Chapter 106: Breakthrough of the Thunder-Crystal Spirit

"You're awake?" Hearing Xiao Han's extremely weak voice, Ye Jianxin was first delighted, then, as if thinking of something, he teased: "Look at you, gallivanting around every single day. Now what? Gallivanted yourself into a Dou Zong, have you!"

"Heh heh..." Xiao Han laughed feebly, "If I didn't risk my life, I wouldn't have been able to come back!"

Immediately, as if thinking of something extremely terrifying, Xiao Han's body trembled, and he said with a slightly shaky voice: "You... how did you know I was in trouble?"

"Oh my," Ye Jianxin sneered, "So you know you're in trouble now? Does our Ice Saint have moments of fear too?"

"I really want to see how you'll resolve this when you've fallen into Yi Huang's hands."

Xiao Han was filled with bitterness. He should have realized the moment he saw Ye Jianxin that only that one person could have learned of his near-death state so promptly and sent the latter to fetch him.

"That... well..." Xiao Han looked at Ye Jianxin with a slightly ingratiating smile, "Young Master Ye..."

"Don't even think about it!" Seeing this expression on Xiao Han, Ye Jianxin knew this guy wanted him to let him off the hook, but was this something he could decide?

If Yi Huang found out he had let Xiao Han run off, even he, a Dou Saint powerhouse, wouldn't be able to bear the consequences!

Ye Jianxin could already imagine the solemn scene at the Elder Pavilion's interrogation.

Besides...

"You don't even think about it—if something really happened to you, what would Yi Huang do!" Thinking of this, Ye Jianxin couldn't help but feel indignant, and he immediately scolded him.

Seeing the massive, looming demonic shadow formed by black Qi behind Ye Jianxin, Xiao Han shrank his head and muttered softly: "It's not like anything happened!"

"Nothing happened?" Ye Jianxin acted as if he had heard something preposterous, his voice suddenly rising by an octave, "You, a late-stage Seven-Star Dou Saint, go out for a trip and come back a Seven-Star Dou Zong, and you dare say nothing happened?"

"What, are you waiting until you become a Seven-Star Dou Zhe or a 'powerhouse' with seven stages of Dou Qi before it counts as something happening?" Ye Jianxin said sarcastically.

Xiao Han was speechless. His cultivation had indeed dropped quite severely this time. Perhaps feeling he was in the wrong, Xiao Han instead began to comfort Ye Jianxin: "Lao Ye, it's fine! At most ten years, and I, Xiao Han, will be a good man again!"

At the end of his words, there was even a sense of heroic spirit.

"Ten years?" Ye Jianxin had nothing to say, and he even felt a bit relieved in his heart.

Fortunately, Xiao Han's secret technique was not truly trading his cultivation for that moment of explosive power. It was just that after suddenly using immense power, Xiao Han's cultivation would be in a sealed state for a period of time.

If he had truly lost his cultivation, wanting to cultivate from a Seven-Star Dou Zong back to a Seven-Star Dou Saint, even with the experience of having done it once before, it would likely be impossible without several decades.

It was precisely because of this that Ye Jianxin had the heart to joke with Xiao Han.

He still remembered that the first time Xiao Han used this move, he directly slaughtered a Peak Venerable with the cultivation of a One-Star Dou Zun.

At the time, it had excited Yi Huang and him to no end, but the next moment, his meridians ruptured, and he nearly died. It was thanks to Yi Huang acting in time that he was saved.

Even afterwards, his cultivation dropped all the way to Dou Wang, and it took a full three years to barely return to Dou Zun. This was the only thing the two of them felt fortunate about.

Thinking of this, Ye Jianxin couldn't help but glance at Thunder Spirit, sighing in his heart, "This person is no simple character either!"

As intelligent as he was, how could he not know that for Xiao Han to survive the near-death period after using the secret technique, this cold-faced man in white before him had contributed significantly. Such ability was not inferior even compared to Yi Huang, an Eighth Grade Peak Alchemist.

Coming back to his senses, Ye Jianxin turned to Xiao Han and asked casually: "When do you plan to go back?"

Ye Jianxin took this question very seriously. This guy was previously a Seven-Star Dou Saint, but now he had been slashed by the heavens into a Seven-Star Dou Zong.

If he continued to gallivant outside like this, even the gods couldn't save him! If he were really targeted by some Dou Zun and had to use the secret technique again, he would likely drop to a Seven-Star Dou Zhe.

By then, wanting to recover would take who knows how long.

Furthermore, even if he wanted to do that, he would have to see if Yi Huang would come to break this guy's legs. He was already over a hundred years old and had a family; how could he still be so reckless!

"As for that..." Xiao Han drew out his tone. Just as Ye Jianxin thought this bastard was really going to run away and wanted to draw his sword to escort Xiao Han back, the corners of his mouth parted, "Let's wait for this guy."

As he spoke, Xiao Han gestured with his eyes toward Thunder Spirit, who was resting with his eyes closed nearby.

"Oh?" Only then did Ye Jianxin awkwardly realize that he seemed to have neglected this great expert, and didn't even know the other party's name.

He immediately said with a hint of apology: "May I ask how to address this brother?"

Hearing Ye Jianxin's words, Thunder Spirit slowly opened his eyes. A flash of brilliance passed through them, and he said sluggishly: "This Saint? Just call me Lei Ling!"

A good name? Xiao Han's mouth twitched. Just picking two characters at random made a name.

However, Ye Jianxin didn't have any thoughts about Thunder Spirit's name; he simply cupped his hands and introduced himself: "I am Ye Jianxin, Great Elder of Langya Pavilion."

"Langya Pavilion welcomes Brother Lei's joining."

Thunder Spirit glanced at Ye Jianxin indifferently and said calmly: "Guest Elder of Langya Pavilion, Lei Ling."

"Alright," just as Ye Jianxin was about to continue building rapport with Lei Ling, Xiao Han suddenly interrupted, "We can talk about getting to know each other later; there is serious business to attend to now!"

Serious business? Ye Jianxin was completely baffled by this, only looking at the two of them in confusion. Seeing the subtle tacit understanding between them, Ye Jianxin felt a chill in his heart.

Am I finally no longer that good brother?

"How much time is needed?" Ignoring Ye Jianxin's self-imagination, Xiao Han asked with some anticipation.

"One day is enough!" Perhaps because he was about to gain a life of freedom, Lei Ling was in a very good mood and said with a smile.

"One day?" Xiao Han was a bit surprised, then asked uncertainly: "Is that really enough? We can wait a little longer."

Although there were no longer any Dou Saint-level powerhouses in the Sealed World, and even all the Evil Clan around the Royal City had been sacrificed by the Evil King Hall.

But the number of Evil Clan members within was still nearly a million; even chickens would be hard to finish off in one day! Was this something that could be handled so easily?

Seeming to see Xiao Han's worry, Thunder Spirit explained: "No need to think of it so complicatedly. I don't need to do it myself."

Pointing at the slightly illusory barrier, the corners of Thunder Spirit's mouth curled up: "As long as I take the initiative to collapse the seal, the explosion generated within the Sealed World is something only a true Fighting Saint powerhouse could possibly survive.

And this... is the confidence I have to do so. After today, this Sealed World will forever become history. And everything of ours will end here."

By the end, Thunder Spirit felt much more relaxed.

"Boom—"

At this moment, a sound came from within Thunder Spirit's body, as if something had shattered.

Immediately following, the entire ruin began to shake, and an energy vortex nearly a thousand feet in size appeared. Under the stunned gazes of Xiao Han and the other, Thunder Spirit—or rather, Lei Ling—successfully broke through to become a Four-Star Fighting Saint.

It was all so natural!