Chapter 469 — The Crafty Old Ghost
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In the brief instant the eight thousand flying swords stabbed into the Five Thunder Pot, heaven and earth abruptly fell into a profound stillness; not a sound could be heard—even the swords striking the pot made no noise at all. Then the space above the Five Thunder Pot exploded, tearing open a scar of thunder.
The black trace of lightning spread upward, blasting open a deeper space, surging toward the heavens.
The Palace Lord of the True Heaven Palace stood before the palace gate and saw that black lightning writhe like a dragon baring its claws; then, before her watching eyes, the black thunder split apart, and a radiance of incomparable brilliance shot up into the sky like a swarm of dragons.
In that single instant, the black thunder divided into ten thousand strands, like ten thousand dragons charging into the high sky; yet in the next instant, those ten thousand dragons split into ten thousand times ten thousand. A cloud of incomparable brilliance, woven of thunder, hung high before the True Heaven Palace; the Five Thunder Pot floated in the air, and more and more thunder kept bursting upward, pouring into the thundercloud.
And behind the thundercloud, Fu Yunxi led tens of thousands of women of the Fu family in the exercise of their divine powers, stirring the thundercloud and driving it toward the True Heaven Palace! Her expression changed drastically, and she hastily reached out to seize the Black Tortoise Pearl that the Yu family elder was channeling.
Before her hand could close on the Black Tortoise Pearl, that dreadful thundercloud had already arrived before the True Heaven Palace. Wherever it passed, the phenomena conjured by the White Tiger Pearl, the Vermilion Bird Pearl, and the Black Tortoise Pearl all crumbled to nothing: the sea evaporated, the sea of fire was extinguished, the mountain of gold collapsed.
Boom!
The first bolt of thunder fell, striking straight at the True Heaven Palace with a thunderous roar, smashing into a divine statue.
The fall of that single bolt was like a spark dropping into a cauldron of boiling oil, igniting it in an instant; or like the first raindrop before a torrential downpour—hard on its heels came a billion bolts of thunder rending the sky and pouring down, drowning the whole of the True Heaven Palace! "Black Tortoise Divine Shield—" The Palace Lord of the True Heaven Palace cried out fiercely, desperately channeling the Black Tortoise Pearl; the enormous Black Tortoise Divine Shield hummed and swelled, becoming a vast tortoise-shell shield spread before the whole breadth of the True Heaven Palace.
Boom— Countless bolts of thunder exploded, hacking at the Black Tortoise Divine Shield; the shield was compressed and shrank without cease, and the Palace Lord spat blood, holding on with all her might.
The Black Tortoise Divine Shield could no longer protect all the disciples of the True Heaven Palace; a boundless ocean of thunderstorm poured in around the shield's edges, and countless women of the True Heaven Palace were annihilated to ash within it!
Even the eight divine statues whose aura rivaled the gods could not withstand the thunderstorm; one after another they charged at the thundercloud, and beneath its bombardment their limbs melted away, streaming down as molten gold and bronze! Xiong Qi'er watched the True Heaven Palace from afar; it had become a vast ocean of thunder, countless bolts erupting at once, blindingly white. Previously she had been channeling the Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl to hold off the other three great spirit treasures; now that the might of those three had been destroyed by the thundercloud, the pressure on her eased greatly, and she could catch her breath.
"Qi'er, the Azure Dragon belongs to thunder.
" Xiong Xiyu suddenly appeared behind her and said softly, "Let us mother and daughter use the Azure Mystic Water Dragon Pearl to send our enemies to their graves. " "Mother!
" Xiong Qi'er was startled and delighted.