Chapter 18 Powerful Thunder Techniques

"What powerful thunder techniques!" The water-colored demonic energy immediately condensed into an old man in green robes, with a layer of water-colored light罩 (zhào - shield) above his head, resisting the furious strike of the two entangled thunderbolts! This strike caused the water-colored light shield to tremble violently, with electric light running in all directions, but the light shield remained stable.

Xu Jingming's expression changed slightly upon seeing this: "The strength of a diemo (earth demon) is indeed much stronger."

Although the old man in green robes was secretly surprised by the power of the thunder, he still looked calm and confident, smiling at the rather disheveled bloody figure at the moment: "Little girl, Fumo Ren (Demon Subduers) are not easy to deal with, right? Are you now willing to go with me to Dongming Mountain?"

The bloody figure had been pierced by nineteen golden lights in succession and had become thin and weak. Especially after seeing the terrifying Divine Power Five Thunders, she knew that she was no match for this Fumo Ren, and said, "I am willing to go to Dongming Mountain."

"Very good." The old man in green robes nodded with a smile.

Xu Jingming was somewhat annoyed. This diemo was so careless, resisting his Divine Power Five Thunders head-on, and openly recruiting another demon. He didn't take him seriously at all.

"Extinguish." Xu Jingming thought.

Clear skies gave birth to heavenly thunder again, black and white thunder intertwined and struck down again, but this time, it directly struck the bloody figure.

The thunder was too fast!

"How dare you!" The old man in green robes' expression changed drastically. His body protection speed was fast enough, but...

In terms of flight speed... it was far inferior to the speed of thunder traversing the void. He could only watch helplessly as the bloody figure, while experiencing the nineteen golden lights piercing through it, was struck by the black and white thunder.

"Ah!!!" Accompanied by a shrill scream, the bloody demonic figure instantly became extremely thin. The thunder and lightning continued to rage, completely destroying the remaining blood shadow.

The Divine Power Five Thunders killed the newly born blood shadow demon with one strike, leaving only a wisp of natal demonic energy.

"You are truly bold." The old man in green robes was furious and rushed towards that wisp of natal demonic energy.

As long as he kept this wisp of natal demonic energy, it would take some time for the female demon to fully recover.

Demons are like this, with unwavering obsessions, neither dying nor being destroyed. "Hmph."

Xu Jingming snorted coldly. A huge golden net suddenly appeared in the surrounding heaven and earth! This net was extremely large, covering almost the entire Yufeng family mansion. Each rope of the net was as thick as an adult's arm. The net, woven from countless ropes, naturally trapped the old man in green robes while enveloping the mansion.

"This is?" The old man in green robes was shocked. He felt that as soon as the huge golden net enveloped him, even before it touched him, it made him feel as if he was carrying an endless burden, and his speed decreased sharply.

When these golden ropes fell on him, the binding force was even more terrifying.

The old man in green robes looked at Xu Jingming in shock: "Besides thunder techniques, you also have such a net spell?"

Xu Jingming was using the 'Tianluo Diwang' (Heaven and Earth Net), which had reached the Divine Power entry level!

After the thunder techniques had first transformed to the Divine Power level, Xu Jingming had been slowly improving recently, and finally the 'Net Technique' had also reached the Divine Power level. However, 'Bodyguard Starlight' was still only at the Great Accomplishment level for the time being.

Once it reaches the Divine Power level, its power will naturally undergo a qualitative change. "Collect."

While binding the old man in green robes, Xu Jingming naturally easily collected the female demon's wisp of original demonic energy into the jade bottle.

"You actually don't even give Dongming Mountain face. Very well." The old man in green robes was furious.

"You're still so arrogant after falling into the net." Xu Jingming put away the nineteen golden beads and shook his head slightly. He made a hand seal, and black and white thunder struck down again from the high altitude. The old man in green robes had no way to avoid it and could only withstand this strike under the restraint of the Heaven and Earth Net.

The thunderous strike caused wounds to appear on the old man in green robes' body, but the water-colored demonic energy circulated, and the wounds healed.

"You just reached the fourth realm not long ago, right?" The old man in green robes sneered. "Very well, I remember you. Break!"

Accompanied by a roar.

The old man in green robes suddenly swelled, transforming into a water-blue monster, struggling to tear the net.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Xu Jingming didn't stop at all, and black and white entangled thunderbolts struck down one after another, hitting the water-blue monster, causing many wounds to appear on its demonic body. But the monster was still trying its best to tear the net.

"My Demon Subduing magic power is only at the third realm after all! Even if I'm cultivating the *Ten Thousand Stars Refining Demons Scroll*, which is considered pure at the same level. But compared to the fourth realm Demon Subduing magic power... the gap is still too big." Xu Jingming shook his head slightly. "The 'Five Thunders Technique', which is merely at the entry level of Divine Power, can only injure this diemo."

After continuously using the Divine Power Five Thunders twelve times, Xu Jingming also felt some fatigue.

Each use consumes mental power.

"Either I reach the fourth realm, or the Divine Power improves further, then I can hope to kill this diemo by myself." Xu Jingming understood after fighting for a while.

"Collapse."

A golden rope broke, and the water-blue monster desperately tore at the net.

Xu Jingming's Demon Subduing magic power mobilized the power of heaven and earth, easily repairing the 'Heaven and Earth Net'.

"What?" The patrol envoy diemo had worked so hard to tear off a rope, but it was repaired in the blink of an eye. This made the patrol envoy feel uneasy!

"Using the Five Thunders Technique consumes mental power too quickly! But just maintaining the Heaven and Earth Net... and occasionally repairing it, I can withstand it for half an hour." Xu Jingming didn't attack, only used the Heaven and Earth Net to trap the patrol envoy.

"Brother Wu Ming, do you need my help?" A voice sounded in his ear. Xu Jingming immediately recognized it as the voice of the Qi family's patriarch.

"I'm troubling Brother Qi Chen." Xu Jingming responded.

Above the Qi family.

Patriarch Qi Chen stood in the high altitude, looking remotely at the direction of the Yufeng family. Previously, Xu Jingming's black and white thunder bombarded wildly, and the diemo tried his best to resist. The collision of the two sides' auras was extremely violent, which allowed Patriarch Qi Chen to sense it remotely.

"This Brother Wu Ming is the person my sister specifically asked to befriend." Qi Chen thought to himself.

His sister, Qi Xiao, had entrusted her brother after contacting Chi Tong.

"Brother, Brother Wu Ming is now living in Cheng'an Prefecture. You must take good care of him and try to befriend him." Qi Xiao instructed.

"Try to befriend him?" Qi Chen was puzzled at the time. "Is he someone with a big background? Bigger than our Moyun family?"

Qi Xiao only said one sentence: "Befriend him, and you will thank me in the future." "Tell me clearly, what is his background?" Patriarch Qi Chen asked at the time, but his sister Qi Xiao didn't say any more. After all, although she knew that Chi Tong was a peerless genius of the Yuanchu Research Institute, and guessed that Wu Ming was the same, she still tried to keep this matter secret.

"Mysterious." Patriarch Qi Chen was helpless.

But he also knew very well that his sister was the most outstanding genius of the younger generation of the entire Moyun family, and her vision was also very high. Since his sister said this... it meant that this Brother Wu Ming must be very extraordinary in reality.

"You will thank me in the future?" Patriarch Qi Chen muttered to himself, "What is his background?"

For more than a month, Patriarch Qi Chen had been silently observing.

But Xu Jingming had not made any movements in the past month, focusing on studying the "Light Chapter."

"Today, he finally took action. It seems that he is a novice among the fourth realm Demon Subduers." Patriarch Qi Chen watched this battle remotely, somewhat puzzled. "I can't see where he is so excellent."

Although puzzled, Patriarch Qi Chen still took the initiative to transmit his voice remotely: "Brother Wu Ming, do you need my help?"

"I'm troubling Brother Qi Chen." Xu Jingming said.

Patriarch Qi Chen's eyes glowed, clearly watching the Yufeng family mansion.

Whoosh!

He transformed into a phantom, swept across the sky, and went straight to the Yufeng family.

"The commotion is not small."

Above the Demon Subduing Division, an old man looked remotely at the direction of the Yufeng family. A mirror was suspended in front of him, showing everything inside the Yufeng family.

"A diemo?" The old man also turned into a stream of light and flew to the Yufeng family.

*****

Outside the Yufeng family mansion, the crowd's eyes crossed the courtyard wall and could see the huge golden net that almost covered the entire mansion. Each rope of the golden net was extremely clear. A water-blue monster had rushed into the air and was struggling frantically, but it couldn't break out of the net. "A diemo from Dongming Mountain."

"This Mr. Wu Ming has such strong strength, he is fighting with this diemo."

"He is indeed a fourth realm Demon Subduer."

The other Demon Subduers present were quite amazed.

Under normal circumstances, the gap between third realm Demon Subduers and fourth realm Demon Subduers is very obvious, and the possibility of fighting beyond one's level is so low that it can be ignored! Xu Jingming could do it because he was cultivating a method that was considered top-notch in the history of the Yuanchu Star conjecture lineage! And he had cultivated it to the Divine Power entry level to be able to reach this point.

Ordinary Demon Subduers' magic power is much rougher, and their methods are also much worse.

"You Demon Subduer."

The water-blue monster roared, "Quickly let me go, otherwise, you will definitely have a disaster!"

"You're threatening me?" Xu Jingming looked at him.

"Under the command of the Dongming Mountain Lord, there are five great Demon Gods and thirty-six Envoys, and I am one of them, a Patrol Envoy," the water-blue monster continued. "I have many friends in Dongming Mountain. If you anger me, you will attract a great disaster!"

"I'm so scared." Xu Jingming looked at him with a smile.

Looking at the Demon Subduer's smile, the diemo also understood that the other party was not afraid at all.

"What to do, what to do?" The diemo was also anxious. This was the Prefecture City, after all, the place where the Demon Subduers maintained stability. Even the motou (demons) of 'Dongming Mountain' didn't dare to be too presumptuous in the Prefecture City, where there were the most Demon Subduers.

He, a patrol envoy, was also walking carefully, patrolling the area and learning about the intelligence within the Prefecture City.

Now that he was trapped, the longer the time, the more likely he was to encounter some powerful Demon Subduers in the Prefecture City.

"I was wrong." The water-blue monster lowered his head slightly, "I apologize to you, and please let me go. As long as you let me go, I, Zhang Xiu, will definitely repay you." Whoosh.

A phantom flashed across the sky and landed beside Xu Jingming. It was an old man with white hair, Qi Chen.

"Oh, this diemo is begging for mercy." Patriarch Qi Chen said in surprise.

"Patriarch Qi?" The water-blue monster condensed into an old man in green robes and immediately saluted respectfully, "Patriarch Qi, I am Zhang Xiu, one of the thirty-six envoys of Dongming Mountain, a patrol envoy. Please spare my life and let me go."

Diemos generally have stronger self-control and act like normal humans. "Whether to let you go or not depends on my Brother Wu Ming's decision." Patriarch Qi Chen looked at Xu Jingming.

"I'm troubling Brother Qi Chen." Xu Jingming said. Patriarch Qi Chen nodded.

"No." Despair appeared in the old man in green robes' eyes. He screamed, "The Qinghu Demon God and I are close friends, and the Dongming Mountain Lord values me even more. If you kill me..."

Patriarch Qi Chen waved his sleeve, and an invisible wind swept past the old man in green robes. The old man in green robes' eyes widened, and he was silently annihilated, leaving only a wisp of natal demonic energy trying to escape.

In terms of strength, Patriarch Qi Chen could rank among the top five Demon Subduers in Cheng'an Prefecture. It was naturally easy for him to kill a patrol envoy diemo.

"This wisp of natal demonic energy is useless to me, Brother Wu Ming, you can keep it." Patriarch Qi Chen said. He was also resolutely implementing his sister's proposal - to try his best to befriend this Brother Wu Ming.

"Thank you, Brother Qi Chen." Xu Jingming thanked him and then took action to collect the wisp of demonic energy into the jade bottle. In the jade bottle, these two wisps of natal demonic energy could not be replenished with the power of heaven and earth, so they naturally could not cause any trouble.

"But next, you have to be careful." Patriarch Qi Chen reminded, "Diemos are different from human demons. Diemos are more like normal humans and also value friendship. It is very likely that some motou from Dongming Mountain will come specifically to deal with you."

"Oh?" Xu Jingming nodded slightly. "Thank you for the reminder, Brother Qi Chen. I will be careful."