Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 563: Chapter 257: Sword Array Completed, the Might of the Thunder Strike Sword!

First, I’ll refine the flying sword embryo; after all, this is the main focus.

However, once I start refining the sword embryo, I won’t be able to attend to anything else, so I need someone to act as my guardian... There’s no one, but there is a serpent that likes exhaling mist.

With a single thought, Ji Yuan brought out Monday, who had been drowsy and sleeping.

The moment the sleepy Frost Serpent emerged, countless violet lightning strikes hit its body. Almost instantly, its form straightened.

Its serpent eyes widened greatly.

The scales on its body stood on end like bristles, and the places struck by lightning instantly charred black.

Thinking it was under attack, it immediately twisted its body, releasing a frosty aura, forming a thick layer of icy armor. After blocking the lightning, the Frost Serpent looked around, realizing its current situation.

”Ha—”

Seeing Ji Yuan, who was struck until his skin was torn, the Frost Serpent immediately exhaled a breath of cold air, giving him a cooling relief.

Ji Yuan instantly felt a chill, and as he had already transitioned to ice cultivation, the cold instantly made him feel much more comfortable.

”Do it again, do it again.”

Ji Yuan hurriedly urged.

The Frost Serpent promptly exhaled another cold breath.

”Ha—”

If this cold breath were on an enemy, it would be like a dragon’s breath. Given its late stage second rank cultivation, even a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator caught directly would turn into ice.

But towards its master, Ji Yuan, it was extremely precise in control.

A bit too much cold would hurt, a bit too little would have no effect.

Ji Yuan, continuously cooled, revealed a content expression, but after a brief moment of relaxation, he informed the Frost Serpent through his heart thought.

”Next, I need to cultivate for a while. Keep watch around me, and let no one disturb me.”

As for the tribulation lightning falling from the sky, after being struck for this period, Ji Yuan had long adapted. As long as it wasn’t as furious as the Storm Area, it was fine.

The Frost Serpent paused, then nodded its dragon head. Originally only as thick as a thigh, it soared into the air, twisting its body a few times in the lightning, and instantly transformed into a pale blue serpent as thick as two barrels, nearly ten zhang long. Under the illumination of the violet lightning, its ice armor sparkled, appearing extraordinary and mystical.

Seeing this, Ji Yuan was pleased. Then, with a slight exertion of his legs, he leapt onto the back of the Frost Serpent, stabilizing himself behind its head.

Feeling the pressure on its body, the Frost Serpent immediately lowered itself.

Ji Yuan grabbed its dragon horns, ”Try slacking off and I’ll remove your dragon horns!”

The Frost Serpent, helpless, had to take Ji Yuan into the air, soaring upwards amidst the lightning.

But after flying less than a hundred meters high, it reached its limit. After all, it wasn’t tier three, just a mere tier two serpent, capable of only short bursts of flight.

Even so, it allowed Ji Yuan to indulge in the thrill of riding a dragon.

Once they landed back on the ground, Ji Yuan dismounted from the Frost Serpent and sat down directly on the Thunder Strike Spirit Liquid, preparing to condense the sword embryo.

As for the Frost Serpent... The Demon Race is naturally tough-skinned and thick-fleshed, not to mention it’s a standout among them... a serpent.

Its naturally robust physique made it unbothered by the might of the lightning.

Thus, Ji Yuan had it coil itself, shielding him in the middle. This way, even if something truly went wrong, the Frost Serpent would be an outer barrier, giving him time to react.

Frost Serpent: ”???”

Ji Yuan settled himself, then began circulating the cultivation technique within to calm his mind.

In no time, Ji Yuan could no longer sense the tribulation lightning striking his body, nor did he hear the deafening thunderous roar, which he automatically excluded.

Wholeheartedly, he focused on sensing the water transport drifting between heaven and earth.

Unexpectedly, he found the water transport within the Thunder Shock Marsh to be extremely sparse.

It wasn’t as abundant as the Ice and Fire Pool, but not even comparable to the Blood River, taking him half a day to sense the water transport from the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here.

The Blood River’s water transport was crimson, the Ice and Fire Pool’s was scarlet, the Celestial Pillar Mountain Cloud Sea’s was white, but the Thunder Shock Marsh’s water transport... was purple.

And as soon as Ji Yuan drew it into himself, he felt waves of stinging pain.

’Damn it, why is there electricity in this water transport!’

Instantly, Ji Yuan’s entire network of meridians was numbed by the current, making him shudder uncontrollably.

Simply put, the sensation was excruciating.

Yet no matter how painful, giving up was not an option. The Thunder Technique Flying Sword had to be condensed. If not for the limitation on the number of sword embryos, which had to be precisely nine, Ji Yuan would have wanted to condense more sword embryos in this Thunder Shock Marsh.

After finally sensing the water transport, everything that followed proceeded smoothly.

Except, the unique water transport here made absorption quite painful and exceptionally slow.

Normally, four to five days would suffice to fully absorb the water transport; in places like the Ice and Fire Pool, a day would be more than enough.

But in this Thunder Shock Marsh?

Ji Yuan took nearly ten days to fully absorb its water transport.

The cost, however, was swollen and painful meridians, with continuous ”crackling” sounds even in his Dantian, as if the condensed lightning water transport turned into a thick tribulation cloud, constantly striking Ji Yuan’s ice-based Spirit Liquid with purple lightning.

Seeing that he finally absorbed everything, Ji Yuan didn’t wait anymore.

He immediately had the other six flying swords form a sword array, encircling the purple water transport in the center and slowly beginning to compress it, advancing step by step.

The sword array continuously rotated without pause, while the purple water transport grew smaller and more condensed until it eventually morphed into a new sword embryo.

Completely purple, from hilt to tip, it was constantly crackling with electric light.

With a thought, the Thunder Strike Sword emerged and hovered in front of him. Ji Yuan reached forward with his right hand, and the sword embryo instantly transformed into a three-foot-long sword.

”Fall—”

Ji Yuan wielded the Thunder Strike Sword and slashed forward, instantly causing a dense, blackened purple tribulation lightning to strike down, blasting a deep crater into the ground.

...Such power—it’s really that strong!

Ji Yuan gazed at the Thunder Strike Sword in his hand.

Then, as if something occurred to him, one by one, sword embryos flew out from his Dantian, hovering before him, until the seven differently-colored Canglan Sword embryos formed a remarkably powerful sword array.

Ji Yuan, with one hand raised, infused it with Spiritual Qi, and then abruptly thrust upward.

Under the eyes of both man and serpent, the sword array rose counter-intuitively, shattering countless tribulation bolts until it finally pierced through the sky, tearing a massive hole in the overcast clouds.

As if... one sword could break the heavens!

Even Ji Yuan, witnessing the power of this sword array, couldn’t help but be awestruck.

”Damn it, this might be at Fake Pill strength now, wouldn’t it?”