As he spoke, Xiao Hua raised a hand and pointed at the heavens again. Amid a tremendous boom, the Annihilation Thunder Bead fell from within the lightning. As it descended, the thunder filling the sky gradually dissipated, revealing the blazing sun hanging above everyone's heads!
Xiao Hua released his divine sense to inspect it for a moment, then swept his right hand. A massive hand of lightning manifested, streaked across the sky, and landed squarely upon the Annihilation Thunder Bead!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Lightning flared over the Annihilation Thunder Bead, winding like horned dragons in flight as it attempted to resist Xiao Hua's lightning hand.
"Fall!" Xiao Hua barked. The giant hand clenched the Annihilation Thunder Bead and dropped it into the Lei Mo Mountain Range. Boom! Boom! Boom! As the bead descended, the entire Lei Mo Mountain Range shook. Layer upon layer of lightning then erupted, and the Thunder Control Sect's mountain-protecting grand formation formed anew, several times more powerful than before. Within the lightning, the mountains shook and the earth trembled.
"Senior Xie, Senior Xie..." Fairy Xuanhua was beside herself with joy. As she called out, tears even streamed from her eyes.
"Fine. Since all of you have bowed before me, this Xiao cannot leave empty-handed!" Xiao Hua looked over the crowd, especially at True Person Leixiao's snow-white hair, and sighed inwardly. As he spoke, he took out another storage pouch and handed it to Fairy Xuanhua. "This is a gift from this Xiao to the Thunder Control Sect, repayment for the Thunder Control Sect's nurturing of this Xiao in those years!"
"This is..." Fairy Xuanhua did not understand. When she opened the storage pouch and saw the many jade slips inside, she could not help frowning.
However, once she took out one jade slip and examined it,