Chapter 69: Lightning Technique Spiritual Treasure, Spell Breakthrough!

After snatching three treasures from the cave, Zhao Xing retreated immediately.

Because the sensation of the three treasures gathered together was too strong and couldn't be digested in a short while, he chose the Altar Square.

The Altar Square is the outer area of the temple, where fighting is prohibited at certain times. As long as you enter during this time period, you are absolutely safe.

Otherwise, if the officials had to compete with each other and also face the dangers on the mountain, the difficulty would be too high.

After Zhao Xing entered the square, although the peeping gazes were there, no one dared to take action, nor could they take action, and the straw men entered one after another.

"Only thirty-four straw men left."

"However, the Vajra Warriors still account for half."

Exploring the mountain cat cave caused the greatest losses.

Some were because the spell effect reached its time limit, or because they appeared damaged, and Zhao Xing didn't renew them.

"Originally there were thirty-nine, and when entering the temple area, five more were lost, including three Vajra Warriors." Zhao Xing's eyes were cold, looking in several directions.

Standing on a large tree was an archery martial artist. He held a silver bow, and the arrows beside him shone with gorgeous light.

The clothes on his body were also extraordinary, actually able to change with the environment. If you didn't look carefully, it was easy to ignore him. It was this person who caused him to lose three Vajra Warriors.

"I remember you." Zhao Xing looked at the bow martial artist.

"Oh? Then I'll wait for you to come find me." The bow martial artist snorted coldly, responded, and then hid in the jungle.

Although failing to shoot through the Vajra Warrior completely made him somewhat surprised, this person was just an Agricultural Official, and couldn't pose a threat to him at all.

In another direction, there was a middle-aged scholar with a crown and belt, holding a feather fan. When Zhao Xing looked over, he not only wasn't angry but smiled and cupped his hands, as if it wasn't him who had burned the straw men just now.

"This is a Ritual Cultivator." Zhao Xing secretly thought. In the Zhou Dynasty's ritual and music system, "Music" is a cultivator like Lu Qian.

The "Ritual" among them also possesses great power; they can also be called "Literary Cultivators." Civil officials master the spells of Ritual.

When that person said to let him put down the spiritual treasure just now, an impulse to obey the other party's words was born in Zhao Xing's heart. Fortunately, he used the ghostly wind to shake the other party's soul, so the flames in the latter half of the other party's spell didn't burn onto himself.

In several other directions, some people actually took action, but Zhao Xing's movements were fast and the timing was precise, so some didn't hit Zhao Xing, and some had already passed the point where they could take action, so it was too late.

"This brother, this humble person..." Someone saw Zhao Xing was young and wanted to come up to talk, to see if there was a chance to cheat some benefits.

"Get lost!" Zhao Xing interrupted unceremoniously.

He controlled the straw men to form a perimeter in front of him, preventing those with ulterior motives from getting close, and at the same time formed a wind wall to avoid being disturbed by the sound.

Because the voices discussing him now were not small.

"Who is that person? His straw men are different from what I've seen; they seem very powerful."

"Actually able to block Gu Feng's three Meteor Arrows; do straw men have such high defensive power?"

"I recognize him, Zhao Xing of Gucheng, an official of the Agricultural Official Supervision."

"I have heard of Li Chengfeng in Gucheng, known as a gentleman. This person seems to have had a strange encounter; he won the thirteenth incense stick last night."

"This friend, if you know him, can you act as a go-between? I want to make friends with him."

"Make friends? He sees you, brother, as having taken a fancy to the spiritual treasure he carries, right?"

"I advise you not to get close. This one is not easy to provoke. Just now, when he roared, my scalp went numb, as if someone had poured a basin of ice water on me."

"I had the same feeling, as if the surrounding wind blew into my bones. No matter how I circulate my blood, I'm still shivering now."

"Tsk tsk tsk, there are more and more masters now, even the position of Agricultural Official has such a powerful character, one person with three spiritual treasures, and so many magical straw men!"

"It seems tonight's competition for the first incense will be even livelier than the first day."

"It's a pity I didn't see it, and I don't know what happened last night?"

"I know a little. Last night, that Yang Junxiong, one person and one bamboo horse, swept through his peers invincible, entered the temple, and won the first incense stick. That descendant of the Nanyang Du family spear, Du Jiaojiao, came a step late and only won the second incense stick."

"Both are Agricultural Officials, I don't know how this person compares to the True Person's descendant Cao Qiushui?"

"Shouldn't be able to compare, right?"

Casting Wind Rising, surrounding his whole body, isolating the noise from the outside world, Zhao Xing took out the treasures obtained from the mountain cat cave.

A purple stone, a page of yellow paper, and a blue lotus pod.

"Three types, all are mid-grade spiritual treasures."

"It seems what that mountain cat cared about so much was the high-grade spiritual treasure, the Luck Gold Cup." Zhao Xing secretly thought.

He didn't feel sorry either; being able to snatch three spiritual treasures at once and retreat unscathed was already very rare.

When a person's luck is erupting, as long as they are not greedy, they can keep the benefits.

If they are greedy, then they might not get anything, and they themselves might not be able to escape safely. Zhao Xing has seen too many examples.

"If there is progress on the third day, then I will try again to snatch the Luck Gold Cup. If not, I won't force it; I'll just go down the mountain."

Excluding distracting thoughts, Zhao Xing focused on what was in front of him.

He didn't dare to take the purple stone with his hand, but used wind to support it, because even the Vajra Warrior was electrocuted, and if his own flesh palm took it, he feared it would be crippled.

The reason it was called electrocuted, rather than burned, was precisely because this purple stone was a lightning-attribute spiritual treasure.

The Five Elements Wind overcomes Lightning; using a light breeze to support it, he wouldn't be harmed.

"What a rich lightning power!" Zhao Xing supported it close to his eyes to watch carefully. The stone was semi-transparent, and under a thin layer of stone skin, it was full of raging lightning.

This was completely a stone condensed from thunder!

"I don't know how that silly cat carried it into the cave. No wonder I always felt the mountain cat was as fast as lightning when moving; that wasn't an illusion. It probably gained a lot of benefits from this stone."

Without a doubt, this Thunder Stone belonged to the Lightning Technique spiritual treasure, containing pure lightning power within, which could help people understand lightning-type spells!

"Buzz~" Zhao Xing's other hand slowly approached, a wisp of vital energy emerged from his fingertips, slowly probing into it.

A slight tingling sensation came from his fingertips, and immediately Zhao Xing's eyes were unconsciously attracted by the Thunder Stone, his gaze completely immersed in the world inside the stone.

"Boom!"

The world inside the stone was completely a world of thunder. Zhao Xing seemed to be in a sea of thunder, watching these flashing lightning bolts.

In Zhao Xing's pupils, the world of thunder was reflected.

He couldn't help but start to comprehend, and the proficiency of his lightning spells also rose crazily.

[You comprehend the mid-grade spiritual treasure 'Thunder Stone', Lightning Technique proficiency increased by 1000 points!]

Just as it started, [Thunder Strike] immediately broke through to the 8th turn, and [Lightning Attraction] also took advantage of the trend to break through to the 2nd turn.