Great Demon Sun Wukong

At this moment, Bai Yi's eyes were intently fixed on the man in the black robe, while his brain was swiftly at work, considering a living dead person who had the same thinking capabilities as a living person and could control their movements through their own thoughts. He was not afraid of getting wounded and had no blood flowing out. After pondering for a while with no results, it seemed to Bai Yi that only those superior Wisdom Puppets possessed such characteristics, but no matter how exquisitely made or carefully nurtured, he could recognize a puppet at a glance. However, he could not identify any puppet-like traits in this man in black before him, of course, aside from being unafraid of injury.

Since he could not discern anything and had no means to inquire further, Bai Yi decided to simply kill this fellow. Afterwards, he could dissect the corpse and surely discover something valuable. With this thought, Bai Yi noticed that the man in the black robe did not immediately attack after his strange laugh. Without any hesitation, but still exercising caution, Bai Yi quickly checked his surroundings. After confirming there was no one else around, he let out a low shout. His whole person then turned into a white light and disappeared from where he was standing.

"Damned bastard, your speed is too slow! And now, it is impossible for you to harm me!" As Bai Yi made his move, the man in the black robe still did not take action, merely looking at the spot beside him with a disdainful sneer. Right after his words fell, Bai Yi suddenly appeared at the exact spot the man in black had been staring at.

Although slightly surprised that he didn't appear at the position he would normally have when using his flash move, Bai Yi had no time to ponder over it. Although there was still some distance from the man in black, Bai Yi didn't care at all. Swinging his right hand, which was holding the Lightning Dagger, the dagger streaked towards the black-robed man's waist, accompanied by a flash of white light.

However, in reality, the black-robed man didn't even budge in response to Bai Yi's strike. As it turned out, Bai Yi's attack had missed, or rather, Bai Yi had miscalculated the distance, and the strike brushed past the black-robed man's clothing—it didn't even damage the man's clothes, which was quite a significant miss.

Bai Yi was momentarily taken aback by his miss, seemingly in disbelief. But his reaction was quick—after all, he was a Lightning Spirit inherently quick by nature. Although he was surprised, this was not the time to think about why his attack had missed.
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Since the strike was a horizontal slash aimed at the black-robed man's waist, Bai Yi harnessed the rotational force to explosively speed up his spin by a third. His empty left hand grabbed into the void, conjuring another Lightning Saber. Taking a half-step forward while rotating, he had moved half a step closer, and the Lightning Saber in his left hand was already aimed at slashing the black-robed man's waist.

Indeed, Bai Yi's reaction was very quick. Missing once, he did not even change his move but rather conjured another Lightning Blade to continue the failed waist-slash. The black-robed man was still lowering his head, and although Bai Yi couldn't see his face or expression, from his body movements, it was clear the man was utterly unflappable and had no intention of dodging.

With a whoosh, a pale trajectory of light flashed by. The left-handed waist slash missed again. Nevertheless, Bai Yi had no intention to give up—the left-handed Lightning Saber had missed, but his spinning motion brought him full circle. Hence, after the second slash missed, the third attack came immediately.

The Lightning Dagger in the right hand executed a rapid upward thrust from below. As Bai Yi expected, this strike also missed. The saber cut through the air beside the black-robed man, not injuring him in the slightest. After the third miss, Bai Yi did not continue attacking but instead flickered and rapidly retreated.

Once he had put a moderate distance between them, Bai Yi suddenly smiled and said, "Although I don't know your name or who you are, I can be certain that we previously couldn't leave this cave because of your doing, right? And my brother, Lei Hu, probably fell into your trap while resting in the cave, had his consciousness erased and his body taken over by another consciousness. Am I right?"

The man in the black robe showed no surprise at Bai Yi's words. He hadn't deliberately concealed any of it. Why bother hiding anything from a person doomed to die? If they know too much, once dead, it all disappears.

To Bai Yi's surprise, the man in black actually nodded in acknowledgment. But despite the surprise, the current Bai Yi didn't care much anymore. "So you even admit it, and here I thought you would continue to spout nonsense. Moreover, I guess the reason we couldn't leave this place is not just because there was a traitor intentionally misleading us but also because you used strong Mental Power and Divine Consciousness Power to rewrite the memories of the Transforming Thunder Palace's location in our minds while we were unaware. Am I also right about that?"

This time, a few traces of surprise were clearly visible in the eyes of the man in the black robe. Seeing the expression on the man in the black robe, Bai Yi knew he was right. He continued to play with the two Lightning Sabers in his hands and spoke on, "In fact, I had already noticed Lei Hu's anomaly, but I had not expected him to make his move at that time. Therefore, I bear a great responsibility for Lei Zhen's death. But you, you deserve to die even more!"

"Haha, empty words are futile. Since you think I deserve to die, then come kill me. I'm standing right here, let you kill me!" The man in the black robe's voice was filled with arrogance. However, Bai Yi remained calm and said, "You are certainly going to die, but I haven't finished speaking. How could I let you die so easily and not avenge my three brothers?"

"Enough with the nonsense, if you want to kill me, just do it! But I happen to think that it will be you who dies today!" The man in the black robe continued to exude confidence, and although he was somewhat surprised by Bai Yi's sharp conjectures, that was all there was to it.

"I've said it before, you are certainly going to die. Don't think that this simple Blinding Trick can truly deceive me. Who do you think I, Bai Yi, am? Perhaps you have been around for billions of years, but trash is trash, even if it's trash that has lived for billions of years, it's nothing more than an old pile, trash!"

Every word he said was emphatic, and as Bai Yi finished speaking, he suddenly raised his right hand and made a Sword Finger gesture towards the sky. "Trash, today I will show you why I, Bai Yi, am called the strongest of Thunder! You have lived in the Patrolling Celestial World for too long. It's time for you to die!"

After that, the man in the black robe's complexion changed, and then he suddenly looked up, only to see that the originally clear sky overhead was now covered by dark clouds. Within those dense clouds, there were white thunder dragons, massive bolts of white lightning, and even the majestic phantoms of thunder gods. What truly terrified the man in the black robe were the thunder energies within the endless black clouds, now converging towards a certain point.

And the thunder energy converging on that point had already locked onto a location, the cave where Bai Yi and the others had previously rested. To put it more broadly, it was the entire small mountain. The power of the thunder was gathering quickly, and the seemingly boundless dark clouds were also compressing continuously.

"No, no, no! You can't do this, you can't do this. Damned invaders, billions of years ago you invaded our homeland, slaughtered countless of our brethren, and now you won't even spare such a being as me? You are devils, demons, bound to suffer the wrath of heaven!" The man in the black robe, who had been composed until now, panicked instantly at the sight of the terrifying thunder locking onto the small mountain, even becoming somewhat deranged from excessive fright.

"Wrath of heaven? Haha, you talk of heavenly punishment in front of me? Now, let me show you what heavenly punishment looks like! Lightning Heavenly Punishment—Thunder Pillar." It was a very ordinary-sounding technique, even a bit unsophisticated. However, when all the black clouds and Thunder System Power compressed and condensed into a black and white sphere about ten meters in diameter, an aura of brutal destruction was felt even by the Thunder Spirit Daoist in the Transforming Thunder Palace.

As Bai Yi's voice fell, the ten-meter intertwined black and white sphere suddenly tilted downward like a hole had been punctured in it, creating a black and white column of light merging together. This column of light, merely five meters in diameter, moved incredibly fast and in the blink of an eye, struck the small mountain. Then, the mountain and the cave at its base vanished in an instant.

There was no sound of an explosion, no shockwave, not even a speck of dust; as the column of light descended, the mountain seemed to evaporate on the spot. And when the column of light disappeared, the location of the mountain had become an unfathomably deep, pitch-black hole.

The man in the black robe who had been standing in front of Bai Yi, had disappeared!

(Second update, ah)