Chapter 1006: Mysterious Thunder

As they drew nearer, Lin Feng finally realized that the sand around this skeleton had been severely damaged.

There were dozens—at least thirty to forty—deep holes of various sizes, some hundreds of meters deep.

Moreover, this was related to the skeleton's proximity to the buildings beyond the grass.

Those unknown attacks even damaged several nearby grand halls.

As Lin Feng's gaze swept over them, he saw that the grand halls struck by the mysterious attacks had been reduced to flat ground.

As for what was inside, one can imagine there is little hope of anything remaining intact.

When Lin Feng and Yun Yun saw this, their faces twitched with sudden heartache.

After all, these were the relics left by a Dou Saint‑level strongman, and the contents of the grand halls must be extremely valuable.

But now they have been ruined into this state.

Then Lin Feng shifted his gaze toward some charred wood among the distant ruins, and thought, "Could those grand halls have been destroyed by the attacks of that strongman who wielded Nine Nether Golden Ancestral Fire in life?"

However, as Lin Feng's eyes scanned more of the ruins, he found clear signs of lightning strikes in other debris.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but shake his head.

Because from the scene, it was evident these structures had been hit by thunder‑attribute attacks.

And Nine Nether Golden Ancestral Fire has no thunder attribute.

"Husband, although those grand halls nearby were destroyed, this skeleton escaped catastrophic damage. Only its head and both hands show some noticeable wounds. With such hard bones, was it a Dou Saint strongman in life?"

Looking down at the skeleton lying on the ground, Yun Yun thought carefully and then asked.

Hearing this, Lin Feng immediately nodded and said, "From the oppressive aura emanating from that skeleton, it was clearly a Dou Saint strongman in life. Moreover, its aura is even stronger than the one I hold. I speculate that this white bone was once a star‑level Dou Saint strongman!"

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, a flash of joy lit Yun Yun's beautiful eyes.

Earlier she had taken a dose of Dou Saint bone marrow; even though she had already ascended to the Dou Zun Realm, her strength instantly rose by one star.

And the skeleton below, in its former life, was far stronger than the Saint of Creation skeleton her husband had obtained earlier.

So, wouldn't the marrow of this skeleton have an even greater amplifying effect?

Thinking of this, Yun Yun lowered her head, her delighted eyes gazing at the skeleton.

But as she looked, she happened to see a few tiny metal fragments around the skeleton's fingers.

Those fragments were pink; from their appearance they seemed to be Nascent Ring pieces.

"Husband, judging by the style of that Nascent Ring fragment, this skeleton appears to belong to a female strongman?"

Having spotted the fragments, Yun Yun quickly shook the hand Lin Feng was holding and pointed downward.

Hearing that, the startled Lin Feng immediately turned his gaze toward the direction Yun Yun indicated.

Soon, a few tiny pink metal fragments caught his eye.

"It really is!"

Seeing the fragments, Lin Feng nodded, suddenly realizing.

But then his expression hardened again.

After a moment of silence, he slapped his thigh and shouted in anguish, "Damn, a Dou Saint strongman's Nascent Ring is gone just like that!"

Hearing this, Yun Yun beside him was startled, then quickly recovered.

A deep heartache rose on her pretty face as well.

After all, this was a Dou Saint strongman's Nascent Ring!

"Fine, let's secure this skeleton first; later we can go back and retrieve the other skeleton and the Nine Nether Golden Ancestral Fire as well."

After lingering heartache, Lin Feng could only sigh helplessly.

While speaking, he took Yun Yun's hand and approached the female Dou Saint's skeleton.

Glancing at the scattered Nascent Ring fragments nearby, Lin Feng carefully touched the skeleton.

After confirming it was safe, he grasped the skeleton by its neck and lifted it.

"Snip!"

But just as Lin Feng lifted the female Dou Saint's bones, a faint electric hum immediately sounded.

Then, before Lin Feng and Yun Yun could react, a strand of thunder swiftly pierced Lin Feng's body.

"Master, be careful!"

Seeing this, Xiao Ling, who possessed ample Dou Qi and needed to maintain an exotic fire shield, quickly warned Lin Feng.

After all, her flame avatars, spread throughout Lin Feng's body, could detect anomalies instantly.

At the same time, she hurriedly channeled the Dou Qi Lin Feng gave her, unleashing blazing gray exotic fire to surround that tiny electric current.

The moment the faint golden thunder entered Lin Feng's body, the gray exotic fire surged forward, encircling it.

It prevented the foreign thunder from harming Lin Feng's flesh.

After surrounding the golden thunder, the exotic fire, under Xiao Ling's control, swarmed and fiercely seared the strand of golden thunder.

However, to Xiao Ling's astonishment, no matter how the gray exotic fire burned, it could not harm it in the slightest.

"Damn, what is this?!"

At this point, Lin Feng finally reacted, his complexion changing instantly, and he instinctively let go of the skeleton.

Immediately, his soul perception dove inward, reaching the spot where Xiao Ling had surrounded the thunder.

What met his eyes was the golden thunder encircled by a coil of gray fire.

Meanwhile, Xiao Ling frantically manipulated the gray fire within Lin Feng, constantly lashing at the golden thunder.

Unfortunately, no matter how dense and massive the exotic fire was,

the golden thunder needed only a brief flash to shatter the exotic fire Xiao Ling had gathered into nothingness.

"Master, this strand of thunder is extremely fine yet immensely powerful; I can only temporarily restrain it, not destroy it."

Sensing Lin Feng's soul power entering, Xiao Ling immediately began spiritual communication with him.

Hearing that, Lin Feng nodded and sent a voice transmission: "In that case, Xiao Ling, you first keep it under control; I'll sense its condition."

Mm-hmm.

Seeing that the former did not blame her, Xiao Ling let out a big sigh of relief.

Immediately after, she hurriedly condensed Strange Fire, tightly trapping it in place to protect Lin Feng's safety.

As for the latter, after he finished speaking, his soul perception immediately moved toward that strand of golden lightning.

However, as his soul perception just approached that strand of golden lightning, it immediately sensed the situation.

It then released a burst of lightning power, cleaving that strand of soul perception into nothing!

"Such powerful lightning! Compared to it, under equal mass, the pill lightning I previously attracted while refining nine-colored medicinal pills is less than one percent of it!"

After his soul perception was cleaved into nothing, Lin Feng promptly opened his eyes, his heart sinking again.

"Husband, are you alright?"

Just as the former's eyes opened, Yun Yun's peerless, worry-filled appearance immediately appeared before him.

Although she didn't know what that thing was, she could clearly sense that a deadly aura had flashed by just moments ago.

Her intuition told her that whatever had entered her man's body just now was definitely not an ordinary role!

"It's fine; for now I can still keep the situation under control."

Seeing the worried Yun Yun, Lin Feng gave the former a faint smile, then secretly began to think of a solution.

"Forget it; after we get out, I'll have Zhao Sister or her brother help take a look."

After a long time, Lin Feng, unable to think of a solution, could only temporarily control that strand of golden lightning.

Once outside, he would then ask others for help to resolve it.

After all, just because he can't solve it doesn't mean stronger people can't solve this strange golden lightning.

Thinking this, Lin Feng immediately turned his gaze to continue looking at the skeleton he had thrown on the ground.

"Husband, could this be a trap set by someone else?"

Yun Yun's beautiful eyes also followed the former's gaze to the skeleton on the ground, then she furrowed her brows and said.

"I think it's not that; more likely, this female Dou Saint expert was killed here by a powerful lightning Dou technique, leaving a trace of undispersed lightning in her skeleton. Thus, when I just picked up this skeleton, that strand of lightning coincidentally ran into my body."

Saying that, Lin Feng also felt a flash of lingering fear in his heart.

If not for the fact that this strand of lightning had lost almost all its energy due to the long passage of time,

otherwise, just this single strand would probably have been enough for him to meet his end here.

And upon hearing the former's explanation, Yun Yun's beautiful eyes scanned the surroundings.

Indeed, in some distant building ruins, traces of lightning strikes were found.

As for Lin Feng, during this time he reached out again and picked up the female Dou Saint skeleton lying on the ground.

This time, indeed as he had expected, that kind of lightning did not enter his body again.

At the instant he grasped the skeleton, a warm, moist sensation immediately began to spread from his fingertips.

Feeling the sensation rapidly spreading on his palm, Lin Feng rejoiced: "This skeleton feels similar to the bones of a Creation Saint; it must truly be a Dou Saint skeleton."

"Although I accidentally provoked some trouble this time, gaining a Dou Saint skeleton means my trip wasn't in vain."

After confirming it was a Dou Saint skeleton, Lin Feng tilted it slightly, his face excited as he gazed at the white bones in his hand.

Immediately afterward, he discovered that the skeleton in his hand

inside part of its bones, a faint fluorescence he had seen before was emanating.

Seeing this, Lin Feng's mouth instantly curled into a smile.

"This Dou Saint bone marrow is a great treasure."

Immediately afterward, the storage ring on his finger flashed a faint light, storing the skeleton inside it.