Soul Emperor Martial God

Chapter 782: Chapter 782: Sudden Mutation

Xiao Yi didn’t know when he had closed his eyes.

The rampant lightning and the intense roar did not distract him in the least.

He stepped back ever so slightly.

After retreating a dozen steps or so, he paused, and after several seconds, he began to retreat again.

He was actually retreating instead of advancing.

Moving forward, the power, speed, and density of the lightning increased exponentially.

Retreating, on the other hand, everything seemed to weaken, making things seem more relaxed.

Having retreated nearly a hundred meters, his steps halted once more.

This time, he did not continue to move back.

He was testing the safe distance and judging how much his physical body could withstand.

Within this range, his physical body alone could withstand the surrounding lightning.

However, the hundred-meter distance he had struggled and gotten injured to advance through was now in vain.

Of course, Xiao Yi didn’t care about this at the moment.

He was closing his eyes, feeling the lightning all around him.

Even as he continued to retreat, he was still perceiving with great focus.

Through this detailed sensing, he was almost entirely certain that there were indeed patterns in the dense lightning of the Thunder Pool.

But these patterns, Xiao Yi could not completely decipher at the moment.

Xiao Yi continued to perceive on his own.

The surrounding lightning struck him, crackling as it hit.

Xiao Yi had already used Asura Transformation to amplify his physical strength and activated the Ice Pattern to boost the Protective Primordial Power granted by his Cultivation.

Not only did the lightning not hurt him.

But after most of its power was neutralized, it hit him, tempering his body.

Time gradually passed.

Xiao Yi remained absorbed in his perception, and without realizing it, he even entered a state of sudden enlightenment.

Half an hour... two hours... four hours...

Although Xiao Yi’s eyes were closed, the raging and wandering lightning around him was all within his perception.

It was unclear how much time had passed.

The silent Xiao Yi suddenly moved.

First, it was his feet.

Just then, a fierce bolt of lightning thundered down from above.

Tap... Xiao Yi’s step just moved sideways.

Boom... The lightning struck just half a meter away from him, not a fraction more, not a hair less.

Boom... Boom... Boom...

The lightning did not stop because Xiao Yi dodged; it continued to thunder down as intensely as ever.

Xiao Yi’s steps moved again, as if by instinct, shifting naturally.

Tap... Tap... Tap...

Boom... Boom... Boom...

Xiao Yi’s feet shifted several times; the thundering lightning fell beside him but did not harm him in the least.

”So that’s how it is,” Xiao Yi murmured to himself.

Whoosh... Whoosh... Whoosh...

After being silent for several hours, Xiao Yi resumed the shuttling he had started with.

And unlike before, when he either dodged with extreme speed or withstood the lightning, this time it was a pure weaving through the lightning, exactly like the shuttling to the distance of five thousand meters at the edge earlier.

The lightning, all dodged by him.

The hundred-meter distance he had retreated earlier was instantly reclaimed by him moving forward.

After one hundred meters, Xiao Yi continued to move forward, but his speed suddenly slowed down.

With every hundred meters passed, the power of the lightning increased sharply.

Xiao Yi’s speed had slowed, but after a short while, he sped up again, resuming his original shuttling speed.

As he moved forward, he also continued to perceive.

The further he advanced, the greater the power of the lightning and the more apparent the feeling of that mysterious rule’s power became.

Several tens of meters later, Xiao Yi’s speed decreased again.

However, not long afterward, he resumed again.

After about ten minutes, Xiao Yi had advanced another hundred meters.

After one hundred meters, his speed decreased once more, then resumed again.

It took about ten minutes for every hundred meters passed.

Half an hour later, Xiao Yi was only the last hundred meters away from the Wind Thunder Holy Fruit.

Xiao Yi’s eyes were still closed, but his steps were as smooth and flowing as drifting clouds and flowing water.

The footsteps became more mystical and unpredictable.

It seemed to be a kind of step technique.

Just like before, when Xiao Yi covered that five-kilometer distance, he relied on the Wandering Cloud Kill Step.

But now, the mysteriousness of the step technique clearly surpassed the Wandering Cloud Kill Step.

Gradually, his step technique began to appear indescribable.

From the beginning, the thunder landed just half a meter beside him, but now, every bolt of lightning almost grazed him by a mere centimeter.

It felt like the lightning was falling, skimming closely to his clothes, passing right by his shoulders.

Thus far, the further he advanced, the more dense the lightning became, yet it was unable to harm him in the slightest.

Another ten minutes passed.

Xiao Yi suddenly opened his eyes, with only ten meters left to the Wind Thunder Holy Fruit.

It seemed within arm’s reach, almost touchable.

But at that moment, Xiao Yi’s expression drastically changed.

Because, in the depths of the distant Thunder Pool, a terrifying presence was evidently awakening.

An overwhelming murderous intent came rushing, instantly locking onto Xiao Yi.

That intense murderous intent, swirling with demon energy, proved that this was an elite demon beast.

”Wind Thunder Winged Lion King,” Xiao Yi’s face paled.

Whoosh...

Xiao Yi’s pace abruptly quickened.

With the mysterious step technique, he easily dodged the dense lightning.

The ten-meter distance was closed in a flash.

Just as Xiao Yi was about to reach for the Wind Thunder Holy Fruit,

In the distance, a terrifying bolt of lightning, surrounded by a green glow and fierce Gang Wind, came hurtling at an extremely fast speed.

The swiftness of the wind, the violence of the lightning, the terrifying attack transmitted from afar was filled with a bone-chilling destructive aura.

Almost instantly, Xiao Yi knew that this bolt of lightning, even though struck from a vast distance, could seriously injure him or even put his life in grave danger.

But he still bit down and reached out for the Wind Thunder Holy Fruit; at the same time, his mind connected with the Eight Dragons Burning Fire Furnace inside the Universe Ring.

He was ready for a fierce battle.

However, just as his hand touched the Wind Thunder Holy Fruit, an inexplicable force suddenly enveloped him.

Before he had time to react, his figure flashed and vanished from the spot.

There, the incoming bolt of lightning streaked through, as if it had struck the air.

At the same moment, a huge creature appeared instantaneously.

It was the Wind Thunder Winged Lion King.

The Wind Thunder Winged Lion King looked around at the empty surroundings, showing a puzzled expression.

...

Elsewhere, Xiao Yi’s figure flashed, suddenly reappearing.

As he stabilized his stance, he frowned and looked around, ”Subspace?”

”Sure enough, I didn’t guess wrong. It’s a secret realm.”

This place was clearly not inside the Thunder Pool but rather a subspace.

Rather than call the dense lightning in the Thunder Pool exceedingly dangerous, it was more of a tribulation.

Previously, within those thunderbolts, Xiao Yi’s enhanced perception distinctly sensed an obscure rule power.

And within this rule power, it contained elements of Martial Arts Power.

Xiao Yi had grasped these Martial Arts Powers, which was why his step technique seemed mystical before, allowing him to easily dodge the lightning attacks.

However, this step technique was not complete.

Xiao Yi had then recalled the hand techniques at the various barriers in the Fengxu Secret Realm, where deciphering the hand technique allowed entry to the next level.

Clearly, the Thunder Pool was the same.

After contemplating that step technique, Xiao Yi mysteriously arrived in this subspace.

”What kind of secret realm is this?” Xiao Yi frowned as he observed his surroundings.

Before he had time to think further, suddenly, thunder roared around him.

Countless bolts of lightning, like numerous Lei Tings, hurtled toward him in an instant.

”Not good,” Xiao Yi’s expression changed, and the Blizzard Sword materialized in his hand out of thin air.

Dozens of Sword Qi burst forth instantly.

However, as Sword Qi met the roaring lightning, they were instantly dispersed.

The ferocious lightning was not a bit weaker than the lightning shot by the Wind Thunder Winged Lion King earlier; in fact, it was even more intense.

Xiao Yi only had time to raise his sword to protect himself when he was immediately engulfed by numerous bolts of lightning.

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The first update.