Chapter 1487: Thunder Tree Path

When Li Luo led his team charging into the Thunder Finger Peak, the sound of ten thousand thunderclaps roared in their ears, and their vision was filled with silver light, with thunder surging across the sky.

Li Luo focused his gaze ahead, only to see tall silver trees standing all over the mountains. These silver trees were extremely peculiar, with silver thunder flickering upon them, emitting tremendous rumbling sounds.

Between the silver thunder trees, passages leading deep into the Thunder Finger Peak had formed.

At this time, other top-tier teams also charged into the Thunder Finger Peak. The leaders of these teams mostly possessed the Thunder Physique or similar-aligned physiques. To seize time upon entering, they immediately chose a thunder tree passage and sped away.

Boom!

And when these people charged into the thunder tree passages, those thunder trees immediately erupted with tremendous rumbling, with streaks of silver thunder striking down like giant pythons, their momentum terrifying.

Facing the bombardment of these silver thunderbolts, the forward progress of many teams was slowed.

Some strongmen, confident in their strength, attempted to skim through the air above the thunder trees, but above the Thunder Finger Peak hung thick thunderclouds. From deep within the thunderclouds, countless even more terrifying thunder lights erupted directly, heavily wounding all those who tried to skim through the air and knocking them down.

Clearly, to reach the summit of the Thunder Finger Peak, one had to follow the rules here.

Among those teams, Li Luo also spotted Fang Xingyun.

After all, Fang Xingyun possessed the Thunder Dragon Physique, so choosing the Thunder Finger Peak was not surprising.

Among those people, the team led by Zhou Jun advanced the fastest. Relying on his powerful Upper Eighth Grade strength, he had eight Marquis Platforms flickering with thunder above his head, blocking all the silver thunder pouring down from the thunder trees.

Li Luo did not hesitate too long. After a brief observation, he took the lead, with three Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms appearing above his head. Rolling Marquis Divine Smoke swept out, shattering all the countless silver thunderbolts that came crashing down.

Occasionally, some silver thunderbolts slipped through, but before they could erupt, a domineering extreme ice-physique force swept past, actually freezing the thunder solid, which then shattered into countless ice shards.

That was Lu Qing'er making her move.

Above her head were two Ten-Pillar Golden Platforms seemingly cast from ice, flowing with cold energy capable of freezing everything. In the current team, Lu Qing'er, with her Unparalleled Second Grade, was second only to Li Luo. In terms of combat power, even a Sixth Grade Marquis strongman could do nothing to her. And most importantly, she seemed to possess the Holy Ice Seed. Once this trump card was deployed, its power was unimaginable.

Thus, under the perfect coordination of the two of them, the silver thunder pouring down like a rainstorm did not pose much of an obstacle to their forward progress.

But Li Luo did not let his guard down because of this, for he understood that this was only the outer region of the Thunder Finger Peak. As they drew closer to the summit, the thunder energy here would grow increasingly terrifying.

"Li Luo, if the path ahead becomes difficult later, you don't need to worry about us. With our strength, being able to enter this thirty-first floor is already a perfect completion of the mission." Amid the countless thunderclaps, Instructor Xi Shan's voice came through.

Cao Sheng and Mi Er also nodded. If they had not happened to break through this time, they probably would not even have qualified to enter this thirty-first floor. Yet even so, entering now was only a strained effort. If they had to resist those silver thunderbolts outside on their own, they would probably be heavily wounded after no more than ten strikes.

Upon hearing this, Li Luo smiled and replied, "Instructor, rest assured. If I really cannot bear it, I naturally won't act rashly."

According to the rules, for teams that ascend the Mirror Altar in the same batch, aside from the first place receiving the first-clear opportunity, the remaining members could also receive a share, though its richness could not compare to that of the first-clear recipient.

So Li Luo still wanted to try his best to see if he could let Instructor Xi Shan and the others get a share here as well. Of course, if the situation truly did not permit it, Li Luo naturally would not force it.

A trace of emotion welled up in Xi Shan's tranquil, intelligent, autumn-water-like beautiful eyes. Coming to the Celestial Mirror Pagoda this time, Li Luo had truly done everything in his power to provide her with shelter and assistance. If not for him, let alone obtaining an opportunity, she feared that Xi Li would not have let her off easily.

And all of this was because of a seed of kindness planted back in the days at the Saint Mystic Star Academy.

Now, the frail youth she had once sheltered had grown into a towering tree, and could even begin to cast the shade of shelter over her.

"Li Luo has a sentimental nature. Instructor Xi Shan has taught a good student." Instructor Cao Sheng said with a somewhat envious smile. This time, they had truly ridden entirely on Xi Shan's coattails.

Lu Qing'er's ice-blue eyes shot over as she said, "Is Instructor Cao Sheng hinting that I, as your student, have not properly honored you?"

The smile on Cao Sheng's rugged face instantly stiffened, and he hurriedly said, "How could that be! Where would I need you to honor me? I would rather treat you like a Xiaozu Sect and worship you!"

"And then beg Qing'er to put in a good word for you in front of her mother, right?" Mi Er said with a beaming smile.

Who didn't know that Cao Sheng had once pursued President Yu, and still couldn't forget her to this day. Many Marquis strongmen of the Great Xia secretly called him President Yu's number one simp.

Cao Sheng's face instantly alternated between green and pale, and he said somewhat exasperatedly, "Laozi is willing!"

On Lu Qing'er's always frost-touched, beautiful cheeks, a faint smile could not help but surface at this moment. But immediately after, she sensed a gaze looking at her from the front. As her eyes lifted, they met Li Luo's gaze.

Li Luo smiled and said, "Qing'er, the way you are now feels a bit like back at the academy."

Lu Qing'er stared at him with clear eyes and said, "What feeling I want to show, is that up to me?"

Li Luo was momentarily at a loss.

Lu Qing'er snorted coldly and said disdainfully, "If you don't dare, then don't flirt carelessly."

Li Luo felt helpless in his heart. He was just showing concern as a friend, and he had to be criticized for this? How could he not know what Lu Qing'er meant? It was just that his heart and mind were entirely with Jiang Qing...

How could he respond to that?

So he could only silently turn his head and face the raging silver thunderbolts.

Seeing him like this, Lu Qing'er couldn't help but clench her fists a little, and her eyes returned to a cold, piercing look.

The others in the team—Li Hongyou, Xi Shan, Cao Sheng, and Mi Er—merely watched the show in silence. They had no intention of getting involved in such complicated emotional entanglements. Let these young ones sort it out themselves.

The Thunder Tree Path was extremely long, but the offensive of the silver thunder was relentless. As time went on, to preserve their strength, the various teams began to take turns being at the very front to resist.

Li Luo did not act overconfident either. He took turns with Lu Qing'er, striving to conserve physique force, after all, no one knew what kind of trials might appear later.

Thus, about an hour later.

The Thunder Tree Path finally reached its end. Joy surfaced on the faces of Li Luo and the others, and then their speed suddenly increased as they burst out of this long tree path.

The silver thunder light flooding their vision finally dissipated completely.

But the many teams that had burst out of the Thunder Tree Path had no time to catch their breath before they saw, in the mountain forests, Gao Po, and mountain ravines ahead, thunder beasts slowly emerging one after another.

These thunder beasts were entirely golden, with thunder light flickering, as if condensed from golden thunderbolts.

Each thunder beast emitted extremely violent thunder fluctuations. In terms of strength, they were comparable to Sixth Grade Marquis strongmen!

The many teams all felt their scalps tingle.

The difficulty of this Celestial Mirror Martial Discussion was too inhuman!