Chapter 143 The Origin of Extraordinary Creatures
"Fuck, this mine has a starter."
Looking at the bowl-thick lightning hitting the ground behind him, Su Xiaofan couldn't help shivering. He didn't want to experience the tingling feeling of being struck by lightning again.
As the first bolt of lightning fell, the unusually quiet Devil's Valley suddenly became agitated.
Under the impact of the dense dark clouds in the sky, countless blue lightning flashes faintly, as if they will fall in the next moment.
"Grandma, I... I just moved that broken piece of wood, why did it send down lightning?"
At this time, Jing Shizhen was about to cry, but just about to turn around, another bolt of lightning struck down, almost hitting Jing Shizhen.
"Meow!"
The tiger cat that was on the ground now had all its hair blown up, and jumped onto Su Xiaofan's shoulder with a whoosh, apparently terrified of the thunder.
"Master, break in..."
Su Xiaofan discovered that the falling direction of the lightning seems to be concentrated at the mouth of the valley, but above the depths of the Devil's Valley, the clouds are not very thick.
"That's too late!"
Jing Shizhen showed a wry smile on his face, because he saw that above the heads of the two, a large net woven by lightning might fall down at any moment.
Ren is that no matter how fast the two are, they may not be faster than the speed of light. As long as the thunder and lightning net falls, the two will definitely not be able to escape.
Behind the two of them, lightning bolts had fallen, completely blocking their way of retreat.
"Master, over there!"
Su Xiaofan's eyes flashed, he grabbed Jing Shizhen, and held Duobao in his hand, his body swayed continuously, and he flashed more than a hundred meters.
Right at this moment, the giant net of thunder and lightning in the air finally fell down with the sound of thunder, half of the huge canyon was shrouded below.
At the same time that the thunder net fell, Su Xiaofan pulled Jing Shizhen's body and slammed into a cave in the rock wall of the canyon.
A burst of dazzling light flashed, and the deafening thunder seemed to explode in the ears. Su Xiaofan and Jing Shizhen, who were lying sideways in the cave, were both extremely pale.
The lightning and thunder were two or three meters away from Su Xiaofan, but after entering the cave, the lightning could not hurt the two of them at all.
Su Xiaofan and Jing Shizhen looked at each other in dismay, both fearing in their hearts that it might be only a few tenths of a second before they would be left outside forever.
Looking at the bowl-thick thunderbolts at a close distance, Jing Shizhen and Su Xiaofan didn't think that the python inner armor and armguards on their bodies would be of much use.
"Squeak...cheep!"
Just when the master and apprentice rejoiced that they escaped from death, there was a creaking sound in their ears, and Su Xiaofan couldn't help being stunned after following the sound.
A fiery red fox was lying four or five meters away from the two of them, threatening them with ferocious sounds, but the sharp cry was not very deterrent.
"Extraordinary creature?" Su Xiaofan looked at his master, and he was already preparing something.
"No, it's not like, it doesn't have the ferocity of an extraordinary creature."
Jing Shizhen looked at the fox, shook his head, and said, "Supernatural creatures can release a kind of coercion. We didn't face the giant python face-to-face last time, otherwise you would have understood it."
"Meow!" At this moment, Duobao, who had just fallen in a daze, let out a low growl at the fiery red fox.
"See, this is deterrence. It seems that your tiger cat will evolve into an extraordinary creature sooner or later."
Jing Shizhen pouted at the tiger cat, but the red fox, who was still baring his teeth just now, was lying on the ground with his head in his arms.
"Forget it, we can be regarded as a dove occupying a magpie's nest. If there is not such a fox hole, we might all be roasted."
Su Xiaofan stopped the tiger cat that wanted to pounce on it. He didn't mind eating rock mutton or wild donkey meat, but it was for food and survival.
Nature’s food chain law of the weak and the strong has existed for countless years, but when the hunter is not hungry, usually he will not kill the prey indiscriminately.
This is the situation right now, and the fox meat is not tasty, so there is no need for Su Xiaofan to let the tiger cat kill it.
"Xiaofan, how did you discover this cave?"
Jing Shizhen looked at it, and found that the hole was not very big, only seven or eight meters deep, and the height was only over one meter. It was a bit difficult for them both to stand up straight.
"I saw it when I came in, I just didn't pay much attention."
Su Xiaofan was telling the truth. When he was using the restoration system to observe the things in Devil's Valley, he saw a plant called Thunder Vine.
Su Xiaofan felt that the name was rather strange, so he took a closer look, and the thunder vine grew outside this cave.
Actually, on the rock walls on both sides of the canyon, there are far more than just this one cave, as far as Su Xiaofan noticed, there are five or six of them, but this one is the closest to them.
"The plants outside seem to be able to absorb lightning."
Jing Shizhen took a look at the situation outside, and there were still thunder and lightning falling on the ground, and the deafening thunder still surrounded her ears.
But it was safe, and Jing Shizhen also looked out with confidence. This look really made him see something.
Those streaks of lightning seemed to be extremely powerful, but when they landed on the plants in the valley, bursts of blue light appeared, and then disappeared.
Not only the plants, but also the stones on the ground, scattered animals and human bones, seem to be absorbing the energy of lightning.
"The power of this lightning does not seem to be that great."
Jing Shizhen looked at the traces of blue light on the vines at the entrance of the cave, and felt the urge to touch them with her hands.
"Master, let me do it."
Su Xiaofan crawled over at some point, the cave is really too short, and walking with bending over is not comfortable enough for crawling.
Seeing what Master was thinking, Su Xiaofan stretched out his hand outside the cave, and grabbed a vine.
"Fuck!"
Su Xiaofan only had time to shout out the word "how", and his whole body trembled like a cramp.
The thunder and lightning on the thunder vine seemed to have little power, but as soon as Su Xiaofan touched it, he felt a domineering and tyrannical energy, rampaging in his body.
Su Xiaofan's true essence, under the power of thunder and lightning, seems not to be so strong. As soon as he touched it, he was struck by the power of thunder and lightning and was defeated.
"Poof..."
Su Xiaofan spurted out a mouthful of blood, but the meridians in his body were damaged, and the hand holding Lei Teng was also bounced away.
"Xiaofan, what's going on?"
Seeing Su Xiaofan's body was thrown backwards, Jing Shizhen hurriedly helped Su Xiaofan behind.
"Fuck!"
Jing Shizhen uttered the same words as Su Xiaofan, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
However, most of the power of the thunder and lightning was absorbed by Su Xiaofan's body, and after it passed to Jing Shizhen's body, there was not much of it, it just made him feel numb all over his body.
"Why so strong?"
Supporting her body with her hands, when Jing Shizhen looked at Su Xiaofan, a strange look appeared on her face.
"The energy contained in this trace of lightning is definitely stronger than high-voltage electricity!" Su Xiaofan operated the exercises to calm down the restless true essence in his body.
"Um?"
Su Xiaofan, who was practicing his kung fu, found that in his true energy, there seemed to be a hint of the thunder light just now.
When the true essence with thunder light was swimming in the meridians, the remaining true energy in the meridians in Su Xiaofan's body immediately melted into the true essence like ice and snow melting.
Su Xiaofan did not refine his true qi in his dantian, but he used a part of his true qi to flow in his meridians.
Then when performing the exercises, let the true energy refine the true energy in the meridians. Usually, it takes about three or four days to refine it completely.
Going back and forth like this, until Su Xiaofan refined all the true energy in his dantian, he could truly enter the realm of the Yin God.
After Su Xiaofan got the energy stone, this time was shortened from ten years to two or three years.
But after absorbing that trace of lightning energy, Su Xiaofan felt that he could shorten this time even further.
It's just that the lightning seems to be expendable energy, after Su Xiaofan runs a few meridians, it dissipates and disappears.
"Do you want to touch the Thunder Vine again?"
Originally, in Su Xiaofan's view, his incomparably tough meridians were torn apart by the lightning energy, and several places were even damaged.
Fortunately, Su Xiaofan used the ice-type energy stone to cultivate for a period of time, and the true essence in his body contains a trace of the energy of the spirit stone, and now he is repairing the damaged meridians.
"Not worth it."
After a little calculation, Su Xiaofan gave up the idea of catching thunder and lightning again.
Although the lightning energy can help him quickly convert true energy into true energy, the damage he receives is also very large.
It will take at least three to five days to repair these damaged meridians.
With these three to five days, Su Xiaofan's self-transformation of zhenqi may not be less than the transformation of lightning energy.
The most important thing is that the key to self-transformation is safety, not as dangerous as before.
You know, if Su Xiaofan's hand is bounced a little later, and if he absorbs a little more lightning energy, I am afraid that at least a few meridians in Su Xiaofan's body will be broken.
Damaged meridians and disconnected meridians are two different concepts.
The disconnection of the meridians means that the exercises cannot be performed, and Su Xiaofan may fall into the realm of the Great Circumference. It will even affect the practice of subsequent exercises.
Su Xiaofan now knows why the death rate in Devil Valley is so high.
Even a cultivator like him, who is in the state of three flowers gathering at the top, can hardly resist this hair-thick lightning. If a normal cultivator is hit, his meridians will be cut off in an instant and he will die.
Not to mention ordinary people like Batur's father, they couldn't even resist the energy overflowing in the Grand Canyon, and they had no ability to resist under this weird thunder and lightning.
Same as what I saw last night, the lightning came suddenly and went quickly. After just seven or eight minutes, the valley outside the cave returned to its usual silence.
"Xiaofan, are you okay?"
Seeing Su Xiaofan spit out a mouthful of blood, and his complexion was a little pale, Jing Shizhen asked worriedly.
"It's okay, Master, I hurt a few meridians."
Su Xiaofan wiped off the blood from the corner of his mouth. It was the first time he had suffered such a big loss since he practiced. This also made Su Xiaofan feel his insignificance in front of nature.
"Master, the leather armor you made is useless."
Su Xiaofan said with some complaints: "If I say you might as well find two lightning rods, those things seem to be more reliable."
"Lightning rod? Are you in good spirits, kid?"
Jing Shizhen looked at Su Xiaofan with a strange face, and said, "Do you understand the principle of the lightning rod? That thing is specially used to attract lightning and then guide it into the ground.
If you dare to hold a lightning rod here, I guarantee that you will be bombarded by lightning without even a scum left. "
"Huh? Lightning rods are used like that?"
Su Xiaofan touched his nose in embarrassment, this time he was careless, and was actually laughed at by his master.
Besides, I am also superficial, thinking that the lightning rod is literally meaning that it can avoid lightning.
"Master, I will heal my injuries."
The meridians were damaged, Su Xiaofan only felt a burning pain in his chest and abdomen, and he couldn't care less about going out, so he meditated in the cave.
Without Su Xiaofan's order, Duobao didn't bother to deal with the fox. After tentatively walking a few steps to the east, the fox saw that no one was paying attention to it, and swished out.
The creature was found in the Devil's Valley, which means that there must be an extraordinary creature there. Now that Su Xiaofan is injured, Jing Shizhen dare not go out alone, so she simply sits at the entrance of the cave and protects Su Xiaofan.
Sitting at the entrance of the cave, Jing Shizhen did not delay observing the scene outside.
About half an hour after the thunder and lightning dissipated, some creatures appeared in the canyon, and it slowly became lively.
Antelopes, wild donkeys, yaks, and wolves that circle around these three animals, but they don't seem to dare to fight in the canyon, they just keep wandering around the prey in their eyes.
"I'm afraid they are also afraid of lightning."
Jing Shizhen smiled wryly. Until now, he hadn't quite figured out how he managed to lure the lightning down.
Looking at the lightning strike wood dozens of meters away, Jing Shizhen had a feeling that the lightning strike must have an inseparable reason from picking up the lightning strike wood.
Moving the tree stump by himself seems to be involved in the ground, and then the lightning that is drawn out?
Looking at the animals appearing in the Grand Canyon, Jing Shizhen slowly understood.
Because these animals are very careful not to hurt the roots of the grass when they eat grass.
It's just that the roots of the grass are buried shallow, and these animals don't have the control of the cultivator. Sometimes they will eat the grass roots buried in the soil when they roll them.
It’s okay to eat one or two grass roots, but the group of yaks seemed to be addicted to eating, and in a flash, they ate up all the green plants in the corners of the canyon.
Although the land was destroyed, there seemed to be a slight blue light flooding the ground, and at the next moment, thunder and lightning poured down like shells.
Almost when the blue light on the ground appeared, all the animals in the canyon scattered in all directions,
The speed of these animals was so fast that Jing Shizhen almost couldn't keep up with her eyes, and the news disappeared in an instant.
However, Jing Shizhen still stared at the slowest yak, and the lone yak ran to the bottom of a rock wall together with three wild donkeys.
Different from the cave I was in, the rock wall extended 20 to 30 meters from a height of more than 10 meters above the ground, so a natural space to avoid lightning was formed below.
In addition, Jing Shizhen also discovered that there are quite a lot of caves in this canyon. The animals that disappeared instantly were either hiding under the rock wall or in the caves, and none of them were hit by lightning.
"Still aboriginal experienced!"
Jing Shizhen came to a conclusion in her heart, avoiding lightning may have become the instinct of these animals.
And the animals in the restricted area are much stronger than the animals outside. Even the speed of the yak seems to be much faster than the antelope outside.
Thunder and lightning intertwined, the sky was dark, and the flashing thunder light when the thunder rang, played a thunder symphony in Devil's Valley.
It's still a familiar scene and a familiar smell, but Jing Shizhen is no longer as ignorant as when she first came in.
Meditating with his eyes closed, Su Xiaofan, who has shut down his six senses, does not know what Master is going through at this moment.
He was completely immersed in cultivation before, and his true energy traveled through the meridians of his body, repairing the damaged places.
Just now Su Xiaofan also used the repair system to look at it, and to repair these meridians, he was charged 100 repair points.
Su Xiaofan, who managed to gather more than 300 points, was not willing to do so, and decisively decided to rely on his own slowly accumulating to restore it.
"Huh? Can the energy in the air be refined?"
Cultivators practice qi. This qi is not born out of thin air, but the energy absorbed from the air. After being refined in the body, it becomes true qi.
Su Xiaofan just forgot for a moment that he was in the area of the space crack, and this exercise immediately introduced a kind of energy around him into his body.
This kind of energy is very domineering. Although there is only a trace of it, after entering the body, it starts to eat away at the true energy in Su Xiaofan's body. This change immediately surprised Su Xiaofan.
Not caring about repairing the meridian, Su Xiaofan quickly mobilized his true energy, wrapped up the trace of energy, and tried his best to refine it.
The quality of true essence is much higher than that of true energy, which is comparable to that energy, but the total amount is higher than the absorbed energy when fighting at home in the body.
As soon as Su Xiaofan tried it, hey, it’s interesting. After more than half an hour, Su Xiaofan refined that trace of energy and integrated it into his true essence.
"Huh? The true energy has grown so much?"
Su Xiaofan discovered that just a trace of energy actually made his true energy grow several points. The quality of this energy is probably no lower than that of true energy.
"Ordinary cultivators or human beings cannot survive in the restricted area, perhaps because they cannot withstand such high-level energy?"
Su Xiaofan had a clear realization in his heart that the human body and meridians are very fragile. This abundant and high-quality energy entering the human body may be more harmful than poison.
Even cultivators in the Great Zhoutian Realm cannot stay in this energy environment for a long time, because the quality of the true energy in their bodies is not enough to refine the energy that seeps in from the cracks in space.
On the contrary, those animals with rough skin and thick flesh can withstand this kind of energy, and under the nourishment of energy, they gradually start their own evolution and eventually become extraordinary creatures.
"For those who are in the realm of three flowers gathering at the top, the restricted area is a rare treasure!"
Su Xiaofan suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes.
Su Xiaofan tried it just now, cultivating true energy here, the growth of cultivation base is much faster than step-by-step refinement of true energy.
As the true essence grows stronger, the speed of refining the true qi in the body will also increase.
It's just that Su Xiaofan suffers from the previous exercises and can only increase his true energy by refining his true energy, but now he has a better choice.
(end of this chapter)