A host of Chen family members gathered by the mound of piled-up ore, cheering in celebration.

This mound was formed from massive meteorites, once constantly lashed by lightning, which had kept the Chen clan at bay. Only in the last thousand years had they discovered the lightning had vanished, revealing precious Wind-Thunder Stones within the mountain.

The Wind-Thunder Stones had delivered the Chen family, suddenly enriching the previously barren surroundings and providing their warriors with substantial cultivation resources.

“What exactly is inside there, that would draw him so deep?” Chen Rong looked toward the ore mountain, his brow deeply furrowed.

“I don’t know. According to our Chen family archives, there must be something unusual within,” Chen Lei replied, completely relaxed, before suddenly smiling. “Perhaps we won’t need to abandon our ancestral home after all.”

Chen Rong nodded, then immediately commanded, “Maintain the guard here for now. We will wait until that Lord emerges.”

While the Chen family spoke, Shi Yan had already pushed deep inside the mineral planet, advancing along a wide tunnel toward the core.

Ouyang Luoshuang, clad in plain white robes, resembled a cool, ethereal spirit in the gloom, her expression sharp and cold. Her clear, bright eyes occasionally flickered towards him, seeming lost in thought.

The tunnel was littered with rubble, and a strange, faint sound of wind roaring and thunder rumbling could occasionally be heard.

Before long, Shi Yan abruptly halted, a look of surprise flashing across his face.

“What is it?” Ouyang Luoshuang turned her gaze forward, her dark eyebrows knitting slightly as she inquired softly.

“We must be close,” Shi Yan said, narrowing his eyes as he raised a hand to press against the space before him.

This was the inner depth of the mineral planet, surrounded by pockmarked caverns. The ground was covered in debris, including small fragments of Wind-Thunder Stone. The wind and thunder sounds originated from these shattered pieces.

Wind-Thunder Stones contained the power of wind and thunder, but when pulverized, their value plummeted; their capacity to absorb energy was limited. These broken shards were smaller than a fingernail and clearly not worth collecting, so they lay scattered nearby.

This was the deepest part of the ore mountain accessible so far; to proceed further, one would have to carve a new path.

Shi Yan probed with his soul and detected no intense life fluctuations or surging, violent energies. Yet, he was certain the body of the Primordial Thunder Dragon lay within. His inability to sense it now merely proved that the remains were sealed by some kind of barrier or restriction.

He had not yet reached the critical point of the barrier or seal.

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From the fingertips of the hand Shi Yan pressed against the rock face, a brilliant white sharpness erupted. Spatial blades transformed into gleaming, sharp daggers, acting like an unstoppable drill, plunging violently into the rock wall.

The rock, as hard as metal, crumbled like decaying sand under the impact of the spatial blades, shattering with sharp pa pa sounds.

A new passage formed quickly, extending deeper. As the spatial blades worked, the passage continued to deepen and extend.

Shi Yan withdrew his hand and slowly paced inward, his expression solemn as he surveyed his surroundings, his eyes blazing like lightning.

Suddenly, he stopped again, just as abruptly as before!

In an instant, serpentine streams of glowing white lightning, as thick as human arms, burst forth from the stone walls of the passageway. Thousands of them, each crackling with intense, violent electric discharge, lashed out to entangle them.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

He and Ouyang Luoshuang were immediately seized by these white lightning tendrils. Their divine bodies began to tremble violently, as if seized by convulsions. Within a few breaths, the clothing on both of them erupted into white flame and instantly incinerated to ash.

The white lightning strands, acting like whips, coiled around their exposed bodies, penetrating into their divine forms, battering their flesh and blood.

These white bolts were extremely insidious. As soon as they touched the skin, they burrowed into their meridians, causing a painful, numbing prickling sensation that made it difficult to swiftly gather divine power to resist.

Ouyang Luoshuang’s pure white, crystalline, magnificent form was now completely unveiled—like a perfect goddess sculpted from white jade, utterly flawless. Her slender waist, straight and elegant legs, perfectly shaped peaks, and fair neck were all exposed.

As the lightning struck, Shi Yan, fearing she could not withstand it, could not help but turn his head to glance at her.

He froze instantly, a spark of heat igniting in his tiger eyes. He gazed deeply at Ouyang Luoshuang’s near-perfect body, momentarily stunned, forgetting the purpose of his turning. He simply watched, and watched…

Under his scorching gaze, the cool light in the woman’s eyes, who was completely unclothed, flared with shame and anger. She glared fiercely at him and cursed, “Lewd!”

Shi Yan then smiled faintly and chuckled, “You can still curse, it seems this lightning poses no threat to you. Heh, then I am relieved.”

Saying this, his blazing eyes still greedily lingered on those snow-white, captivating curves, clearly having no intention of looking away immediately.

He instinctively began comparing her physique to that of the women with whom he had been intimate, finding that only Xia Xinyan’s figure was comparable. He couldn’t help but praise silently, taking two more deep looks before reluctantly withdrawing his gaze. “It’s not that I intended to look; it’s just that fate and circumstances cooperated. Besides, haven’t you seen me too? We’re even now.”

Like Ouyang Luoshuang, he was also entirely bare, his physique displaying clearly defined, strong, and powerful muscle contours, showcasing the masculine grandeur of a man to the fullest extent.

“Shameless!” Ouyang Luoshuang shot him a glance, then sharply retracted her beautiful eyes, cursing coldly. Her heart pounded fiercely.

This was the first time she had ever seen a man unclothed.

Shi Yan let out a strange chuckle. “You could say we are being entirely honest with each other now. Hmph, naked as we are, just like newborns. This is who we originally are. The subsequent covering with clothing is just the constraint of secular etiquette and decency—shackles we impose on ourselves. To feel this way, naked… it’s actually quite nice, haha.”

Laughing loudly, he continued to press deeper. The white lightning bolts sparked against his divine body but failed to significantly affect him.

Ouyang Luoshuang secretly clenched her teeth, a hint of frustration flickering in her cold eyes, yet an inexplicable ripple stirred in her heart. She looked deeply at Shi Yan moving toward the deeper parts of the tunnel. After a slight hesitation, she secretly glanced down at her own exposed body, hardened her resolve, and deliberately pretended to be composed, following him unclothed.

More lightning bolts coiled toward her, but she repelled them with her cool Moonlight Divine Power. Dressed in pure white, she moved gracefully, like an immortal descending from the moon.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Suddenly, dense, explosive thunder sounded ahead—a deep, drum-like hammering that resonated directly into her chest and Sea of Consciousness!

Ouyang Luoshuang’s body shuddered, the snow-white peaks of her chest trembling slightly, causing her to involuntarily let out a muffled groan, her face turning pale. She looked down in alarm, her expression grave.

Beneath her feet, the stones swelled like ugly boils. With every swelling, a massive peal of thunder struck. This oppressive thunder seemed specifically targeted at her chest and Sea of Consciousness. Amidst the drum-like hammering, her heartbeat surged violently several times, as if threatening to explode.

She stopped immediately, channeling her divine power and infusing it with profound meaning into her body.

Streams of cool moonlight emanated from her graceful form, enveloping her figure like a translucent veil of moonlight.

The shield condensed from moonlight divine power was perfectly transparent and could not conceal her beauty; she remained unclothed, but it prevented the heavenly thunder from devouring her soul.

She instinctively looked up ahead, only to find that Shi Yan had vanished from her sight. She tried to move forward, realizing that with every few steps she took, the intensity of the thunder strike increased. This meant the deeper they went, the more terrifying and powerful the terrible lightning energy became.

Her pretty face shifted slightly. She quickly deduced that Shi Yan’s power level was truly a step above her own.

After pondering for a while, she bit her silver teeth, rapidly condensing her divine power throughout her body, transforming into a beam of cool moonlight that shot forward.

“This is it,” Shi Yan murmured ahead, his hands feeling along the rock wall.

The wall here was a miraculous silver color, like liquid solidified into crystal, shimmering with a dazzling luster. Inside the wall, faint, fine electrical currents were visible, intricate as the veins in a human body, permeating every corner of the rock. It seemed… they were even squirming strangely!

After she arrived and stopped, her delicate body violently trembled. She covered her fair peaks with both hands, pain flickering in her eyes.

The power of the lightning energy here was incredibly terrifying, gradually exceeding her limit of endurance. The recurring thunderous pulses made her heart feel as if it would explode. She had to repeatedly suppress it with pure divine power just to keep her heart from rupturing.

At this moment, Shi Yan stopped his murmuring and turned to look at her, his gaze falling upon the white skin visible between the fingers covering her chest. “You were too reckless. The lightning energy here is beyond your capacity to endure. You won’t last long.”

Ouyang Luoshuang’s pupils remained cold; she only glared fiercely at him, without the leisure to reply.

Her mental awareness and power were entirely dedicated to resisting the lightning energy here; she could no longer afford to be distracted by speech.

“I truly don’t understand the minds of women like you.”

Shi Yan shook his head, opened his mouth, and spat out a star cluster. The cluster carried his life aura and landed precisely over the area of Ouyang Luoshuang’s soft chest that her hands were protecting, wrapping around it like a protective heart mirror.

The lightning energy that had been constantly pressuring Ouyang Luoshuang suddenly vanished the moment the star cluster covered her heart.

Feeling the warm energy emanating from the star cluster pressed against her tender chest, her heart, which had just stopped its frantic pounding, inexplicably began to beat again.

But this time, it was not due to the lightning energy…

An unusual expression crossed her beautiful eyes, and a trace of shy crimson bloomed on her cool cheeks. She seemed suddenly timid, actually daring not to look again at Shi Yan’s still-exposed, majestic body, and lowered her head slightly.

Shi Yan did not notice her strangeness; his attention was completely focused ahead. With calm fingers, he tapped his brow, and the altar began to operate vigorously.

Instantly, countless fine spatial blades flew out from his Primeval Realm. Like magical carving knives in the hands of a master craftsman, they began to decompose the interior of the mineral planet. The sound of rock shattering and exploding—kacha, kacha—filled the air. The rock walls in this area cracked open, the shattered fragments strangely disappearing, whisked away by tiny spatial rifts.

Shi Yan maintained extreme caution in his spirit, needing to ensure the blades did not collide with or pierce the creature’s skeletal remains, while simultaneously needing to slice away the concealing rock. He proceeded with immense care.

At this moment, he suddenly felt fortunate. Fortunate that he hadn't rushed here earlier, but had instead focused on gradually recovering his divine power, defeating Laitek and the others to break through his limits, and now using his Second Heaven of the Primeval God realm cultivation and refined control over divine power to excavate the Primordial Thunder Dragon’s skeletal remains anew.

He was certain that if he had forced his way through before, he might have been driven back by the heavy lightning entanglements before even reaching this point, let alone being able to meticulously dismantle the rock to fully reveal the creature’s bones.

Calming his mind, he activated the profound techniques, skillfully controlling the spatial blades, concentrating entirely on his task.

Ouyang Luoshuang covered her chest and quietly glanced at him, her eyes holding an unreadable expression. Her covered chest trembled without cease.