Chapter 436: The Cycle of Day and Night, The Mythical Zhulong

Staring at the five fragments of thunderbolt law, along with the faint shadow of lightning patterns in the sky, Chen Chu thought for a moment.

"Brother Li, I'll take four of the thunderbolt law fragments, and you can have one fragment along with the inheritance. No objections, right?"

The inheritance of the Thunder Prison was extremely unique. If Chen Chu wanted to cultivate it, he would have to abandon his War God Body and reshape his True Martial Phantom, which was clearly impossible.

After all, it was just the inheritance of a figure only slightly stronger than a heavenly king. Even without it, he could still forge a path that was even stronger.

On the other hand, Li Daoyi was actually more suited for it, being an Innate Awakener of Thunderbolt.

"Thank you, Brother Chu. I owe you one," Li Daoyi accepted without hesitation.

Chen Chu smiled. "We've been through life and death together, no need to be so formal. If there's ever another opportunity like this, don't forget to call me."

Although the inheritance wasn't suitable for him, Chen Chu didn’t lose out.

While cultivating, the Thunderbolt Monarch had unleashed power from the law of thunderbolt, creating five law fragments. Each one had the explosive power of the peak Eighth Heavenly Realm.

Aside from being used as consumables, these law fragments also contained some deeper mysteries of the law.

For those who cultivated thunder-attribute arts, these fragments could enhance their arts, slowly evolving their ability runes under the influence of the law. This was especially true for someone like Li Daoyi.

After receiving the Thunder Prison inheritance and absorbing his law fragment, his Innate Thunderbolt would undergo a second qualitative transformation, and his combat power would surge dramatically.

"Brother Li, be careful. I'm about to take the fragments now."

As he spoke, the battle phantom appeared behind Chen Chu once more. The towering thirty-meter True Martial Phantom extended its four arms, each grabbing at the thunderbolt law fragments.

Boom!

The moment the battle phantom's four arms seized the fragments, a powerful destructive thunderlight erupted from them, shaking the heavens and earth with immense force.

This was the power of the laws. Even though these were only fragments, it wasn’t something ordinary people could bear.

After about ten minutes, the raging Thunderbolt finally calmed down, revealing Chen Chu's panting figure, along with the now slightly transparent battle phantom.

By now, the four thunderbolt law fragments had transformed into silver-blue thunder patterns, radiating a subtle destructive aura as they coiled around the phantom’s arms.

Li Daoyi looked on with a hint of envy. "With four law fragments in hand, Brother Chu, your power is going to be even more terrifying."

"You’re not bad yourself, Brother Li."

"Haha, true." Li Daoyi chuckled.

With his new trump cards in hand, Chen Chu bid farewell. "Brother Li, I’m off to continue slaying monsters and honing my combat skills, so I won’t be staying with you."

Honing combat skills...

Though Li Daoyi was a little suspicious, he didn’t voice his doubts, merely nodding. "Brother Chu, go ahead, but be cautious. Even with your strength, it's better to stay careful."

"Mhmm, I will."

Leaving Li Daoyi behind to enter secluded cultivation in a micro-world free from void energy erosion, Chen Chu transformed into a streak of golden light, shooting out from the relic to continue stacking his passive skills.

"What did they gain inside?"

Outside the ruins, Xie Chen was curious as he watched the golden figure rush out.

Due to the isolation between the inside and outside of the micro-world, even the Eye of the Sky couldn’t see what had happened, missing the moment when Chen Chu used his Battle Dragon Emperor form to destroy the Thunderbolt Battle Puppet.

Ji Yongning spoke calmly. "Earlier, when Li Daoyi opened the micro-world, there were flashes of lightning on the stele. It's highly likely that it was the inheritance of the Thunderbolt Monarch."

"The Thunderbolt Monarch? Isn't his inheritance on the path to divinity?"

***

Beep beep beep!

"Alert: Energy fluctuations of a level 9 creature have been detected entering the Krol Strait.

"Alert: Energy fluctuations are at the late stage. The creature is moving at four hundred meters per second, and a tsunami is forming on the sea surface.

"Warning: Coastal research teams must immediately evacuate the shoreline. Evacuate at once..."

In the frigid zone, at the entrance of the narrow ten-kilometer-wide strait, stood a research station dedicated to studying the mutated creatures of the Arctic Ocean. Urgent alarms were blaring from the broadcast system.

Along the coastline, the faces of over ten staff members turned pale when they heard the warning. The middle-aged man leading the group shouted, "Drop your tools and go, go!"

As these researchers, all at the Third or Fourth Heavenly Realm, sprinted up the nearby hill, a loud crashing sound soon came from afar.

In the distance, the solid ice covering the center of the strait began to shatter. The seawater surged up dozens of meters, forming a violent tsunami that swallowed everything in its path.

Amid the collapsing ice and the rising waves, the faint outline of black and red dorsal fins and horns appeared, resembling sharp, jagged reefs.

Under the watchful eyes of the researchers on the hillside, the massive shadow pierced through the strait in the blink of an eye, charging into the Arctic Ocean before quickly vanishing into the deep sea.

"What a terrifying mutated creature. Even the aftershocks from just passing by are this frightening. Good thing this place is so desolate; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

"Yeah, compared to us, these mutated creatures are truly born with extraordinary advantages."

"Enough talk, let's hurry down and check if the equipment is still intact. Hopefully, it wasn't all swept away by the tsunami..."

As the human researchers hurried down the hillside in a panic, the Thunder Fiery Dragon Emperor felt the temperature around it suddenly drop as it plunged into the Arctic waters, finishing a journey of nearly ten thousand kilometers. Soon, some cold-water creatures appeared before it.

Boom!

In the depths of the sea, five hundred meters underwater, a mutated walrus, over twenty meters long and covered in gray scales, barely had time to react before being bitten in half by the passing Thunder Emperor.

This middle-stage level 6 beast was devoured in two bites, leaving behind only crimson blood and floating remains, the only evidence of its existence.

The Thunder Emperor was like a great white shark rampaging through a river, its electromagnetic waves sensing everything within a radius of several kilometers. Its underwater speed remained below the speed of sound.

Under these conditions, level 6 and 7 mutated beasts didn’t even had time to react before being devoured with a sudden snap of jaws that emerged from the darkness.

However, the Thunder Emperor’s true targets were the colossal beasts at levels 8 and 9. After entering the Arctic waters, it consciously swam toward the deep sea.

The transcendent energy was denser in such places, making them more appealing to the strongest mutated creatures.

Three thousand meters beneath the dark ocean, a colossal beast, over 110 meters long and at the late stage of level 8, lay asleep on a silver coral reef.

The reef, stretching for nearly a kilometer like an underwater forest, exuded an icy aura that kept the surrounding waters in a state of extreme cold, though without freezing.

As the beluga-whale-like mutated beast slumbered, its breathing synchronized with the coral, flickering with icy energy. Suddenly, the beast's eyes snapped open, and it let out a terrified roar.

Roar!

White beams of icy light exploded outward from the beluga whale, freezing everything in a radius of hundreds of meters to instantly create a massive iceberg.

Boom!

𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

A giant black-and-red claw, wrapped in golden flames and surrounded by thunderbolts, appeared above the iceberg.

Boom!

With one terrifying strike from the dragon's claw, the hundreds-of-meters-wide iceberg shattered, the ocean floor collapsed, and the colossal beast’s head was crushed alongside it.

Amid the blood-stained, turbulent waters, the Thunder Emperor’s massive figure descended slowly, its cold gaze fixed on the beast’s carcass.

Grabbing it with both claws, the Thunder Emperor continued its search for the next target, tearing off dozens of tons of flesh with every bite as it devoured its prey.

As the flesh entered its stomach, the dense biological energy spread from the Thunder Emperor's belly, greedily absorbed by the cells throughout its body, then divided and compressed.

With a sufficient energy supply, the Thunder Emperor’s body grew at a visibly rapid pace. Its scales emitted cracking sounds, and in no time, its size expanded noticeably.

During the Thunder Emperor’s growth, the slight evolutionary feedback also gradually enhanced Chen Chu’s already powerful physique, pushing his strength to new heights without end.

Constant hunting and devouring, along with the abundant resources, allowed the Thunder Emperor to grow swiftly. In just half a day, it had reached a length of 165 meters. It had also approached the deepest region of the Arctic by now.

Compared to the previous area, this region was much smaller, but because no predator like the Thunder Emperor roamed here, the prey had flourished quite well.

As it continued swimming, the Thunder Emperor noticed that mutated creatures above level 7 were becoming increasingly sparse. Its cold, golden vertical pupils suddenly gleamed.

This scarcity was a sign that there was a high probability of a level 9 colossal beast nearby.

Only creatures standing at the peak of transcendence could emit such an aura, driving away all creatures above level 7 within a certain range to prevent them from competing for the transcendent energy.

Though the ocean was vast, this energy was still limited. When too many colossal beasts resided in one area, their long-term absorption and consumption would reduce the concentration of transcendent energy, hindering their ability to grow stronger.

This drawback hadn’t surfaced for the Dragon Palace yet due to its relatively recent construction.

Or perhaps this issue hadn't had the chance to arise, because creatures like the Single-Horned Kun couldn’t absorb transcendent energy as quickly as the Thunder Emperor expanded its territory and plundered resources.

Swimming forward for less than three hundred kilometers, the Thunder Emperor sensed a powerful aura up ahead, its pressure so immense that even it felt a slight sense of oppression.

Excitement flashed in the Thunder Emperor’s eyes. This level 9 beast was indeed formidable, at least in the late stage of level 9, with a bloodline that had reached the king-level.

A king-level, late-stage level 9 beast, nearly three hundred meters long, its flesh brimming with energy and life factors—devouring it would likely cause the Thunder Emperor’s size to grow by another twenty meters.

Boom!

Blazing golden flames erupted from the Thunder Emperor’s shoulder spikes like a submarine jet crashing through the ocean. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the dark depths of the sea.

Five thousand meters below the surface, an underwater mountain range stretched for hundreds of kilometers, towering a thousand meters high.

Amid the peaks of this underwater mountain range slept a colossal beast over three hundred meters long, resembling an eastern dragon covered in red scales.

However, unlike the eastern dragons, this beast’s tail accounted for nearly two-thirds of its body, lying across the mountains like a massive wall.

The Red Colossal Beast suddenly opened its eyes when it sensed something, illuminating the dark ocean instantly.

An endless light, from an unknown source, turned the surrounding ten-kilometer area into daylight, allowing the floating sea creatures to be seen clearly.

At the edge of this daylight zone was a black-and-red, ferocious colossal beast, silently approaching with its Hidden Divinity rune active.

Compared to the 300-meter-long Red Beast, the 160-meter Thunder Emperor appeared diminutive, as though it could be suppressed with a single strike.

However, the Red Beast’s eyes quickly filled with caution, as though facing a dire threat. Its massive form slowly rose, and a deep, slow growl echoed from its mouth.

Roar... In...trud...er...