16: Chapter 16 Refining the Thunder Core! Is there an even greater opportunity in the Thunder Swamp?

At Tushan Yue's reminder like this,

Lin Ye seemed to understand.

Venerable God Zhulong was the master of Mount Zhong, and his rank was far higher than the God of Thunder of Thunder Marsh.

Although this thunder core was violent, after all, it was only a small part of the power left behind by the God of Thunder. Feeling the aura of Zhulong, thinking that the big shot had arrived in person, it instinctively shrank back!

Lin Ye's breathing also grew a bit rapid.

Could it even be like this?

In the primordial world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, rank suppression was a rule engraved deep within the instincts of all living beings.

Zhulong was an absolute overlord, and even this land fell silent under his coercion. When a thunder core left behind by a fallen God of Thunder caught the aura of Zhulong, it would naturally shrink back instinctively.

This was an opportunity!

And it was the only opportunity.

The retreat of the thunder core meant that he did not need to forcefully endure the sky-filling thunder light to rush in. As long as he used the Zhulong Divine Sense to probe bit by bit and maintain the aura of "Zhulong arriving in person", he could slowly approach.

But once he slipped up...

He would die even more miserably than those white bones blasted into charcoal.

"Master, you are not actually going to go, right?"

Tushan Yue's voice changed, "Even if the Zhulong aura suppresses it, that only weakens the thunder light. The power of the thunder core itself is still there! Once you get close, in case it discovers something is wrong..."

"Then I still have to try."

Lin Ye took a deep breath, "You stay outside."

"Master!!"

"If I do not come out, just pretend I was never here."

Tushan Yue was dumbfounded; this was too risky!

"...Then you must come out alive. Collecting your corpse would be too unsightly; we Green Hill foxes are most afraid of ugly things!"

"..."

Lin Ye.

Such a sweet mouth.

Without replying, he turned and stepped into the basin.

As soon as he entered the basin's range, a violent lightning aura rushed straight at his face.

Arcs of electricity crackled and struck his skin. Even with the Zhulong aura protecting his body, a stinging pain still came through.

As Lin Ye walked, he mobilized the zhulong seal, expanding that trace of divine sense to the extreme.

Dark red dragon fire enveloped his entire body, making him look like a walking dragon-shaped flame as a whole.

Sensing this aura, the lightning successively retreated to both sides.

However, the further inward he went, the greater the resistance.

Although that thunder core in the center of the basin shrank back, after all, it was not a lifeless object...

Sensing that the Zhulong aura, although strong, was not personally present, it began to waver.

When he walked halfway, a golden arc of electricity three times thicker than those on the periphery cleaved down from the thunder clouds, directly blasting down towards Lin Ye's head.

The might of this thunder was already close to the limit of his defense.

Lin Ye took a deep breath, mobilizing the yellow emperors essence blood within his body.

The dark golden Human Emperors Coercion intertwined with the Zhulong Divine Sense, and the rank auras of the two ancient mighty figures were released simultaneously.

The thunder core was clearly even more flustered, and the cleaved arcs of electricity began to become chaotic, no longer having a clear attack target, but scattering in all directions.

It was terrified!

Right now.

When he walked to a distance of three steps away from the thunder core, Lin Ye stopped.

That pale golden thunder light was right before his eyes. Experiencing its might at close range was completely different from a distance.

Ancient lightning runes flowed on the surface of the thunder light. Every single rune was burning and leaping, and the aura was violent enough to tear apart any mortal flesh that approached.

Even if suppressed by the Zhulong aura by more than fifty percent, it was still a power capable of easily causing fatal death.

Lin Ye extended his right hand, his palm covered with the dark red Temporal Crimson Fire and the dark golden Human Emperors Coercion, slowly reaching out to grab the thunder core.

The moment his fingers touched the thunder light...

Boom!!!

The entire Thunder Marsh went berserk at that instant!

Realizing it was about to be captured, all the fear suppressed upon the thunder core turned into a crazy counterattack at this moment.

The sky-filling thunder clouds pressed down simultaneously. Cyan-purple, pale golden, and even a few deep purple lightnings bombarded Lin Ye from all directions at the same time. The ground within a hundred zhang around him was bombarded by the thunder light, the glazed ground shattered and splattered, and the air was ionized to the point of almost spontaneous combustion.

Lin Ye clenched his teeth and did not let go.

The triple powers of the Zhulong Divine Sense, yellow emperors essence blood, and kun tu jade essence inside his body pushed out simultaneously, suppressing the crazy struggle of the thunder core to the death.

However, that backlash force was simply too great...

The skin on his arms began to crack, and fresh blood oozing from the cracks was instantly evaporated by the thunder light. Under the scorching of the lightning, the muscle fibers emitted a charred smell.

His internal organs also suffered an impact. A fishy, sweet blood surged up from his throat, only to be forcefully swallowed back down.

What was even worse was the impact on the mental level.

Although the thunder core was only a small part of the power left behind by the God of Thunder, after all, it came from an ancient true god.

That tyrannical thunder will rushed along his arm into his sea of consciousness, attempting to crush his consciousness.

Lin Ye's vision was completely white; he could see nothing except thunder light, and his ears only heard a buzzing roar, unable to even hear his own heartbeat.

He could not let go.

Letting go meant death.

Not letting go still left a glimmer of survival!

With his last trace of sobriety, Lin Ye mobilized the Xuanyuan Qi Refining Technique, taking heaven and earth as the cauldrons, the thunder core as the medicinal material, and his mind and spirit as the heat.

Forcibly refining it!

Suppressing while decomposing while absorbing, like using a low fire to slowly stew a hard bone, bit by bit converting the power of the thunder core into a part of himself.

How long this process lasted, Lin Ye did not know.

He only knew that later on, he was completely exhausted, his consciousness hovered on the verge of collapse, and he purely relied on his body's instincts to stubbornly hold on.

The Zhulong Divine Sense and yellow emperors essence blood that he could mobilize at present were exhausted to the limit, and the light of the kun tu jade essence had also dimmed by more than seventy percent.

The thunder core's resistance finally subsided abruptly at a certain moment...

It was completely refined!

From the violent power left behind by the ancient God of Thunder, it turned into a docile golden thunder seed inside Lin Ye's body.

The sky-filling thunder clouds began to dissipate, the cyan-purple arcs of electricity extinguished one after another, and the pungent charred smell in the air gradually faded.

The entire basin fell into unprecedented silence.

Lin Ye stood in place, his entire body charred black like charcoal, his clothes almost blasted until only a few charred rags hung on his body.

However, in his palm, a golden thunder seed the size of a walnut was slowly rotating, emitting a docile and bright thunder light.

He slowly clenched his fists, and the thunder seed was crushed, turning into countless dense golden arcs of electricity that exploded from between his fingers, spreading all the way along his arms, shoulders, and torso, crackling and leaping all over his body.

Under the feedback of the thunder seed, the skin cracked by the scorching lightning began to heal rapidly, and the charred old skin peeled off, revealing the newborn skin underneath, which circulated with a faint metallic luster.

He raised his head, golden lightning leaping deep within his pupils, and between breaths, even fine arcs of electricity entered and exited from his mouth and nose.

"It succeeded?"

Lin Ye looked at his own hands; his body felt as if it were about to explode, but excitement diluted everything.

With a casual point towards the rock nearby.

A pale golden arc of electricity ejected from his fingertips.

Bang!

Instantly exploding a huge charred pit on the stone wall, with the edges still sizzling and emitting green smoke.

"Hand-rubbing lightning?"

Lin Ye was amused. He had watched zombie movies before; senior apprentice brother hand-rubbing lightning could already be called an invincible dharma king.

The power of his casual point just now was comparable to the serious state of senior apprentice brother!

Moreover, the rank of his thunder was higher than that of senior apprentice brother by goodness knows how many tiers!

Tushan Yue rushed out from behind the boulder, ran to the edge of the basin but did not dare to enter, jumping anxiously on the spot: "Master! Master, how are you! Speak to me!!!"

Lin Ye had just wanted to open his mouth to reply, as the Thunder Marsh had already been conquered.

However, before he even had time to speak...

Rumble——!!

The ground at the deepest part of the basin split open a huge opening without any warning.

A purple-golden radiance gushed out from the crevice!

"What is this?"

Lin Ye's body froze, the joy on his face temporarily fading.

That was a lump of purple-golden thunder pulp so pure it was nearly liquefied, slowly wriggling in the crevice like it had life.

Ancient, unrecognizably old lightning runes flowed on its surface. Every single symbol was burning, leaping, and releasing a violent coercion that caused the entire space to distort violently!

The residual thunder clouds around it were instantly evaporated to nothingness under its light, and the earth trembled slightly under its coercion as the crevice expanded larger and larger.

An extremely ancient aura permeated the air, as if declaring its existence to the entire world.

The golden thunder seed inside Lin Ye's body, at the instant it sensed this purple-gold thunder pulp,

shrank abruptly into the deepest part of his dantian like a frightened little beast, emitting a slight tremor bordering on terror.

"This is..."

Lin Ye was puzzled. Wasn't the core swallowed by himself?

Could it be that in this Thunder Marsh, there was an even stronger thing?