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Before Jam, was a legitimate Thunder Valley. It was the best place a practitioner of the Thunder Dao could ever hope to encounter. Now that Jam had to pass through this place to reach the mountains, he would spend some time gaining insights into the Dao of Thunder, as well as picking up more natural treasures.

Tzatziki told Jam of the best possible way for him to gain insights into the Thunder Dao with his current resources. Jam had to concoct Tier 4 True Thunder pills, set up his Concentrated Thunder Array, and meditate while donning his Thunder Movement Armor.

After a couple of tries, Jam managed to make the pills. He would always make perfect pills, so it was reasonable for him to fail a couple times. Additionally, because he would never fail after his initial success, he made several hundred pills before leaving to reach the heart of the valley.

On the way to the heart of the valley, Jam practiced his teleportation, and picked up a bunch of thunder-attributed natural treasures. Now, Jam rarely saw Tier 1 or 2 natural treasures, and started to find Tier 6 natural treasures. Jam also started spotting Saint Grandmaster Demonic Beasts.

He had already easily defeated a Saint Master, so he teleported to a Saint Grandmaster to test his strength again. In a one on one fight against a Saint Grandmaster, Jam could still win. However, he would need to use his Fire Combat Armor and Lesser Demon Form to get the job done. Just like his fight with the Saint Lord, Jam didn't kill his opponent and just left.

Once Jam reached the center of the thunder valley, he excavated his own temporary immortal's cave and set up his arrays, setting aside a bunch of bottles filled with his True Thunder Pills next to himself.

Jam manifested his Thunder Movement Armor, ingested a couple of his pills, and started meditating on the pure thunder energy of the environment. This was the first time Jam had ever meditated on the energy of the environment, and he was very lucky to reach a state of complete focus. He didn't reach enlightenment as that was very rare event. But, complete focus was very good for his first time meditating on the environment, nonetheless.

Jam stayed in this state for a couple hours, constantly inscribing new Dao runes in his Dao Palace and Dantian Space. He even managed to inscribe the most basic Dao runes into his flesh. Usually, this would only happen be possible for a cultivator after completing the Soul Fusion Stage, but Jam's Dao cultivation — which was about to cross over to the Dao Domain level — allowed him to bypass this restriction.

The Dao runes a cultivator had on their flesh, would be invisible most of time. They would only brighten up when that cultivator used those insights to power up an ability. This allowed cultivators to look like regular people and not tattoo artists that went a little too crazy one night.

Once a cultivator entered a state of complete focus, no one would know when they would leave that state. Jam might have been able to persist for a couple more days in that state, but someone rattled him out of his meditative trance.

Being interrupted from a cultivation session left Jam justifiably mad. He was very close to reaching Dao Domain in the Dao of Thunder and now the mood of the session had been destroyed. Jam teleported out of his cave, he was prepared to teach those who broke his meditation a very harsh lesson.

Oddly enough, there was no one in the immediate vicinity. Jam wouldn't let those that disturbed him leave scot-free, so he used Void Detection to immediately find who had interrupted him.

Void Detection was more suitable to find who had disturbed Jam, as his Detecting Form would show him every living thing within his eyesight. This would cloud Jam's judgement on finding the perpetrators, as he would not be able to see the living things near him with as much clarity as Void Detection allowed.

When he set the parameter of Void Detection to find anything moving at supersonic speeds, Jam found that about twenty kilometers from his location there was a group of unknown cultivators running away from a Saint Lord. Jam didn't know how he would fare against a Saint Lord, but it had ruined his meditation, so he would surely fight with it.

At this point, Jam could teleport up to thirty-three kilometers with relative accuracy. Since twenty kilometers was well within Jam's range of teleportation, Jam teleported directly in front of the Saint Lord.

”Motherfucker! You dare disturb MY meditation!” Jam said to the Saint Lord.

The cultivators that were running away from the Saint Lord, weren't idiots, they immediately took this chance to escape. Jam was also annoyed with those incompetent cultivators, but he would deal with them later.

Jam knew that Saint Lords could talk from his exchange with Jackson, thus he wasn't too surprised when the Saint Lord in front of him said ”You want a fight? I'll give you one!” How odd… it was a female's voice.

The Saint Lord in front of Jam was a Thunder Flood Dragon. It looked like a serpentine dragon with no wings, and had a dark shade of blue throughout its body. Furthermore, it was one of the largest Demonic Beasts Jam had ever seen, boasting an impressive length of over a hundred meters. Streaks of Saint's Thunder shot of recklessly from its body, and its imposing image made no indication that it was female.