Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 276 War
“A red physical source crystal, a red spiritual source crystal, and…”

Ji Fuyou held the three crystals in his hand.

"Another top-tier heritage crystal."

However, this inheritance crystal is not a deflecting force field, but a sword aura of a more arcane nature.

"Thunder Sword Qi".

It is the power of lightning wielded by the Fiery Lord.

Thunder Sword Qi is not very lethal, but like the lightning power of the Fertile Cult Master, it has an extremely important characteristic—paralysis!
Depending on the user's skill level, hitting the target will cause varying degrees of paralysis.

With this ability, this skill can be described as a divine skill.

However, it has some serious drawbacks.

Before unleashing the Thunder Sword Qi, one needs a breath's time to activate the thunder power within the body.

"Thunder Sword Qi requires the activation of the lightning power within the body beforehand, and Blazing Sun Sword Technique also requires visualization of the blazing sun... These two sword techniques... cannot coexist at the same time."

Ji Fuyou frowned slightly.

Do not!
Not only can they not coexist, but the Thunder Sword Qi also has a strong exclusivity.

Even the innate armor-piercing sword energy and the crescent moon blade energy cannot coexist.

Furthermore, since the nurturing and activation of the power of thunder requires the support of a special force similar to bioelectricity within the entire physical body, even maintaining his Overlord True Body and Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique will affect the nurturing of the "thunder" in the Thunder Sword Qi, and may even cause the Thunder Sword Qi to fail to be executed.

These drawbacks...

"It's normal."

Ji Fuyou frowned for a moment, then relaxed.

If Thunder Sword Qi could truly be used freely and combined with other sword techniques and secret arts, wouldn't it be invincible?

How powerful is the paralyzing force of lightning...?

Who is who knows.

"This can only be a supplementary secret technique. When ambushing a target, you can directly unleash a thunderous sword aura to paralyze the opponent. Whether they live or die is entirely under your control."

Ji Fuyou carefully put away the crystal and then sensed his own void authority.

result……

no change?
"This fertile leader has not grasped the authority of the void?"

But this is normal.

The authority of the void should belong to the power of "gods".

After being captured alive, this fertile leader should have lost divine favor and naturally could not possess the power of the void.

Moreover, if he truly possessed the power of the void, he wouldn't be trapped in this palace laboratory.

Although somewhat disappointed, Ji Fuyou quickly adjusted his mindset and turned his attention to the curved corner of the Fengwo Sect Master's face.

This fertile leader...

Unlike the strengthening of the Fertile Church.

Ji Fuyou cut off the fertile curved horn, carefully sensed it for a moment, and indeed sensed its divine power, similar to a celestial horn.

"very good."

Ji Fuyou nodded slightly.

Now they can have their own "private chat" space.

Although Ji Fuyou could communicate with Fang Qiyun and the others in the Heavenly Horn, there were too many people and too many eyes, making it inconvenient to discuss many things there.

In addition, the Heavenly Horn contained as many as 200 mental fluctuations, and there were quite a few people communicating with it at all times.

When several people are exchanging mental waves at the same time, their mental waves will be interfered with. If they are not careful, their mental waves will be "cancelled" by the mental waves of others, thus missing the reception of information.

He planned to let Fang Qiyun and a few others in at this clarion call, and at most, Ji Qingqing and the others as well.

Control the number of people to avoid chaotic communication caused by too many people.

Ji Fuyou checked the fertile leader again to make sure no materials were missing before straightening up.

"Although we didn't find the evil black serpent, this time... we can still say we've returned with a full load."

It's time to go back.

It's been almost three days since he entered the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes and arrived here.

He also planned to visit that "old man," but he wouldn't use the teleportation authority to go directly to the entrance of the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes; it would take him a day to get out.

In this way, he essentially spent a full four days in the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes.

It's time to go back and take care of some trivial matters.

With this thought in mind, Ji Fuyou decided not to delve any deeper.

With one hand resting on the divine beast horned deer, he directly sensed the authority of the void.

As the mist emerged, his figure quickly disappeared into the center of the mist.

When the fog dissipated again, he found himself inside a cave that resembled the Yellow Dragon Cave.

That is, the area outside the old man's house.

The old man immediately sensed his presence the moment he appeared.

Upon seeing him, the old man seemed to have no recollection of what had just happened, and continued to shout excitedly, "You're here! You've finally come! Thank goodness... We're saved..."

Ji Fuyou carefully observed the old man without speaking.

"You must save them, save them..."

The old man was still excitedly talking to himself.

After speaking for a while, he fearfully hid behind him, saying, "No, no, I'm a coward. I have no face, and I have no right to see you again..."

"Has she really gone mad?" Ji Fuyou thought to himself.

He had already guessed it while he was in the palace laboratory—this old man…

He must have gone mad from the torment of guilt, regret, and many other emotions.

Now it seems……

Sure enough.

Of course, it's also possible that the old man's acting skills were so superb that he couldn't see any flaws no matter how he observed.

However, he felt that this possibility was unlikely.

Thinking of this, he took out a bottle containing blue blood from his person: "Do you recognize what this is?"

The old man, who was initially filled with fear, pain, and regret, suddenly froze in place when he saw the blue liquid in the bottle in Ji Fuyou's hand.

"God... divine water?"

The next moment, fear rapidly expanded within him, instantly overwhelming the pain and regret. He staggered backward, crying out, "Divine water! It's divine water! Take it away, quickly take it away..."

"Divine water?"

Ji Fuyou's heart skipped a beat, and he stepped forward with the bottle of blue liquid: "Tell me, what is this stuff used for?"

"Use it? Don't use it! Never use it! It's death! It's taboo! Never use it!"

The old man waved his hands frantically and hid in a corner.

Immediately afterward, his mental state was once again filled with regret and pain: "We didn't want to create such a thing, we... we only wanted to refine an evolution potion, an evolution potion that would help future generations more easily condense their life force field and mental force field, so as to cultivate more powerful individuals to fight against the Demon King's invasion... We didn't want to, we really didn't want to create such a thing..."

"Condensing a spiritual energy field and a life energy field!?"

The old man's outrageous information made Ji Fuyou's pupils shrink.

The civilization they live in has actually reached such a level that they are attempting to artificially create drugs that can allow people to easily break through the bottlenecks of Martial Saint and Spiritual Saint!?
However, judging from his account, they clearly failed.

"No! It wasn't a complete failure!"

Ji Fuyou then thought about the origin of his bottle of divine water.

Antlered deer!

It was just a horned deer!
The result was that it mutated to the point of developing a life force field!
Although the elk appeared to have lost its mind, becoming ferocious, savage, and extremely aggressive, but...

It is true that a life force field can be formed.

Therefore, this miraculous water is at least half successful.

"Can you remove the violent and chaotic elements from the divine water?"

Ji Fuyou pressed on with his questions.

But soon he realized he had asked a useless question.

If these people could have done that, they wouldn't have ended up with the lab going out of control and almost being wiped out.

Sure enough, the old man just cowered in a corner in fear, repeatedly shouting, "Take it away, take it away! No, destroy it! Destroy it forever!"

Seeing this, Ji Fuyou stopped pressing the issue and instead took out the severed antler: "Do you recognize this? Is there anything we can do with it? For example, could we forge it into a weapon?"

The old man, who was filled with fear just a moment ago, suddenly stopped when he saw the deer antler.

His eyes were fixed on the antlers, and he refused to look away for a long time.

Gradually, his body began to tremble slightly, and his mental state surprisingly regained some rationality: "Where...where did you get these antlers?"

"I killed a mutated antlered deer; it was cut off during the battle."

Ji Fuyou Road.

Upon hearing this, the old man seemed to realize something, and the pain and regret on his face became even more obvious, with turbid tears welling up in his eyes.

"Good! Good! Good! Well done! Well done!"

His response was both painful and agitated.

The confusion in his mental fluctuations was becoming increasingly rare.

He looked at Ji Fuyou, and the logic in his mental communication suddenly became clear: "Is another Heavenly Ranking War about to begin? Are you a civilization that has been newly drawn into the Heavenly Ranking War?"

"The Heavenly Ranking War?"

Ji Fuyou was taken aback, then quickly realized what was going on.

This old man...

We can communicate now!?

"What is the Heavenly Ranking War!?"

Ji Fuyou asked impatiently.

"No one knows what the Heavenly Ranking War is. All they know is that the Heavenly Ranking is a vast and magnificent miracle creation. Every so often, it will send off some of its offspring into various civilizations and modify them. Once the modification reaches a certain point, it will pull them into the Heavenly Ranking War..."

As the old man spoke, he seemed to recall something, and a look of pain flashed in his eyes: "Victory means the continuation of civilization; defeat means its demise, turning it into a series of mists and ruins, awaiting those who come after..."

After saying that, he suddenly looked around.

The first thing you see is a cave.

Although the cave has a small room, countless years have passed since then.

It seems that he survived like a fish that slipped through the net because he was in this dazed and confused state, like a beast without mind.
And he survived for who knows how many years?
"Did we fail? We persevered through four rounds of war, but ultimately couldn't hold on... Why did this happen? Why did this happen?"

As the old man spoke, his mental state became unstable again.

Seeing this, Ji Fuyou quickly asked, "What is the pattern of when the Heavenly Ranking War begins? Our next one is a year from now, and the one after that?"

He threw out all his questions: "How many opponents will there be? And how many winners? Also, what is a Heavenly Rank? Is the Heavenly Ranking War a war to create higher Heavenly Ranks?"

(End of this chapter)