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Chapter 49 Failed, but also succeeded

To be precise, Zhang Wei had no intention of delving deeply into the art of formation.

But just like learning the Dao of Dan, it’s good to learn a trick just in case.

In order to avoid being trapped by formations when traveling to various countries in the future, Zhang Wei carefully studied the formation inheritance of Master Luoxia, a third-level formation master.

In just a few years, Zhang Wei can be considered a half-baked formation master. However, compared with orthodox formation masters, Zhang Wei's formation arrangements have great limitations and his methods are very crude.

But it is no problem to set up a formation to call the wind and rain.

For this purpose, Zhang Wei even used the entire eastern suburbs of Luyang County as the location for setting up the formation, and spent money to buy several plots of land as the core of the Wind and Rain Summoning Formation.

Zhang Wei buried hundreds of taels of spirit stones under each formation as energy supply, and then used thousands of taels of gold and tens of thousands of taels of silver as the energy running formation patterns.

That’s right, gold and silver can be used to set up formations in addition to drawing talismans and refining weapons! Zhang Wei felt that these two brothers were omnipotent!
Moreover, this formation requires maintenance, because every time it is started or even when it is running for a long time, it will cause consumption to these two uncles. So if Zhang Wei wants to start the formation again, he has to empty his small treasury to inspect it.

This made Zhang Wei sigh.

No wonder the Formation Master is the most difficult of the four professions to achieve. Just the starting cost alone is not on the same level as the other three!

This is just a first-level formation, but it uses so much silver and gold. How much more would the protective formations of those foundation-building families and large sects cost?

Zhang Wei no longer dared to think about it.

As the core of the formation was lit up by the spirit stones, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth slowly changed. As the water vapor surged, the originally clear sky gradually became covered with dark clouds.

"Is it going to rain today?"

In the farmland outside Luyang City, several old farmers looked up at the gloomy sky and muttered.

Just as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang and a muffled thunder resounded through the sky, shocking the people's hearts.

Someone exclaimed: "Wow, the rain looks pretty heavy."

"It's good that it's raining. Since the beginning of spring, it has rained only a few times in Luyang County. I'm afraid that God will bring about a severe drought at that time." A man said while carrying farm tools on his shoulders.

"Brothers, let's rest on the side of the road for a while and see if it's going to rain. If it is, go home quickly to avoid getting caught a cold."

Hearing this, several other farmers also put away their farm tools, and those who could afford it put on raincoats first.

One of them walked toward the road and said, "It's still a severe drought. Don't you know that the east is about to be flooded?"

Someone immediately replied, "I know about that. It's about a tsunami. It was predicted by an immortal. Now many people from the East China Sea have begun to flee to our side, causing the price of food here to rise a lot."

"But no matter how flooded they are over there, it's not our turn. Our Luyang is thousands of miles away from the East China Sea! Just live our own lives. It's not our turn as peasants to take care of what's happening over there." An old farmer sneered disdainfully.

At this moment, there was another rumble of thunder in the sky, and then drops of rain fell, dyeing the ground with color almost in the blink of an eye.

Farmers who were still busy working in the fields hurried home in the rain.

"Hiss—the rain is quite heavy..."

On the other side, on a mountain top outside Luyang City, a strange-looking iron tower had been quietly erected at some point.

The style of the iron tower is very strange. It is built with metal pipes, and the middle is hollow. There is only a ladder for people to climb up and down.

Below the tower is a newly built red brick house, which forms a circle and encompasses the entire base of the tower.

Inside the room was a pile of equipment that was out of place in the current era. The most eye-catching thing was the circular iron cage with a diameter of about ten feet placed in the center of the room.

At this time, Zhang Wei was standing in the middle of the iron cage, placing spiritual materials one by one.

Zhang Wei placed a few pieces of spiritual gold, spiritual beads, spiritual wood, and even raw materials from monsters on the cage, filling it up.

Then Zhang Wei walked out of the iron cage again and made the final adjustments on a pile of simple instruments nearby.

Zhang Xiong, the elder brother, and Zhang Ping, the nephew, were watching from the side. They could only watch their younger brother (uncle) busying around with these epoch-making equipment and could not help in any way.

Zhang Xiong felt a little dizzy when he looked at the pile of instruments in front of him. He had no idea what was going on in his brother's head.

But he still asked, "Can we refine the essence of heaven and earth in this way?"

Zhang Wei shook his head and smiled as he adjusted the instrument: "I don't know, but I have to try it. I have a feeling that I may succeed."

Zhang Wei was not shooting in the dark. Based on the information he had read over the years and his communication with Xiao Yunshan and others, Zhang Wei felt that he had a great chance of success.

What is important about the spiritual essence of heaven and earth is the ray of Tao contained in it. There are many sources of this ray of Tao, but the spiritual essence of heaven and earth is all born in various strange places.

The first thing to recommend is the spiritual veins occupied by major forces.

In addition to the birth of spiritual veins, the birth of other spiritual essences of heaven and earth that are scattered outside is often related to the region where they are located and the surrounding environment.

For example, in the sea of ​​fire in the volcano that is difficult for ordinary people to enter, it is possible to find fire essence; in the secret place of the deep sea, it is very likely to breed water essence.

The main reason why the essence of thunder is hard to find is that there is no suitable place, and it is impossible to gather the spiritual energy of corresponding attributes between heaven and earth for a long time and transform it into the rhyme of Tao.

Maybe Zhang Wei could try the battery, charging it every day for a few hundred years to see how it works, but that time is too long, even if Zhang Wei is young, he can't afford it.

Then Zhang Wei remembered that when he was in Linglong Xianfang, the middle-aged monk who introduced him to the Heavenly Thunder Divine Refining Method half-jokingly told Zhang Wei to try being struck by lightning to enter the Tao.

Even the "Heavenly Thunder Divine Refining Method" records several stories of people who were struck by heavenly thunder and luckily survived, and instead developed thunder spiritual roots, and then joined the Yunya Immortal Sect and soared to the sky.

This means that there is also Tao rhyme in the sky thunder! It's just that the power of the sky thunder is extremely violent, even a Jindan cultivator cannot extract that trace of Tao rhyme from the sky thunder.

If most cultivators were struck by lightning, they would most likely die instantly. How could they have the ability to transform heavenly thunder into the spiritual essence of heaven and earth?
Only a few lucky ones can turn this disaster into an opportunity, absorb all the Dao rhyme in the heavenly thunder, and turn it into the foundation for their own immortality.

And now, what Zhang Wei did was to do what ordinary people dare not think of, which was to intercept that ray of Tao rhyme from the magnificent heavenly power!
And his confidence comes from the cage in front of him!

This cage had a famous name in his previous life.

Faraday cage.

Although the Faraday cage is not absolutely safe, for example, it cannot provide protection against the back-stroke overvoltage caused by the increase in ground potential caused by lightning current entering the grounding device, but it should be enough to deal with the current situation... right?

As for the spiritual materials in the Faraday cage, they are the carriers used by Zhang Wei to carry the Dao rhyme of thunder. What he has to do next is to weaken the power of lightning through the magic weapon of the Sage of Magic, and then infuse it into these spiritual materials.

This step depends on luck. If you are lucky, you will succeed in one go. If you are unlucky, Zhang Wei can only experiment slowly.

Rumble...Rumble...

Seeing that the rain outside was getting heavier, the gloomy black clouds turned the whole world into darkness. Only the occasional blue and purple thunder illuminated the sky and earth for a moment.

do the splits----

At this moment, a soul-stirring roar of thunder suddenly sounded outside, followed by a crackling sound. It turned out that an old tree was hit and was directly split in half by the thunder.

However, Zhang Wei knew that the time had come!
"coming!"

Boom————

Another thunder exploded, and under the action of the lightning rod, a bolt of lightning struck directly to the top of the lightning tower. The terrifying electric current was transmitted along the line, covering the entire Faraday cage.

In an instant, Zhang Wei and his son Zhang Xiong only felt a vast expanse of white in front of their eyes. Their vision was deprived by the lightning, which made their eyes hurt.

Even with the protection, the three of them still felt a slight sense of numbness.

As the only one among the three who has the deepest knowledge of the power of thunder and lightning, Zhang Wei's perception at this time is even clearer.

In his perception, he seemed to have entered a completely new world. The concentration of lightning-attributed spiritual power around him exploded in an instant, and a lot of it even poured into his body.

However, it was only a moment. This wave of lightning attribute spiritual power came and went quickly. When Zhang Wei's vision was fully restored, the rich lightning attribute spiritual power completely disappeared. And in the Faraday cage, after the lightning current surged through it, at least half of the various spiritual materials carefully selected by Zhang Wei began to break.

It is conceivable what would happen to Zhang Wei if he really stood inside.

Zhang Wei couldn't help but gasp, thinking: "Sure enough, he is the Thunder of the Immortal Cultivation World. It turns out that he can't just apply the knowledge of his previous life as usual..."

Just when Zhang Wei was disappointed, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a bright purple light out of the corner of his eye. Zhang Wei immediately looked and saw that blue-purple lightning patterns had appeared on the surface of one of the spiritual woods!
However, this lightning pattern has not yet been completely formed and is fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Not enough, I need more..."

Boom————

Boom————

Another bolt of lightning struck, and the familiar feeling came again, even stronger this time, so much so that Zhang Xiong and his son, who were standing behind Zhang Wei, felt a sense of numbness.

"You guys get out quickly!"

After regaining his vision, Zhang Wei immediately shouted at Zhang Xiong and his son who were trembling all over, and then pushed the two men out of the room.

Even though Zhang Xiong and Zhang Ping were worried about their younger brother (second uncle), they had to leave the house at this time so as not to hinder Zhang Wei, and at the same time prayed that Zhang Wei would succeed.

Boom brake——

Boom brake——

It was as if a switch was turned on. After the thunder fell, one lightning after another seemed to have found its target and struck the lightning tower again and again. The dazzling lightning flashed almost without stopping for a moment.

Click click click————

Bounce, bounce, bounce———

Pieces of spiritual materials and spiritual wood could not withstand the power of thunder and shattered, and the spiritual materials on the bodies of the monsters were directly carbonized.

The raging electric current was even destroying everything in the room. Several instruments that Zhang Wei had painstakingly made by hand began to emit black smoke!
When the fifteen thunders surged past, only three of the spiritual materials that Zhang Wei had put into the cage were left, two pieces of spiritual gold and a piece of spiritual wood.

There are several lightning patterns crisscrossing the surface of each piece of spiritual material, like cracks, and they continue to emit enchanting blue-purple light.

However, Zhang Wei felt a strong attraction in it, just like the attraction that people feel when they are hungry and drink water.

Daoyun!

That’s right, this is the rhythm of Tao!
However, these Taoist rhymes are still very shallow and cannot be regarded as the true spiritual essence of heaven and earth.

But this also shows that Zhang Wei’s guess is correct!

There is nothing wrong with his experimental idea!

"continue!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Wei tried again to lure the thunder down, but this time, he felt a sense of sluggishness.

I listened carefully and suddenly found that the rain outside seemed to have subsided...

"The spirit stones have all been used up..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Wei's expression became a little bitter. You know, in order to prepare for the Longmen Tide, he had used many of his spirit stones to exchange for equipment. For this experiment, he had invested all the remaining spirit stones in his hand!

However, judging from the current situation, the production of Lei Lingcui still has a long way to go.

"try again!"

Zhang Wei gritted his teeth, and tried his best to mobilize his spiritual consciousness to communicate with the disappearing power of thunder, thinking of taking one last gamble!
What if it happens?
Boom————

Another bolt of lightning struck down, this time with a much smaller force. However, after the lightning that blocked his vision disappeared, Zhang Wei was surprised to find that the last three spiritual materials had also shattered...

Gan!
Didn't this experiment bring any benefit other than experience?!

Zhang Wei punched the instrument in anger, and the surface of the fine iron instantly sank into a pit. As the instrument was damaged, a residual electricity instantly poured into the cage.

Then, Zhang Wei was surprised to find that the ground scorched by lightning began to waver, just like a stone thrown into calm water, causing ripples.

"Ok?"

Zhang Wei was stunned. He walked to the cage, squatted down, and reached out his hand to touch the ground.

"This is……"

Zhang Wei's eyes suddenly widened, looking at the layer of black sand on the ground in disbelief.

Is this... iron sand?
"Was it the iron underground that was electrified by lightning and carried up?" Zhang Wei murmured, but suddenly he thought of the strangeness of the iron sand after the current surged just now.

"wrong……"

Subconsciously, Zhang Wei grabbed a handful of iron sand. With a crackling sound, as Zhang Wei released electricity, the iron sand in his hand seemed to come alive and danced in his hand.

Zhang Wei's eyes widened, and then the electricity stored in the three dantians was released one by one!
Wow————

After the electric current surged through, the iron sand under Zhang Wei's feet automatically gathered towards Zhang Wei's body, flying around him like elves.

Then, lightning burst out from Zhang Wei's hands, and the Yang Lei Curse Seal was activated. The iron sand around him quickly gathered together, attached to Zhang Wei's wrist and extended outward, following the direction of the Yang Lei release, and transformed into a long sword wrapped in "black flames"!

Then Zhang Wei swung out violently, and the black flame instantly extended several feet long and passed through the wall of the laboratory cleanly and neatly.

then……

Click———

The wall slowly slid down, then crashed to the ground, splashing mud all over the floor, turning Zhang Xiong and the other man waiting outside into mud monkeys!
Zhang Xiong wiped the mud off his face, looked at the neat and smooth cross section, then looked at Zhang Wei who was playing with black iron sand in the room, and asked: "Zi...Zijie, did you succeed?"

"No, but it hasn't failed either. We need to continue the experiment!"

Zhang Wei said, waving his hand, and all the iron sand flew into his mustard bag.

In the past, Zhang Wei was also able to control a series of metal objects such as iron sand through electricity, but that required a lot of electricity, and it was not cost-effective to pretend to be Magneto and play with metals. He could only use magnets magnetized by electricity to modify his battery and improve his endurance.

But this time, after being smelted by the heavenly thunder, Zhang Wei found that he only needed a small amount of electricity to activate this half square meter of iron sand, and then play with it into various shapes.

This can no longer be considered simple iron sand, but should be considered a magic weapon!
From the performance, it can be seen that the iron sand sword formed by these iron sands is not inferior to the second-level magic weapon in sharpness, and it is even more bizarre and changeable, and can be regarded as a strange magic weapon.

And the function is not limited to that. After all, these iron sands are magnetic, and the magnetic force is very strong, but they can be pried open easily.

Electricity can generate magnetism, and magnetism can generate electricity. If used properly, the iron sand can also charge itself in turn!

However, this will inevitably consume the magnetism of the iron sand, causing it to slowly return to ordinary objects.

But this does indeed add a hidden energy source to Zhang Wei's back, greatly increasing his combat endurance.

According to Zhang Wei's estimation, if the magnetic force of this half cube of electromagnetic magic sand was converted into electrical energy, it could at least charge him dozens of times!

“Although I didn’t succeed in creating the Thunder Spirit Essence, I did get a good magic weapon and a refining method, so it’s not a big loss.”

Zhang Wei patted the mustard seed bag and thought, "Let's just call it the electromagnetic magic sand..."

"However, whether you want to obtain more electromagnetic magic sand or refine thunder spirit essence, you need more spirit stones..."

(End of this chapter)