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Chapter 148 Thunder Seal Barrier

Fang Si's brows relaxed, and he said softly, "His lightning arrows might have a special effect on source energy, which is why they were able to shatter it in one strike."

"There's such a restraining ability?" Sui An was somewhat surprised. This was the first time he had heard of it. Could it be similar to his Sin Flame, possessing some kind of special ability?

"Yes!" Fang Si suddenly looked up into the distance, her voice strangely ethereal: "Have you ever heard of a legendary source beast, the Lightning Sprite?"

"Lightning Sprite?"

Sui An scratched his head. He did seem to remember the name, but it was from a long time ago, and it seemed that no one had mentioned it to him anymore.

Suddenly, the erhu player on the side slapped the cannon barrel and exclaimed, "Old Fang, are you talking about that supposedly legendary-level source beast that the Great City Lord once fought against? I've heard that rumor too!"

Fang Si's eyes gleamed with longing: "It is said that the lightning spirit may possess the power to break magic. All source energy attacks that come into contact with its lightning arrows will inexplicably dissipate and turn into free source energy."

"But it wasn't drawn here by the blood moon; it seems it was just passing by, so it didn't engage in a major battle with the city lord and eventually left. Many people have probably forgotten its existence."

"You mean that the Thunder Giant Lizard's lightning arrow skill might also possess this kind of magic-dispelling power?"

Sui An was somewhat surprised. It seemed that the energy system of this world was not simply a clash of forces, but might contain various special and mysterious rules.

Wang Zhen, who was standing next to him, suddenly spoke up: "Perhaps it doesn't meet the standard of breaking the law, but it has similar characteristics. Besides, can't your flames also burn source energy?"

"That's true."

As the group chatted, Wang Hu suddenly pointed to the flickering starlight in the distance: "The rift seems to be closing!"

"Sigh, I want to hold on a little longer. Give me more resources so I can level up faster."

Sui An felt a little regretful, but then a question suddenly occurred to him: "Brother Zhen, do you think if the rift opens again during the next Blood Moon, it will be a normal situation, or will the difficulty increase starting from this one?"

"This—how would I know?" Wang Zhen shook his head. He was just a beat-up sports car driver; how would he know such information?

"To be on the safe side, wait a bit before starting again. Safety first. Isn't it better to upgrade safely than to take risks?"

Erhu quickly chimed in, advising, "You don't have any external crises right now, so there's no need to rush to catch up."

"That's true. I haven't gotten my intermediate-level city wall blueprints yet. I can't really use the basic white blueprints for my level four walls."

Sui An was somewhat troubled. He had only managed to obtain a white-quality, level-four wall blueprint, which would definitely be less effective than the current level two.

Green walls are nice, but I don't really feel they're worth it.

Wang Zhen glanced at the various "figurines" in the courtyard: "Don't you have a barrier and an illusion altar? There's no need for defensive structures like walls that urgently."

Sui An thought differently: "Ordinary walls are indeed not very useful to me, but large city walls are very useful to me! Otherwise, no matter what kind of source beast comes, it will rush straight up to my barrier and the wall will not be able to stop it. It would be quite painful."

"Moreover, the illusion is capped at level 4. Once it encounters a large number of level 5 source beasts, it will basically be eliminated."

"If I could get a blue-grade intermediate city wall blueprint, I wouldn't even need a barrier to fight against source beasts of the same level. Even if a source beast of a higher level came, I could resist it for a long time. Plus, with the height of the city wall, it wouldn't be like that ice demon, where a big one could just step over and break through my barrier."

"Ideally, it could have some special effects, like the great city walls of the city lords, then it wouldn't just be a simple matter of a wall."

Jiangcheng is named after the city, but it is actually divided into three high-level territories: the Great Lord of the West City, the Second Lord of the East City, and the Third Lord of the South City.

Each of the three city lords' territories has extremely tall city walls, which are high-level buildings that are not only tall but also have various magical properties.

For example, one of the characteristics of the Great City Lord's city wall is gravity enhancement. Once activated, there will be a terrifying gravity field on the outside of the city wall, which will make it difficult for the source beasts to move and climb, and even indirectly achieve the effect of preventing air movement.

This characteristic is definitely something that white and green quality city wall blueprints cannot achieve, even for advanced buildings.

This is why everyone is pursuing high-quality blueprints, not only because they have higher basic defense attributes, but also because they have a variety of special effects.

He Chong's city walls must have served a similar purpose, but they probably had little effect on the spirits.

As for the small part of Jiangcheng outside the three major territories, it was the infrastructure of the old world city, which had long been reduced to ruins in the years of fighting against the source beasts.

Back then, more than a dozen builders chose to occupy the vast Old River City, after all, it had relatively complete infrastructure, which was really convenient and cost-effective in the early stages of the territory.

However, after so many years of development and fighting, even the once vast Jiangcheng could no longer accommodate so many mid-to-high-level territories, and was eventually divided up by the three city lords.

The main reason why the three city lords were able to reach a consensus was that their three territories were evenly matched, and that war would only result in mutual destruction.

So they chose to hold back, for whoever broke through level ten first would mean the end of peace.

The winner must either suppress the other two with absolute power to eventually complete the merger.

Alternatively, during the advancement stage, when undergoing the test of the rift in the Source Realm, they were attacked by the other two factions, ultimately failing to advance and vanishing into nothingness.

Therefore, none of the three territories have shown any signs of advancement in recent years. Perhaps the resources required for a Level 10 Legendary Builder are too terrifying, or perhaps the materials required are too rare and have been impossible to gather.

It is precisely because of these factors that Jiangcheng has remained peaceful for so many years.

"The rift has closed—"

"Perfect timing, the illusion has ended!"

Watching the massive Blood Moon Rift beast tide end just like that, Ye Tengyang felt as if he were in a dream. He had also participated in the battles of territory rifts, even the Blood Moon Rift of a level 4 territory.

But even the number of source beasts in the level four Blood Moon Rift back then was roughly the same as tonight's.

The only thing that's a bit lacking is the proportion of level four or five source beasts.

With two or three times more level four or five source beasts, the numbers would be roughly equal.

How could Sui An, all by himself, have developed to such a powerful level?

He stood aside, silently watching Sui An, who was directing people, lost in thought.

"Erhu, Fang Si, go and bring that Thunder Giant Lizard back for me. This is the first time we've encountered a Level 5 Source Beast in the Blood Moon Rift. Maybe we can get a purple loot."

"If others are likely to get purple items, I feel like you're in for a tough time. It's not like this is your first time killing a level 5 source beast. Source Realm loot is unpredictable; it depends a lot on luck."

Erhu shook his head, but despite his words, he and Fang Si still decisively climbed over the wall and went out. After all, among the intermediate professionals present, only he and Fang Si were formal employees.

The Thunder Giant Lizard was located a bit far away, and the barrier couldn't extend that far, so Sui An could only wait for them to pull it back.

Wang Zhen wasn't idle either. He ran to the other side and carried the giant bloodthirsty bat back, and also took the opportunity to search through the three Thunder-Patterned Leopards that Sui An had killed.

"One green and two white. The green one is a mid-level alchemy recipe blueprint, and the white ones are all materials."

"Oh, it seems I'm in good luck tonight. I got three loot from four level-four source beasts."

Sui An accepted the spoils from Wang Zhen. He had killed so many level-four source beasts that the spoils from killing beasts of higher levels had become fewer.

"Little Anzi, Little Anzi!"

The sound of the erhu rang out from afar. Upon hearing this sound, one knew that something good was about to happen. Two people, each carrying half of a corpse, slowly walked back from a distance. The erhu player also held up a blue orb of light in his hand.

"I've noticed my hands are really red!"

"Both of the loot I handled were good stuff, guess what this one is this time!"

Sui An chuckled and joked, "Last time it was tree seeds, surely this time it's not lizard eggs!"

"What's the use of eggs?" Erhu grabbed the monitor lizard by the tail and threw it into the corner of the wall. His smile was bright, and he didn't care about Sui An's teasing at all.

"This is what you want most, guess what it is~"

"What I want most—" Sui An paused for a moment, then suddenly understood. He replied with a smile, "What I want most is a top-tier rich and beautiful woman begging me to marry her, so I can skip twenty years of hard work!"

"You managed to pick this up?"

Erhu rolled his eyes: "Why don't you just fly to the moon! You're still thinking about rich and beautiful women."

Sui An coughed, then exclaimed with delight, "Could it be the blue intermediate city wall blueprint?!"

"Why do you seem so unhappy?" Erhu pouted, somewhat annoyed by Sui An's perfunctory attitude.

"I'm so happy to come down and greet you!" Sui An ran all the way to the wall and caught the erhu tossed to him as a prize.

The contents inside were exactly as he had expected.

[Building Name]: Lightning Barrier [Building Type]: Composite Component Building [Building Level]: Level 4 (can be upgraded to Level 6)

【Building Quality】：Blue 【Building Effect】：Rayprint Fortress is a city wall-type composite component building, containing five types of basic components: fortress foundation wall components, defensive equipment bearing wall components, fortress passage wall components, fortress protective door components, and fortress sentry tower components, totaling thirty types of basic components, and two sets of territory adaptive templates.

The Rayfin Barrier has an energy storage function, which can absorb external energy sources as the barrier's energy reserves. The higher the concentration of energy sources in the environment where the barrier is located, the faster the energy reserves will be restored, and it can be fully restored in as little as two days.

The Thunder Mark Barrier can activate Thunder Mark Mode, where builders can select a designated area on the outer barrier wall to activate a high-energy lightning net that continuously deals lightning damage to all targets it touches and has a chance to paralyze enemies.

The barrier's energy reserves can support the maximum range of this mode for up to ten minutes. The more targets the lightning net contacts, the greater the energy consumption. Once the energy reserves are depleted, the territory's core energy will be automatically activated.

【额外消耗】：无【製造需求】：雷纹石核心（0/1）、玄岩核心（0/2）、中级源质材料（0/40）、4

Tier 1 Originium (0/24), Territory Core Level (lv4)

【升级需求】：雷纹石核心（0/1）、玄岩核心（0/2）、中级源质材料（0/40）、5

Tier 1 Originium (0/24), Territory Core Level (1v5)

"Erhu is awesome!"

Sui An glanced through the blueprint information. Putting aside whether the defense was strong or not, the lightning seal mode alone was quite impressive.

As for city walls, no matter how high they are, the source beasts can always climb them, unless the walls are so hard that the source beasts' claws cannot break through them at all.

This lightning seal effect means that the city wall has a kind of damage reflection ability.

Any mechanism that can prevent source beasts from crossing the city wall is a good mechanism for a structure like a city wall.

Not to mention that this is a city wall with its own energy storage function. Although it takes two or three days to charge and ten minutes to use, it is enough.

"It really is a mid-level city wall blueprint?" Wang Zhen also came over, looking amazed.

Sui An handed it over casually: "Brother Zhen, it's time to show your abilities. I'm going to buy up a large quantity of these Thunder Pattern Stone Cores and Black Rock Cores. This time, I'm going to fill the entire Level 4 area with my walls, and I'll even prepare more."

"Blue intermediate city walls, covering a territory with a diameter of 200 meters—that's going to cost a fortune. Are you sure you have the money?"

Wang Zhen took the trophy orb and asked with a smile.

Sui An hesitated for a moment. Leaving aside the Thunder Pattern Stone core, the intermediate-grade city wall alone required 40 units of intermediate-grade source material.

In addition to 24 level-four source stones, this would cost at least 500 source stones on the market. If prices fluctuate, the cost would increase significantly.

The Thunderstone core should be a mid-grade blue material, and even at the cheapest price, it would probably cost over two hundred Origin Stones. Add to that the Xuan Rock core of unknown grade, and if it's a green material, the cost of one section of the city wall would be around nine hundred Origin Stones.

However, he didn't know exactly how many sections it would take to completely enclose the territory; he would have to wait until he unlocked and studied the blueprints.

Although the building cannot be constructed yet, the blueprints can be unlocked. By using the blueprint construction module to confirm the approximate template size, you can estimate the approximate requirements.

"That should be enough. Anyway, I have more than 30,000 now, plus the 6,000 you have saved."

"Besides, if I digest all of this stuff outside, I can earn at least ten or twenty thousand. If it's still not enough, I'll have to keep opening cracks."

"Sure, I've heard of this Thunder Pattern Stone Heart. It should be a material that can be synthesized. I'll inquire about the price for you when I get back tomorrow. If you're doing bulk orders, it might be much cheaper. Some intermediate alchemists might even take on a special order just for you."

While replying to Sui An, Wang Zhen examined the blueprint information in his hand, marveling at it.

The effect of this drawing is indeed quite good.

It has to be said that Xiao Anzi's luck is really strong. He has been offering a bounty of 6,000 Originium for more than a month and has only gotten a white one. He hasn't even gotten a green one.

He ended up doing it himself, and he just got a purple offensive building. Where can you go to reason with that?

You're the protagonist of this apocalyptic world!

"You're really lucky. You've already gotten the blueprints for two major buildings, one offensive and one defensive, before you've even broken through to level four."

"Old Wang, I clearly touched it, shouldn't I have better luck?" Erhu said, somewhat unconvinced, and nudged Wang Zhen with his elbow.

Wang Zhen glanced at Erhu sideways and said, "Let's talk about it again when you can break even in the Heavenly Fortune Jar."

The erhu was met with a barrage of angry words: "Damn it! Don't bring up things you shouldn't mention!"

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