"This junior has heard that the Wan family has a new young prodigy, the only son of Senior Wan.

This junior has long admired Wan Lei, though we've never met. I wonder which one is Brother Wan Lei? We are all young prodigies; perhaps we could exchange a few blows and learn from each other?"

Duanmu Ao's words instantly made everyone's expression playful. Now, everyone in the two counties knew that Wan Liuchuan and Wan Lei had joined forces to kill Duanmu Feng, which made the already tense relationship between the Duanmu family and the Wan family even more irreconcilable.

At this time, Duanmu Ao stood up to challenge Wan Lei, making it clear that he wanted to show the Wan family some color. After all, according to his information, Wan Lei was only at the lower level of the Foundation Establishment stage a few days ago.

"Lei-shao, he's challenging you. Go beat him up. Are you confident?"

Sui Xiaohang, fearing that the world wouldn't be chaotic enough, joked with a playful smile.

"Forget it, with his weak and sickly appearance, what if I accidentally kill him with one hammer? Then the Duanmu family would desperately fight me."

Wan Lei grinned and said.

On the other side, Wan Hongxin said, "My son is currently in closed-door cultivation and cannot go out. Last time, he used his lower Foundation Establishment cultivation to kill a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator and fought a Core Formation expert. He suffered quite a few injuries and is now recuperating.

If you want to communicate and spar with him, you can come to the Wan family in the future."

Hearing this, the Duanmu family's faces were not very good-looking. Wan Hongxin was deliberately rubbing salt into their wounds, clearly humiliating the Duanmu clan. A dignified Core Formation expert from the Duanmu clan was killed by two Foundation Establishment cultivators; this was a great shame.

The others on the mountain also looked at the Duanmu clan with mocking eyes, which made Duanmu Ao feel very embarrassed.

"Senior Wan, is Brother Wan Lei afraid? This place has gathered all the young prodigies from the two counties. This is a grand event. Brother Wan Lei has amazing talent, but he avoids it. It is really disappointing to the heroes of the world."

Duanmu Ao's words made Wan Hongxin unable to refute. He was a Core Formation elder, and he couldn't keep arguing with a junior.

Since he, as a senior, couldn't speak, the juniors of the Wan family would naturally speak up.

"Lei-di is in closed-door cultivation and cannot come. Since you are so eager to fight, as Lei-di's older brother, how about I play with you?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Ao immediately chickened out, grunted twice, and retreated.

The reason was simple: the one who said this was Wan Liuchuan.

Even if Duanmu Ao had ten times the courage, he would not dare to fight Wan Liuchuan.

Fortunately, an event resolved Duanmu Ao's embarrassing situation. The Feng family expert, who had been bombarding the cave's seal, finally opened the seal.

This made everyone excited. People stared straight at the entrance of the cave, wishing they could immediately rush in to find opportunities, but no one moved.

This place was the Feng family's territory, and the Feng family expert had been the one to break the cave's seal. If the Feng family didn't go in first, no one would dare to enter.

The Feng family expert called on the young disciples of the Feng family to enter the cave first. Then, the people from other families entered in order.

"This is really troublesome. We have to wait for the major families to enter before we can enter. We won't even get the soup."

Sui Xiaohang complained in a low voice, looking at the crowd filling the cave entrance with dissatisfaction.

"It's okay. No one knows where the Lightning Refining Pool is. It's not necessarily that whoever enters first will find it first.

Let those people go and explore the way first. If there is any danger, they will be the first to die."

Wan Lei waved his hand dismissively.

Soon, all the people from the eight major families had entered. The small forces and rogue cultivators who had been waiting for a long time could no longer hold back and immediately flocked to the cave entrance.

Wan Lei and the others no longer waited and sneaked in while things were chaotic.

As soon as they entered the cave, the light instantly dimmed. Fortunately, everyone was a cultivator, so the impact was not significant.

Inside the cave entrance was a long corridor connecting to the mountain. The three followed the rogue cultivators forward.

In the eyes of others, their cultivation was weak. They looked like they were here to fish in troubled waters, so no one paid too much attention to them. They were all walking forward on their own.

After walking for a while, they finished walking through the passage. What came into view was a karst cave world inside the mountain.

This place was extremely wide, with uneven ups and downs. The lava emitted a faint red or green light, reflecting on the faces of people who were surprised and uncertain, making it look particularly terrifying.

Around the periphery of this karst cave space, there were also many large and small lava passages. These passages were pitch black and did not know where they led.

"This place... why is it so scary, Lei-shao? It doesn't look like anyone has ever lived here."

Sui Xiaohang said a little scared.

"What are you afraid of? There are thousands of people here. It won't be your turn to die first."

Wan Lei sneered.

Indeed, almost all the people who had entered before gathered here. This place was at most the periphery of the cave. The passages were interconnected in all directions, and no one knew where to go.

However, they obviously didn't need to hesitate for too long.

Boom!!!

Suddenly, a piece of lava above shattered, and the lava fragments, like shrapnel from a bomb, attacked the top of everyone's heads.

As the first piece of lava exploded, more than a dozen pieces of lava exploded one after another, and the rock fragments mercilessly attacked everyone.

"Careful!"

Everyone immediately waved their weapons to block, but the fragments were extremely fast. They were in a mess and couldn't block them at all. They also had to worry about sneak attacks from the people around them, so they couldn't take care of everything.

Soon, some cultivators with low cultivation were injured by the rubble.

"Damn it, what kind of stone is this? It can hurt me even when it explodes."

"Really, why would a good stone explode?"

Everyone was discussing, but they soon knew why those stones exploded.

In the places where the lava exploded above, streamers of light appeared one after another. There seemed to be formations outside the streamers, and lightning intertwined inside the streamers.

"That's... what is that?"

Sui Xiaohang asked cautiously.

Wan Lei took a closer look, and his expression changed drastically. He pulled up Qi Manyao and Sui Xiaohang, and used Lei Dun (Lightning Escape) to run towards the nearest karst cave passage.

As soon as he entered the karst cave passage, the wide karst cave behind him heard the sound of lightning and thunder, followed by the wailing of cultivators.

Wan Lei was extremely sensitive to lightning power and keenly noticed the frantic lightning power fluctuations in the formation. It was definitely about to be triggered. He didn't have time to explain, so he took the two of them and escaped, saving their lives.

The lightning intertwined densely, and the cultivators inside with weak cultivation were killed on the spot. Those with stronger cultivation could barely resist.

Fortunately, those weak rogue cultivators were on the periphery. When the lightning appeared, they entered the karst cave passage as soon as possible.

However, the members of the major families in the central area were unlucky. They were in the center of the lightning. Fortunately, there were many Core Formation experts there, who also led their family disciples into the various karst caves.