Battle Through the Heavens: Purple Heaven Thunder Emperor

Chapter 301 Earth Demon Bear

A loud bang suddenly rang out in the silent wormhole.

The spaceship suddenly began to shake violently from the impact. Little Fairy Doctor's pretty face turned serious as she placed her hands on the control panel, carefully maintaining the stability of the ship.

Xiao Bai stared intently at the spot where his clone had self-destructed. Spatial turbulence surged, and it took a while for it to gradually subside.

On the once shimmering silver walls of the wormhole, a dark opening has appeared, and the stable passage around it is collapsing at a visible speed.

At the entrance of the cave, a dark red lightning bolt floated, standing out conspicuously.

"While your clone may be mentally unstable, its spatial control is remarkably precise!"

Seeing the black hole ahead, just the right size for the spaceship to pass through, Yaotianhuo was surprised and impressed.

"!" Xiao Bai's lips, which had just curled up, froze instantly.

He glanced at the snow-white storage ring, then looked away, too lazy to pay attention to the old man.

Looking up at the dark red lightning, Xiao Bai took a deep breath, formed hand seals, and his gaze became solemn.

"open!"

With a low shout, lightning flashed and arcs of lightning spread, instantly filling the entire black hole.

"Sizzle!"

Suddenly, the sound of tearing cloth rang out, and the lightning bolt split in two, revealing a temporary passage.

"Xian'er, get ready."

"Do everything you can to maintain the new spatial passage," Xiao Bai instructed, turning his head slightly.

The newly opened spatial passage is not yet stable, and the original passage walls around it are still breaking outwards like a spider web, causing considerable spatial disturbance. He has to spend most of his energy on this, and the control of the ship can only be left to Little Fairy Doctor.

As the new wormhole drew closer, Xiao Bai's solemn voice rang out from the bow of the ship, drawing everyone's attention.

Feng Qing'er's lips turned white, her knuckles turned white, and she gripped the cabin tightly.

Yao Tianhuo couldn't sit still any longer. He leaped out of the ring and landed beside Xiao Bai, ready to deal with any unexpected situation.

Little Fairy Doctor's beautiful eyes were fixed on the dark red lightning flashing at the entrance of the passage ahead, her ears perked up, ready to receive Xiao Bai's command at any moment.

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

"change!"

The spaceship suddenly turned, its hull emitting a teeth-grinding creaking sound, as if it were about to disintegrate at any moment.

Feng Qing'er's face turned deathly pale, her fingernails almost digging into her palms, fearing that the ship would not be able to withstand the pressure and would shatter into pieces in the void.

However, the eighth-order spaceship was far more sturdy than imagined. Despite the violent tremors, it still steadily rushed toward the newly opened passage.

Just as the bow of the ship was about to disappear into the dark red lightning tunnel—

"Oh no! They're trying to escape!!"

Outside the passage, Tian Shuangzi, who had just finished setting up the spatial lock and breathed a sigh of relief, noticed the change in the spatial wormhole. His pupils suddenly contracted, and he immediately roared angrily.

Without hesitation, he raised his arm, and his boundless battle aura instantly condensed into a giant, frost-covered hand that reached into the silver light circle and fiercely grabbed at the spaceship!

The shattered space along the way froze instantly, covered with a thick layer of frost, and stopped spreading.

"Hmph! You old fool, do you really think I don't exist?"

Yao Tianhuo snorted coldly, his soul body surged, and scorching soul power burst forth from his palm, transforming into a giant palm that ruthlessly crashed into the energy giant palm.

"boom!"

The two forces collided, causing space to tremble and the aftershocks to sweep across, making the already broken wormhole walls even more fragile and accelerating their disintegration.

Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Tian She and Fei Tian also noticed the change. Their eyes flashed with cold light, and they attacked at the same time!

"Trying to run? Not so easy!"

With a flick of his sleeve, the Heavenly Serpent unleashed a gigantic, jet-black serpent phantom that roared forth, its gaping maw snapping at the stern of the ship.

Fei Tian then formed hand seals, gathering the power of thunder, and a thick silver lightning pillar descended from the sky, striking the ship's hull directly!

"court death!"

A cold glint flashed in Xiao Bai's eyes. The spaceship was now mostly inside the passage, and he no longer needed to maintain its stability. He immediately took a step forward, his body crackling with multicolored lightning, and thrust out with both palms—

"Boom! Boom!"

Two five-colored lightning dragons roared out, one heading straight for the pitch-black giant serpent, while the other clashed fiercely with the silver lightning pillar!

Amidst the deafening explosion and the turbulent spatial currents, Elder Tianshe and Fei Tian's attacks were forcefully blocked.

The aftershocks caused the already collapsing wormhole to completely crumble, and countless spatial fragments swept in like sharp blades!

"Go in!"

Xiao Bai shouted and struck out with his palm.

"call out--"

The spaceship completely disappeared into the dark red lightning tunnel, while the original wormhole collapsed completely, turning into nothingness.

Tian Shuangzi's face was grim as he stared intently at the figure standing in mid-air at the entrance to the passage crackling with dark red lightning. He gritted his teeth and said, "Boy, you can't escape!"

"hehe."

Xiao Bai looked at them coldly, his gaze slowly sweeping over Tian Shuangzi, Tian She, and Fei Tian.

He beckoned to them with his index finger, then raised his arm, wiped his neck, a mocking smile on his lips, and turned to walk into the passage.

The dark red lightning flashed a few times, and the passage disappeared instantly. The surrounding space collapsed abruptly, and a violent spatial storm directly submerged the original spatial passage.

"That brat is arrogant!"

Tian Shuangzi's temples throbbed with veins, and his cloudy eyes were sharper than ever before. He had thought he had it in the bag this time, but he hadn't expected that Tian Shuangzi would still manage to escape.

Elder Tian She narrowed his eyes and said in a sinister tone:

"Elder, please calm down. Considering the distance covered in the Tianmu Mountains incident, they can't have gone very far through this passage. As long as we strengthen the search within a thousand miles of this area, they won't get very far!"

"This area is close to the territory of Burning Flame Valley. How can we conduct a large-scale search? What if we alert them and cause misunderstandings?"

Fei Tian's eyes darkened, he snorted coldly, waved his sleeve, and the power of wind and thunder surged as he took the lead and flew off in a certain direction.

This hasty exchange revealed a strength that the man possessed that he could no longer handle; he needed to consult with the Eastern Pavilion.

"Heavenly Serpent, do as you say. The Valley Master just gave the order: now that the Calamity Poison Body has appeared, capture it at all costs, even if it offends the Burning Flame Valley. Anyway, their relationship with my Ice River Valley isn't much better!"

Tian Shuangzi withdrew the jade slip from his hand, his gaze turning sinister. Then, as if remembering something, he turned and asked:

"Is there absolutely no movement from the Soul Palace?"

Thinking of the soul entity that had blocked his attack earlier, his expression turned somewhat unpleasant. If it hadn't been for that soul entity's intervention, he might have successfully captured those people.

"I'm sure the Soul Palace has received the message, but this time they seem uninterested in that soul entity. No one has contacted us yet."

Upon hearing this, Tian She frowned.

He was also very puzzled. Given the way the Soul Palace usually acted, they would swarm around the mention of a soul entity like sharks smelling blood, but this time it was extremely unusual.

"Forget about them. They were just a side move anyway; their absence won't affect the overall situation. Once we pinpoint their location, I'll make sure they have nowhere to escape!"

Tian Shuangzi didn't mind and waved his hand.

Meanwhile, inside the dark red passage.

The spaceship struggled forward amidst violent turbulence. Little Fairy Doctor was completely focused on controlling the ship, fine beads of sweat appearing on her forehead.

"Why is this passage so unstable?"

Xiao Bai stood at the bow of the ship, his hands crackling with dark red lightning, maintaining the stability of the passageway.

"After all, it was opened up temporarily, and it was affected by the space storm before, so it's already quite good that it has lasted this long."

Yao Tianhuo's soul floated to the side, his expression solemn: "There's a spatial node ahead. We can go out now, but the situation outside is unclear, so we should be careful."

"Um."

Xiao Bai nodded, then turned to Little Fairy Doctor and said, "Fairy, I'll open an exit. Get ready, the moment the exit appears, we'll rush out!"

Little Fairy Doctor understood and slowly withdrew her battle qi, causing the spaceship to gradually slow down.

"boom!"

The dark red lightning struck the darkness, and as if it collided with something, a huge gap instantly opened up in space.

Another violent tremor followed, and the ship finally broke through the passage.

The blinding sunlight streamed in, and everyone instinctively squinted.

"Where is this?"

Little Fairy Doctor gazed at the boundless, flat forest, her small mouth slightly open, standing at the bow of the boat, her beautiful eyes looking around blankly.

"I don't know either."

Xiao Bai shrugged. There were no mountains here, just lush greenery as far as the eye could see, nothing special about it.

The good news is that there wasn't a single person in sight.

After everyone disembarked from the spaceship and put the shrunken spaceship away, Xiao Bai stepped into the void and arrived at high altitude. He narrowed his eyes and kept looking at Zhou Zhou.

Xiao Bai stood suspended in mid-air, his robes fluttering in the strong wind.

Just as he was about to unleash his soul perception, the dense forest beneath his feet suddenly exploded with thousands of birds.

With a deafening roar, the ancient trees within a ten-mile radius simultaneously tilted to both sides—a giant bear, thirty feet tall, burst from the ground, its dark yellow fur shimmering with an earthy yellow light.

"A seventh-tier high-level Earth Demon Bear!" Yao Tianhuo's delighted voice rang in her ears.

"Xiao Bai, capture him. When you refine the resurrected body, its essence and blood will be added, making my body even stronger. This beast can manipulate the power of the earth's veins!"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Bai's body suddenly sank three inches.

The surrounding air seemed to solidify into a block of iron, making even breathing difficult.

The demonic bear slammed its paws into the ground, and countless rock spikes burst forth, condensing in the air into a dense rain of meteorites!

"Well done!"

Xiao Bai's pupils flashed with lightning, and five-colored lightning patterns intertwined in his palm.

Five colors of lightning—blue, black, yellow, gold, and red—spiraled upwards, transforming into a hundred-foot-long thunder dragon that soared into the sky.

Wherever the thunder dragon passed, meteorites were blasted into dust, and the flying stone fragments vaporized in the lightning.

Dozens of miles away in the dense forest, a caravan with black iron banners suddenly reined in their horses.

The blue-scaled horse pulling the cart pawed its front hooves restlessly, seemingly extremely uneasy.

"Look at the sky!" The commander of the guards' sword clattered to the ground, startling everyone awake.

Looking up, one could see a young man in black robes standing on lightning beneath a sky filled with churning thunderclouds, his body shimmering with five-colored lightning that formed a dazzling armor around him.

The demonic bear facing it was enveloped in an earthy yellow aura, causing the ground within a radius of several miles to undulate like waves.

The demonic bear suddenly stood upright and clasped its hands together heavily.

The ground cracked open with fissures hundreds of feet wide, and scorching magma, carrying the smell of sulfur, gushed out.

The magma solidified in mid-air into nine giant rock pythons, each with eyes flashing a scarlet, menacing light.

"Huo"

Xiao Bai spread his five fingers, and five-colored lightning condensed at his fingertips into a lightning spear several feet long.

His figure transformed into a streak of light, leaving behind charred cracks in the space wherever he passed.

The first rock dragon was cut in half at the waist, and lightning crackled at the cut.

The second dragon's head had barely risen when it was pierced through the brow by a lightning spear; as the third dragon's tail swept across, Xiao Bai's left hand made a grasping motion, conjuring a giant net of lightning out of thin air—

"Thunder Prison!"

As the stern shout rang out, thunderclouds churned in the sky, and lightning descended like a cage.

Nine rock dragons struggled and exploded within the lightning net, the flying debris ionized into dust before it even hit the ground.

Upon seeing this, the demonic bear roared, and its body flashed with yellow light.

In the caravan, a burly young man stood on the roof of a carriage, watching the two sides fighting in the distance. Every time his gaze fell on the multicolored lightning, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.

The battlefield suddenly changed.

The demonic bear suddenly stood upright, its paws striking its chest with a muffled thud like war drums. Rings of earthen-yellow light rippled across its body.

In a few breaths, a pale yellow halo appeared behind it, and its entire body seemed to begin to crystallize, with every hair turning into sharp rock spikes.

"Earth ley line resonance?"

Yao Tianhuo's voice was solemn.

"Xiao Bai, why don't we leave it to me? With the blessing of the earth's veins, this guy can continuously absorb energy from them. We don't even know where we are right now. If we alert the people from Ice River Valley and they catch up, we'll be in trouble!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Bai stopped abruptly, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

"Earth veins? Anyone can talk the talk!"

As he spoke, he lightly tapped his left fingertip, and a bolt of yellow lightning as thick as an arm burst forth, striking the forest and flashing on the ground before disappearing without a trace.

Then he pointed his right hand to the sky, summoning thunderclouds from the heavens.

Five-colored lightning condensed into a spiraling lightning spear in his palm, its shaft covered in dense, ancient lightning patterns. The moment the demonic bear pounced—

"Thunder Dragon. Sky Rift!"

The Thunder Spear trembled violently, and the roar of a dragon rang out continuously. After breaking free from Xiao Bai's grasp, it instantly transformed into a hundred-zhang-long, five-colored thunder dragon, heading straight for the Demon Bear.

"roar"

The Earth Demon Bear felt a strong pressure, but instead of being afraid, the red light in its eyes intensified.

However, at this moment it felt as if the surging earth veins beneath it had been suddenly cut off, and it couldn't help but roar in anger.

The sound waves directly blew up the surrounding towering trees, sending them crashing down hundreds of meters away.

Seeing the thunder dragon approaching, it had no choice but to raise a giant hand, covered with a thick layer of earthy yellow light, and slam it down hard on the thunder dragon.

"boom!"

The earth-shaking collision suddenly resounded for miles around, and a shockwave visible to the naked eye spread outwards.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"

A spatial rift tens of meters in size appeared, frantically devouring everything around it. Within a radius of ten miles, it was as if a typhoon had passed through, leaving no place intact.

As the smoke and dust dissipated slightly, a thunder dragon was seen piercing through the demonic bear's left paw, and behind it, the entire forest floor had collapsed into a charred, deep pit, with five-colored lightning arcs flickering.

Just then, countless beams of yellow lightning shot out from the crack in the ground and surged into the demonic bear's body.

Moments later, its crystalline body exploded with spiderweb-like cracks.

The demonic bear let out a final, unwilling roar before its massive body, several dozen feet long, crashed to the ground, the dust it kicked up forming a small mushroom cloud.

The caravan members were stunned. The armor of the guard commander was soaked with cold sweat, and several young guards were kneeling on the ground, their weapons nowhere to be found.

"The Earth Demon Bear... it's dead just like that? This was a powerhouse comparable to a high-level human Dou Zong!!"

This seventh-tier magical beast had dominated this forest for an unknown period of time, causing all who passed by to tremble with fear at its mere mention.

Xiao Bai landed gracefully, his five fingers grasping at the air, and in no time, he refined the demonic bear's essence blood into a fist-sized dark yellow blood ball.

A giant bear could be faintly seen thumping its chest and roaring within the blood, with rings of pale yellow light constantly rippled around it.

"Cousin, is that him?"

(End of this chapter)