Chapter 93: Thunderstorm

The flock of birds gradually dispersed, and Nikola finally managed to break free from their entanglement. Thousands of bird corpses lay piled on the ground around him. His vision and hearing also returned to normal. The rumbling thunder coming from the distant sky made him look up—this time, it wasn’t a furious flock of birds covering the sky, but actual dark clouds. The sun was once again buried by the accumulating grayish-black clouds, and the light kept dimming. The clouds gathered above their heads like towering mountains, submerging the entire sky in a turbulent, murky black torrent. After several deep rumblings from the clouds, suddenly, a massive flash of light tore through the darkness. It trembled slightly before sending out angry roars from the depths of space, striking Long Tian’s body with force, like swords clashing or mountains collapsing. Ye Feng and the others were shocked, even Nikola was startled, secretly relieved that the lightning hadn’t hit him. Ye Feng, who was closest, was thrown back by the residual energy of the lightning, while Long Tian’s body was buried deep in a scorched pit. Ye Feng managed to steady himself and rushed toward the pit to check on Long Tian’s condition. Nikola didn’t bother Ye Feng at this moment because he saw lightning still flashing above the clouds—another thunder strike was about to form. If he got too close, he too would suffer severe damage. Although vampires had strong recovery abilities and endurance and weren’t afraid of ordinary electricity, he wasn’t confident enough to confront lightning carrying the power of heaven and earth. “Be careful above!” Hank also saw the lightning surrounding Long Tian and immediately shouted at Ye Feng, who was rushing toward the pit. Ye Feng looked up and saw lightning surging above the black clouds, realizing that the second wave of attacks was imminent. The lightning could fall at any moment, and it was already too late to save Long Tian. With no choice, he retreated to avoid being affected. Just then, a beam of white light sliced through the air and struck down in an instant. The thunder was deafening, as if the entire ground was shaking.

Ye Feng looked anxiously at the deep pit. After this lightning strike, the pit had expanded slightly and become deeper, making it even harder for Ye Feng to see how Long Tian was doing.
“He can’t possibly survive such a severe lightning strike!” Not far away, Nikola saw Ye Feng’s anxious expression and added fuel to the fire with a sly smile. “I can wait until you see him die right in front of you before taking action against you!”
After saying that, Nikola stayed put and didn’t attack Ye Feng and the others. Instead, he observed the condition of his opponents. Hank and Loli had already regained consciousness, but judging by their appearance, it was already quite impressive that they could use half of their tenth-level strength. Ye Feng no longer had the photon cannon either; he guessed it might have been hidden by one of his subordinates. As for Long Tian, his fate remained unknown. Meanwhile, his own injuries had stabilized after the few minutes of fighting against the flock of birds. He had regained eight out of ten levels of his strength, and his right hand could grow back with a little effort. He now held a clear advantage in this battle.
While secretly observing Ye Feng and the others, Nikola quietly accelerated the rapid proliferation of cells in his damaged right shoulder.
In less than a minute, his right shoulder was fully restored, and even half of his right arm had grown back. He looked up at the sky. After the second lightning strike, the third, fourth… and even the eighth lightning strikes came one after another, each more intense and powerful than the last. Ye Feng and the others couldn’t possibly pay attention to him; their focus was entirely on Long Tian.
He didn’t need to worry about being seen by them either, so he accelerated the recovery of his arm even further.
After the eighth lightning strike, the sky began to stir again. Nikola sensed that something was wrong. If two lightning strikes hitting Long Tian were a coincidence, then eight consecutive strikes couldn’t possibly be explained that way. Clearly, “strange” was a more fitting description for what was happening to Long Tian.
Nikola, who had initially thought Long Tian was dead, now hesitated. With such powerful electric shocks, even the dead might come back to life, let alone Long Tian, who had only lost consciousness at first. He felt even more that something was extremely odd.

Nine thunder strikes—he had read about them in some ancient texts, events that only occurred during the tribulation phase. But Long Tian’s strength was far from sufficient to reach that stage yet, and the lightning this time was clearly not as terrifying as the legendary thunder tribulations.

The ancient texts described that after the heavenly tribulation, an area of ten miles around would be lifeless, turning into a barren wasteland. Yet the range of Long Tian’s lightning this time wasn’t even a hundred meters. Those like him, who were a hundred meters away along with Ye Feng and the others, hardly felt any impact from the aftereffects of the lightning.

The ninth thunder strike took nearly three minutes to form in the sky before finally descending. The shape of the lightning that appeared this time left everyone slightly stunned. It took on the form of a dragon—a white dragon as thick as a barrel, made of lightning, which emerged from the clouds with its head, swayed its body slightly, let out a loud roar at Long Tian on the ground, then dove downward toward him. Its dragon whiskers, horns, and claws were all clearly visible. If not for the electric light surrounding it, which gave it an unreal appearance, everyone would have thought the dragon was real.

When the dragon disappeared completely into the deep pit, the sky returned to calm, and the dark clouds slowly dispersed. Sunlight shone upon the earth once again, as if marking a sudden transition between night and day.

Ye Feng was distracted for just a moment before rushing toward the pit to check on Long Tian’s condition. By then, Nikola’s right hand had fully grown back. He moved his shoulders and stretched his right hand. Then he raised his head and glanced in Ye Feng’s direction, a teasing look flashing in his eyes…