Chapter 856: Thunder Divine Pine

Two days later, the Cangqiong Daoist's injuries had indeed fully healed.

"Good!" he said to He Pingsheng: "Daoist Taixu, let's go now!"

"Mm!" Although He Pingsheng was one major realm below him, he was not afraid of him.

If they truly fought, he might not kill the bastard—but if he threw out a Golden Sword Immortal talisman, this guy had little chance of surviving.

"Feng Wu, I'm leaving the shop in your care for now!"

"I'm going out for a bit!"

"Yes, Young Master!" Feng Wu was unquestionably reliable—he was He Pingsheng's servant.

After giving instructions and leaving nearly all his elixirs with Feng Wu, He Pingsheng teleported out of the Imperial City with Cangqiong Daoist, then turned into a streak of light and flew toward the direction of the Divine Thunder of the Capital.

"Daoist Taixu is truly incredible! I'm flying at full speed, yet you keep up—your speed might even be able to increase further!"

Cangqiong expressed great astonishment.

He Pingsheng said: "Right? I'm also skilled in flight techniques."

Regarding flight, He Pingsheng possessed two divine abilities.

The first was the Three Thousand Thundering Law, which could instantly accelerate to five times his normal speed.

But this ability couldn't be sustained!

Of course, there was also the 【Earth-Shortening Law】, which he rarely used but could still double his speed.

Cangqiong was right—even so, He Pingsheng hadn't used his full power, nor had he activated the Earth-Shortening Law.

Otherwise, Cangqiong Daoist wouldn't have been able to keep up.

"Forget it, forget it—I'm not flying anymore!" said Cangqiong Daoist. "Do you have any flight magic treasure? Let's use a flying vessel instead!"

He Pingsheng shook his head: "No."

He actually did have a flying vessel!

But he'd given the Silver River Flying Shuttle to his disciple, and though he'd slain several Body Integration cultivators whose rings contained flying vessels, he hadn't yet refined them and couldn't use them.

It was faster to fly himself.

"Damn it!" Cangqiong Daoist's face darkened. "Shit… you don't have any?"

"At this speed, we'll need to fly for at least a month—it's not even in our Divine Thunder Imperial Domain, it's in the neighboring Qingqi Imperial Domain!"

"I used to have a flying vessel, but after my original body perished, I lost the ring and all the good items."

Cangqiong looked at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng's face also darkened.

According to Cangqiong, the Divine Thunder of the Capital wasn't permanently fixed in one place—it remained only because it fed on the thunder energy of a certain divine tree.

A month?

What if it ran away?

"There's another way!" He Pingsheng said. "Tell me the exact location—I can open a spatial passage and we'll arrive instantly."

"What?" Cangqiong Daoist was stunned. "Brother, you're only Void Refinement—surely you can open a spatial passage?"

He Pingsheng said: "Do I look like I'm joking?"

"Alright!" Cangqiong Daoist took a deep breath, then thought again. "I'll give you the precise location—but brother… don't open the passage and leave me behind!"

He Pingsheng said: "I won't. If you don't trust me, then let's just fly there."

"Fine, fine, I trust you!" Cangqiong Daoist pulled out a jade slip and handed it to He Pingsheng: "Here… it's right here!"

He Pingsheng took the jade slip and swept his spiritual sense into it, then exclaimed in shock: "You… this is a map of the entire continent?"

Yes, it was a map of the entire Lei Huang Continent.

From the map, Lei Huang Continent was much smaller than Tianhuo Continent, with only thirty-six imperial domains.

And Qingqi Imperial Domain lay right next to Divine Thunder Imperial Domain.

The location of the Divine Thunder had also been marked.

He Pingsheng withdrew his spiritual sense from the jade slip, then looked around—his spiritual sense erupted outward, and within a few breaths, he confirmed the direction and distance of the Divine Thunder.

"Right here!" He Pingsheng turned and pointed to a spot ahead and to the left. "I can open a spatial passage to get there—it might have some error."

"Perhaps it will work."

"Or perhaps it won't."

"Let's try."

"Open…!"

He Pingsheng roared, raised his fist, and tore open a spatial passage.

Divine Ability: Spatial Wormhole!

A vortex appeared before the two of them.

"Damn it…" Cangqiong Daoist swore outright: "You actually opened it… Brother, you're too strong—is this a divine ability?"

He Pingsheng said: "It's a divine ability."

Cangqiong: "Teach me…"

He Pingsheng: …………

"How about this—if I obtain the Divine Thunder this time, I'll teach you this spatial-opening ability. Hehe…"

"Let's go!" He Pingsheng grabbed Cangqiong Daoist and stepped into the spatial passage.

The next instant, the two emerged from the other end of the passage.

"This way… we're close!"

Cangqiong Daoist immediately recognized the direction and pulled He Pingsheng into a streak of light as they flew onward.

Even after passing through the spatial wormhole, they still flew for about an hour before finally arriving at a valley.

"Look over there… look closely!"

Cangqiong Daoist raised his hand and pointed to a direction below in the valley.

He Pingsheng's gaze and spiritual sense swept out together—and indeed, he saw a grove of towering trees.

But none of them stood out as uniquely dominant.

Yet one massive divine pine bore faint traces of thunder energy.

"Go!" He Pingsheng turned into a streak of light and shot forward in an instant.

Only when he arrived did he see the sheer size of the divine tree.

Five-needle pine—huge!

It didn't appear dominant because all the surrounding trees were exceptionally tall, and this five-needle pine grew deep within a fissure at the bottom of the valley.

In other words, while the tree was taller than the others, its height was mostly below ground level.

It was simply positioned lower than the rest.

Zizizizi…

Kachakacha…

Streams of silver lightning raced across the tree's bark.

The thunder energy was contained, not leaking outward.

That was why this divine tree had stood in the deep valley for countless years without being discovered.

First, it didn't stand out above the rest; second, its thunder energy was contained and didn't radiate outward.

"The Divine Thunder of the Capital is inside this?" He Pingsheng pointed to the trunk, dozens of zhang thick, and asked.

"Mm…" Cangqiong Daoist nodded. "It's definitely inside—but whether we can capture it depends on our own skill!"

"But I must warn you… this thing's attack power is extremely strong!"

"I, a Body Integration cultivator at Level Eleven, couldn't withstand it—I lost my original body last time, and my avatar was severely wounded!"

"You'd better take a Thunder-Repelling Elixir first!"

Then He Pingsheng pulled out a supreme-grade Thunder-Repelling Elixir and swallowed it whole.

Seeing this, Cangqiong was utterly stunned: "Damn… you have a supreme-grade one?"

"I… I I I…"

His face twisted in bitterness.

If his previous Thunder-Repelling Elixir had been supreme-grade instead of high-grade, he wouldn't have been so battered, would he?