Translator: Cinder Translations
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"Please… don't kill me… Ah… Ah…"
The excruciating pain of being torn apart, with flesh being stripped layer by layer, made Lei Tianyu lose all pride as the scion of the Lei family. He repeatedly begged for mercy.
His cries were like the mournful roars of those cultivators he had previously consumed, akin to Sun Ru's desperate pleas before death.
His screams grew more desperate and hysterical.
Moments later, the thunder essence within Lei Tianyu was consumed by Song Wen, along with his soul and a powerful divine consciousness.
A powerful divine consciousness sent a tremor through Song Wen.
"You wretched creature! How dare you kill the Lei family's direct bloodline. I will make you pay!"
The divine consciousness transformed into a surging torrent, rushing towards Song Wen's sea of consciousness, as if it intended to drag Song Wen's mind into an endless abyss.
An immense, boundless black hole suddenly appeared in Song Wen's sea of consciousness.
"What is this thing?!" The divine consciousness emitted a fearful voice.
Soon after, the divine consciousness, in the form of a mental flood, was completely swallowed by the black hole.
Song Wen felt a sharp pain in his mind, nearly causing him to fall.
Although the divine consciousness was devoured by the black hole, the powerful mental flood it had created still caused Song Wen's sea of consciousness to tremble, causing excruciating headaches.
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Two thousand miles away.
In the depths of the Lei family's stronghold, within a several-thousand-meter-high mountain, there was an old wooden house.
Inside the wooden house, an elderly man with a vigorous spirit opened his eyes, his gaze sharp as lightning, looking northeast.
"Tianyu is dead! The divine consciousness left on him has also dissipated."
"Who killed him? I sense that the person's cultivation is not strong. How could they extinguish my divine consciousness?"
"The divine consciousness last saw that black hole. What is that about?"
"This is bad! The stone slab at the altar entrance is still on Tianyu. This item must not be lost."
At this moment, he was unaware that Lei Tianyu had died in the altar's cave, and the altar had already been exposed.
The old man's thoughts moved, and he vanished from the wooden house.
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The sudden appearance of the divine consciousness made Song Wen's heart race, and a strong sense of unease rose, his heart pounding.
But Song Wen did not lose his composure.
He quickly removed Lei Tianyu's storage ring and grabbed the body, tossing it next to the corpses of Kou Chang and Gan Yue in the debris pit.
With a casual wave, the storage bag from Kou Chang flew into the air and landed near Song Wen.
At the same time, Song Wen produced a stone disc.
As soon as the disc was in his hand, Song Wen noticed that it had a spiritual imprint. The aura of this imprint was the same as the divine consciousness from Lei Tianyu, indicating it came from the same person.
After devouring the spiritual imprint on the disc, Song Wen performed several incantations on it.
The method to activate the disc was derived from Lei Tianyu's memories.
A hole, one zhang wide, appeared in the nearby rock wall.
Song Wen leaped towards the hole, while also throwing three fireballs into the debris pit to ignite the bodies of Lei Tianyu, Kou Chang, and Gan Yue. Within a few breaths, the three corpses were reduced to ashes.
After exiting the hole, Song Wen used several incantations on the disc, and the entrance behind him disappeared, reverting to a rock wall.
He put away the disc and rushed through the underwater cave towards the lake.
While hurrying, he took out Lei Tianyu and Lei Hong's storage rings, used his spiritual sense to check that there were no residual spiritual imprints in the items, and then securely stored them.
After checking the storage rings, Song Wen exited the cave and arrived at the edge of the large lake.
Without slowing down, he continued to dart towards the deeper parts of the lake.
After traveling more than thirty miles underwater, Song Wen suddenly sensed a turtle-like demon beast, the size of a grinding stone, in the silt. The turtle demon was very weak, at the Qi Refining Stage.
Song Wen moved directly towards the turtle demon and, upon getting closer, used a burst of spiritual power to knock it unconscious.
He submerged into the silt, placing the turtle demon above him. Song Wen controlled his body, suppressing his aura, and became as still as a stone.
Moments later, Song Wen sensed a powerful and vast spiritual consciousness sweep over him, making him feel alarmed and uneasy.
The owner of the divine consciousness had indeed arrived.
The spiritual consciousness swept back and forth around the lakebed several times, finding nothing. Perhaps the owner of the consciousness thought the lakebed had been thoroughly searched and that the culprit was not there, so the consciousness vanished.
Song Wen remained hidden under the large rock, not relaxing or moving even a bit despite the disappearance of the spiritual consciousness.
After a quarter of an hour, the spiritual consciousness returned, searching the lakebed again several times before disappearing.
Lei Yue hovered in the air, frowning. He had scanned the area within a hundred miles multiple times and found no trace of any living beings.
Below him, a large pit remained, with residual thunder power from Lei Hong's pursuit of Gan Yue.
The lingering aura around the pit indicated that Lei Hong had also been here recently.
With Lei Tianyu dead here and Lei Hong having been here too, Lei Yue had a vague feeling that Lei Hong had likely encountered some mishap.
After pondering for a moment with no results, Lei Yue teleported back to the waterlogged stone wall at the altar's cave entrance.
The deaths of Lei Tianyu and Lei Hong were not crucial for the Lei family, but if the altar was exposed, it would be a devastating blow to the family.
Lei Yue looked at the intact rock wall in front of him and hesitated.
Without the stone disc, breaking into the cave would require forceful destruction of the rock wall.
If the rock wall were broken, the ancient formation on it would be disrupted, allowing lake water to flood into the cave, which would not be in the Lei family's interest.
Moreover, he was not confident he could break through the rock wall.
Lei Yue teleported again, rising to the surface of the lake.
He stared at the ground near the lake for a while, calculating the approximate location of the altar cave, and then flew towards the land.
After flying a few miles, Lei Yue stopped, and a long sword appeared in front of him.
Without any visible movement, the sword began to emit sword light and sword energy.
The long sword, as fast as lightning, plunged into the earth.
The thick and solid ground was easily pierced by the long sword, reaching deep into the earth.
The sword penetrated the over hundred-meter-thick rock layer and directly entered the altar cave.
The long sword moved back and forth in the rock layer several times, gradually creating a straight vertical tunnel large enough for passage.
Lei Yue jumped into the vertical tunnel and entered the altar cave.
(End of the Chapter)
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