Chapter 741 - Simple And Bold (2/2)

Kacha—

All of a sudden, a flash of lightning broke through the defense of his [Yin Yang Celestial Demon Style], and made a small crack on the [Tai Chi Art].

As the lightning struck at him, his mortal body and Yuan Shen shuddered in shocking pain while black smoke rose from his scorched body.

"Careful! The lightning that just struck you contained the innate energy!" Xin Huo said.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Zhong Yue blurted out a mouth of black smoke as he whined.

But a bigger problem came right after as when the lightning struck on him, the shock pulse delayed his response for a split second and that opened up the opportunity for the other lighting to break through the [Tai Chi Art] of his [Yin Yang Celestial Demon Style] and lunged toward him.

Zhong Yue rapidly reached his hands to the waist where blinding light rays formed into a saber which he then clenched firmly on. The Innate Tai Yang Qi was fused into with the saber as the [Sun Burst] was cast on the incoming lightning.

Blinding the world for a split second in its radiance, the [Sun Burst] splintered the lightning and greatly reduced their power.

But even so, Zhong Yue let out a deep groan as the lightning splinters still struck on him heavily and pounced him into the sky.

Krong—

He rammed into a lightning-formed mountain which was hovering in mid-air. Despite the mountain being formed from weightless lightning, it was actually heavier than an ordinary mountain and more solid as well.

As a result, the impact force from the mountain left Zhong Yue's back severely wounded. Moreover, the lightning mountain was pushing him forward while another lightning mountain rammed over and squashed him in the middle.

"Brat Yue, hold on!" Xin Huo encouraged him anxiously, "Don't die here! You are half an inheritor and if you die in the first level lightning tribulation, you'd be an embarrassment to my name!"

"Xin Huo, you shouldn't be caring for your name now, but me!"

Blood was trickling out of Zhong Yue's mouth as wounds opened up all over his body. When he saw a split opening in between the two lightning mountains and acted immediately. The Solar Divine Saber disappeared and the Metamagnet Divine Saber slashed one of the lightning mountains into halves. He then opened his mouth and swallowed the halved mountains in.

When the other lightning mountain rammed over again, Zhong Yue swung his head and enlarged it bigger than the mountain as the second lightning mountain was too swallowed into his stomach.

"Can you take two mountains?" Xin Huo didn't even care to cover up the insincerity when he pretended to care about Zhong Yue's well-being, "Two lightning mountains are far stronger than the lightning strikes. It's not gonna be easy to digest them."

"I'm fine," Zhong Yue's face turned beet-red as he tried to contain the lightning mountains in his stomach with all his might.

Thunderous noises thrummed all over in his stomach as the two lightning mountains clashed about in his mortal body and the totem pattern walls in space was seeing cracks all around.

The lightning mountains weren't just 'difficult' to digest, Zhong Yue was struggling to even just suppress them down in his stomach. A single mistake would be all it took for Zhong Yue to lose his stomach!

Zhong Yue cast his Yuan Shen and tried to burn the lightning mountains away. The lightning mountains released a million lightning strikes in retaliation. Zhong Yue's Yuan Shen quickly bowed and with the visions of a million gods appearing behind him, the lightning strikes were splintered into tiny bits whereas the remaining power from the lightning splinters still launched Zhong Yue into the sky and cooked him.

He needed to suppress the two lightning mountains and that left him with only a small amount of arcane energy to wield. In addition to the Innate Tai Yang Qi he had used up to cast the [Sun Burst], he was running out of energy already.

"Careful, another lightning with the innate Qi in it!" Xin Huo quickly shouted as he saw another one coming at them.

A round sun rose above Zhong Yue's head and the three-taloned Golden Crow flew out of it, lunging at the lightning strike.

Ka—cha—

The lightning was successfully blocked off but at the cost of the three-taloned Golden Crow returning back to his body temporarily incapacitated.

"It's that strong?" Zhong Yue grit his teeth and stayed focus.

Another ray of lightning flashed through his neck and he suddenly felt himself being lighter. It turned out that he was beheaded and before he could reattach his head back to the neck, another flash of lightning has zipped over at his forehead.

Kacha—

Zhong Yue's Yuan Shen rapidly exited his head in shock and saw his head pulverized into ashes in the next second.

Zhong Yue's Yuan Shen right away rushed back into his body and another head grew out from his neck.

This is just the first level of the Ancient Lei Zhe Realm and it is this powerful already, how did Si Ming even make it through to the end? Zhong Yue lamented as his heart was still pounding in terror from the near-death experience.

Then, he kept switching places in the Ancient Lei Zhe, suffering severe wounds to just heal them moments later, and surviving through several near-death moments. Soon, with more and more lightning he has swallowed and his mortal body grew stronger, he was finally able to secure a place to stand in the Ancient Lei Zhe with lesser wounds that the lightning could inflict anymore.

"So can I be simple and bold now?" Zhong Yue opened his mouth wide and engulfed a hundred flashes of lightning into his stomach. In the space visualized by the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture] inside his body, his Yuan Shen released a wave of burning flame and smote the lightning smaller and smaller into energies that flowed into his body and Yuan Shen.

"Xin Huo, how was it?" He asked happily.

"So so." Xin Huo smiled, "Wait till you can digest the lightning with the Innate Qi. Only then can you claim yourself as a qualified cultivator of the [Desolate Lightning Heavenly Furnace Scripture]. Else, even if you can make it through the second lightning tribulation, you won't be able to pass the third as well."

"What types of lightning are at the second level?" Zhong Yue asked.

"Just one, lightning with the Innate Qi." Xin Huo answered casually.