“Is the Immortal artefact going to come out?”

“For the Immortal artefact to come out, it must have found an owner. However, we have been cultivating here for so long and yet, nothing ever happened. Could someone else have come?”

As the Immortal artefact shook, it released an atmosphere of power resembling that of a ferocious howl. In the beginning, it was only limited to the Lightning Pond. Later, however, even the entire Lightning Region shook with it. All the cultivators who were exploring the Lightning Region were alarmed. Sensing danger, they swiftly ran away.

“Looks like there are still lightning beasts here.”

To their surprise, one lightning beast after another kept flying out from the depths of the Lightning Pond. A few were even at the peak-level Yao Immortal (Earthen) stage.

“These lightning beasts must have been hiding beneath the altar. Even though we had been cultivating down there for so long, we actually failed to notice them.”

Boom!

Rubble flew about as energy waves roiled. Space was torn and the massive altar exploded. Next, an overpowering force swept out through the universe, cleaving the starry sky.

The great halberd flew up into outer space. As the great halberd soared into the sky, all of the lightning powers within a radius of over half...