Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Jiang Yi continued to go forward, but he didn’t dare to release divine senses anymore. He was slower and would constantly sweep the mountains around him.
Jiang Yi stopped exploring the mountains below him. He only needed to see where the Thunder Fire was. Thunder Fire meant blue jade stones. He would just stop by and get them.
He headed to the southeast direction, instead of the east. He tried to stay as far as possible from that main road. At the same time, he started to draw a map in his mind.
It recorded where the Thunder Fire was so that he would immediately flee to a safe place even if someone chased him. Places with the Thunder Fire were the safest; even the ten great lords wouldn’t dare to go close to the Thunder Fire.
Jiang Yi continued to discover Thunder Fire along his way. Sometimes, he even saw a few balls of Thunder Fire surging from the mountain and splitting into more balls.
Sixty stones, 80 stones… 100 stones!
Jiang Yi had collected over 100 blue jade stones and encountered dozens of balls of Thunder Fire in only four hours. Thunder Fire appeared some distance apart in this area of deserted mountains, and thunder fire was always accompanied by blue jade stones.
“Eh?”
Jiang Yi stopped in mid-air for he saw a blue jade stone shooting out of a mountain in front of him all of a sudden. Then, a few mountains nearby shot out blue jade stones as well. However, two balls of Thunder Fires which were supposed to be wandering around the mountains disappeared in the sky.
“These blue jade stones are also ejected automatically?!”
Jiang Yi’s eyes glittered before he rapidly flew away. He easily grabbed all the blue jade stones with his hands and studied them carefully. He found that they were no different from the ones that he dug out from the mountains.
“So strange!”
He looked around and was sure that the Thunder Fire was gone. Then, he resumed flying. However, he didn’t know whether it was because he chose a very remote route that he saw no one along the way.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thunders roared in the distance, and bolts of lightning struck down relentlessly. However, they were still quite far away from Jiang Yi. He thought for a while before flying to the direction of the thunderbolts. He had a feeling that the places with the thunderbolts were swarmed with thunder stones, and those over 10,000 men should be over there.
Boom!
Suddenly—!
A thunder broke out in the sky, and a strike of lightning extended over here. The power of heaven and earth that accompanied the lightning bolt almost frightened Jiang Yi out of his wits. The immense pressure crashed him down the mountains. Luckily, the lightning bolt disappeared in a small mountain in front, which was still several kilometers away from Jiang Yi.
“Goddammit. No wonders no one comes here. No one is able to survive from the lightning bolt if he happens to near the lightning.”
Jiang Yi shrank his head and looked at the sky in terror. The sky was bright blue and cloudless. However, the lightning bolts pierced across the sky from time to time. He had no idea what direction it was heading to.
Jiang Yi stood on the peak of a small mountain and watched for a very long time. He roughly gauged the distance of the lightning bolt, which was usually far away, and rarely within 5,000 kilometers from him.
“Let’s go!”
He clenched his teeth and continued to march forward. However, he didn’t risk flying too high up—as he might be hit… or too low—as the Thunder Fire might shoot out. He tried to stay as close to the mountains as possible, which was much safer.
After traveling for two hours, Jiang Yi collected over 100 blue jade stones. The landscape finally changed, he finally saw other people and understood where the thunderbolts were striking.
In front of him, there were no more desolate mountains, but a barren field. Pitch black stones were everywhere. It looked like a desert. There were ten giant mountains several kilometers away. They soared to the sky like ten sharp swords. They were at least five kilometers high, but not very wide. They looked like ten vertical fingers.
Ten mountains lined up in a straight line and were about five kilometers away from each other. When looking from a distance, they were no different from ten standing fingers. Jiang Yi had good eyesight and was able to see many people surrounding those mountains. However, as he was quite far away, they looked like ants.
Boom!
A lightning bolt struck down at a mountain. On the next second, another bolt of lightning came, but it slammed at another mountain this time.
Pong, Pong, Pong!
When Jiang Yi was about to look at it closely, stones suddenly cracked from a mountain nearby. Four people appeared and a shuttle shot towards Jiang Yi like a flash of lightning.
“The men of Ba Dao!”
Jiang Yi’s eyes turned cold, and he disappeared. On the next second, he was 33 kilometers away before turning into a faint shadow and running to the back.
“Kid, how dare you to flee!”
The Heaven Monarch Fei Guo and the others burst into shouting and followed up like four mad dragons. They had been waiting for Jiang Yi for a long time. Unfortunately, Jiang Yi didn’t fly past the mountain where they hid. Otherwise, they were confident to kill him with one strike. Jiang Yi still didn’t move despite their long wait. They had no choice but to shoot out and chase after him.
Swish!
Jiang Yi flew straight to the right side on his right, putting in with all his effort. He remembered that there was a ball of Thunder Fire on that side; he would be safe once he was near the Thunder Fire.
As expected!
After chasing him for a while, they had to turn on the divine shields again. The air got hotter, and they wouldn’t withstand the heat. The four had to keep flying wildly while attacking as best they could. However, Jiang Yi entered the state of the union of heaven and man again; they were incapable of hitting him from such a far distance.
“Stop!”
The Heaven Monarch Fei Guo had no choice but to stop. The temperature was too high in the front, let alone the Thunder Fire. They would be in danger if they got a bit closer.
“Brother Fei, what to do now?”
The other three men looked vexed but were at their wits’ end. They had to turn to Fei Guo. Fei Guo grabbed the shuttles and sighed. “What else can we do? This bastard doesn’t fear the Thunder Fire at all. Even Brother Ba Dao can’t do anything to him when he hides around the Thunder Fire. Go… let’s go back and ambush along the road. He has to return to the city.”
“Alright!”
They nodded and flew back. After leaving the desert, they found the main road and sprinted to Sky Thunder City.
“Are they gone?”
Jiang Yi’s divine senses had been fixed on these men. When he saw them going back, he followed up slowly. After all of them left the desert, he sighed with relief.
“Check that side!”
There was a desert in front. Jiang Yi observed for a while and saw no sign of the Thunder Fire. He was not afraid of his divine senses being destroyed. He was very close to the ball of Thunder Fire, and no one could get near him. He was extremely safe.
He sat cross-legged in a valley and spread out divine senses towards the distant desert like a gentle breeze. Soon, a series of images appeared in his head!
There were indeed a lot of men around those ten giant mountains. All those 10,000 men that left the city this morning should be there. Of course, they didn’t go very close to the mountains and kept a distance of 500 meters. There were about 1,000 people around each of the mountains, with their eyes fixed on the towering peaks.
Chi! Chi!
Light suddenly flashed on a mountain peak, hundreds of blue stones poured out of the mountain. Countless martial artists below suddenly flew towards the blue light as though they were on a frying pan. Those who were able to grab the blue stones brimmed with joy before immediately putting the stones inside the Ancient Divine Essence Ring on their hands.
Bang!
Three men flew towards the same stream of blue light simultaneously. A powerful Vajra Realm martial expert swept his legs and kicked out the other two, taking the stone for himself. The men that were kicked away had no choice but to crawl up from the ground with a painful grin and look at that Vajra Realm martial expert bitterly.
Pong, Pong, Pong!
Fights kept breaking out, but no one was trying to kill his opponents. Once one had the blue stone in his hands, the rest would stop snatching. The other martial artists that waited around other mountains also stood quietly and made no attempt of stealing.
“Thunder stones! Hahaha, these are really the thunder stones!”
Jiang Yi was wild with joy, he could clearly detect that those blue stones were the blue jade stones that he dug out just now. Since over 10,000 men competed for this, it must be the thunder stone.
All these men fought like dogs for the thunder stones, but he was able to dig them out effortlessly in the desolate mountains!
He dug out over 100 thunder stones in only four hours. The mountain range looked boundless. He would never have to worry about thunder stones in the future, barring accidents.
