EBE Chapter 311 Lei Xiu's Past
Chapter 311 Lei Xiu's Past
Unaware that Yue Chu had placed such high hopes on her, Yue Zhi was currently traveling with Lei Xiu on the road to the Endless Abyss without stopping for a moment.
The bright blue moon hung in the center of the sky, its eerie blue light turning the beautiful night scene in Lezhi's memory into a sinister and sinister one.
In his previous life, Lezhi was not a materialist. He firmly believed that higher dimensions definitely existed, but humans at that time had not reached a level that they could explore.
Upon arriving in Jormungandr, having interacted with the Mother Tree, Lezhi became even more convinced of this. Therefore, Lezhi preferred to view the Blue Moon through a dialectical lens.
The Void Resonance, the Blue Moon, and the Insect Swarm are all undoubtedly causally related. However, it's currently impossible to know whether the Blue Moon caused the Void Resonance, or whether the Void Resonance triggered the Blue Moon.
The effects of the Blue Moon on those insects are also debatable. All living things are exposed to the light, but some can resist its effects. Those that cannot resist become irrational and are then eliminated by other creatures that have not lost their minds.
Once the blue moon disappears and the world returns to peace, allowing for a period of rest and recuperation, this process will repeat itself when the next void resonance arrives.
Looking at it this way, it's as if this world has performed a self-examination and cleansing.
The thought suddenly popped into Lezhi's mind, and even she couldn't help but be startled.
"Zhizhi, what's wrong?" Even while on the road, Lei Xiu didn't miss Lezhi's unusual behavior.
He shook his head to indicate that he was fine. "I just thought of something. By the way, Lei Xiu, tell me about the Endless Abyss. Uncle Le Zhong said that only the Thunder Clan has led people in there. What's the situation inside?"
Lei Xiu gave Le Zhi a deep look, making sure he was in good spirits, and then stopped worrying. Even though he knew Le Zhi was trying to change the subject, he went along with Le Zhi's suggestion and started talking about what they had seen and heard in the Endless Abyss.
"That place is like a forbidden zone for life. Almost no creatures that can be found anywhere outside can survive there; only strange rocks and desert formations stand everywhere. The entrance to the Endless Abyss is bottomless; our people can't even get close to it. From a distance, everyone is already exhausted and needs to support each other to avoid collapsing..."
Listening to Lei Xiu recount this past event in a desolate voice, Le Zhi could almost see their helplessness at the time. "So, how did you get injured?" If you can't even get close to the enemy, you don't even deserve to be injured. Although it sounds ridiculous, it's the truth.
“I can get close, though it’s very difficult.” Lei Xiu couldn’t hide the unspoken meaning behind Le Zhi’s words. He didn’t run away and chose to openly tell Le Zhi about this past. “But just getting close is useless. I didn’t even see what was attacking me before I was surrounded by shadows.”
The number of shadowy figures attacking Lei Xiu was unlike the small-scale skirmishes that Mao Qiu had encountered. Lei Xiu still remembered how, when he was surrounded by shadowy figures, with no gaps in his body, the shouts of his tribesmen were blocked out, and the whole world was so quiet that he could only hear his own heartbeat and the sound of the shadowy figures flowing through his body.
What does that feel like? It's like being surrounded by swamps, knowing you're about to sink, yet powerless to stop it, unable to pull yourself out. The most painful kind of sinking is when you're fully conscious.
Therefore, Lei Xiu chose to resist, even if he was ultimately shattered to pieces and destroyed, he would not bow down to the shadow.
Only he himself knew that at that moment, he was filled with a death wish, burning all the energy in his body, intending to perish together with the shadow.
Perhaps his energy fluctuations were too great, triggering heavenly lightning. What would be a catastrophe for others was a ray of dawn in the darkness for him.
"...So, it was the sudden lightning that saved you."
"That's one way to put it. It's just a pity that the lightning couldn't completely eliminate the shadow, it only suppressed it temporarily. Later, my people found a way to rescue me and took me to my birthplace to get the sap of the mother tree. With both methods working together, they were able to control the shadow within a certain range."
However, subsequent developments made Lei Xiuxin increasingly worried. The reason the tree spirits feared the shadow, besides its incurable nature, was for another crucial reason: the shadow could evolve.
"Evolution?" Lezhi's heart skipped a beat; he felt that using this word here was not a good sign.
“Yes.” Lei Xiu confirmed Le Zhi’s idea. “At first, with the blessing of the mother tree’s sap, and my own high tolerance to lightning, I would go for a walk around Zixiao Ridge from time to time. The shadow did behave itself for a while. At that time, I did not realize the seriousness of the matter.”
"until……"
……
"Clan leader, what brings you here?" By then, Raine had been personally mentored by Lei Xiu for some time, and his aura was already subtly reminiscent of Lei Xiu's.
Looking at the successor he had personally trained, Lei Xiu felt somewhat reassured. "Get ready, I intend to pass the position of clan leader to you."
"What?" Lei Xiu said calmly, but the listener was anything but calm. With that shout, most of the imposing aura he had just put on immediately dissipated. At this moment, Lei En couldn't care less about anything else and anxiously asked for the reason, "Aren't you fine now? Why did you back down?"
"Did someone say something to you? Who is it? I'm going to find him." The Thunder Clan's identical black-purple eyes gleamed with a fierce light. Rein looked like he wouldn't give up until he found the culprit. He didn't look like a clan leader. He looked more like a bandit leader.
But if he were facing someone else, he might have been intimidated. But it was Lei Xiu who was completely unfazed by such tactics.
With just a slight lift of his eyelids, Ryan, who had been so aggressive just moments before, instantly became like a puppy doused with cold water, his rationality returning in an instant.
"I was just asking, I didn't really mean to do anything." The half-hearted explanation sounded extremely weak and powerless.
"It has nothing to do with anyone else; it's my own decision."
"Why? This is too sudden! I don't accept it..." Renn shouted, his protest sincere.
He was determined that if Lei Xiu didn't give him a convincing reason today, he would absolutely not agree to Lei Xiu's abdication. Forcing him wouldn't work either; at worst, he would simply refuse to take over the clan leader's authority.
Seeing that he couldn't reason with him, Lei Xiu didn't argue with him. Instead, he unbuttoned his shirt and showed the strange black mark on his left chest to Lei En.
"So what? This shadowy figure is being suppressed just fine. Apart from not being able to use his talent, it doesn't seem to be affected at all." Renn didn't look very closely and assumed that Lei Xiu was using the shadowy figure as an excuse, so he said dismissively.
But Lei Xiu's next words were like a thunderbolt, completely shattering his optimism and confidence.
Upon learning that the black markings on Lei Xiu's chest had begun to spread uncontrollably, even though he had not stopped taking the sap from the mother tree and even though he went to Zixiao Ridge every day to draw lightning into his body, these measures only temporarily slowed down the spread of the black markings.
"...And now it seems that their effectiveness is diminishing, and the shadows are beginning to adapt to them."
Upon understanding the meaning behind those words, Renn gasped, his eyes trembling. His body, which had been standing straight, swayed slightly, and he even needed to use his arms to hold onto the furniture beside him to keep from falling.
Having exhausted all his strength to argue, after the conversation ended that day, the Thunder Clan's patriarch was officially replaced, and Lei Xiu became a legend from then on.