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The secret chamber.
As the fire cauldron dissipated, the scorching heat lingered in the air. Two towering black figures hovered above the ground.
Their bodies looked as if they were forged from black iron and fine steel. A faint, terrifying aura seeped from them, causing the space around them to twist and collapse slightly, as though it might shatter at any moment.
After more than ten days of refining and consuming a great number of precious materials, the two Dragon King corpses had finally been successfully turned into puppets. Wei Yang and Xiao Yan slowly exhaled, exchanged a smile, and each flicked their fingers.
A drop of essence blood shot from their fingertips, landing on the forehead of their respective puppets, forming a faint blood mark that gradually seeped inside. At that moment, a sensation similar to their souls being linked arose in their hearts.
"From now on, I'll call you Bei Wang." Wei Yang said to the puppet before him.
"Then you will be Nan Wang." Xiao Yan said to the puppet he refined.
Hearing their words, the two massive black figures stirred slightly. Then, a cold, emotionless, hoarse voice came from their mouths, "Yes, master."
Admiring their puppets, both Wei Yang and Xiao Yan revealed satisfied smiles. But after studying them further, a trace of disappointment also surfaced, because the puppets' current strength still failed to reach their expectations.
"Right now, they can probably only match a Three-Star Dou Sheng at best." Wei Yang said softly.
"Yeah." Xiao Yan rubbed his chin and nodded slightly, his gaze continually inspecting the two puppets.
Puppets capable of matching a Three-Star Dou Sheng—if such news spread, it would cause a massive uproar in Central Plains. Yet the two of them still felt dissatisfied. After all, even Yao Xiaotian earlier could barely match a Two-Star Dou Sheng.
Now, these two Dragon Kings they refined only matched Three-Star Dou Sheng. It felt like a waste of such precious materials.
"Was it a problem with the refinement's timing? Did we fail to temper them thoroughly? Or were the auxiliary materials not strong enough?" Xiao Yan frowned.
"No matter what, their physiques are incredibly powerful. We still haven't tempered them to their true limit." Wei Yang said. "Maybe our flames weren't strong enough, and the refining time was too short?"
"You mean… they still need to be tempered by an even stronger flame?" Xiao Yan raised a brow.
"Not necessarily flames." Wei Yang chuckled and shook his head.
"You're saying… the power of lightning!" Xiao Yan froze for a moment before realizing.
After all, his Earth Demon Puppet had increased its strength and rank by absorbing lightning force. For this puppet refinement, they had also referenced the Earth Demon Puppet's method, fusing certain special materials into the Dragon King puppets.
Which meant these two Dragon King puppets also possessed the ability to absorb lightning energy and raise their level. The effect and upper limit of this absorption were far beyond that of the old Earth Demon Puppet.
So the only problem left was finding a source of lightning power strong enough—and abundant enough. They glanced at the puppets. If they relied on alchemy thunder tribulation by refining pills, they could refine themselves to death and still barely raise these puppets by even half a star.
These were Dou Sheng level Puppets!
Raising them from Three-Star to Four-Star wasn't just a star-level issue. It was a massive leap from low-level Dou Sheng to mid-level Dou Sheng.
"Maybe… only that place will work." Wei Yang muttered.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh—
In the void space.
Four figures streaked like flowing lights across the darkness. The two in front were Wei Yang and Xiao Yan, followed by the two towering black-bodied puppets. After being tempered, the Dragon Kings' bodies and appearances had changed drastically.
Their jet-black, iron-like bodies made it so that even the Ancient Void Dragon Clan themselves wouldn't recognize them as the once-renowned Dragon Kings.
"Rumble—"
After flying for some time, the pitch-black void ahead suddenly began echoing with low, continuous thunder. Following the direction of the sound, their eyes narrowed. At the far end of the void, a faint silver line flickered in the darkness.
From that silver light seeped an extremely violent energy fluctuation.
"We're almost there?"
Feeling the familiar, violent aura, Wei Yang narrowed his eyes. His gaze locked tightly on the expanding silver line, and a look of anticipation surfaced.
He accelerated.
As the distance shrank rapidly, the silver light grew larger. Thunder boomed around them like a world-ending roar. The silver in front of them suddenly surged. Enormous thunderbolts, like giant silver dragons, roared wildly across the void.
"Hiss…" Xiao Yan sucked in a sharp breath at the sight.
"We're here. This should be the Void Lightning Pool Zi Yan mentioned!"
Wei Yang slowed down and finally came to a stop, hovering in place as he looked ahead at the massive thunder pool.
His eyes couldn't hide the shock. The so-called Void Lightning Pool was a strange gathering of lightning deep within the void space. According to an elder of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, the space here was extremely peculiar.
It emitted a natural suction force that pulled in various types of heaven and earth energy, causing them to gather chaotically and eventually give birth to endless lightning. What now appeared before Wei Yang and the others was an enormous lake—so vast that it seemed endless.
Except this "lake" wasn't filled with water. It was completely filled with dazzling silver lightning. This was a true thunder lake formed entirely of lightning. Standing before the thunder lake, deafening thunder boomed continuously from within.
The sound surged outward in waves, shaking one's heart and spirit. Anyone standing here would feel incredibly small. The wonders of nature were enough to fill a person with awe.
"What an unbelievably dense lightning force." Xiao Yan finally came back to his senses after a moment and sighed in amazement.
Wei Yang also nodded slightly.
The lightning within this thunder pool was far stronger than the pill tribulation lightning they summoned during alchemy—several times stronger, if not more.With this thunder pool, pushing the two Dragon King puppets to their perfect peak state would no longer be a challenge.
"Let's go!" Wei Yang flicked his sleeve and flew in first.
Xiao Yan followed right behind him.
Trailing them closely were the two pitch-black figures of Bei Wang and Nan Wang.
Boom—
As soon as they stepped into the thunder pool, the entire lake erupted. Countless bolts of lightning surged toward them like a tidal wave.
It was a shocking sight.
Yet Wei Yang and Xiao Yan remained calm, moving forward at an unhurried pace. Those massive lightning bolts that came crashing down suddenly stopped at a distance of several dozen meters from their bodies. Then, as if in panic, they swerved away.
It was as though these lightning bolts could instinctively sense a terrifying aura within their seemingly small bodies. The lightning behaved almost timidly—bullying the weak while fearing the strong.
Surrounded by the overwhelmingly dense lightning energy and feeling his bloodline begin to stir, Wei Yang couldn't help taking a deep breath. He extended his arms slightly, as though embracing the entire place.
"This place is… a treasure land." He murmured, unable to hide the joy in his voice.
Xiao Yan watched him and couldn't help showing a hint of envy: "For you, senior brother, this place is basically a starving tiger stumbling upon a field of helpless lambs."
Wei Yang carried the Hou bloodline, and the Hou was an ancient monstrous beast that devoured lightning and fire. Moreover, the Heavenly Flames within Wei Yang also preferred consuming lightning energy to grow.
With all that combined, the thunder pool before him truly was a heaven-sent feast. If he cultivated here, his realm would skyrocket uncontrollably. This was what people called having a cheat.
Compared to Wei Yang, Xiao Yan's own method of devouring Heavenly Flames to quickly grow had far more limitations. At his current level, there were only a handful of Heavenly Flames left in existence that could still benefit him.
He couldn't even be bothered to look at any Heavenly Flames ranked outside the top ten anymore.
"So if I don't want to fall behind, that Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame that's about to appear in the world—I must obtain it!" Xiao Yan clenched his fist and thought firmly.
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