104: Thunder Pool, Thundering Hell Vine!

Lightning!

It is the power that all souls fear the most!

Su Ye's thunderous strike directly annihilated the soul within the Yin Nether Flame.

With the soul gone, the gray light in the eye sockets of this skeletal tiger completely vanished.

Within the ice layer...

Only the remaining Yin Nether Flame on the skeletal tiger and the golden skeleton were left.

Without a suitable method to instantly extinguish the soul, the lightning annihilated a considerable amount of Yin Nether power, making that cluster of Yin Nether Flame much more ethereal, causing Su Ye's heart to ache.

After removing the ice block, Su Ye successfully retrieved the golden skeleton.

'Yin Nether Ghost Flame': The source power of undead creatures, composed of pure Yin Nether power, possessing the miraculous effect of nourishing souls...

"It really is a good thing!!"

Su Ye's mouth split into a grin, unable to resist tossing the ice ball in his hand that held the frozen Yin Nether Ghost Flame.

Strange!

An ice block encased flames, yet this peculiar thing happened.

The Yin Nether Ghost Flame was inherently extremely Yin, and there was an intersection between it and the extreme cold of ultimate ice. With the Yin Nether Ghost Flame wrapped in ultimate ice, the rate at which the Yin Nether power dissipated was greatly reduced.

Su Ye did not immediately integrate it into his Martial Soul. Integrating a small amount of energy would cause it to spread throughout the entire Martial Soul.

Like the initial iron block, these items would modify the entire body. Although the effect was comprehensive, it lacked focus.

Like the soul bone power of the Ice Fire Dragon King, due to its immense energy, it would cause the Golden Phoenix's changes to concentrate on its wings.

This greatly enhanced Su Ye's control over fire and ice elemental power.

Su Ye was not prepared to let something like Yin Nether power, which could devour, defend, and attack, spread throughout his entire Martial Soul.

What he... needed was a trump card!

Su Ye put the ice ball and golden skeleton into his storage jade pendant. He had bought many storage soul tools when he came, expanding the space of this storage jade pendant to over a thousand cubic meters.

Let alone these few things, it could even hold a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, provided it was dead, of course.

Su Ye continued searching in the forest.

However, in addition to originally searching for the Thunderclap Hell Vine, he now had another task, which was to hunt undead-type Soul Beasts.

Turning around and around, a week passed in the blink of an eye.

Su Ye finally discovered a Soul Beast in the forest that had been struck dead by lightning.

It was a skeletal crocodile that had been dead for a long time. The extremely Yang power on its skeleton could not escape Su Ye's eyes.

In this Death Forest permeated with death energy, this power could only be lightning!

Searching around the skeleton, Su Ye finally discovered traces of the Thunderclap Hell Vine hundreds of meters away.

It was a barren rock zone nearly a thousand meters in circumference, where the mist in the sky had been cleared away, revealing a clear blue sky.

The surrounding ground was bare, with only a patch of strange black rocks in the very center. No, it shouldn't be called rocks; the shiny surface was purely metallic in appearance.

The internal molecular arrangement was even more terrifying; even the hardest metal in the world might not be so dense.

Seen from afar, it looked like polished pebbles scattered on the ground, black and round, surrounding a bamboo shoot-shaped rock like stars surrounding the moon.

And on that rock, a purple shadow was coiled around it.

It was like it was forged from purple gold, with blue and white lightning patterns carved on it. Its shape was somewhat similar to bamboo that had just transformed from a bamboo shoot; it wasn't long, coiling less than two circles around the waist-thick rock.

Although it was motionless and seemed to have no energy fluctuations, this plant was extremely domineering, like a monarch unilaterally occupying this territory, and it seemed to carry the power to destroy everything within.

"Finally found it!!"

Su Ye's heart pounded wildly. He could be certain that this was definitely the Thunderclap Hell Vine.

A one-thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Vine would definitely be sufficient to break through the third level of the Heavenly Dipper Divine Fist.

Even as a soul ring, with the foundation of a thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Vine, it would definitely not be inferior to a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast.

Just as Su Ye was about to step forward, it seemed something was triggered. The rocks were immediately enveloped by a lightning net, and a lightning field protected the Thunderclap Hell Vine in the center.

"So that's the Lei Chi (Thunder Pool)..."

This lightning did not come from the sky, but was released from the middle of the rocks.

Su Ye had already noticed a small-to-medium-sized puddle among the rocks, with blue liquid flowing within it.

That violent and fierce lightning energy was so pure that it was awe-inspiring. Even after cultivating the Heavenly Dipper Divine Fist's lightning tempering, Su Ye still felt a little startled.

The Thunderclap Hell Vine, after a hundred years, could attract lightning to strike itself, continuously increasing its cultivation by being struck by lightning.

The stronger the Thunderclap Hell Vine, the wider the surrounding Lei Chi (Thunder Pool) would be, until it destroyed everything around it. If it cultivated without end, the Lei Chi (Thunder Pool) alone could destroy the entire forest, which would be a disaster for other creatures.

Moreover, since its cultivation did not incur heavenly punishment, the Lord of the Plane would not allow its age to exceed a hundred thousand years; most would self-detonate and die below fifty thousand years.

The Lei Chi (Thunder Pool) before him contained the power of lightning from the heavens; it was simply incomparable to the meager lightning power of Su Ye's Heavenly Dipper Divine Fist.

But to think that this lightning alone could stop me is underestimating me too much!

Su Ye let out a cold snort. Just as he was preparing to act, a terrifying, astonishing lightning bolt three zhang wide suddenly struck down from the sky.

Wherever the lightning passed, a lightning domain instantly enveloped the thousand-meter area. The terrifying heavenly might was irresistible. Facing such terrifying lightning power, even Su Ye had to retreat and evade.

At the same time, a lifeless female voice sounded. The cold voice carried dominance and was not to be resisted.

"Human, this is not a place you should be!"

"Retreat quickly!!"

"Interesting..." Hearing this voice, Su Ye did not get angry but instead laughed. The smile that spread across his lips was so refreshing, and he no longer had any thought of taking action.

Although a thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Vine was good, how could it compare to a ten-thousand-year Thunderclap Hell Vine?

Su Ye's figure flickered, and he had already disappeared from his original spot.

Swish swish, he quickly swept towards the north, a distance of over ten li. The scenery before Su Ye's eyes completely changed.

Looking around, the surrounding vegetation was completely gone. The lake formed by the Lei Chi (Thunder Pool) was boundless, like a vast sea stretching across the desert.

Dead silence, desolation.

All that remained were the occasional roaring flashes of lightning, clearly a scene of doomsday after a great catastrophe.

"To be able to find this place..."

"Human, you are not simple!"

The noble and indifferent voice sounded again. A woman with feet as delicate as jade was seen walking with lotus steps across the Lei Chi (Thunder Pool).

The woman's face was as beautiful as the clear moon, her figure graceful and charming. Her entire body exuded the gentle beauty and elegance of a mature woman. She wore a purple long dress that was graceful and luxurious, her sleeves fluttering like the divine maiden of Dunhuang's flying apsaras.

The woman's coldness was one of loneliness, different from the desolate loneliness of Zhu Zhuqing's dead heart. This was the loneliness of solitude, as if she had been imprisoned for too long and had lost interest in everything.

The woman was already devastatingly beautiful, and coupled with the loneliness in her eyes and her lifeless, melancholic appearance, it added a touch of nobility.

However, beneath this beauty lay devastatingly powerful strength.

If one were to only focus on her appearance, they would likely face a great disaster, being struck by the woman until not even dust remained.