Chapter 179: Mining Gang and Killing People (Please vote for monthly tickets)

It was as if the Thunder Department and the Water Department had a conflict in ancient times, and the gods were fighting. The water didn't want to stay in the sea and insisted on going to the sky, while the thunder didn't want to hide in the clouds and desperately surged into the sea.

It was exactly: Water light and thunder light share the same color, angry waves and angry clouds fly together.

The vast heavenly power made people like ants. For a time, Cheng Xinzhan stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

"Virtuous brother!"

Huang Yunying laughed. He was also like this the first time he came to the Thunderstorm Sea, "Look..."

"Elder brother, you can just speak in your heart."

Cheng Xinzhan really couldn't stand it anymore. He performed the heart mansion magical power "Heart-Intention Clear Flame," and his voice rang directly in Huang Yunying's heart.

Huang Yunying was naturally startled and looked at Cheng Xinzhan in surprise. People in the demonic path liked to borrow external forces and rarely cultivated their own magical powers. He didn't expect this virtuous brother to have cultivated magical powers.

"Virtuous brother is?"

"When the righteous path besieged the Blood God Sect in the early years, I killed many righteous disciples and forced out a magical power."

Cheng Xinzhan found an excuse.

"Oh, that's indeed much more convenient."

"By the way, elder brother, what were you going to say just now?"

"Oh, elder brother wanted to remind you, fly high, you must look for the right time. First look at where the thunder is gathering in the clouds, about to fall but not yet, and then look at where the sea waves are flying high, wanting to disperse the thunder clouds. You have to go there early and wait."

"Wait until the Lei Gang is catalyzed and formed. At this time, use magical power to spread the mercury liquid into a net to wrap the Lei Gang. At this time, you must be fast. The Lei Gang will soon dissipate and turn back into water vapor, thunder yuan, and Yang energy. Only by using a mercury net to wrap the Lei Gang in time, making it gather into Gang Dew, and then immediately collect it into a lead bottle, can it be preserved."

"However, don't forget yourself. The wind and waves here are big, and the spiritual power is chaotic. Whether it is flying in the air or driving a vessel, it is very easy to be biased by the wind, waves, and spiritual energy tides. Be careful not to hit the thunder or waves. Otherwise, whether you are patted into the clouds or wrapped into the sea, it is very easy to lose your life."

Speaking with heart voice was much more convenient. A long paragraph of words was instantly transmitted to Cheng Xinzhan's heart, and he understood it very easily. This was actually no different from his collecting heavenly thunder to gather thunder pulp!

Looking for the right time, mining thunder, introducing it into a container, was a process. The difference was that mining thunder was guided by a guiding vessel, and mining Gang was captured by a mercury net. There was no essential difference.

As for the details of mining Gang, how to refine mercury, how to spread the net, how to close the net, how to condense dew, there was no need for Huang Yunying to teach him. The elders in the sect and the Daoist books didn't know how detailed they were.

"Brother Bie Lu understands, thank you, elder brother."

Cheng Xinzhan replied, then rose high into the air, and disappeared in a flash.

"Virtuous brother, slow down!"

Huang Yunying watched Cheng Xinzhan suddenly fly away and hurriedly greeted another person under Huang Laoxian to follow.

The sea was boundless. Even if the Thunderstorm Sea was considered small among the many sea areas of the East Sea, it was still a sea area. A hundred or so people rushed in, which was really no different from mayflies in the water. After a while, they all dispersed and couldn't see anyone.

And Cheng Xinzhan deliberately got rid of Huang Yunying, leaping in the rolling giant waves, and soon left Huang Yunying's line of sight.

He didn't know how the people in the Thunder Tasting Hall were appreciating him, whether it was direct Dharma eye investigation, or using magic treasure mirror scenes like the Pearl-Returning Building Master. But fortunately, there were no fifth-realm cultivators, which made Cheng Xinzhan much bolder. Moreover, thunder fell like rain here, flashing from time to time, sometimes dark as night, sometimes bright as day. When the thunder light and water light burst out, coupled with the heavenly power and the "Mysterious Machine No-Leak Talisman," if he wanted to perform some means, no one would be able to see it.

He not only wanted to mine thunder but also to kill demons.

Out of caution, he always kept his back to the Thunder Tasting Hall, galloping in the sea and sky, while operating the Green Pupil to search for thunder light, and also searching for other demons.

Soon, his eyes condensed, and he found a target.

In the distant sky, three people gathered together, guarding a purple thunder cloud.

Because they arrived first following Tuo Wang, Huang Yunying had introduced him to all the people brought by the demon kings behind. He recognized that these three were people under the Hui Wang of the Black Abyss Sea. Huang Yunying was still a regular customer of these few.

Huang Yunying had said that the Black Abyss Sea and the Reef Mountain Sea did the skin business on the sea. Snake boys and clam girls were popular in the four seas, and there were even snake gall and clam pearls that were secretly made after being taken alive, which were always good materials for refining Dharma and tools.

Chaotic sea demons, should be killed.

Seeing a giant wave generated, which was about to hit the purple thunder cloud in the sky, Cheng Xinzhan submerged into the sea and then dived into the giant wave.

The force in the wave was beyond Cheng Xinzhan's expectations, and the undercurrent was surging, almost making him unable to control himself. However, as he pinched the formula and recited the mantra in the water mansion of the Taiyin Emperor, he seemed to be completely integrated into the water, wanting to go wherever he wanted, and even his aura was completely restrained.

He followed the waves and flew high, performing water escape in the thousand-zhang high sky. This

He followed the high-flying waves, executing a Water Escape in the sky thousands of feet up—this was something he had never imagined before. The wave surged upward, and he, within the water, surged upward with it; in an instant, he was thousands of feet above the sea surface, where the clouds of heaven were within reach.

The three demons of the Ink Abyss Sea watched the wave charge into the clouds, knowing the moment had arrived. Each of them cast out mercury liquid, using their spiritual power to press and spread the mercury into a large silver net, waiting only for the moment when the water and thunder intersected.

This giant wave did not disappoint them. The water surged three thousand feet, shattering the thunderclouds. The silver-purple thunder was laid bare, appearing to be in a towering rage; electric snakes coiled and danced, and thunder dragons thrashed, striking fiercely against the sky-piercing giant wave.

"Bang!"

A thunderous roar like the opening of heaven and earth, sounding like a whip-gong beside one's ear, and yet also like the high chant of a divine dragon.

It is said that heavenly thunder and earthly fire ignite upon contact; now it seemed that heavenly thunder and earthly water intersecting was also extraordinary. The silver-purple thunder struck the deep blue water, and the blue-purple-white light that erupted instantly became the only color between heaven and earth, the entire giant wave being wrapped in electric radiance.

Following this, the giant wave seemed as if it were being boiled; densely packed bubbles the size of houses appeared within it, followed by a billowing, vast white mist of water.

And that spray of water at the crest of the giant wave was instantly cleaved into vapor by the thunder. This thunder-water vapor seemed to be a special kind of spiritual energy between heaven and earth; one breath of it left the whole body feeling comfortable and relaxed.

Along with this vapor, there also appeared a blue-purple band of light; amidst the vast white water mist, it looked like a gorgeous venomous snake, like colorful brocade gauze, like a rainbow after the rain.

"Dragon-Chant Water Lei Gang."

The three demons of the Ink Abyss Sea were overjoyed, one after another using their mercury nets to wrap it.

But it was at this very moment that, amidst the sky-piercing bubbles, a mass of silver-white mercury liquid broke through the waves and shot toward the blue-purple light band. Upon closing in, it instantly expanded into a net that was huge and thin—larger than any of the three demons' nets—and, amidst the encirclement of the other three nets, it scooped up the blue-purple light band. After capturing the Lei Gang, the mercury net instantly closed, transforming into a silver hollow sphere. The Lei Gang struck from within, wanting to escape, but even though the mercury sphere was extremely thin, whenever the Lei Gang touched the mercury wall, it would immediately shrink back.

The mercury sphere contracted sharply, once again transforming into a mass of mercury liquid.

Until the mercury liquid withdrew, the three were still somewhat dazed. How could mercury liquid fly out from the sea waves?

Who would lay an ambush inside the water waves?

Weren't the water waves connected to heavenly thunder?

At this moment, Cheng Xinzhan, inside the water waves, felt extremely exhilarated. When he first entered the sea, he had used the cover of the "Profound Mystery Leakless Talisman" to cast out his bamboo body, his soul entering the bamboo body and putting away his physical form.

Originally, the bamboo body, as a combination of a heavenly treasure and a talisman, was a top-tier spiritual object that could be stored within the physical body's acupoints. However, the physical body's acupoints, as a complete Inner Landscape Realm, could not be stored within the bamboo body, and the cave stone could not store living things, nor could it store the physical body. Thus, all along, he could carry the bamboo body while walking in his physical form, but if he wanted to walk about in the bamboo body, his physical form had to be placed in a safe location.

But now, that was unnecessary, because he had previously discovered that the "Supreme Heavenly Capital Talisman" was miraculous; not only could it store the Inner Landscape Spirit, but it could also store the physical body! At the same time, the "Supreme Heavenly Capital Talisman," as a talisman, could itself be stored within the bamboo body.

And the bamboo body, the physical body, and the Supreme Clarity Talisman could all serve as vessels for the Inner Landscape Spirit and the soul to travel and reside in; it was truly convenient. This solved a major problem for him, allowing him to realize the transformation between his physical body and bamboo body at any time.

Just after entering the water, he stored his physical body and used the bamboo body to hide within the waves. When the heavenly thunder surged into the waves, he used the bamboo body to receive it; the bamboo body did not fear heavenly thunder, but was instead naturally a vessel for guiding and receiving thunder. After the heavenly thunder entered the bamboo body, the three gods of the Thunder Residence immediately entered the bamboo body from the physical body, transforming the heavenly thunder into thunder paste and storing it in the bamboo body's Thunder Residence.

In the current bamboo body's Thunder Residence, the thunder paste was already filling the pond to the brim.

However, in order to play the part fully, although he felt exhilarated inside, his face still wore an expression of extreme pain as if struck by thunder. He hid among the countless bubbles in the waves, floating upward with them, and finally, to the three demons' disbelief, he rushed out of the water waves and snatched up the mercury liquid. At the same time, he cast out "Youdu"; the sword light remained dazzling amidst the water and thunder light. The flying sword sped between the clouds and water, tracing an arc, the trailing tail of the purple-vermilion sword evil looking like a rainbow—one sword, three heads severed!

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"Whose subordinate is this?!"

In the Thunder Appreciation Hall, a man with a black dragon crown on his head slapped the table and stood up.

"Xuan Ye, with the Great Sage away, can you be this presumptuous?"

At the very head of the row where the man had stood, a man in white robes frowned and said.

The man in black, addressed as Xuan Ye, heard this and slightly restrained his angry expression, bowing his hands to the white-robed man who had spoken.

"I dare not be disrespectful to King Han; it is Xuan Ye who has lost his composure."

"Sit down and speak."

Xuan Ye sat down upon hearing this, but his face remained indignant. "Whose family is it, anyway? If they want to seize the Gang, let them seize it; to kill my three subordinates without a word—is this not being too bloodthirsty!"

At this moment, inside the great hall, over a dozen mirror-scenes floated in the air near the door. The images within were not identical, but all were of demons who had entered the Thunderstorm Sea, scenes of them harvesting the Lei Gang.

These were the "mirror-flower, water-moon" techniques conjured by the various demon kings present, used to watch the battles of those under their command.

Xuan Ye pointed to one of the scenes, and the mirror-scene replayed according to his will; it was exactly the scene of Cheng Xinzhan breaking through the waves and killing the three demons with one sword strike.

"A fine flying sword, a fine sword-controlling technique."

King Han looked at the mirror-scene and commented with a smile. Compared to Xuan Ye, King Han was undoubtedly more like someone enjoying a play.

Huang Laosan looked at the mirror-scene, his heart skipping a beat. But since it was people from the Ink Abyss Sea who were killed, and King Han had even praised it, that was a good thing. At this time, no one had recognized him yet; Huang Laosan knew that the Turtle King had been sleeping and had only come over after waking up and finishing his blood meal, not even glancing at the second-realm subordinates, so he likely didn't know at all.

He stood up and ran with small steps to the Turtle King's side, fawningly smiling.

"Great King, this is one of your subordinates."

The Turtle King, watching Xuan Ye's exasperated appearance, was already full of smiles. At this moment, hearing Huang Laosan's words, he laughed out loud, his belly heaving, his laughter like thunder.

"Black Loach, so what if he is my man?"

Everyone hearing the Turtle King open his mouth immediately wore an expression of "as expected." Everyone present knew that the Turtle King and the Snake King did not get along.

Xuan Ye also wore an expression of bad luck. Since it was the subordinate of this thick-skinned worm, he couldn't be bothered to say anything more. In any case, the relationship between the Ink Abyss Sea and the Big-Belly Sea had already reached the worst possible point; only the two of them, under the Great Sage's warning, had not resorted to real force, but their subordinates would fight to the death upon meeting. This time entering the Thunderstorm Sea, he had likewise instructed his subordinates that if they saw anyone from the Big-Belly Sea, they should fight to the death and not hold back.

"Jin Jia, when did you get a subordinate who can use a flying sword? That is not often seen in our East Sea."

King Han sat at the head above the Turtle King and now looked over with a smile.

It turned out the Turtle King's real name was Jin Jia. He knew nothing about Cheng Xinzhan, so seeing King Han look over, he turned his gaze to Huang Laosan.

Huang Laosan, now being watched by the two demon kings, felt somewhat nervous and swallowed his saliva.

"Reporting to the two Great Kings, this person is named Feng Brother Bie Lu. He fled from the shore several months ago and was originally a disciple of the Blood God Sect in the North on land, hence he is skilled with the flying sword."

"So that's how it is."

King Han nodded, his eyes flickering.

The Blood God Sect—what a coincidence. The two Great Sages had left the sea this time at the invitation of the Blood God Child to discuss major matters. He had heard the Great Sage say that this Blood God Child was very formidable, with heaven-reaching strength, and in recent years had been connecting with leaders of various demon sects, already vaguely having the shadow of a behind-the-scenes Demon Dao Alliance Leader.

"Jin Jia, when they come out later, call this Feng Brother Bie Lu in. I have a few words I'd like to ask him."

"Good, good!"

The Turtle King nodded with a smile. In the East Sea Demon Dao, below the Great Sage, he only respected King Han. King Han also had a flying sword in his hand; could it be that he wanted to offer some pointers?

The Turtle King patted Huang Laosan and simply said, "Not bad."

Huang Laosan's face immediately blossomed into a smile, and he nodded repeatedly.

As for why this Feng Brother Bie Lu had defected from the Blood God Sect, Huang Laosan didn't say, and King Han and the Turtle King didn't ask. Those matters within a Demon Dao master's sect were truly not worth mentioning.

Huang Laosan ignored the murderous glares of the other three leaders and happily returned to his seat, thinking that this Brother Bie Lu was truly his lucky star.

Subsequently, he looked at the mirror-scene again. At this time, the Turtle King pointed his hand, and one of the mirror-scenes focused on Cheng Xinzhan. At this moment, Huang Laosan saw Cheng Xinzhan strip the other three clean, not even sparing the lead vessels and mercury nets, and finally, he released mosquito-gu to suck the three men's essence and blood dry.

A lucky star, indeed, but also truly a murderous star.

He thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)