245: incredible luck

After walking for a full half-hour, the trio's eyes suddenly lit up!

A patch of Chaos Grass, half a meter tall and emitting a blue glow, came into view!

Shi Bao laughed happily and said, "Isn't this luck just too Heaven-Defying?"

Shi Feng said, "It's not Heaven-Defying luck; it's that the Cultivation Technique Ye Zai Cultivates has been of great use. With the Evil Qi here, even those at the Xuan Emperor Realm Ninth Stage might not dare to barge in."

Jiang Ye said, "Why don't we do like Linglong and directly refine the Chaos Grass here!"

"Good idea!" Shi Bao and Shi Feng said simultaneously!

Jiang Ye thought for a moment and said, "How about this, you two refine it. I don't want to give up on the Evil Qi in this Secret Realm; perhaps I can use this Evil Qi to awaken another ten percent of my God Slaying Bloodline. I'll manifest a Sha Long outside the cave to gather the Evil Qi and act as a Protector for you while I'm at it!"

"Alright then, let's begin. Let's not waste time; it'll be troublesome once those people arrive," Shi Feng said.

Jiang Ye went outside the cave and directly released nine massive black dragons of Evil Qi. With them surrounding him in the center, he began to frantically gather the Evil Qi within the Sha Long Secret Realm.

On the other side, Lü Tan and the others found the thunder spirit flowers. They were able to find them because the thunder spirit flowers were too conspicuous. They were atop a high mountain peak, emitting a blinding white light of crackling lightning; there were estimated to be over a hundred of them.

However, they encountered a bit of trouble when picking them. They had only prepared three people who practiced thunder arts, and none of them had cultivated a Thunder Body, so their picking speed was quite slow.

Some people from smaller factions in the Forbidden Ground, who hadn't brought anyone practicing thunder arts, simply gave up and switched to searching for other things.

Seven days later.

At Jiang Ye's location, the number of black dragons had actually increased to over a hundred, all of them frantically gathering Evil Qi into Jiang Ye's body.

By this time, the people in the Forbidden Ground could clearly feel that the Evil Qi within the Secret Realm was gradually diminishing, and the speed of that decrease was slowly increasing.

Lü Tan and the others felt it was somewhat eerie. "Lin Le, did you notice? The Evil Qi of the Secret Realm seems to be gathering in one direction. Why don't we leave some people to continue picking thunder spirit flowers, and I'll take a few people with you to see what's going on."

On the other side, during these seven days, the Evil Qi gathered by the black dragons had been condensed into countless terrifying Evil Qi beads floating above Jiang Ye's head. Three days ago, he had also begun refining those Evil Qi beads.

Shortly after, Lü Tan, Lin Le, and the others arrived at Jiang Ye's location. When they saw the hundred or so massive black dragons before them, every one of them was shocked beyond measure!

Lin Le said, "Why is he gathering so much terrifying Evil Qi?"

Lü Tan said, "I've obtained intelligence on him before. He is the Grand Elder of the Underworld Tower organization, and that faction specializes in Evil Qi. I expect he also Cultivates a related Evil Qi Cultivation Technique."

Lin Le was somewhat astonished and said, "Isn't this a bit too terrifying! All these dragons formed from Evil Qi are gathering Evil Qi for him; is he planning to take all the Evil Qi in the entire Secret Realm?"

Lü Tan was also very surprised. It was indeed quite terrifying; not even mentioning these hundred-plus Evil Qi dragons, just the Evil Qi continuously converging here made one's spine tingle.

A person from the Lü Family who had hidden their Realm said, "young clan leader, this person can only be a friend, not an enemy!"

Lü Tan also nodded slightly, his expression agreeing with the statement.

Half a month later.

The Evil Qi within the Secret Realm had nearly vanished. By this time, Jiang Ye had already absorbed and refined nearly eighty percent of all the gathered Evil Qi!

The power of the Nishitu Shen Jue Third Level surged violently, but it had also reached the limit of what he could currently control. He could no longer absorb or refine the remaining twenty percent of Evil Qi beads and planned to leave them all for the Underworld Tower to help their strength advance further.

At this moment, Shi Feng and Shi Bao also emerged from the cave.

Jiang Ye said in surprise, "You've both finished your Breakthroughs?"

Shi Feng said, "We've reached the limit. I feel that this Chaos Grass is better refined into Medicinal Pills; the two of us consumed nearly sixty percent of it, yet we only broke through two minor Realms."

"I see. Then once we reach the Forbidden Ground, we'll find someone to refine it into Medicinal Pills before consuming it to break through. Let's go find the thunder spirit flowers first. I expect those people from the Forbidden Ground have already found them; they've concentrated quite a few people in one place."

Soon, following his Soul perception, Jiang Ye arrived at the location of the thunder spirit flowers with Shi Feng and Shi Bao. He saw over a dozen people on the mountain resisting the pressure of the Power of Thunder, struggling to approach the thunder spirit flowers.

Looking at the thunder spirit flowers on the mountain peak, Jiang Ye said in surprise, "Good stuff! My Overlord Thunder Body immediately has a strong craving."

When the people from the Forbidden Ground saw Jiang Ye's arrival, they immediately felt that something bad was about to happen.

A person from a Family faction in the Forbidden Ground said, "This is something belonging to our Forbidden Ground. If you don't want to die, leave immediately!"

Jiang Ye's Evil Qi surged instantly as he said coldly, "Which people are with you?"

"Do you have the right to know? Eh? What is this... ahhh..." Black threads of Evil Qi instantly drilled out from the ground, spreading across his entire body and beginning to corrode his flesh! The entire person seemed to be devoured by a demon, turning into a withered corpse.

Now that Jiang Ye had absorbed and refined so much Evil Qi, the methods he used with the Nishitu Shen Jue Third Level were no longer something a Profound Emperor Realm could resist!

Seeing him kill this Xuan Emperor Realm Sixth Stage, no one dared to say anything; none of them wanted to get entangled with him at this time. Otherwise, it would cause trouble for their continued picking of the thunder spirit flowers.

Seeing that his methods just now had served as a deterrent, Jiang Ye immediately used a Thunder Flash and appeared on the mountain peak where the thunder spirit flowers grew. Those who were picking them were all astonished; he was actually unaffected by the pressure of the Power of Thunder?

At this moment, Jiang Ye walked directly to the center where the Power of Thunder was strongest, sat down cross-legged, and began to absorb and refine the thunder spirit flowers on the spot.

One person picking thunder spirit flowers shouted, "You cannot refine the thunder spirit flowers here!"

Bang!!! With a crisp sound, the person who spoke was directly blasted to pieces by lightning!

"What!!" The expressions of the people on the mountain peak changed drastically!

A person from the Lü Family said, "Friend, I am from the Lü Family. Our young clan leader Lü Tan said that our Lü Family has no intention of being your enemy. However, we all need these thunder spirit flowers, and you can't use so many by yourself..."

Jiang Ye interrupted him, saying, "You all continue; each according to their own ability, as long as we don't interfere with each other."

Once these words were spoken, everyone felt relieved and no longer hesitated, continuing to pick the thunder spirit flowers while enduring the pressure of the Power of Thunder.

Because Jiang Ye was releasing his Overlord Thunder Body with full force to refine the thunder spirit flowers, the pressure of the Power of Thunder on the mountain peak became smaller and smaller.

However, what everyone didn't know was that because he was absorbing the Power of Thunder generated by the thunder spirit flowers in the central area, the efficacy of the thunder spirit flowers was also gradually decreasing.

Slowly, Jiang Ye discovered that the primary function of the thunder spirit flowers was the special Power of Thunder they produced.