134: Kui Niu Remains

The intense pain caused Di Jingzhe's vision to go black, and his internal organs felt as if they had shifted. A large mouthful of scalding blood, mixed with fragments of his internal organs, sprayed out wildly, staining the scorched clothes on his chest red!

The lightning-struck wood in his hand almost flew out, but he gripped it tightly, his knuckles turning white from the excessive force!

As for the Thunder Envoy, his figure only swayed slightly. The gaze beneath his silver mask was filled with cold mockery and a cat-and-mouse-like cruelty.

"An ant trying to shake a tree, overestimating your own strength." He snorted coldly, and silver-white electric sparks began to jump and condense at his fingertips once more.

To him, that previous strike had been nothing more than a casual display of crushing power.

However, just as Di Jingzhe's blood sprayed out, scattering like stars onto the damp ground filled with the aura of Yin Lightning and onto the scorched lightning-struck wood in his hand—

A sudden change occurred!

Buzz—!

A low, desolate aura suddenly erupted from the source of the violent vibrations deeper within the mine shaft!

This time, the pulsation was no longer just an aura, but carried a physical-like impact of will!

Like invisible ripples, it ignored the barriers of the rock layers and instantly swept through the entire Mine No. 9!

The scorched lightning-struck wood in Di Jingzhe's hand, which had originally only emitted a faint, resilient will, seemed to be instantly injected with a Soul after coming into contact with Di Jingzhe's blood, which contained the aura of the Thunder Spirit Origin!

"Crack! Crack!"

The fine cracks on the surface of the wood suddenly expanded!

Countless tiny wood chips rustled down!

An indescribable, ancient, primordial, and domineering thunder aura, like an Awakening primeval Vicious Beast, boomed out from within the lightning-struck wood!

That aura was so pure and majestic, carrying a supreme nobility that transcended mundane thunder!

It was no longer a trickling stream, but instantly transformed into a rushing torrent, violently surging into Di Jingzhe's arm!

"Ugh, ahhh—!!!" Di Jingzhe let out a long howl mixed with extreme pain and a strange sense of comfort!

The influx of power was too vast and too ancient!

It was no longer a gentle nourishment, but carried a tyrannical and unquestionable will of transformation!

He felt his entire body's Meridians, bones, flesh, and even every cell being forcibly torn and shattered by this violent primordial thunder essence, only to be instantly reshaped by a purer and more powerful thunder Origin!

The blue-purple thunder patterns on his body's surface flared with light, their color rapidly evolving into a deeper, more noble purple-gold!

His hair stood on end like burning purple flames, and from his pupils, two piercing purple-gold thunderous beams shot out!

Even more shocking was that this primordial thunder essence from the lightning-struck wood resonated strongly with the pulsation coming from deep within the mine shaft!

Rumble—!!!

The vibrations of the entire mine suddenly intensified tenfold!

It was as if a giant beast imprisoned deep underground for ten thousand years was frantically slamming against its cage!

Under the resonant impact of the two primordial thunder pressures, the rock wall behind Di Jingzhe, which had been covered in cracks from falling stones, let out a deafening sound of crumbling!

"Crack—Boom!!!"

The massive rock layers, covered in moss and black ore veins, collapsed completely like a decayed dam!

A deep, massive new passage, emitting a suffocatingly ancient aura and dark purple thunder light so dense it wouldn't dissipate, appeared behind Di Jingzhe!

The depths of the passage were not the darkness one would imagine.

The dark purple light flickered like breathing, illuminating everything within the cavern.

The first things to come into view were massive, forest-white skeletal remains scattered across the ground, shimmering with a metallic luster!

Those bones were as thick as giant pillars and strangely shaped, neither Dragon nor ox. Every single one was imprinted with naturally formed, complex, and profound dark purple thunder Dao patterns!

Even the scattered bone fragments emitted a terrifying aura as heavy as a mountain and as oppressive as a prison!

It was as if their owner had fed on thunder and used the stars as stepping stones during its life!

In the very center of the cavern, a relatively complete giant skeleton stood proudly like an eternal monument!

Its form vaguely resembled a one-legged giant ox magnified thousands of times. Its head was held high, facing the collapsed entrance, and its empty eye sockets seemed to still contain an unyielding will that looked down upon all living things!

The entire skeleton presented a dark gold hue tempered by ten thousand years of thunder. The thunder Dao patterns imprinted on its surface were complex to the extreme, as if they contained the most fundamental thunder law mysteries in the world!

At the skeleton's chest, a massive heart-shaped dark-gold crystal core, which retained only a faint luster yet still emitted a heart-palpitating pressure, was slowly pulsating!

With every pulse, it caused the dark purple thunder essence in the entire cavern to rise and fall like a tide, letting out a dull, thunderous roar!

The remains of a Kui Ox!

The primeval thunder beast from legends, born from Chaos, whose roar was like thunder, and whose movements were always accompanied by wind and rain!

Its remains were actually buried deep within the core of this Black Stone Thunder Prison's ore vein, having endured for untold tens of thousands of years!

The lightning-struck wood in Di Jingzhe's hand seemed to come alive at this moment!

It was no longer a dead object, but had transformed into a blazing purple-gold pillar of light!

A terrifying suction force erupted from the wood, greedily swallowing the pure thunder essence permeating the cavern!

At the same time, it was more like a key, a bridge!

Under the pressure of the primeval thunder beast's remains, Di Jingzhe's Thunder Spirit Origin, the resonance of the primordial will, and his blood containing his life imprint on the wood were forcibly connected and merged by the lightning-struck wood!

"Roar—!!!"

A thunderous roar that seemed to come from the ancient primordial era, filled with endless sorrow and unyielding spirit, suddenly erupted from Di Jingzhe's mouth!

This was not his voice, but the roar of the last remaining will of the Kui Ox remains contained within that piece of lightning-struck wood!

Accompanying this roar that spanned across time and space, a thick pillar of light composed purely of purple-gold primordial thunder essence shot out from the tip of the lightning-struck wood, accurately striking the slowly pulsating dark-gold heart crystal core in the chest of the giant Kui Ox skeleton!

Buzz—!!!

The crystal core suddenly erupted with an unprecedentedly brilliant light! The entire cavern was illuminated as if it were broad daylight!

A massive, pure torrent of information containing the Kui Ox's Bloodline Origin imprint and its lifelong insights into thunder laws poured wildly into Di Jingzhe's Sea of Consciousness through the lightning-struck wood, like a bursting river of stars!

Kui Thunder Shakes the World Art!

A Divine-Grade peak grade Cultivation Technique!

The natal Legacy of the thunder beast, the Kui Ox!

Peerlessly domineering, it breaks all laws with pure force and draws heavenly thunder to temper the body. Upon reaching Major Achievement, a single roar can shatter mountains and rivers, and a single step can trigger a Heavenly Tribulation!

Countless profound and complex thunder runes, ancient and desolate primordial scenes, and violent and domineering applications of thunder laws were forcibly carved into the depths of Di Jingzhe's Soul like an imprint!

Pain! A tearing, intense pain!

It felt as if his head was about to burst!

But following that was an unprecedented sense of power!

A sense of compatibility originating from his Bloodline Origin!

It was as if this technique was tailor-made for his newly awakened Thunder Spirit Body!

Under the infusion of this Origin power, his cultivation level soared wildly once again, as if riding a rocket!

Second-layer True Yuan Realm! Third-layer! Seventh-layer! Finally, it barely stabilized at the seventh-layer True Yuan Realm!

His aura was several times more powerful than before!

The thunder patterns on his body had completely transformed into a deep purple-gold, like flowing molten gold, emitting a majestic and domineering aura!