Chapter 393: Chapter 368: Old Enemies Fall Again

“Xiaoruan.”

Li Cunxu whispered softly, and the hinted Xiaoruan immediately released several Destruction Bombs.

The Destruction Bombs, fused with multiple attributes, exploded around, and a world-destroying mushroom cloud once again bloomed on this land, turning all traces of battle into craters from the explosion.

The Curse Crow skillfully erased the traces of time, while Li Cunxu skillfully scattered the ashes of the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog’s hair.

Then, he took the Tang family grandfather and grandson and slipped away.

The Mechanical Emperor was very concerned about Lei Xieming’s death, because this matter was somewhat linked to the deceased Zhong Monarch.

Although the Mechanical Emperor taught Zhong Monarch, his disciple, he was very wary of Zhong Monarch.

Zhong Monarch’s mechanical talents were terrifying, several times stronger than those of the Mechanical Emperor. Moreover, Zhong Monarch also possessed a legendary-level time-based talent, which made him even more daunting.

To be honest, the Mechanical Emperor deeply regretted nurturing such a talent like Zhong Monarch. He was an undercover agent sent by the Crowned Evil God, not an excellent teacher of humans.

Initially, the Mechanical Emperor wanted to bring Zhong Monarch under the Crowned Evil God’s banner, but after several attempts, he found Zhong Monarch to be upright and extremely difficult to sway.

Reluctantly, the Mechanical Emperor could only use the rhetoric that there were bad people hidden within the alliance, to make Zhong Monarch hide himself and not reveal his mechanical inventions too early, to avoid being targeted by bad people, and to wait until he reached the kingly level to unveil those inventions that could change the alliance’s situation.

And so, this continued until Zhong Monarch was about to break through to the kingly level.

The Mechanical Emperor was in a panic. If Zhong Monarch reached the kingly level, he would be difficult to control.

Thus, the Mechanical Emperor deliberately let Zhong Monarch discover that he was the Pope of the Evil God Sect, forcing Zhong Monarch to make a choice, and he chose humanity over the Crowned Evil God.

So, the Mechanical Emperor decided to eliminate Zhong Monarch.

Zhong Monarch was very strong, and the Mechanical Emperor might not be able to kill him with certainty.

But the Mechanical Emperor left a safeguard for all his disciples.

The life-saving strike he provided could both protect and kill them.

The life-saving strike exploded within Zhong Monarch, instantly taking more than half of his life, and the Mechanical Emperor summoned the power of the Crowned Evil God to create the illusion that the Crowned Evil God killed Zhong Monarch.

Even if the alliance questioned Zhong Monarch’s death in the future, he would have an excuse to brush it off.

The Mechanical Emperor discovered during his investigation that Zhong Monarch’s old clock room inexplicably disappeared shortly before Lei Xieming’s death.

“Could it be that Zhong Monarch has been resurrected?”

The Mechanical Emperor was successfully misled.

One can’t blame the Mechanical Emperor for such a guess; Zhong Monarch was time-based, and it’s universally acknowledged that time-based individuals are extremely difficult to kill.

The investigation had strayed off course, making it even harder to trace back to Li Cunxu.

The Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog recorded the aura of the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird, and with its guidance, Li Cunxu found the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird’s lair after half a day.

At this moment, the scene was quite magnificent.

The sky above was torn open with web-like patterns of purple, and tribulation lightning gathered in the whirlpool of clouds, as if the entire world had become oppressive.

“What kind of skill is this? Such a powerful presence,” Jiang Lingyun exclaimed.

Li Cunxu chuckled and said, “This isn’t a skill; it’s a tribulation. The Thunder-Loving Demon Bird has comprehended the law and is about to ascend to the level of a King.”

Jiang Lingyun anxiously said, “Then act quickly to interrupt it. It can already fight back and forth with the King level even before breaking through. If it breaks through, it’ll be unstoppable.”

“It can’t be interrupted. A King’s tribulation cannot be disturbed; both interferers and helpers will anger the heavenly punishment, which will then also deal with them.”

“Then what should we do? If the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird breaks through to King, we probably won’t be able to win.”

Li Cunxu said, “No, if the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird breaks through, we’ll have an even easier time winning.”

Li Cunxu guessed that this Thunder-Loving Demon Bird mutated from a Thunderbird, but it preyed specifically on Thunderbirds, violating the same-species cannibalism taboo of the Divine Beast World. If nothing unexpected happens, this tribulation of the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird would be ferocious beyond imagination.

Li Cunxu released all his pet beasts to watch.

In the future, all pet beasts would face this challenge, so observing more could help them gain experience.

Deep within the clouds came the sound of rumbling thunder, like ten thousand celestial soldiers beating war drums, with the sound growing more urgent as if the army could strike at any moment.

In a moment, the tribulation lightning struck down, and purple electric light illuminated the world while trees within a ten-mile radius ignited with purple fire. The Thunder-Loving Demon Bird, undaunted, spread its wings, and twenty-four kinds of differently colored exotic lightning entwined its wings as it soared into the sky.

“It’s going to be severely injured by that bolt of lightning,”

Li Cunxu asserted.

Jiang Lingyun said, “Hasn’t it refined twenty-four types of exotic lightning? How could it still suffer from this tribulation lightning?”

“This lightning is called Purple Fire Reversing Thunder, and it ignores lightning resistance. Moreover, the more exotic lightning a thunder-type pet beast has mastered, the more damage it takes. It can be said that this Purple Fire Reversing Thunder is the nemesis of the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird.”

Just as Li Cunxu predicted, the blue-black feathers of the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird turned to ash upon contact with the Purple Fire Reversing Thunder, and the smell of scorched bird flesh reached Li Cunxu from afar, smelling quite nice.

Like a kite with a broken string, the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird fell towards the mountain top burning with purple flames.

The second bolt of tribulation lightning followed closely, piercing through the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird’s body with mountain-shattering might, while incidentally blowing away the mountaintop.

More than half of the mountain was blown away, leaving only a large circular crater.

The third, fourth… bolts fell at an extremely fast pace.

Jiang Lingyun said, “It looks like the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird is going to fail its tribulation.”

Li Cunxu shook his head, “It’s not that simple. Lightning has a body-refining effect, and the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird, having mastered twenty-four kinds of exotic lightning, has a physique that is incredibly strong. The chance of failing the tribulation for it is quite small.”

After nine bolts of tribulation lightning, the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird endured through with its robust physique.

However, it was seriously injured.

After the tribulation, there comes a reward from the heavens.

A drop of the Water of Creation, containing a massive amount of Power of Creation, fell. As long as the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird swallowed it, its injuries would heal, and all its attributes would significantly improve.

This was also the most dangerous phase.

Because the Water of Creation could be snatched.

Li Cunxu said, “Xiaoruan, All Things Seal.”

“Curse Crow, time stop.”

“Little White Spider, detonate the Destiny Spider Poison.”

“Blood Lotus Flame Flood Dragon, strongest punch with blood dragon true form.”

“Flame White Horse, go snatch.”

All Things Seal locked down all the skills of the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird, as well as its twenty-four kinds of exotic lightning.

Curse Crow used its time-based skill mastered over thirteen years, [Time Stop], to freeze the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird.

The time stop used by Curse Crow before was an area-of-effect ability from the time domain, not a skill.

Little White Spider detonated the Destiny Spider Poison it left during the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird’s fight with the Mechanical Thunder Dragon, while Blood Lotus Flame Flood Dragon’s blood burned fiercely as it executed its strongest skill.

With numerous factors influencing it, the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird could only watch helplessly as the Flame White Horse snatched that drop of the Water of Creation.

Subsequently, under the siege of Li Cunxu’s many pet beasts, the Thunder-Loving Demon Bird perished.

The Thunder-Loving Demon Bird yielded a super-abundant loot.

Including twenty-four kinds of exotic lightning, a Thunder Refining Pearl, a Thunder-Seeking Compass, and the Thunder Law — Thunder Devouring.

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