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"Boom!"

The thunderclouds were forming too quickly. Li Xiaoyao's reaction was fast enough, but before the fishing boat could turn around, bolts of Heavenly Thunder had already started descending from the sky.

Outside the Secret Realm, the sea seemed to be encircled, and even the Elders of the Ancient Sect felt a sense of panic.

The situation was very passive, and many people still did not know what had caused such a tumult.

"The corpse of the Demon Beast is gone!"

Finally, someone discovered the source of the commotion.

As everyone looked on, they could only see a long trail of fresh blood on the sea's surface, connected to the Secret Realm, and the Demon Beast that had been slain earlier had disappeared without a trace.

"Break out!"

An Elder from the Ancient Sect made a decisive judgment, with a fierce look in his eyes, he dashed to the stern and struck the water powerfully with his palm. Using this repelling force, the fishing boat's speed suddenly increased, sliding toward the direction of the island.

Seeing this, others followed suit, and in a short moment, the sea outside the Secret Realm was in uproar with Spiritual Energy, with every person showing either terror or a solemn coldness on their faces. But without exception, everyone had only one goal in their minds, and that was to escape the area as quickly as possible.

Facing the unknown of the Secret Realm, even for the Ancient Sect, individual power was minuscule and seemingly insignificant.

Among them, there was not a single Cultivator at the Nascent Soul Realm.

And before this, Li Chengfeng at the peak of the Spirit Condensation Realm had not been able to escape the wide-ranging attack of the Secret Realm; would they be lucky enough to escape?

If they harbored any hope of being fortunate, it would surely be impossible to survive.

"Boom!"

Compared to them, the velocity of the Heavenly Thunder was even faster, and the bolts of lightning, dense like rainfall, bombarded the sea in front of the fishing boat. The resulting shockwaves lifted waves tens of meters high.

Even hundreds of meters away, the waves rocked the fishing boat violently, and the Cultivators' faces turned pale as fear peaked in their hearts.

Li Xiaoyao's face was somber as he looked at the sea which had almost become a dead zone.

There must be living beings inside the Secret Realm, and these thunderbolts must also be due to the Demon Beast entering the Secret Realm, triggering the Secret Realm's Formation, thus generating them.

The Heavenly Thunder struck as if it possessed its own thoughts, or as if it were under command, systematically closing off the escape routes of the people, as if to push them closer to the Secret Realm.

"What do we do, what can we do?" Nangong Feng trembled with fear, facing a nearly certain death situation, he lost his usual composure.

Nangong Yan was annoyed by his fretting, "Shut up!"

With that reprimand, Nangong Feng instantly fell silent, then glared bitterly at Li Xiaoyao, saying, "It's all his fault. If it weren't for him wanting to come here, we wouldn't have fallen into this predicament! It's you, you've doomed us all!"

Li Xiaoyao looked at him coldly, "If you keep yelling, I won't mind letting you die right now."

"You..." Nangong Feng dared not speak anymore; he gave Li Xiaoyao a resentful glance but shut his mouth.

Li Xiaoyao gazed at the dark horizon, "Let's go."

"Go? How?" Nangong Feng couldn't help asking, "Do you think you're invincible just because you killed a Jiao? Hmph, if you want to go, go by yourself. We're not going to join you in courting death."

Li Xiaoyao ignored him and said to the Elders, "I'll need your help to propel the fishing boat; I will draw away the Heavenly Thunder."

"Draw away the Heavenly Thunder?" They were somewhat puzzled.

"I know the Thunder Commanding Art, there might be a chance. Whatever the case, we must try. Otherwise, we can only wait here for death." If Li Xiaoyao were alone, he would have directly entered the Secret Realm.

But now that was not an option; he needed to ensure the safety of everyone. The unknown dangers of the Secret Realm were too great, and he could not let them take the risk with him.

Li Xiaoyao stepped forward, and beneath his feet, it seemed as though there were invisible stairs allowing him to walk freely in mid-air.

With the Thunder Commanding Art in his right hand, Li Xiaoyao gazed toward the horizon, his fingers dancing in a complex and abstruse pattern, as Spiritual Power from within his Dantian desperately surged outwards. His palm quivered violently, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

Though the Thunder Commanding Art could summon Heavenly Thunder, Li Xiaoyao was using it to control it against its natural course.

He had never done it before, but Li Xiaoyao felt it should be feasible.

"Boom!"

A bolt of Heavenly Thunder crashed towards the fishing boat. Li Xiaoyao's eyes narrowed, his hand signs changed, and he bellowed, "Back off!"

An invisible force acted upon the Heavenly Thunder in a split second, altering its course.

The Heavenly Thunder veered to the right, striking the sea hundreds of meters away.

The onlookers were astounded by this scene, their eyes nearly popping out of their heads.

"He can actually control Heavenly Thunder!"

"This youngster from the Li Family is truly extraordinary!"

"Our clan has methods to summon lightning as well, but we can only guide Heavenly Thunder actively. We've never seen anyone control it directly like him, especially naturally occurring Heavenly Thunder."

"If there's a chance, we must obtain this art!"

The witnesses each had different feelings stirring within them upon seeing this.

Li Xiaoyao let out a breath, and at the same time, large drops of sweat formed on his forehead.

The few people on the fishing boat below celebrated joyfully, but Li Xiaoyao could only wryly smile to himself.

They saw him moving the Heavenly Thunder away, but they had no idea how much strength he had exerted to achieve this.

Controlling Heavenly Thunder was entirely different from summoning it.

With Li Xiaoyao's current Cultivation Level, he could continue to draw down more than a dozen bolts of Heavenly Thunder without issue. However, to control it like he had just done was far more taxing; at most three bolts were his limit.

"Boom!"

The Heavenly Thunder kept plummeting down, and the number of fishing boats was decreasing at a terrifying pace. To these powerful Cultivators and Spirit Attachers, life was as fleeting as a puff of smoke under the wrath of Heavenly Thunder.

Li Xiaoyao controlled another bolt of Heavenly Thunder away. Their fishing boat was the farthest out, and the nearest one to them was still over three thousand meters away.

The third bolt of Heavenly Thunder, then the fourth...

Li Xiaoyao strenuously held on until the fifth bolt, but finally, he couldn't hold on any longer, and he fell from the sky, landing on the fishing boat, his face ashen, sitting down hard.

Spirit Revitalizing Pills floated out of the Storage Ring, flying into Li Xiaoyao's mouth like scattering beans.

"Boom!"

A bolt of Heavenly Thunder fell without warning, narrowly missing the fishing boat by a hair's breadth and striking the sea dozens of meters away. Yet the impact sent the fishing boat, which had barely escaped the Secret Realm, rushing back towards it.

Several Elders felt a sense of despair, and even characters like Li Yunchen were filled with a sense of utter helplessness at this moment.

Facing this natural disaster, only breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm offered a sliver of hope for survival.

A multitude of Spirit Revitalizing Pills transformed into a dense Spiritual Power, quickly revitalizing Li Xiaoyao's parched Dantian. Nevertheless, his condition hadn't returned to its peak.

Li Xiaoyao stood up from the ground, a resolute expression on his face as he turned toward the rapidly approaching Secret Realm and said, "I'm going into the Secret Realm!"

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