Chapter 744 - 266: Spirit Manifestation
This figure was none other than Shen Chongming, who had been in seclusion for nearly four years.
At this moment, Shen Chongming was surrounded by electrical arcs, and the thunder descending from the clouds continued to gather around his body.
These thunderous electrical arcs all carried an incredibly terrifying aura of destruction.
Even the slightest arc could incinerate a Fetal Breathing Realm cultivator to ashes in an instant.
Shen Wen’an stood at a distance, holding his sword, looking somewhat astonished at the scene before him.
"The mutated Thunder Attribute Spirit Root is truly astonishing..."
As he couldn’t help but mutter, a hint of doubt rose in his heart.
Just by Shen Chongming’s terrifying breakthrough phenomenon, even if he wasn’t guarding beside him, would those from the Underworld truly dare to come and seize his Golden Nature?
The thunder in the void continued.
The entire Yunshui City was already an apocalyptic scene!
Thunderclouds with terrifying oppression covered the city walls, countless thunders flashed, densely-packed electrical arcs poured down like torrential rain.
The hair-raising sound of thunder tearing through the air was unending.
Shen Chongming, seated cross-legged in the cave, slowly stood up and floated into the void amidst the endless thunder.
The moment his eyes opened, which were originally black and white, they had already turned azure blue!
Electric arcs shot out from his eyes, like writhing Thunder Serpents.
At this moment, Shen Chongming seemed to have transformed into a Thunder God, exuding an aura of supreme divinity.
Under the oppression of this aura, Shen Wen’an couldn’t help but frown and retreated several hundred feet, not daring to remain in place.
Under the gaze of his surprised eyes, Shen Chongming suddenly looked up at the sky, then assumed a posture of drawing a bow and nocking an arrow!
The electrical arcs swirling around him quickly gathered at his raised left hand with this posture!
A large amount of destructive electrical arcs slowly formed into a Thunder Bow in his palm!
The bow of the Thunder Bow was azure, with ancient and complex lightning rune glows flickering on its surface, and a bowstring completely formed of electrical arcs was pulled to a full moon, quickly forming an arrow along the right hand drawing the string.
"Open!"
Accompanied by Shen Chongming’s explosive shout!
The Thunderbolt Arrow instantly turned into a lightning bolt shooting straight into the sky!
The lightning bolt pierced through the thick dark clouds overhead, right into the sky!
As the lightning slowly dissipated, the pierced dark clouds suddenly turned into a massive vortex, from which rays of golden light poured down!
"The Celestial Gate has been opened!"
"The Patriarch actually opened the Celestial Gate in such a powerful manner!"
"This move compares to what the Third Master did back then."
"Ah Die’s action of shooting open the Celestial Gate just now was so domineering!"
Now seeing Shen Chongming covered in flickering electrical arcs, bathed in the dense golden light descending from the Celestial Gate, looking like a majestic Exiled Immortal, many Shen Family cultivators in front of the old house at the foot of the mountain were all excited.
And such a massive breakthrough naturally also attracted the attention of other Golden Core cultivators in the Yangnao Land.
"Just how deep is the Shen Family’s fortune and destiny!?"
"I remember back in the day when Shen Wen’an broke through to the Golden Core Sword Immortal Realm, he broke through the Celestial Gate twice, nearly achieving a Flawless Golden Core."
"And now this younger generation of the Shen Family so easily opened the Celestial Gate again?"
"This child has a mutated Thunder Attribute Spirit Root, after breaking through to the Golden Core, his power will likely make a qualitative leap, the Shen Family’s heritage is probably even stronger now."
"A Golden Core Sword Immortal, a Thunder Attribute Golden Core cultivator, with these two around, the physical body in the Fifth Realm of Body Cultivators isn’t something anyone dares to covet."
"Where is the Underworld? Why haven’t the Underworld’s people taken action yet?"
"It’s said the Underworld people hold grudges, last time they couldn’t deal with that Shen family’s Sword Immortal kid, this time they shouldn’t easily let go of this Thunder Attribute Spirit Root youngster, right?"
The Golden Core cultivators from various major forces were extremely conflicted at this time.
They were afraid that Shen Chongming’s breakthrough would attract the Underworld’s people, yet they very much wanted the Underworld’s people to act, to eliminate him before he broke through, to eliminate him early.
The battle in Zhili had already made them wary of the Shen family’s strong stance in slaying the Celestial Sandalwood Mountain Golden Core Demon King.
If there were another cultivator with a mutated Thunder Attribute Spirit Root achieving the Golden Core Dao this time, it would be even more troubling for them.
Among the many forces now, the most hopeful for the Underworld’s people to take action was clearly the Celestial Sandalwood Mountain.
In the battle in Zhili, Feng Changyou and the three demons all saw with their own eyes that the Yin Tiger Demon King’s Golden Core was swallowed by Xu Zhan.
The Immortal Golden Nature of the Golden Core cultivator isn’t that easy to refine.
Once the Underworld’s people are drawn by Shen Chongming’s breakthrough, they will certainly discover the Yin Tiger Demon King’s masterless Golden Nature first.
This masterless Golden Nature holds greater allure for the Underworld’s people.
At that time, the Shen family is likely to have two people simultaneously targeted by the Underworld.
Given Feng Changyou’s understanding of Shen Wen’an, he certainly wouldn’t sit idly by if the Underworld’s people took action against the Shen family.
The terror of the Underworld is not something simple like the Purple Mansion Nascent Soul influence, if the Shen family faces them head-on, the outcome is predictable.
The Celestial Sandalwood Mountain now wishes that the Underworld would focus on the Shen family, better yet, destroy the Shen family in one fell swoop.
If so, if a Golden Core Demon King was lost yet a potential significant enemy was destroyed, it wouldn’t be a loss.
In the sky above Yunshui City, while Shen Chongming was frantically absorbing the purest Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from the Celestial Gate, his body was also absorbing the surrounding Thunder Power.
Shen Wen’an stood with a sword not far away, his Divine Sense already spread out.
His Divine Sense did not dare to get too close to Shen Chongming’s breakthrough area, fearing it would attract the Celestial Gate’s attention, thus inviting trouble for himself and concurrently affecting Shen Chongming’s breakthrough.