Battle Through the Heavens: Purple Heaven Thunder Emperor

Chapter 74 Lingying Society Dies Wu Tu Ming Lei

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

The night sky over the Tagor Desert is bright with twinkling stars, creating a dreamlike and enchanting scene.

Xiao Bai was standing on top of a sand dune, with his hands behind his back, looking up at the beautiful starry sky.

For the past three days, he has neither searched for strange fire nor cultivated, but instead adjusted his own condition.

He's about to break through!

He had been preparing for this since he fully recovered from his injury a few days ago.

Today, he came alone to this place where he usually searches for strange fire. Through his observation over the past few days, he found that few people come here and there is no one to disturb him, making it a suitable place for a breakthrough.

Without Yao Lao's ring, there were things Yao Lao could see, but when breaking through such a talisman would cause unusual phenomena, Xiao Bai didn't want to carry someone with a powerful soul with him.

However, before making a breakthrough, there's something to deal with first: it's time to call out the tail that's been following us all along.

"Your Excellency, you have followed me all the way from Wutan City to here. I wonder what the reason is? Would you be so kind as to show yourself?" Xiao Bai turned his gaze from the starry sky and said loudly.

Hidden in the shadows of a small sand dune, Ling Ying was startled and frowned.

"Utan City?"

"This guy knew I was there the moment I left Wutan City? Then all my hiding along the way has been for nothing!"

Ling Ying slightly raised his head, revealing a dark, aged face. He looked at Xiao Bai and saw that he was also looking in this direction, which immediately confirmed that they had indeed been exposed.

He couldn't help but smile wryly to himself. This guy was incredibly patient, knowing someone had been following him all along, and only now did he point it out.

"What should we do now?" Ling Ying stroked her chin thoughtfully.

On second thought, it wouldn't matter if he was exposed. Anyway, he didn't know that he was sent by the young lady. He could just go out and pretend to be an expert to get by!

The shadows writhed beneath the dunes, then surged upwards with each breath, solidifying into a human figure shrouded in a black robe.

It transformed into a black shadow as thin as smoke, landing not far from Xiao Bai, with its back to him.

"A dream spanning eternity, what night is this? Young man, do you know what year it is now? Is Tuoshe still there?" Ling Ying put his hands behind his back, looked up at the sky, and said in a low, hoarse voice, full of vicissitudes.

Looking at Ling Ying's arrogant tone and the way he turned his back to everyone, Xiao Bai felt like punching him.

I never expected you to be this kind of Ling Ying.

But then a thought popped into my head: I should play along with this old guy's act for now; the bigger I act now, the more I'll die later.

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai revealed a wicked smile. Would the old guy flee the Jia Ma Empire overnight and move back to the Ancient Realm after being exposed?

Who is Dhāsa?

"Young man, you don't even know about Tuoshe Doudi?"

"A Dou Di?" Xiao Bai exclaimed in horror, "A Dou Di hasn't appeared on the Dou Qi Continent for nearly ten thousand years. Could it be that you, senior, are from ten thousand years ago?"

"Alas! Time flies by, a thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye. I never imagined that upon leaving this place, I would find my old friends gone forever. Things have changed, and people are no longer the same!"

After a nostalgic sigh, Ling Ying paused for a moment before continuing:

"Young friend, there's no need to panic. I meant no harm. I simply happened to be passing by after leaving the pass and noticed your extraordinary physique, so I couldn't resist taking a closer look!"

"Senior wants to take me as your disciple?" Xiao Bai asked with a look of surprise and delight.

"I'm used to a life of leisure and have no intention of taking on disciples. I came on a whim, and I'll leave when the whim is over. Time to retire, time to retire!"

After saying that, he prepared to run away. In his opinion, although this kid had some skills, he couldn't possibly marry his young lady. They wouldn't have to see each other again, and there was no awkwardness involved.

As for the young lady's mission, he planned to stay far away this time. He didn't believe she could still sense him. Did she really think the dark attribute was something to be trifled with?

Seeing that Ling Ying wanted to run away after putting on an act, Xiao Bai stopped hiding his intentions and spoke slowly:

"Does Xun'er know that Senior has just emerged from seclusion?"

Ling Ying seemed to have been struck by lightning, instantly frozen in place as if under a spell, her hands clenched tightly behind her back, her body trembling slightly.

"Does Xun'er know about Senior's old friend who is a Dou Di?" Xiao Bai continued, seemingly oblivious to his reaction.

As Xiao Bai asked his question, Ling Ying felt that he could carve an ancient holy city out of the Tagor Desert with his feet.

"Damn it, how did this kid know who I am?"

"This is terrible! I thought he didn't know, and that we wouldn't see each other again, so I could just pretend to be a wise man and it wouldn't be a big deal. What do we do now?"

"Shall we return to Wutan City and have Miss send someone else?"

Ling Ying thought of her cheap female disciple Qing Shuang, who called her Master Ling, and who was currently by her young mistress's side. Should she ask her to take her place? But she couldn't explain it to her young mistress!

Forget it, let's leave here first.

"I have no idea what you're talking about!" With that, Ling Ying transformed into a black shadow and vanished.

Xiao Bai watched the direction he disappeared in, shook his head with a smile, and thought to himself, "Was I too wicked? Tsk tsk. That's terrible! Ling Ying probably won't want to appear in front of me again!"

Putting aside his thoughts, Xiao Bai sat cross-legged on the sand dune. Now, finally, no one was watching him anymore.

His soul power spread outwards, and the small magical beasts hidden in the desert within a radius of several thousand meters panicked and fled away from Xiao Bai.

Once he could no longer sense any living beings around him that could harass him, Xiao Bai slowly closed his eyes and focused his inner energy on his dantian.

Not long after Xiao Bai closed his eyes, an aura of a peak nine-star Dou Shi emanated from him. Within his dantian, after releasing his soul suppression, a suction force began to appear in the thick liquid vortex.

The quiet space around us began to ripple, like a lake whose surface had been disturbed. Wisps of visible energy flow seeped out from the void.

As soon as this energy entered his body, it was controlled by Xiao Bai's powerful soul force and circulated throughout his body along the path of the cultivation technique. The mottled energy within was also continuously purified.

The lightning energy he absorbed last time was sealed in his body with his soul power. Although some of it was consumed by flying, it was not much compared to the overall amount.

These lightning-attribute elements are exceptionally pure, formed from the primordial energy of heaven and earth, so there is no need to purify them like absorbing energy that is floating in the void.

The reason he sealed it away instead of absorbing it directly was that he wanted to allow his injured meridians to heal for a longer period of time to avoid creating hidden dangers for his future cultivation. Otherwise, he would have already broken through with just this energy.

After the suction force appeared in his dantian, Xiao Bai also released the soul seal in his physical body. Instantly, a large amount of pure lightning attribute energy surged into the liquid cyclone, causing it to expand continuously.

Xiao Bai felt a sense of fullness in his dantian and knew it was time to make his move. He used his soul power to control the energy flowing into his dantian.

The key to breaking through to the Great Dou Master level is to continuously compress the liquid energy in the dantian.

To become a Grand Master, one must continuously compress the liquid vortex within their body, condensing it into a solid crystal at its center. This crystal is the key to becoming a Grand Master and is commonly known as a "Battle Crystal."

In the eyes of many powerful individuals, only by possessing a Battle Crystal can one truly master the cultivation of Battle Qi. This tiny crystal contains all of a person's Battle Qi and possesses immense energy.

Time passed slowly. As the vortex continued to absorb energy and the cultivation technique continued to compress, the viscous liquid battle qi within the wildly spinning vortex began to change.

Xiao Bai could clearly sense that a silvery-white solid substance was slowly forming in the center of the cyclone.

"It's almost there!" Xiao Bai knew that as long as a little solid crystal appeared, it meant that the breakthrough was complete, and the rest was just a matter of time.

Sure enough, not long after, a thumb-sized, silver-white, rhomboid crystal appeared within the vortex. Under Xiao Bai's gaze, it slowly floated in his dantian, emitting a faint, intermittent light.

After the rhombus-shaped crystal appeared, the vortex in Xiao Bai's body instantly shrank by half, and it continued to shrink rapidly until it was completely gone.

Moreover, after the rhombus-shaped crystal absorbed the energy from Xiao Bai's dantian, the lightning attribute contained within his physical body rapidly converged towards it, even more swiftly than before.

Finally, all the energy in his body was absorbed, and Xiao Bai felt a sense of relief throughout his body, as an aura burst forth from within.

Xiao Bai sensed it for a moment, and his lips instantly parted in a wide smile. He had achieved the three-star Great Dou Master title!

He didn't get up, but was happy for a moment before immediately pressing down, calming himself down, and returning to his calm state. Breaking through to the Great Dou Master level wasn't difficult for him; the real challenge was what happened after the breakthrough.

The next lightning bolt is coming!

Xiao Bai was filled with trepidation and anticipation, wondering what kind of lightning type it was this time, and whether it would cause as much trouble as last time.

As expected, Fu Zhao never disappointed, always acting punctually and immediately after seeing him achieve a stable breakthrough.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, under his gaze, the talisman trembled slightly, a corner of it glowing faintly, this time with a deep yellow light.

This color is a bit darker and deeper than the yellow sand in the desert.

"What? This color looks a bit off."

Before Xiao Bai could finish his questioning, a bolt of lightning, yellowish-gray in color, shot out from the talisman and headed straight for the spleen.

"Earthly Thunder!"

The moment the lightning appeared, its name and general information about it immediately came to mind.

Earthy Thunder: Thunder containing the energy of Earthy Qi and the energy of the Netherworld. The Netherworld is Yin and Thunder is Yang. Connected by Earthy Qi in the middle, it has the function of regulating Yin and Yang and harmonizing water and fire.

"snort!"

Involuntarily letting out a muffled groan, Xiao Bai felt a familiar pain emanating from his spleen. Looking inward, he saw yellow electric light flashing on his spleen.

The pain this time was not as intense as when the Bing Fire Yang Thunder appeared; it was about the same as when the Yi Wood Zheng Thunder came. Xiao Bai carefully sensed it and came to this conclusion, which made him breathe a great sigh of relief.

This Earthly Nether Lightning, like Xiao Yi's, should be quite effective, unlike Xiao Bing's which is more domineering.

Although he already knew its information in his mind, this information was a bit mysterious, and Xiao Bai still didn't know exactly what it could do.

The ability to regulate yin and yang, and harmonize water and fire, makes this thing quite advanced.

Putting aside further thoughts, Xiao Bai began to use his cultivation technique, following the proper procedure to refine the essence. He was already quite familiar with this process.

But this time it seemed a little different. As soon as he circulated his cultivation technique to refine it, the Earthly Nether Lightning within his body emitted bursts of electric light, flowing through Xiao Bai's body and into the earth. Xiao Bai then felt it growing stronger.

"What the hell? You want to grow stronger? You'll have to wait until I refine it first. Otherwise, how long will it take me to refine it if you just stay here in this desert?"

Xiao Bai instantly sensed something was wrong. The geographical environment here was just too suitable for this lightning bolt. If he refined a little bit, it would absorb a little bit more. How long would this take?

Xiao Bai thought for a moment, "Since you want to grow stronger by sticking to the earth, then I'll just fly up into the sky and not touch the earth. Let's see how you absorb it then."

Purple wings appeared behind him, and Xiao Bai took flight. But before he could fly very high, he felt as if the Earthly Nether Lightning within his body had taken root in the yellow sand and was about to break free from his body.

Xiao Bai was speechless. How could it be like this?

They had no choice but to land and fold their wings; this path was blocked.

Sitting cross-legged again, Xiao Bai felt the lightning of the Earthly Nether Lightning was like tentacles, already extending hundreds of meters away.

Sensing with his soul, he saw that within a radius of several hundred meters around him, a faint yellow electric light flickered in the sand. It looked quite beautiful, but it was also extremely dangerous.

Moreover, this distance is constantly extending outwards, and it's unknown how much further it can extend.

"This is outrageous!"

Xiao Bai looked up at the sky and sighed. He regretted not choosing this place to break through. The earth element here was too vast and particularly active, unlike other places where the earth energy was not apparent and it was impossible to absorb the earth element even if you wanted to.

But there's nothing he can do. He'll be staying here for a while; he can't keep suppressing his breakthrough forever, can he? This godforsaken place is in the desert; it's all the same everywhere.

There's not much difference between being in Stone Desert City and here. It's alright here now, no one has discovered us. If we were in Stone Desert City, a lot of people would probably be dead by now. Thinking of this, Xiao Bai felt a little fortunate.

If Xiao Ding and Xiao Li kindly invited him to join the Mo Tie Mercenary Group, and he turned around and wiped them out, that would be the result of their hard work and sacrifice over the past few years. Just thinking about it gave him a headache.

"Alright, let's try refining it first." Seeing that the yellow lightning had already extended to over a thousand meters away, Xiao Bai quickly activated his cultivation technique. He couldn't wait any longer; if he waited any longer, it might end up in Stone Desert City.

According to the cultivation method, he first absorbed a wisp of the origin of the Earthly Nether Lightning and refined it, but at this moment Xiao Bai found that no matter how hard he tried to pull it out, he couldn't. It seemed that this thing had merged with the earth energy of this desert and remained completely still.

With his cultivation level as a Great Dou Master, he couldn't possibly do it! Not to mention a Great Dou Master, Xiao Bai felt that even if a Dou Huang came, he wouldn't be able to budge him in the slightest.

What should I do?

Enduring the constant pain emanating from his body, and gazing at the lightning dancing on the surrounding yellow sand, which shone brightly in the night, Xiao Bai stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

He couldn't fly away from the desert, and he couldn't refine the essence either. He felt a bit of a problem. He couldn't just stay here and die like this, could he?

After getting up and walking around a few steps, Xiao Bai found that moving around was not a problem, but the surrounding lightning would move with him.

"Do I have a built-in domain now?" Xiao Bai muttered with a bittersweet smile.

(End of this chapter)