The Thunder Spirit Leopard had hidden in a grove of golden jade bamboo. To everyone's delight, they discovered eleven stalks of golden thunder bamboo within the grove.
Golden thunder bamboo was actually a variant of golden jade bamboo, which evolved after being struck by lightning over many years. Young golden thunder bamboo was not particularly precious; what truly held value was golden thunder bamboo over a thousand years old.
Golden thunder bamboo over a thousand years old would nurture a trace of golden divine thunder. The Golden Thunder Sword, a thunder-attribute magical treasure refined with it as the primary material, possessed tremendous destructive power.
Although there were few stalks of golden thunder bamboo here, and even the oldest was only fifty years old, the discovery still made everyone quite happy.
Huang Tianjie and his two companions planned to offer the golden thunder bamboo to their sect in exchange for a handsome sum of contribution points.
Liu Changxu and his father, Liu Shihao, intended to transplant the golden thunder bamboo into their own lineage's grounds, preserving it as part of the lineage's accumulated resources. Neither of them would be able to use it themselves; after all, it would take at least another thousand years before it could be used to refine a Golden Thunder Sword.
When the Thunder Spirit Leopard saw a group of cultivators with powerful auras approaching, it hurriedly fled into the mountains.
Liu Changxu raised his right palm and waved it lightly toward the fleeing Thunder Spirit Leopard. A phantom palm several zhang across slammed the beast into the ground a hundred zhang away, leaving an enormous palm print in the earth. The Thunder Spirit Leopard let out a single mournful cry before breathing its last!
His immense physical strength allowed the Sky-Splitting Palm, an ordinary yellow-rank spell,