Chapter 130 Lightning
Shen Suiren released a strange fire for defense, and at the same time, took out the grain of red sand that it had brought back.

The sand instantly detached from her, whooshing into the sand pile on the stone bed in front of her, where it transformed into an earthen dragon that flew out of the ground.

Shen Suiren quickly unleashed his earth elemental power, grabbed onto the dragon's claw, and successfully flew out of the underground rift, which then closed up.

"Are you alright?" Shen Dingru stopped slashing at the wound when she came up, and everyone looked at her with concern.

"No." Shen Suiren had just briefly recounted what she had seen to everyone when the situation immediately changed.

But the earth dragon flew up the tree covered in lightning and crashed straight into the little dragon king.

The Little Dragon King roared and charged back, but unexpectedly, the real dragon was knocked to the ground by the fake dragon the moment they met.

"Ouch, that hurts." The little dragon king landed and transformed back into human form, ultimately letting his dragon buttocks bear all the brunt of the fall.

Cheng Zhishun casually tossed him a few healing spells: "Why are you going to fight it head-on? It would have been better to just dodge it."

"Hmph, it bumped into me first." The little dragon king was indignant that it had disturbed his absorption of lightning power and wanted to fly up to take revenge.

Fan Liyue quickly picked him up and said, "Junior Uncle, please take a closer look. That earth dragon is going to knock down the thunder tree."

Before she finished speaking, the tree fell, the earth settled, and the thunder stopped. Instantly, a scroll made of animal hide flew out from under the tree. The animal hide looked very much like the lightning element.

"Junior Uncle, don't move, I'll open it." Lei Dun was worried that the Little Dragon King would make another move.

"Uncle-Master, use this to pry it open." Shen Suiren took out a purple-gold bamboo with purple edges and golden light, and asked his father to use his immortal sword to split it into a strip as thick as a thumb.

Such a high rank, and it was cut off just like that!

Pan Zhenren, who had been rescued, and the several Foundation Establishment cultivators behind him who were immobilized, couldn't help but swallow hard. It seemed that the Taiyuan Realm was quite rich in resources.

Lei Dun took the slender strip, carefully stepped forward, and unfurled the scroll. Instantly, lightning poured out, scorching the purple-gold bamboo in his hand.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly, throwing away the long strip and using his lightning spiritual power to strike the lightning with his fist, thus dispersing the ball of electricity.

"That was close! Luckily, Shen Suiren was very careful at the beginning of the year." Luo Ning couldn't help but give Shen Suiren a thumbs up.

Shen Suiren felt guilty listening to this. She had only become shrewd because she had encountered a similar trap in her previous life.

"Ahem, Uncle Luo, look, there are many pictures on the animal skin scroll."

“There’s someone.” The Little Dragon King wanted to fly over to see, but he was still limited to the seventh level and was held tightly by Fan Liyue. “The person has flown out. Nephew Lei, beat him up.”

"No, please! It's Thunderclap Dao Lord, a Dao Lord in the Mahayana stage!" Master Pan interjected, and quickly bowed to the purple-robed Daoist who had emerged from the animal skin scroll.

But the man's eyes were fixed on the distance, as if in the distant past, and he did not make a move against the people present. Only then did everyone bow in greeting.

He sighed softly, "There is a destiny in the dark. I suppose you are the best in the Taiyuan Realm, which is why you are willing to go to such lengths to break through the formations."

"Senior, please enlighten me." Lei Dun sensed that he was merely a fleeting image, so he stepped forward to test him.

As expected, the other party did not react, but sighed again, "You were able to obtain the Crimson Sand by chance, and you even had a lightning cultivator touch my divine sense to leave a mark. You must have destroyed the teleportation tower. You do have some spirit."

"Uh, it seems it's just a photograph, not a split soul."

"He can't see us, and we don't know if he's still alive." The Little Fox King transmitted his voice to Shen Suiren.

"Shh, let him finish." Shen Suiren had already aimed the image-recording jade at the animal hide, which was covered with array diagrams and the landscape of the Taiyuan Realm.

Seeing her actions, her teammates followed suit. What the Great Vehicle Dao Lord said was very important, but the array diagram was even more precious.

Even Shen Dingru, who didn't have a recording jade, took out a blank animal hide and a pen and ink, and lay on the ground to copy the map.

But after only a few strokes, the animal hide couldn't withstand the high-level array diagram and spontaneously combusted. Just as he was feeling regretful, Shen Suiren brought his father a tenth-level animal hide and a high-level bird feather for him to paint.

She took out her own set and quickly sketched from the opposite side of where her father had started.

Fan Liyue was very pleased with their quick wit and also chose a spot to take a picture and record the scene.

Master Pan and the others stared blankly, once again marveling at the efficiency of the cultivators from the Taiyuan Realm.

I envy Shen Suiren's high-level treasures.

Of course, they also paid close attention to what Lord Benlei said: "Since the primordial energy of the world in the Taiyuan Realm has gradually recovered, the number of Nascent Soul cultivators who can withstand fifty-four lightning tribulations has suddenly increased."

They entered the spirit realm and quickly distinguished themselves, advancing rapidly and becoming powerful in combat, even capable of fighting beyond their level, causing concern among many.

At the same time, those secret lands and shattered lands that had moved to the spirit world gradually broke free and returned to the Taiyuan Realm.

Many in the spirit realm were unwilling and joined forces to kill those Nascent Soul cultivators, while also setting up an array to seal the Taiyuan Realm.

Shen Suiren and the others had already heard the Black Dragon King mention it once, so they weren't shocked.

People die for wealth. The ancient Taiyuan Realm was incredibly rich, but one day it was attacked so fiercely that the heavens and earth collapsed, and it was punished by the heavens. Those who wanted a share of the spoils would never be willing to let go.

On the contrary, Master Pan and his companions were quite surprised. They only knew that an evil dragon was sealed here and they had to drive it away.

Then, Thunderclap Daoist continued, "I have mastered the art of array formations, and I have been invited by them several times to set up arrays, but I have refused."

They joined forces with two fellow Daoists to dissuade him, arguing that sealing a realm was against the will of Heaven and that they could help the Taiyuan Realm and share the secret realm.

But those people were bewitched and could not be persuaded. Seeing that they were about to seal off the Taiyuan Realm, I and two fellow Daoists took the initiative to join them.

Furthermore, certain nodes were secretly altered to leave a glimmer of hope for the Taiyuan Realm. This scroll contains the array diagram and the method to break the array.

"Thank you, senior." Lei Dun bowed three times.

Shen Suiren and the others followed closely behind. After a brief exchange of greetings, Daoist Benlei spoke again, "If you want to leave this enclave and return to the Taiyuan Realm, you must use a different kind of fire to annihilate the remnant soul of the Black Dragon King and dissolve his dragon bones."

This dragon knew that the Demon King had set a trap for him, but he still slaughtered several cities with millions of inhabitants in order to win the position of Grand Elder of the Demon Court.

And it successively drove up beast tides, causing countless lives to perish and forming several lands of the dead in the Great Wilderness.

I chose him as the core of the battle, repeatedly severing souls, to punish him for the countless innocent deaths.

"I knew he wasn't a good person." The Little Fox King's intuition was always accurate.

Benlei Daojun withdrew his gaze from the distance: "This is all I can do. Whether you can protect your Taiyuan Realm after the formation is broken depends on yourselves."

As soon as he finished speaking, he and the scroll behind him scattered into points of lightning and light, and the fallen lightning tree exploded with several loud bangs.

The sky was instantly filled with lightning and thunder, and a torrential downpour began in no time.

"Enter the space room. At the beginning of the year, quickly put away the scroll." Fan Liyue rolled them up and led them into her magic room.

Lei Dun also brought in Master Pan and the others, saying, "Fellow Daoist Shen, at the beginning of the year, unfold the map and take a look."

The two pictures were instantly unfolded on the long couch, and everyone crowded around to study and compare them carefully.

The Little Dragon King wanted to fly into the sky to play with lightning to temper his body, but Shen Suiren stopped him: "This lightning can help dispel the yin energy in this place."

"If you want to refine your body, we can borrow the Thunder Pool from the Xuanjian Sect after we return."

"Alright then." The little dragon king understood the advice. He was truly a kind and good dragon king, unlike the black dragon who had killed more than a million people and was abandoned by both the human and demon races.

Shen Dingru noticed his emotional fluctuations, so he picked him up and sat him on the table, showering him with praise, which made the little dragon king giggle non-stop.

Even happier than him were the Qi Refining Grand Perfection cultivators in the city; after the lightning strike, several of them had actually reached Foundation Establishment.

The city lord ran outside the courtyard, jumping and leaping in the thunderstorm, shouting, "Heaven protects you! Heaven protects you!!!"

At that moment, many cultivators, along with him, shouted wildly, and the news spread throughout the city. Tens of thousands of people, young and old, knelt down and prayed to the heavens, "May Heaven protect us."

The sound briefly drowned out the thunder and lightning, reaching the Shaowu Mountain area.

Zhu Kuang Zhenjun and the others quickly chased after the source of the sound, hoping to contact the disciples who had gone inside.

The demon cultivators were most familiar with the geography. "It seems to be near Broken Wind Cliff. There's a sea there, and a fire pool that comes and goes." "Divide into groups horizontally, two hundred miles apart, and advance towards Broken Wind Cliff to investigate." Elder Haoqing immediately assigned tasks, aiming to cross divine senses and leave no blind spots.

Zhu Kuang Zhenjun was in a group with her. "Did you hear the dragon's roar mixed in inside?"

She circulated her spiritual energy around her ears. "No, is it the Little Dragon King?"

"No, Ao Jian's voice was childish, but this voice was deep and filled with suppressed anger."

"Let's still pay attention to our defenses." Zhu Kuang Zhenjun was certain he had heard that.

She didn't know that this was the Black Dragon King's roar after he failed to leap out of his dragon bones amidst the lightning.

"Yes, I'll inform everyone." Elder Haoqing dared not be careless; she believed she could communicate with the demon race.

Suddenly, Chongming spoke up: "I heard it, and I also saw a piece of land after the lightning at sea."

Immediately afterwards, a Nascent Soul cultivator transmitted a message: "There is lightning behind Broken Wind Cliff."

"accelerate."

"Look, there's an island behind the lightning."

"Moving towards Broken Wind Cliff."

Not long after the Nascent Soul cultivators and the eighth and ninth-level demon cultivators sent their messages, everyone arrived at Broken Wind Cliff one after another.

Just a dozen miles from the cliff, several bolts of lightning flashed, revealing a large expanse of land with each strike.

With the eyesight of the Nascent Soul cultivators, they could clearly see a spatial magic house, which remained as stable as a mountain amidst the torrential rain.

Zhu Kuang Zhenjun tried to contact them using the communication jade talisman, but there was no response from the other side.

Chongming immediately recognized the Fawu who resembled her, and she flew close to the edge of the lightning.

He raised his head and let out a long howl: "Screech!"

Her repeated cries drew the attention of the demon cultivators, who joined in with their long howls.

In less than a moment, the little fox king in the dragon's enclave stood up and said, "Chongming."

"Where is it?" Everyone looked away from the array diagram and peered out at the lightning-streaked rain outside.

The little fox king had already rushed out of the house, looked around, and responded with a long howl.

Shen Suiren and her two senior uncles, who were with her, listened carefully, but all they could hear was the Little Fox King's voice, and the sounds of thunder and rain.

To hear clearly, they didn't use their spiritual power to shield themselves from the rain, and in the blink of an eye, they became a row of drowned rats.

Shen Dingru searched through his storage ring for a long time, but found no umbrella.

Cheng Zhishun then used his spiritual power to send out a large magical umbrella, which Shen Suiren caught and opened.

"I heard it, the howls of Chongming and many demons." The Little Dragon King also flew out of the house, letting out a long dragon roar in the rain.

Outside the enclave, Chongming and the other demons roared again upon hearing the response.

The little fox king jumped up with joy: "It's Chongming, she's talking about... Broken Wind Cliff."

Shen Suiren recalled: "Broken Wind Cliff? Ah, the Fire Pool is not far from it."

"Can we tell her what we've encountered so far?" Fan Liyue wasn't sure if a single whistling sound could convey complex information.

"Yes, but it would take about one, two, or three hours to roar from beginning to end." The Little Dragon King calculated with his fingers, then immediately shuddered and touched his throat, realizing that his voice would be hoarse for a long time.

Seeing the little fox king shouting in response again, Shen Suiren, fearing she might damage her vocal cords, kept casting healing spells on her.

He then said to his two senior brothers, "Why don't we go and break through the core of the formation?"

"On Lord Benlei's array diagram, eliminating four of the nine array eyes will destroy the array core; we have now destroyed five."

Just now, a group of Core Formation cultivators, taking advantage of the heavy rain, broke through the Fire-attribute altar in the Li position and found what was said to be a Vermilion Bird skull.

The Little Dragon King strongly supported this, saying, "Destroy him! A dignified Dragon King doesn't protect the demon race, but instead frequently launches beast tides, disrupting the demon race's recuperation. He deserves to die."

"What do you think, Senior Brother?" Fan Liyue asked Lei Dun for his opinion. The yin energy over there was heavy, and he wondered if his senior brother's injuries would not worsen during the battle.

After a moment's thought, Lei Dun transmitted his thoughts to her: "The lightning is incessant; it's a good opportunity."

"We need a few help at the beginning of the year to avoid trouble if our fellow Daoists see the strange fire tomorrow."

Fan Liyue shared the same idea: "In that case, you go into the spatial magic room, and I will fly on the boat."

"Little Fox King, convey a message to King Chongming: We are going to break the formation's core at the Zhen position in the east of the enclave. Please, Nascent Soul cultivators, guide the volcano at the Kan position in the north of the enclave to connect with the fire pool."

On days with thunder, she should try to minimize the use of her flying sword.

"Take a pill to soothe your throat," Shen Suiren said considerately, feeding him the pill.

The little fox king let out a long howl for more than a quarter of an hour, and Chongming successfully received the message and relayed it to the people and demons present.

The Nascent Soul cultivators immediately discussed:
“The volcano is in a critical position, so we need to rotate that land halfway around.”

"Hiss, to set up a human formation amidst lightning and pull it along, at least forty-nine Nascent Soul cultivators are needed."

Even if all the Demon Kings of the Spoon Crows attack, we will still need to find more than twenty fellow cultivators.

"Those who are too far away cannot come. Ask Fellow Daoist Fu Jiang to post a mission in the market."

"To be on the safe side, summon another hundred Core Formation cultivators."

"Very good."

When Chongming flew back, the message had already been sent to Sect Master Fujiang.

He first summoned the Nascent Soul and Core Formation cultivators of his sect, but someone was in a hurry to go. After escorting Lian Qiao to the secret place and imprisoning her, he did not do much inspection and handed her over to the eighth-order spirit beast, the White Feather Crane, for safekeeping.

Just before she stepped out of the stone chamber and was about to seal the door, Lian Qiao respectfully bowed and said, "Elder Bai, there is something I don't understand and would like to ask you for guidance."

Bai Yuhe stopped and turned around, glancing at her sideways and scoffing, "It's rare that you're willing to lower your proud head and call me Elder."

He then strolled up to her and said with a smile, "Let me hear what you wish to ask."

This little girl who once asked me to be her spirit beast mount has finally met her match.

"Among the demon race, is there always a saying that high-ranking bloodlines suppress each other?" Lian Qiao straightened up and looked directly at her.

She chuckled softly and nodded: "Of course, but it has to be at least the seventh rank. The offspring of great demons are born at the seventh or eighth rank."

Even a fifth-tier creature like the Earth Qilin can be suppressed by a seventh or eighth-tier creature.

"Why are you asking me something so simple? What's your purpose?"

"Here." Lian Chi released the demonic restrictions on his body and quietly activated a secret technique, instantly unleashing a high-level pressure upon Bai Yuhe.

Tenth rank?! The latter was immediately shocked and retreated, but the suppression of the great demon's bloodline made her legs go weak and she knelt down with a thud.

“You little eighth-tier crane demon, always craning your neck so high, trying to act like a king in front of me, the Sparrow Lord.” Lian Qiao raised her hand and touched the back of her neck.

Bai Yuhe felt a chill on her neck, as if a spiritual needle had pierced her bone. She only managed to utter "you" before collapsing to the ground, unconscious.

Lianqiao's spiritual energy transformed into a blade that lingered near her neck for a long time. "It's a pity you have the Soul Lamp in the sect, otherwise you would have deserved to die for your constant disrespect towards me, the Sparrow Master!"

As they spoke, he took the token from Bai Yuhe and drew a few drops of her blood essence on his own body to create a talisman.

In no time, she transformed into a white crane, sealed the stone gate, and swaggered away from the Taiyi Sect with him.


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