After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 463 Xuan Ting's Relics

On the other side, the light patterns on the dagger that was floating in front of Guan Bi disappeared completely, as if it had become an ordinary dagger.

She opened her eyes, a hint of joy flashing in them.

"Senior, I have already refined the Dragon Thorn to a preliminary level. How do I find Shen Xu?" Guan Bi asked impatiently.

"With your current strength, you are not yet capable of searching the entire Thunder Pool Secret Realm using the Dragon Thorn."

"But now that you have some basic self-defense capabilities, why don't you go outside and take a look? And go find them yourself while you're at it," the skull suggested.

"Senior, you want to go out, right?" Guan Bi said with a smile.

“How could that be! I’ve been here for so long, staying a little longer won’t cause any harm,” the skull immediately retorted.

"Alright, let's go outside and take a look, and while we're at it, let's find Uncle Bai's remnant soul."

After saying that, he carefully lifted the skull beside him, and with a flash of light from the Dragon-Slaying Thorn in front of him, the man and the skull disappeared into the Thunder Pool that had been sealed for thousands of years.

At the summit of a charred mountain peak that appeared to have been cleaved flat by a single sword strike, Guan Bi's figure appeared out of thin air.

From the mountaintop, the entire Thunderstorm Land area is laid out before you.

Leading to the summit is a staircase paved with huge, smooth black lightning crystals. Towering lightning pillar statues stand on both sides of the staircase, carved with blurry dragon or lightning runes, exuding an aura of majesty and oppression.

"That is the path to dragon transformation. Originally, Ling family cultivators would be granted dragon essence after reaching the path to dragon transformation."

Upon reaching the summit, one will be guided to the Purple Gold Thunder Pool inside Thunder Pool Mountain.

But later, Xuan Ting set up a trap here specifically targeting the Ling family cultivators…

Although he had seen this place countless times with the Ling family cultivators, he still couldn't help but feel a little emotional this first time visiting in person.

Holding the skull, Guan Bi walked towards the center of the mountaintop; she was going to find Xuan Ting's belongings.

There is also a huge circular "thunder pool" in the center of the mountaintop.

It contains liquid lightning that boils and surges like water! Giant lightning crystals that flash with blinding white light are embedded around the edge of the lightning pool.

The blue-white plasma roared and churned, constantly spewing out huge lightning snakes that lashed against the pit walls, producing deafening explosions.

Above the Thunder Pool, a purplish-black pearl floated.

The Yang Pearl in her arms emitted a warm light, seemingly echoing the purplish-black pearl.

Scattered across the charred ground were some chilling traces.

Half-melted fragments of magical artifacts, human-shaped scorch marks embedded in the glass floor, and a few crystallized corpses.

The corpses were in various poses: some were lunging forward, some were struggling, and some were desperately gazing at the precious pearl above the Thunder Pool.

Their flesh and bones seemed to have been instantly infused with an excessive amount of lightning, turning into translucent purple crystals that shimmered with electric light inside.

It was as if Xuan Ting was showing off its spoils.

With a sorrowful expression, Guan Bi approached a crystallized corpse. Although her memory of her father's appearance was blurred, she recognized him at first glance.

She gently knelt before the corpse and slowly placed the Dragon-Slaying Thorn in its arms.

“Father, I did it!” Guan Bi’s eyes filled with tears.

"Crack, crack..."

A series of faint cracking sounds rang out from the corpse. The Dragon Thorn glowed, and the crystals on the corpse shattered, revealing countless cracks. Tiny purple particles drifted out from the crystals.

In the end, his entire corpse transformed into a purple band of light composed of crystalline particles, which began to excitedly swirl around the surrounding purple crystals, carrying the Dragon Thorn with it.

It was as if he was showing off to them that his daughter had fulfilled the Ling family's long-cherished wish of thousands of years.

Driven by that band of light, the surrounding corpses also transformed into streaks of purple light, swirling around the Dragon Thorn and eventually merging into it, becoming a purple crystal embedded at its tail.

The original purple light band slowly drifted to Guan Bi's side, circled around her again and again, and finally merged into the great tide of purple light bands.

Guan Bi's tears fell uncontrollably, and the skull flew to her side to comfort her, saying, "Your father will always be by your side."

"Hmm!" Guan Bi nodded gently, pressing the dagger that had returned to her side tightly against her chest.

“Xuanting has hidden all the treasures in a special space at the bottom of this Thunder Pool. I’ll go get them for you,” the skull said with a smile.

"Be careful, senior!" Guan Bi warned, her voice choked with emotion.

"Don't worry, without Xuan Ting controlling it, the Thunder Pool is just like my home." Skull jumped into the Thunder Pool with a splash.

After the skull entered the Thunder Pool, it quickly swam away following the direction of its senses. "You reap what you sow."

"Xuan Ting, in the end, you've only benefited Ling Hai's descendants."

He then vanished from the Thunder Pool, and when he reappeared, he was in a dark space.

The most common items inside were storage rings, but most of them were empty.

Only one ring contains the items that Xuan Ting has obtained from the Ling family over thousands of years, as well as various precious treasures he collected in the Thunder Pool Secret Realm.

After receiving the ring, Skull hesitated for a moment, "Given Ling Hai's meticulousness, would he really leave such a big flaw for Xuan Ting?"

"Who cares! As long as I get out of the Thunder Pool Secret Realm with that girl, I'll be free."

After shaking its head, the skull disappeared into the space.

"Take a look inside and see if the remnant soul you're looking for is here?" The skull spat the ring next to Guan Bi.

"Thank you, senior!"

Since Xuan Ting was dead, the restriction he left on the ring disappeared.

When Guan Bi saw the items stored in the ring, she couldn't help but open her mouth slightly. There were too many precious natural treasures, as well as various artifacts and talismans whose grades she couldn't tell.

But none of that mattered to her. She breathed a sigh of relief when she found a crystal sphere inside the ring.

Take out the sphere, and the phantom of a young man in white robes is sleeping inside.

"Uncle Bai..." Guan Bi felt a mix of emotions.

"So you're talking about him. He came with your father and almost turned the Thunder Pool Secret Realm upside down. I just don't know why Xuan Ting preserved his remnant soul," the skull murmured.

“Uncle Bai’s master is a Venerable of the Creation Realm, and also the only Venerable of the Heavenly River Sword Sect,” Guan Bi explained.

"The Tianhe Sword Sect has actually produced a Venerable. It seems that the Tianhe Sword Sect has developed even better since leaving your Ling family."

"That's how it is." Guan Bi gave a wry smile.

"It's alright. With the Dragon Thorn, and with my help, your achievements are destined to go far beyond the Creation Realm."

"really?"

"Of course, what Linghai left you wasn't just to make you a minor Venerable," the skull chuckled.

"A mere venerable one?"

"Senior, what exactly is your relationship with our ancestor?"

"I guess we could be considered friends! When I met Ling Hai, he was already at the Transcendent Realm. He asked me to nurture my soul in the Thunder Pool, and I promised him that I would guard the Thunder Pool for him." The skull seemed to be lost in reminiscence.

Guan Bi's gaze softened as she looked at the skull. She believed that no demon would appear in the ancestral Golden Thunder that slays evil.

"Hmm! I'm planning to go find Shen Xu. Senior, do you have any good ideas?"

"This...actually, I lied to you..." the skull said hesitantly.