"The spiritual energy here is so dense with lightning energy that even breathing it normally feels like needles pricking my internal organs."
Ge Yuchan frowned, jumped off the boat, and landed as lightly as a black cat.
Jiang Yuebai and Yun Shang jumped down, and Xie Jingshan put away the Yanxia Boat.
Yun Shang whispered, "Legend has it that the Ancient Thunder Lake was called Liubo Mountain in ancient times. It was the territory of the thunder beast Kui Niu. When Kui Niu walked, thunder and lightning followed him."
"Later, the human race wiped out the area, and this ancient Lei Ze was formed. The general shape of the entire Lei Ze on the map is similar to the outline of Kui Niu."
Yun Chang knew almost everything related to animals.
Xie Jingshan glanced at the desolate black land. "Because there are magnets deep in Lei Ze, magic weapons and spiritual energy are easily disturbed. We can only cross it on foot. We need to go southwest from here. If everything goes well, we can cross it in about a month and reach Fengti Country."
"Let's wait and see. If you two feel you can't hold on, just withdraw in time." Jiang Yuebai said to Yun Shang and Ge Yuchan.
The Ancient Thunder Lake is a place where Jindan cultivators undergo trials and collect thunder resources, and few foundation-building cultivators would enter to take the risk.
Xie Jingshan drew his sword, the little Huodou lay on his shoulder, and Xiaolu also emitted phosphorous fire, illuminating the surrounding area, and followed Jiang Yuebai closely.
A group of four people moved forward slowly against the violent thunder and storm. Silver lightning struck from overhead from time to time, hitting the ground hard and exploding with silver electric sparks all over the ground.
After walking for only a quarter of an hour, Jiang Yuebai suddenly stopped. The sound of thunder around him became increasingly dense, but it did not come from above his head at all.
Ge Yuchan also noticed something was wrong, pulled out her dagger and turned around, Yun Shang and Xie Jingshan also immediately became alert.
Three four-legged beasts, whose bodies were made of black clouds and covered with silver lightning, walked out of the darkness and stared at the four people with bloodthirsty eyes.
They opened their mouths and roared, and the rumbling sound of thunder resounded throughout the whole area, making people lose their minds and feel dizzy and tinnitus.
"It's the Thunder Hounds. They are not physical and are incredibly fast. Everyone, be careful!"
Yun Chang had just finished speaking when a Thunder Hound rushed in front of them like lightning. Ge Yuchan stepped back and twelve daggers flew out of her body and pierced into the Thunder Hound's body like a machine gun.
The dagger pierced through Lei Huo's body, but Lei Huo was unharmed and turned around to kill Ge Yuchan.
The other two also came with electric lights all over their bodies. Yun Shang released the lightning marten Leihuo, Jiang Yuebai stabbed out with a spear, and the phantom of the dragon claw slapped down heavily.
Lei Hou was repelled, and Yun Chang's lightning marten brought up a string of red light, which wrapped around Lei Hou's body like a whirlwind. The lightning collided violently with each other, and there were continuous explosions.
Xie Jingshan protected Jiang Yuebai and Yun Shang's backs alone, and swung his sword to cut when another thunder beast pounced on their heads.
The flaming sword slammed into Lei Hu's body, and the collision between fire and thunder caused it to explode with a loud bang, with flames and lightning flying in all directions.
Jiang Yuebai glanced at them and opened the Taihe umbrella in time to protect her and Yunshang. Only Xie Jingshan was burned by the flames at such a close distance that his hair curled and smoked.
"Are you stupid? Don't you know that fire and thunder will explode when they meet? Can't you fight them off first and then detonate them?"
Jiang Yuebai cursed angrily, and Xie Jingshan and the little evildoer on his shoulder both drooped their ears, and the little evildoer even secretly bared his teeth.
The other Thunder Hound was forced back by Yun Chang's Lightning Marten, which consumed its lightning bit by bit, and finally disappeared into thin air. Only Ge Yuchan was still fighting with the other Thunder Hound.
The electric light from Lei Hou's body kept hitting Ge Yuchan. She endured the pain and kept dodging and retreating.
Xie Jingshan wanted to help but was stopped by Jiang Yuebai.
"She is using the Thunder Hound to test her body speed."
Xie Jingshan took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case.
The Thunder Hounds on the periphery are generally not strong. As long as the cultivators in the late stage of foundation building are careful, even if they cannot kill the intangible Thunder Hounds in one go, as long as they quickly dissipate the lightning power on the Thunder Hounds, the Thunder Hounds will dissipate on their own.
Ge Yuchan dodged most of the time, prompting Lei Hou to attack her.
Xie Jingshan muttered, "She is exactly like you. She never forgets to improve her abilities."
Yun Shang nodded and whispered, "Yuchan said Xiaobai is her role model, so she wants to work as hard as Xiaobai. Thinking about it this way, I am really lazy. No, I have to make the spirit beasts practice more diligently."
Jiang Yuebai and Xie Jingshan looked at Yunshang together. Yunshang smiled shyly and her cheeks slowly turned red.
After a cup of tea, Ge Yuchan seemed to have figured out the rhythm of Lei Hu's attacks, and she suddenly became sharp.
The twelve daggers flew like lightning. As she raised and lowered them three times, the thunder beast disappeared like smoke in an instant. Only her daggers were still wrapped with silver arcs of electricity.
Ge Yuchan stood there thinking and comprehending for a moment, then raised her head and said to Jiang Yuebai, "I will not go any further. I will stay here to hunt Thunder Hounds. They will be very helpful in improving my martial arts and cultivation."
Seeing this, Yun Shang also said, "I will stay with Yuchan. After all, our cultivation is still far behind yours. This place is safe enough for us. If we go deeper, we will become a burden. Besides, I have always wanted to try whether I can capture and cultivate the Thunder Hound without a physical body."
Xie Jingshan looked at Jiang Yuebai. Jiang Yuebai glanced at the two of them, took out a blank jade slip, placed it on his forehead for a moment, and handed it to Yun Shang.
"This is a Qi training bodybuilding exercise called "Crazy Thunder Bodybuilding Art". You can learn from the method of digesting the lightning energy to strengthen your body. It can help you resist the lightning energy here."
Jiang Yuebai raised his hand and asked Yunchang to take out Jixiang and Huamaoshu from her waist.
Yunchang reached out her hand, immediately laughed, and poked Jixiang on the forehead.
"Jixiang, you are amazing. You already have the goods in just ten days. When you and Xiaobai come back, I will find you a few more Xiangxiang mice."
Yunchang held the ram-rat carefully. It was rare for Jixiang to survive with his three mixed bloodlines. Yunchang was moved when she saw Jixiang for the first time and wanted Jixiang to give birth to a few ram-rat pups for her to study.
The mouse was taken away by Yunchang. He looked at Jixiang eagerly, but Jixiang did not look sad at all. He jumped back into the basket on Jiang Yuebai's waist and fell asleep.
"Scum rat."
Jiang Yuebai sighed, nodded to Ge Yuchan, and without saying anything more, turned around and motioned Xie Jingshan to follow and continue moving southwest.
Yun Shang watched them disappear into the darkness before she turned around to look at Ge Yuchan, holding the mouse with tearful eyes.
"Let's find a place to set up camp first. We must not only be careful of the Thunder Hound here, but also be careful of other monks who come for the trial."
"I heard weak thunder in the north and an echo underground. There must be a cave. Let's go and take a look."
"Little Leihuo, follow me. The thunder energy here is strong. You must practice diligently to advance, otherwise I will not take you with me when I go out in the future."
Yun Shang followed Ge Yuchan, and the two disappeared into the darkness in another direction.
Close friends from the same school, each going their separate ways, will meet again in the future and fight side by side.
To the southwest, there is an endless black sand wasteland with lightning and thunder.
Jiang Yuebai stretched out his protective Qi to resist the black sandstorm and the pervasive lightning. Xiaolu accompanied him, rushing into the surrounding darkness from time to time, using his own fire to detonate one thunder beast after another to protect Jiang Yuebai.
Fortunately, its body is hard enough, otherwise it would have exploded to pieces.
"Thanks to you, Xiaolu, otherwise I wouldn't be able to travel so smoothly with those thunder beasts coming endlessly. You are awesome. When we get to the foreign country, I will definitely find you lots of spiritual fire to eat."
The little green phosphorus fire was agitated, and it was looking for Leihu more excitedly.
Xie Jingshan followed behind with a look of disdain on his face. A dignified Jindan cultivator actually fooled his own spirit weapon. How shameless!
Turning his head, Xie Jingshan saw the yawning little evildoer on his shoulder, and immediately said angrily, "Look at Xiaolu, and then look at you, the lazy guy. If I don't move, you won't move either."
Woof!
The little rascal shouted in protest, but the man and the dog turned their heads away at the same time, ignoring each other.
Jiang Yuebai stopped suddenly, and Xie Jingshan almost bumped into her because he didn't look at the road.
"What's going on? Is there an enemy attack?"
Xie Jingshan drew his sword, and the little evildoer bared his teeth.
Jiang Yuebai scratched his face, "No, I found some magnets underground, let me dig for a while."
"Where is it? Why can't I find it?" Xie Jingshan turned his head and looked around.
"Not here, but thirty miles away, deep in the Lei Ze."
Jiang Yuebai took out four pitch-black, spider-like mining puppets from the storage bracelet.
The all-metal body is water-proof, fire-resistant and lightning-proof. The pickaxes on the eight feet are all eighth-grade magical weapons, and there is also a small teleportation array engraved on the abdomen.
This was an improved and manufactured puppet she made when she was learning refining equipment in the sect two years after she reached Dan Formation. It is more useful than the mining puppets currently on the market.
Three high-quality spirit stones were embedded in each of the four mining puppets, and they quickly rushed in the same direction. The Jianxiao puppet was waiting at the place with the magnet.
The small white dragon sword on the Jianxiao puppet can sense the changes in the surrounding magnetic force very well to find magnets, and can also help chisel the ground and dig stones. She released it early in the morning.
"Let's go."
Jiang Yuebai continued to move forward, and Xie Jingshan followed him, looking curiously in the direction where the mining puppet left.
"Aren't you going to wait for them to come back and give you the magnet?"
Jiang Yuebai took out a black iron basin and held it in his arms. There was also a small teleportation array engraved on the bottom of the basin. After a while, black magnets of different sizes appeared out of thin air in the basin.
Xie Jingshan opened his eyes wide, and after a long while he swallowed his saliva and said, "Name your price. I want the blueprints of your set of things from Shanhailou!"
Today's three updates are over, see you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)