My Arts Evolve When Perfected

Never mind whether the Bloodthirsty White Tiger possesses the power of the Unity Realm on its own. As long as it has the Thunder Restricted Area at its back, it can command power far exceeding that level. After all, the Thunder Restricted Area is a place that has struck down even Unity Realm ancestors. The fact that it can occupy the area proves it has mastered the Thunder Law of the Thunder Restricted Area.

Once it mastered the Thunder Law of the Restricted Area, it was no longer a mere Fusion Realm cultivator. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to treat it as a Unity Realm, or even a Peak of Unity Realm, expert.

Most importantly, its methods of attack are far too aggressive. It has already recruited a large number of the Demon Race and begun invading the cities of the Thunder Clan. It’s truly despicable.

So the situation now is that the Bloodthirsty White Tiger has occupied the Thunder Restricted Area, using its power to expand its own strength. It’s raised a massive army of powerful demons to help it invade the Thunder Clan’s cities, frantically plundering resources to further bolster its forces.

This pattern of growth has put the Thunder Clan in a terrible position. After all, they have too many cities to defend and not nearly enough top-tier experts. To make matters worse, some clan members are even caught up in internal strife, making it impossible to present a united front against the Bloodthirsty White Tiger.

"What can we do? In a situation like this, not even our clan leader dares to venture deep into the Thunder Restricted Area to fight the Bloodthirsty White Tiger. As long as the Bloodthirsty White Tiger lives, its demon army will never be defeated. They’ll just keep slaughtering our people and plundering our resources, and we have no way to strike back. When it comes to defense, our Unity Realm experts are simply too few and far between."

Another member of the Thunder Clan couldn’t help but sigh. He was well aware that the clan’s situation was grim. And if the Thunder Clan’s situation was grim, it meant the outlook for the entire Thunder Great Realm was just as bleak.

After all, the Thunder Clan was the symbiotic race of the Thunder Great Realm. To destroy the Thunder Clan was tantamount to destroying the Great Realm itself. And it was under this immense pressure that they faced the Bloodthirsty White Tiger’s frenzied onslaught.

As for the Thunder Clan’s incredibly powerful Space-Time Travel ability that allows them to reach any corner of the Thunder Great Realm with ease—well, that’s not something just anyone can use. It requires a certain degree of Talent and a specific Cultivation Level.

Otherwise, they might as well just deploy a Shuttle Array. But doing so consumes a staggering amount of resources, making them seem inefficient compared to the Bloodthirsty White Tiger.

Indeed. The Bloodthirsty White Tiger could launch a surprise attack on any of the Thunder Clan’s cities in the vicinity. After all, the Restricted Area it occupied was so vast that no one could predict from which direction it would strike.

Not knowing where they would strike meant being constantly on the defensive, making it impossible to preemptively set up a Space-Time Travel Array to dispatch reinforcements.

You have to understand, the sheer area of the Thunder Restricted Area rivaled that of a top-tier Oasis City in the Desolate Realm. Its reach was immense. If one were to look down upon the entire Thunder Great Realm, the Thunder Restricted Area would be like the Northern Boundary Mountain in the Northern Boundary. With a territory of that scale, who could possibly know where the Bloodthirsty White Tiger would strike next?

Besides, even when they gambled on its direction of attack, the Thunder Clan hadn’t succeeded even once in the past few years. It was as if they had been infiltrated; all their strategic arrangements proved to be as fragile as paper.

However, this might have something to do with certain rumors about the Thunder Restricted Area, but as for the specifics, neither of them was privy to the details...

After learning these important details from the two Thunder Clan members, Jiang Qiu quickly grasped the situation. The Thunder Clan was on the back foot, and the cities closest to the Thunder Restricted Area would soon be swallowed by the Bloodthirsty White Tiger’s army.

A major reason was that the Bloodthirsty White Tiger only plundered resources and destroyed cities; it never attempted to occupy them. As a result, the Thunder Clan’s leadership had no way of tracking their enemy’s movements.

Once they finished plundering a city, they would retreat back into the impenetrable Thunder Restricted Area, leaving no way to probe their condition.

The Thunder Restricted Area was so named for a reason: it was filled with terrifying thunder and all sorts of other dangers. Any unfamiliar creature that dared set foot inside would be instantly locked onto by the thunder and struck dead. Fusion Realm cultivators were killed in an instant, and while those in the Unity Realm could barely resist, they certainly couldn’t venture into its depths.

Rumor had it that many Unity Realm experts had entered the Thunder Restricted Area, never to be heard from again, which was how it earned its name as a Restricted Area.

Even the Unity Realm ancestors of the Thunder Clan, the people most familiar with thunder, absolutely dared not venture deep into the Thunder Restricted Area. It was simply too risky.

And yet, this very place, the Bloodthirsty White Tiger that had appeared out of nowhere could enter with ease, even leading a massive army of the Demon Race inside with it. It was as if it controlled the very nexus of the thunder within. Anyone it wished to spare would not be struck, but without its approval, anyone who entered faced almost certain death.

’It’s so strange. Logically, such a rule shouldn’t exist, but the facts are the facts.’ Jiang Qiu promptly left the Thunder Clan’s main city and headed toward the Thunder Restricted Area to take a look for himself.

「In the blink of an eye」, he appeared on the outskirts of a thundering mountain range. He looked up. Above the vast expanse of mountains, lightning strikes were as dense as a torrential downpour. Countless bolts, some thin and others massive, bombarded the peaks with a deafening RUMBLE.

The scale of this mountain range was in no way inferior to the South Mountain Range he had seen in the Northern Boundary. It was a truly endless sea of mountains, shrouded by an infinite canopy of dark clouds that continuously unleashed innumerable bolts of thunder.

A place like this was completely devoid of life. Not a single tree grew, let alone any weeds. Even the very stones were pitch-black, without a hint of any other color.

’Oh, no, that’s not right.’ If he looked carefully, he could make out an incomparably brilliant radiance emanating from the very depths. ’There must be some kind of treasure in there, but I can’t be sure what’s glowing.’

This was the Restricted Area of the entire Thunder Great Realm, known as the Thunder Restricted Area. A place where any who dared to enter faced almost certain death. But Jiang Qiu sniffed the air and caught a subtle, familiar scent. ’Why do I sense the aura of a Dragon Race bloodline in there?’

Ever since reaching the Fusion Realm, he had merged with Snow many times, making his senses in this regard much sharper. He could easily detect even faint auras of the Dragon Race with incredible clarity.

Of course, this aura was so faint as to be nonexistent to others. Even a Unity Realm expert would be completely unable to detect the Dragon Race presence within.

But Jiang Qiu could. And so could Snow, the purest Dragon Maiden. She raised an eyebrow. "It seems you’re right. And it’s in the deepest part. It looks like they’re soaking in some kind of Thunder Pool, preparing to break through to the Unity Realm..."

"A Unity Realm expert?" Jiang Qiu was taken aback for a moment. ’If there’s someone at the Unity Realm in there, it’s best not to act rashly. After all, the main city I just left didn’t even have a single Unity Realm expert from the Thunder Clan.’

’And if there was a Unity Realm expert inside the Thunder Restricted Area, there was only one possibility. That’s right—the mysterious Bloodthirsty White Tiger.’

’Based on the available information, while many Fusion Realm cultivators had joined the Bloodthirsty White Tiger’s camp, the one closest to the Unity Realm had to be the Bloodthirsty White Tiger itself. It needed to possess absolute dominance to maintain control.’

"Mm, it looks like a White Tiger in human form. It must be the Bloodthirsty White Tiger. The process of achieving Unity seems to be going smoothly; it won’t be long now. And..." Snow paused, her gaze sharpening. "It’s attempting to achieve Unity with the entire Thunder Restricted Area. If it succeeds, there’s a chance it will awaken the true White Tiger Bloodline!"