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Chapter 409 Thunderfire Refining Gold Peak

Chen Xin never expected that the lightning-struck peach wood sword, which he had previously thought was out of reach, would now seem so easily within his grasp!

Naturally struck peach wood is indeed rare, but what about artificially made peach wood?
Of course, this "artificial" doesn't mean creating artificial lightning like the Bureau of Investigation does, but rather artificially drawing out lightning from nature!

Using the "Thunderclap" of the door knocker to unleash lightning and strike the peach wood was a much simpler operation than Chen Xin finding suitable peach wood.

With the most demanding requirement of 'natural thunder' removed, everything else is easy to solve.

There are quite a few peach trees growing in the wild, and those over thirty years old may not be many, but it is definitely much easier to find than peach trees struck by lightning.

Once you find the peach wood, bring the door knocker there, build a small house at the location of the peach wood that can activate the door knocker, and then catch a few ghosts and tie them to the corresponding peach wood with reeds.

Isn't this exactly the lightning-struck wood that Chen Xin was hoping for?
He had previously joked that if the Bureau of Investigation used Men Dang's [Thunder] in the future, they would have to bring a construction team with them, but now he has no choice but to do so.

However, even though Chen Xin had the means to create lightning-struck peach wood, he still couldn't obtain it quickly.

A lightning strike alone is not enough; the peach wood must also survive and live for a year!
Even if Chen Xin finds hundreds of peach trees now and successfully splits them, he will have to wait a year to harvest them. During this time, Chen Xin will even have to take good care of the peach trees to prevent insects from bored into them.

In that case, it seems like a lot of effort is involved?

But it's still better than before.

"Even so, we still need to contact the Bureau of Investigation and have them search for readily available lightning-struck peach wood. Maybe we won't have to wait a year."

After making this plan, Chen Xin turned the page back to the page with the door knocker.

Looking at the door knocker again, Chen Xin found it more and more pleasing to the eye.

This is partly due to the peach wood being struck by lightning, and partly due to the exceptional quality of the door knocker.

The final Yama-level ability of the gatekeeper is called [Thunder Elephant]!
The Thunder Elephant is similar to the House Spirit used for warding off evil spirits, but there are also differences.

【House Spirit】is a spirit that can roam freely among any type of house-protecting medicine, while 【Thunder Elephant】is a physical manifestation of thunder. However, unlike the House Spirit, the Thunder Elephant cannot roam freely among all its manifestations; it can only appear within the area of ​​the house protected by the door.

As for what this phenomenon can be used for, it can naturally be used to unleash thunder!
Chen Xin didn't get specific information on how to use it; it seemed he would have to try it out to find out.

Chen Xin reviewed the known Yin-Yang areas from his memory and immediately chose one.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Xin disappeared.

……

In the darkness.

In the Yin-Yang region designated by the Bureau of Investigation as Blood Zone 8, two five-star Yang Xiu specialists from the Bureau's headquarters, Nan Xuan and Li Shiyan, are carrying out a mission.

This team of five-star specialists, capable of going toe-to-toe with Black Abyss-level ghosts, was now walking cautiously on the mountain path.

As for the reason, it's naturally the Black Abyss in Blood Zone 8.

The Black Eighth District is a mountain that is 1,555 meters high!

This mountain also exists in the mortal world; it is a tourist attraction in the Great Xia Dynasty and is called Sanfeng Mountain.

As the name suggests, Sanfeng Mountain has three peaks, each topped with a Taoist temple, namely the Front Peak Temple, the Back Peak Temple, and the Middle Peak Temple.

Zhongfeng Temple is located at the highest point, while the other two temples are roughly the same height.

Although Sanfeng Mountain may not be world-famous, most people within the Great Xia region are familiar with it.

The reason, of course, is the Taoist temple on Sanfeng Mountain.

The front and back peaks are nothing special, just ordinary Taoist temples, but the middle peak is a bit different.

At the highest point of Zhongfeng Temple, there is a small hall that occupies no more than fifty square meters. The roof of this small hall is made entirely of brass, which shimmers with a golden light under the sunlight.

If that's all there is to it, then there's nothing particularly special about it.

The key is that during thunderstorms, the "Golden Summit" of Zhongfeng Temple is tempered by lightning, and sometimes even bursts out with lightning and fire!
This amazing phenomenon made Sanfeng Mountain famous throughout the Xia Dynasty.

Some experts were worried that the "Golden Hall" at Zhongfeng would be damaged by lightning, so they installed a lightning rod.

It would have been better if they hadn't installed it. Not long after, a bolt of lightning struck the Golden Hall, cracking the foundation. The Golden Hall, which had stood for hundreds of years, was almost destroyed by the experts!

Moreover, the spectacular sight of the Thunderfire Refining Gold Peak has also disappeared thanks to the experts' efforts.

Following this, amidst widespread opposition from netizens, the Sanfeng Mountain Scenic Area removed the lightning rod and repaired and reinforced the foundation of the Zhongfeng Hall.

Only in this way could the Thunderfire Alchemy Peak see the light of day again.

That expert, however, never dared to show his face again.

Yet this very place, renowned throughout the Great Xia Dynasty and possessing the attributes of a Taoist temple, thunder and fire, and popularity, has an exact replica in the underworld!

The areas that appear in the underworld are often places where major casualties have occurred in the mortal world. These places are extremely yin in nature and are prone to breeding ghosts and spirits.

All of this goes against the principles of Sanfeng Mountain.

When the Bureau of Investigation first discovered this area, they thought it was a mistake, believing that the mountain corresponding to this Yin-Yang region was not Sanfeng Mountain, but a mountain that looked very similar to Sanfeng Mountain.

But after the Bureau of Investigation explored the mountain, the claim disappeared.

Whether it's the three mountain peaks or the golden hall on Zhongfeng Temple, they all prove that this is the Three Peaks Mountain, the Three Peaks Mountain that is constantly blessed by thunder!

Not only that, it's also an extremely ominous place!
Without their knowledge, the Bureau of Polling lost more than a dozen of its top officers on this mountain.

Afterwards, just when the Bureau of Investigation thought it had figured out the situation, it sent a top-notch five-star specialist to investigate the truth about Sanfeng Mountain.

As a result, he didn't even reach Zhongfeng Temple; the mere presence of a ghost from Qianfeng Temple was enough to severely injure him.

If it weren't for his life-saving methods, that expert would have been buried on this mountain.

This situation led the Bureau of Investigation to abandon its plan to continue exploring Sanfeng Mountain and instead focus on studying other Yin-Yang areas that the Bureau had its own information on.

After all, if Qianfeng Temple alone has a ghostly presence comparable to the Black Abyss, no one would believe that the other two temples don't.

However, the Yin and Yang regions are inaccessible, while the Sanfeng Mountain in the Yang world is accessible for exploration.

During that period, in order to explore the secrets of Sanfeng Mountain, the Bureau of Investigation not only consulted various materials, but also directly closed the Sanfeng Mountain scenic area for nearly half a month!
It was during this period that the secret of why Sanfeng Mountain appeared in the underworld was uncovered.

At the time, the Bureau of Investigation found some records in scattered unofficial histories, saying that none of the hundreds of craftsmen who built the three Taoist temples on Sanfeng Mountain came down from the mountain.

This situation has never been recorded in official history.

Official history only records that the Sanfeng Mountain Taoist Temple was built by a certain emperor in the history of the Great Xia Dynasty as a reward for the Taoist priests who refined elixirs.

As for other historical records, poems, and travelogues, they all praise the magnificence and wonder of Sanfeng Mountain, but never mention the craftsmen.

After learning of this situation, the Bureau of Investigation began to explore Sanfeng Mountain.

Because the Great Xia Dynasty was still in a period of low Yin energy concentration at that time, the Bureau of Investigation did not have as much influence in the Great Xia Dynasty as it does now. In order to conduct the investigation, it took almost a week to apply for half a month of exploration time.

In the past two weeks, the Bureau of Investigation has discovered nearly five hundred skeletons in the foundations beneath the Qianfeng Temple and Houfeng Temple!
There were no remains at Zhongfeng Temple, but the Bureau of Investigation found a complete body in the foundation of Zhongfeng Temple.

After they finished examining the foundations of all the buildings in Zhongfeng Temple using various instruments, everyone fell silent. The foundations of all four buildings in Zhongfeng Temple, including the Golden Hall, had been filled with live piles!

The area under the Golden Hall was the largest, with not only adults but also children!
In that case, how could the Bureau of Investigation not understand why there is a Three Peaks Mountain in the Underworld?
As for the extremely ominous place that can give birth to the Black Abyss in the dark, why is there no ghost or evil spirit in the mortal world?

It's because of the thunder!
The bolts of lightning that struck the Golden Hall of Zhongfeng Temple not only cleared away all the Yin energy in the temple, but also dispelled the Yin energy on the other two peaks by drawing upon the Yang energy.

With the constant presence of tourists, Sanfeng Mountain is naturally unlikely to harbor any evil spirits!

During the subsequent investigation, the Bureau of Investigation originally intended to dig out all the corpses from the foundation of Zhongfeng Temple and refill them to prevent the growth of ghosts and spirits when the yin energy became too strong in the future.

But after they dug out the first body, they stopped digging.

Because the corpse had already turned to charcoal, it was impossible for it to become a ghost!
As for why it turned into charcoal, the Bureau of Polls, after extensive investigation, arrived at a conclusion that left them both amused and bewildered.

The body was turned into charred remains because of the lightning rod incident that the expert had accidentally caused!
The foundation cracking wasn't actually caused by the lightning rod, but rather by the lightning being drawn underground by the rod and coming into direct contact with the corpses teeming with evil spirits, causing a violent reaction.

The foundation cracked, and all the corpses were cleaved away.

The potential ghostly crisis at Zhongfeng Temple was thus resolved.

As for the other two peaks, since they weren't built with live stakes, they were easy to solve; all that was needed was to dig out the skeletons and fill them in.

But this project is quite large, and half a month is simply not enough.

For a considerable period afterward, only two peaks of Sanfeng Mountain were open to the public, ostensibly for renovation, but in reality, they were digging up corpses and reinforcing the foundation.

After the front peak is reinforced, it is opened up, and then the rear peak is closed.

In this way, the potential crisis of Sanfeng Mountain in the mortal world was resolved.

Later, when the Bureau of Investigation was researching Sanfeng Mountain, they wondered whether the "Thunder and Fire Refining Hall" was a coincidence of nature or man-made.

If it's just a coincidence of nature, then so be it.

If it was man-made, it means that hundreds of years ago, someone foresaw the potential crisis and found a solution!

Unfortunately, this matter cannot be verified.

After recalling the situation at the Three Peaks, Nanxuan's mood became even heavier.

The three peaks are suppressed by heavenly lightning from the outside, but not in the Yinming realm!
Last time, we only explored the front peak temple and encountered a ghost comparable to the Black Abyss level. Who knows if there really is a Black Abyss in the golden hall of the middle peak temple that can trigger heavenly punishment, whose strength far surpasses that of the other two peaks.

Or perhaps, there's more than one?
Their target this time is Zhongfeng Temple!

Thinking of this, he unconsciously touched the thing in the pouch at his waist.

The hesitation in his eyes was quickly replaced by determination.

Their purpose in coming here was clearly not to clear out the three peaks, but to test their new Warm Sun weapon.

If they succeed, they still have a chance to survive; if they fail, then they'll have to leave it to fate.

An hour later, Nan Xuan and Li Shiyan arrived at a position fifty meters below Zhongfeng Temple.

Looking at the buildings on the mountaintop, Nan Xuan and Li Shiyan didn't say a word.

Ten minutes later, at the appointed time, Nan Xuan and Li Shiyan each took out a palm-sized red stone ball from their waist pockets.

When shaken, you can see liquid sloshing inside the red sphere.

Nan Xuan and Li Shiyan exchanged a glance and each raised the red stone ball in their hands.

Li Shiyan swung her arm, and the stone ball was thrown towards the mountaintop at an extremely fast speed.

Shortly after Li Shiyan threw her stone ball, Nan Xuan threw his own stone ball as well.

In the blink of an eye, Nanxuan's stone ball caught up with the stone ball that Li Shiyan had thrown.

When the stone balls collided, they were at the top of the mountain, above the Golden Palace.

Snapped!
The two stone spheres shattered upon impact, and the liquid inside turned from bright red to orange-red the instant it came into contact with the dense yin energy outside.

Space seemed to freeze for a moment, and then, where the liquid was, a burst of intense light erupted!
In an instant, a giant 'warm sun' that had expanded to a diameter of ten meters appeared on the golden roof, illuminating it with dazzling brilliance!
The screams and wails of ghosts echoed throughout the entire Sanfeng Mountain!

The Three Peaks Mountain, shrouded in dark mist, was bathed in the warm sunlight, and for a moment it seemed to take on the appearance of the living world!

However, this situation did not last long.

Soon, plumes of black gas surged forth from beneath the golden palace, instantly enveloping the warm sun within them.

At first, the black mist would hiss and melt away when it came into contact with the warm sun, and the sunlight could also penetrate the black mist.

But as the black mist increased, the sunlight emitted by the sun became increasingly faint.

When the warm sun completely transformed into a large black sphere, its light confined within it, Sanfeng Mountain returned to its former appearance.

At that moment, three figures appeared in the golden hall.

Two big and one small.

After glancing at Nuanyang, the three figures lowered their heads and looked at Nanxuan and Li Shiyan with their scarlet eyes.

Without saying a word, the two turned around and plunged down the mountain!

Three!

There are three!
Both Nan Xuan and Li Shiyan felt a sense of despair.

If one of them is alright, then maybe one of them can escape.

Three?
Just as the two were desperately trying to escape, they saw two more dark figures rushing up from the foot of the mountain.

That is... the Black Abyss from the Front Peak Temple and the Back Peak Temple!
Nan Xuan and Li Shiyan sighed inwardly.

Therefore, it seems there's no need to run away anymore.

"We've been evenly matched for so long, how about we have a match this time?"

Li Shiyan suddenly spoke.

Nanxuan paused for a moment, then smiled.

"Alright, let's see who kills faster."

After saying that, the two separated, separating the two figures coming down the mountain.

At this moment, neither of them chose to turn back and attack the three on the mountain.

Therefore, they did not see a figure suddenly appear in front of the Golden Hall.

After the figure appeared, it immediately placed two stone blocks on either side of the main gate of the Golden Hall!
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(End of this chapter)