156: Thunder Palace Heritage

Xu Qi'an leaped up and arrived beside the nine lightning pillars.

Only seven of the nine lightning pillars still contained lightning. He didn't know if the other two bolts of lightning had left the pillars or had been intercepted long ago.

When Xu Qi'an arrived beside the lightning pillars, the remaining seven bolts of lightning immediately became agitated.

They then detached from the lightning pillars and shot towards Xu Qi'an.

Xu Qi'an snorted coldly, patted his storage bag, and a golden hoop appeared in his hand.

The golden hoop immediately emitted a brilliant golden light and collected the seven bolts of lightning.

These seven bolts of lightning were of different colors, and Xu Qi'an couldn't identify what kind of lightning they were for the time being.

Immediately, Xu Qi'an looked at the nine lightning pillars and had an idea: move these nine lightning pillars into the Time Crystal Stone Space.

Deciding to act immediately, Xu Qi'an approached the edge of the lightning pillars, used a large hand formed by spiritual power, and moved all the lightning pillars inside.

After doing all this, Xu Qi'an flew along the path in front of the square.

After flying for several hundred feet, Xu Qi'an suddenly discovered a massive palace in the distance.

"The Lei Palace's secret treasure should be inside here. There's no time to lose, let's speed up!"

Xu Qi'an immediately entered this palace filled with lightning.

As soon as he entered the palace, Xu Qi'an suddenly felt a chilling aura approaching.

He immediately unleashed his Divine Sense, sending it towards the direction the aura came from, and suddenly discovered a colossal beast covered in lightning.

This beast greatly resembled the legendary Qilin, except its entire body emanated lightning.

"This is... a Thunder Beast?"

This Thunder Beast seemed to have just woken up, staring at Xu Qi'an with fierce eyes, seemingly very angry at Xu Qi'an, the outsider.

Xu Qi'an sensed the Thunder Beast's aura, which was roughly at the Early Stage of the Combined Body Stage.

He then sneered twice, wasted no words, and directly cast the golden hoop. With a flash of golden light, the Thunder Beast's body was completely controlled.

Seeing that it was completely unable to move under the golden light, the Thunder Beast immediately spat out several lightning balls.

Xu Qi'an snorted coldly and raised his hand, unleashing several bolts of Golden Spirit Calamity Lightning.

Boom! The Golden Spirit Calamity Lightning collided with the Thunder Beast's lightning balls, and the might of the lightning immediately surged forth.

Just then, the entire palace seemed to be activated, flashing with brilliant lightning. In the center of the main hall, a figure suddenly appeared.

The Thunder Beast was instantly stunned and actually prostrated itself on the ground, bowing towards the ethereal figure.

Xu Qi'an narrowed his eyes slightly and also looked at the figure in the hall.

"Heh, I didn't expect that after such a long time, I could still find a Cultivator who can control Calamity Lightning!"

The ethereal figure looked kindly at Xu Qi'an and said in an ancient voice.

Xu Qi'an replied calmly, "Senior is joking. This Junior merely stumbled upon it by chance."

"However, is Senior perhaps the Master of this Lei Palace?"

"Master?" The ethereal old man smiled faintly.

"Sort of. In our era, people preferred to call me the Punisher of Thunder."

"Since you have mastered Calamity Lightning, you can be considered to have met the conditions for inheriting the Lei Palace."

"I will now leave the Lei Palace's secret treasure to you!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qi'an didn't feel particularly happy. Instead, he felt it was a bit too simple and immediately suspected there might be a trick involved.

"Senior, since you are so generous, are there no other requirements?"

The ethereal old man laughed heartily, "I am merely a remnant soul. The directive I received is to pass on the inheritance to whoever can control Calamity Lightning."

"Otherwise, what else could I do?"

"Am I supposed to make things difficult for you in every way?"

Then, the ethereal old man revealed a look of wistfulness: "When the inheritance was to be set up back then, the Lei Palace had already begun to decline."

"Presumably, in today's era, there is no longer any Lei Palace!"

Xu Qi'an understood after hearing this: "It seems Senior had anticipated this. Indeed, there is no Lei Palace in the current cultivation world."

The ethereal old man nodded slightly: "Destined one, I hope you can treat my Lei Palace's inheritance well."

As soon as he finished speaking, a white jade treasure box flickering with lightning appeared in front of the ethereal old man.

Immediately after, the white jade treasure box landed in front of Xu Qi'an.

Seeing this, Xu Qi'an didn't hesitate and immediately put the treasure box into his possession.

The ethereal old man sighed: "The decline of the Lei Palace back then was inseparable from the Dengxian Palace. There might be something you want to know inside this white jade treasure box."

"Also, this Thunder Beast sleeps most of the time, so it is still alive after more than a hundred thousand years. It can be considered a gift from my Lei Palace to you."

"Oh, by the way, its food is the Calamity Lightning you released just now!"

"As long as you have enough Calamity Lightning, perhaps it will become a good helper on your cultivation path."

"Oh, young friend, can you give me some of your Calamity Lightning?"

Seeing the old man's extremely eager expression, Xu Qi'an found it hard to refuse, especially since he had just taken his things.

Xu Qi'an immediately nodded and took out over twenty bolts of Golden Spirit Calamity Lightning from the Crystal Space.

The ethereal old man was instantly astonished at this sight.

Xu Qi'an rubbed his nose: "Senior, this is all the Calamity Lightning I have left for now, but I've given you more than half. Do you think it's enough?"

The ethereal old man laughed heartily: "That's more than enough, thank you, young friend."

"Alright, young friend, you should leave quickly, otherwise, it will be difficult to get away when the people from the Dengxian Palace arrive."

"That was my intention."

Xu Qi'an nodded.

Immediately after, he noticed the Thunder Beast next to him gently leaning over.

It sat on the ground and let out a few low roars at Xu Qi'an. It was clear that it had recognized Xu Qi'an as its Master.

Xu Qi'an smiled lightly.

He had previously planned to directly control the Thunder Beast with Divine Soul golden threads, but he didn't expect it to recognize him as its Master directly.

Immediately, Xu Qi'an took out a bolt of Golden Spirit Calamity Lightning from the Crystal Space.

The Thunder Beast immediately looked overjoyed, swallowed it in one gulp, and then let out a satisfied burp.

Xu Qi'an laughed: "It seems you really do eat Calamity Lightning!"

"Then don't worry, I have plenty of Calamity Lightning here!"

The Thunder Beast seemed to understand Xu Qi'an's words and circled around Xu Qi'an.

Xu Qi'an nodded in satisfaction and then put the Thunder Beast into the Crystal Space.

"Oh, by the way, Senior, can I take the remaining things in this hall?" Xu Qi'an asked.

The ethereal old man smiled: "Take them all. They won't be here anyway in the future."

Xu Qi'an smiled, cupped his fists in salute, and then took away everything in the palace that could be taken.

"Senior, then this Junior will take his leave first!"

The ethereal old man grunted and watched Xu Qi'an depart.

Immediately after, he looked at the Golden Spirit Calamity Lightning in his hand.

"With so much Calamity Lightning, I should at least kill a few Dengxian Palace Cultivators!"

...

Purple Profound Star, outside the Lei Palace.

Although the crowd had been reprimanded by Xu Qi'an and retreated several hundred feet away, hardly anyone left, seemingly waiting to take advantage of the chaos.

At this moment, a Cultivator who had rushed from another cultivation star shouted towards the many Cultivators who dared not cross the line.

"Fellow Daoists, are we really going to just watch that Cultivator take the Lei Palace's secret treasure?"

"What do you think, Sect Leader Zhang?"

Zhang Zixuan glanced over and sneered.

He was still feeling a lingering fear from being subjected to Xu Qi'an's Soul Searching technique earlier.

How could he possibly rush forward without reason now?

Moreover, with so many Refining Void Stage Cultivators guarding the front, anyone with a normal brain wouldn't be foolish enough to charge in.

He then sneered at the Cultivator: "Fellow Daoist Fang, if you are willing to be the first to charge, I will accompany you without a second thought, even if it costs my life."

Zhang Zixuan bluffed, and the middle-aged man in the green robe in front of him immediately fell silent.

Letting him go first was definitely not an option.

If they were going to charge, they had to go together, otherwise, becoming a target for those Refining Void Stage Cultivators would cost him his life.

As the two were talking, they suddenly saw a figure fly out of the Lei Palace before them.

"He came out so quickly?!"

Everyone was immediately astonished.

From the moment Xu Qi'an entered the Lei Palace until he came out, not even a quarter of an hour had passed.

Xu Qi'an glanced at the persistent crowd, snorted coldly, then put all the Soul Slaves into the Crystal Space, and transformed into a white streak of light shooting towards the horizon.

Seeing this, the crowd dared not pursue.

However, everyone saw the Lei Palace with its wide-open gate before them.

Zhang Zixuan immediately exchanged glances with the old man in the green robe.

"Do you think this Senior might have left us a little something?"

In the next instant, a massive swarm of Cultivators rushed in.

Regardless of what happened, they would go in and see first.