Chapter 886: Chapter 886: 33 Heavens Golden Lightning Catastrophe Bell
The Ji Family is currently beset with troubles on all sides, and Ji Jiuying no longer possesses the radiance of his former years. He appears exceedingly old.
Traditionally, for a Cultivator, even if they aren’t skilled at maintaining youthful looks, their demeanor and appearance wouldn’t be too poor. Even among the elderly, they wouldn’t seem particularly decrepit.
Yet, it has been less than a decade since King Ji left the Ji Family, and Ji Jiuying appears like a dying old man, lacking the vitality and spirit he once possessed.
Ji Jiuying’s current state is partly due to internal and external strife within the Ji Family, bearing immense pressure both physically and mentally.
The other half is due to the incessant regret devouring him, leaving him unable to face everything with a normal mindset.
If it weren’t for his insistence on Ji Changsheng exiting seclusion, if it weren’t for his decision to agree on sealing the Ji Family’s ring, the Ji Family wouldn’t be in its current predicament.
Ji Changsheng gave the Ji Family two chances, yet he personally wrecked them both.
Under the dual blows, Ji Jiuying has aged severely over the years.
Ji Jiuying is exhausting all his efforts, hoping to find a sliver of hope for the Ji Family to steer this dilapidated vessel through the sea of bitterness, and into new hope.
Though aware of the slim chances, Ji Jiuying feels compelled to act.
No matter how he calculates, the once-stellar ship of the Ji Family is now beyond repair, ready to sink at any moment.
While lost in bitter contemplation, suddenly, through the window, he sees a streak of gold lighting up the sunset-lit evening sky, transforming it into a noon filled with golden clouds.
Golden lightning interworks across the sky, forming a gigantic net of golden lightning that veils the entire sky.
Seeing the golden lightning web, Ji Jiuying’s face changes drastically and, within a second, his body disappears from the room, emerging above the Ji Family’s palace cluster, staring at the center of the golden lightning web.
The center of the sky-covering golden lightning web is a grand golden bell.
Golden lightning continually leaps from that golden bell, blinding eyes unable to directly stare and obscuring the actual shape of the bell.
"Thirty-Three Heavens Golden Lightning Calamity Bell... How could it be here... Could it be Ji Fenglie isn’t dead..." Ji Jiuying fixes his gaze on the giant bell constantly releasing golden lightning in the sky, his eyes filled with shock.
Many Ji Family higher-ups also gather in the air, stunned, staring at the giant bell in the sky.
The name Ji Fenglie, like a devil’s name, lingers in their minds, yet none dare to speak it aloud.
This name is taboo within the Ji Family, because Ji Fenglie was an accidental birth, a Demon within the Ji Family.
Not exactly a Demon, but a half-Demon would be more accurate.
The Ji Family’s former talent Ji Ruxue was highly valued by even Ji Changsheng, and was groomed as the successor to the Celestial King.
Had he not encountered that Demon woman, he might long have become a pillar of the Ji Family.
Ji Ruxue fell in love with that Demon woman and had a child with her, namely Ji Fenglie.
Luckily, the child wasn’t born within the Secret Realm, so despite having half-Demon blood, it wasn’t outwardly apparent.
When Ji Ruxue sacrificed himself in exchange for the child’s residence within the Ji Family, the elders eventually voted to allow Ji Fenglie to stay.
In childhood, Ji Fenglie appeared no different from normal human children, and his Talent was extraordinarily strong.
By thirty, he had completed the Ninth Awakening, attaining Great Cave Heaven completion, his strength second only to Ji Changsheng, deemed the number one below the Celestial King.
However, as he aged, the ferocity within his half-Demon blood gradually surfaced, secretly committing many heinous deeds.
Ji Changsheng unwilling to personally kill Ji Ruxue’s only blood, merely disclosed Ji Fenglie’s location and weaknesses, eventually leading to Ji Fenglie’s besiegement and death.
Everyone assumed Ji Fenglie was dead, yet today, seeing the Thirty-Three Heavens Golden Lightning Calamity Bell, the Ji Family’s elders immediately recall that terrifying name.
This Calamity Bell is precisely Ji Fenglie’s Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure, endowed with unparalleled formidable Power, capable of suppressing all with the thunderous calamity of the Thirty-Three Heavens.
"Ji Fenglie... Are you still alive?" Ji Jiuying stares at the golden bell and demands.
"Ji Jiuying... an old fossil like you isn’t dead... Why should I be..." A sinister voice comes from the heavens above, where amid the golden brilliance, a figure steps forward.
As that figure enlarges, the giant golden bell instead gradually shrinks, finally revealing an elderly man with white hair, holding a man-sized golden bell, standing in the sky, with a sea of golden lightning behind him enveloping the entire Ji Family city.
"Ji Fenglie... It’s actually Ji Fenglie... He really isn’t dead..." Many of the older generation within the Ji Family recognize Ji Fenglie.
Ji Jiuying stares intently at Ji Fenglie, shock flickers in his eyes.
Ji Fenglie, unlike Ji Jiuying, though outwardly aged, exudes a fierce, resolute vitality, lacking any sign of a decrepit old man.
"Since you’re not dead, you should find a secluded spot to live. Why return to the Ji Family? Are you not afraid of attracting those past foes?" Ji Jiuying says.
Ji Fenglie laughs wildly: "Enemies? My greatest enemies are none other than you lot of Ji Family relics. If not for you, would I have been besieged by others, would my weakness have been exposed? Today I’ve returned to exact my revenge, to recalibrate you foul old relics of the Ji Family."
"Are you worthy? Ji Fenglie, do you truly think you’re so remarkable? If you weren’t born into the Ji Family, you would’ve died long ago, how could you have achieved what follows? What the Ji Family can give, it can take back. You’ve enjoyed many years more of life, what grievance could you have?" A Ji Family elder retorted coldly.
"If Ji Changsheng were here, he’d have the right to speak to me this way. What do you amount to?" Ji Fenglie glances at the elder.
A water barrel-thick gold lightning immediately crashes down from the sky, directly striking the elder.
The elder promptly executes innate Divine Skill, his Secret Realm halo blooms, a silhouette of an Innate Deity envelops his body, seeking to counter the gold lightning.
But upon contact, the gold lightning obliterates the terrifying force the elder unleashed along with his body, reducing him to ash.
The Ji Family crowd is horrified; that elder lived centuries, wielding a cultivation of Ninth Awakening completion, yet he couldn’t withstand a single strike of lightning – Ji Fenglie seems even more terrifying than before his besiegement.
"The Ji Family has been brought to such a state by you foul elders – today I’ll sweep through with thunder and restore the Ji Family to clarity..." Ji Fenglie’s eyes shoot golden light as he surveys the entire Ji Family city, his voice like rolling thunder: "Those who follow me will prosper, those who oppose will perish. Today, I wash the Ji Family in thunder calamity, only those who align their hearts with me will survive the ordeal. Should you defy the heavenly path and aid wickedness, today will be your day of calamity, to face obliteration by five-fold thunder!"
As his words fall, countless gold lightning descends, each bolt appearing to have life, every gold lightning aimed at some living being.
Anyone within the Ji Family city, whether a fly or hidden deep beneath meters of earth, cannot escape the omnipresent descending gold lightning.
