Chapter 29 - The Young Maiden In The Lighting (2/2)

Zhong Yue's heart skipped a beat. He felt like his soul was targeted by something as it started trembling in fear, he quickly visualized the [Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art].

His psyche constructed a Flame Order Palace in the Dragon Scale Sword, while he turned into the dragon-headed human Sui Sovereign, immediately banishing the fear within.

Krong!

The volume of the rumbling thunder suddenly spiked. A loud deafening noise rang out, and a bolt of lightning struck down before the Dragon Scale Sword could even react to it. A surge of incredible massive glutted the Dragon Scale Sword!

Inside of the Dragon Scale Sword, Zhong Yue's soul was struck black by the lightning, even the Flame Order Palace and the Sui Sovereign were also charred; his soul was on the verge of dispersing!

His psyche was almost struck into pieces, and he could feel an immense agony. The rumbling sound of the thunder left tremors on his soul that threatened to disintegrate him to pieces!

"Concentrate on your visualization, do not lose your focus!"

Xin Huo stood on his shoulder unscathed by the thunder. He said anxiously, "You will die if you lose your focus, your soul will perish into thin air!

Zhong Yue gritted his teeth, and he endured the pain that felt like it was about to tear him into pieces and tried his best to focus his psyche on visualizing the [Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art]. As he visualized, the wounds on his soul started to heal, regenerating itself like an old tree regaining its life force.

Krong!

Came another flash of lightning, the recently regenerated soul was struck to the verge of dissipation. The immense pain once again surged through his nerves!

Xin Huo was all relaxed, he smiled and said, "Have no worry, you can grit your teeth all you want, this is your soul, if you ever grit your teeth like this with your physical body then you will surely break all your teeth. You endured through the first time without dying, then the second time you won't die too, continue your training, there is no room for relaxation!"

"It hurts…" Zhong Yue said while he tightly gritted his teeth.

"Does it?"

The little flame was a little diffident as he spoke, "The pure-blood Fuxi brats I have thought never complained before…"

Zhong Yue continued gritting his teeth and persisted in the visualization, within this short period of an hour, there were more than twenty strikes of lightning that landed on the Dragon Scale Sword. Even Xin Huo was shocked, he thought to himself in his heart, Those pure-blood Fuxi I have taught before, none of them had ever persisted for so long on their first try. All of them were already shouting and whining all about it, but this brat is still holding on…

Ka-cha, ka-cha!

Zhong Yue felt that as though his soul was already getting numb from the immense pain, but the lightning still insisted on unrelentingly striking at him.

Slowly and gradually, the pain receded as his psyche was getting baptized by the wrath of lightning, his soul was also getting more robust and stronger, he was now able to withstand the lightning strike of this level!

Not only that, but there also lurked vestigial surges of lightning in his soul and psyche.

Suddenly, Zhong Yue 'saw' a young maiden sitting in mid-air a few thousand feet away from him. There were also bolts of lightning falling onto the young maiden, but what was different was that she did not have the protection of a soul weapon, but instead, the electricity landed right on her unmoving soul body!

"This girl doesn't look old, but she is strong!"

With a slight change of his thoughts, the Dragon Scale Sword flew over to the young maiden, the young maiden opened her eyes and looked at the sword with a pair of curious eyes, she smiled and asked, "This senior martial bother, are you refining your soul too? Does it hurt?"

"It was before, but I'm numb to it now."

Zhong Yue's soul came out of the sword and returned the smile, "Senior martial sister, what's your name?"

"I am from the Qiu Tan Clan. My name is Qiu Jin'er. I almost fainted away when the lightning before struck me."

The young maiden endured the pain and asked, "Senior martial brother, what's your name then?"

Zhong Yue saw the lightning striking toward him, he quickly returned to the sword and then answered her question, "Zhong Yue of the Zhong Shan Clan. Senior Martial Sister Qiu is really strong, at least I don't dare to withstand the lightning with just my soul body."

Qiu Jin'er smirked and said, "Senior Martial Brother Zhong, you look older than me, it is better if you call me junior martial sister."

The conversation between the two continued for a few moments until they were all a little tired and Zhong Yue said, "Junior Martial Sister Qiu, we will see each other again tomorrow."

Qiu Jin'er nodded before her soul turned and flew away. Zhong Yue watched as she left, his mind went blank when he saw that Qiu Jin'er was heading back to one of the palaces on the Swords Gate mountain!

"This is where the Qi Practitioners live, why did she…" Zhong Yue exclaimed out involuntarily.

Xin Huo was perplexed as he answered, "She is a Qi Practitioner, don't you realize?"

Cold sweat burst out of Zhong Yue's forehead as he fretted, "She just called me senior martial brother while I called her junior martial sister… A Qi Practitioner was calling me senior martial brother ... my shoulders are suddenly feeling heavy…"

"Just become a Qi Practitioner then, when your strength surpasses hers, then you can rightfully claim yourself as the senior martial brother, can't you?"

Xin Huo smirked and said, "But you still need to work harder, this little heifer Qiu Jin'er is not as simple as she looks, she has an innate spirit body, her talent is comparable to that of Fang Jiange. When people like this cultivate, their cultivation progress will be like a mad cow!"