Romance of the Heavenly Gate
Chapter 99

The Seventh Thunder God

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"I've always had a question for you," the Hu Mang, spitting out blood and laughing loudly.

"According to the inheritance I received, weren't you the first one to be born? Logically speaking, you should be the true form of the Thunder God. How did you end up in this state, suffering from amnesia and having an avatar?"

"Is that the Thunder God's true form, which hasn't been unsealed yet, you?"

Gong Lei did not answer. Instead, thunderclouds covered the entire Demon-Subduing City, with streaks of heavenly tribulation lightning crisscrossing and forming a dense network within them.

The lightning of heavenly tribulation is completely different from ordinary lightning; it contains an aura that makes living beings tremble.

Hu Mang's gaze sharpened, his spear trembled, and in the next moment, he unleashed the Three Devil-Subduing Forms simultaneously: Heavenly Star Falls, Fire Phoenix Scorches the Plains, and Qian Yang Subdues Devils.

This time, however, the three techniques were completely integrated into one through the evolution of spear techniques.

The trajectory of the falling star, carrying the prairie fire of the phoenix, finally converged at the core of the blazing sun in Qianyang, unifying the three elements into one!

At the tip of the spear, a point of golden light, condensed to its extreme, shone brightly, as if a new star was being born. The light was not dazzling, but it carried a penetrating power that could pierce through all illusions, pointing directly at the core of the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Net.

The Thunder Net was torn apart in an instant. However, just like a heavenly tribulation, if a cultivator's cultivation has not broken through, then the heavenly tribulation will never stop, just like a perpetual motion machine.

Almost instantly, the Thunder Net was repaired once again and began to envelop and strangle the Hu Mang.

The center of the Hu Mang's brow lit up once more, the light of the Demon-Subduing Divine Runes so intense it was almost transparent, as if a miniature sun was burning there.

His divine fire suddenly surged, transforming into a golden pillar of light that shot into the sky, forcefully blocking the closing Thunder Net. The lightning and divine fire collided fiercely at the boundary, producing sizzling and crackling sounds, with waves of energy rising higher and higher in the space.

"The key point, the key point."

The Hu Mang's fox-like eyes darted around, and it was certain that there was an irreparable, fatal flaw in the Thunder Net before it—an unhealable wound left by the previous generation of Devil-Subduing Heavenly Soldier.

He may not be able to break through the Thunder Net like the previous generation in a short time, but as long as he finds this key point, he can definitely determine the outcome of the battle.

Yin Eye, Demon Eye, Heavenly Eye, Eye of the Tribulation Dragon!

Hu Mang's four pupil techniques were pushed to their limits in the same instant! Multiple overlapping phantoms appeared on the surface of his eyeballs, each phantom corresponding to a different visual dimension: Yin Eye saw through the flow of Ghost Qi, Demon Eye discerned the veins of Spiritual Qi, Heavenly Eye penetrated the boundary between reality and illusion, and the Eye of the Tribulation Dragon directly saw the source of Tribulation Fortune.

Furthermore, their perception, which was originally at the Primordial Spirit level, was enhanced once again, becoming even more acute and profound.

That's strange. The speed at which the "Eye of the Tribulation Dragon" absorbs calamity has suddenly increased tenfold. Does that mean Gong Lei's identity is crucial?

Originally, after the Hu Mang entered the game and left, the Dragon Eye began to absorb the calamity again. Moreover, because this calamity had reached a critical point where destruction was necessary for creation, it absorbed an exceptionally large amount of calamity power.

Just now, the Hu Mang absorbed the equivalent of two "Tribulation Eye" of tribulation power.

Now, this absorption began to surge again, as if all the Tribulation Fortune in the sky were being taken into view. The vision in the Hu Mang's eyes expanded once more, surpassing the dark clouds and thunder, surpassing the evolution of the heavenly tribulation, and once again sank into the darkness.

This time, however, the Hu Mang saw the "darkness" clearly.

In the darkness, a coffin lay.

Coffin?

The coffin was open, and inside it was the corpse of a woman.

The woman, dressed in white, lay peacefully with her hands clasped at her waist, her long hair cascading down her back.

However, the face of the corpse was none other than Gong Lei!

The corpse is Gong Lei?! Then who is the one outside?

Was that female Thunder God dead?

Hu Mang was completely dumbfounded.

And in that instant of emotional fluctuation, a flaw suddenly appeared.

The next moment, a deluge of lightning struck!

The world was bathed in daylight.

Caught off guard, Hu Mang was blasted away, crashing through two walls before finally coming to a stop, creating a huge dent in the third wall.

The divine fire on his body was greatly diminished by that attack, its light dimmed considerably, like a candle flame swept by a gale, flickering uncertainly.

"So, I'm looking for your weakness, and you're looking for mine," Hu Mang stood up, wiping the blood from his chin. Half of his face was bleeding, and his "Demon-Subduing True Armor" had been blasted through by the attack.

"You've found it, haven't you? Even 'Divine Office Burning' has its limits. Once you've exhausted the divine fire it produced, I'll never have another chance!"

He smiled, a smile that looked somewhat sinister against his blood-stained face.

He appeared to be seriously injured, with blood gushing out, but he knew that nine out of ten times, that attack had struck the divine fire on his body.

Faced with Gong Lei's mysterious reappearance and her slow approach towards him, Hu Mang made an unexpected move. He raised both hands and smiled at the female Thunder God opposite him.

"Okay, I surrender. I admit my marksmanship isn't good enough to break through your Thunder Net in a short time, so sorry, I'm going to cheat."

Then, a strange "magical Law Artifact," or rather, a "remote control Law Artifact," suddenly appeared on his left hand.

Although the pursuit of unmanned operation has become an inevitable trend in Heavenly Gate, it does not mean that the development of all unmanned Law Artifact is reliable. For example, the remote control switch on the Spirit Electricity Converter.

What's the use of remote access? If something goes wrong, the engineer will still have to come and fix it in Law Artifact.

Moreover, these spiritual energy conversion devices all require personnel to be stationed there 24 hours a day.

After all, some Law Artifact factories cannot be shut down; stopping and restarting them would cost an enormous amount of Spirit Stone.

With Law Artifact engineer on-site, what's the point of having remote control?

However, here, this seemingly pointless act of taking off one's pants to fart actually served an unexpected purpose.

The next moment, as Hu Mang pressed the switch, a special magical Law Artifact the size of a water vat suddenly hummed not far from the Thunderfire Furnace in the Tempering Treasury. A large amount of Spiritual Qi was transferred into this magical Law Artifact through the Spiritual Qi pipeline at the copper pipe interface below the Thunderfire Furnace.

The spiritual pressure of this energy converter instantly exploded, and thick smoke billowed out of the Law Artifact.

Old Chen, who had already turned the power up to the maximum, stared in disbelief at the scene. As a fiery red crack appeared, the old man turned and ran without saying a word, shouting as he ran.

"When you told me to install this, you didn't say it would explode!"

A beam of light shot into the sky from the center of the treasury!

This seemingly triggered a chain reaction: pillars of Spiritual Qi shot into the sky from the Fire House Cat Garden, the Demon-Subduing Drill Ground- Sha-Subduing Commander's Manor, the Evil-Expelling Altar, the Demon-Suppressing Mysterious Treasury -Suppressing Mysterious Treasure Vault, the Rebirth Shrine, and the Tempering Treasury. These tides, evolved from high-level Spiritual Qi, surged into the thunderclouds.

The thunderclouds seemed to transform into clouds of Spiritual Qi in an instant.

This change alarmed everyone, both inside and outside the city.

Hu Mang, who was prepared, rose from the ground without saying a word, transforming into a beam of divine light and heading straight for one of the clouds.

For the first time, a strange look appeared on Gong Lei's expressionless face. She followed closely behind and chased after her.

She seemed to know what the Hu Mang was going to do; with a sweeping grab from afar, layers of darkness began to engulf the Hu Mang.

Hu Mang knew this was the most crucial moment. He took a deep breath, made up his mind, and the next moment, his divine fire surged once again. Instead of retreating, the flames advanced and crashed directly into the darkness.

At the critical moment, the Hu Mang sacrificed the divine fire Divine Office Burning, using it to break into the clouds.

But without this divine sacrifice, how could the other side control such a vast amount of Spiritual Qi?

A hint of doubt flashed in Gong Lei's eyes, but her movements did not slow down much. Enveloped in darkness, she forcefully absorbed the flames. One after another, charred cracks appeared on the female Thunder God's body, but only a few breaths later, she once again charged into the Spiritual Qi clouds.

However, she was soon sent flying backwards from the clouds.

The body had even more charred and cracked marks.

Meanwhile, the Spiritual Qi clouds in the sky quickly turned black, transforming into rolling dark clouds, which began to press down on the city inch by inch.

In an instant, a terrifying aura filled the entire Demon-Subduing City, sending chills down everyone's spines.

Outside the city walls, the usually composed Daoist Yun Shuo was visibly taken aback for the first time. Even the surroundings seemed quieter now. He stared wide-eyed for a moment, then blurted out, "The Unity of Heaven and Man of Unity of Heaven and Man and man, and without any warning at all! How is this possible?!"

In fact, the succession of the previous generation of Devil-Subduing Heavenly Soldier was an accident.

The plan prepared by Hu Mang didn't take this into account at all.

However, the legacy of the Devil-Subduing Heavenly Soldier did indeed give his plan more room for trial and error.

At least everyone thought that he had simply inherited the mission of the previous generation of Devil-Subduing Heavenly Soldier.

But in fact, if that woman hadn't been using a gun, he might not have even wanted to become Devil-Subduing Heavenly Soldier.

The "Eye of the Tribulation Dragon" released all the calamities it had absorbed, and in a short time, it controlled more than one Primordial Spirit- level Spiritual Qi.

Then, Hu Mang took out a special object—a blank square seal.

This was the third "good cat" property he acquired while "freeloading" domestic cats at the Cat Garden.

The purpose of this square seal is to randomly appoint a ninth-rank official in the Jade Firmament Divine Dynasty.

However, under the calamity of the "Eye of the Tribulation Dragon," this blank square seal began to change, gradually transforming into a lightning seal.

Far from the main battlefield, He Chang stared in astonishment at his own body, where his blue face and fangs began to crumble little by little, and the lightning patterns on his body began to disappear.

The power of "Thunder Official" is slowly disappearing from his body.

"Devil-Subduing Heavenly Soldier" were never Hu Mang's target; "Thunder Official" was.

To be precise, it's Thunder God who is!!

Why kill the Thunder God? He wants to be the Thunder God!!!

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