I, from the Celestial Empire, have parachuted into Teyvat.

After searching for nearly ten minutes, the group circled the giant tree again and again, turning the surrounding area upside down, but still could not find Lei Yinquan.

The search yielded no results, so the group temporarily stopped. Koki Gengoro asked with some confusion, "What happened? Was the information wrong?"

Qi Ji shook his head and said, "No, A-Lu wouldn't lie to us, but why is there no sign of Lei Yin Quan Xian here? Could it be on this giant tree?"

Qi Ji looked up and saw that the giant tree in front of him was incredibly thick. The trunk alone was at least four or five meters in diameter. It meandered all the way to the top of the cave, which was indeed a good place to hide.

Raising an eyebrow, Qi Ji said, "I'll send a drone up there to take a look."

As he spoke, Qi Ji took a pouch off his tactical belt and pulled out a foldable drone about the size of a smartphone.

Compared to ordinary military reconnaissance drones, the drones equipped by Qiji and the reconnaissance team have fewer functions, only basic shooting capabilities. However, they are much smaller in size and have very low flight noise, making them easy for small special operations units to carry.

A buzzing sound, like the fluttering of bees, rang out, and the small drone, under Qi Ji's control, gradually rose into the sky, beginning to circle the trunk of the giant tree and ascend continuously.

Under Qi Ji's precise control, every detail on the giant tree was completely transmitted back to the ground through the drone's camera. Every possible hiding place was filmed. Finally, the drone flew to the top of the cave, but still found nothing.

Qi Ji frowned: "What happened? It's not on the tree either..."

"Could it be that Aryu has misremembered?"

Goro wiped the sweat from his neck and frowned, saying, "Damn it, something's been off since the beginning. I've been feeling inexplicably irritable..."

Qi Ji asked in surprise, "You feel that way too?"

Goro nodded: "You have one too?"

"Yes."

Qi Ji took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the inexplicable restlessness in his heart. He glanced at the other team members around him and then noticed that everyone seemed more or less anxious.

"What's going on...?"

After a moment's thought, Qi Ji suddenly exclaimed in surprise, turning to his fellow teammate from the Qianhai Base Security Department and shouting, "Xiao Wang, give me the Destruction Aura Detector."

Without asking any further questions, Xiao Wang took out the Destruction Aura Detector from his equipment bag and tossed it to Qi Ji. Qi Ji caught the detector and pressed the switch. A series of "beep beep beep" alarm sounds came from the detector instantly, and the instrument's readings shot up like a volcanic eruption.

Qi Ji said, "Sure enough, there is a lot of destructive aura here. Destructive aura amplifies people's negative emotions, and everyone is affected by it."

Goro exclaimed in surprise, "There's an aura of destruction here? Where is it coming from?"

Qi Ji slightly turned his body, and the value on the detector changed accordingly. When Qi Ji pointed the detector at the towering tree in front of him, the value on the detector soared to its peak.

"Here..."

As soon as Qi Ji finished speaking, a strange shriek suddenly rang out. Before anyone could confirm the direction from which the sound came, the ground suddenly began to shake violently.

The next second, the connection between the giant tree and the top of the cave suddenly cracked, and countless hard boulders the size of basketballs crashed down from the top of the cave.

"spread!"

Qi Ji shouted, and the members of the reconnaissance team immediately scattered and retreated to the edge to take cover.

Suddenly, the massive trunk of the towering tree in front of them began to twist strangely. As the trunk continued to twist, more and more rubble fell, leaving deep, cracked pits on the ground.

Another strange cry rang out, and everyone looked up at the giant tree in shock. Halfway up the trunk, a purple head gradually emerged, with two feathers standing upright on its head. At first glance, it looked like a bird's head, but upon closer inspection, it was clear that it was not the face of a normal creature at all, but a ball of black and red lightning element!

Qi Ji's pupils trembled.

"Thunderous Power Appears!"

It turns out that Lei Yin Quan Xian was always in the cave; it wasn't on the giant tree, but inside the tree's body!

Goro exclaimed in surprise, "Is this the manifestation of the Thunderclap?"

"It should be right."

Goro said, "But I remember Mr. Ivan said that the Thunderclap Manifestation should be a creature of the thunder element, and its face should be a deep purple of the thunder element. Why is it blackish-red?"

Looking at the destructive aura detector, whose readings were almost off the charts, Qi Ji said, "It seems something unexpected happened after it arrived in the abyss, causing it to be infected by the destructive aura and merge with this giant tree. No wonder it kept using illusions to move; it turns out its true form couldn't move. In that case, because of the destructive aura's encroachment on the abyss, and the abyssal creatures' instinctive resistance to the destructive aura, the demons of the Abyss Sea dare not land on He Guan."

At this moment, the tremors had not yet stopped, and the giant tree was still shaking violently. The next second, two black and red giant wings, each more than ten meters long, crawled out of the tree trunk from both sides, accompanied by surging lightning that made one's hair stand on end.

The head of the Thunderclap Manifestation let out another strange cry. The lightning element surged wildly on the eyeless head, as if burning with endless rage.

Lei Yinquan has fully awakened!

The reconnaissance team was a step too late...

Chapter 402 The First Formal Combat Use of Elemental Bullets

The Thunderous Power, which had become one with the giant tree, violently shook its trunk, causing the ground to tremble and rocks to continue to fall from the surrounding mountains. There was hardly any room to hide in the huge cave.

At the edge of the cave, Qi Ji rolled over to avoid a falling rock and arrived next to Wu Lang.

"I think we should retreat first!"

After weighing the options, this decision was the most rational. According to Aru, the Thunder Bird's true form, the Thunder Sound Manifestation, would fall into a deep sleep after each reincarnation. This time, they also learned that the Thunder Sound Manifestation was hiding in the giant tree. As long as they temporarily withdrew and returned in the next reincarnation, they could deal with the Thunder Sound Manifestation before it woke up.

Goro fired a rock arrow, shattering a falling rock, then nodded and said, "That's what I was thinking too."

However, the next second, Lei Yinquan suddenly flapped the giant wings on both sides of the tree trunk, and black and red lightning instantly spread out in all directions like a spider web, striking the walls above, below, left, and right. The entire layer of rock above the cave entrance was also shattered by the lightning and fell down to bury the entrance, completely blocking the reconnaissance team's escape route.

Qi Ji was startled: "Damn it, the exit is blocked."

As the strange cry of thunderous power manifested, Goro's muscles twitched rapidly. A large amount of golden rock elemental energy rose from the ground, winding around Goro's body and quickly enveloping him.

"Looks like we have no choice but to fight now."

With a loud shout, Goro seemed to transform into a wolf on the grassland, charging towards Lei Yinquan at an extremely fast speed.

"Alright, since that's the case, let's go for it! Xiao Wang, use explosives to blast open the rubble at the entrance of the cave. Everyone else, keep an eye on your positions and come with me to support Wulang!"

"rush!"

"on!"

The reconnaissance team members instantly scattered and began attacking Lei Yin Quan Xian from different directions. Qi Ji also raised his long gun, aimed at Lei Yin Quan Xian's head, and emptied an entire magazine in an instant.

However, as mentioned at the beginning, Lei Yin Quan Xian is an elemental creature, and physical attacks such as bullets can cause very limited damage to it. Most of the bullets that the reconnaissance team fired at Lei Yin Quan Xian passed through its body, and a small portion hit the tree trunk it was fused with, causing negligible damage.

After emptying another magazine, Qi Ji dodged behind a rock not far from Lei Yinquan's appearance and frowned, saying, "This won't work. Our attacks are completely ineffective against it."

In the distance, Raiyin Quanxian flapped its wings, shooting out several feathers wrapped in black and red lightning energy from its ribs. These feathers shot rapidly toward Goro, who was closest to it. Goro raised an eyebrow, instantly pushing all his bodily functions to their limits. He dodged the fatal blow with an extremely precise sidestep, and then fired a rock element arrow at Raiyin Quanxian's head. The rock element arrow shattered the moment it hit Raiyin Quanxian, and Raiyin Quanxian let out a strange cry. The scattered rock element energy stirred up the pure lightning element energy in Raiyin Quanxian's head, causing fluctuations.

Seeing this, Qi Ji also realized what was happening.

"That's right, Lei Yin Quan is a pure elemental creature, so attacking it should require elemental power."

Having figured this out, Qi Ji immediately tore open his combat vest and took out a palm-sized metal box from the inner pocket. Inside the box lay twenty-one bullets, each one tightly protected by an impact-resistant insulating layer.

Unlike ordinary bullets, each of these bullets has a different colored mark at the tail, corresponding to one of the seven elemental forces.

These bullets are elemental bullets.

When Ivan first arrived in Liyue, Xu Donghai specially sent him a prototype of this bullet, which was later used when he was lurking in the Golden House. Half a year has passed, and the research on elemental bullets by China's military research institutes has made great progress. From the prototype that Ivan used at the beginning, it has now reached the point where it can be mass-produced. Originally, after review, a military factory in China was selected for mass production. However, plans cannot keep up with changes. Due to the sudden incident in Qindao City, the mass production was temporarily shelved by the Senate.

However, the Qianhai base also possessed the blueprints for elemental bullets. After being teleported to the Abyss, in order to increase the strength to continuously fight against the monsters landing from the Abyss Sea, under Hong Jianjun's decision, the Qianhai base urgently produced some elemental bullets, which have been put into use in the past two days. The Qiji reconnaissance team also carried some elemental bullets, which were rifle bullets, with 21 rounds per person and three rounds of each elemental bullet.

"Okay, let's try this."

Qi Ji was aware of the basic common sense on the continent of Teyvat about the mutual restraint between elements.

He took out an ice element bullet, quickly loaded it into the magazine, chambered a round, and aimed. Because element bullets were limited, Qi Ji had to ensure that every shot hit its mark, so he adjusted his breathing and pulled the trigger the instant he exhaled all the air from his lungs.

Unlike firing a regular bullet, this shot produced an explosive roar. The enormous sound made Qi Ji, who had fired countless types of firearms, feel a slight ringing in his ears, and for a moment even thought the barrel had exploded.

Of course, there was no problem with the gun in Qi Ji's hand. The bullet shot out of the barrel at high speed and flew towards Lei Yin Quan Xian's head in milliseconds.

The moment it struck Lei Yin Quan Xian's head, the specially designed bullet head of the ice element bullet exploded instantly, and a burst of compressed ice elemental force erupted. The extremely low temperature instantly froze the water molecules in the air, and the ice engulfed half of Lei Yin Quan Xian's head. The insulating ice caused the black and red lightning arcs surrounding Lei Yin Quan Xian's head to lose their luster.

Qi Ji raised an eyebrow and said, "It's a success!"

Lei Yinquan appeared with a series of strange cries. With a flap of his left wing, he controlled several vines wrapped around the giant tree trunk to shake and fly up, lashing at his own head and shattering half of his frozen skull. Then, black and red lightning elemental power quickly replenished and repaired his skull.

"I almost forgot it's fused with the giant tree; ice elemental attacks aren't very effective against its trunk..."

"In that case, let's use fire."

Qi Ji immediately took out a fireball and loaded it into the chamber. However, Lei Yinquan had already sensed Qi Ji's danger after the previous attack. With a flick of his black and red wings, several deadly vines as thick as bowls lashed out at the rock Qi Ji was dodging like iron whips. Qi Ji was startled and fell to the side. The next second, the rock he had just dodged was shattered into pieces by the vines.

Qi Ji's pupils contracted slightly. If he had been the one struck by that blow, the shattered pieces wouldn't have been rocks.

However, Lei Yinquan clearly did not intend to give Qi Ji a chance to fire a second shot. The second whip attack followed immediately, this time a sweeping attack. Qi Ji reacted in time and crawled on the ground, the vine narrowly grazing the back of his head.

At this moment, the third lash came.

Qi Ji raised an eyebrow, then abandoned his attack, turned and ran back, starting a tug-of-war.

Since he can't fire, then delay Lei Yin Quanxian's attack time so that others can fire. Who said that Qi Ji is the only one in the entire reconnaissance team carrying elemental bullets?

The next second, Qi Ji's shout echoed through the cave.

"Everyone, switch to elemental bullets!"

Chapter 403 Terrifying Elemental Bullets

Elemental bullets?

After Qi Ji's reminder, the reconnaissance team realized what was happening and quickly switched to elemental ammunition.

The Thunder Power itself is composed of lightning elemental power, and under the influence of the destructive aura, it has merged with the giant tree. Therefore, lightning and grass elements have virtually no effect on it. Strictly speaking, apart from lightning and grass element bullets, each member of the reconnaissance team only has fifteen bullets.

Because elemental bullets are limited, each shot must be fired with utmost care to ensure accuracy. As a result, the reconnaissance team's attack frequency has decreased for a time. However, the damage caused by each bullet is still considerable for Lei Yin Quan Xian.

With Qi Ji holding them back, the team members also found an opportunity to unleash a barrage of firepower.

"Fire!"

Qi Ji issued the order to fire over the squad's communication channel, and in an instant, several thunderous gunshots echoed and roared in the empty cave.

Ten ice element bullets, eight fire element bullets, seven water element bullets, five wind element bullets, and a rock element arrow fired by Goro instantly exploded on the surface of the giant wooden body of Rai-on-kwon, as well as its exposed head and wings.

The five elemental energies intertwined instantly, forming a massive and chaotic energy surge.

First to spread were the wind elemental bullets. The moment the bullets collided with the giant tree body of the Thunderclap Manifestation, the rotating wind pressure rapidly expanded, instantly forming a wind tornado that completely surrounded the Thunderclap Manifestation like a hot dog wrapping a sausage. The vines chasing Qi Ji were also cut off by the high-speed rotating wind tornado, which was like a sharp blade.

Then, the ice and water element bullets, along with countless rock fragments from the shattered rock arrows, were swept into the tornado. The green wind tornado was covered with a layer of icy white frost, and the surrounding temperature dropped rapidly. The incredibly hard bark of the outermost giant tree body of the Thunder Power Manifestation, as well as the vines wrapped around it, froze rapidly in the extreme cold. Then, as if thrown into a shredder, it was completely pulverized by the rock fragments and flying stones and sand that filled the wind tornado!

The next second, the fire element bullets exploded violently, and the scorching energy and the extreme cold collided. The air even became distorted during the elemental reaction. The violent elemental force instantly tore apart most of Lei Yin Quan Xian's body, and his right wing also exploded into specks of lightning elemental force that were swept into the elemental energy whirlwind.

With a cry, Lei Yinquan quickly mobilized lightning elemental energy to repair the torn right wing. Countless vines also sprouted from the ground, coiling around the giant tree's body and climbing upwards frantically, attempting to repair the areas that were torn, broken, charred, or even still being scorched by fire elemental power.

"Second round! Fire element bullets to all sides!"