The Supreme God of Martial Arts

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Countless lightning bolts streaked across the storm clouds covering the sky, rumbling relentlessly towards Brandon.

Feeling the inevitable approach of lightning, Brandon raised his hands above his head. In an instant, his vital energy force

summoned numerous gigantic handprints that formed a shield to protect him against the strike of lightning!

The handprints formed a web-like shield, interconnecting with each other. It absorbed the lightning's energy and prevented them

from hitting Brandon. If an observer would attempt to count the handprints in the sky, it would hurt his eyes.

As if that wasn't amazing enough, Austin spotted something else as each handprint was formed by Brandon's vital energy force: in

the center of every handprint lied a pure image of a divine and mighty Buddha.

Austin suddenly realized that Brandon was using a special martial art skill that he had been practicing - the Thousand-Buddha

Palm.

Performing the skill of the Thousand-Buddha Palm instantly produced over a thousand handprints formed from the user's vital

energy force. It was indeed an extremely powerful skill.

After a few seconds of witnessing the skill, Austin slowly shook his head.

It was clear to him that Brandon's foundation of vital energy force wasn't powerful enough to maintain the skill's use.

His lack of vital energy force did not enable him to maximize the full potential of the Thousand-Buddha Palm's ultimate power.

While Austin's evaluation of Brandon's performance was ongoing, the latter was having difficulty dealing with the thunder.

Brandon's nerves were frayed and he was exhausted, but the intensity of the thunder and lightning only grew as twent by.

"Master, he is weakened by the thunder. | don't think Brandon is powerful enough to make it through the whole Thunderstroke

Doom."

Clark approached Austin slowly, his face etched with worry.

"It's okay. I'm going to give him shelp,"

Austin said deliberately to ease Clark's mind.

"Help? Wait, what do you mean?"

Clark was confused for a second. "How could Austin help Brandon overcthe Doom?’ thought Clark.

Howl!

In a blink of an eye, a thunder unicorn appeared out of nowhere from Austin's elixir field. Howling and rushing, it galloped at full

speed to the eye of the Thunderstroke Doom.

As the thunder unicorn entered the field where Brandon was, excitement overcit. It seemed ecstatic to be in the presence of

thunder, like a starving man being presented with a buffet of delicious food. Not a moment too soon, the thunder unicorn kicked off

the ground and launched itself skyward, swallowing up all the thunderbolts in its gargantuan maw!

"Master! I'm not sure if you're allowed to do that!" Clark exclaimed.

He understood what Austin meant to do the moment the thunder unicorn was summoned.

Brandon was in the middle of a breakthrough when he heard Clark's exclamations of surprise, but he wasn't able to spare a

thought for Clark at that moment. Suddenly, he felt a marked decrease in the Thunderstroke Doom's intensity.

Curious, he turned around to look at what caused the sudden interruption. His eyes widened in shock as soon as he saw a thunder

unicorn swallowing and absorbing most of the thunderbolts in its gaping mouth.

"Damn! What the hell is happening right now?!"

Blood drained from Brandon's face when he witnessed that a thunder unicorn was literally "eating" the thunderbolts thrown about

by the Heavenly Doom.

He was informed by selders that in normal cases, a cultivator should break through the Heavenly Doom on their own using the

extent of their own abilities. The mechanism was set that no one was allowed to meddle in the chosen cultivator's fight.

In the rare cases that someone found a way to enter the breakthrough, the rule of the doom was to strengthen the attack

correspondingly. The doom's power was magnified up to ten times the original force, or even beyond that.

This mechanism was what had Clark worrying. The thunder unicorn's interference with the breakthrough might trigger the

mechanism and could have jeopardized the chosen cultivator's safety.

"Master, you do know that you might get Brandon killed by interfering with this, right?"

Clark's eyebrows narrowed and a bead of sweat ran down from his temples.

"Oh, trust me, Clark. Nothing is going to happen to Brandon.

Look, | know intervening with a Heavenly Doom might cost the life of the cultivator. But, the thunder unicorn | summoned was

technically not interfering or helping him fight back. It is just absorbing the lightning to weaken the power of the Doom.

The presence of the thunder unicorn is not going to trigger the strengthening mechanism of the Thunderstroke Doom.

You can take my word for it and pacify your doubts now."

Right from the start, Austin knew that Clark was worried about this. But he was confident, and that did not prevent him from

helping in a way he knew how.

His confidence cfrom a previous experience, when it was the queen's turn to try to break through the Thunderstroke Doom.

He had released the thunder unicorn purely by accident, and the sscene as today unfolded then. He realized that, even as the

thunder unicorn interfered in the process and absorbed a large amount of energy from the thunderbolts, the queen's safety was

not compromised and the breakthrough was completed with no further incidents.

That was the reason why Austin did not think too much of doing the sthing today.

To help Brandon understand the reason he did this, and to relieve his anxiety, Austin communicated with him telepathically

through a spiritual sense. He told Brandon the whole story about the sincident with the queen. He wanted to comfort him and

assure him that the Doom would not becmore intense than it currently was, so he could focus more during the breakthrough.

Clark and Brandon still weren't completely convinced by Austin. They knew by their instinct that the Heavenly Doom wasn't

something could be easily duped by such a simple trick.

Austin did not recall the thunder unicorn back. He let it continue to absorb most of the lightning with an incredible speed.

After a certain amount of time, Clark and Brandon grew tired of waiting to see if interfering with the breakthrough would backfire

on them. As Austin expected, nothing bad happened.

Brandon finally gathered his courage and his wits; he was ready to face the Thunderstroke Doom.

Brandon felt confident about his breakthrough, especially with the thunder unicorn by his side. His attacks seemed to reflect what

he was thinking, and he was able to adapt his attack style more flexibly.

Shortly after, the intensity of the lightning waned to the point that there were only a few sparks left scurrying between the clouds.

The dark clouds dissipated and faded away gradually as far as their eyes could see. The clear blue sky was uncovered after the last

few sparks of lightning died down.

At long last, everything returned to normal. There were flowers swaying in the breeze, birds singing in the trees. It didn't look like

anything happened here mere moments ago.

Boom!

After only a short respite, a tremendous wave of vital energy force exploded from within Brandon's body, running through his veins

and every fiber of his being.