The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

"here we go."

"Is this what the annihilation of a true spirit looks like?"

Lei Zhan looked at the old man in the Taoist robe in front of him and thought to himself.

Numerous points of light scattered outwards from the North Shore World God, like quicksand, spreading in all directions until they disappeared completely.

“Young friend Lei Zhan, please… tell the guide of Tiancang Palace that the one who killed the World God of Beixiu was the Three Divine Beasts, Wujiao…” the World God of Beixiu said with difficulty.

"Whoosh!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man in the Taoist robe who was sitting cross-legged in the chaotic void had his aura completely extinguished, like the last embers of a candle.

"I will." Lei Zhan looked at the lifeless World God of Beixiu before him with a complex expression.

call.

With a wave of his hand, Lei Zhan completely collected the corpse in front of him.

……

The chaos was endless, and the surrounding area was filled with an endless gray mist.

These hazy mists contain a vast amount of energy. If one can comprehend the 'Chaotic Heavenly Dao,' one can draw 'Chaotic Power' from these chaotic mists.

However, Lei Zhan is temporarily unable to draw upon the power of chaos from the chaos, and cannot obtain external forces to replenish it. He can only consume his own magic power or elixirs to replenish it.

"Fortunately, I brought a large number of Great Luo Immortal Pills with me before I came out, enough for me to travel in the chaos for thousands of years. So I don't have to worry about being trapped in the endless chaos and dying because my magic power and divine power are exhausted."

Lei Zhan maneuvered the wooden boat through the endless chaos, sensing the rate at which his own magical power was being depleted, and shook his head helplessly.

Lei Zhan's understanding of the Heavenly Dao of Water and the Heavenly Dao of Fire in the Three Realms is quite profound, and he even has some understanding of the higher-level Heavenly Dao of Chaos. However, his slight understanding of the Heavenly Dao of Chaos is not yet enough for Lei Zhan to absorb the power of chaos.

"When the God of the Northern Rest World opened up the Moonlit Pool in ancient times, he also left Nine Flames Essence in the Moonlit Pool."

"According to him, the only place where the Nine Flames Essence exists is a strange land called the Earth Fire Domain, which is further away from the Sea of ​​Lightning in the direction of Moonlit Pool. Moreover, with my strength, I can obtain some Nine Flames Essence from the outer perimeter of that Earth Fire Domain..."

Lei Zhan pondered to himself that before the true spirit of the Northern World God completely dissipated, he had also talked a lot with Lei Zhan.

Just like what an old man in his twilight years would do, he recounted his past glories and the thrilling adventures he had once embarked on.

Lei Zhan casually asked a question and obtained a place called 'Earthfire Domain' from the mouth of the Northern World God.

"When the World God Beixiu first came to the Three Realms, he discovered a Fire Domain that had given birth to the Nine Flames Essence. He casually collected some of it, amounting to tens of millions of catties. He should have left quite a bit of it in the outer area as well."

Lei Zhan felt a sense of anticipation. With a clear direction, he no longer needed to wander aimlessly like a headless fly.

"Throughout the Three Realms, there are two known seas of lightning, but the one near Moonlit Pool is one that even the most powerful beings in the Three Realms have never discovered while roaming the Chaos..."

Lei Zhan recalled the information about that sea of ​​lightning flowing through his mind. Only by finding that sea of ​​lightning and using it as a reference could the Earth Fire Domain be easily found.

"I'm not far from Moonlit Pool, it should only take about a day to get there. Before long, after passing the Sea of ​​Lightning, the Earth Fire Domain will be in sight."

Lei Zhan pondered for a moment, and the whole process would probably take him about ten days to fly through the chaos while piloting his magical artifact.

Whoosh!

With a thought, the wooden boat, surrounded by the power of spacetime and time, with a 'whoosh', plunged into the gray chaos.

……

With each journey, using the stars in the chaos as a reference, even Lei Zhan himself didn't know how far he had traveled.

at last.

Five days later.

"Hmm? This sea of ​​lightning..."

Lei Zhan stood in the chaos, gazing at the distant sea of ​​thunder, a hint of surprise in his eyes.

"This fluctuation... it seems the Sea of ​​Lightning is nurturing some kind of treasure?"

Visible to the naked eye, the sea of ​​lightning, formed by the convergence of countless bolts of white lightning, stretched as far as the eye could see.

In this white ocean, black electric snakes resembling large serpents roamed freely, and several black snakes with nine horns could be vaguely seen, extremely active and swimming happily.

"Nine-horned lightning serpent?" Lei Zhan stared at the fleeting nine-horned black serpent in the distance, his gaze sharpening. "This sea of ​​lightning actually shows signs of nine-horned lightning serpent activity on its outer perimeter... Could it be that the Myriad Thunder God Crystal was born in this sea of ​​lightning?"

A sea of ​​lightning typically arises from the convergence of vast amounts of lightning. It is most likely to nurture treasures of the lightning attribute, with the most precious of these being the Myriad Thunder God Crystal.

The seas of lightning that can usually nurture the Myriad Thunder God Crystals all have the same characteristics: they are vast enough and have a large number of lightning snakes and nine-horned lightning snakes!
When the sea of ​​lightning becomes vast enough, it will form lightning serpents. However, these lightning serpents are generally devoid of sentience; they are essentially just bolts of lightning. Relatively speaking, lightning serpents are terrifying bolts of lightning with immense destructive power and annihilation.

Even powerful beings at the level of True Gods and Dao Ancestors wouldn't dare say they could easily withstand the lightning serpent. If a comparison were truly necessary, Lei Zhan, with the vast amount of information passed down from the Northern Xiu World God in his mind, understood this perfectly.

This lightning serpent is more like ancestral fire and ancestral water, belonging to the 'ancestral lightning' level, but it has no spirituality whatsoever and is extremely difficult to control.

The nine-horned electric serpent is a product of the lightning serpent gaining sentience; in reality, it is still a lightning serpent.

When there are enough nine-horned electric snakes, they may condense into 'Ten Thousand Thunder God Crystals', which the nine-horned electric snakes love to surround.

"If this sea of ​​lightning can nurture a Myriad Thunder God Crystal, even just one would be a fortune for me! These are extremely rare treasures in the endless chaos!"

Lei Zhan gazed at the vast sea of ​​lightning before him, his eyes filled with excitement. The Myriad Thunder God Crystals were incredibly precious; he could sell them when he ventured into the Great Mo Domain, exchanging them for a considerable amount of Chaos Spirit Liquid.

"Looking at the extent of this sea of ​​lightning, even the outer perimeter is teeming with nine-horned electric snakes. And that fluctuation is most likely the nurturing of the Myriad Thunder God Crystal."

Lei Zhan secretly guessed, "If the Myriad Thunder God Crystal really exists, now that I've come across such a treasure, there's no reason for me to miss it. Besides, if I don't get my hands on it, and the Three Pure Ones or Suirenshi come across it, they'll probably do anything to get it."

The Myriad Thunder God Crystals are usually located in the core of the Sea of ​​Thunder, where a large number of nine-horned electric snakes reside.

Lei Zhan cultivated the "Golden Statue" divine power. Although at the True God level, he could only cultivate his divine body to a level comparable to a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, it was enough to withstand the nine-horned lightning serpent. "It's a pity that it's not my true self that came here. If my true self had come here and encountered the nine-horned lightning serpent, I could have directly mastered the 'Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Escape Technique' by expending some Chaos Spiritual Liquid." Lei Zhan smiled, shook his head, and flew directly towards the sea of ​​lightning.

As for using the Myriad Thunder God Crystal to cultivate the Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Escape Technique, Lei Zhan had never considered it. Now that he knew the true value of the Myriad Thunder God Crystal, he was no longer so extravagant.

"call."

Lei Zhan took a step forward and arrived at the edge of the Sea of ​​Lightning. Looking at the endless white lightning bolts before him, a loud 'boom' echoed as he plunged into the endless lightning.

"Hua Hua Hua~~"

Surrounded by countless lightning bolts, a faint golden light appeared on the entire divine body of the demon, as the white lightning bolts struck him again and again.

Almost instantly, hundreds or even thousands of lightning bolts struck his body. These lightning bolts were comparable to the eight or nine lightning tribulations that Lei Zhan had experienced when he underwent his heavenly tribulation, yet none of them posed the slightest threat to his divine body, which had cultivated the divine power "Golden Image".

"The outermost white lightning is something that a divine body comparable to a high-grade pure yang magic weapon can withstand directly. I wonder how powerful the lightning serpent is."

Lei Zhan was bathed in lightning, his whole body like a golden rainbow, soaring through the massive amount of lightning.

On the outskirts of this sea of ​​lightning, one can see many lightning snakes and a few nine-horned lightning snakes wandering around. The deeper one goes into the core, the more densely packed the lightning snakes and nine-horned lightning snakes become.

Just like the Supreme Star Sun that Lei Zhan entered the Three Realms, its outer perimeter was almost entirely shrouded in endless solar true fire. And the deeper one went, the more terrifying the solar golden flames and solar golden rainbows became.

The outer gray lightning zone.

The black lightning zone in the middle.

At its core is a golden lightning zone that shimmers with golden light.

The trails continued to fly towards the core area...

This sea of ​​lightning was so vast that even when Lei Zhan used his supernatural power, "Golden Rainbow of the Sun," it took him nearly a day to traverse through it before finally reaching its core.

"Hmm? So many nine-horned electric snakes?" Lei Zhan glanced around and saw tens of thousands of nine-horned electric snakes densely gathered tens of millions of miles away. These nine-horned electric snakes varied in size, and Lei Zhan vaguely sensed a sense of threat.

"These nine-horned electric snakes don't pose a strong threat to me, and I think they shouldn't be too difficult to deal with, but the sheer number of them... and this phenomenon isn't an isolated case!"

The core of the entire Sea of ​​Lightning is extremely large, spanning at least hundreds of millions of miles, and just what Lei Zhan saw there were more than a dozen places where a large number of nine-horned electric snakes were gathered.

"Let's get closer and see if there's a Myriad Thunder God Crystal at the core where these nine-horned lightning snakes converge." Lei Zhan's heart stirred, and he used the Golden Rainbow Escape Technique to approach.

There were tens of thousands of nine-horned electric snakes, an overwhelming number. Even with Lei Zhan's keen eyesight, he could only make them clear when they were within 1.5 million miles of him.

One after another, nine-horned electric snakes, resembling real giant serpents, gathered and formed a circle around the center. In the center of their space, a black rhomboid crystal with lightning slowly flowing on its surface could be faintly seen.

At this moment, tens of thousands of nine-horned electric snakes were swimming and absorbing the power emitted by the Ten Thousand Thunder God Crystal. At the same time, wisps of black lightning power drifted from the nine-horned electric snakes and finally merged into the black rhombus-shaped crystal.

“This is…” Lei Zhan gazed into the distance, his bright eyes reflecting the golden light of the core area, “It really is a Myriad Thunder God Crystal! I’m so lucky to have actually encountered one!”

"and……"

Lei Zhan's gaze swept across the distant core where the nine-horned electric snakes converged once more, and a smile appeared on his face.

"If every gathering place where nine-horned lightning serpents converge contains a Myriad Thunder God Crystal like the one before us..."

Before encountering the World God Bei Xiu, Lei Zhan understood that one Thunder God Crystal was equivalent to six bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid, and it seemed to have no other use except for cultivating the Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Escape Technique.

However, while Lei Zhan received various methods and secret techniques from the Northern Xiu World God, he also obtained a lot of common knowledge about venturing into the endless chaos, which naturally included records of some treasures.

After all, the faster Lei Zhan grows and the stronger he becomes, the easier it will be for him to find information about the Heavenly Palace. Therefore, the Northern Xiu World Gods shared all the information that was relevant to Lei Zhan without reservation.

"Besides cultivating the Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Escape Technique, the Ten Thousand Thunder God Crystal can also be used as an important material for refining top-grade Dao Divine Weapons with lightning attributes."

Lei Zhan thought to himself, "If I gather all the materials and ask a master craftsman to work hard to forge them, one Myriad Thunder God Crystal can be used to create a Dao Divine Weapon or a top-grade Dao Divine Weapon. It can even be used as material to forge an even more precious Eternal Divine Weapon. Even if it is not forged, one crystal can be worth a whole area of ​​Chaos Spirit Liquid."

Thunder God Crystals are easy to sell in the endless chaos.

Many cultivators who follow the path of lightning use this Myriad Thunder God Crystal when crafting magical artifacts or cultivating.

It is only because the Three Realms, a chaotic and relatively closed world, are unaware of the value of this treasure.

It should be known that cultivators of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom usually use Chaos Spirit Liquid or Thousand Rotten Divine Fruits born within the Chaos World to practice the "Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Escape Technique".

There is absolutely no one who actually uses such a precious treasure as the Ten Thousand Thunder God Crystal to cultivate the Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Escape Technique.

"This sea of ​​lightning has actually nurtured so many Thunder God Crystals. My luck isn't bad at all." Lei Zhan frowned slightly.

"The only troublesome thing is these nine-horned electric snakes surrounding the Thunder God Crystal."

Even one or two, or even ten or a hundred, nine-horned electric snakes, Lei Zhan could withstand them all thanks to his divine body, which was comparable to a top-grade innate spiritual treasure.

But there were simply too many of these nine-horned electric serpents before them, tens of thousands of them. Even if an ancestral god or immortal were here, as long as their divine body hadn't reached the level of a top-grade chaotic treasure, they would still feel their scalp tingling.

"We need to think of a way," Lei Zhan said, frowning. "If we use brute force to fight them, we might get one Ten Thousand Thunder God Crystal, but if we make these Nine-Horned Lightning Serpents wary, it will be difficult to get the remaining dozen or so Ten Thousand Thunder God Crystals."

These nine-horned electric snakes are not snakes of lightning; each one possesses considerable spirituality.

However, knowing the value of the Thunder God Crystal, Lei Zhan was not about to back down.

You should know that any powerful being would take action in the face of this scene, because it would be foolish not to take such a treasure as the Thunder God Crystal!

After all, even a single dose of Chaos Elixir is quite substantial. The World Prison that Lei Zhan obtained, after spending an entire Chaos Era extracting Chaos Elixir, could only yield six bottles.

One cubic meter of Chaos Spirit Liquid is equivalent to a thousand bottles. Keep in mind that a typical top-grade Chaos Treasure can be easily purchased with about ten bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid. One cubic meter of Chaos Spirit Liquid, however, can be exchanged for at least a hundred top-grade Chaos Treasures.

Lei Zhan stood in the sea of ​​lightning, concealing his aura and watching carefully.

"Let's take a look first. More than ten Thunder God Crystals are equivalent to more than ten cubic meters of Chaos Spirit Liquid. Even a World Realm expert would be extremely envious."

...(End of chapter)