The road is vague

Chapter 297 Extreme Thunder Body
Woo!
A mournful and melodious bugle call emanated from the Lingmu Gate Dharma Protector Hall.

At the top of the armory, beams of spiritual light shimmered. As the two hatches slowly opened, warships hidden in the underground bunkers rose up one after another. Groups of disciples from the Guardian Hall boarded the warships and headed straight for Bai'an City.

Li Mo stood on the deck of one of the warships, gazing at the distant horizon, his mind filled with unease.

For many years, the Qian and Lu dynasties had been vying for supremacy, but they had never extended their war to each other's territory, nor had they ever massacred civilians to vent their anger. The Bai'an City incident set a very bad precedent.

a few days later.

When more than twenty warships arrived over Bai'an City, Li Mo's anxiety finally died completely.

He stood there, stunned, looking down at the vast city.

The once bustling and prosperous urban buildings are now riddled with potholes and gullies.

The towering city walls are now in ruins. The county government, the Heavenly Mandate Office, the Flying Boat Station, and other areas have been severely damaged, leaving behind a dense network of large and small craters on the ground. Other parts of the city have suffered indiscriminate destruction, with ruins and ditches everywhere. The wide Noon Street is now riddled with ditches.

Countless disaster victims wept in sorrow.

They buried their dead relatives and friends while rescuing the wounded in the city.

The permanent population of Bai'an City is neither large nor small. After years of development, it has barely exceeded 100,000. Now that it has suffered such a great disaster, it is unknown how many innocent people have been lost forever.

The warships slowly descended from the sky.

Some people have already eagerly taken the lead.

Li Mo's eyes were vacant as he landed first on Noon Street, looking towards the former headquarters of the Heavenly Mandate Bureau.

Today, this place has been replaced by a huge crater, which is several meters deep and tens of meters in diameter. The burned soil exudes a bloody smell, and only some ruins remain at the edge, where familiar traces can still be vaguely seen.

"Lu Tianyou, Zhao Xiaonan..."

He couldn't believe that his good friend, with whom he had shared a meal and chatted just a few days ago, had passed away so suddenly, and it was all because of him.

The nearby refugees all looked terrified.

Several inspectors from the Tianming Division, who had come to provide assistance from nearby districts and counties, quickly ran over and looked at Li Mo, who was staring blankly at the old site of the Tianming Division in Bai'an County.

"Uncle Master."

"Uncle Master..."

Li Mo came to his senses, a glimmer of hope in his eyes, trying to conceal his grief as he looked at the patrol envoys who had come from nearby districts and counties.

"What is the extent of the damage in the city?"

Upon hearing this, one of them clasped his hands in a fist salute and couldn't help but wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"Reporting to Martial Uncle, we only arrived in Bai'an City two days ago. According to preliminary statistics, of the 120,000 residents of Bai'an City, more than 20,000 have died or gone missing. The subsequent resettlement work is particularly important. Now that the temperature is rising daily, if this leads to a plague, the number of people affected will be..."

"Waaah! Uncle Li Mo!"

at this time.

The girl's cries made Li Mo tremble slightly. He slowly turned around and looked at the heartbroken girl. The inspector who was reporting on the disaster situation also looked over.

This person is Wang Pan's daughter, Wang Jiawen.

"Why are you all alone? Where are your father, mother, and brother?"

Upon hearing this, Wang Jiawen burst into tears, nearly losing her balance.

"Father, mother, younger brother... they all died that noon..."

Wang Jiawen slowly recounted what happened a few days ago at noon.

It should have been an ordinary day. Father Wang Pan went to work at the county government office, Mother Zhao Xiaonan went to work at the Tianming Bureau, and younger brother went to the academy. Wang Jiawen stayed at home to take care of the household chores.

Suddenly, a series of explosions rang out in the city.

Immediately afterwards, she saw a black bear taller than the city wall rampaging through the city, leaving nothing but desolation in its wake. With a casual strike, it unleashed a wide-ranging ripple of spiritual light. As Wang Jiawen fled in terror, she was knocked unconscious by a gust of air.

When she awoke, the disaster in the city had ended.

However, no matter how hard she searched, she could no longer find her father, mother, and brother, and eventually had to accept the fact that her loved ones had all passed away.

"Ah!! Sky Bear King!!"

Li Mo gritted his teeth and roared in anger.

He was filled with both anger and regret, hating his own weakness, which led to the people he had once desperately protected suffering an undeserved annihilation because of him.

He then looked at Wang Jiawen.

“Wang Pan and I are like brothers. Now that your father is gone, from today onwards, no matter what happens, you can come to me anytime with this token!”

Along with the waist token, a silver note was also sent out.

"Uncle Li Mo, sob sob."

Next three days.

With the all-out rescue efforts of the disciples of the Lingmu Sect's Dharma Protection Hall, the entire ruins of Bai'an City were thoroughly searched. After confirming that no one was trapped, the Dharma Protection Hall disciples carried out unified disinfection of Bai'an City and buried the dead.

Li Mo refined more than a dozen batches of plague-avoiding pills and distributed them to the people in the city.

One unidentified corpse after another was buried in the mass grave to prevent the spread of the plague.

In his grief and pain, he looked up at the sky.

Just like the torrential rain in Hua'an Town that year, it could vaguely see the sky filled with black resentment. But unlike that year, this resentment did not condense. It seemed to be rapidly dissipating due to the powerful intervention of the Spirit Eye Sect.

"If I don't avenge this, I will have failed as the commander of Bai'an County!"

Li Mo muttered to himself. He had a feeling that the distinction between immortals and mortals that had stood in his way had vanished in just a few days.

Looking at the small town where he had worked and lived for ten years, which had become history in just a few days, he seemed to see countless neighbors who had greeted him warmly leaving one by one in this disaster.

For the Great Qian Kingdom, Bai'an City may be just a peripheral outpost, not worth mentioning.

But for Li Mo, it was everything he once had.

Sima Fu came to Li Mo's side.

"The imperial court will not ignore the great calamity that has befallen Bai'an County. The most important thing right now is for you to adjust your mindset immediately and not lose your composure. You must return to your sect with me for a period of quiet cultivation. During this time, you must not go out or attempt to advance to the Golden Core stage, lest you develop inner demons."

"I……"

"This is an order!"

Sima Fu rebuked him with a cold face.

Lu Qi also walked over at this moment, and he looked at Li Mo and sighed.

"The sect leader is doing this for your own good."

"Yes."

After Li Mo nodded in agreement, Lu Qi shouted into the distance.

"Jiang Feiyan".

"The disciple is here!"

Jiang Feiyan ran over quickly, and Lu Qi nodded and said, "From today onwards, you are not to go anywhere. After returning to the mountain gate, stay by your junior brother's side at all times."

"Yes!"

Sima Fu led Lu Qi toward the flying boat that was about to return to their sect.

“Junior brother, I am just as sad as you, but what the sect leader and master said is absolutely right. Especially at times like these, we must remain calm and not lose our composure.”

"Senior sister, I understand."

Li Mo and Jiang Feiyan walked towards another warship.

The subsequent rescue work was carried out simultaneously by the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Works of the imperial court. As for how to retaliate against the bear king, that would depend on the specific arrangements of the imperial court.

After returning to Qingming Mountain.

With Jiang Feiyan by his side, Li Mo seemed to quickly shake off the gloom.

Apart from activating the Thunderous Transformation Technique every two or three days, he would rest and recuperate his body, which was suffering from the backlash after activating the technique, allowing his body to gradually adapt to the pain caused by this thunderous technique.

Previously, although he had been secretly cultivating the Extreme Thunder Body in the "Thunderous Secret Scroll", he would only activate Thunderous Transformation once every seven or eight days, not as frequently as he was now.

The Great Qian Kingdom quickly issued a stern condemnation of the Sky Bear King for the massacre in Bai'an City.

The open condemnation from the Great Qian Kingdom was echoed by many other countries, who all listed this transformed demon king as a wanted target. Even the Lu Kingdom, which was at war with the Qian Kingdom, issued a statement condemning the Sky Bear King's massacre of innocent civilians and listing him as a war criminal.

The series of diplomatic clashes ended as Li Mo cultivated the Extreme Thunder Body.

The Great Qian Kingdom, of course, would not just pay lip service.

this day.

After Li Mo finished using Thunder Transformation as usual, he suddenly felt a wisp of spiritual light emerge within his body. It turned out that at the same time as the Extreme Thunder Body was partially completed, a special reaction occurred with the adaptive evolution of "Li Mo's Inner Path".

Having the body of extreme thunder, all thunder techniques will be twice as effective.

This complements the Thunder Transformation Body that Remer has cultivated through dual cultivation of body and soul. However, another effect of the Extreme Thunder Body is something that the Thunder Transformation Body does not have: the damage from various thunder attacks will be drastically reduced. It can be described as an unparalleled sacred body for comprehending the Dao of Thunder.

At this moment, the "Li Mo Inner Classic" technique and the partially completed Extreme Thunder Body reacted in a special way. Li Mo felt that after taking the Misty Pill and growing a second heart, his dantian had actually grown an auxiliary dantian, forming a pure thunder meson space, which was used to specifically contain thunder crystals.

This way.

Previously, his dantian could only hold three or four lightning crystals at a time, but now his auxiliary dantian can hold at least a dozen at a time, and he doesn't have to worry about the danger of backlash after the lightning crystals are damaged.

"Wonderful."

After several dozen days, Li Mo finally showed a rare smile, but it was only for a moment.

His face was quickly replaced by gloom.

Fortunately at this time.

A talisman descended from the sky; it was none other than the sect leader, Sima Fu.

"Li Mo, come to the Qingming Hall immediately. The imperial court has decided to send the seven elders to resolve this matter."

Li Mo's face changed.

Could he be the legendary number one assassin in the Mountain and Sea Realm?
"Junior brother, my mission is over. You are free!"

Jiang Feiyan had obviously also received the communication talisman, and she shouted to Li Mo with a smile.

Li Mo smiled and nodded, then quickly left Xiaoquan Peak and headed towards Qingming Hall.

As he walked up the solemn steps, he took one step at a time, imagining what this legendary figure in charge of the Seven-Day Reunion Organization would look like.

As he entered the majestic hall, his gaze swept across hundreds of feet and landed on the gaunt old man lounging leisurely on the jade platform. He was immediately stunned.

Could this be the Grand Elder of the First Seven Days Organization, the legendary number one assassin in the Mountain and Sea Realm, known as the King of Assassins?

The remnant of an ancient demon beast that fled from the Eastern Ridge region at the same time as the Rainbow Bird of the Imperial Princess.

(End of this chapter)