465: Chapter 464 Heaven-Shattering Thunder Roc

The next three Lightning Tribulations were more terrifying than the last, turning the surrounding fifty-meter radius into scorched earth, with the forest fire spreading outward.

A forest fire grew with the wind, burning fiercely.

Shortly after, Chu Xuan, his entire body charred black, rushed out of the forest fire carrying the Giant Egg.

"Consider this Lord Peng begging you; these few Lightning Tribulations have fully charged my battery, I almost exploded, hurry and put me down, I don't want your life essence anymore..." The Giant Egg wailed, its voice slightly weak, with electric arcs still flickering on the shell's surface.

"Don't worry, there are no more Lightning Tribulations."

Accompanied by a burst of white circular airwaves, Chu Xuan carried the Giant Egg and stepped into the Void Realm, flying toward the depths of the mountain range to distance himself from this place.

This post-awakening Lightning Tribulation was even more powerful than the one in the dream.

Although the Giant Egg was blocking from above and bearing most of the pressure, Chu Xuan still suffered significant injuries.

What was more critical was that his current health points were less than 1,000, which was below 50% of his current 2,000 base health points; the Transcendent Skill [Unyielding] could not take effect.

Under the continuous damage and paralysis of the Lightning Tribulation, it was equivalent to having a negative status applied; all attributes were decreasing, and he could currently exert less than ten percent of his strength.

To avoid any accidents, Chu Xuan flew at a low altitude through the mountain forest for over ten minutes, crossing a dozen mountain peaks before finally landing in a valley.

During this time, Chu Xuan also drank several large gulps of high-grade life essence, barely managing to curb the downward trend of his health points caused by the continuous lightning damage.

"Don't just look out for yourself, give me a few sips too!" the Giant Egg shouted in dissatisfaction.

"It's all yours." Chu Xuan tossed the greed tank, which still had about one-third of the high-grade life essence left, directly to the Giant Egg.

"At least you're sensible!" The Giant Egg hopped and leaped up, landing on the tank's opening, shaking continuously as rapid sucking sounds rang out.

After a moment, the sucking sound suddenly paused, and a slightly embarrassed, questioning voice came: "You gave it all to me, so what about you?"

Chu Xuan set up the [Sentry Bastion], forming a field with a hundred-meter radius.

Having completed these simple warning and protective measures, Chu Xuan took out one last greed tank filled with 300 liters of high-grade life essence from his Exclusive Space, then glanced at the Giant Egg and raised the tank in his hand: "I still have some for myself."

With that, Chu Xuan tilted his head back and gulped it down into his stomach.

For the current Chu Xuan, high-grade life essence basically no longer had the effect of continuing to enhance his base attributes of spirit and stamina; it could only be used to recover health points.

Although the effect was also getting worse, luckily there was enough quantity; nearly 600 catties of high-grade life essence should be completely sufficient for recovering health points.

As he continued to pour it in, he drank over thirty catties in one breath; Chu Xuan didn't feel tipsy yet, but his stomach had expanded by a whole circle.

"Humph! Aren't you afraid of bursting from drinking so much at once? It seems you still have plenty! I was moved for nothing..." The Giant Egg shook and continued sucking.

Chu Xuan had no time to pay attention to it; with a long burp, his bloated stomach began to deflate, and a mist gradually drifted out from his body, even accompanied by faint currents making crackling sounds.

And his health points completely stopped decreasing and began to rise slowly; after half an hour, they finally recovered to 1,000 points.

The attribute decrease caused by the Lightning Tribulation injuries also returned to the full value of 200 points at this time.

New flesh was now growing from the inside out through his charred skin, and the outer skin began to scab over in a thick layer.

At this moment, Chu Xuan's appearance looked very terrifying, but he could clearly sense the changes in his body, and with the System's health points as a data reference, he didn't feel worried; instead, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

This kind of injury, which could be called fatal, would soon be healed.

During the healing period, the surrounding dense forest remained quiet, with no abnormalities seen.

Only a few squirrels and small snakes darted through it; when they accidentally entered the range of the Sentry Bastion, they turned in a panic and fled one after another.

The Sentry Bastion only emitted extremely faint beeping alarm sounds, and when the small snakes and squirrels entered, the alarm sounds were slightly different.

When the small snakes entered the range, the sound was slightly louder than when the squirrels did.

"It can even determine the threat level of intruders?"

Chu Xuan immediately understood the reason and was quite surprised, so he spent a small amount of spirituality value to continue maintaining the Sentry Bastion's field.

Finally, he checked the battered [night cloak] on his body.

This cloak had originally been riddled with holes by the lightning, but it had now recovered by one-third.

Although its appearance was still very tattered, it was perfectly fine for covering his body, so there was no need to discard it due to being unusable from severe erosion by The Gloom.

Next, Chu Xuan's gaze pierced through the mountains and forests, looking at the forest fire dozens of kilometers away.

Several helicopters circled over the forest fire, and then a figure stepped out from a helicopter, turning into a curtain of water that poured down.

A localized heavy downpour ensued.

The forest fire was quickly extinguished.

Then, several people jumped down from the helicopter.

Although the distance was extremely far, with Chu Xuan's current eyesight, he could already identify several of them; they were surprisingly Lin Liguo, Wu Wanqiu, and a few other Night Watchers.

Then, more black dots flew over.

It was a fat Pig-headed Man with a Monkey-headed Man sitting on his back, landing below the helicopter.

Because of the dense forest obstruction, Chu Xuan couldn't see what happened after these people landed, but ten minutes later, Lin Liguo and the others leaped onto the helicopter and left.

After another ten-odd minutes, Fat Pig rose into the air, following the direction of the helicopter.

"Are they looking for me..." Chu Xuan lowered his eyes slightly, having no intention of going to meet them, but instead preparing to bypass everyone and travel alone to the Capital.

Today was a big day.

Not only was there the national captains' offline meeting held by the Night Watchers at 9:30 AM, but Revelation was also tempting all Transcendents to go to the Capital to kill him at this exact time...

"Are you hiding in the shadows?"

A cold smile couldn't help but appear at the corner of Chu Xuan's mouth: "In that case, I'll hide as well and see exactly what scheme you have."

Chu Xuan's eyes glowed with a faint light as he opened the System panel and fixed his gaze on one of the skills.

[Myriad Forms LV.1: You can consume 10 points of spirituality value to change your appearance, body shape, and physiological characteristics into any similar creature you have seen, lasting up to 2 hours. Cooldown: 12 hours.]

Chu Xuan took a deep breath and continued drinking high-grade life essence until another half hour passed and his health points recovered to 1,500.

"Delicious... Delicious..." The Giant Egg not far away was vibrating intensely, its shell making cracking sounds, looking as if it might hatch at any moment.

A strange light flickered in Chu Xuan's eyes.

While drinking to recover from his injuries, he observed the changes in the Giant Egg, full of anticipation as to what kind of species it would be once it hatched.

"Sky-Shattering Thunder Roc..." Chu Xuan murmured softly, "Although the name is a bit strange, it should be very powerful."

In Chu Xuan's mind, a Great Roc that blotted out the sky inevitably appeared, its entire body flashing with thunder and lightning bolts like a Lightning Tribulation.

"Even if its strength right after hatching isn't as I imagine, it could already display impressive lightning power while still in the egg; such a performance shouldn't be too bad..."

When the time reached 10:30 AM and Chu Xuan's health points had recovered to 2,300, the Giant Egg resting on the greed tank suddenly jolted and rolled down.

"Quack quack quack! I, the Sky-Shattering Thunder Roc, am coming out..."

A wild, duck-like laughter erupted from the Giant Egg, accompanied by continuous cracking sounds as brilliant thunder light shone through the cracks in the shell.

A few seconds later.

Bang!!

Thunder light shot in all directions, piercing through the surrounding trees and blasting apart rocks in the mountains; amidst this shining light, a figure with crackling electric arcs jumping all over its body finally manifested.