One person: Lu family bodyguard, who shattered Longhu Mountain with a single palm strike.

Thunderclouds continued to press down over the mountain behind.

In the distance, several terrifying auras were approaching at an extremely fast speed.

At the center of the lightning pillar, Lin Mo was suspended in mid-air, his body constantly exploding with blue and white lightning. One bolt of lightning after another struck into his body, as if trying to forcefully push him into the sky.

"boom!"

Another bolt of lightning struck.

Lin Mo's body trembled violently, his jaw clenched, and his eye twitched sharply.

It doesn't hurt.

It's too nourishing.

As soon as the heavenly lightning entered his meridians, it was forcibly swallowed by the max-level "Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Technique" and transformed into his own thunder energy.

The thunder energy is rising.

The meridians are swelling.

Even his entire body was being lifted up little by little by that power that seemed to reach the heavens and the earth.

The mountains and forests beneath our feet receded into the distance, while the thunderclouds overhead drew ever closer.

Lin Mo quickly understood.

It wasn't a bolt of lightning that was going to kill him.

This max-level lightning technique is borrowing the lightning essence of Longhu Mountain to complete the final section of his path to heaven.

If he goes up with this force, he might actually leave this world on the spot.

Lin Mo's face immediately darkened.

"No way..."

He glanced down at his clothes, which were still emitting thunder, then looked up at the rolling thunderclouds overhead, his tone revealing a hint of genuine urgency for the first time.

"I haven't bought a house yet, the contract hasn't expired, and I haven't earned any money from the Luo Tian Da Jiao."

"Now, let me ascend to heaven?"

"Who will pay me the final payment?"

Thunder roared.

No one answered him.

Only thicker bolts of lightning continued to strike him.

"boom!"

This blow was even heavier than the previous ones.

Lin Mo was struck and rose several meters higher. The Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Technique within his body seemed to come alive completely, frantically drawing in the thunderclouds.

The seventh floor, Heaven's Ashes.

This is no longer an ordinary lightning spell.

This is the highest realm where one can truly ascend to the heavens and attain immortality.

The problem is, Zhang Daoren, who created this thunder technique, was willing to ascend to immortality; that was his choice.

Lin Mo was unwilling.

How long has he been in this world?

The base salary had just increased to 100,000, the housing fund was just starting to take shape, and the long-term contract with the Lu family was still fresh in everyone's minds.

Should we let him ascend at this time?

What would we do if we flew up there?

Go to heaven to be a temporary worker with no contract, no social security, and no overtime pay?

Or was he just a lowly soldier among the 100,000 heavenly soldiers?

Lin Mo gritted his teeth and shouted in his mind, "System, does this reward have any hidden unfair terms?"

[Ding! Reward fusion process proceeded normally.]

[The current anomaly is driven by the cultivation technique's level of mastery.]

[Please allow the host to stabilize the system on its own.]

Lin Mo's eyelids twitched as he listened.

"Self-stabilizing?"

"I'm practically floating on air!"

[Ding! This system does not provide after-sales support for ascension.]

Lin Mo was silent for a moment, almost laughing out of anger.

it is good.

That makes perfect sense.

It truly lives up to its reputation as a 9-to-5 attendance system.

They don't even provide after-sales service for Feisheng.

Dozens of meters below, Lu Linglong was so shocked by the lightning that her breathing became labored and her face turned pale.

She stared intently at Lin Mo in mid-air, her unease growing stronger.

She could feel Lin Mo drifting further and further away from her.

It's not just about distance.

It's more like this person will disappear from this world completely in the next second.

Lu Linglong panicked and forced herself to take a step forward despite the pressure of the lightning.

"Lin Mo!"

The thunder was so loud that her voice was almost swallowed up.

But she still gritted her teeth and kept shouting.

"Don't really leave!"

Lin Mo, who was in mid-air, looked down at her.

Lu Linglong's eyes reddened, and her fingers clenched so tightly they turned white, as if afraid her voice would tremble. She immediately changed her tune and snapped, "You're a bodyguard for the Lu family, and your contract hasn't expired yet!"

"The after-sales service isn't finished for today either!"

"If you dare to fly away like this, that would be a serious breach of contract!"

"You have to pay the penalty for breach of contract!"

"Did you hear me? Not a penny less!"

Lin Mo's tense nerves were suddenly tugged by those words.

He looked down at Lu Linglong, who was both anxious and angry, paused for a second, and then actually smiled.

"Boss Lu."

"Your angle is perfect."

Lu Linglong almost stomped her foot in anger: "What time is it?! You're still talking nonsense!"

Lin Mo's lips twitched, and the lightning in his eyes grew clearer and clearer.

Liquidated damages.

These three words are more effective than any profound understanding of the Dao.

"You want me to pay a penalty for breach of contract?"

"Not a chance."

Lin Mo looked up at Lei Yun, his voice not loud, but it forcefully suppressed the surrounding thunderous explosions.

"I, Lin Mo, am willing to be struck by lightning."

"But we cannot breach the contract."

"The contract hasn't expired, the money hasn't been spent, the house hasn't been bought, and the big deal in Longhushan hasn't been opened yet."

"No one can make me ascend to immortality for free!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Mo took a deep breath.

Since we can't suppress it, then we won't suppress it.

The Nine Yang True Qi that he had cultivated for 115 years was fully activated within him. The extremely powerful and yang internal force acted like a large net, forcibly enveloping the rampaging thunderous Qi.

The Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Technique was also fully unleashed at this moment.

The thunderous energy grew stronger and stronger.

The wrath of Heaven grows ever heavier.

But Lin Mo no longer simply resisted.

He turned the tables and actively opened up all his meridians, drawing the thunderbolts into his body.

"Boom!"

Lei Yun seemed to be both enraged and completely provoked.

A bolt of lightning, several times thicker than before, crashed down and struck Lin Mo precisely.

Lu Linglong's face turned pale: "Lin Mo!"

The lightning instantly engulfed his figure.

But the next moment, an even more dazzling blue-white lightning bolt exploded from the lightning pillar.

Lin Mo did not fall.

He raised his head, his eyes flashing with lightning, and his palms crackling with lightning arcs.

"Zhang Daoren was able to climb up the thunder because he wanted to fly."

"I don't want to."

"Then let's do it the other way around today."

Lin Mo slowly clenched his fists, and his voice came from the lightning pillar.

"Thunder enters my body, but remains in the heavens."

"The person remains in the world."

Another bolt of lightning struck.

Lin Mo's internal energy of thunder was pushed to its limit, and he finally touched that threshold.

It's very light.

It's very empty.

It felt like a real road had opened up above my head.

Just one step.

He can then leave.

It's not death.

It was a forced map change.

At the very moment when the pull of heaven and earth was at its strongest, Lin Mo's eyes suddenly calmed down.

He found it.

The source that drew him was not the thunderclouds overhead, but the newly formed circulation of thunder energy within his heart meridian.

As long as it keeps spinning, the heavens and earth will pull it upwards.

Therefore, he had to break it by himself.

"Now."

Lin Mo suddenly raised his right hand.

The Nine Yang Divine Skill protects the heart meridian, the Iron Palm Skill suppresses the power to an extremely fine level, and the Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Technique forcibly twists the thunder energy into a domineering shock force.

next second.

He slapped his chest hard with his palm.

"Cut it off!"

"Bang!"

A dull thud exploded from the lightning.

This palm strike was not aimed at the enemy.

It's hitting yourself.

He forcibly severed the upward cycle of thunder energy formed from his heart meridian.

The thunderclouds in the sky suddenly paused.

It's like a target that was locked onto suddenly losing its grip.

Lin Mo felt a sweet taste in his throat.

"puff!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

The blue and white lightning around him dimmed instantly.

At the same time, the force in the sky that was lifting him up broke.

Lin Mo's body suddenly sank, and he fell from mid-air as if his string had been cut.

"Lin Mo!"

Lu Linglong's expression changed drastically, and she rushed out.

In mid-air, Lin Mo still had blood on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were frighteningly clear.

He forced himself to turn over, his toes touching a section of tree trunk that had been struck by lightning.

Swift as a shadow, ever-changing and unpredictable.

"Whoosh!"

His figure changed from falling to moving sideways, and then landed heavily on the ground the next second.

"Bang!"

His feet sank into the scorched ground, creating two deep craters.

Lin Mo raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. Before he could even catch his breath, his brows furrowed.

The five senses brought about by the Nine Yang True Qi and Thunder Qi allowed him to clearly perceive them.

Less than three miles away, several auras were approaching at full speed.

One of the most familiar auras was that of Old Master Lu Jin.

Lin Mo didn't want to be cornered right now.

If those old foxes notice something like how he almost got promoted, forget about leaving get off work on time; even getting orders smoothly will be a problem.

Lin Mo liked to show off his abilities in front of others, but this time the matter was not as simple as just showing off in front of others.

Instead, he's going to become a saint!

"We cannot allow it to be blocked."

Lin Mo stepped on the ground, and his figure vanished instantly.

In less than a second, he appeared directly in front of Lu Linglong.

Before Lu Linglong could recover from the shock of him vomiting blood and falling, she felt a tightness around her waist.

Lin Mo put his left arm around her and used his right hand to pick up the backpack from the ground.

"Walk."

Lu Linglong was stunned, and looking at Lin Mo, she couldn't help but say, "What are you doing? You're spitting blood!"

Lin Mo's face was a little pale, but his movements were not slow at all.

"No time to explain, someone's here."

Lu Linglong hurriedly grabbed his sleeve and asked, "Is it my great-grandfather and the others?"

"There were other people too, I guess the old Celestial Master, and all sorts of other old folks came."

A flash of lightning appeared in Lin Mo's leg meridians, and his body immediately became as light as the wind.

"The commotion was too loud just now, and I don't want to be seen as the person in charge of the Longhu Mountain Ascension Project for the time being."

Lu Linglong: "..."

Lin Mo whispered a reminder: "Employer, hold on tight."

"It's time to leave work, let's go."

The voice just fell.

"Whoosh!"

The two transformed into a blur, dodging the broken logs and scorched pits scattered on the ground, and disappeared in the blink of an eye on the path on the other side of the back mountain.

Lu Linglong was carried away by him as the wind whistled past her ears.

She looked at the blood that Lin Mo hadn't wiped clean from the corner of his mouth, and her heart tightened.

"Are you badly injured?"

Lin Mo looked down at the scorch marks on his clothes, his tone heavy with sorrow.

"The clothes are badly damaged."

Lu Linglong choked on her words: "..."

She was so angry that she raised her hand to hit him, but when she saw his pale face, she stopped herself.

"Can't you be serious for once?"

"I'm very serious."

As Lin Mo ran, he circulated his Nine Yang True Qi to suppress the surging thunder Qi within his body.

"I have an invoice for this outfit; I'll have to go through the workers' compensation process later."

Lu Linglong's eyes were still red, and she lowered her voice: "You almost died just now."

Lin Mo didn't stop, his figure darting through the woods like lightning, while he spoke steadily: "So, the reason for reimbursement is even more convincing."

Lu Linglong was so angry she laughed.

After laughing, she couldn't suppress the lingering fear in her eyes.

"You bastard."

Lin Mo led her through a few quick movements, bypassing the main mountain path and disappearing into a secluded woodland.

Only after confirming that the auras behind him had not yet followed did he put Lu Linglong down and wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.

As soon as the Nine Yang True Qi circulated, the dull pain in his chest immediately subsided by more than half.

Lu Linglong reached out to support him, her fingertips trembling.

She wanted to curse, but when she saw the blood at the corner of Lin Mo's mouth, she swallowed her words.

After a couple of breaths, she glared at him with red eyes and said, "Are you sick? How can you joke about something like this?"

Lin Mo waved his hand: "It's nothing, just an internal system upgrade conflict. A restart will fix it."

Lu Linglong stared intently at him: "What exactly happened just now?"

Lin Mo glanced at the gradually dissipating thunderclouds in the distance, speaking as naturally as if he were talking about the weather.

"The feng shui of Longhu Mountain is excellent; I've made a slight breakthrough in one of my cultivation techniques."

Lu Linglong's eyes widened: "A small breakthrough?"

"You call that a minor breakthrough?"

"It's already dark, the trees are all blown up, and you're almost up there!"

Lin Mo corrected him earnestly: "It's not 'hurry up'."

Lu Linglong was just about to breathe a sigh of relief.

Lin Mo added, "They've already gone up halfway."

Lu Linglong closed her eyes, feeling that she would be driven crazy by him sooner or later.

Lin Mo frowned when he saw her pale face.

"You were running around under the pressure of lightning just now, so your meridians are a bit congested."

Lu Linglong was taken aback: "You're still talking about this now?"

Lin Mo reached out and gently pressed on her shoulder, sending a wisp of gentle Nine Yang True Qi over her.

"Within the after-sales service scope."

Lu Linglong's lips moved, and finally she whispered, "Don't do that again next time."

Lin Mo looked at her.

Lu Linglong avoided his gaze, her ears turning slightly red, but her tone remained firm.

"I mean, don't kill yourself."

"If you really disappear, wouldn't all my money have been wasted?"

Lin Mo nodded: "I'll do as my employer says."

"I will do my best to ensure that my clients' assets are not lost."

Lu Linglong tried to hold back, but she couldn't help herself and gently kicked him.

"You're such an idiot."

the other side.

Thunderstorm center.

Less than half a minute after Lin Mo and Lu Linglong left, a golden light pierced through the sky and arrived.

The old master Zhang Zhiwei was the first to land.

The golden light beneath his feet had not yet dissipated, and as soon as he stopped, his gaze swept across the entire scorched forest.

Followed by.

Lu Jin, Lü Ci, Wang Ai, Chen Jinkui, Feng Zhenghao, Mu You and others also arrived one after another.

When the group of old guys standing at the top of the supernatural world saw the scene before them, the scene suddenly fell silent.

Within a radius of tens of meters, all the towering ancient trees were split in half by lightning.

The ground was covered with charred, deep pits.

The air was filled with the smell of burnt wood and the acrid odor of thunder.

The dark clouds in the sky were dissipating, but tiny arcs of lightning could still occasionally flicker in the scorched earth.

Wang Ai's grip on the dragon-headed cane tightened noticeably.

Chen Jinkui swallowed hard and couldn't help but whisper, "This thunder energy... is too terrifying."

As the head of the Shuzi Sect, Chen Jinkui is quite knowledgeable and his own strength is among the top in the world of supernatural beings. Otherwise, he would not have been able to sit in the position of head of the Shuzi Sect and become one of the Ten Elders.

Therefore, Chen Jinkui clearly felt just how terrifying the surrounding environment was.

No one responded.

Because that's a difficult question to answer.

Lu Ci's single eye swept across the surroundings, his voice grim: "Where are they?"

Lu Jin's expression also changed.

He looked at Zhang Zhiwei, his tone unusually surprised: "Old Celestial Master, that master is no longer here."

"Could it be that the master we just saw has truly ascended to immortality?"

Upon hearing this, everyone's gaze changed.

Wang Ai's smile froze completely.

Feng Zhenghao pushed up his glasses and said in a low voice, "If it were true ascension, there shouldn't be only these traces left at the scene."

Lü Ci remained silent.

He crouched down and looked at a scorched pit for a moment.

There were two very deep footprints there.

There was also a drop of blood that had been burned away by the thunder energy.

Lu Ci reached out and approached the remaining lightning energy, and a wisp of blue-white electric arc shot up from his fingertip.

His expression changed slightly, and he immediately shook his hand to disperse the energy.

A moment later, he stood up and said in a deep voice, "It didn't fly."

Lu Jin immediately looked at him: "Are you sure?"

Lu Ci snorted coldly: "If he really left, he wouldn't have left such a hard-hitting footprint."

"The energy flow at the scene was abruptly interrupted."

"That force that pulls heaven and earth together has been forcibly cut off in the middle."

Wang Ai's face twitched: "Severing ascension?"

Even he himself found it absurd to utter those four words.

But the traces are right here in front of us.

Lu Ci stared at the scorched ground, his single eye filled with apprehension.

"Moreover, most of the time they broke it themselves."

"That master must have been unwilling to leave this world, so he personally suppressed the tribulation lightning."

At this point, Lü Ci turned to look at Zhang Zhiwei and slowly cupped his hands in greeting.

"Old Celestial Master".

"They've kept it well hidden."

"The Celestial Master's Mansion actually harbors such a senior who could knock on the gates of immortality at any time."

Feng Zhenghao's expression became even more serious.

"Being able to reach that point, and also being able to cut off that point yourself."

"This senior's level of attainment is probably beyond our ability to fathom."

Chen Jinkui wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and gave a dry laugh: "As expected of the ancestral home of Taoism."

"Old Celestial Master, I think there's no need to argue about those details we discussed in the pavilion earlier."

"Since the Celestial Master's Mansion has already made arrangements, the condition of being under thirty years old is safe enough."

Wang Ai glanced at Lei Hen, then at Zhang Zhiwei.

Zhang Zhiwei offered no explanation.

He just stood there quietly.

Wang Ai felt even more uncertain.

At times like these, it's most frightening when the Old Master doesn't offer any explanation.

The smile gradually returned to his face, and his voice softened considerably.

"Yes, Master."

"Since the Luotian Grand Ceremony is held at Longhu Mountain, the rules are naturally decided by the Celestial Master's Mansion."

"We're all working for the peace and stability of the supernatural world; there's no need to ruin our harmony over such a trivial matter."

Lu Ci glanced coldly at Wang Ai, but did not expose her.

Feng Zhenghao nodded in agreement: "The World Society has no objections."

Mu You crossed his arms, remained silent for a moment, and then slowly nodded.

Lu Jin stood to the side, clearly seeing the reactions of these old foxes.

He understood.

These people didn't suddenly become easier to talk to.

They were scared.

Who would dare to provoke an old monster who could ascend to immortality at any moment, or not at any moment?

If you really push them too far, they might just send a bolt of lightning to your house before they leave, then dust themselves off and fly away.

You have nowhere to reason with them.

Lu Jin almost burst out laughing.

But as soon as he smiled, he couldn't help but feel uneasy.

He had known Zhang Zhiwei for so many years, and he had never heard of a senior figure of this caliber hiding in the back mountain of the Celestial Master's Mansion.

Old Zhang's skills were truly well hidden.

Just as everyone was having different thoughts, Zhang Zhiwei finally turned around.

He neither admitted nor denied it.

He simply put his hands behind his back and smiled faintly.

"Since no one has any objections, then the rules of the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony shall be followed as described above."

"It's getting late, and my disciples still need to prepare for the grand religious ceremony, so I won't keep you all for dinner."

Wang Ai immediately seized the opportunity and chuckled, "The Celestial Master's Mansion is very busy, so we won't disturb you any longer."

Chen Jinkui also breathed a sigh of relief: "Then let's go back to town first."

Feng Zhenghao cupped his hands in greeting: "I'm sorry to have bothered you, Elder Celestial Master."

Mu You nodded without saying anything more.

Lu Ci glanced at Zhang Zhiwei, then looked at the charred lightning marks, and finally turned and left with a cold face.

The ten elders, each with their own thoughts, quickly descended the mountain along the original route.

Before leaving, Wang Ai took one last deep look at the ruins.

There was jealousy, apprehension, and an overwhelming fear in his eyes.

There's nothing we can do, even though he's one of the Ten Elders, holding a high position and wielding great power.

But if you offend a peerless master who has one foot in the heavens, what if that master comes down the mountain to have tea with you, or wakes you up in the middle of the night to have a heart-to-heart talk?

No matter who it is, even someone of high status cannot withstand this kind of stimulation.

So now no one dares to use so-called rules and morality to justify their actions.

They were afraid that Zhang Zhiwei would whisper in the ear of that peerless master and persuade that extraordinary person to come down the mountain.

Soon, the presence of outsiders completely disappeared.

In the ruins of the back mountain, only Lu Jin and Zhang Zhiwei remained.

Lu Jin finally couldn't hold back any longer.

He walked over to Zhang Zhiwei and gave him a thumbs up.

"Old Zhang, that's impressive."

"That was a brilliant play."

"Those old foxes were trying to take a bite out of the rules of the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony, but now they're all running away faster than anyone else."

"That was a pretty ruthless intimidating move."

Zhang Zhiwei did not laugh.

The relaxation on his face slowly faded, and his eyes became unusually serious.

Lu Jin was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Zhiwei watched the gradually dissipating thunderclouds, his voice very soft.

"It wasn't my arrangement."

Lu Jin's smile froze.

"What do you mean it wasn't your arrangement?"

Zhang Zhiwei turned to look at him: "The person who triggered the heavenly lightning just now was not from the Celestial Master's Mansion."

Lu Jin froze on the spot.

"What did you say?"

"Not from the Celestial Master's Mansion?"

"Old Zhang, you're not kidding me."

"That sky full of thunder, that terrifyingly pure thunder energy, what else could it be but the Five Thunder Orthodox Method of your Celestial Master's Mansion?"

Zhang Zhiwei raised his hand and gestured.

A wisp of residual lightning energy rose from the scorched pit and landed in his palm.

The lightning flashed for a moment, then slowly dissipated.

Zhang Zhiwei frowned even more deeply.

"It's thunder magic."

"But it is definitely not the Five Thunder Orthodox Method passed down by our Celestial Master's Mansion."

He paused for a moment before continuing, "Or rather, not our version."

Lu Jin gasped.

"Not your version?"

"Are there any other Five Thunder Orthodox Methods in this world?"

Zhang Zhiwei remained silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

"The foundation of this thunderous energy is very similar to the thunder magic of the Celestial Master's Mansion."

"But it's more ancient and more domineering."

"It is neither simply Yin Five Thunder nor Yang Five Thunder."

"It's more like taking another step forward after the Five Thunders returned to One."

Lu Jin felt a chill run down her spine.

"Stronger than your lightning magic?"

Zhang Zhiwei did not answer immediately.

He stared at the scorch mark on his palm for a long time before speaking softly.

"If we only consider that one instant, after the thunder magic stirred up the heavens and earth, the Heavenly Gate opened wide..."

"I'm certainly not at that point yet."

The opening of the Heavenly Gate is a sign of ascension to immortality and a path to heaven.

However, he has not yet reached that level.

The mountain wind blew by, stirring up the charred wood chips on the ground.

Lu Jin's breath hitched.

A mysterious person, who did not belong to the Celestial Master's Mansion but possessed thunder magic that was more ancient and domineering than that of the Celestial Master's Mansion, appeared silently on Longhu Mountain.

Moreover, this happened just before the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony began.

Looking at the lightning marks all over the ground, Lu Jin suddenly had an extremely strong premonition.

On this day in the world of supernatural beings.

Things are probably really going to change.

……

A 6,000-word chapter is presented here~