The Lightless Realm!

We pay our respects to our senior!

At this moment, over a thousand Nascent Soul Cultivator and hundreds of Spirit Transformation cultivators bowed down in unison, their voices shaking the heavens and reaching the earth.

The Beast Emperor's cloudy eyes shifted slightly, his gaze sweeping over the crowd below like Clear Wind.

When his gaze fell upon the Human Race cultivators, it was as calm as still water; when it fell upon the alien races of the Nine Realms, it was as still as a deep well; only when it swept over Shi Jian did it pause for a moment.

"Get up, all of you."

The Beast Emperor spoke, his voice hoarse and strained, carrying the echo of time, "The Thunder Cultivators of the Nine Realms have gathered here; it has been a long time since I have seen such a sight."

All the cultivators rose, bowed their heads, and listened respectfully; the entire hall was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

"I know perfectly well why you've come."

The old Beast Emperor spoke calmly, without the slightest air of a royal Dao Venerable, yet his tone carried a resolute finality:

"The Profound Lightning Ancestral Court, with its seven millennia- Transformation Lei Yuan and thirty-two High Antiquity Lightning Pool, has indeed reached the time to choose a master to inherit its legacy."

"But my path, the foundation of the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan, is not for supporting good-for-nothings."

"If you wish to enter the Lei Yuan to comprehend the Immortal Foundation, and seize this opportunity to ascend to heaven, then use your true abilities to exchange for and compete for it."

The old man raised his finger and pointed it at the empty space in the center of the hall.

Buzz!

The void rippled like water, and a spatial rift, hundreds of feet wide and pitch black, suddenly tore open!

Suddenly, a chilling, deathly, and corrosive aura surged forth from the depths of the crack, instantly dispersing most of the violent lightning intent within the main hall.

The assembled Spirit Transformation were greatly alarmed and immediately began to unleash their Law Power to resist.

That aura carried no trace of life, and did not even belong to the ordinary five elements of heaven and earth; rather, it was a kind of "darkness" that was pure to the extreme!

"This is the ' Lightless Dead Realm '."

The old Beast Emperor remained calm, pointing to the pitch-black spatial rift:

"This is a small, unclaimed, and dilapidated realm that my Profound Lightning Imperial Clan accidentally captured in the chaotic void many years ago."

"Within this realm, there is neither sun nor moon; the Principle of heaven and earth are completely enveloped and assimilated by [Lightless]."

"Deep within this Death Realm dwell tens of millions of Archaic Night Beast, capable of devouring all light and lightning. Among them are quite a few Night Beast leaders at the Spirit Transformation stage."

"Even the Extreme Realm Night Beast Emperor who have cultivated to the fifth or sixth level of the Foundation Establishment are entrenched here."

Upon the appearance of the Spirit Transformation Extreme Stage, the expressions of the cultivators present varied, and many Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators looked rather grim.

For ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivators, the Extreme Realm beings at the fifth and sixth levels of cultivation are beings who can easily suppress and kill them.

Moreover, this was happening in the opponent's Dao of Darkness passage, which suited their own territory.

"This is your trial."

The old Beast Emperor's cloudy eyes swept across the entire arena, and he coldly declared, "The gate to the boundary is open. From this day forward, the boundary will last for ten years."

"Within ten years, you will all be required to enter the Eternal Night Dead Realm to hone your skills and engage in combat."

"Anyone who slays Night Beast in the Early Spirit Transformation Soul stage will receive a ' Dark Beast Heart Core,' which can be exchanged for ten years of cultivation in the High Antiquity Lightning Pool."

"Whoever slays the Night Beast at the Middle Spirit Transformation Soul realm will be granted thirty years of cultivation in the Thunder Pool, and will be bestowed with one top-grade fifth-tier Thunder Pill and one bottle of fifth-tier Lightning Heart Water."

"If we can join forces to kill Late Spirit Transformation, or even Night Beast at the Extreme Realm, and bring back a top-grade Dao of Darkness Crystal Soul, I am willing to infuse it with the Profound Lightning Origin to help it perfect its Immortal Foundation."

These words instantly caused an uproar throughout the hall!

The Dao Venerable personally bestowed upon him the perfect Immortal Foundation!

Such fortuitous opportunity would be enough for any Spirit Transformation cultivator stuck at a bottleneck to risk their life in a fight.

Even without the highest reward, the time spent cultivating in the Thunder Pool in exchange for slaying ordinary Spirit Transformation Night Beast is enough to allow one's cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds.

There is also the fifth-tier Thunder Pill, which can save Spirit Transformation at least a hundred years of arduous cultivation; taking the fifth-tier Lightning Heart Water can transform the heart into thunder, a physique that is cultivated later in life.

This is mainly reflected in two aspects: preserving one's life and accelerating the pace of cultivation.

Shi Jian stood in the crowd, his eyes deep, his heart also churning with shock; he never expected that the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan would be willing to offer such precious resources.

The Lightless Realm...

Night Beast...

The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth states that Thunder, representing the birth and death of True Yang, is the symbol of the world's most luminous light, while Darkness, representing obscurity and devouring, is their natural nemesis.

Lightning can overcome darkness, but extreme darkness can also corrode and erode lightning.

More importantly, why did the old Beast Emperor order all the lightning cultivators in the world to go to a Dao of Darkness and slaughter Night Beast?

This is truly puzzling.

Just then, eight powerful figures slowly emerged from behind the main hall.

They were eight young men and women dressed in black armor, their faces cold and stern, each with a crystal-clear, dark blue lightning horn between their brows, and their Qi and Blood surging like a raging sea of lightning.

They were all Nascent Spirit Transformation cultivators!

The leading man was a tall, imposing figure with an unfathomable aura. His body was covered in a fine, purplish-blue electric net, indicating that he had already entered the Late Spirit Transformation and reached the Three-Foundation Perfection.

Clearly, he was a prodigy from the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan.

The old Beast Emperor pointed to the eight young men and women and said calmly, "These are my descendants, who will also enter the realm for trials with you."

"After entering the realm, each will accept their fate and have no regrets about life or death."

Upon hearing the warning, all the cultivators bowed their heads.

Shi Jian's gaze narrowed slightly as it fell upon the eight Profound Lightning clan cultivators.

He keenly sensed that in the eyes of these eight direct descendants of the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan family, there was no arrogance or madness of ordinary prodigies, but rather an almost resolute will to die.

It seems that these people have different goals than those of us who have gone through the trials.

Could it be a search for special divine materials?

A royal family that holds supreme power over the Dao of Lightning, even at the critical juncture when the old Beast Emperor is nearing the end of his life, has devoted all the strength of the entire clan, not hesitating to open its mountain gates wide and invite all the Thunder cultivators in the world to serve as cannon fodder and meat shields.

What they truly desired was far more than just a few Night Beast Cores.

Shi Jian pondered for a long time, but he really couldn't think of any connection between them; if he really had to guess, what the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan was looking for in the Lightless Dead Realm was very likely related to the life and death of the old Beast Emperor.

It even concerns the future life and death of the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan.

Only in this way can we explain what the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan is doing today; both by sparing no effort to recruit thunder cultivators from all over the world and by sending out their elite forces.

There must be something big going on here.

"Fellow Daoist Shi, would you mind having a chat?"

Just as Shi Jian was pondering silently, a faint yet cold divine thought suddenly resounded in Shi Jian's sea of consciousness.

Shi Jian's heart skipped a beat, and he looked in the direction he sensed.

The burly young man who was the leader of the eight Profound Lightning prodigies calmly withdrew his gaze.

"I am Lei Jin, a Profound Lightning Imperial Clan."

The young man's voice came again, deep and solemn. "Before the Barbarian Bone Dao Venerable went into seclusion, he sent a message to our clan's ancestral emperor."

"Brother Dao, you cultivate the Divine Firmament sect, and your combat strength is profound. Now that you've entered the Eternal Night Dead Realm, perhaps we can make a deal."

"A transaction?" Shi Jian's eyelids slightly closed, and he replied indifferently, "What does this mean, fellow Daoist?"

"Deep within the Lightless Realm lies the ' Polar Night Abyss,' where a Dao of Darkness Night Beast Emperor, at the Five-Foundation Extreme Realm, dwells."

Lei Jin's voice carried a heavy, suppressed tone. "In that emperor's lair, there is a treasure that our race must obtain."

"But within that abyss also lies a remnant of the Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood, a relic from High Antiquity times."

"That's a peerless divine artifact from the Divine Firmament Line, used to supplement the cultivation of the two great Immortal Foundation: [Radiant Yang Lightning] and [Purple Radiance Lightning]."

"If you, Brother Dao, are willing to lend us a hand at this crucial moment and hold off that Extreme Realm Night Beast for half a quarter of an hour, then the Divine Lightning Wood will belong to you."

Upon hearing this, Shi Jian's expression remained unchanged, but he was already tempted.

Nine Heavens Great Sun Divine Lightning Wood!

This innate thunderwood, which had long since disappeared from the Nine Realms, was the supreme treasure that enabled him to completely perfect his Radiant Yang Immortal Foundation and unlock the gate to the Spirit Transformation Extreme Stage.

From the very beginning, the Profound Lightning Imperial Clan had laid out a bait he couldn't refuse.

"Okay." Shi Jian replied crisply.

Directly in front of the main hall, the old Beast Emperor slowly closed his eyes.

"The time has come, everyone please enter."

Rumble--!

In the center of the Ten-Thousand-Ren Divine Hall, the hundred-zhang-wide pitch-black spatial rift suddenly expanded, transforming into a gigantic abyss maw that seemed capable of swallowing all the Gods and Devils of the heavens.

A dense black light shot into the sky, obscuring all light inside the hall.

"Ten years of life and death, each relying on their own methods."

"Come in!"

With a command, nearly a thousand lightning cultivators from the Nine Realms transformed into a sky full of blazing lightning bolts, carrying with them endless greed, ambition, and murderous intent.

They charged headlong into that unknown, Lightless Dead Realm!

Shi Jian's figure swayed, and his white robe tore through the void.

He did not follow the local Demon Cultivator, nor did he heed the calls for an alliance between Human Race and other races. Instead, he transformed into a deep, purple-gold stream of light.

Like a sharp blade drawn from its sheath, it plunged into the boundless, pitch-black abyss in an instant!

The world spins and the Principle are reversed.

The moment he passed through the barrier, the three Dao of Divine Firmament Dao Platform within Shi Jian's body roared violently, and the Immortal-Slaying Spear deep within his Dantian emitted a sharp, piercing, trembling hum.

The surrounding light was completely stripped away, and the extreme cold and Lightless Dao clung to them like a persistent, insidious infection.

In the endless darkness, countless blood-red, savage beastly eyes lit up simultaneously!

"Here they come again, these outsiders."

"This time, we must break through the boundaries and escape this cage!"

[600 chapters already! That's quite an achievement, almost catching up to the old book. Time really flies! It's been great to have fellow readers by my side all this way.]