Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 178 Super Level, Breakthrough Begins

"In short, as long as you refine this talisman, the Phantom Thunder Spirit may not necessarily obey your orders, but it can at least guarantee your safety."

In the end, the old man gave Li Yu a reassurance, telling him not to worry about the guardian forgetting his roots and that his life was safe.

"Moreover, I have sealed a powerful energy in this space. The energy is enough to ensure that you can break through the super level and stabilize your cultivation. At that time, with your strength, you don't need to worry about safety issues."

"But these are just minor issues."

In the old man's opinion, it is a foregone conclusion that the victim will become a super-level person. Even if he does not come here, there will be other opportunities sooner or later. He will be able to break through on his own after two years of hard work. An opportunity to become a super-level person is not precious.

"Next, I will explain to you the issue of your identity being leaked."

The old man's subsequent words made Li Yu understand the cause of the problem.
"In short, in one sentence, before I passed away, I developed a special magic tool based on my own physical condition. It can determine the identity of the lightning disaster victims based on the input magic energy."

Li Yu remembered the thunder magic energy that the other party asked him to input when he signed up for the Thunder Festival, and fell silent.

No wonder...

No wonder Leicheng has maintained the tradition of Thunder Festival for more than a thousand years. He thought it was just a traditional festival and the gift of money was fake. In fact, the original intention of holding the so-called Thunder Festival was to select victims of thunder disasters from all over the country.

Perhaps even ordinary people in Leicheng are not aware of this.

Combined with the fact that the Ancestral Monument area was announced to be open for no reason in Leicheng, and the deputy commander of the Thunder Punishment Corps whom he "coincidentally" met...

Li Yu knew that the possibility of his identity being exposed was at least 80%.

"Then I wonder what the senior needs me to do?"

Li Yu asked.

During this trip, the old man raised his spiritual power realm by two realms, taught precious methods of spiritual power training, provided an opportunity for super-level breakthrough, and gave a life-saving talisman that was enough for the totem to take action. Any single item could be sold at a sky-high price in the outside world, let alone the four-in-one.

Li Yu felt that he would be too embarrassed to do so if he didn't even think about returning such a generous gift.

"Do something?"

The old man seemed to have never thought about asking Li Yu to give him something in return. He was stunned for a while after hearing this, and then said:

"I am an old man who has been dead for who knows how many years. I have no right to force the original inheritor to forcibly select you as the Great Guardian, and I cannot influence your will."

"If there is any hope..."

"As long as Leicheng does not actively show hostility towards you, I hope you can help them when you are able to do so."

"It's that simple?"

"That's all." The old man smiled silently. It was just a bonus.

"Of course, I have another request."

If he were to take a more unconventional approach, Li Yu might say, "If the request is not welcome, then don't ask."

But in this situation, I still have to be honest:
"Senior, please speak."

"When you advance to the forbidden spell of thunder, if one day you die of old age, I hope you can sit and rest in Thunder City."

"Why?" Li Yu asked puzzled.

After all, he is a Chinese, and Li Yu still has some homesickness. If given the chance, he would prefer to be buried in his hometown of Bocheng.

“For the city, of course.”

The old man's honesty was beyond Li Yu's imagination, and he revealed all of Lei Cheng's secrets.

"The special environment of Thunder City is not only due to the frequent thunderstorms caused by the climate, but also mainly because of a lightning-attracting formation covering the entire city, which can draw a large amount of lightning elements within a thousand miles and gather them within the scope of Thunder City."

"The foundation of the Lightning Attracting Array is the corpses of the Forbidden Spell-level Lightning victims and the Lightning Universe. This is not eternal, but will decay periodically and needs to be replenished in time. Otherwise, Thunder City will not be able to have the current appearance."

"Do you understand now?"

Li Yu's mouth twitched.

"Senior, can I ask how long this decay cycle is?"

"About two thousand years, after which the concentration of lightning elements in Thunder City will drop by more than half."

More than half?
If Li Yu remembered correctly, even if the element concentration in Leicheng was reduced by more than half, it was still much higher than other areas.

What's more, a great formation actually has a shelf life of 2,000 years... "May I ask what the level of this great formation is?"

"Of course it's Wu Hou level."

The old man said as a matter of course:
"Otherwise, even if the victims were blessed with natural advantages, it would be impossible for them to maintain the formation for such a long time."

"This formation was created by the senior?"

Hearing this, the old man smiled and shook his head as if he had heard something funny:

"You still think too highly of me."

"The art of formation is so profound that many formation masters have spent their entire lives trying to understand its mysteries. Although I have made some achievements in this area, how can I be compared with a martial arts master of the Marquis level?"

"I asked a master I met by chance to design and build this formation, and it was completed by my last move."

MD, it is worthy of being the Great Tang. Not only does it have the forbidden spell for those who suffer from disasters, it even gave birth to a Wu Hou-level formation master.

Both of them have even become extinct in modern times.

Not only that, Li Yu still remembers the Black Armor Military Fish Talisman. It is hard to say about the other aspects of the forger, but he is definitely a master of space.

As expected, geniuses always appear in groups?
Suddenly, Li Yu wanted to see the glorious splendor of the former Tang Dynasty.

Coming back to his senses from his imagination, Li Yu got back to the point.

"I will seriously consider what you said, senior."

"Thank you, little friend."

The old man's expression was neither happy nor disappointed at Li Yu's answer, as if this matter was just a casual remark to him.

"Next, are you planning to break through to the super level?"

"Or do you have any other questions that I need to answer?"

Speaking of this, Li Yu did have some doubts in his mind.
"Senior, what kind of existence are you now? Alive or dead?"

Faced with this somewhat sharp question, the old man was very calm and even had the leisure to drink a sip of tea.
"Of course he is dead. Maybe there is a skeleton left at the base of the formation."

"What you see of me is just a soul that survives with the help of this stone tablet. You can even say I am half a demon. I am barely surviving in this world, and I don't know when I will disappear."

"Senior, don't you want to see this afterlife with your own eyes?"

"What's there to see?" The old man said calmly and seriously.

"The dead cannot be resurrected, and the dead should not covet the world of the living."

Li Yu was impressed by the old man's attitude. How many emperors and generals attempted to come back to life. Monarchs like the First Emperor built the imperial mausoleum at all costs, which eventually exhausted the national strength. The prosperous dynasty collapsed after more than ten years, and the undead empire he built caused huge troubles to future generations.

If our ancestors had been half as open-minded as this person, later generations would have saved a lot of effort.

The old man seemed to have lost interest in chatting. He pointed to the small house and said:

"Okay, it's almost time, let's go inside and break through."

"Thank you, senior."

Li Yu thanked him without hesitation. The moment he pushed the door, the surrounding scene changed rapidly, turning into a vast starry sky with dotted stars, shining brightly. Where the stars intersected was a stone platform with a futon placed on it.

Li Yu sat on the cushion and entered a state of meditation. The thunder galaxies in his spiritual sea rolled endlessly, as if conveying his joy. The same was true for the wind galaxies and space nebulae.

Feeling the abundant energy in this area, Li Yu felt more at ease.

Calm down, feel it seriously, release the lightning galaxy, and greedily absorb the energy of the surrounding space.

Outside, at the ancestral monument.

The guardians looked at Li Yu in shock as he kept his palm in contact with the base, a vortex of energy like a storm gathering above his head.

"This...this is..."

At this moment, the great guardian Tian Yi arrived in time.
"I will take over here personally. You will each perform your duties and maintain order in the Thunder Forbidden Area. You are not allowed to approach the ancestral monument."

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)