Chapter 832: Dark Clouds Gather! Multiple Sensations Awaken!

"At least seven or eight days? That's enough."

Xu Jingming smiled and walked deeper into the fire sea, about two kilometers.

The flames here were now a deep purple.

Under the crushing pressure of these fierce flames, his mental strength could sense no more than three hundred meters.

Protected by Ling Shuang's Spatial Ability, the surrounding deep purple flames were completely blocked, unable to inflict even the slightest harm!

"Here, no one should be able to disturb me."

Xu Jingming took a deep breath, made no further hesitation, and directly pressed the plus sign next to the Ability section on his system panel!

'Ding! Ability evolution initiated. SS-rank Dou Tian Divine Thunder evolving 0. %... 0. %... 0. %......'

The instant he clicked the plus, a system alert tone unlike any before echoed in his heart.

Boom boom boom~~~

In the sky, a muffled thunder rolled.

Unlike the real world, the Yer Secret Realm had no weather beyond day and night.

Yet now, over the entire Third Absolute Zone, countless dark clouds were gathering!

Unlike storm clouds in the real world, these clouds were utterly black, their hue so profound it seemed drawn from an ink vat!

Calling them dark clouds was not even an understatement.

Simultaneously, streaks of black lightning flickered and leapt within the clouds, radiating an ancient, desolate aura.

"This is..."

Ling Shuang tilted her face upward, her rosy lips slightly parted, staring in awe at the black clouds above.

She felt a crushing pressure from these clouds, as if her very life had slipped beyond her control.

"It stretches beyond sight—how vast is this black cloud?"

Ling Shuang murmured involuntarily.

In truth, the black cloud had already covered the entire Third Absolute Zone.

If calculated as a circle, its diameter exceeded one hundred kilometers!!

"Unheard of! Unseen before! This is a completely new phenomenon!!"

The twin-tailed little girl floated midair, her face alight with unprecedented excitement.

Simultaneously, endless streams of virtual data flashed through her eyes.

She was meticulously recording every piece of data from this moment, for later analysis.

Crackle!!

The sky flashed—a bolt of black lightning, as thick as a water barrel, suddenly struck down!!

By the time Ling Shuang reacted, the lightning had already struck Xu Jingming!

"It ignored my Spatial Power!" Ling Shuang's heart jolted.

In fact, not only had Ling Shuang's Spatial Ability failed.

Even the surrounding deep purple flames had parted, forming a straight channel reaching skyward.

It was the passage carved through by the black lightning!

"This lightning... is this strong?" Ling Shuang stared, stunned.

Though the black lightning was not aimed at her, she still felt as if she had walked through the gates of death.

Meanwhile,

The black lightning inflicted not a single wound on Xu Jingming.

Instead, it dyed the brilliant golden lightning swirling around his body a touch of black!

This black lightning, interwoven among the golden bolts, was but a thread—but utterly impossible to ignore.

It seemed inherently superior, more fundamental than the golden lightning.

"Jingming's ability evolution has begun..."

Ling Shuang's gaze sharpened; she unleashed her Spatial Ability to its full extent.

The Nine Kites Hairpin embedded in her hair also emitted spatial ripples, stabilizing this space...

"Roar—"

"Howl—"

At the instant the black lightning struck, not only did Ling Shuang feel a heart-stopping dread.

Every living thing in the Yer Secret Realm sensed this disturbance.

Ferocious beasts roared in unease; hunting packs abandoned their prey and fled back to their dens.

Burrowing beasts dug straight underground, terrified of being touched by this unknown force.

"Such terrifying pressure!"

"Black clouds! I saw a mass of black clouds!"

"That direction—Third Absolute Zone! Let's go see!"

"..."

The ability users near the Third Absolute Zone sensed the disturbance immediately.

They saw the endless black cloud of lightning hovering over the fire sea.

Some Grand Masters chose to investigate; others chose to flee at once.

This choice wasn't limited to those near the Third Absolute Zone—every powerful being across the entire Yer Secret Realm made a similar decision.

"That direction is southeast."

Tian Jian narrowed his eyes as he led his group along the path.

Four days had passed; his team had grown to seventeen members.

"Divine Son, shall we go take a look?" Jonathan, the Divine Messenger, asked.

"Of course."

Tian Jian smirked, "That place will draw a crowd of ability users. We might even gain more allies."

"What is this black cloud? Such terrifying pressure!"

"No good—the lightning struck deep within the flames. We can't get through!"

"Forget it. Let's go."

"..."

Soon, the first wave of ability users entered the Third Absolute Zone.

But when they realized the phenomenon was centered in the heart of the fire zone, they all abandoned their attempts.

Eighteen hours later, the Divine Mandate Sect arrived at the Third Absolute Zone.

Even after Jonathan activated his Divine Blood Technique and reached the Ninth Stage,

he could advance no closer than one kilometer from Xu Jingming.

"Divine Son, we can't push further."

In the deep purple flames, Divine Blood Messenger Jonathan spoke.

The others remained where the flames were weaker; only the two of them had pressed deep.

Only under Jonathan's powerful blood aura was Tian Jian unharmed.

After glancing at the black clouds above, flickering with black lightning, he added gravely:

"This black cloud unsettles me, Divine Son. Let's leave."

"If even you feel uneasy, the treasure emerging from the deepest flames must be extraordinarily rare!

Too bad—we can't claim it."

Tian Jian shook his head, then quickly smiled again, "Still, there are other ability users here to hunt.

Let's go find them."

Tian Jian and Jonathan turned and left swiftly.

Xu Jingming knew nothing of the chaos outside.

Lightning after lightning from the black clouds struck him.

The moment the first black bolt hit, he lost all awareness of the outside world.

Now, he had become a Dou Tian Divine Thunder, undergoing purification, evolving toward a darker, more mysterious, more powerful black lightning.