396: Chapter 396 Is this all there is to innate lightning patterns?

"I have stepped into the Immortal path for decades, and you are the first person to force me to use the Innate Thunder Mark!"

Lan Ling spread his hands, his body slowly floating up. Blazing lightning radiance swirled around him, setting him off as incomparably majestic.

His tone was cold, carrying intense killing intent: "Being able to die under my strongest Divine Ability is your honor!"

"Heavenly Thunder — Tribulation Annihilation!"

Crackle!!

The Innate Thunder Mark on Lan Ling's forehead glowed, resonating with heaven and earth. The dark clouds above the firmament surged violently, and bolts of blazing, terrifying heavenly thunder crashed down!

This was not formed by Lan Ling's immortal power, but real Heavenly Tribulation lightning, mobilized by Lan Ling's Innate Thunder Mark. This was the mighty power of heaven and earth!

The power of this strike was quite terrifying, far exceeding the limit of the first level of the True Immortal Realm; it was no less than Undergoing Tribulation!

"Hiss! The Innate Thunder Mark can actually invoke tribulation lightning to attack the enemy; this is too terrifying!"

"Only when breaking through to the Heavenly Immortal Realm does one need to undergo tribulation; who in the True Immortal Realm or Earth Immortal Realm can withstand tribulation lightning!"

"It's over, this great Devil King is going to be unlucky!"

"If he doesn't have life-saving means, I'm afraid he'll be in mortal danger!"

Cultivators from all sides in Leiming City gasped, inwardly shocked!

Even Feng Zizhen had a solemn expression, breaking into a cold sweat for Ji Taichang.

Only the woman in the red dress had a calm expression, with no trace of worry on her face.

Boom!!

Dozens to hundreds of bolts of tribulation lightning descended from the sky. The roaring of the thunder was deafening and blindingly bright, all locking onto Ji Taichang, carrying the power to destroy the heavens and earth!

Ji Taichang did not dodge or evade, and did not even use any Divine Ability or techniques to resist, letting the sky-filling tribulation lightning strike his body!

"He actually chose to take the tribulation lightning head-on. Is he crazy!?"

"Such terrifying tribulation lightning, even ordinary True Immortal Realm experts can't withstand it; even if he doesn't die, he will definitely be seriously injured!"

"It seems this battle is about to end."

"The Devil King is strong, but unfortunately, he is too conceited..."

Many Cultivators in Leiming City sighed, not believing that Ji Taichang could withstand these tribulation lightning bolts.

But a small number of older powerhouses like Feng Zizhen stood up abruptly, their eyes wide open!

They could see through the blazing lightning radiance and clearly saw the bolts of tribulation lightning striking Ji Taichang, but they saw mysterious cyan brilliance and white light flickering faintly on Ji Taichang's body. Those tribulation lightning bolts were actually instantly submerged into Ji Taichang's body, forcibly swallowed and refined by him!

Ji Taichang twisted his neck, his bones crackling, and under the tempering of the tribulation lightning, he actually became quite a bit stronger!

The tribulation lightning of the Immortal Realm was indeed many times stronger than the Heavenly Tribulation of the Qingling Realm, acting as a very good tempering agent for Ji Taichang's physique.

As the blazing tribulation lightning slowly dissipated, Ji Taichang appeared in front of everyone, completely unharmed.

Leiming City instantly fell into a deathly silence!

Even Lan Ling's pupils shook violently, shocked to the point of facial distortion: "Impossible... This is impossible!!"

"This was Heavenly Tribulation lightning I summoned using the Innate Thunder Mark. Even someone at the fourth or fifth level of the True Immortal Realm couldn't block it. How could you be completely unharmed!"

"You must have used a Magic Treasure exceeding the True Immortal Realm to protect your body. You cheated! You violated the rules of the disciple recruitment assembly!!"

Lan Ling let out a hysterical scream, unable to believe that his strongest killing move had been taken head-on by Ji Taichang!

"This is because you are too weak, trash!"

Ji Taichang's cold voice rang out like a ghost.

Before Lan Ling could recover, Ji Taichang had already rushed in front of him and slashed down with his sword!

Lan Ling hastily held his long spear horizontally to block, and was then slashed and sent flying dozens of zhang away by Ji Taichang's sword.

Ji Taichang's figure was ghostly, and streaks of Sword Qi bloomed one after another, incomparably sharp!

Lan Ling had no fighting spirit left and was injured, so he was soon beaten until he was covered in blood, very miserable, and could only retreat while fighting.

"Young Master, I will help you!"

Seeing this, Qin Shishi immediately activated the power of her Mystic Yin Physique. Streaks of astonishing cold air spread, causing Lan Ling's body to stiffen and his immortal power to seem to stagnate, unable to circulate smoothly.

Ji Taichang slashed his sword at Lan Ling's head!

Under the intense life-and-death crisis, Lan Ling roared, forced to burn his life and essence blood. His whole person instantly turned into a bolt of lightning, his speed soaring, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed thousands of zhang away, running away extremely fast.

Ji Taichang and Qin Shishi had not yet broken through to the True Immortal Realm and could not fly, so they could not catch up to him.

However, after this battle, Lan Ling was seriously injured, and his aura as a top Prodigy of the Liefeng Immortal Prefecture was trampled underfoot by Ji Taichang!

In Leiming City, the faces of the Lan Family members were as gloomy as if they were about to drip water, looking very ugly.

The Cultivators of other forces were in an uproar, shocked and amazed!

"First he pressed Fairy Luo down to spank her, then he took the tribulation lightning head-on, and now he is suppressing Lan Ling... Hiss! Where did such a monstrous Devil King pop out from?"

"With such talent and strength, wouldn't it be more than enough to join those top Daoist traditions in Tianlan Province? Why did he come to participate in the Benlei Sect's disciple recruitment assembly?"

"This child will definitely become a great power in the future!"

"This child has the bearing of an Immortal Venerable!"

"Damn it! This Devil King's strength is so terrifying, how am I supposed to avenge Fairy Luo..."

People were discussing heatedly, and many flexible-minded Cultivators were already planning how to befriend the Devil King.

"A bit interesting."

The woman in the red dress chuckled, leaned back, lay obliquely in the air, picked up her wine gourd, and drank on her own.

In the following time.

Ji Taichang and Qin Shishi were like a hot knife through butter, sweeping up a large number of leiming tokens all the way, leading the other Cultivators by a huge margin.

Along the way, some Cultivators who didn't know any better tried to snatch leiming tokens from Ji Taichang, and then they were casually sent away by Ji Taichang.

A day passed in the blink of an eye.

"The disciple recruitment assembly assessment is over!!"

As Feng Zizhen's old and thick voice slowly rang out, a booming sound came from the Leiming Secret Realm, and all the Cultivators inside were forcibly teleported out, returning to Leiming City.

Feng Zizhen said with a smile: "Everyone, please take out your leiming tokens."

When everyone took out all the leiming tokens from their Storage Rings, Feng Zizhen scanned them with his Divine Sense and instantly knew the number of leiming tokens each person had.

In Leiming City, many Cultivators also looked over one after another.

When they saw the leiming tokens piled up into a small mountain beside Ji Taichang and Qin Shishi, everyone's mouth corners twitched slightly.

The Cultivators in Leiming City were fine, as they had witnessed the whole process of how Ji Taichang swept up the leiming tokens.

But Luo Yulian, Lan Ling, and other Cultivators who participated in the disciple recruitment assembly were struck as if by lightning!!

"So many?!"

"This, this is at least one hundred thousand or eighty thousand leiming tokens? How is this possible!!"

"Fairy Luo and Lin Ben only collected three thousand or so. Why do they have one hundred thousand or eighty thousand? Is this right??"

"Fake, right?"

"I suspect they cheated! They cheated —"

"Elder Feng, you must strictly investigate them!!"

Many young Cultivators exploded, in an uproar, unable to believe it!