Sect: Starting with Comprehending Thunder Skill Chapter 1416 - 598: Signing the Contract

Unbeknownst to him, the seven demon kings had already surrounded him in a fan formation, each wearing a meaningful expression on their face.

"Honored seniors, may we begin now?"

Li Yunjing glanced around, finally resting his gaze on the Golden-winged Roc King.

"Let’s begin!"

The Golden-winged Roc King nodded, his voice heavy and deep.

All the demon kings simultaneously performed a hand gesture, injecting seven streams of demonic power into the valley, driving away the rolling thunder light to the side.

"Please, Fellow Daoist Li."

The Nine-tailed Demoness smiled charmingly, "Didn’t you come here years ago? You should be quite familiar with it."

"Senior is joking."

Li Yunjing’s pupils narrowed a bit, but he maintained his calm appearance: "I have never been here before!"

He walked slowly into the valley, where countless thunder lights fell upon him, only to feel like a spring breeze.

Rather than causing Li Yunjing pain, it made him feel even more comfortable.

As Li Yunjing delved deeper into the valley, the ferocious thunder light converged toward him like rivers returning to the sea.

His "Thunder Divine Body" activated automatically, forming a purple thunder ring around him that isolated the seven demon kings outside.

"This... this is the aura of a Top Grade Thunder Spirit Root!"

An elder with a white beard suddenly exclaimed.

"Just as expected!"

The Golden-winged Roc King’s three golden pupils contracted simultaneously: "No wonder he was able to trigger the anomaly in the valley back then! An ordinary cultivator would have long been struck dead by lightning."

Li Yunjing was too immersed to defend himself, as he discovered the "Celestial Thunder Stone" beneath his feet was violently trembling.

The seemingly chaotic patterns on the stone surface were resonating with the thunder spiritual power within his body.

"The ’Celestial Thunder Stone’ here is not just one piece! It’s like a small mountain overturned within the valley!"

In the past, Li Yunjing’s cultivation was too low to understand the situation here, but upon returning, he immediately realized the error in his judgment back then.

The true trump card of the "Demon Sealing Valley" was buried underground.

It wasn’t just the surface-level Eight Trigrams Diagram!

Li Yunjing took a deep breath, performed a hand gesture, and his internal thunder power began to operate at full strength.

Purple thunder patterns emanated from his palms, burrowing into the earth like spiritual serpents.

"Nine Heavens Draw Spirit!"

With a soft shout, the entire valley suddenly shook violently.

The ground cracked with countless fissures, and dazzling thunder light burst forth from these fractures.

The seven demon kings had no choice but to retreat to the outskirts of the valley, each revealing a look of intense astonishment.

"What is he doing?"

The Nine-tailed Demoness shrieked, "This is certainly not an unsealing method!"

"He’s collecting the ’Celestial Thunder Stone’!"

The Golden-winged Roc King’s three pupils exploded with golden light: "No! It’s not the ’Celestial Thunder Stone’, it’s the ’Celestial Thunder Stone Mountain’!"

"What a shame!"

"This kind of Supreme Treasure has fallen into Li Yunjing’s hands."

"Sigh..."

The other five demon kings also sighed heavily.

The "Celestial Thunder Stone" is a fine thing, a top-grade material, and now it’s with Li Yunjing, naturally they felt the loss keenly.

As for whether this was a treasure of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect"?

These demon kings didn’t care one bit!

In their territory, it belongs to them!

This is the mindset of a cultivator.

Only the contract had just been signed, preventing them from killing to seize the treasure, causing them heartache.

At this moment, Li Yunjing raised both hands reverently as a small mountain of entirely purple-black "Celestial Thunder Stone" slowly ascended from the ground.

"So this is it!"

Li Yunjing’s eyes flickered with thunder light, "This is the true secret of ’Demon Sealing Valley’!"

As the "Celestial Thunder Stone" mountain rose, a dense demon qi erupted from deep underground!

The threads of demon qi shot skyward, dazzling and colorful.

The terrifying force seemed almost to tear the sky apart, threatening to break out of the "Celestial Wave Star"!

"Capture!"

Li Yunjing’s lips curled slightly, releasing his "Purple Gold Gourd", and the mountain shrank visibly, eventually transforming into a purple-black Thunder Seal that disappeared into his spatial magical treasure.

With the last piece of "Celestial Thunder Stone Mountain" absorbed into the "Purple Gold Gourd", the entire "Youlan Mountain Range" suddenly trembled violently.

From deep within the Earth Veins came a roaring sound akin to dragon calls; countless pillars of spiritual energy burst forth from between the hills!

"Rumble!"

A giant wave of spiritual energy with a diameter of hundreds of meters shot into the sky, transforming into a seven-colored auspicious cloud overhead.

Within a radius of ten thousand miles, the concentration of spiritual energy instantly surged tenfold; those withered ancient trees sprouted new buds at a speed visible to the naked eye, and dried-up spiritual springs erupted anew.

"This... this is the true ’Youlan Mountain Range’!"

The Golden-winged Roc King let out a long howl toward the sky, with blood tears streaming from his three golden pupils.

The seven demon kings revealed their true forms, frolicking and rolling amidst the wave of spiritual energy.

Amidst the stunning resurgence of spiritual energy, Li Yunjing keenly sensed an anomaly.

Deep within the Earth Veins, not only spiritual energy surged, but also a faint aura of chaos!

"Something’s wrong!"

He swiftly made a hand gesture, causing his "Purple Gold Gourd" to tremble violently, "This ’Celestial Thunder Stone Mountain’ might be suppressing more than just the Spirit Vein..."

His words were abruptly cut off as a bottomless ravine suddenly split open across the mountain range.

A pitch-black giant claw covered in bizarre runes shot out, its claw tip entwined with suffocating chaos demon qi!

"This is... the claw of an ancient fierce beast Taotie?!"

The innate eight trigrams on the old man’s turtle shell flashed wildly, "Quick, retreat!"

"Boom..."

Heaven and earth trembled!

"So it turns out your ’Youlan Mountain Range’ royal lineage descends from the Taotie!"

As thunder light and demon qi intertwined, Li Yunjing laughed heartily at the sky, "I just wonder which generation of Taotie this is!"

Li Yunjing had seen many masters, including several from the pinnacle of the Nascent Soul Realm, and had even met Divinity Transformation Realm cultivators!

The presence of the Taotie race below revealed seven or eight Nascent Soul Realm presences to Li Yunjing, but no Divinity Transformation Realm presence!

This brought relief to his heart!

Without a Divinity Transformation Realm Demon Emperor, everything was still under control.