Chapter 561 Gaining Benefits
Seeing this scene, the people who had just looked relaxed suddenly felt nervous and used their own defensive means to resist the swift lightning.
Fortunately, although there were many more lightnings, the power of each lightning was about the same as before, without much change. Relying on the defensive magic weapons in their hands and various magic tools to control lightning, the people quickly blocked the attack of lightning.
"This place should be a cloud and thunder formation. Once someone breaks into the formation, the lightning will not stop. We have to rush through it quickly!"
After seeing a spark above the stone pillars around, the knowledgeable Zhao Menglian hurriedly reminded everyone and flew forward first, trying to quickly pass through the stone pillars in front of them.
However, she had just flown more than ten feet away, and the lightning in the sky fell quickly and focused directly on her, forcing her down from the sky again.
Seeing this scene, Song Qingming and others who were about to follow immediately stopped themselves.
"It seems that people are not allowed to fly freely in this cloud and thunder formation, and can only walk step by step!" After falling from the sky, Zhao Menglian also saw some clues and immediately explained to everyone.
Seeing this, everyone could only use their strongest means of response and walked forward step by step.
Just after walking more than ten feet away, hundreds of lightning flashes fell from the sky again. Although these lightning flashes were not very powerful, the number of them fell each time, which made everyone feel more and more pressure.
After walking forward for a distance, as the lightning flashes in the sky became more and more, Zhang Tieyang, who was weaker and had no special means to deal with this kind of lightning, was the first to be unable to hold on.
"Fellow Daoist Zhao, I'm sorry, I really can't go any further."
Seeing Zhang Tieyang's bitter face, Zhao Menglian could only nod at him and said, "If fellow Daoist Zhang doesn't want to go in, then wait for us outside first!"
Seeing that the lightning in the black cloud above was about to fall again, Zhang Tieyang bowed slightly to everyone with a helpless look on his face, and immediately turned around and retreated.
Although Zhang Tieyang also knew that the "cloud and thunder formation" in this place was so powerful that there was a high probability of finding some good things in it, he was really not confident enough to go forward due to his own lack of strength.
At this point, the sea of clouds in front of him still did not see the end. If he continued to move forward, once the magic weapon on his body that defended against the lightning was damaged, or his own mana was exhausted in advance, it was very likely that he would be trapped to death in this formation.
Zhang Tieyang was able to cultivate to the Jindan realm, so he was naturally not someone who didn't know how to advance and retreat. No matter how many good things there were in it, once he lost his life here for this, he would have nothing.
After Zhang Tieyang voluntarily withdrew, the crowd continued to move forward for a distance. Qingluo Zhenren, who was relying on a second-level lightning control magic weapon, saw that the magic weapon in his hand was about to be damaged, so he had no choice but to withdraw from the team.
Soon after, Jin Ziyuan and Yun Xinhe also stopped moving forward because of their insufficient magic power. Only Zhao Menglian and Song Qingming were left in the formation.
Zhao Menglian did not use any magic weapon to restrain lightning to protect herself. She was able to persist until now mainly relying on her own ice-attributed skills with relatively strong defense and her own life magic weapon "Xuanbing Chiling".
Song Qingming always had a golden round bead magic weapon on his head. This bead was very wonderful. Every time the lightning fell from the sky, it could be directly absorbed by the round bead without a trace. This also made Song Qingming's current state seem to be more relaxed than Zhao Menglian.
After walking a distance forward, Zhao Menglian, who was walking in front, suddenly saw a figure lying motionless on the ground, and couldn't help but exclaimed.
When the two approached, they found that it was a corpse of a monk who had been trapped in the "Cloud Thunder Formation" and had long been dead. This corpse still had some dry flesh on it, and it seemed to have died much later than the white bones outside. It should be the monk who broke in when the "Babel Tower" was opened last time.
"The magic weapons on this person have been damaged, and I don't know if there are any good things in this storage bag!"
After picking up a severely damaged magic weapon held in the corpse's hand and taking a look, Zhao Menglian quickly discovered that there was still a storage bag on the man's waist, and a hint of joy suddenly appeared on his face.
"Although hundreds of years have passed, it is impossible for spiritual stones and other things to be damaged. No matter what, I still have to congratulate Senior Sister Zhao."
"Don't worry, Junior Brother Song, since I found this thing with you, I naturally can't break the rules. I will give you a share after opening it." After Zhao Menglian put away the storage bag, she smiled and explained to Song Qingming.
"Haha! Then I would like to thank Senior Sister Zhao first."
Song Qingming bowed to Zhao Menglian and was about to move forward. Unexpectedly, Zhao Menglian looked around and said, "Junior Brother Song, I don't know how long it will take to reach the end of this cloud and thunder formation. I don't have much mana left, so I don't plan to move forward any further.
Junior brother, if you can still hold on, then you can go forward and see. If you really can't, don't force yourself too much. After all, even a Jindan cultivator can be trapped to death here, so it's definitely not that easy to get through. "
After seeing the body of the Jindan cultivator in front of her, Zhao Menglian's confidence disappeared a little. Even if she could walk here with her cultivation, the "cloud and thunder formation" in front of her still couldn't see the end. Hearing that she didn't plan to go forward, Song Qingming didn't look too surprised.
"Thank you for your concern, Senior Sister Zhao. I'll try to go forward a little bit. If it doesn't work, I can only retreat. Please rest assured, Senior Sister, I know my limits. "
After instructing Song Qingming for a few words, Zhao Menglian threw out a spiritual light and rolled up the corpse on the ground, then turned around and retreated the same way.
After Zhao Menglian left, hundreds of lightning lights fell again above Song Qingming's head, but without exception, they were all absorbed by the golden silk bead above his head.
The golden ball above Song Qingming's head is called "Thunder Bead", which is a very rare magic weapon in the world of immortal cultivation that can restrain lightning. It is made of the golden elixir in the body of the thunder-attributed demon king.
When Song Qingming followed the fire phoenix into the secret realm of Taiyue Lake, he had witnessed the power of this magic weapon with his own eyes and had always been thinking about it.
Later, by chance, Song Qingming found an opportunity to exchange this treasure from the fire phoenix with some spiritual objects. Unexpectedly, this time he entered the Tongtian Tower and finally had the opportunity to use it.
No matter how much lightning fell from above, it was almost absorbed by the fire phoenix. The "Lightning Gathering Bead" devoured everything. It was with this magic weapon that Song Qingming could easily walk here.
Seeing that the "Lightning Gathering Bead" was not damaged, the spiritual light on it became even brighter after being tempered by the lightning. Song Qingming also completely put aside his worries.
No matter how far ahead, with this magic weapon that restrains lightning, even if he can't find anything good, he will definitely not encounter any big problems when returning by the original route.
With an expressionless look at the black clouds in the sky, Song Qingming raised his foot and continued to walk forward.
After walking a few dozen feet forward, there was another corpse that had turned into white bones in front of him. After checking the other party and finding nothing useful, Song Qingming did not delay and continued to walk forward.
As he went deeper and deeper into the formation, Song Qingming encountered several similar The bones looked like white bones, but unfortunately, Song Qingming didn't find anything on them except for a few severely damaged magic weapons and instruments on the ground.
After walking for more than a mile, Song Qingming finally passed through the dark cloud and came to an open space in the middle of many stone pillars.
Seeing that there were no dark clouds in the sky that could release lightning at any time, Song Qingming finally breathed a sigh of relief and carefully put away the "Thunder Bead" above his head.
In this open space, in addition to the rocks and weeds on the ground, there were two spiritual trees full of fruits near the middle. Song Qingming went forward and took a closer look and found that many of these spiritual fruits were ripe.
Seeing this scene, Song Qingming's face was immediately filled with joy. He summoned the golden wind and went forward to pick all the ripe spiritual fruits on the tree.
These two spiritual fruit trees are located in this "cloud and thunder formation". There are many years old, and one of the older spiritual fruit trees has reached the third-level middle quality, and many of the spiritual fruits on it have reached the third level.
This time, Song Qingming got a total of four third-level spiritual fruits, and more than a dozen second-level spiritual fruits of varying qualities. These things added up are enough to exchange for tens of thousands of spiritual stones, and Song Qingming is very satisfied with this.
After counting the spiritual fruits brought back by Jin Feng, Song Qingming carefully packed them up with a box with a satisfied look and put them into his storage bag.
Song Qingming naturally would not touch the unripe spiritual fruits casually. Since he has already benefited from it, he always has to leave some opportunities for future generations.
After all, this "Babel Tower" secret realm is only opened once every three hundred years. When it is opened next time, these unripe fruits on the tree should be ripe!
If you do things too thoroughly in such a place, it will definitely damage the merits of the Heavenly Dao. Song Qingming may also encounter more setbacks and tribulations in his future practice.
After collecting all the things he had obtained, Song Qingming returned to the "Cloud Thunder Formation" and brought the skeletons of the cultivators who had been exposed for hundreds or thousands of years to the flat ground in the middle. He asked Jinfeng to dig a pit and buried all these people here one by one.
These people who could walk so close to the middle position must be cultivators above the Jindan stage. However, they themselves may not have thought that they were the powerful Jindan ancestors in their lifetime, but after death, they could only be left here in the wilderness. (End of this chapter)