Chapter 3650: Thunder! Come!

Not being able to enter the Gate of Rebirth made Wu Berlian feel he had missed a tremendous opportunity, but now seeing Ye Chen, he felt this was heaven's favor—though the great opportunity was gone, a small one had been given to him instead.

Because Wu Feiyan had long ago said that whoever could capture that mysterious person or mysterious force that had always opposed the Broken Clear Society would receive the greatest reward since the society's founding; although he didn't expect to become a Commander of the Five Military Governorates, Wu Feiyan would certainly show some gesture regarding elixirs, magic treasures, and cultivation methods!

With this thought, his gaze at Ye Chen held no anger at all, but rather resembled that of a farmer who had discovered a giant panda in the wilderness.

Ye Chen was now fully prepared, ready to fight to the death with this old thing; he had always been skilled at reading others' mindsets, knowing he was no match for Wu Berlian, yet he deliberately mocked him: "Old thing, you damn well have been chased by the U. S. military across Antarctica like a stray dog for so long, and now you come before me and start putting on airs again!"

Wu Berlian's gaze instantly turned icy sharp, and he gritted his teeth, cursing: "You wretched thing! I thought it was just those Japanese being careless, discovered by their own country, but now I see it's you who ruined my plans!"

Ye Chen laughed heartily: "That's only natural—how could I let you, this old dog, enjoy Antarctica as your own backyard so contentedly?"

Saying this, Ye Chen couldn't help but sneer mockingly: "But you old thing are also quite timid—you've run this far away, yet you still dug a hole over a thousand meters deep to hide in; are you really that afraid of being discovered?"

Hearing this, Wu Berlian suddenly burst into loud, hearty laughter that echoed swiftly across the empty Antarctic ice sheet, reverberating against the low ice hills in the distance.

Seeing his grinch-like smile, Ye Chen couldn't help but frown, thinking this old thing's psychological resilience seemed better than he had expected—despite his harsh words, the old man showed not a trace of anger.

Wu Berlian laughed for a long while before gradually calming down, then looked at Ye Chen with interest and asked: "Do you know why I laughed so happily just now?"

Ye Chen replied coldly: "Because you're sick!"

"Damn it!" Wu Berlian snapped, his smile vanishing as he shouted, pointing at Ye Chen: "Boy, don't ruin my Dao heart here! Today I only want to kill you, not mutilate you! So you'd better accumulate some verbal virtue, or else I will surely have your corpse torn into ten thousand pieces!"

Ye Chen sneered: "Old thing, even if I can't beat you in a fight, I can still outscold you! To me, dying in one piece or a hundred pieces makes no difference—if you've got the guts, come kill me, though you'll also have to see whether this old bastard actually has the ability!"

Wu Berlian gritted his teeth, nodded slightly, forced himself to calm down, and then said lightly: "Very good, you indeed have backbone, but in modern terms, you just lack a bit in quality!"

Ye Chen laughed: "So what? If you've got the guts, come kill me—don't just stand there shouting insults, you can't even win a shouting match against me!"

Wu Berlian's face turned white with anger; he also wanted to scold Ye Chen thoroughly, but feeling he wasn't a match, he changed tactics, planning to kill the man and destroy his spirit, and thus looked at Ye Chen with a cold smile: "Boy, you surely thought that by meddling and exposing me, causing the U. S. military to pursue me, you did a splendid job, didn't you?"

"Yes!" Ye Chen raised his brows: "Not just splendid, but extraordinarily splendid—aren't you annoyed?"

Wu Berlian laughed: "At first I was very displeased, but later I became overjoyed—don't hide it from you, after you drove me here, I underground accidentally discovered the Ascension Gate left by cultivators before the Dharma-Ending Age; this was my ultimate goal in coming to Antarctica, I thought it impossible to find, yet I stumbled upon it without effort—truly, I must say, my fate is indeed good!"

Saying this, Wu Berlian let out another cold laugh and continued: "Of course, all this is also thanks to you—precisely because of you!"

Ye Chen's expression instantly turned grim.

Although he didn't know what an Ascension Gate was, seeing Wu Berlian so excited he looked like a total badass, he knew it couldn't be simple.

In that case, I actually ended up helping him find a peerless treasure by my own clumsiness.

Thinking this, Ye Chen's mood turned extremely gloomy—this damn thing isn't just pulling a calf's penis, is it? I went through all this trouble, caused no trouble for others, but instead handed them a tremendous opportunity; worse, I misunderstood the mysterious thing inside me—this dog-thing made me come here, probably because it also discovered the so-called Ascension Gate, not to deliberately trick me into coming here to die.

No wonder he said fortune favors the bold—this damn thing isn't just bold, it's extraordinarily bold.

Seeing Ye Chen's expression turn grim, Wu Berlian felt immensely relieved, stroking his beard and laughing heartily: "Boy, are you now in pain, regret, and despair? I can well understand this feeling—since I came to Antarctica, I've had one worry after another, only recently did things turn from bad to good, and today is the happiest day since I set foot on Antarctica!"

Saying this, Wu Berlian's eyes instantly turned sharp, and he shouted: "Boy, now you know all this is your own doing—lifting a stone only to drop it on your foot—so go on your way amid regret and despair!"

Having vented his anger verbally, Wu Berlian immediately harbored murderous intent toward Ye Chen.

He gripped his longsword and charged at Ye Chen with extreme speed.

Ye Chen thought: During this time chasing the aurora from north to south across the earth, I hadn't had a chance to reforge any magic treasure, and the Soul-Piercing Blade was long gone; though I could previously achieve similar effects with other items, they'd be useless against Wu Berlian—my only usable option might be the Thunderstartle Order.

Yes!

Thunderstartle Order!

Ye Chen suddenly felt excited!

Although I've played with the Thunderstartle Order for a long time and many times, the current one is made from the thunder-struck wood from when Mother of Plain Tea failed her tribulation.

I don't know exactly how powerful it is—I've only used it once, at Dianchi Lake to draw lightning for Mother of Plain Tea, and never truly in combat.

Now, let's use it to practice on this elder of the Broken Clear Society!

Thus, seeing Wu Berlian come at him like an arrow from a bow, Ye Chen felt no panic, but instead gripped the Thunderstartle Order and stood ready.

When Wu Berlian was less than a hundred zhang away, Ye Chen suddenly raised the Thunderstartle Order and shouted loudly: "Thunder! Come!!"

At this moment, Wu Berlian had already pointed his sword tip at Ye Chen, but he hadn't poured much spiritual energy into the blade, because his spiritual energy was nearly exhausted, and he felt that killing a young cultivator like Ye Chen required no significant consumption of spiritual energy.

But he hadn't expected that Ye Chen, who had been empty-handed, would suddenly produce a magic treasure.

He hadn't even had time to see what the treasure looked like when, in the clear night sky of Antarctica, dark clouds suddenly gathered!

This is too strange!

Because in Antarctica, this extremely cold place, clouds almost never form—even if clouds and lightning occasionally appear, it's only at the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, whereas here is the Antarctic interior!

Although Wu Berlian didn't understand this knowledge, having been in Antarctica so long, he sees nothing but a sky full of stars every day, with hardly any clouds, so he once asked the Japanese scientific expedition team, who concluded that in winter, Antarctica is already at its coldest, and water molecules in the air are frozen into ice crystals, thus lacking the basic conditions for cloud formation.

So why did this boy, with just a stretch of his hand, instantly cause the sky to fill with dark clouds?!

What made him feel even stranger was that within those dark clouds, faint lightning flickered, emitting a weak light.

He couldn't help but mutter: "This... this boy can summon heavenly thunder?"

Just as he finished speaking, a bowl-thick bolt of lightning suddenly split the sky with a boom, instantly connecting from above the clouds to right before him, then exploded violently before his eyes!