The road is vague

Chapter 36: Misty Thunder
"Since he has such a promising future, would he be willing to take the time to teach me magic?"

After Li Mo expressed his concerns, Shen Yun smiled and comforted him.

"Don't worry. In the past, he definitely wouldn't have had the time. But he borrowed a large amount of spirit stones to buy magic tools before, and now he urgently needs them to pay off his debts. Even the smallest mosquito is still meat. You can go ahead and do it without worry."

After hearing this, Li Mo, with a try-it-out attitude, followed Shen Yun's instructions and found Tian Fen.

This was a man who was a head shorter than Li Mo. He had a large forehead and a square head. He had a peculiar appearance and surprising bone structure. When he learned the purpose of Li Mo's visit, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Li Mo could see that he was indeed short of spirit stones.

"Okay, okay, then how many spirit stones do you have?"

Li Mo was helpless.

"I have a total of twelve spirit stones on me, but according to the agreement between Shen Yun and I, I only need eight spirit stones to learn elementary and intermediate spells."

"What's so great about elementary and intermediate spells? How about this? Find a way to get me three hundred spirit stones, and I'll teach you the secrets of thunder magic I know!"

Li Mo was dumbfounded.

The other party said it lightly. Three hundred spirit stones are equivalent to three thousand taels of silver. Where can he, a mere disciple of the fourth level of Qi Refining, get the money?
Even when Jiujiang Leilong Taishou ran to Shibashan to rob, it took him more than two months to barely scrape together four or five thousand taels of silver. He does not have the strength of Jiujiang Leilong now, nor does he want to become a wanted criminal hunted by the Tianming Division.

As for the so-called secret techniques, they can be understood as special spells known only to a small number of people.

These spells may be circulated within certain niche forces, or they may be created by chance. They often have rare special abilities and effects and are not included in the sect's spell level evaluation system.

In addition, there are so-called supernatural powers.

Supernatural powers generally refer to the basic spells and advanced secret techniques that are widely known in various sects. Sometimes they also refer to specific spells that are widely known by high-level monks, or are used when monks flatter each other.

The spiritual eye technique of the Lingmu Sect, when practiced to an advanced stage, becomes the so-called great supernatural power.

"Secret technique, this..."

Li Mo sighed and shook his head.

"Although I'm quite tempted, I'm really short of money. Moreover, my magic power is low, only at the fourth level of Qi training. Even if I master the secret technique, it will be difficult for me to use it."

Tian Fen looked at Li Mo with a disappointed expression, as if he was disappointed that Li Mo was not worthy of being reused.

So he settled for the next best thing.

"How about this? I'll teach you a beginner-level or advanced spell. With your fourth-level Qi training power, you should be able to cast it once. But I'll only teach you for seven days, until the end-of-year assessment. Whether you can master it during this time depends entirely on your understanding. The price is twelve spirit stones. How about that?"

"this?"

Li Mo hesitated.

With only seven days left, it was indeed difficult to master an elementary or advanced spell, but he suddenly remembered Zhang Guoyin's advice.

"Life is like a play, and it will eventually come to an end. I hope you will do your best to seize the opportunities before you, and not end up like me, with regrets for the rest of my life."

So Li Mo took a deep breath and his eyes became firm.

"make a deal."

After saying this, he was about to sign a document, but saw Tian Fen shaking his head and waving his hands.

"Don't worry, I'm a well-known figure in the Advanced Training Hall. How could I possibly cheat you out of your twelve spirit stones? After this assessment, I plan to take up a position in the Dharma Protector Hall. If you have spirit stones in the future, you can continue to come to me."

"OK then."

After all, this is within the master's sect, and it is unlikely that the other party would deceive him.

After Tian Fen received the spirit stone, he immediately put it into his storage bag and chuckled.

"Come with me. Once you master this spell, I guarantee you will benefit endlessly in the future."

The two came to Wudao Peak in the back mountain, and Tian Fen demonstrated it to Li Mo.

"Okay."

Tian Fen shouted, "Summon Lei Nu!"

The rolling lightning gathered in front of Tian Fen and formed two thunder creatures. They looked like two hounds and exuded a dangerous aura. Li Mo was shocked. It turned out to be the Five Elements Spiritual Power Summoning Technique.

With his current strength, if he were to deal with just a so-called thunder slave, he might still have a chance of winning.

But if you deal with both at the same time, you will definitely die.

Tian Fen snapped his fingers, and the two thunder creatures immediately squatted down, allowing him to touch them.

"This is the beginner-level advanced spell I'm going to teach you. It summons a Thunder Slave. The strength of the Thunder Slave depends on your lightning perception, and the number of Thunder Slave's depends on your mana strength. Summoning a Thunder Slave will continuously consume mana. However, this is only an elementary spell after all, so theoretically, the upper limit of the Thunder Slave's strength will not exceed the twelfth level of Qi training."

Li Mo was quite tempted.

Compared with palm thunder and thunder bullet spells, summoning thunder slaves is worthy of being an elementary advanced spell. It has gradually deviated from the general public's cognition and has the characteristics of a cultivator's great supernatural powers.

However, compared to mastering the spell of summoning Lei Nu, he had a more important issue that lingered in his mind.

"Could you tell me how to learn spells besides spending spirit stones to learn spells from others?"

Tian Fen was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"The easiest way is of course to find a good master, but this requires some luck. The second best way is to sit in on the lectures of the uncles and aunts. Then, go to the Hidden Merit Pavilion. However, if you want to learn the spells there, you must consume the sect's contribution. Generally, it is only used by the monks serving in the outer sect halls."

Tian Fen seemed to be quite proficient in this.

"Also, we can go to the market at the foot of the mountain to trade. That's the market run by our sect. Each county also has smaller markets frequented by local family cultivators and independent cultivators. Other activities include divination of ancient cultivators' caves, killing fugitive evil cultivators, and exchanging experiences with other sects... Of course, if you're a genius who can comprehend and create your own spells, just ignore what I said."

"Been taught a lesson."

After Li Mo wrote down what Tian Fen said, he began to ask him for the spellcasting technique to summon Lei Nu.

Seven days passed quickly, and the disciples who had gone home to visit their families returned to the sect one after another.

The annual year-end assessment will begin tomorrow. Li Mo consulted Tian Fen in the back mountain until late at night. After confirming that there was nothing missing, he tried to cast the spell again according to the techniques Tian Fen said.

The magic power in his dantian began to boil almost instantly.

With a loud shout, a dazzling lightning flash quickly appeared in front of Li Mo, but then the lightning collapsed and scattered. After all, the lightning spiritual power failed to be transformed into the so-called lightning slave.

"It's a pity that your understanding of lightning is still a little lacking. It hasn't reached the minimum requirement to cast the summoning lightning slave spell, but there is no problem with the spell itself."

Tian Fen stretched lazily.

"Okay, it's almost midnight. The deadline we agreed on is here, and I have an exam tomorrow. I need to go back and rest first."

After Tian Fen left, Li Mo stood there, breathing slightly.

"It's a pity indeed. It was just a little bit off."

Fortunately, his efforts over the past seven days were not in vain.

Although he is still unable to cast this basic advanced spell, he has already mastered all the casting techniques of this spell, and he can slowly comprehend the way of thunder in the future.

He was almost unable to bear the studying from dawn to dusk for the past seven days.

This night.

Li Mo found himself in a dream again.

You know, after the summer flood season, he often can't enter the ethereal dream once a month, but today's luck is pretty good.

It was still a desolate and silent land, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and occasionally a huge shadow passed by.

Li Mo, who was in shadow form, was about to circulate the Great Circulation as usual, but suddenly thought of what Tian Fen said.

"Thunder and lightning comprehension, still a little behind?"

So Li Mo slowly raised his head and looked at the sky covered with dark clouds.

The misty dreamlike sky is almost always filled with rolling dark clouds and thunder.

From the first time Li Mo entered here, he discovered after waking up from his dream that thunder and lightning seemed to have a special meaning for this place, and the "Piaomiao Box" also recorded many methods of surviving thunder disasters. When he was in Pingshan Society, he also studied this for a period of time, but soon gave up.

After all, no one can expect to be struck by lightning, right?
"Perhaps I can comprehend the power of thunder and lightning here?"

Thinking this in his mind, Li Mo sat cross-legged on the ground.

He did not practice luck as before, but closed his eyes, released his consciousness, and tried to comprehend the way of thunder and lightning here.

Gradually.

Countless roars and groans, like a bursting dam, rushed towards Li Mo from all directions.

He frowned slightly.

Fortunately, over the past three years, Li Mo has gradually adapted to this pain. He endured the uncomfortable feeling as if his head was about to explode and continued to listen carefully to the sounds here.

"Sun Palace, Piaomiao Peak..."

"Lingzhao Mountain, Goddess Palace..."

The mysterious place names are still nowhere to be found. Their names seem to be shouted out from the mouths of countless people groaning in pain, and the voices are becoming more and more hoarse and shrill.

An evil and twisted shadow seemed to be covering the illusory legend. Absurd, huge, evil and twisted monsters that could not be described in words were greedily looking down at the earth from the sky.

Li Mo's frown deepened.

A drop of sweat rolled down his forehead, and he felt as if he couldn't hold on any longer.

Sudden.

Crackling!

A bolt of lightning fell from the sky and hit Li Mo, who was in shadow form.

He was caught off guard and couldn't help but groan, and his body fell to the ground. The shadow body that was originally as solid as a substance seemed to be showing signs of disintegration!
"what……"

Li Mo, who was surrounded by lightning, endured the pain for a moment, and finally let out a hysterical howl of pain. He kept rolling on the ground, and the shadow in the edge area was constantly dissipating.

"how so!"

Li Mo tried hard to keep his sanity.

He didn't understand why it turned out like this and began to regret his recklessness.

Just when Li Mo thought he was going to die this time, he felt that the pain in his body seemed to be subsiding. He tried to look at his shadow body and found that his shadow seemed to be much lighter, but the lightning in his body had been consumed.

"This is?"

Muran.

Li Mo felt that among the countless noises that had previously flooded into his mind, a passage of words seemed to become extremely clear.

Then, before he had time to think, he felt as if there was a foreign object in his body. He opened his mouth involuntarily and began to retch continuously.

A ball of gold paper floated out, or rather emerged, from his open mouth.

Li Mo, who was gasping in shadow form, felt a little shocked by such a strange scene, but he still slowly stretched out his weak and trembling right hand, opened the mysterious paper ball that was spit out from his body, and looked at the words inside.

"This, this, this is...a pill recipe?"

Li Mo uttered these words several times in a row, his heart in turmoil. He couldn't understand the strange logic in it.

(End of this chapter)