Chapter 640: Wolf Cub
Xu Yunfan explored these Heavenly and Earthly Treasures partly to contemplate the imagery he would form.
He was only a step away from Foundation Establishment Great Perfection, but he was still carefully considering what imagery would be suitable for him.
He wasn’t pursuing simple, unchanging eternity. Instead, amidst the Divine Sky Thunderbolt that brought destruction to the Ten Thousand Laws, he sought a single point of undying permanence—an immortality that nurtured new life from within destruction itself.
This was both his desire for Longevity and the core of the Profound Vault Undying True Intent from the *Divine Sky Nine Heavens Profound Vault Undying Scripture*.
The Divine Sky Thunderbolt was merely the process; Profound Vault Undying was the foundation.
As he quietly meditated while gathering Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, Xu Yunfan’s spiritual imagery gradually grew clearer.
It would be a boundless, chaotic Profound Vault—infinite, timeless, and holding endless possibilities.
At the center of this Profound Vault was not a dead silence, but a colossal, boiling, and roaring Thunder Pool.
The pool contained not ordinary liquid lightning, but a viscous, magma-like purple-gold plasma. Every drop held the power to bring utter destruction to all things.
Yet this destructive power was not the end. In the deepest part of the Thunder Pool, a faint point of light stubbornly shone. It was not a foreign star, but pure vitality and order born from destruction itself—minuscule yet tenacious, like an undying ember.
It absorbed the raging Thunder Power, then slowly released a soothing Starlight that nourished the Profound Vault.
This was the Dao he sought: to forge the undying from endless destruction, and to nurture new life from devastating Thunderbolt.
The Profound Vault as the body, the Thunder Pool as the furnace, the Star Flame as the seed. A cycle of life and death, immutable for all eternity.
’This is how it should be.’
The grander the imagery, the stronger its power, but this also meant it would be far more difficult to form.
But for the current Xu Yunfan, this was not an obstacle.
He was in a fissure in the ice, collecting a Thunder-Attracting Profound Stone the size of a tabletop. Its surface was covered in naturally formed Thunder Runes. Just as he secured it, a brutal, ferocious aura accompanied by a bone-chilling, acrid wind suddenly bore down from above the canyon.
The thud of a heavy landing sent tremors through the canyon’s ice walls, and Ice Crystals rained down.
Xu Yunfan slowly raised his head.
A colossal beast stood at the canyon’s edge. Its fur was like the purest ice and snow, glinting with a cold, hard metallic sheen under the dim sky.
It stood over nine zhang tall, a veritable moving iceberg of knotted muscle that radiated explosive power.
Its four claws dug into the permafrost, leaving deep gouges. The great wolf’s maw was slightly agape, revealing ghastly white, dagger-like fangs. Its hot, fetid breath turned to white mist in the frigid air.
Most terrifying of all were its eyes. A primal bloodlust and fury burned within its ice-blue, slitted pupils, which were locked firmly on Xu Yunfan down in the canyon.
It was none other than Lokan, the Icefield Wolf God whose territory bordered that of Frost Thunder City.
"Tatus!"
Lokan’s voice was like two colossal glaciers grinding against each other. It carried an uncontainable fury that rumbled through the canyon.
"You have some nerve! How dare you grievously injure my Shaman Priest and steal the prey I had claimed! Are you challenging the authority of the Wolf God?"
’We’re both Middle-Rank Gods. Is it really wise to be so condescending?’
Tatus chimed in from within the banner, "My Lord, he and I have fought many times. We’re about evenly matched."
At that moment, a flicker of malicious glee ignited within Tatus, who was still inside the Star Spirit Banner.
’If we could trap this cunning wolf whelp in here too, that would be incredibly satisfying!’
Xu Yunfan casually tossed the Thunder-Attracting Profound Stone into the inner space of the Star Spirit Banner hidden in his sleeve. Adopting Tatus’s usual mannerisms, he put on a mixed expression of contempt and impatience and waved his hand dismissively, as if shooing a fly.
"Lokan, your lowly followers were reckless enough to run wild in my territory. The only reason I didn’t blast them to cinders on the spot was out of some pitiful respect for you."
"As for that nascent Spiritual Light? Hah. Unclaimed treasures belong to the strong. What, you have a problem with that?"
His tone was filled with undisguised provocation and an air of "what can you do about it?"
This was exactly what he’d been waiting for: a pretext with sufficient weight.
’Otherwise, how could he possibly instigate a fight?’
"ROAR!"
Utterly enraged by the merciless humiliation, Lokan’s wild Divine Power erupted from its body like a tangible ice storm. The surrounding temperature plummeted to the verge of absolute zero.
"Tatus, you’re courting death! Do you want to start a Divine War?!"
"A Divine War?"
A slight smile touched Xu Yunfan’s lips, and a flicker of lightning flashed in his eyes, carrying a hint of anticipation.
"You were the one who trespassed, and you were the one who lost your temper. Since you’re so eager, then let’s fight!"
’He agreed that easily?’
The Wolf God, still in the throes of its rage, was momentarily stunned by Xu Yunfan’s words.
The next instant, Xu Yunfan moved. He didn’t use any Divine Power beyond what the Thunder God, Tatus, was known for. He even suppressed the aura of the Star Spirit Banner. This was purely to test the Snow Wolf’s strength and to lay the groundwork for his future plans.
’He was the Thunder God Tatus now; his fighting style had to be a close match.’
BOOM!
Before the word was even out, Xu Yunfan’s form suddenly swelled.
A three-zhang-tall Martial Arts Golden Body Dharma Aspect instantly manifested.
It had three heads and six arms and was covered in crystalline scale armor that flowed with Purple Gold Thunder Patterns. The central head glared furiously. The left head’s eyes were closed, Concentrating its Spirit as the Lin Character Dao Pattern swirled around it. The right head chanted the Divine Sky True Words, its voice a rolling peal of thunder.
Its six arms were masses of knotted muscle, and destructive Thunder Serpents slithered like tendrils of electricity between the gaps in its armor.
Seeing this, the Wolf God Lokan hesitated no longer. It let out a guttural howl and pounced at Xu Yunfan, its claws ripping through the air with sheer physical force, leaving trails of turbulent white vapor in their wake.
"Law of Heaven and Earth!"
The central head of the Dharma Aspect let out a heaven-shaking war cry. Its front two golden-armored arms formed the Purple Sky Thunder Seal and fearlessly smashed upward to meet Lokan’s descending giant claws, which were wreathed in freezing Divine Power and sharp blades of ice.
BANG!
CRACK!
The moment fist met claw, the boom of Thunderbolt and the crack of shattering Ice Crystals erupted simultaneously.
A furious shockwave radiated outward in a ring, instantly shattering and leveling the ice walls on either side of the canyon, which stood dozens of zhang high.
Arcs of purple-gold Thunderbolt and ice-blue freezing Divine Power viciously tore at and annihilated one another, causing the space within a radius of several hundred zhang to distort violently.
Lokan’s massive body staggered slightly, and a flicker of disbelief flashed in its eyes.
’When did Tatus’s power become so refined and tyrannical?’
’And what the hell is with this three-headed, six-armed form?’
It could even feel a faint, numbing sensation on its ice-claws where the Thunderbolt had scorched them.
Pressing his advantage, Xu Yunfan moved all six of his Dharma Aspect’s arms in unison.
The left pair of arms moved as fast as lightning. One hand performed a Sealing technique, drawing down the ambient lightning from the icefield sky and forming it into a roaring Thunder Serpent that lunged for Lokan’s throat.
The other hand formed a claw, ripping through the air with enough force to tear at space itself as it aimed for the vital spot on the wolf’s flank.
The right pair of arms manipulated Divine Power, weaving layer upon layer of Thunderbolt nets to block the freezing breath that Lokan spewed forth.
Meanwhile, the front pair of arms moved with wide, sweeping motions, continuously unleashing the Purple Sky Thunder Seal. Each strike was overwhelmingly powerful, imbued with the unique Destruction Thunder Gang of the *Divine Sky Scripture*, and it blasted away flying shards of Lokan’s Protective Ice Armor.
The combination of pure physical strength and the ferocious application of the Divine Sky Thunderbolt actually suppressed the Wolf God Lokan—a creature several times his size—forcing it back step by step, roaring in fury.
Each collision was like a battle between ancient behemoths, shaking the very earth until it cracked and triggering one avalanche after another.