Chapter Summaries

Kan Xu returned to the Thunder Control Sect with ten disciples and learned that the Hundred Halls Competition was nearing its final stage. He discovered the eight Thunder Competition Grounds and heard how they had been formed, while Kan Bo encouraged Zhou Hong and gave him a Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Kan Xu presented his token at the sect gate, where a patrolling disciple explained that the Hundred Halls Competition would determine which halls and branches remained.
• Kan Xu dismissed the competition as a distraction, then returned to the sect with his disciples aboard the flying boat.
• Kan Xu and his disciples saw eight vast lightning formations above the Lei Mo Mountain Range, each holding battles for the competition.
• Kan Bo greeted Kan Xu, comforted Zhou Hong over missing his chance to establish his foundation, and gave him his last Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Kan Bo explained that the Thunder Competition Ground was one formation space divided into eight parts by the masters of the Eight Great Thunder Palaces.

During the Hundred Halls Competition, Myriad Thunder Valley’s disciples fought to avoid being cleared out, and Xi Tuo’s draw against Zhen Gan secured their standing. The chapter ended with Zhuo reassured that Myriad Thunder Valley was safe because of both its results and Ganlei Zi’s Sect Leader Token.

• Kan Bo told Kan Xu that Fen Yu Mountain’s poor results could lead to its removal and directed him to the competition ground.
• At Zhen Thunder Palace’s Thunder Competition Ground, Xi Tuo and Zhen Gan nearly killed each other before a lightning strike forced their match to end in a draw.
• Zhen Quan treated the injured Xi Tuo, who told Zhuo that Myriad Thunder Valley would not be cleared out.
• Dui Qimeng gave Zhen Quan pills to help repair Xi Tuo’s damaged Dao Foundation, while Yan Qinglian also offered medicine.
• Yan Qinglian told Zhuo that Myriad Thunder Valley had placed in the upper-middle range and was protected by Ganlei Zi’s Sect Leader Token.

Xiangyang reflected on Myriad Thunder Valley’s decline after Wunai and Xue Xue vanished, and on how the surviving disciples had endured hardship and performed well in the Hundred Halls Competition. The chapter then recounted how Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying rose to prominence as the Myriad Thunder Valley Three Heroes, leaving their story at the height of their early reputation.

• Wunai returned from Great Thunder Hall with Ganlei Zi’s order for Xiao Hua to return, but soon left with Xue Xue and never came back; their Life Spirit Tablets later shattered.
• Myriad Thunder Valley struggled with scarce supplies and recruitment, though True Person Leixiao’s decree helped Zhuo recruit a few fourth-generation disciples.
• Xiangyang recalled that Myriad Thunder Valley’s elders and remaining Golden Core disciples had performed well enough in the Hundred Halls Competition to avoid being purged.
• Ganlei Zi, True Person Leixiao, and Fairy Yaofeng began guiding Wu Qing, Xiang Zhili, and Cui Yingying, who advanced rapidly despite hostility from other Zhen Thunder Palace disciples.
• Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying fought back against provocations and became known throughout Zhen Thunder Palace as the Myriad Thunder Valley Three Heroes.

Xiangyang and Myriad Thunder Valley’s elders learned that the valley had placed twenty-third in Zhen Thunder Palace’s Hundred Halls Competition and would avoid removal. As they awaited the decision on the Dry Thunder Palace Lord, Cui Hongshen warned that True Person Kuangtian was favored to win, leaving Zhuo worried about what his rise might mean for the valley.

• Xiangyang recalled how Xiang Zhili, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying had disappeared into a century of seclusion and wondered how much stronger Myriad Thunder Valley would be if they were present.
• Cui Hongshen returned from the competition and teased Xiangyang before reporting that Myriad Thunder Valley had ranked twenty-third among the hall branches.
• Cui Hongshen gave medicinal pills to the disciples and offered Xi Tuo more, but Zhen Quan said Dui Qimeng had already provided some.
• Dui Qimeng criticized True Person Kuangtian over his treatment of Qian Diheng, and Xiangyang and Cui Hongshen urged her not to reopen old grievances.
• Cui Hongshen explained that True Person Kuangtian was favored to become Dry Thunder Palace Lord, and Zhuo worried he might target Myriad Thunder Valley.

Cui Hongshen learned that Myriad Thunder Valley was on a prearranged list of hall branches to be abolished, despite its participation in the Hundred Halls Competition. He and the others considered how to protect their disciples and decided to seek help from True Person Leixiao.

• Cui Hongshen returned with news that Myriad Thunder Valley was on Bo Lei Hall's old list of branches to be cleared away.
• Zhuo and the others feared that Myriad Thunder Valley's disciples would be merged into Thousand Thunder Mountain and forced to guard Thunder Abyss.
• Dui Qimeng urged Cui Hongshen to transfer their daughter Cui Yingying to Shuo Lei Hall to protect her chance of advancing her cultivation.
• Cui Hongshen rejected leaving Myriad Thunder Valley at first, but Dui Qimeng's suggestion to seek True Person Leixiao changed his mind.
• Zhuo and Cui Hongshen agreed to go ask True Person Leixiao for help, while Cui Hongshen insisted that they could not abandon Myriad Thunder Valley.

After Myriad Thunder Valley appeared on Zhen Thunder Palace’s elimination list, Cui Hongshen, Xiangyang, and Zhuo rushed to Ben Lei Hall to seek True Person Leixiao. Cui Hongshen gained entry by claiming they needed to report the whereabouts of Xiang Zhi Li, Cui Yingying, and Wu Qing, and the group entered the hall.

• The elimination list appeared with Myriad Thunder Valley at the top, and a second screen began displaying the Hundred Halls Competition rankings.
• Cui Hongshen persuaded Xiangyang and Zhuo to seek True Person Leixiao, arguing that Myriad Thunder Valley had nothing left to lose.
• At Ben Lei Hall, Cui Hongshen distracted Zhen Qing by claiming they had come to ask about Xiang Zhi Li, Cui Yingying, and Wu Qing.
• Cui Hongshen saw other eliminated hall branches turned away and heard True Person Leixiao and Superior Leiting angrily forbid more petitioners from entering.
• Cui Hongshen hurried through the gates and called out that he had urgent business as Shuo Lei Hall’s Vice Hall Master, allowing Zhuo and Xiangyang to enter with him.

Zhuo, Xiangyang, and Cui Hongshen sought True Person Leixiao’s help after Myriad Thunder Valley appeared on the list of branches to be cleared out. Leixiao brought them to Bo Lei Hall with a jade slip that revealed Seven Thunders Blazing Sun as the valley’s only chance to survive, while he waited for the Sect Leader and reflected on the succession crisis caused by Ganlei Zi’s death.

• Zhuo and Cui Hongshen told True Person Leixiao that Myriad Thunder Valley had been placed first on the clearance list despite its middle-tier ranking in the Hundred Halls Competition.
• True Person Leixiao confirmed the list, then retrieved a jade slip and led Zhuo, Xiangyang, and Cui Hongshen through a teleportation array to Bo Lei Hall.
• Leixiao gave Zhuo an ancient jade slip she had found in Myriad Thunder Valley, and she passed it to Cui Hongshen and Xiangyang to inspect.
• Xiangyang identified the jade slip’s contents as Seven Thunders Blazing Sun, which Leixiao said was Myriad Thunder Valley’s only path to continued existence.
• Leixiao summoned the Sect Leader back from Thunder Competition Ground, ordered Zhuo and the others to kneel, and waited while recalling how Ganlei Zi’s death had disrupted his plans to succeed him.

True Person Leixiao had yielded the Sect Leader position to Fairy Xuanhua to prevent the weakened Thunder Control Sect from suffering further damage, but he grew concerned when her purge of Myriad Thunder Valley threatened its disciples. Their confrontation in Bo Lei Hall escalated until other Hall Masters arrived, and Fairy Xuanhua defended the purge as necessary to strengthen the sect.

• True Person Leixiao had abandoned his claim to the Sect Leader position and supported Fairy Xuanhua to avert a damaging struggle within the weakened Thunder Control Sect.
• Fairy Xuanhua arrived at Bo Lei Hall and dismissed True Person Leixiao's concern about the threatened purge of Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Cui Hongshen argued that Myriad Thunder Valley's disciples deserved a voice, and Fairy Xuanhua ordered him to be silent.
• Fairy Xuanhua released her mid-Nascent Soul pressure against Cui Hongshen, but True Person Leixiao countered it until both withdrew their pressure.
• Kun Shen mocked Myriad Thunder Valley and its three heroes, while Fairy Xuanhua defended the purge as a way to restore the Thunder Control Sect's strength.

True Person Leixiao challenged Fairy Xuanhua’s plan to remove Myriad Thunder Valley by invoking an unaltered ancestral rule called Seven Thunders Blazing Sun. The rule forced Fairy Xuanhua to acknowledge that Myriad Thunder Valley could demand trials by the other Thunder Palaces, and True Person Kuangtian proposed turning the dispute into a contest at Thunder Competition Ground.

• True Person Leixiao argued that Fairy Xuanhua had added conditions to the Hundred Halls Competition and asked her to spare Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Fairy Xuanhua ordered Kun Shen to check the records for Sect Leader Ganlei Zi’s supposed promise to preserve Myriad Thunder Valley, but the relevant jade slips had been destroyed.
• True Person Leixiao presented an ancient jade slip containing the Seven Thunders Blazing Sun rule, and Fairy Xuanhua admitted no Sect Leader had abolished it.
• Kun Shen explained that the rule let a hall branch facing removal survive by passing tests from the other Seven Thunder Palaces, but True Person Leixiao pointed out that it remained in force.
• True Person Kuangtian arrived at Bo Lei Hall and proposed that seven disciples from each of the other Thunder Palaces challenge Myriad Thunder Valley at Thunder Competition Ground.

Fairy Xuanhua ordered Seven Thunders Blazing Sun, a series of seven duels that would determine whether Myriad Thunder Valley could keep its hall branch. Back at Zhen Thunder Palace, Xiangyang and the others planned their matchups, but they could not agree on who should face Kan Thunder Palace.

• True Person Kuangtian set the Seven Thunders Blazing Sun rules, requiring Myriad Thunder Valley to win four duels against the seven Thunder Palaces, and Fairy Xuanhua issued the Sect Leader Token.
• True Person Leixiao sent the Myriad Thunder Valley disciples back to prepare and privately gave Zhen Qing medicine and orders to protect them on Thunder Competition Ground.
• Cui Hongshen, Xiangyang, Zhuo, and Dui Qimeng discussed which Thunder Palaces might show mercy and planned to concede the likely losses against Dry Thunder Palace and Kun Thunder Palace.
• Xiangyang volunteered to fight Dry Thunder Palace, Cui Hongshen agreed to face Xun Lei Palace, and Zhuo was assigned the crucial Xun Lei Palace match before Cui Hongshen took that role instead.
• Xiangyang asked Zhuo to fight Kan Thunder Palace, but Yan Qinglian offered to take that match, prompting Zhuo, Cui Hongshen, and Dui Qimeng to object.

Zhuo assigned Myriad Thunder Valley’s disciples to face the dangerous Thunder Palace matches, and the disciples rallied around their willingness to sacrifice for the sect. Qian Diheng returned, learned Xiangyang would fight Qian Ding, and gave him protective armor and healing pills before Fairy Xuanhua addressed the sect.

• Zhuo assigned Yan Qinglian to face Gen Lei Palace and Fang Lihe to face Dry Thunder Palace, while Zhen Quan volunteered for Li Lei Palace.
• Fang Lihe and Zhen Quan clasped hands and led the disciples in shouting that Myriad Thunder Valley stood united.
• Qian Diheng returned and asked Xiangyang why Myriad Thunder Valley was confronting Dry Thunder Palace.
• Xiangyang explained the dispute and revealed that he would fight first against Qian Ding.
• Qian Diheng gave Xiangyang a protective magic armor and its refinement jade slip, then returned to hand him healing pills as Fairy Xuanhua began addressing the sect.

Fairy Xuanhua gave the threatened branch halls one last chance to survive, but Myriad Thunder Valley was forced to sign a Life-and-Death Contract before competing. Xiangyang entered the Thunder Competition Ground to face Qian Ding, and their battle began with Qian Ding attacking him with lightning spells.

• Fairy Xuanhua announced that branch halls facing elimination could remain for a hundred years if they survived the Seven Thunders Palace challenges.
• Xiangyang led Myriad Thunder Valley toward the Thunder Competition Ground, where Kun Shen revealed the Hall of Life and Death and demanded Life-and-Death Contracts.
• After Kun Shen said Qian Ding had already signed, Xiangyang volunteered to face him and told Yan Qinglian to tell their son that his father was no coward.
• Kun Shen brought Xiangyang through the Hall of Life and Death and explained the battle rules before leaving the arena.
• Qian Ding trapped Xiangyang with rings of light and sent lightning spells toward his chest and abdomen.

Xiangyang let Qian Ding beat him without fighting, intending to die for Myriad Thunder Valley and force the sect to reconsider its fate. As Xiangyang neared death inside Thunder Competition Ground, Fairy Xuanhua refused to intervene, and the chapter left him trapped with Qian Ding.

• Qian Ding struck Xiangyang, and Qian Diheng realized Xiangyang had not worn the spirit armor or intended to fight back.
• Yan Qinglian explained that Xiangyang hoped his death would awaken Fairy Xuanhua's compassion and preserve Myriad Thunder Valley.
• Qian Ding repeatedly battered Xiangyang, who refused to retaliate even after his Golden Core shattered and declared that he and Qian Ding would have no rest until one died.
• Qian Ding hesitated to kill Xiangyang outright and urged him to admit defeat, but Xiangyang remained silent.
• True Person Leixiao and Myriad Thunder Valley's disciples pleaded with Fairy Xuanhua to save Xiangyang, but she said the competition ground could only open if someone fell or admitted defeat.

As Qian Ding moved to kill the helpless Xiangyang, Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying completed their Nascent Soul formations nearby and rushed to save him. The chapter ended with them attacking the Thunder Competition Ground’s illusion formation with hundreds of lightning dragons.

• Qian Ding resumed attacking Xiangyang, whose shattered Golden Core left him unable to resist.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying formed Nascent Souls in neighboring locations, and their combined heavenly phenomena tore through the sect-protecting formation before dissipating.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying arrived before the Thunder Control Sect disciples, and Xiang Zhili realized that Xiangyang was in danger on the Thunder Competition Ground.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying ignored Fairy Xuanhua’s command to stop and flew toward the Thunder Competition Ground.
• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying summoned hundreds of lightning dragons and sent them crashing into the illusion formation above the Thunder Competition Ground.

Xiang Zhili broke into Thunder Competition Ground, defeated Qian Ding, and rescued his father, Xiangyang. After learning that Myriad Thunder Valley faced further matches in Seven Thunders Blazing Sun, Xiang Zhili offered to fight Kun Thunder Palace, but learned that Nascent Soul cultivators were barred from entering without special permission.

• Fairy Xuanhua was shaken when Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying displayed the Lightning Drawing Technique, which tore open Thunder Competition Ground’s weakened formation.
• Xiang Zhili entered the arena, overwhelmed Qian Ding, and shattered his Golden Core after Xiangyang asked him not to kill him.
• Xiang Zhili gave Xiangyang medicine and carried him out through the red pillar after Qian Ding admitted defeat and was sent through the blue pillar.
• Xiang Zhili learned from Cui Hongshen that True Person Leixiao had arranged the competition and that Fairy Xuanhua was now Sect Leader.
• Xiang Zhili praised Fang Lihe, then declared that he would face Kun Thunder Palace while his Junior Sister faced Kan Thunder Palace.
• Kun Shen explained that Seven Thunders Blazing Sun barred Nascent Soul cultivators from entering unless the Sect Leader granted special permission.

Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying revealed that they had formed Nascent Souls, then concealed their realms to enter the Thunder Competition Ground and secure Myriad Thunder Valley’s survival. After the rival Thunder Palaces admitted defeat, Xiang Zhili vowed before everyone to protect his injured father and Myriad Thunder Valley until death.

• Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying showed their Nascent Soul power, then used lightning to suppress their realms to late Golden Core and challenged the other Thunder Palaces.
• True Person Leixiao defended Xiang Zhili’s eligibility, and Kun Fa, Kan Yang, Li Jing, Gen Hu, and Dui Sheng admitted defeat rather than fight.
• Fairy Xuanhua declared that Myriad Thunder Valley had passed the trial and would retain its name for one hundred years; Cui Hongshen said much had changed during Xiang Zhili and Cui Yingying’s long seclusion.
• Xiang Zhili urged his badly injured father Xiangyang to rest, but Xiangyang stayed and gave him a spirit armor from his storage bag.
• Xiang Zhili manifested a lightning Dharma body, raised Xiangyang on a lightning chair, kowtowed to him, and swore to fight anyone who harmed his father or Myriad Thunder Valley until death.

Xiang Zhili reunited with Xiangyang and learned about the Thunder Control Sect’s leadership dispute, then told Cui Hongshen how Ganlei Zi had summoned him and his companions to investigate the Lightning Devouring Bead. The chapter left the bead’s suspected danger unexplained, though Xiang Zhili believed its problem had caused Ganlei Zi’s death.

• Xiang Zhili used a strange fluctuation to absorb the nine thunderclaps and his essence blood, then brought Xiangyang down to reunite with Cui Hongshen and the others.
• Cui Hongshen told Xiang Zhili that Fairy Xuanhua had become Sect Leader and that Dry Thunder Palace planned to choose its new lord through combat.
• Xiang Zhili revealed that Ganlei Zi had secretly ordered him, Wu Qing, and Cui Yingying to return to the sect decades earlier.
• Xiang Zhili recounted how Ganlei Zi questioned them about their adoptive father and the Lightning Devouring Bead while meditating above the Thunder Pool.
• Cui Hongshen explained the bead’s connection to the sect’s protective formation, and Xiang Zhili revealed that Leiting, Lei Yunzi, and Venerable Genyuan were alive but near the end of their lifespans.
• Xiang Zhili said Ganlei Zi had sensed that the Lightning Devouring Bead differed from the Min Lei Bead but had never discovered what was wrong with it.

Xiang Zhili explained Ganlei Zi’s suspicions about the Lightning Devouring Bead and the plan he had entrusted to his disciples. As the Thunder Control Sect began choosing a Dry Thunder Palace Lord, Wu Qing emerged from seclusion amid a tremendous display of lightning, unharmed but with no confirmation yet of whether he had formed his Nascent Soul.

• Xiang Zhili told Cui Hongshen that Ganlei Zi had suspected someone above the Divine Transformation stage tampered with the Lightning Devouring Bead and had sent disciples to investigate the formation and seek the three ancestors.
• Fairy Xuanhua began the contest for Dry Thunder Palace Lord, with True Person Kuangtian, Qian Qingzi, Qian Fengju, and True Person Jifeng preparing to compete.
• True Person Kuangtian and True Person Jifeng questioned the contest rules, and Fairy Xuanhua confirmed that only approved candidates could compete and that the last person on Thunder Competition Ground would become palace lord.
• A fierce wind and oppressive darkness halted the contest as Xiang Zhili recognized that Wu Qing had emerged from seclusion.
• Eighty-one lightning vortices struck the Lei Mo Mountain Range, then shattered as Wu Qing appeared from the night, unharmed and surrounded by lightning.

Wu Qing arrived at Thunder Competition Ground using Thunder Control Transformation, revealing that he had reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage and had been chosen by Ganlei Zi to lead Dry Thunder Palace. As the Thunder Palace Lords greeted him, Cui Hongshen concluded that Ganlei Zi had intended Wu Qing to eventually lead the Thunder Control Sect.

• Wu Qing used Thunder Control Transformation to reach Thunder Competition Ground, shocking Fairy Yaofeng and True Person Leixiao with his effortless mastery.
• Wu Qing greeted Zhuo as his mother, then gave Xiang Zhili pills for Xiangyang after learning that Xiangyang's Golden Core had shattered.
• Cui Yingying told Cui Hongshen that Ganlei Zi had given Wu Qing the Dry Thunder Palace seal and intended him to become its Palace Lord after forming his Nascent Soul.
• Cui Hongshen reasoned that Ganlei Zi had maneuvered to make Wu Qing the future Sect Leader, while Cui Yingying doubted Wu Qing would want the position.
• The Myriad Thunder Valley disciples celebrated gaining three Nascent Soul Grandmasters, and the Thunder Palace Lords approached Wu Qing to ask when he had formed his Nascent Soul.

Wu Qing returned as a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator and declared that Ganlei Zi had instructed him to take charge of Dry Thunder Palace. The dispute over whether he could compete for its lordship escalated, and Fairy Yaofeng defended his qualifications before the decision was settled.

• Wu Qing told the Thunder Control Sect leaders that he had formed his Nascent Soul at Thunder Accumulation Cave and announced he would compete for Dry Thunder Palace Lord.
• Wu Qing revealed that Ganlei Zi had assigned him to take charge of Dry Thunder Palace and produced its Palace Lord's Seal as proof.
• True Person Kuangtian accused Wu Qing of stealing the seal and tried to seize it, but True Person Leixiao stopped him and rebuked him.
• True Person Kuangtian argued that Wu Qing and True Person Leixiao threatened the balance among the Thunder Palaces, and Fairy Xuanhua demanded that Wu Qing surrender the seal for safekeeping.
• Wu Qing refused to hand over the seal, and Fairy Yaofeng argued that Ganlei Zi had cherished Wu Qing's exceptional talent and that his calm bearing suited him to lead Dry Thunder Palace.
• Zhe Xunzi questioned Wu Qing's ability to lead, and Fairy Yaofeng maintained that he was a suitable candidate.