Volume 7: The Strongest Four Realms Chapter 16 Thunder and Vitality
"You mean Leigongchi." Yang Qing'er suddenly realized.
"Leigong Pond?" Lu Qingshan, who successfully bribed Yang Qing'er with a piece of "moon cake", couldn't help but frowned.
Just hearing the name, it feels like something unusual.
Following the instructions on the map he bought in Dongque City, it took him three days to reach the outside of the Thunder Forbidden Zone.
And in the canyon where the Thunder Forbidden Zone is located, there is a small tribe called "Sheep".
Having lived close to the Thunder Forbidden Zone for so many years, Lu Qingshan believed that the people in this tribe must be very familiar with this Thunder Forbidden Zone.
Although he came prepared, it would be safer for him to understand the general situation of the Thunder's penalty area before entering.
"Yeah." Yang Qing'er nodded. Inspired by "Mooncake", she poured out all the information about Leigongchi to Lu Qingshan like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.
In fact, it wouldn’t be a problem even if there was no “moon cake”, because in her heart, she was already happy to talk to the handsome man in front of her.
Leigongchi is the name given to the restricted area by the "Sheep" tribe.
The reason was that in that restricted area, arcs of lightning continuously flowed out from the core, causing lightning to wander all over the ground, making it look like a pool of lightning.
Then, in that restricted area, thunder and lightning arcs would often fall from the sky, causing extreme instability.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Sheep Tribe members, there must be a Thunder God sleeping in that restricted area.
Leigongchi got its name from this.
According to Yang Qing'er, there would be big thunder explosions in Leigongchi from time to time.
When the thunder exploded, everyone in their tribe could hear the deafening thunder, which lasted for an uncertain period of time, but the longest was only half an hour and the shortest was less than half a minute.
But it is said that a long time ago, this big thunder would .
But by the time she was born, the frequency of thunderstorms had been shortened to once every day.
In the past year, the frequency of these thunderstorms has increased to two or three times a day.
"Many elders in the tribe said that it might be the Thunder God who is about to wake up." Yang Qing'er looked up at Lu Qingshan, her eyes blinking.
Lu Qingshan reached out his hand, rubbed the little girl's hair, which was dry and yellow , and smiled: "Why aren't you afraid?"
He noticed that there was no trace of worry in Yang Qing'er's eyes.
After being touched on the head by Lu Qingshan, Yang Qing'er instinctively felt a little shy, and her voice became much softer, but she said firmly: "Because Lei Gong is a good person. If it weren't for the existence of Lei Gong Pond, our tribe would have been eaten by the sand wolf monster..."
Speaking of this, Yang Qing'er felt a little disappointed again, as if she remembered something bad.
"Sand wolf monster?" Lu Qingshan asked again.
Yang Qing'er, who had almost no contact with outsiders, was not too wary of Lu Qingshan.
Moreover, in the little girl's mind, Lu Qingshan, with his kind smile, could not possibly be a bad person.
So when Lu Qingshan asked, Yang Qing'er started talking again.
The sand wolf monster is one of the most numerous sand monsters in the Mogao Desert. It is known as one of the three disasters of Mogao along with sandstorms and sand bandits.
In this vast desert, groups of sand wolf monsters roam around and wreak havoc, hunting for food.
If their number exceeds a hundred, it would be enough to massacre a small tribe.
Near the Sheep Tribe, there lived a large group of sand wolves numbering nearly several thousand, occupying an oasis.
According to common sense, a small tribe like the Sheep Tribe, with no more than a thousand people and living next to a group of sand wolf monsters, should have been eaten to the bone by the group of sand wolf monsters long ago.
But it seemed that because they were afraid of Thunder God, the group of sand wolf monsters did not dare to set foot into the canyon, and even very few people approached it.
Naturally, the people of the Sheep Tribe did not dare to leave the canyon easily.
The two sides remained in a stalemate.
In Yang Qing'er's heart, Lei Gong is the patron saint of their tribe.
In this case, what is there to be afraid of if Thunder God resurrects?
"I see." Lu Qingshan looked at the deep and bottomless canyon again, with a glimmer in his eyes. He rubbed Yang Qing'er's head and said with a smile, "Thank you for telling me so much."
"It's okay," Yang Qing'er's yellow face turned slightly red. She looked up at the sky and suddenly panicked, "I have to go back quickly, otherwise the sheep will starve."
"Let's go back." Lu Qingshan said with a smile.
Yang Qing'er ran away with small steps. After running a few steps, she suddenly stopped, turned her head to look at Lu Qingshan, and asked again: "Do you want to visit our tribe..."
Facing Lu Qingshan's gaze, Yang Qing'er was somewhat at a loss. "What I mean is that the clan leader might know more about the Thunder Pond. He is also a cultivator... a cultivator, and has lived for a very, very long time."
The clever little girl understood that Lu Qingshan was a monk when she saw him for the first time.
Lu Qingshan waved his hand, "No need, you said it very well, you told me everything I wanted to know."
Seeing that Lu Qingshan rejected her, the little girl said nothing more. She waved her hand, and hurried away carrying the bamboo basket that was a head taller than her.
…
After asking about the situation in the Thunder Forbidden Zone, Lu Qingshan pondered for a moment, then flew his sword into a stream of light. Without rising too high, he slowly moved along the cracks in the canyon toward the Thunder Forbidden Zone.
Walked slowly for half an hour.
The earth shook and thunder exploded between heaven and earth.
Boom!
When Lu Qingshan looked around, the so-called Thunder God Pond had already appeared in front of him.
Everywhere you look, you can see flashes of lightning on the gravel-covered ground, and waves of mines moving around, making crackling sounds.
Everywhere within sight was filled with intense thunder. It really was like entering a minefield!
And above the sky, thunder was falling.
Lightning arcs as thick as arms flashed and appeared suddenly and irregularly, as if endless, falling continuously, and descending to the earth with a rumbling sound.
The ground absorbed the lightning and transformed into silver snakes that moved around, making the thunder even more powerful.
This is a world of thunder and hell.
At this moment, the big thunder that Yang Qing'er had mentioned happened, and the lightning was so strong that it was truly rare.
Lu Qingshan's eyes flashed, and he slowly landed, silently waiting for the thunder to subside.
A quarter of an hour later.
The sudden flash of thunder disappeared, and the rumbling thunder gradually subsided, leaving only the lightning snakes wandering and crawling all over the ground.
According to Yang Qing'er, the frequency of thunder explosions in Leigongchi has now been reduced to two or three times a day.
In other words, there is still some time before the next thunderstorm occurs.
"Let's go in and take a look at the situation first." Lu Qingshan's eyes focused, and he flipped his left hand. A miniature wooden shield the size of a palm appeared in his hand.
The wooden shield has intricate patterns on it.
Lu Qingshan injected spiritual power into it.
The patterns on the wooden shield suddenly flashed, and then suddenly split along those lines, breaking into countless scale-like fragments that floated in the air and quickly combined into a piece of armor around him, protecting him.
The lightning shield is one of the lightning protection weapons he bought in Giant Bear City.
The material used for this magic weapon is lightning-proof wood, which has an excellent effect of isolating against thunder.
Under the protection of the lightning-proof shield, Lu Qingshan stepped in.
Sizzle!
The thunder on the ground was emitting blue light, and several of them were already moving upwards, rushing towards Lu Qingshan.
His magic weapon immediately took effect.
All those lightning arcs were isolated by the lightning shield and attached to the armor, making crackling sounds.
Lu Qingshan could easily block thunder of this power with the help of magic weapons, and even the loss of spiritual power was almost zero.
But after walking a few more steps, Lu Qingshan's eyes suddenly showed a look of surprise and doubt.
"These thunders seem a little strange..."
Lu Qingshan carefully examined the thunder moving outside the armor.
After a long time, he suddenly understood.
"These thunders actually contain both acquired thunder and innate thunder..."
Thunder is divided into acquired and innate.
Acquired thunder is caused by external things such as magic or magical powers, while innate thunder is nurtured by nature.
According to his expectation, the place where the Thunder Fruit was born should be a dangerous place in heaven and earth, and its thunder was naturally produced by heaven and earth.
But the existence of this acquired thunder showed that this thunder forbidden zone did not seem to be completely consistent with what he imagined.
"Is this place not the birthplace of the Thunder Fruit, or is there something else in this Thunder Forbidden Zone... Does the 'Thunder God' mentioned by the Sheep Tribe really exist?" Lu Qingshan's heart gradually became tense, and his actions became more cautious.
The further you go in, the more intense the lightning becomes.
Not long after, Lu Qingshan's armor was covered with dense thunder, like a thunder cocoon, which was very terrifying to look at.
As he went deeper, Lu Qingshan was already extremely worried and took out another green spirit bead magic weapon from his storage ring.
His spiritual power circulated slightly, and a layer of green spiritual light enveloped his body.
The Qingmu Pearl is a mid-grade earth weapon. It is refined by a Nascent Soul cultivator using Qingmu Lingyu as raw material. It is engraved with Qingmu Lingwen. Once activated, it will emit Qingmu Lingguang to protect the owner of the weapon.
The wood-attributed Qingmu Spiritual Light has a more direct and significant effect in defending against thunder than other attributes.
Lu Qingshan looked at the earth filled with lightning and snakes, and his heart moved slightly.
Thunder is a symbol of destruction.
However, he felt a strong vitality emanating from the earth covered by thunder, the degree of which was so powerful that it was astonishing.
"There is such a strong vitality in the thunder..." There was a strange light in Lu Qingshan's eyes.
Boom!
There was a loud thunder, deafening.
Four or five steps in front of him, a bolt of lightning struck, and the light was blinding.
This vast minefield, under this heavenly thunder, was like a lake disturbed by a stone, with waves rising and blasting towards Lu Qingshan.
Bursts of crackling sounds came one after another, causing countless sparks to fly. The power of thunder from heaven and earth contained in them made Lu Qingshan's expression change.
A big thunder exploded!
This was the first time he encountered a thunderstorm.
At the first moment, Lu Qingshan used all his strength to activate the Qingmu Pearl.
The green light rippled and sparkled, protecting him within like a curtain of water.
The strong lightning suddenly gained momentum at this moment, striking like a thunderbolt on the outermost layer of lightning-proof armor he used to protect himself.
There were already countless weak lightning snakes clinging to the armor.
This thunderbolt was like a bomb exploding. A huge net-shaped thunder ball suddenly condensed, and then when the momentum reached its peak, it exploded with a bang.
boom!
It was just a lightning-proof armor of spiritual quality, which could not withstand such a huge power of thunder and was blown to pieces in an instant.
The residual power of the explosion of the thunder ball did not diminish, and continued to bombard the Qingmu spiritual light emitted by the Qingmu Pearl.
Fortunately, you get what you pay for. This mid-grade earth-grade Qingmu bead can still barely withstand the power of the thunder explosion at this time.
But Lu Qingshan has already realized that with the current force of thunder, even Qingmuzhu cannot last long.
However, these were not what he cared about most at the moment.
Because he discovered that this so-called irregular thunderstorm...actually had signs.
Just as the thunder was raging, the vitality in the earth also became much stronger!
"The power of this thunder is actually related to vitality. The stronger the vitality, the more violent the thunder..." Lu Qingshan murmured, "But what influences the constant fluctuations in the strength of these vitality?"
This thunder restricted area is becoming more and more mysterious.
Lu Qingshan originally thought that this was just a place that gave birth to thunder fruits, but now it seems that it is far from that simple.
Sure enough, if you don’t participate in it personally, the information you get through hearsay will always be just the tip of the iceberg.
Lu Qingshan said in his heart.
In the introduction to the mission background in the previous life, apart from the fact that the Thunder Fruit caused the big monster to fight to the death, thus leading to the bloody disaster, there was no mention of it at all.
From this point of view, this mission should also contain a hidden plot line.
Lu Qingshan did not choose to retreat. Seeing a large area of lightning flashing in front of him with terrifying power, he had an idea and took out a set of twelve formation flags from his storage ring.
With a flick of his finger, twelve small battle flags flew out and spun around him.
The thunder and lightning that kept coming seemed to hit a solid wall. It smashed into the formation formed by the flags and immediately disappeared.
The Wuxu Jueling Formation is an excellent defensive formation.
With the power of the formation flags, magic weapons and Qingmu beads, Lu Qingshan continued to move forward with the force of thunder.
A quarter of an hour later.
Lu Qingshan's heart moved slightly.
Because he felt that the strong vitality that suddenly rose in the earth suddenly disappeared at this moment and returned to its previous state.
That is to say, this violent thunder is finally returning to calm.
As expected, the moment the vitality disappeared, the large area of lightning also dimmed and its power dropped sharply.
Lu Qingshan breathed a sigh of relief.
This time the thunderstorm lasted only three quarters of an hour, which was pretty good luck.
The bottom line he set for himself was that if the spiritual energy consumed exceeded 40%, he would return immediately.
If the thunder continued to be so fierce, he would have to give up soon.
Lu Qingshan took out a pill to restore his spiritual energy from his storage ring and swallowed it. He maintained his condition and walked down along the crack in the canyon without stopping.
He didn't know how deep this thunder restricted area was, or where the acquired thunder came from. Now he could only take one step at a time and see what happened.
In the end, if there is really no other way, he still has one last helpless choice:
He gave up on the Thunder Fruit, turned around and passed the news of the Thunder Fruit back to the Sword Sect, asking the great sword practitioners in the sect to take it.
The value of the Thunder Fruit, even if it is just one that is not fully mature, is enough to make the Sword Sect's great sword cultivator take action!
But by that time, the Thunder Fruit would have nothing to do with him . At most, he would be rewarded with some spirit stones as compensation.
…
After walking in Leigong Pond for another half an hour, Lu Qingshan's eyes suddenly flashed, and he looked ahead cautiously and carefully.
In the land ahead, he discovered a subtle and unusual fluctuation of vitality—hidden beneath the soil, and looming among the raging lightning snakes.
If he had not become very sensitive to vitality after realizing the true meaning of immortality, he would not have been able to discover it.
