Chapter 109: Ancient Method Rank 9, Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool! Geniuses Like Clouds!

"I'm about to leave the Earth Fire Plain." Zhao Xing cast Bright Eyes and looked into the distance, seeing some green vegetation appearing ahead.

"I cast the Earth-Splitting Art three times. This route through the Earth Fire Plain should be able to block the people behind for quite some time; no one will be able to catch up for a while."

Zhao Xing also breathed a sigh of relief. After running out of the Earth Fire Plain, he immediately found a cool place to rest.

He didn't prop up clouds, mainly because the three suns in the sky were now at their most powerful.

Even the almanac gave a small ominous warning: [Three suns in the sky return to the cardinal positions, clouds are difficult to condense, rain is difficult to fall]

"At this time, let alone bringing down rain, even moving clouds is difficult."

Although Zhao Xing practiced the Cloud-Swallowing spell and could absorb water-traveling power to the greatest extent, at this time the water-traveling power was not apparent, so no matter how much he could absorb, it was useless if it wasn't there.

"I wonder if there is anyone in front of me."

When entering from the large lake entrance, if the angle of drilling through the boundary wall was slightly off, it could lead to a large difference in the actual landing point.

Zhao Xing judged that he was relatively close to the Earth Fire Plain—Si Nong Inspectorate route, but it wasn't certain that someone wasn't closer.

"Forget it, don't think so much. It's only ten thousand points; better not get injured." Zhao Xing was a bit tempted to travel through the three suns in the sky, but he still had to repay the Dao of the Lihuo True Monarch.

If he got injured, for example, broke his leg, that would be troublesome.

"It's best to repay the Dao within a month. Repaying the Dao within three months has an impact. Repaying the Dao after more than half a year is torture; you have to be targeted by the fire-traveling power between heaven and earth at all times, as if you were in a furnace."

Unless absolutely necessary and in a hurry to travel, no one would choose to borrow the Dao of the Lihuo True Monarch.

If you hadn't repaid the Dao after a year, you would just die!

As for other Daoist temples, they also had similar methods, but the cost was even greater.

If it really came to that time, unless the head of the Daoist temple was willing to take action and accept you as a true disciple, you could temporarily delay repaying the Dao, but you would still have to repay it afterward to eliminate it.

Or you had a supreme treasure in hand, or the Son of Heaven issued an edict.

The Son of Heaven was an invincible existence under the Qi Luck Dynasty model, and an imperial edict could naturally exempt one from repaying the Dao.

However, these methods were just things to listen to; the difficulty of obtaining them was greater than repaying the Dao itself.

After resting for a while, he slowly recovered his Qi.

Gathering Qi to absorb the Qi of heaven and earth generally involved breathing in gentle Qi.

Now the Qi of heaven and earth was mixed with scorching fire-traveling power, making it difficult to absorb even by gathering Qi.

Fortunately, he had taken the Giant Whale Pill, and his physique had become much stronger.

His Life Soul had reached the mid-stage of Rank 9. The Life Soul determined the endurance of the Seven Souls.

Thus, Zhao Xing could also slowly recover in this harsh environment.

"According to the ancient cultivation system, Rank 9 Gathering Qi, Rank 8 Spirit Bridge, Rank 7 Earth Fiend, Rank 6 Heavenly Gang, Rank 5 Pure Qi, Rank 4 Origin Soul, Rank 3 Origin Spirit, Rank 2 Heavenly Luck, Rank 1 Life Palace."

"Reaching the Spirit Bridge Realm, the body and heaven and earth build a bridge of heaven and earth, the Qi absorption speed increases greatly, and the efficiency of purifying Qi also increases greatly."

"Afterward, one can borrow earth veins to refine Fiends, borrow stars to refine Gangs, further strengthening the physique. Reaching Rank 5, the Qi absorbed in the body can be called Pure Qi, and the body will also show divine anomalies."

"Rank 4 Origin Soul, nourishing the Seven Souls with Pure Qi. Rank 3 Origin Spirit, then the Seven Souls are nourished, and the Life Soul also grows stronger, can frequently intersect with the Heavenly Soul and Earth Soul, and begins to perceive one's own destiny."

"Rank 2 Heavenly Luck, begins to find ways to enhance one's own Qi Luck, looking for spiritual lands between heaven and earth to cultivate in seclusion, to enhance one's own Qi Luck. At this realm, one begins to look for Cave Heaven Blessed Lands to cultivate in seclusion."

"Rank 1 Life Palace, then begins to cultivate life, knowing how long one can live, so begins to build the Life Palace, protecting the Three Souls, attempting to change destiny."

While recovering his Qi, Zhao Xing also sorted out the information he knew: "The difference between the ancient method system and the Qi Luck system is that the Qi Luck Dynasty has intervened in this system, wanting to 'act on behalf of heaven'."

"Whether it is Gathering Qi, Spirit Bridge, Earth Fiend, Heavenly Gang, Pure Qi, the national Qi Luck can easily help people complete this process. Reaching the step of Pure Qi is not considered difficult. Afterward, one must cooperate with external objects, bestowing officials with Cave Heaven Blessed Lands to cultivate, and finally helping to cast the Life Palace."

"If the Life Palace is completed, one can live for eight hundred years. However, most officials cannot live for eight hundred years. The Qi Luck Dynasty doesn't cultivate officials for nothing. Cultivating people also means using people. Those who can reach the Rank 1 Life Palace realm have all exchanged their lives for it, and this process itself will also cause some loss of lifespan."

Zhao Xing's requirements in the Jing Emperor's dynasty were not high; just being able to mix into the Rank 5 Pure Qi realm would be enough. The Jing Emperor was too stingy; it was too difficult to mix into above Rank 5 under him, more difficult than in any other period.

He was greatly influenced by Duke Zhou of the Taizu period. Duke Zhou's "exhorting officials not to exhort the common people" was understood by the Jing Emperor as "suffering the officials and also suffering the aristocratic families."

For families like Zong Shichang's commandery gentry, wanting to be a small Rank 9 official, they had to cut off half of their family property just to find connections.

"Hum~"

Just at this moment, the almanac in Zhao Xing's bosom trembled slightly.

It showed that one of the three suns in the sky had begun to deviate from the cardinal position.

"Can continue to travel."

Zhao Xing took out the map and began to carefully compare the orientation.

"There are three routes from the Earth Fire Plain to the Si Nong Inspectorate."

"One is to cross the [Gang Wind Mountain Range]. The Gang Wind Mountain Range, as the name suggests, has strong gang winds blocking the way. Setting this route is also considered an assessment of the reserve military Si Nong's control over wind spells."

"The second is to pass through the [Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool]. The ten thousand mile thunder zone has extremely terrifying thunder clouds that do not dissipate all year round. Only when the seven suns in the sky appear will they become thinner and fainter, and only when ten suns in the sky appear will they completely dissipate."

"The third is to walk along the [Heavenly Fire Path]. The Heavenly Fire Path is a crater formed by meteorites, and it is extremely regular; the meteorite craters are like circular rings spreading on the earth."

"Of the three routes, the Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool and the Gang Wind Mountain Range are the closest, and the Heavenly Fire Path is slightly further away. Of course, I can also walk along the Earth Fire Plain for another half day and take a detour to another route, but the total distance would be more than three times longer."

Zhao Xing carried his bamboo box and walked forward. He didn't know his precise location in the Earth Fire Plain now, so he had to walk and see.

"Look into the distance with the Bright Eyes spell. If what I see is a mountain, then it proves that I am closer to the Gang Wind Mountain Range."

"If I see thunder clouds first, then it proves that I am closer to the Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool."

"It's best to go through the Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool. After all, I practiced the Cloud-Swallowing spell, and for the Gang Wind Mountain Range, I only know the intermediate-level Yin Wind, but I haven't had time to learn the Yang Wind, only at the perfection level of the primary level."

Due to the need to observe the terrain, and because the power of the three suns in the sky still remained, the consumption of using spells to assist in traveling was too great, so it was better to run forward with his own flesh and blood. Zhao Xing just ran while carrying the bamboo box.

With every step he ran, Zhao Xing could feel the Lihuo Dao wrapped around his body weaken a little, but he would think of this every time he walked a mile.

After walking ten miles, the progress of the Lihuo Dao weakening was twice as fast as expected.

"Traveling with a load can also speed up the repayment of the Dao. The Lihuo True Monarch is not rigid after all," Zhao Xing smiled slightly. The original intention of setting this rule was to make people feel tired and not easily disturb the Lihuo Daoist Temple to borrow the divine altar fire pond. Running with a load, the fatigue level doubles, and naturally, the speed of repaying the Dao also speeds up accordingly.

Just as Zhao Xing was running forward to find the next area.

In the Earth Fire Plain behind, hundreds of people had gathered in front of the second earth fire isolation zone.

"Hot, hot to death!"

"Who the hell cast the spell here? It's simply insane!"

"Don't let me know, otherwise I'll have to beat him up!"

"It's really infuriating. Is the current fury level of the Earth Fire Plain still normal? My eyebrows are gone!"

"Brother, you're lucky; only your eyebrows are gone. There are a dozen bald heads and scabby heads over there."

"..."

"Water, water... which brother brought water? Can you give me a sip? A good person will have peace for a lifetime." Ouyang Song shuttled weakly through the crowd, wanting to ask for some water to drink.

His lips were now cracked, his forehead was red, and his eyes were bloodshot. He had already been invaded by the fire Qi into his body; it couldn't be said to be just heavy fire Qi, it had reached the level of producing fire poison in his body.

"Sorry, I don't have water."

"Get away, if you want to drink, I want to drink too!"

"Humph, shameful. A military Si Nong is short of water to drink?"

"If you don't have the strength, why break through the Earth Fire Plain?"

"Big brother, if you get water, share some with me."

"..."

Ouyang Song was so tired that he lay on the ground, completely unwilling to speak.

He looked at the three suns in the sky, and the pride he had when he first came in had vanished.

When he was at Five Plates Mountain, he was valued wherever he went, and everyone he met greeted him with a smile.

Since he was a teenager, he had performed excellently. After entering the Five Plates Army, the evaluation he heard most was "genius."

Especially after being selected by the Town Sea Army, he was even more proud. Before leaving, his family held a banquet to celebrate for seven days, because this year he was only twenty-six years old and had obtained such an opportunity. What kind of glory was that?

But now, Ouyang Song had no pride at all.

There were hundreds of geniuses like him here, and more than half were stronger than him.

Being scorched by the three suns in the sky, at least half of the people here could stand firm without getting fire poison.

"What kind of damn genius am I..." Ouyang Song lay on the ground and muttered to himself. He now longed for a glass of water to be placed in front of him.

"Gurgle~" Ouyang Song swallowed his throat, and his eyes gradually focused, because he really drank a glass of water.

Although it was very little, it was enough for him to recover some sanity.

"Thank, thank you." Ouyang Song looked at a young man in front of him and got up to salute.

"You're welcome. My name is Wei Chen, and I was also selected by the Town Sea Army to participate in the training."

"Many thanks, Brother Wei. My name is Ouyang Song."

"You've already said that." Wei Chen helped Ouyang Song up and gave him another big sip of water. "I just came over. Do you know what's going on?"

With the clear water entering his body, Ouyang Song took the opportunity to suppress the fire Qi, and he had some strength to speak: "I don't know who walked in front. It's fine that he walked, but he also cast a spell to destroy the weak points of the Earth Fire Plain. I can't tell what spell that person cast."

"It should be the Five Elements Earth-Splitting Art." Wei Chen scanned the front. "A single fire-traveling Earth-Splitting Art couldn't have such great destructive power, unless that person's fire-traveling Earth-Splitting Art is perfect, or even broke through the shackles and went a step further."

"How can you tell?" Ouyang Song was stunned.

"Because the fire-traveling power here is already excessive." Wei Chen explained. "It's excessive to the extreme. After casting the spell, adding a little more fire-traveling power wouldn't be able to guide the earth vein to erupt again."

"So in this situation, the power of the Five Elements Earth-Splitting Art is stronger. It is grabbing the other four elements that are few in the earth vein as fuel to fuel the earth vein fire, which is why it can cause this effect of adding fuel to the fire."

"So that's it." Ouyang Song pretended to suddenly understand, but in fact, he didn't fully understand. Because he hadn't practiced the Earth-Splitting Art, nor was he from the Earthly Advantage School. For the Earthly Advantage School, he only practiced Earth Vein Synthesis and Earth Store Returning to Origin.

But he knew one thing: this Wei Chen was probably much stronger than him.

Even stronger than the Zhuo Li he had met before.

"Brother Wei is truly a genius. You will definitely be able to serve in the Town Sea Army."

Wei Chen shook his head: "Brother Ouyang praises me too much. To say that I have some certainty of passing this training, the name of genius is really not deserved. There are many people stronger than me."

"How many?" Ouyang Song was really straightforward and asked directly.

Wei Chen pondered: "As far as I know, there are at least twenty or thirty people stronger than me, mostly geniuses selected by the Tiger Jiao Army."

"Next are the Blazing Sun Army and the Black Armor Army."

"I was selected from the Night Owl Army in the Pingman Legion. The Tiger Jiao Army also came to my place when they were picking people from various places. At that time, I saw the geniuses picked by the Tiger Jiao Army from other places. Their way of picking people is quite special."

"What kind of special way?" Ouyang Song asked.

"They started filtering during the selection stage. Every time they went to a place, they would take the geniuses they had already picked and have a fight with the geniuses of the local army. The winner would enter the training list, and the loser would be eliminated and sent back to the original place."

Wei Chen sighed: "I'm not afraid of Brother laughing, but at that time the Captain of the Tiger Jiao Army gave us some face and let me pick four people at will, as long as I tied one game, I could get in. The opponent was the same Rank 9 as me, but I lost all four games."

"What?!" Ouyang Song was shocked. He felt that Wei Chen was already very strong. After all, a military Si Nong could see some things from his knowledge, and Wei Chen arrived here without any problems and could talk to himself.

He didn't expect Wei Chen to say that there were people of the same rank stronger than him.

"Brother Wei, do you know..."

"Don't say anymore, Brother Ouyang. The three suns have deviated from the cardinal positions. The opportunity is rare, I'm leaving! Goodbye!" Wei Chen stepped on clouds, the wind spell led the way, actually suppressing the pillars of earth fire, and flew directly across a distance of nearly a hundred meters, landing on the opposite bank.

This time the words were still not finished, but Ouyang Song was not angry, just stared blankly at the direction Wei Chen was going, and arched his hands: "Many thanks."

"Boom crack!"

There was thunder coming with the wind. Zhao Xing stood on the hillside and looked into the distance.

He saw a black line floating on the horizon, stretching endlessly, almost unable to see the end.

"That is the Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool. Fortunately, it is only ten thousand miles horizontally, and I only need to cross about ten miles vertically." Zhao Xing looked at the terrifying thunder clouds.

At this time, the three suns were gradually deviating from the cardinal positions. The opportunity was rare. Zhao Xing immediately cast the Wind-Rising spell, stepped on clouds, and rushed toward the thunder clouds.

The sky gradually darkened, and just as he was about to enter the thunder cloud area, he found seven or eight figures on the left and right also rushing toward the thunder cloud area.

"There are really many experts. There are actually so many people who have reached this Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool, and they are all catching the heavenly time and earthly advantage."

"It's obvious that they know that the three suns in the sky deviating from the cardinal positions will have an impact on the Thunder Pool. The second is that they discovered that the thunder clouds in this area are thinner." Zhao Xing glanced at the surroundings. He could see that the goal of these people was the valley in front.

Zhao Xing knew that fighting was inevitable, so he immediately increased the wind-rising intensity, and the clouds and mist under his feet became even thicker.

But as he accelerated, the people on the left and right seemed to have heard the starting gun and also rushed wildly.

Some people even moved clouds in advance, and their goals were very clear, which was to seize control.

"My intermediate wind spell is Yin Wind. Using it to travel only has the primary-level Wind-Rising, which is slower than them. I'm afraid they will catch up soon." Zhao Xing immediately judged the situation. This was also the reason why he chose to walk through the Ten Thousand Mile Thunder Pool. For the intermediate wind spell, Yin Wind and Yang Wind, he had only learned Yin Wind and hadn't had time to learn the Yang Wind spell.

"Strike first!" Zhao Xing watched the fifteen people on the left and right start to lean toward his side. Even if he went all out, he couldn't shake them off, so he chose to take the initiative. ===== CHAPTER 110 =====