Not long after Xiao Yan entered the Void Lightning Pool, the lightning gathered nearby surged toward him. Yet just as it was about to reach his body, it abruptly stopped, then swiftly veered aside. Xiao Yan was briefly taken aback, but soon understood: the lightning must have feared the Heavenly Flames within him.
Xiao Yan felt somewhat helpless at the sight. The Demonic Lotus Illusion Heart Flame, formed by merging over a dozen Heavenly Flames within him, was powerful enough to rival the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. It was only natural for the lightning to fear it. Still, he had never expected it to do much for him. With his current strength, even devouring all the surrounding lightning would barely improve his cultivation.
Thus, after tossing the ten Earth Demon Puppets he had obtained from the ruins into the outer reaches of the Void Lightning Pool to temper them, Xiao Yan continued deeper inside. Within a few minutes, he reached its depths. A sea of black lightning now surrounded him, filled with destructive fluctuations.
"Black Demon Lightning..." A trace of surprise appeared in Xiao Yan's eyes as he surveyed the black lightning around him. This peculiar lightning only appeared when a Ninth-grade Pill was refined. Yet there were not merely a few bolts here, but vast swaths of them. Even if every ninth-grade Alchemist on the Dou Qi Continent were dragged here and made to refine pills until they dropped dead, they probably could not summon this much Black Demon Lightning-not even half of it.
"Phew... this will do." Xiao Yan drew a deep breath, planted the Xuan Heavy Ruler and the Fake Dragon Slaying Sword from his back into the ground, then sat cross-legged. An enormous black dragon flew out of his body and transformed into a massive Black