9 Heavenly Thunder Manual Chapter 336-338
Chapter 336 – Big Sister G.o.ddess
Tian Ye was extremely grateful for such an opportunity, but he was thinking of and greatly missed Yanrong and Tian Dan Er in the Chaotic Star Sea.
As if seeing his thoughts, Lei Yu promised Tian Ye that when given the chance, he would bring the entire town to settle within this city. Regardless of Lei Yu trying to stop him, Tian Ye started loudly kowtowing towards in order to repay his grat.i.tude after hearing this.
Lei Yu then walked towards the middle of the hall and said with a face filled with smiles, "Let me introduce everyone to a new friend of mine."
"A new friend? Where?" Everyone looked around and didn't notice anyone. They all then stared at Lei Yu in a strange manner.
They all noticed Lei Yu's lightning brand on his right-arm flash before his body gradually became illusory. Right after that, a purple light mixed with white starry dots burst forth from his body while two beams of white energy came out from his bracelet and started merging into one. The bracelet on his wrist disappeared and everyone stared with big round eyes at the appearance of this person, because it wasn't Lei Yu's soul!
An ultimate beautiful girl with an aura of cold aloofness appeared. Her eyes were filled with excitement and the girl happened to be completely naked as well! Her skin was extremely white and the proportions of her body were big and slim in all the right places. The whiteness of her body was like a white jade that people didn't dare to touch in case they blemished it. The only color apart from her whiteness was the two little pink points protruding from her twin peaks. Add that her long black hair was slightly coiled on her head that showed off her exquisite facial features, her whole outlook would cause any man to go crazy for.
Lei Yu was originally all smiles but when he turned around to look, he almost jumped out of his skin in fright. "Why aren't you wearing any clothes?!"
This person was none other than Xue Yu who borrowed Lei Yu's soul to form a body. For such a peerless beauty to be completely naked caused Liu Hao to bitterly cry with arousal.
Xue Yu glanced at herself, "What's wrong with that?"
Lei Yu helplessly covered his eyes with his hand, "Why are you just like Mo Bei Li who doesn't care about stuff like that? I give up!"
With over a dozen people in the main hall, everyone's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets and their mouths were as wide as they could get. With the sudden appearance of such an ultimate naked beauty, even Lei Yu's four beauties had similar reactions. It was only after a while before bull-head asked with hesitation: "Little… little Yu… this… this is your soul? No… no way right?"
Lei Yu wanted to cry. "Someone quickly bring her some clothes!"
With the sudden cry by Lei Yu, Nuo Hu finally recovered his senses and quickly retrieved some of Ai Er's old clothes from his storage ring. Lei Yu kept one hand over his eyes while the other hand grabbed the clothes and pa.s.sed it to Xue Yu. He accidently happened to nudge Xue Yu's soft mound and felt it was cool to the touch but was extremely bouncy. Lei Yu couldn't help swallow a few times, "Quickly put this on!"
Xue Yu couldn't understand why everyone was so shocked but she still began to wear the clothes she was given. Ai Er's clothes were of the modern style which consisted of a t-shirt and a skirt. Even though she now had some clothes on, it still couldn't cover up the seductive aura she gave off.
Without waiting for Lei Yu to say anything, Xue Yu started running around the hall. "Wow, this is the outside world! It's so pretty! Master, what is this?" Asked Xue Yu as she pointed at the throne in the main hall.
"Oh s.h.i.t! Is she an alien or a girl with amnesia?" Liu Hao exclaimed out loud.
Lei Yu helplessly shook his head, "Ai Er, you should recognize her."
"I should recognize her?" Ai Er started blinking while carefully observing this unfamiliar yet beautiful girl. No matter how she racked her brains, she couldn't think of anything.
"Right, it's someone you know. Also, bull-head and everyone shouldn't misunderstand about the situation. She's borrowing my soul in order to appear in the physical world. The body is hers while the soul is mine, but she's currently in control of her own body."
Everyone stared with wide eyes while bull-head asked: "Are you saying she's now part of your soul? How did you two fuse together? I can't believe this is possible!" For someone like the bull-head who has seen many strange and odd things in his life, even he said this was too unbelievable which showed this was something that has never happened before.
"Right, the early and mid Soul Splitting stages restrict one's soul while only the late stage does not." Said Lei Yu.
Those at the Soul Splitting stage and higher already knew about this but for others, this was their first time hearing it.
"Brother Yu, you keep saying I should recognize her but who is she?" Ai Er asked in confusion.
Xue Yu ran over to Ai Er, "You don't recognize me? I've helped you heal your body back then!"
Ai Er once again racked her brains and started mumbling: "Helped me heal my body…?"
"Ai Er, she's the Spiritual Bracelet of Frost!" Lei Yu twisted his wrist a few times to show that his white bracelet was gone.
"Eh? Spiritual Bracelet of Frost? How could…?"
"Didn't I just explain it? There's a soul spirit within the Spiritual Bracelet of Frost and Xue Yu is that soul spirit. She's borrowing the power of my soul's body in order to appear in reality." Said Lei Yu.
Everyone finally realized what was going on. Liu Hao then said in an envious tone: "Master, how come you're body is covered with treasures? That jade pendant around neck is a cultivating treasure; you also had a storage ring that was a special treasure. And now you're even hiding a big sister G.o.ddess in your bracelet… you're too shameless!"
"Be mindful of your words or else I'll give you a good beating!" Lei Yu glared at him.
"I was wrong! Quickly introduce this big sister G.o.ddess to us okay?" Liu Hao cupped his fists and showed a bitter face.
Xue Yu left Ai Er and ran over to Lei Yu and grabbed onto him. "Master, let's see if my guesses are accurate!" This move made the four beauties somewhat jealous. But when they thought about it some more, Xue Yu was technically Lei Yu's soul body and wasn't a real person so that calmed them down a bit.
After saying that, Xue Yu ran over to Tian Ye's said and started pointing one by one: "Tian Ye, Nuo Hu, Romon, Tai Lao, Hei Feng, and Golden Tiger. There's also master's four lovers and your idiotic disciple."
"I’m actually very intelligent!" Liu Hao pouted with an unsatisfied expression.
"Uh…"
"You can actually recognize each of us? Little Yu, isn't this a bit too incredible?" Telepha.s.sa said in surprise.
"There's nothing I can do since she can see through everything inside the consciousness of my soul!" Lei Yu shrugged. The Spiritual Bracelet of Frost along with the sun and moon pendants were items he couldn't control.
"That's enough Xue Yu, you should go back for now. Having my soul leave my true body uses up a lot of my energy. You will be coming out to help me fight in the future so I'll introduce you to other stuff at a later time, okay?" Said Lei Yu.
Even though she was disappointed, Xue Yu walked to up to the side of Lei Yu, "See you later everyone."
Liu Hao swallowed down a gulp of saliva, "See you later big sister G.o.ddess!"
Chapter 337 – Heavenly Lightning Tribulation
With a giggle, Xue Yu's body became illusory before becoming two white energy that flew towards Lei Yu's wrist. The Spiritual Bracelet of Frost once again appeared while Lei Yu had a distressed look on his face. The faintly purple skinned Lei Yu was currently standing there wearing Ai Er's clothes. A "rip" sound was heard and Ai Er's t-shirt was ripped by his soul. Lei Yu frantically activated his internal energy to force his soul back inside. Although his speed was almost instantaneous, it still caused everyone present to roll on the floor in laughter. Lei Yu's powerful and prestigious image had now ceased to exist.
It was at this time…
The rumbling of storm clouds from everywhere could be heard gathering in the skies above. Everyone ran out of the main hall too look up and noticed the storm clouds covered at least over 10,000 mile area!
There's only one explanation for such a vast amount of storm clouds to gather in the Immortal World!
"Not good! It's centered near the Void Sect!" The bull-head gasped. Just when his voice faded, a thick column of lightning descended. Even though they were currently in the most southern area, everyone could sense how powerful that lightning was!
Everyone had a serious expression on their faces while Lei Yu couldn't understand why."What's not good about it? Let it strike him to death!"
"Little Yu! Have you lost your mind or something?"
"Master! How come you don't know what's going on?" Liu Hao and everyone were now staring at Lei Yu.
Being stared like this, Lei Yu felt uncomfortable and asked in confusion: "What is it?"
"Little Yu, you don't recognize the heavenly lightning?" Asked Telepha.s.sa.
Romon slapped his head, "How could I have forgotten this?! Little Yu never experienced the heavenly lightning tribulation and directly condensed his gold core!"
"What did you say?!" Everyone had big wide eyes while staring at Romon.
"That day in the Mortal World…" Romon continued to explain, "A column of lightning descended but it was the Dragon Vein recognizing its owner and not the heavenly lightning tribulation. Once the lightning of the Dragon Vein pa.s.sed, he condensed his purple gold core. This was all personally witnessed by me since I was present during that time."
"Such a thing can happen?" The bull-head and Telepha.s.sa glanced at each other with questioning looks.
"Don't bother with that for now; tell me what's going on currently." Asked Lei Yu as he pointed at the huge column of lightning.
"This is the tribulation when breaking past the Boundary Transition stage, and it's something I've experienced before!" The bull-head mumbled.
"What you mean to say is that Void Immortal, he… he broke through the Boundary Transition stage and is reaching the Mahayana stage?! How could this be?" Lei Yu was frowning. If this really was the case, wanting to use his own strength to defeat him wasn't something he can accomplish in a short period of time!
Lei Yu was busy with many things but he would never forget the reason he came to the Immortal Realm. The hatred he had for the Void Sect wasn't something that will ever be forgotten. He had once promised himself to make the Void Sect suffer the consequences. But now looking at the situation, the Void Immortal and the bull-head had become existences at the same level. Wanting to defeat the Void Immortal was something currently impossible to accomplish!
The bull-head helplessly shook his head, The Void Immortal's potential was originally not bad, so after cultivating for such a long amount of time, going through this heavenly lightning tribulation isn't anything strange."
"Is there any way to stop his tribulation?" Lei Yu asked.
The bull-head looked at Lei Yu for a while before replying: "Yes!"
Lei Yu's eyes lit up, "What way?"
"Kill him! The heavenly lightning tribulation will take a long time. It's during this tribulation that the person is at their weakest moment. With my speed and before the tribulation ends, making a move on him would cause his complete annihilation. It's only that…" Reaching to this point, bull-head hesitated.
"Only what?" Lei Yu eagerly asked.
"Trying to prevent this tribulation would cause everyone in the Immortal Realm to despise the saboteur, and result in leaving behind a name of infamy throughout the ages. One needs to understand that for a cultivator to condense their gold core is already extremely difficult, not to mention the last threshold of the Boundary Transition. If people found out someone acted to prevent the tribulation, the Immortal World might unite together and attack the culprit. Unless you manage to silence all witnesses, otherwise there's no other way of getting mud on your name." Bull-head explained.
Lei Yu smiled while shaking his head, "That's something I wouldn't do either. If our interference really caused his complete annihilation, that would be too villainous of us!" After laughing a bit, Lei Yu then said: "Even if he has reached the Mahayana stage, I will depend on my own hard work to catch up to him because I want to fight with him fair and square!"
One of the reason people were unconsciously attracted to Lei Yu was that he would never perform underhanded moves against others. Men had to be righteous and just in order to be respected by others!
"I believe you will eventually accomplish that!" Nodded bull-head with a satisfied look on his face. Everyone else had forgotten the embarra.s.sing encounter with Lei Yu's soul and was now only looking at him with respect and admiration.
"I will continue working hard!" Lei Yu made up his mind and clenched his fists. Once he takes care of his matters, he will focus all his attention on cultivating! Only when he reaches the Mahayana stage will he truly become an overlord in the Immortal World that gained the respect of millions. This wasn't the glory that Lei Yu desired, but it was only reaching that point will he be able to stand up and be able to truly protect those around him!
There were a total of six lightning strikes and each one was more destructive than the next. But the strikes didn't come one after another but had a long pause in-between. They also came at random times so one wouldn't know when it would come. Lei Yu said to himself: "Void Immortal, I hope you don't get obliterated by the heavenly lightning because I want to directly kill you myself! I will use my own strength to defeat you!"
After a full day and night, the skies started calming down and the storm clouds gradually dissipated revealing the blue sky once again. Lei Yu stood there unmoving until the heavenly lightning had come to an end. One could see the hot blood boiling in his eyes, which was the source of his current motivation!
Upon arriving at the Devil King's castle, Lei Yu said to himself: "I had always been counting on the green energy so in the future; I will have to count on my own abilities to become stronger!"
There was no day or night for Lei Yu while cultivating, and each time he would enter a deep meditative state for at least two months at a time. But it was also because of this that his strength continued to increase. Inside the Spiritual Bracelet of Frost, Xue Yu wasn't tired or bored and just continued to a.s.sist Lei Yu by purifying all the absorbed spiritual energy. This allowed Lei Yu's cultivation to yield twice the benefits with half the effort.
Sometime a year later…
Upon slowly opening his eyes, Lei Yu's lips curved into a smile. This was exactly his signature smile. Lei Yu then went to the small room in the back with the wooden door.
"We can leave now!" Lei Yu coldly said.
The Devil King's skull was glimmering with a green light, "You have truly made me shocked. Even without the help of my energy, I'm sure you would have reached this strength eventually. Not bad, not bad at all!"
"It's not necessary for you to praise me. Let's not delay anymore and head out!" Lei Yu's tone was cold and it wasn't a tone he would use towards others. But when facing this terrifying looking Devil King's skull, there was no way he could pretend to be amicable.
"I want to remind you that having more people accompany us it not necessary a good thing. It would actually be easier if you went alone!"
Those words of the Devil King made Lei Yu frown, but he still nodded. "Tell me, where's this place we're going to?"
"We're going to the eastern sea edge wherein the Forest of Fog lies!"
Chapter 338 – Forest Of Fog
"Why would your true body be there?"
"Don't ask so much, just act according to what I tell you!" The Devil King's tone was adamant.
Lei Yu didn't care about the tone since he originally wasn't that interested in it either. He was merely asking out of the blue. Since the guy didn't want to say it, he was too lazy to bother dwelling on it.
"There are four so called barriers of entry within the Forest of Fog. The first barrier has a guard called the Swordback Tiger – its strength is the weakest and it's only at the late Fusion Soul stage. It's good at long-range attacks so you need to be careful about it. The second barrier is the Great Dahl Ape – its strength is at the early Soul Splitting stage. Even though it has a powerful offensive and defensive capabilities, its speed is very slow so it shouldn't be considered much for you. As for the third barrier, you need to pay extra attention to it. There's actually two guards there – one is at the late Soul Splitting and the other at the early Boundary Transition stage. They are both of the Large Roc species and are commonly known as the two Demon Roc Emperors. Their attacks are extremely powerful but their weakness is their defensive ability."
"Are you serious?! One has the same strength as me while the other is a level higher than me! How the h.e.l.l am I supposed to fight them?" Exclaimed Lei Yu while frowning.
"Could it be that you still aren't familiar with your own strength? Based on your unique cultivation method and special physique, you are at least two levels higher than those at your same realm! You don't have to pretend to hide this from me because I am very clear about it!"
What the Devil King said was indeed correct. Back then when he was only at the early Gold Core stage, Xue Yu inside the Spiritual Bracelet of Frost mentioned his strength was similar to someone at the late Gold Core stage. And back then at the outer periphery of the Chaotic Star Sea, he fought with that tyrant Manor Lord. Even though that tyrant wasn't subdued by him in the end, Lei Yu was only at a slight disadvantage during the entire fight. That tyrant was over three levels higher than himself, which shows he is in fact capable of jumping levels in a fight.
Although it would be a difficult fight, as long as he used some strategy and displayed his unique abilities to their utmost, it's not impossible to defeat opponents a few levels higher.
"What happens if upon entering the Forest of Fog, these bunch of guardians suddenly surround me?"
"You don't have to worry about that. Each guardian has their own territory and will never take a single step out of it. Your opponents will all be separated and you will not encounter such a problem." Explained the Devil King.
"So, what about the fourth barrier? What will I encounter there? Don't tell me it's an even stronger existence?" Lei Yu asked in apprehension.
The floating skull nodded its head, "You are spot on. The most terrifying existence of the Forest of Fog will be the Sky Devouring Rat at the late Boundary Transition stage who hasn't undergone the heavenly lightning tribulation yet. Although its body is small, its specialty is exactly the same as yours – speed! Its speed is similar to instant teleportation and that's still not the most terrifying aspect. Its teeth are capable of biting through all things and it's coated with highly toxic poison. One cannot be injured by those teeth or even if it's the Ceng family, they still wouldn't be able to save you!"
Lei Yu stomped down, "What the f*ck?! There's no way I can defeat it then!"
The Devil King cackled in a gruesome manner, "Have you forgotten one of your specialities? You have the ability to hide your breath and aura. Upon entering the fourth barrier, hide your aura and just directly search for my true body there. Once my remnant soul is released and rejoins my true body, I can then a.s.sist you in the fight. By then, killing it will be easy as pie!"
Hearing the Devil King's words, Lei Yu's brow went up slightly. "Then doesn't that mean upon entering the Forest of Fog, all I have to do is hide my aura and directly pa.s.s through everything? Why would I need to bother fighting with the other guardians?"
"That won't work." The Devil King shook his head, "Only the first outer barrier allows you to enter freely with your strength while subsequent ones will require defeating the guardians in order to obtain the key to enter the next barrier."
"The key is inside their body?" Lei Yu asked with wide eyes.
"This is just a metaphor, I'll tell you more about it when the time comes." After pausing for a bit, the Devil King continued: "This is all I have to say to you for now. Once you take care of your matters, let's quickly start the journey. Remember, it's best if you went alone or else the fourth barrier's Sky Devouring Rat won't be able to be avoided!"
Lei Yu was thinking that wasn't it basically forcing him to go by himself? That Sky Devouring Rat is at the late Boundary Transition stage and has the ability to devour anything. If he brought Golden Tiger and company who aren't its opponent, the instantaneous teleportation speed of the rat could easily kill them all before they even have a chance to look for the Devil King's true body.
Lei Yu reached the desert right outside the Devil King's castle and was still figuring out how to explain this to everyone. Off in the distance, a piercing noise was heard that made Lei Yu turn to its direction. It was there that he noticed two people floating in the air.
"Void Immortal? Why did he come here?" Lei Yu frowned as he whispered to himself. He then hid his aura and slowly went forth. There was only the bull-head confronting the Void Immortal while everyone else stayed inside the castle.
As he got closer, Lei Yu was finally able to hear the conversation of those two. He heard the bull-head coldly say: "You have just reached the Mahayana stage and want to see who would win or lose in a fight? Aren't you overestimating yourself a bit?"
"Demon King! This Southern Wild Lands that originally belonged to me was taken by you several hundred of years ago. It was also because of you that I was seriously injured back then. Now that I've successfully reached the Mahayana stage, I came today in order to conclude our affairs!" The Void Immortal coldly replied.
Lei Yu was shocked upon realizing those two also had such a relationship in the past.
There was no change in the bull-head's expression since he didn't even place the Void Immortal in his eyes. His voice was still cold: "You've only reached the Mahayana stage two years ago. Now that you've come looking for me, it's equivalent to courting your own death!"
"Then let's try it out and the results will be automatically revealed!" The Void Immortal narrowed his eyes as he said that. He then slowly opened up his arms from left to right and six huge swords made of internal energy appeared floating behind his back. His momentum was much stronger than several years ago!
Lei Yu stared with wide eyes. For two super experts to fight, it would a be an extreme pity for anyone to miss out on it!
Lei Yu was currently hiding behind a sand dune and it was fortunate his upper body was bare because his bronze skin color was very similar to the color of the sand. And because those two were both concentrating on each other, they wouldn't notice that there was a pair of eyes staring at them from below.
"Humph, merely acting reckless!" The bull-head coldly harrumphed while his two arms shook. A golden colored internal energy rose out of his arms and formed a pair of huge golden axes.
It was no wonder that the bull-head gave the Ares axe to Tai Lao because there was no longer any need for him to use physical weapons anymore!
The Void Immortal was the first to act as he pointed with both hands and all six swords shot out at once. This move was a bit different from when his deceased disciple Kun Xian used back then. Each of the six sword qi's had armageddon like destructive powers, and as long as he wished to, it was capable of completely destroying the entire city of the Southern Wild Lands. The city would then be just like the Devil King's castle being completely buried by sand!
How would the bull-head allow him such a chance? He waved both arms and the two golden lights were released from his hand.