Cultivation: From Menial Servant to Immortal Venerable

After finishing all this, Zhou Xun put away all the treasures.

With a thought,

Thunderclap Wings appeared behind his back.

With a flap of both wings, his entire body became a streak of light and shot toward the northwest indicated by the compass.

Two days later,

Zhou Xun finally left the vast plain.

His journey had been exceedingly smooth, and he had not encountered another Thunderbeast.

A lake now appeared before him. Even with his current eyesight, he could not see its far shore.

For the sake of caution, he did not fly directly across it. Instead, he halted his escape light, arrived at the lakeside, crouched down, and examined it closely.

The lake water was pale blue, carrying the faintly scorched scent of lightning as it crackled and hissed.

"I never expected this lake water to contain the power of lightning as well. Truly strange—worthy of the Thunder Prison!"

Zhou Xun clicked his tongue in amazement.

Through the surface, he could vaguely sense living creatures swimming beneath the water. Anything able to survive in such an environment was surely no ordinary creature.

Suddenly, Zhou Xun's gaze sharpened.

He formed hand seals and pointed downward.

"Whoosh!"

A strand of Sword Qi formed out of thin air and shot downward at high speed, cleaving through the water's surface and piercing straight through a seven-foot fish.

It then flew back, skewering the fish as it hovered before Zhou Xun.

Looking closely,

the fish had a peculiar appearance.

Its head was enormous, accounting for more than half of its body. A protrusion rose from the top of its head, still flickering with lightning.

Judging from the aura it emitted, it was clearly a Tier 2 mid-grade lightning-attributed demonic beast!

"This is... a Thunder Essence Crystal?"

Zhou Xun cut open the fish and obtained