At sea.
Deep violet lightning flashed across the heavens, coiling like a dragon and illuminating the vast sky. A mighty peal of thunder followed, crashing and grinding in a resounding chorus that shook a hundred miles.
Ink-black clouds gathered and churned. Suddenly, a golden talisman rose within them, bright as the sun, casting forth blossoms of solar flame that made the lightning flashing through the sky burn all the fiercer.
Wind and clouds surged, and his purple robes snapped in the air. Xu Xuan descended from the clouds and stepped onto the sea. In an instant, the waves stilled, the heavens opened, and the clouds dispersed, restoring clear skies to the thousand miles surrounding Heaven Pool.
Greater Yang endured; Thunderbolt lasted but an instant.
Cultivating a divine ability began with forming its mysterious elephant. According to the Radiant Light Cave of Illumination Mysterious Scripture, once this divine ability was mastered, the inner scenery would contain boundless thunderlight and myriad bolts of lightning, taking the form of soaring dragons and serpents coiled across the heavens. It was a divine ability that required profound foundations.
Xu Xuan was now progressing swiftly. His inner scenery was already filled with layer upon layer of thunderlight, flashing past one after another and casting its world alternately into light and darkness.
"Within ten years, I can attempt to break through and master this divine ability."
If a Human Race Purple Mansion cultivator were to learn this divine ability as their fourth, taking fifty or sixty years would have been perfectly normal.
After all, the further one progressed, the more complex and substantial the world of the inner scenery became, and the harder it was to cultivate a mysterious elephant. Even the final step of condensing the divine ability could very well fail. Once it did, the