Creation and Destruction of the Two Forms! Lightning's Profound Truth-Nine Heavens Execution Platform! (Part Two)

The pillar of lightning vanished.

The beam connecting the fruit to the Thunderstorm Cloud suddenly disappeared. Only the enormous thundercloud overhead remained, still spinning, still churning, like a giant open eye.

Then it moved.

Without warning, without any buildup-

The first bolt struck.

A bucket-thick bolt of blue-white lightning crashed from the clouds into the hemlock forest at the valley's edge. Over a dozen towering trees exploded into fragments in an instant, splinters flying and scorched smoke rising.

The second, the third, the tenth...

Lightning poured down like a torrential storm, rampaging through the valley! Hemlocks that had stood for countless years were severed at the waist, charred rocks were blasted apart, and magical beasts too slow to escape turned to charcoal in the Thunder Light!

The entire Thunderclap Valley became a purgatory of thunder.

At the center of the Thunder Pool, the fruit hung quietly on its branch.

Its silvery-blue skin faded completely, becoming almost transparent, like glass. Through the skin, its flesh could be seen glowing and pulsing like a living heart.

There were no strange phenomena.

No fragrance, no radiance, none of the disturbances that should have accompanied the emergence of a heavenly treasure.

But Loa's body was trembling.

That craving had returned-ten times, a hundred times stronger than before! Every cell in his body screamed and roared, using every ounce of strength to tell him: Eat it! Eat it! Now! Immediately!

The Thunderfang Tiger moved.

Ten zhang separated them.

The fruit lay right between them.

The Thunderfang Tiger opened its bloody maw and aimed for that tender green branch-it intended to swallow branch and fruit together! Once it swallowed them, that immense vitality would instantly restore it, letting it kill this two-legged beast and escape before other powerful magical beasts arrived!

Loa would never let it