A Supreme Treasure Gained, Returning to Stillness Falls!

On the high platform of white bones, the old man in the Late Spirit Transformation noticed Shi Jian's gaze and his eyes widened in fury.

This lightning bolt was intended by their lineage to be offered as tribute to the Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable, to help him comprehend the supreme creation of the transformation between life and death. It had been nurtured for a full 60,000 years!

"Get out of my way!"

The old man endured Cang Wuji's axe blow, spitting out a mouthful of black blood. He then pointed his bone staff into the air, causing the entire Dead Sea to erupt in chaos.

The dormant black Nether Lightning was instantly activated by the great formation, transforming into a ten-thousand-foot-long black Lei Kuang python. With a violent deathly intent that could destroy all life, it tore through the sky and aimed straight for Shi Jian's throat!

Where the black lightning passed, the space was corroded inch by inch, leaving charred holes.

"Watch out! This lightning is strange!"

Cang Wuji roared from behind, his figure turning sharply, trying to return to provide support.

"It's alright!"

Shi Jian remained expressionless and did not even take a step back.

Faced with such terrifying black lightning, powerful enough to instantly obliterate an ordinary Spirit Transformation, his Dao of Lightning will erupted in full force!

Thousands of purple-gold lightning arcs burst forth from its body, and the thirty-thousand-foot-tall Lightning Bear's body suddenly manifested above the Dead Sea!

"All thunder and lightning of heaven and earth shall return to the Divine Firmament!"

"How dare you, a mere filthy thunder born from the path of Death Dao, display your power before me!"

Shi Jian roared to the sky, the lightning between his brows burning intensely; instead of dodging, he brazenly extended his right arm, which had just been reforged!

Lightning-Manifested Arm!

The Purple Pivot Lightning transformed into a solid and weighty foundation stone, stabilizing the meridians and physical body;

Purple Firmament Lightning, like a dense net of blades, covered his palm, slicing through the violent energy of the black Lei Kuang python;

At the very core of the palm, a dazzling white Righteous Yang Lightning transformed into a pure yang sun and exploded with a deafening roar!

True Yang meets Nether Lightning!

Extreme Yang overcomes Yin, death ensues!

Rumble--!!

The entire secret realm shook violently, and the Dead Sea surged with towering waves.

Blinding white light and deep black lightning collided, devoured, and annihilated each other wildly in the void!

The Nether Lightning, with its deathly intent that corrodes all things and strips away lifespan, desperately tried to invade Shi Jian's body through his meridians, turning his internal organs to ashes.

Shi Jian felt a slight sweetness in his throat, and his fur, under the corrosive influence of death energy, quickly turned gray and fell off, revealing his stark white bones.

But his eyes were as cold as ancient Mysterious Ice, unwavering in the slightest.

"Swallow!"

Shi Jian's divine sense acted like a giant golden lock, forcibly activating the Radiant Yang Lightning Seed within his Dantian.

The sun breaks through the dawn, its light shining through the ages!

Driven by that wisp of Radiant Yang Lightning intent, representing the reshaping of life, the power of the Righteous Yang Lightning suddenly surged by 30%!

The righteous and domineering pure yang thunder flames poured out like a raging sea, burning away the violent and mixed deathly aura on the surface of the Nether Lightning, leaving only the most core and purest wisp of pitch-black, deathly thunder seed!

"Receive!"

Shi Jian clenched his five fingers like an iron gate, and the lightning net in his palm transformed into nine layers of seals, forcibly pressing the violent and struggling black lightning seed into his right arm!

Sizzle!

As the black lightning entered his body, Shi Jian's entire right arm instantly turned into a deep, pure black color. Countless jet-black lightning patterns, like dragons and snakes, roamed across the surface of his skin, emanating a chilling aura of annihilation.

Dao of Lightning resonate, life and death embrace each other.

Although the ball of Nether Lightning was not completely refined, its spark had been firmly suppressed under the Shi Jian Immortal Foundation!

"Puff--!!"

His natal holy lightning was forcibly taken away. The giant lizard in the distance, who was in the Late Spirit Transformation, was severely injured. Due to the backlash of his mind, he coughed up black blood and the three Immortal Foundation behind him instantly dimmed.

"No... Impossible! How could a Thunder Cultivator subdue the Life-Extinguishing Nether Lightning with his bare hands?!" The old man's face was filled with despair, and his Dao heart completely collapsed.

"You old bastard, you dare to get distracted while fighting me?!"

Behind them, Cang Wuji's ferocious figure had already arrived, stepping through the air.

The Bone-Splitting Axe unleashed a monstrous storm of bone-white energy, tracing a deadly arc through the void.

Click!

The head was thrown off, and the limbs were shattered.

The elder of the Giant Lizard Clan who remained behind was cleaved in two by Cang Wuji's axe, his physical body and Death Dao Nascent Soul shattered, and his life force was completely extinguished as his Essence Blood spilled into the Dead Sea.

At this moment, the entire Mystic Sha Dead Sea Secret Realm returned to deathly silence.

"Whew... that felt good!"

Cang Wuji, carrying the blood-stained giant axe, landed back on the bone platform, panting heavily. Looking at the mess on the ground, he burst into laughter.

Shi Jian put away his Dharma form and slowly floated down from mid-air.

His right arm was still crackling with wisps of black electricity, radiating a deathly chill that kept the living at bay.

"Brother Shi, are you alright? That black lightning just now..." Cang Wuji stepped forward and glanced at Shi Jian's right arm with some apprehension.

"It's alright."

Shi Jian remained calm, and with a slight thought, the black lightning pattern on his right arm quickly disappeared under his skin, restoring its normal bronze color.

Looking inward at the Dantian, the wisp of Nether Lightning Seed, suppressed by the combined power of the Righteous Yang Lightning and the Purple Pivot Lightning, was slowly sinking into a corner of the Dantian.

It forms a peculiar balance with the fourth base Radiant Yang Lightning, in a distant opposition.

One death, one life.

One yin, one yang.

"This lightning is called Nether Lightning, born in the most deadly place, and its destructive power is astonishing."

Shi Jian's gaze swept over the now empty secret realm, and he said in a deep voice, "The gains from this trip have far exceeded expectations."

"If this ball of Nether Lightning is combined with some remnants of the Space Dao and the essence of the Death Dao that I have, it would be enough to forge a Dao Artifact of unparalleled destructive power."

Now, all he possesses is the gray Sword Dao, a weapon primarily for slaughter.

But those were ultimately acquired external things, not things that perfectly aligned with one's own Dao.

If one could use one's own Dao of Lightning as a guide to fuse with the ultimate Nether Lightning of the Death Dao, and forge a powerful weapon of Dao of Lightning that could specifically destroy the bodies of strong enemies and annihilate their souls.

His combat power will surely experience another qualitative leap!

"Dao of Refinement artifacts?"

Cang Wuji's eyes lit up. "That's easy! After this battle, once we return to the clan, you can go and seek an audience with the Ancestor Egu."

"The Ancestor Egu is not only Dao Venerable, but also the most skilled craftsman in our clan; most of the clan's Dao Artifact are made by him."

"If you're still missing any materials, the clan can exchange them!"

Shi Jian nodded without saying anything more, and quickly collected the remains and treasures of the Late Spirit Transformation on the high platform.

However, just as the two bears were about to tear through the void and return to the main battlefield...

Boom--!!!!

An indescribable roar of the Great Dao suddenly pierced through the highest peaks of the Nine Heavens outside the secret realm!

The entire secret realm trembled violently, and the waters of the Dead Sea surged back into the air.

That sound transcended ordinary clashes of supernatural Divine Ability, even surpassing the self-destruction of Spirit Transformation Extreme Stage. Rather, it was a fundamental rule that permeated the beginning and end of heaven and earth, which was completely severed at that moment!

Shi Jian and Cang Wuji at the same time, and they suddenly looked up at the sky.

Even across layers of void and secret realms, they could clearly sense an immense, desolate, and utterly annihilating Dao aura emanating from the western horizon of the Dao Realm...

It's completely collapsed!

Blood rained down from the sky, and cries of anguish echoed from all directions.

The Returning to Stillness Dao Venerable has fallen!

Immediately afterwards, a profound deathly aura, ten times more terrifying than before, like a colossal hand of destruction reaching out from the depths of the Nether Realm, suddenly took over the collapsing Dao essence!

The aura of the Nether River Imperial Clan briefly swept across the entire Dao Realm in that instant!

The four stages of the Death Dao are about to be completed!

"The world has changed."

Shi Jian stood at the edge of the void rift, feeling the suffocating imperial aura emanating from beyond the heavens, his eyes as deep as an abyss.

Big fish eat little fish, large clans annex small clans.

The annihilation of the Death Giant Lizard Clan was merely the prelude to an even greater upheaval.

The storm has not yet subsided, and the momentum remains like a furnace.

Only those who wield the blade are spared from becoming firewood!