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Chapter 210 Thunder Prison, Bone-Corroding Thunder!! (2 words, Update 25)

Fang Qingyu's calm voice.

Like an imperial edict descending from the heavens, carrying the majesty of thunder, it clearly swept across the entire basin.

The moment the words fell.

Boom——! ! !
Above the basin, the purple thunderstorm cloud sea, which was already violent and chaotic due to the disappearance of the source matter, seemed to be under the absolute control of the supreme will!
The thick, leaden-gray clouds looked as if they were being pressed down hard by an invisible giant hand.

It instantly plummeted to a suffocating height.

It almost touched the jagged, charred rock peaks below!

A thick, impenetrable darkness enveloped the surrounding area.

Only deep within the clouds, countless thick, dragon-like, deathly white bolts of lightning roamed wildly, gathering and brewing!

An overwhelming, terrifying pressure, like a tangible tsunami, crashed down.

The pressure was so great that all living things on the edge of the basin could hardly breathe.

"run!!!"

Madman Jinwei's pupils instantly shrank to pinpoints, and for the first time, his face, covered in implants, revealed an extreme fear that was completely contrary to his reputation as a "madman"!

He let out a distorted roar.

He didn't even care about the giant axe he regarded as his life anymore. He turned around abruptly, bursting out with the fastest speed he had ever experienced, and fled desperately away from the basin!
"go!"

The ghostly figure of Cangning vanished like a burst of ink, instantly merging into the shadows, attempting to escape this desolate place that was about to turn into a purgatory in the most mysterious way!
Other second-tier powerhouses from local forces.

They reacted swiftly, each displaying their unique abilities, transforming into streaks of light as they fled in panic.

Those desperate criminals who were blinded by greed and survived the slaughter by the elites of Project Hidden Dragon are struggling to make another attempt, as well as the onlookers further away who are trembling under Lei Wei's power.

At this moment, only utter despair remained on his face.

"Do not--!"

“Mercy!!!”

"We were wrong!!!"

The piercing screams and pleas for mercy were instantly drowned out by the even more violent thunder.

Fang Qingyu's molten gold eyes swept coldly over the distorted and horrified faces below.

No words.

The fingers gripping the hilt of the Jingzhe sword twitched very slightly.

hum!
The huge crack on the blade, from which the platinum lightning river flowed, suddenly lit up!
An invisible wave of will instantly spread out, like precise coordinates, locking onto every figure below who had just attacked the source core and the guardian!

Whether they turn and run away, kneel and beg for mercy, or try to hide in the shadows behind the rocks.

Locked, all done!
Boom! Boom! Boom!

The destructive power that had been brewing for so long in the low, inky clouds seemed to have found a floodgate to be opened!

Dozens of blindingly white lightning bolts, like precisely guided world-destroying spears, ignored distance and any obstacles!
In an instant, it tore through the thick darkness, carrying the majestic power of heaven that judges all things, and slashed down fiercely at the locked figures below!
Speed ​​transcends thought!

Precision that surpasses vision!

puff!puff!puff!
There were no earth-shattering explosions.

There was only a faint sound, like a hot knife cutting through butter.

Every single pale lightning bolt landed with perfect precision!

Those targeted fugitives, whether they were martial artists at the Profound Realm or members of the Divine Cult.

The instant he was touched by the lightning bolt.

His body was like a snowman thrown into purgatory, instantly burned to a crisp.

All that remained was a bottomless, charred hole, with molten rock flowing along its edges and leaping arcs of electricity.

The pungent smell of ozone and the aroma of burning filled the air.

The whole process was breathtakingly fast.

One second they were hysterically wailing and running away.

next second.

At the edge of the basin, all those who had reached out greedily towards the core of the source material, all those who had attacked the guardians, were completely erased as if by an invisible eraser.

All that remained were charred holes, silently testifying to the ruthlessness of divine punishment.

The entire basin fell into a deathly silence once again.

It was more profound than ever before.

Only the low-hanging thunderclouds in the sky continued to churn and rumble.

Wei Banmeng and the other two stopped what they were doing, looking at the battlefield that had suddenly become empty, and at the charred holes on the ground that were radiating terrifying heat, their eyes filled with complex and unreadable expressions.

The guards from Deep Blue Heavy Industries stared wide-eyed, their palms sweating as they gripped their weapons.

Donald slumped to the ground, his obese body trembling violently. His gaze toward the figure high above was filled with boundless awe, as if he were looking up at a thunderous ruler walking among men.

Those explorers who merely watched from afar without participating in the struggle.

At this moment, he was deathly pale, covering his mouth tightly, afraid that making the slightest sound would bring about his annihilation.

The lightning armor surrounding Fang Qingyu slowly receded, its light dimming.

The suffocating, world-destroying pressure dissipated.

Slowly descending from the high cliff, their feet landed on the scorched, hot, glazed ground, making a soft "sizzling" sound.

The platinum thunder river flowing along the blade of the Jingzhe sword in his hand has returned to calm, as if the one that commanded the heavenly thunder just now was not itself, but some deeper power.

Thunder Prison.

This is the new characteristic that Fang Qingyu was given after Jingzhe advanced to the next level.

No longer needing to rely on the booming resonance of iron weapons on the battlefield, one can use one's thoughts to summon thunder with blood and energy, transforming it into a supreme heavenly punishment that precisely annihilates the enemy!
This marks the first time that divine weapons have collaborated with the individual.

Fang Qingyu's gaze swept across the battlefield.

Those members of Project Hidden Dragon who stepped forward at the critical moment to stand between him and the greedy crowd.

Deng Jia leaned on a long staff, his chest rising and falling slightly, his body stained with the enemy's blood.

Ishigaki raised his hands from the ground, and the earthen-yellow light slowly receded.

The tall, thin young man flicked the blood off the blade.

There were also several other young faces, some familiar and some unfamiliar.

Their gazes briefly met Fang Qingyu's in mid-air.

No words.

There was no attempt to claim credit.

They didn't even stop.

Deng Jia grinned, revealing a smile, and waved vigorously in Fang Qingyu's direction, silently mouthing, "We're even!"

Then, with a sudden stomp of his foot, his figure shot off like an arrow, rushing headlong into the wind and rain at the edge of the basin.

Ishigaki nodded slightly to Fang Qingyu as a greeting, then his figure merged into the ground beneath his feet and disappeared.

The tall, thin young man sheathed his sword, silently turned around, and disappeared into the thick fog in a few leaps.

So does everyone else.

It was like fulfilling a promise that had to be kept.

They came like a sudden storm, and left like a gentle breeze brushing against the willows.

There were no unnecessary pleasantries, no moment's pause.

One by one, the figures silently and swiftly blended into the wind, rain, and thick fog, disappearing from the edge of the basin that had just been ravaged by thunder.

It's like it never happened.

All that remained were the ravaged corpses of the desperados and charred holes, testifying to their bloody battle.

Fang Qingyu silently watched the direction in which they disappeared.

His cold, hard face revealed little emotion.

"Mr. Fang! Divine power! Unparalleled divine power!!!"

Donald finally scrambled over from the ground, his face filled with the ecstasy of surviving a disaster and undisguised fanatical worship, his spittle almost landing on Fang Qingyu's face.

"With a single strike, he repelled the Wen family's chosen ones, and then unleashed divine punishment to cleanse the wicked! Such brilliance is unprecedented and will never be repeated! I, Donald, have lived half my life, and only today have I truly witnessed what real glory is."

Fang Qingyu frowned almost imperceptibly.

Before Donald could finish his cheesy praise, he simply stretched out two fingers and precisely pinched the fat man's lips, which were moving up and down, effectively muting him.

"Uh huh"

Donald's remaining words were all cut off, his chubby face turned red, and he could only make muffled "uh-uh" sounds, his small eyes filled with grievance.

"Well said, don't say it next time."

Fang Qingyu released his hand, his tone indifferent.

Donald immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, covered his mouth, and gave a "I understand, I understand" look, his eyes still burning with fervor.

Jiang Wei had returned to Fang Qingyu's side at some point, transforming back into that harmless little girl with an expressionless face.

It was as if the being who had just burned dozens of people to death with a single word, emanating an aura of annihilation, was merely an illusion.

But after her clear, large eyes swept over the Jingzhe in Fang Qingyu's hand, and then looked at his cracked skin, her small brows furrowed slightly.

"Qingzi, congratulations!"

Wei Banmeng stepped forward, her cool voice carrying a hint of barely suppressed excitement and relief.

"Fang Shen! Awesome! Absolutely awesome!!" Chu Kuanglan was so excited that he was incoherent. His bronze face was flushed with excitement as he slapped Lu Jiuyuan's shoulder hard. The latter grimaced from the slap, but could not hide the excitement and admiration in his eyes.

"The Dragon Sparrow has advanced, its power is a hundred times greater than before!"

Lu Jiuyuan looked at the platinum lightning river flowing on the Jingzhe Blade and praised it sincerely.

Fang Qingyu nodded to the three of them, a faint smile on his face.

We've been through thick and thin together, and this friendship needs no further explanation.

Just as everyone was immersed in the joy and shock of the dragon sparrow's successful advancement.

Donald, whose microphone had been manually muted, seemed to finally remember something important. The fervor on his face faded, replaced by a serious expression.

He leaned closer to Fang Qingyu, his voice extremely low and filled with caution: "Mr. Fang, acquiring the Thunder Origin Essence and advancing your Divine Armament is a cause for great celebration. But the Wen family will probably not let this go easily."

Donald's small eyes gleamed, and he spoke faster:
"Wen Tianzong's defeat and escape have been a huge blow to the Wen family's reputation! With the Wen family's years of experience in the depths of the Abyss, and especially with the rumored third-tier Martial Saint ancestor who is supposedly cultivating in seclusion in the secret realm of the depths of the Abyss, they probably won't swallow this humiliation."

He paused, his tone becoming even more serious: "With Deep Blue here at Starfire Fortress, and given your current power, the Wen family might not dare to do anything openly. But the 'Abyss' is vast and boundless, filled with countless dangerous places. Mr. Fang, if you continue to explore deeper, you must be careful! The Wen family has been entrenched in the 'Abyss' for many years, and their methods are ruthless and impossible to guard against."

Third-tier Martial Saint!

Fang Qingyu listened without showing the slightest change in his expression.

Looking down, he saw the platinum thunder river flowing like a deep abyss on the Jingzhe Blade in his hand.

Deep within his calm gaze, it seemed as if thunder and fire were burning silently.

Then, he slowly raised his head, his gaze passing over the direction of Starfire Fortress and landing on the vast region deep within the "Abyss" shrouded in even greater darkness and the unknown.

He nodded slightly.

"understood."

Next, the people from Deep Blue Heavy Industry began to silently and quickly clean up the battlefield.

Collect the remains of your companions and deal with those fugitives who were struck down by divine punishment.

Although Donald was still excited, he wisely refrained from disturbing Fang Qingyu with exaggerated words and simply directed his men.

Fang Qingyu did not leave immediately, but stood at the edge of the huge scorched pit.

Feel the pulse of the Awakening of Insects in your hand.

On the blade, within the several enormous cracks resembling deep abysses, platinum-gold liquid lightning flowed slowly, emitting a chilling aura.

However, deep within this vast and magnificent Lei River...

Fang Qingyu keenly sensed a completely different "flavor".

It was a more restrained, colder thunder, yet with an invincible penetrating power.

"Bone-Corroding Thunder"

Fang Qingyu murmured the name. This was the information transmitted back through the blade, and it was also the "different lightning" characteristic that Wei Banmeng had mentioned before, which was the high-grade source material that endowed the divine weapon.

His mind sank into the blade, merging with the spirit of the dragon sparrow.

With a thought, a tiny arc of electricity, almost transparent in color but faintly tinged with a dark purple, was quietly separated from the platinum lightning river flowing deep within the crack.

Unlike ordinary thunder, which is violent and flamboyant, it is like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows, cold and refined, containing a power that seems to ignore defenses and directly erode.

With a slight thought, Fang Qingyu attempted to guide a wisp of bone-corroding lightning along the meridians of his arm.

laugh!
At the fingertip, a thin, almost transparent arc of purple lightning leaped out from thin air.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, and not even a noticeable outflow of energy.

But when it gently touched a charred rock about half a person's height next to it, a strange change occurred.

Without a sound, on the surface of the charred rock, which was as hard as iron, a fine, spiderweb-like gray-white pattern instantly spread out from the point where the electric arc landed!

Immediately afterwards, that area resembled a piece of rotten wood weathered for a thousand years.

It silently turned into fine powder and fell down, revealing an incredibly smooth hole, about a foot deep!
Throughout the entire process, there was no explosion or trace of high-temperature burning.

"What terrifying penetrating and corrosive power!"

A flash of lightning appeared in Fang Qingyu's eyes, and he was shaken.

The properties of this Bone-Corroding Thunder are simply the ultimate in penetrating armor and defense!
Unlike ordinary lightning that destroys with violent energy, it is more like directly disintegrating the "existence" of matter itself.

Fang Qingyu immediately tried to integrate the properties of the Bone-Corroding Thunder into his own blood and the true meaning of thunder and fire.

hum!
With a slight tremor, the blade of Jingzhe instantly merged the wisp of purple lightning into the flowing platinum thunder river, as if injecting a deadly "poison" into the surging torrent of destruction.

Fang Qingyu casually swung a Thunder Abyss towards the empty space in front of him.

The blade light remained the same destructive vortex of dark gold and lightning, but at the core of the vortex, a barely perceptible purple lightning flashed by!
scoff!

Where the blade sliced ​​through, the air seemed to be corroded by an invisible force, leaving behind a distorted crack with grayish-white edges that lingered for a long time.

The power is doubled!

Fang Qingyu clearly felt that the Thunder Abyss, which had been fused with the Bone-Eating Thunder, had become incredibly powerful, especially in terms of armor-piercing ability.

Ordinary protective energy and life-giving armor are probably as fragile as paper in the face of this bone-corroding lightning!
"This is the strange lightning."

Fang Qingyu slowly sheathed his sword, a hint of satisfaction flashing deep in his eyes.

The Dragon Sparrow's advancement to the Awakening of Insects not only brought the power to rule the Thunder Prison, but also the bone-corroding thunder characteristic that could become a trump card.

This trip to Xinghuobao was far more fruitful than expected.

"Qingzi, how are you feeling?"

Wei Banmeng stepped forward, her cool eyes sweeping over Jingzhe with a hint of amazement.

“Very good.” Fang Qingyu’s words were concise, but the certainty in his tone was undeniable. “This source essence is incredibly powerful.”

Wei Banmeng nodded: "This means that the quality of the source material this time is very high."

"Fang Shen! Shouldn't we leave? This place smells a bit too strong!"

Chu Kuanglan shouted in a muffled voice, pointing to the mess on the ground.

Indeed, this place is not a good place to stay.

Although Wen Tianzong fled in defeat, Donald's words of advice still echoed in his ears.

Deep Blue Heavy Industries' power can provide protection in Starfire Fortress, but venturing deeper into the "Abyss" is fraught with unpredictable risks.

"Back to Starfire Fortress."

Fang Qingyu made a decision.

Without lingering, the group, under the protection of Deep Blue Heavy Industries, walked back towards Starfire Fortress.

The atmosphere remained silent throughout the journey.

Fang Qingyu was mostly absorbed in comprehending the characteristics of the Awakening of Insects and the Bone-Eating Thunder, experiencing the subtle changes as the completely different thunderous power flowed within his body and merged with his own Thunder and Fire True Meaning.

Upon returning to the Starfire Fortress Deep Blue Heavy Industries' base, Donald immediately arranged for top-tier quiet rooms and resources for everyone to recover and rest.

With the help of the Crimson Blaze and the precious medicines provided by Deep Blue, the cracks on Fang Qingyu's body healed rapidly.

The enormous amount of vital energy consumed was quickly restored with the replenishment from the Profound-level Vital Energy Crystal.

a few days later.

News has arrived that the exit of "Abyss" will soon reopen.

"Qingzi, we've basically recovered. So, should we stay here or...?" Wei Banmeng looked at Fang Qingyu.

Chu Kuanglan and Lu Jiuyuan also cast inquiring glances their way.

Fang Qingyu pondered for a moment.

My martial arts cultivation has reached the peak of the Profound Realm (751/800), and I am only a little bit more to accumulate before I become a martial arts grandmaster.

And that final step in understanding nature.

So it will take a little more time.

Fill this last bit of experience with, and maximize the Golden Body attribute.
Then we'll consider the final breakthrough.

"Let's go out first," Fang Qingyu decided. "Come back in when everyone is all settled."

No one had any objections.

Having obtained both types of source matter, and having honed their skills in this godforsaken place for quite some time now.

Next, I do need to return to a relatively stable environment to digest what I've learned and adjust my state of mind.

a few days later.

The exit to reality gradually stabilized in the direction sent by the communicator.

Fang Qingyu and his four companions stepped into the vortex together.

The familiar feeling of weightlessness and the pulling sensation of space came over me.

When you are grounded and feel the unique urban atmosphere of the real world.

Everyone subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Soft light shone down in the building's underground teleportation hall.

As soon as they stepped out of the teleportation pillar and onto the polished floor of the hall, the excited chatter of several other Project Hidden Dragon members, who had also just returned from different "Abyss" entrances, drifted over clearly:

"Have you heard? Jing Wuyai! That 'Peerless Sword' Jing Wuyai! He sat in meditation for seven days and seven nights in the 'Valley of Desolation' outside the 'Wailing Barrier,' supposedly causing a celestial phenomenon, with ten thousand swords resounding! Just yesterday, confirmed news came back that he successfully broke through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster realm!"

"Hiss—really? It's only been a short time? He's the first in our generation of Hidden Dragons to break through to Grandmaster, right?"

"Absolutely true! It's said that he comprehended the true meaning of 'wind.' With a single sword strike, all sounds ceased, and he was so fast that even a shadow couldn't be seen! Tsk tsk, this is truly a case of a carp leaping over the dragon gate!"

"Jing Wuyai, the peerless swordsman, truly lives up to his reputation! The landscape of the Hidden Dragon Ranking is likely to change drastically."

The discussions were filled with amazement and envy.

Fang Qingyu paused slightly.

Jing Wuyai?
He recognized the name; in the information about Project Hidden Dragon, it came from an ancient family of swordsmen, with a solitary and aloof personality, and the family's "Silent Extinction Sword Technique" was said to be unparalleled in killing.

He is considered one of the most promising geniuses among this generation of rising stars to break through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster level.

Unexpectedly, they actually did it.

Moreover, it was in that treacherous place outside the "Wailing Wall" that one entered the path through the "wind".

"Grandmaster"

A glint flashed in Wei Banmeng's cool eyes as she murmured, "It seems we need to quicken our pace."

Chu Kuanglan and Lu Jiuyuan exchanged a glance and nodded silently.

The first Grandmaster to break through.
Fang Qingyu's eyes, as deep as molten gold, remained calm and undisturbed.

But an invisible fighting spirit and a desire to climb, like dormant volcanic magma, quietly surged deep within his heart.

The gate to the realm of martial arts grandmaster has already been opened by his peers.

He, of course, couldn't fall behind.

However, he was the first to break through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster level.

This does not mean that Jing Wuyai is the strongest.

Everything will have to wait until more than a month later.
The battle for those three special team spots will determine the winner.

(End of this chapter)