even render one unable to control one's own spiritual energy.

One might even die from a backlash of spiritual energy.

This method of attack was simply impossible to guard against.

Futu Yun's Divine Soul was an acquired mutated lightning-attribute Divine Soul forged with the Thunder God Lotus and a Thunder Spirit.

More importantly, he possessed the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Flame bestowed by the Flame Emperor.

He had fused those nine silver fire dragons into the Nine Divine Veins. Light and fire naturally complemented each other.

It was equivalent to using the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Flame as a guide, then using the Endless Light Body to temper the Nine Divine Veins anew.

After the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Flame lost its fire nature, the remaining thunder gang, carrying draconic might, was fused into Futu Yun's lightning-attribute Divine Soul.

Afterward, with Mandala's help, he arrived at this treasured land from the original story.

The Tianluo Continent was one of the ten super continents, and the Northern Heavens Continent was a corner of the Northern Domain of the Tianluo Continent.

Its situation resembled that of the Northern Spiritual Realm, though its overall strength far surpassed it.

Greatlaw Domain's position in the Northern Heavens Continent was equivalent to that of one of the Nine Regions in the Northern Spiritual Realm.

It was one of the Northern Heavens Continent's few top forces, but that did not mean no one dared provoke it.

Just as Mu Territory, one of the Nine Regions of the Northern Spiritual Realm, could encounter provocations from lesser forces,

the Hundred Battles Domain, entrenched northwest of Greatlaw Domain like a fierce tiger, likewise dared to provoke Greatlaw Domain.

The Hundred Battles Domain was not the name of a force, but the name of a region.

This region was renowned for its chaos throughout the Northern Heavens Continent, with dragons and snakes mixed together and countless forces of every size gathered there.

Though its overall strength fell short of a top force such as Greatlaw Domain, it could still be considered first-rate.

Especially when these forces joined hands, even Greatlaw Domain would be wary.

But all of that was premised on Mandala not taking action—and on the Earthly Sovereign Mandala not taking action.

The current Mandala was already a Heavenly Sovereign.

Though she had joined the Pagoda Ancient Clan and become Futu Yun's personal guard, that did not hinder her from making moves against the Hundred Battles Domain.

However, the most urgent matter was finding the Thunder Demon Sect within the Hundred Battles Domain.

The Thunder Demon Sect was quite renowned within the Hundred Battles Domain, but in Mandala's eyes, it was merely a joke.

Yet the Thunder Demon Sect possessed a Thunder Demon Abyss.

It was said that the bottom of the abyss gathered a type of gang thunder from deep beneath the earth, known as Earth Demon Thunder.

And where Earth Demon Thunder gathered, an even stronger Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder might be born.

Having read the original story, Futu Yun knew that this place not only contained Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder.

It had even taken the form of a snake.

Though it was not a true snake,

a snake would ultimately be restrained by a dragon.

His lightning-attribute Divine Soul and the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder both possessed lightning attributes.

The thunder gang from the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Flame could render him immune to the thunderous sound of the Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder.

The draconic might within it could further suppress the snake-formed Netherworld Heart Demon Thunder.

Even though this thing was feared by even Sovereigns, Futu Yun was still confident that he could refine it.