Chapter 1 A Trap

"Breaking formations and defeating demonic beasts are the primary ways to acquire most divine abilities within the Mu Xian Secret Realm.

That divine ability should be quite good, Lei Shao; it suits your lightning attribute."

Sui Xiaohang looked at Wan Lei with great enthusiasm.

"Do you want to defeat me, or kill me?"

Wan Lei asked the big white tiger.

"You impudent brat, I'm kindly telling you how to get it, hoping you'll spare my life, and you want to repay kindness with enmity?"

The crowd chuckled upon hearing this. The tiger was truly bold to tell Young Master Lei to have a conscience.

"Alright, alright, seeing how cooperative you are, we'll put on a show with a fight later, and then you'll give me the Great Heavenly Thunder Technique."

"Indeed."

Wan Lei activated his formation eye and carefully observed the formation. In a short time, he had it completely memorized.

Next, he walked to the formation, placed his hands on it, and began inputting lightning power and divine consciousness to break it.

This formation was a bit complex; it couldn't be broken all at once. Instead, it had to be broken into nine parts, one by one.

Fortunately, Young Master Lei's formation mastery was strong, and he didn't hesitate at all.

The first part...

The second part...

As Wan Lei broke the formation, Xu Qing was also carefully observing it.

The more she looked at this formation, the more familiar it felt, as if she had seen it somewhere before...

Finally, as Wan Lei broke the eighth part, with only one step remaining, she remembered.

"Wan Lei, stop! Don't break it any further!"

Xu Qing screamed hoarsely.

"What is it?"

Wan Lei turned his head curiously.

"This is the Nine Bends Azure Analysis Formation! It was personally set up by Pavilion Master Feng Zhenzi and eight elders from the Heavenly Formation Pavilion when the Mu Xian Secret Realm first opened a thousand years ago.

It was meant to seal a terrifying demon beast, a Bai Ze, at the late Mahayana stage!

This tiger is that Bai Ze; you mustn't let it out!"

"Mahayana stage demon beast?"

Wan Lei was a little confused. The little tiger inside didn't look like it at all.

"Roar!!!"

A heaven-shaking roar came from within the great formation, and a terrifying pressure descended.

Everyone looked in shock and saw that the white tiger had transformed into a ferocious white tiger, ten zhang in size.

The white tiger was surrounded by lightning, with grotesque bone spurs growing from its spine. Its fangs were three feet long, and its blood-red eyes were filled with mockery.

"Brat, thank you for helping me break the formation. To repay you, how about I eat you first later?"

Wan Lei's expression changed drastically, and he immediately moved to repair the formation.

But,

It was too late.

The formation, with only one part remaining, could not withstand the Mahayana stage lightning beast. The Bai Ze unleashed its lightning, smashing through the formation and emerging outside, eyeing them menacingly.

"Listen to me, everyone."

Wan Lei took a deep breath. This time, he had caused a great disaster.

"We split up and flee. I will draw its attention, and you continue towards the edge areas. Once I escape, I will rendezvous with you there."

Although Wan Lei often acted foolishly, when facing danger, Young Master Lei's mind worked quite well.

The Bai Ze sneered.

"Brat, why do you think I would give up so much food to chase just you?"

"Because of this."

Wan Lei grinned sinisterly, picked up the Thunder God's Hammer, and activated all the runes on it.

Instantly, the natural lightning, the lightning from his cultivation, the metal lightning, the wood lightning, and that sliver of Heavenly Dao lightning were all unleashed.

The Bai Ze's eyes immediately widened, and its breathing quickened. It was a lightning-attribute fierce beast itself, feeding on lightning. Normally, it was fortunate to occasionally consume natural lightning struck from the sky.

But here, Wan Lei had prepared a lavish buffet for it.

And all of it comprised top-tier ingredients.

Wan Lei wasn't blind; he could tell it was a lightning-attribute demonic beast, and he knew what would tempt it the most.

"Oh, and I have this too."

Wan Lei took out the little yellow dog.

The Bai Ze's mind buzzed.

"Or... Origin Lightning!"

"That's right, so come chase me."

Wan Lei immediately donned his armor, spread his wings, and flew away at extreme speed without looking back.

Fang Xiaoyu, without hesitation, followed Wan Lei.

"Roar!!!"

The Bai Ze roared, ignoring everyone else, and immediately gave chase.

"Lei'er!"

Wan Hongxin roared and was about to chase after them, but Wan Liuchuan grabbed him.

"Uncle Xin, calm down. It's useless for you to go. That's a Mahayana stage demonic beast; we can't defeat it even if we combine our strength. Hurry, Wan Lei told us to rendezvous at the edge areas. Don't let his sacrifice be in vain!"

Wan Hongxin was not an unreasonable person, but that was his son. His son, who had returned after being missing for five years and had only been back for a few days, and now he might die like this – how could he possibly go on living...

A group of people lifted Wan Hongxin and quickly flew towards the route marked by Bai Baofu.

Most of the people here were Wan Lei's friends, and they were also very concerned about him.

But they believed that although the good die young, the wicked live for a thousand years. With Wan Lei's characteristic of surviving even when thrown into spatial turbulence, a "mere" late Mahayana stage lightning beast shouldn't be able to kill him.

"Brat, were you planning to feed me to the tiger just now?"

As Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu were fleeing for their lives, the little yellow dog wouldn't let the matter go.

"No, I was just using you as bait."

"Don't you know that bait has a high mortality rate? You were actually trying to get me killed."

"No, we're escaping together."

"But you can't defeat a Mahayana stage fierce beast."

"I know. We'll die together."

"Bah, when it comes down to dying, you'll definitely throw me out to stall for time so you can escape."

"Impossible, I'll bring my wife."

"..."

You bastard!

Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu were once again in the long-lost mode of fleeing for their lives. The last time they had to flee so desperately was the time before this.

Behind them, the Bai Ze pursued relentlessly, its eyes fixed on Wan Lei, smashing through everything that blocked its path.

The trees, demonic beasts, and hills were all so fragile before this Mahayana stage demonic beast.

The Bai Ze was fast and soon caught up to them.

Suddenly, the big white tiger lunged forward, opening its mouth to unleash a lightning ball that flew directly towards Wan Lei.

Boom!!!

The lightning ball exploded, and Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu were flung away.

The two of them spat blood and landed heavily on the ground.

Wan Lei pulled Fang Xiaoyu up, and a bolt of lightning struck Xiao Yu, instantly healing a lot of her injuries.

This was the power of wood lightning.

"Why does the Bai Ze's lightning have a hint of Heavenly Dao lightning?"

The little yellow dog muttered softly.

Wan Lei didn't have time to analyze these things with it; escaping was the priority.

Suddenly, Fang Xiaoyu, who was fleeing, took out a jade slip, looked at it for a moment, and was overjoyed.

"My father has arrived in the secret realm."

"Father-in-law is here? Where is he? Let's go meet the elder right away."

Young Master Lei's eyes lit up. For the first time in his life, he found Old Fang so lovable.

Therefore, to visit his respected and benevolent father-in-law, he prepared a generous gift.

A small brain tiger at the late Mahayana stage...