Chapter 170 The Nine Heavenly Thunder Secrets

The origin of the altar in this cave is mysterious. It is impossible to verify who built it. However, judging from its array pattern and the shape of the altar, this altar has existed for a very long time.

About two thousand years ago.

At that time, the ancestor of the Lei family, who was just a casual cultivator of Qi, accidentally sneaked into the stone wall of the cave and picked up the stone disc that opened the stone wall. By chance, he entered the cave and saw the altar.

He got a jade slip of cultivation method on the altar. The jade slip contained a secret technique of thunder magic called "Lei Jing". It not only included various thunder magics in the world of immortal cultivation, but also nine secret techniques of heavenly thunder that only existed in legends.

These nine heavenly thunders corresponded to the nine realms of immortal cultivation. Every time you advance to a realm, you can practice a thunder method.

The ancestor of the Lei family who got the "Lei Jing" began to practice the first heavenly thunder, named the North Pole God Thunder.

The ancestor of the Lei family had a decent talent for thunder magic. Not long after, he successfully practiced the North Pole God Thunder.

With the power of the Arctic God Thunder, the ancestor of the Lei family rose rapidly and successfully built a foundation within a few years, but he was not satisfied with this and began to study the role of the altar.

After years of research, he gained nothing.

Until one day, he brought a dying enemy into the cave, accidentally activated the altar, and devoured the thunder spirit from him, and then he discovered the effectiveness of the altar.

After that, the ancestor of the Lei family kept kidnapping monks with thunder talents, bringing them to the cave, and devouring their thunder spirits.

As more and more monks were devoured, the Lei family ancestor's thunder method became stronger and stronger, and gradually began to emerge in the world of cultivation and established a cultivation family.

There was a lack of spiritual energy near the altar cave, which was not suitable as a family residence. The ancestor of the Lei family set up the family residence next to a mountain with abundant spiritual energy a hundred miles away.

The altar is magical. Even if it is activated, when it devours the thunder spirit of others, there will be no spiritual fluctuations. Even the spiritual consciousness of the Nascent Soul cultivator cannot detect it. The Lei family is not afraid of the existence of the altar being known to outsiders.

As the Lei family becomes more and more powerful, the original family residence gradually cannot meet the needs of many Lei family cultivators for spiritual energy. The Lei family moved the family residence to a place with richer spiritual energy.

After hundreds of years, the first ancestor of the Lei family has died of exhaustion. One of his descendants suddenly had an idea to use thunder monsters to replace the monks with thunder talent.

From then on, the Lei family discovered that the thunder spirit of monsters can also be devoured. Monsters, like humans, must be alive to devour their thunder spirit.

But there are not many monsters with thunder talent, and monsters with outstanding thunder talent are even rarer. In the world of immortal cultivation, most monsters with thunder talent are powerful and not easy to capture.

With the help of the altar, at least one person with outstanding talent in thunder magic will appear in every generation of the Lei family, making the Lei family stronger and stronger.

There were also righteous sects that tried to steal the nine heavenly thunder secrets of the Lei family. These sects found that the first two heavenly thunder secrets they had finally obtained were not as powerful as they imagined after practicing, and they were much less powerful than the Lei family members.

After a long time, there were rumors in the world of immortal cultivation that the nine heavenly thunder secrets could only be practiced by the Lei family bloodline to exert their true power. The Lei family gradually became stronger and gave birth to Yuanying strongmen, and no one wanted to steal the nine heavenly thunder secrets anymore.

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Lei Yue carefully explored the vicinity of the altar. He found the ashes left by Lei Hong's body and the embers in the rubble pit.

From the remaining breath in the air, he judged that not long ago, there were five people and one beast here, two of whom were Lei Hong and Lei Tianyu.

The air still had a strong smell of corpse cultivators from the evil ways. Lei Hong and Lei Tianyu were probably killed by the corpse cultivators.

The other two of the five should be righteous cultivators, and they were female cultivators, so they should also be dead.

The reason for his judgment was that he could sense that there were still some soul fragments that had not yet dispersed here, which belonged to the two female cultivators.

As for the souls of Lei Hong and Lei Tianyu, no soul fragments were left.

Lei Yue raised his right hand and slowly passed it in the air, and a gentle spiritual power wandered in the cave.

A moment later, several faint light spots gathered in his hands from all directions.

Lei Yue muttered something in his mouth and repeatedly pinched out spells towards the light spots.

After dozens of breaths, Lei Yue's face turned a little pale and his breath became a little weaker.

"This ghost's 'Remnant Soul Seeking Technique' is really too mana-consuming. Just a few pieces of residual souls have consumed nearly half of my mana."

Lei Yue learned some simple information about what the two had seen before they died from the residual soul memories.

He knew that both were killed by Lei Hong and that Lei Hong had attacked Lei Tianyu, but he didn't have any information about the corpse cultivator that he wanted to know the most.

"Could it be that these two female cultivators had not seen the corpse cultivator before they died?"

Lei Yue carefully searched around the altar for a few more times, but found no more clues. He flew deep into the cave and searched slowly in the cave.

A quarter of an hour later, he found the vertical hole dug by Song Wen. Through the vertical hole, he came to the mountain cave.

In the cave, he searched around but found nothing.

He blocked the vertical hole with stones from the cave and left the cave.

Lei Yue stood in the air, and his powerful spiritual consciousness swept around one by one. To his disappointment, he still did not find any traces left by the corpse cultivator.

After standing in the air for a long time, Lei Yue shook his head in disappointment.

He flew to a mountain and slashed with his sword, cutting out a hundred-meter-long stone bar.

Lei Yue dragged the stone bar and flew to the vertical hole he had opened. He blocked the vertical hole with the stone bar, and then made a palm in the air to disturb the soil on the ground nearby, so that no one could see anything unusual.

After covering up everything, Lei Yue flew back to the Lei family residence.

The Lei family's younger generation will track down the whereabouts of the corpse cultivator.

This place is too close to Donghuafang City, where many casual cultivators gather. It is not easy to find a corpse cultivator who is hiding among them, even if he is a Yuanying cultivator.

Now, the most likely places for the corpse cultivator to go are nothing more than two, Donghuafang City and Shanjian Ghost Market.

Donghuafang City is the largest market nearby, and it is a distribution center for spiritual stones, elixirs, spiritual herbs and other treasures. The corpse cultivator killed people and robbed treasures, and it is very likely that he will go to Donghuafang City to sell the stolen goods. Starting from Donghuafang City, some clues may be obtained.

Shanjian Ghost Market is a mixed crowd, and demon cultivators appear from time to time, and it is also possible to find the trace of the corpse cultivator.

Of course, Lei Yue didn't need to do these things himself. The Lei family had industries in Donghua Market and Ghost Market. He gave orders and a large number of Lei family descendants went to investigate.

Song Wen hid at the bottom of the lake for two days. Seeing that the Haoran spiritual consciousness did not appear again, he released a black armor Gu.

The black armor Gu slowly swam to the surface of the lake. After confirming that there was no one around, it slowly climbed up the lakeshore and crawled around for a few miles around, but found nothing.

Then it flew into the sky. The black armor Gu relied on its eyesight to scan the surrounding area for dozens of miles and did not see anyone.

Song Wen was slightly relieved.

After crawling out of the mud at the bottom of the river, Song Wen did not activate his spiritual power, but relied on his strong body to slowly move forward at the bottom of the lake.

The underwater resistance was very large, and Song Wen walked very slowly. He could only walk a few miles in an hour.

He walked at the bottom of the lake for two days and walked nearly two hundred miles before climbing up the lakeshore.

After steaming off the moisture on his body, Song Wen identified the direction, bypassed the location of the altar cave, and headed for Donghuafang City at a leisurely pace.