Xiao Hua naturally hurried to open his eyes, looked around at the situation, then swept out with his divine sense—and froze in midair!
For the rain-like bolts of lightning that had fallen earlier were now gone without a trace; the endless thunderous roars could no longer be heard in the slightest. The Thunder Peak before him, wreathed in lightning, now resembled an ordinary mountain, standing silently there. Even the abyss that had previously been scoured by Thunder Water was now filled only with darkness, without so much as a glimmering streak of lightning!
"What... what in the world is going on???" Xiao Hua scratched his head in utter bewilderment. "This Xiao... this Xiao seemed not to have done anything at all!!! How did all the heavenly lightning here vanish? Without heavenly lightning, is Myriad Thunder Valley still Myriad Thunder Valley?"
Immediately afterward, as if unable to believe it, Xiao Hua tunneled into Thunder Peak and flew straight down into the deepest part of the abyss. Yet no matter where he went, there was not a single trace of lightning! It was as though Myriad Thunder Valley... had never possessed surging torrents of lightning in the first place!
Xiao Hua was dumbfounded. He reached up to scratch the back of his head, but then his eyes suddenly lit up and he blurted out, "Damn it, could it be..."
In an instant, Xiao Hua sank his mind into his space. The moment his mind entered, his heart turned ice-cold.
Sure enough, lightning blazed throughout the space and thunder rang out in all directions. Beside Suo Guang, a strange object shaped like an inkstone was circling it. On the side of the inkstone were two large golden characters resembling tadpoles. One character was whole, while the other was clearly only half intact. The