Lei Chong
Kunpeng Nest!
Demon Transformation Cave!
Lei Chong sat cross-legged in a pool of blood. Golden rays shot from his body, and dark light spread outward. As runes swayed, the stone chamber itself trembled.
The golden and dark lights fused, forming a true Kun Peng.
Hum!
A Dao resonance rang out, and the Kun Peng in the air burst apart completely. It turned into countless runes that flew toward Lei Chong and reassembled on his body.
Soon, everything vanished, and the surface of Lei Chong's body returned to normal.
"I've been here for sixteen years. It's time to leave." Lei Chong rose from the blood pool and shook his body, sending every drop of blood falling away.
That was right. He was a transmigrator who had arrived here sixteen years ago.
In his previous life, he had been a corporate slave who had waited desperately for the National Day holiday, only to get three days off. Depressed, he could only stay home and read novels.
After searching through various websites for a long time, he finally found a novel called Perfect World.
Once he started reading, he was immediately hooked. He went without sleep for three days and nights, ultimately dying suddenly at home.
He had never expected that when he woke again, he would discover he had transmigrated into the novel Perfect World and become the Thunder Emperor's own son.
Not long after the original Lei Chong was born, the Foreign Realm began its assault on the Nine Heavens.
The Thunder Emperor was discussing the Dao at the Kunpeng Nest. With the situation so urgent, he had no time to return home, so he sealed the original Lei Chong within the nest.
In the end, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths were defeated, and the Thunder Emperor was targeted by the Foreign Realm. To eliminate future trouble, an Immortal King of the Foreign Realm used the power of karma to annihilate the original Lei Chong's soul along the way.
Sixteen years ago, a black paper boat appeared near the Kunpeng Nest. The fluctuations it gave off shook the chaos apart, shaking the original Lei Chong out of it.
Lei Chong happened to transmigrate at that moment, completely taking over the original's body.
Once he understood who he was, his spirits immediately rose.
When he read Perfect World in his previous life, he had always felt regret for the Thunder Emperor. Just how terrifying would the Thunder Emperor have become if he had truly been allowed to grow?
Back then, he could only wonder. There was nothing he could change.
Now he had transmigrated as the Thunder Emperor's own son, perfectly inheriting the Thunder Emperor's talent.
His fate was now in his own hands, and he would write every part of it himself.
Over those sixteen years, he explored most of the Kunpeng Nest and used its resources to embark on his own path of cultivation.
Of course, at the very beginning, he had wanted to cultivate using the Immortal Ancient Dao Seed Method. But the world had changed drastically, making the Immortal Ancient Method somewhat unsuitable.
There was nothing he could do. His race's innate gifts were too powerful. Even without cultivating at first, he would grow stronger as he aged.
Then, ten years ago, someone mistakenly wandered into the area near the Kunpeng Nest and happened to run into Lei Chong. Only then did Lei Chong obtain the cultivation method for the Present World Method and the writing of this era from the man's sea of consciousness.
To increase his strength as soon as possible, he had persevered without pause for the past ten years, finally reaching the Inscription Realm Extreme Realm.
He had carved his own runes into his flesh, organs, bones, and even his heavenly passages.
Moreover, after refining himself several times, he had cultivated every realm to its extreme.
Lei Chong left the stone chamber and walked along the lush green passage toward the exit.
The Kunpeng Nest had not yet broken apart, and he could not break through the Demon Transformation Cave.
He could only leave the Kunpeng Nest through the entrance he had used to come in.
At the exit of the Demon Transformation Cave, golden and dark lights spun, resembling a golden roc soaring through the sky and a pitch-black kun fish swishing its tail.
As soon as Lei Chong approached, the two lights shot toward him.
Sizzle!
Runes rose from Lei Chong's body, blocking most of the light.
The remaining light pierced through the runes and shot straight at his body.
He made no attempt to dodge, allowing the light to strike him.
The instant the light hit Lei Chong, countless patterns rose from his body, blocking every ray and reducing them to nothingness.
He had encountered many dangerous restrictions while exploring the Kunpeng Nest. It was also then that he discovered he possessed magic immunity.
Lei Chong studied it for a long time and discovered that his magic immunity could only negate a portion of an attack; he had to withstand the rest himself.
Just how much he could negate depended on the difference between the two sides' realms.
He could even become completely immune to magical attacks from those below his realm.
This ability was constantly active and did not need him to trigger it.
Lei Chong had pondered the matter for a long time and made a few guesses. Perhaps this ability had something to do with the seal in the chaos.
Over the long years from the previous era until now, his body had absorbed quite a bit of chaos and taken on its properties.
And all the restrictions in the Demon Transformation Cave were suppressed to the Inscription Realm.
Against spells of that level, he could counter some with his own magic and negate another portion with his immunity, leaving them unable to hurt him.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Several more rays of light burst from the vortex and slammed hard into Lei Chong's body.
Yet they all vanished like stones sinking into the sea, without raising the slightest ripple.
Lei Chong strode into the vortex, allowing the runes to wash over him. They could no longer hurt him in the slightest.
In a magnificent, vast hall stood a grayish-brown altar, as large as a small mountain and exceedingly ancient in appearance.
A raised platform stood atop the altar. On it lay a golden bone marked with black stripes.
Several mysterious medicinal plants also grew at the foot of the altar.
Rumble!
A tremendous noise rang out, and the altar trembled slightly.
The platform slowly rose, revealing a pitch-black opening.
A black-clad youth stepped out of the dark opening with steady strides.
Rumble!
After another tremendous noise, the platform returned to its original position.
Lei Chong walked down the altar one step at a time, arriving at the foot of the altar mountain.
More than a dozen medicinal plants grew beneath the altar, giving off a rich medicinal fragrance.
The Kun Peng had planted those medicinal plants at the altar's foot on a whim. Unexpectedly, after so much time, they had grown into divine and sacred medicines.
In the end, Lei Chong could not resist. He picked several of the divine and sacred medicines to use in his future cultivation.
Only one plant remained, and it was the poorest of them all, a quasi-sacred medicine.
Rumble!
A rumble sounded, and the hall began to shake gently. Even its doors showed signs of opening.
"It can't really be such a coincidence, can it?" Looking at the doors that were about to open, Lei Chong's face filled with a bitter smile.
He had never expected that just as he prepared to leave, those people would block his way.
But on second thought, he felt it was reasonable. In the original story, the black paper boat had appeared after the Kunpeng Nest opened.
For Lei Chong, the most pressing matter now was to find a way to avoid the eyes of the people outside.
Otherwise, if they rushed in and truly trapped him inside, leaving would no longer be so simple.
Although he feared no one in the Kunpeng Nest, being trapped in the hall would surely bring him endless trouble.
If it really came to that, the experts of the great sects would all come out to obtain the Kun Peng Precious Technique. Even sect masters from the Upper Realm would descend.
So, to avoid repeating the Thunder Emperor's fate, he had to think of a way out as soon as possible.
Having put the medicinal plants away, it was time to consider how to leave.
Lei Chong sat beneath the altar with a frown, pondering a way out.
Suddenly, Lei Chong's eyes lit up. He had thought of a plan.
He quickly sat down cross-legged, and ten heavenly passages appeared around him, forming a ring that enclosed him tightly.
Lei Chong's body gave off a faint glow inside the ring, and streams of powerful life essence Qi flowed continuously into him.
Hum!
One heavenly passage trembled lightly, and a black steel whip flew out. At the same time, patterns streamed forth and landed in front of Lei Chong.
The patterns swiftly gathered, forming an ordinary-looking man.
The spirit body reached out and caught the black steel whip in his hand.
Lei Chong had prepared for the worst. At most, he would abandon this spirit body.
An ordinary spirit body like this was easy to nurture. Even if it was utterly reduced to ashes, it would not affect him much.
Hum!
Two other heavenly passages flickered at the same time, and two figures emerged from them.
Lightning flashed around one, making him look like a thunder god descending from the nine heavens. The other was a Kun Peng, its body shimmering with dark and golden light.
Both were Lei Chong's spirit bodies, nurtured into being through the Thunder Emperor Technique and the Kunpeng Method.
A moment later, the runes of the two spirit bodies withdrew, and they took on the appearance of ordinary people. Even their facial features changed somewhat.
He had nurtured the two spirit bodies for several years, and they had long since approached a perfect state.
Their combat strength was not much weaker than his.
Rumble!
The hall shook even more violently, and a muffled noise came from the enormous doors.
"They're here." Lei Chong's expression turned solemn as he stared at the hall's doors.
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