EBE Chapter 21 Acquaintances in the Immortal Realm
Chapter 21 Acquaintances in the Immortal Realm
Above the surging black clouds, countless bolts of lightning intertwined to form a thousand-mile-long sea of thunder, swirling and merging to create even larger veins of lightning, which spread downwards accompanied by a deafening roar that shook the void.
A dazzling silver lightning serpent, gathering the power of a thousand-mile-long sea of lightning, swept up black clouds and pressed down on the peak. The small Pill Furnace Peak seemed poised to be pulverized in an instant…
Qingli and the others trembled with fear in the secret realm. The unprecedented world-destroying thunder shook the sand and stones in the secret realm, causing them to tumble and fall incessantly.
"It's over, it's over!"
Qingli's face turned pale, and she couldn't help but mutter to herself.
Luo Sifan was naturally startled, his soul trembled, and a wisp of his sealed thoughts leaked out, a memory surging into Luo Sifan's consciousness.
"So it was him..."
Luo Sifan's thoughtful eyes calmed down as he gazed at the black clouds of lightning, a faint smile appearing on his face.
"Old Cheng! Do you still want the Nine Thunder Cleansing Pill?!"
Condensing his breath into a voice, Luo Sifan coldly roared towards the center of the thundercloud.
The lightning bolt, hundreds of feet thick, obediently stopped a hundred feet above the Danlu Peak after Luo Sifan's roar, flickering and hesitating. Above the thunderclouds, someone was spying on the composed Luo Sifan.
"It's you?! Immortal Luo!"
Suddenly, a middle-aged man in blue robes with a pale face and a stubble beard appeared in Luo Sifan's soul. He showed an expression of undisguised astonishment in front of Luo Sifan's powerful and dormant soul.
"Indeed, Cheng Laoliu, it's unexpected to meet you here again today, after the Qinglian Pond gathering."
Luo Sifan's spiritual consciousness appeared before Cheng Laoliu with a frown, and was somewhat swayed by the pressure of Cheng Laoliu's immortal aura.
Cheng Laoliu quickly withdrew his spiritual pressure from his upper realm and unconsciously bowed deeply to Luo Sifan's spiritual consciousness.
"The mortal and immortal realms are separated. How could Immortal Luo's soul have arrived here?"
After bowing in greeting, Cheng Laoliu raised his head with a look of doubt on his face, staring intently at Luo Sifan, his eyes flashing with divine light.
Luo Sifan sighed, silently pointed upwards, and winked mysteriously at Cheng Laoliu:
"I dare not speak presumptuously about this matter..."
As a low-level civil servant in the celestial realm, Cheng Laoliu's vivid imagination instantly conjured up images of several celestial lords and emperors who had close ties with Luo Sifan, along with the ruthless methods of the celestial emperors...
His face paled even more, and Cheng Laoliu forced a smile in his panic:
"Immortal Luo! It was I who spoke out of turn! I spoke out of turn! Immortals act according to the Great Way, their whereabouts are unpredictable and their traces are hard to fathom, why should they explain themselves to us!"
Luo Sifan smiled faintly:
"Zhi Pu, we are brothers, there's no need for such formality. Once I've finished this business and returned to the Immortal Realm, I'll certainly have to share a few drinks with you."
Cheng Zhipu showed a hint of emotion, his lingering doubts dispelled by Luo Sifan's friendly attitude.
"Immortal Luo, a wisp of Zhi Pu's immortal consciousness has only been remaining in the mortal realm for a short time. Please tell me your instructions today, and Zhi Pu will do his utmost to assist you!"
Luo Sifan hesitated for a moment, then looked up at the hundred-zhang-long Thunder Waterfall that covered the top of Danlu Peak, its silver light bubbling and boiling.
"Zhi Pu, as the official in charge of wielding the Thunder Seal and overseeing the lower realms, you must know the secrets of controlling thunder, right?"
With the Nine Heavens Thunder Seal in hand, Cheng Zhipu was not worried that Luo Sifan would steal the power. He pointed a finger, and a wisp of spiritual light drifted into Luo Sifan's consciousness.
"Immortal Luo, all the techniques for controlling lightning are here; Zhipu dares not hold back a single one!"
Luo Sifan nodded. After mastering the technique of controlling lightning, a circle of silver light flashed around his body as he sat quietly in front of the alchemy furnace.
In his spiritual sense, the Thousand-Mile Thunder Sea seemed to come alive, possessing a few emotions and faintly connecting with Luo Sifan.
Cheng Zhipu's divine consciousness avatar stiffened, its connection with Lei Hai abruptly abruptly breaking. He sighed with a complex expression:
"Immortal Luo, what skillful methods!"
Under the encroachment of the rules of the mortal realm, Cheng Zhipu's immortal consciousness gradually became ethereal and vanished completely before Luo Sifan's spiritual consciousness.
Luo Sifan breathed a sigh of relief. Thousands of miles away from Mengshan, all the living creatures with a modicum of intelligence were terrified by the world-destroying lightning calamity and hid deep in the caves and crevices of the earth, leaving the place deserted.
Unrestrained in activating the Taiyi Qingxuan Technique, Luo Sifan no longer held back.
A thousand-foot-high sea of clouds rushed up rapidly, condensed like cream, wrapping the Danlu Peak where Luo Sifan was located into a giant, snow-white dumpling. The spiritual energy of Limeng Mountain, accumulated over ten thousand years, surged in wave after wave, rising for thousands of miles, and was greedily absorbed by Luo Sifan's Yin-Yang Dual Grinding Technique until it was almost empty.
In the viscous liquid pool of Qi Sea, the Yin-Yang Twin Millstones swirled at varying speeds within the abundant spiritual liquid. Gradually, as they filled up, a soft popping sound rang out, and the intertwined black and white crystalline base slowly rose from the liquid pool.
The Taiyi spiritual energy, more than a hundred times stronger, spewed out from the vortex of the intertwined two-colored base, directly flowing into the meridians. The foundation-building energy that tempered the body was inexhaustible, instantly cleansing Luo Sifan's body thirty-six times.
Luo Sifan felt as if he had been struck thirty-six times. His ears were ringing, his worldly thoughts vanished, he was covered in sweat, his body was covered in mud, and his spiritual consciousness was trembling and on the verge of collapse. With each violent tremor, his physical form became more refined and stable.
The celestial power dissipated from the Foundation Establishment Pill was easily grasped by Luo Sifan's spiritual consciousness and swallowed mouthful by mouthful. Under the rigorous tempering of the Purification of Mortals and Inquiry into Immortality, it filled the void in his spiritual consciousness left by the loss of worldly thoughts.
Lin Xiaozhi's mortal body is too ordinary, and she is deeply tainted by Luo Sifan's spiritual consciousness and worldly thoughts. Her path to cleansing herself of worldly desires and establishing her foundation is much more difficult than in her previous life.
Fortunately, I have enough top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills.
The sea of clouds stretching thousands of miles from Mengshan was swallowed up by Luo Sifan's Taiyi Qingxuan Gong, which swallowed up nearly half of its height like a whale sucking water, before finally stopping.
Hidden in the spiritual energy of the sea of clouds, the grass and trees that had been growing for thousands of years suddenly revealed their withered yellow color due to insufficient spiritual energy, forming distinct and vivid mountain colors hundreds of feet high.
Thirty-six cycles had passed. Luo Sifan trembled slightly, and his body, which was sitting cross-legged on the bluestone of the Daoist temple, floated up half an inch. The basic rules of the mortal realm exerted a slight resistance on Luo Sifan, who had already completed the Foundation Establishment stage.
The dark clouds and thunder overhead dissipated rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye after losing their target.
"Don't rush! Leave it with me!"
Luo Sifan opened his eyes, his black and white eyes clear and bright, with a hint of mystery in their clarity. He then gently swept his hand with his spiritual sense, intercepting the long dark cloud thunder vein and transforming it into a ring of alternating black and white dark cloud thunder pool, which slowly descended around the Pill Furnace Peak.
The remaining dark clouds and lightning fled even faster, and in an instant, the vast sky was completely clear. The moon and stars shone brightly, as clear as if they were right before our eyes.
Luo Sifan flicked his hand, and a hundred strands of lightning flashed into the alchemy furnace, darting around like silver threads in the warming liquid, washing away the impurities in the medicinal liquid.
The Heavenly Tribulation Refining Pearl, also known as the Pill Tribulation, often results in only one in ten remaining. Luo Sifan controlled the lightning and cast spells, and the heavenly lightning was as docile as massage oil, shuttling back and forth, removing the impurities from the liquid pearl layer by layer.
After most of the impurities were removed, the nine-colored liquid droplet became increasingly clear.
Seeing its near-perfect state, Luo Sifan's spiritual sense was somewhat surprised.
Even after being tempered by the pill tribulation, the surviving pills will still have impurities and damage under the violent lightning tribulation.
"enough!"
Too much of a good thing can be bad. Luo Sifan felt a chill and pressed his palm down. The liquid droplets in the cauldron were dispersed by the Taiyi Pure Spiritual Qi and divided into nine parts, which were then drawn out of the cauldron.
The mortal rules of heaven and earth suddenly burst forth with immense squeezing force, causing the nine pills to pop and most of them to vanish without a trace in the instant Luo Sifan was stunned.
"Depend on!"
Regaining his senses, Luo Sifan awkwardly reached out and managed to grab the two pills closest to him. The power of the laws of heaven and earth had been largely depleted by Luo Sifan's Foundation Establishment body. Under the influence of the power of the laws, white frost patterns seeped into the cores of the two nearly transparent pills, and they gradually stabilized in Luo Sifan's trembling palm.