Chapter 1099 - 556: Thunder Strike Talisman (Part 2)
Fellow Daoist, observe these Thunder Pillars. Not only are they the Dragon Sealing Key, sealing its Refining Veins and locking its muscles and bones, but they can also conduct lightning and transform electricity.
Once I enter the array to preside over and activate the Dragon King Seal, the power of the Dragon King will attract celestial lightning strikes. As the Heavenly Thunder descends and bounces between the three hundred Thunder Pillars, it will be refined by Thunder Power, reducing its cultivation.
The key to this array is to channel the Heavenly Thunder to weaken the Dragon King within the array as much as possible. It mustn’t be too light, or if this Dragon Monarch breaks free, with thousands of years of cultivation, who could stand against it?
Of course, it shouldn’t be too heavy either. If we allow the Nine Paths of Heavenly Thunder to strike indiscriminately, turning body and flesh into char and catastrophe ash, we won’t gain anything, and all the calculations would be in vain."
Chen Xuantian was alarmed,
"Ah, what should we do then?"
The Inverted Immortal took out the treasure box with a series of quick movements,
"Don’t panic! I have the genuine seal of the Two-Pole Magnetic Thunder Strike Talisman given by my master!"
"Two-pole what?"
Chen Xuantian looked, only to see a Thunderstruck Wood carved talisman inside the treasure box, with a Thunder Talisman carved on the front and densely packed script on the back, resembling a circuit board. However, it was held in someone’s hand, difficult to snatch away for a closer look.
The Inverted Immortal was triumphant, pointing with authority,
"This Thunder Array is the work of the Thunder Ancestor lineage of the Mystic Sect, a true transmission of the Shenxiao Sect. It incorporates true inheritances from the Five, Ten, and Thirty-Six Thunder Arts, with each pillar bearing a unique Thunder Talisman. Lightning is as fast as electricity, and those without the method cannot control it.
Even though my master has studied it for years, he can only let the Thunder Arts bounce a hundred times. My talent is even worse, and even by rote memory, I can only bounce it sixty times.
Fortunately, my master, after many years of contemplation and at the Kunlun Fairyland, seized the Worldspire Tree! Finally, he refined two Thunder Seals and worked out the method to break the array!
This True Seal of the Two-Pole Magnetic Thunder Strike Talisman can split the Shenxiao Heavenly Thunder, transforming it into both Yang Electric and Yin Thunder parts! It can also store the Yin Thunder and Heavenly Fire within the talisman for later use.
This way, the Divine Power of the Heavenly Thunder can be reduced by more than half, and by controlling the heat of the lightning with the Thunder Array, it won’t allow the Dragon King to be blasted to ashes in a single strike!
Furthermore, by using this Thunder Array, it can assist in refining the Yin Thunder treasure, emitting the Yin Thunder Purple Lightning at a flick of the wrist. Even if those demons and creatures come to besiege, they could be captured all at once!"
Chen Xuantian paused at his words,
"Is it really that powerful... I didn’t know that the Five Calamities Immortal Ancestor also mastered Thunder Arts, even able to decipher the Shenxiao Daoist Collection..."
The Inverted Immortal smiled and said,
"That’s not quite the case. If he truly mastered the Shenxiao Thunder Arts, it wouldn’t be so troublesome. My master said it was through the Xie Family’s gateway, from a secret manual that flowed out of the Immortal Palace, seemingly a forbidden curse of the Thunder Department, so it’s essentially from the same root."
Chen Xuantian suddenly realized something, but also showed a peculiar expression, nervously unable to control his facial muscles,
"I see... Fellow Daoist, it’s not that I don’t trust you, but Wan Tao truly doesn’t understand Thunder Arts.
Listening to you, for the Heavenly Thunder Array to bounce dozens or even hundreds of times is too dangerous. If something unforeseen happens..."
The Inverted Immortal naturally guessed his meaning. After all, few people learn Thunder Arts these days, clearly worried about being obliterated by a bolt of lightning. But instead of getting angry, he felt he finally had a chance to show his worth, feeling proud and complacent,
"I understand, I understand, so this part can only be handled by me. Later, Fellow Daoist can watch me perform from outside the array and protect me.
By the way, take this Earth-Splitting Light Mirror, Fellow Daoist. After all, this array is too complex, quite exhausting on mental calculations, and I may not be able to spare any distraction.
An observer sees more clearly, just in case I become too absorbed and make a mistake, roasting the Dragon, you can use this mirror to remind me to regain consciousness, and I will immediately stop."
Chen Xuantian forced a smile,
"Alright, alright, Fellow Daoist, you are truly without oversight. Leave it to me!"
Then, the two of them divided the work and cooperated. Chen Xuantian took the mirror, guarded the entrance outside the array, and used the light of the mirror to break through the dark currents, opening a path into the array.
The Inverted Immortal also held the Thunder Seal, following the guiding light, floated into the array, and went below the Demon Suppressing Dragon God Altar to open the altar and prepare the array.
Actually, this final part was easier than the previous ones. After all, seeing the Inverted Immortal skillfully grasp the Thunder Mantra with expertise was heartening. It was clear that the Five Calamities Old Immortal had planned for this for many years, with both arrays and magic treasures, and intended to succeed.
But Chen Xuantian, being a master of tactics, had to think deeper.
This venture by the Five Calamities Old Immortal, with countless strategies and a millennium of calculations, likely wasn’t really for this dragon.
Indeed, for argument’s sake, this time the magic heads of Kunlun, moving mountains and crossing waters, planning a tribulation and breaking the array, but their patriarch behind could possibly not be just aiming to slay a dragon.
The reasoning is simple, not to mention this group of Evil Demons and Heretics, with average skills, how capable are they of attacking the Yun Meng Dragon Palace? Even if they really slay the dragon, so what? That skin, flesh, and bones, a whole pile of stuff, how much can be taken back to Kunlun? Do you think the Three Great Sects would just stand by, allowing you to rob a bank vault and escape from the Central Plains unscrupulously?
Thus, Chen Xuantian kept pondering over the oddity, keeping this fellow alive, and played a trick of substituting another, accompanying the Inverted Immortal till the end, until he saw his trump card, the Two-Pole Thunder Strike Yuan Magnetic Divine Thunder Talisman, and finally understood their plan.
Oh my, they intend to use the array to refine treasures.
Indeed, the Five Calamities Old Immortal doesn’t care about disciples’ life and death, for what matter are the frogs and dragons compared to what Kunlun lacks? It’s about manipulating the Inverted Immortal to place the Two-Pole Magnetic Thunder Strike Talisman into the array, borrowing from the Dragon Monarch’s emergence to collect the Yin Thunder power of the Nine Heavens Tribulation.
Even cultivators who don’t understand Thunder Arts can recognize this talisman can withstand half the damage from Heavenly Thunder and is necessary to use. As long as this talisman can borrow the power of the Heavenly Thunder, it’ll be successfully refined.
Since this treasure itself was refined by the Five Calamities Old Immortal, naturally it would eventually be able to calculate its talisman’s location and take it back.
And as long as it clandestinely taps into the Heavenly Tribulation, once nine pieces of the Two-Pole Magnetic Thunder Strike Talisman are gathered, it would truly be refined.
Nine Sons Yin Thunder.
Yes, the Inverted Immortal was not lying. The so-called Nine Sons Yin Thunder is indeed a forbidden curse of the Immortal Palace’s Thunder Department, not among the Thunder Ancestor’s transmission, the Shenxiao Sect’s Five, Ten, and Thirty-Six Thunder categories.
The so-called forbidden curse is something generally not taught to outsiders. The secrecy of its cultivation methods, hardly even Chen Xuantian, let alone Peng Ju and Lingxu Zi, had any chance to learn. Only Thunder Ancestor had used it once, and Yuqingzi had the fortune to glimpse it, thus becoming aware.
When this thunder is initially harnessed, its light isn’t intense, flashing in dark purple and deep green alternations, not conspicuous. However, when unleashed, it erupts in brilliant light and explosion, instantly creating immense flames, surging up to the skies, penetrating to the Nine Springs below, obliterating everything without discrimination of mountains, terrain, or living creatures, all reduced to oblivion, transforming into nothing, and the tumult of wind, thunder, water, and fire, together, billions of bolts, thunderous shock, fearsome waves towering, the earth sinking, lands caving, after the explosion, heaven and earth in chaos, reduced to a dead zone, only the Five Void Ultimate Lights and Seven Colors Residual Fire lingered for months before dissipating.
Indeed, that battle marked the last stand when the Mystic Sect rebelled, confronted by the besieging of the twenty-eight Guardian Immortal Army towns. Witnessing the enemy’s overwhelming numbers, Thunder Ancestor, compelled by necessity, launched a Nine Sons Yin Thunder, annihilating tens of thousands of Heavenly Army, and later realized this art was too excessive, causing harm to the balance of the heavens, thus prohibiting instruction to his four disciples.
Thus, the Mystic Sect entry path places the most emphasis on karma, the Daoist Heart.
Not to say that Heaven truly has eyes, or that above there’s a spirit, aware of every deed you do, truly followed by karma and retribution.
It’s merely using this as a pretext, repeatedly instilling it, accumulated over days and months, drilling it into one’s ears, instilling it into the hearts of disciples, creating a sense of awareness, bearing in mind, a measure within one’s heart, a sense of morality in conduct. As long as you’re taught to remember firmly.
So that one day, when achieving great success in Divine Skill, learning those nuclear-grade Daoist Skills, don’t be idle going around detonating shit.