Fried Salted Fish
Chapter 183 Struck by Lightning
“This great divine power of controlling the Five Thunders was previously held by General Nuogao Dayin of the Jinglun Heavenly Palace. I didn’t expect it to appear in Wang Lingguan’s token as well. Perhaps this is also the first time this token has been enraged.”
“Does this divine power come from the Xishen Shenxiao? Is it a divine power application left in this token by Celestial Master Sa or some Shenxiao senior from Xishen? Is it specifically for those with fate to use?”
“You are exploiting the loopholes of the Heavenly Dao, breaking my vows, but the Heavenly Dao is not a fool after all. Now you are burdened by Heavenly Thunder, and there is no salvation!”
Ji Xiang waved his hand. The divine power was easy to use, but it still needed cultivation to fully master. Therefore, writing directly on the Mingguang Heavenly Book allowed him to skip the cultivation stage and unleash unprecedented power with the help of the Heavenly Tribulation!
Thunder light was like a prison, pouring down like the sea! It flattened the red light in the distance, the treasured land where the Xuanmiao Temple was located. When the Heavenly Thunder struck, the divine palace collapsed and the heavenly towers fell, and the Taoists screamed as they were struck by the tribulation thunder!
Ji Xiang's fingers did not stop. As he wrote on the Mingguang Heavenly Book, the five directions of heaven and earth once again echoed with earth-shattering thunder!
“Summon! The Eastern Thundering Zhenmen Thunder God!”
“Summon! The Southern Scarlet Sky Fire Light Zhensha Thunder God!”
“Summon! The Western Great Dark Kunfu Thunder God!”
“Summon! The Northern Overturning Seas and Skies Thunder God!”
“Summon! The Central Yellow Sky Collapsing Thunder God!”
As the five summoning commands were written, the thunder light surged, and the five directions of heaven and earth responded to the five thunders. Five heavenly gates slowly appeared, with buzzing sounds and different colors of lightning emanating from the gaps. The five divine tablets responded to the summoning!
Among the divine tablets of the Five Directional Thunder Gods, three Thunder Gods had already been received by others. Now, summoned by Ji Xiang, the three people in various parts of the world, across mountains and rivers, were affected. The divine tablets responded to Ji Xiang's summoning, emitting lightning, guiding great power, and forcibly detaching from their bodies for a short time!
Thus, human-shaped phantoms appeared in front of the gaps in three of the five heavenly gates!
The heavens collapsed and the earth caved in, and the valleys boiled!
Nanyangzi was greatly terrified. Those Refined Form Ghosts also scattered their Yin Qi under the thunderous震 (zhen), turning into ashes accompanied by horrified cries of "Five Thunders Strike the Top"! A vast expanse of thunder light also appeared before Nanyangzi's eyes, and five bolts of lightning descended from the heavenly gates, striking down on the top of his head!
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Earth-shattering, densely packed thick lightning, like dragons and snakes descending into the world, fiercely and densely bombarded a certain area. Its momentum could no longer be described as vast, because its light had already illuminated a hundred miles of land!
The three people in Gusu City also saw this lightning. Feng Menglong slapped his thigh: “Such a big commotion, it must be that place!”
The young couple ran over quickly, only the clay statue god was stunned and sluggish: “Can the Yellow Heaven Sect still operate the Five Thunders Divine Art?”
“That, that is the tribulation cloud of the Thunder Tribulation? But how can there be those illusory portals in the tribulation cloud?”
“Are those heavenly gates?”
“This, this is Five Thunders Strike the Top?!”
The clay statue god’s mind was shaken. The scale of the lightning in the five heavenly gates in front of him clearly meant that five Thunder Gods had been summoned!
This was a top-level great divine power. First, one had to learn the Controlling Five Thunders from the Thirty-Six Transformations of Tiangang. After practicing it to a profound level, one could go from driving the small Five Thunders to driving the Five Thunder Messengers, and then to summoning the Five Directional Thunder Kings and Five Directional Thunder Gods. Only at the Thunder God stage could it be called "Five Thunders Strike the Top"!
The clay statue god was frantically thinking in his heart. Wasn't this person supposed to be Chan Master Huyan? How could he use the Five Thunders Orthodox Method?
“The Thunder Method is the foundation of the Zhengyi Dao. Although many Dharma sects can use the Thunder Method, the Orthodox Method of Five Thunders Strike the Top can only be performed by the Dragon Tiger Mountain people who are the leaders of the Zhengyi Dao. The Thunder Method once flourished in the world, dominating as the head of all methods...”
“Regardless, regardless of who he is! Now I must ask him to save my Xuanmiao Temple from this tribulation!”
But when they arrived here, they were all dumbfounded.
Everyone had turned to dust, and not even bones remained. Whether it was people or ghosts, they were all wiped out by the lightning!
Nanyangzi endured a Five Thunders Strike the Top and escaped from it, his flesh and blood rotten, and his realm greatly damaged!
His cultivation dropped from the peak of the Yellow Court Realm to the middle stage of the Yellow Court Realm. His physical body was strong, but under the Five Thunders Strike the Top, he could only hold on for a moment longer.
He was panicked and frightened. Although the body he controlled was also a Yellow Court Realm expert, Nanyangzi still had half of his face that he had not refined. His form and spirit were not unified, and the other party still had the ability to revive, instead of being completely taken over.
The lightning weakened him, and now that half of the normal human face was stirring, seemingly about to wake up!
“No! No! You can’t wake up, your body is what I obtained, this is what I got, I can’t return it to you!”
The Refined Form Ghost possessing Nanyangzi was desperately tearing at his half of his face. Ji Xiang was about to cast Five Thunders again when a clay statue god flew over and kowtowed to Ji Xiang:
“Great Immortal, have mercy! Do not drive the Five Thunders!”
Ji Xiang looked at him and saw his true form at a glance.
“Are you the guy whose physical body I destroyed during the day?”
The clay statue god quickly agreed: “That’s right! Great Immortal, have mercy. The red-eyed Taoist in front is my Senior Brother, now harmed by a demon, but he has not yet died. Look at that half of his face, that is the proof that he is still alive!”
“If you kill him at this time, my Xuanmiao Temple will only be left with me alone, and that is truly being exterminated!”
“Chan Master Huyan! Please save my Xuanmiao Temple!”
Hearing the words of the clay statue god, the ghost possessing Nanyangzi also shouted: “Yes, you can’t kill me! Ji Xiang, how about we settle our scores this time? If you spare my life, I will definitely say a few good words for you in front of His Majesty, the Heavenly Net King, and this matter will be written off...”
“Written off?”
Ji Xiang’s eyes were ice-cold: “It’s not enough that I’ve killed so many Yin spirits and ghosts here, I must kill all of you here, that’s what it means to be written off.”
Nanyangzi shouted: “You call this slaughter!”
Ji Xiang laughed loudly: “I am slaughtering, and the next one I slaughter will be you!”
Then, without saying anything, he grabbed the clay statue god and threw him aside, scolding: “Xuanmiao Temple? It can’t be saved, your Taoist temple has already been destroyed by my Heavenly Thunder!”
“Now I’m killing your Senior Brother, actually helping your Senior Brother! Anyway, his soul is still there, and that half of his face still retains its form and spirit. Killing him now will give him a glimmer of hope to wake up again!”
“If I don’t kill him, and his form and spirit are invaded by others later, that will be the true destruction of form and spirit!”
Having said that, the Five Thunders rose again in the sky, and the shocking thunder shook the nine heavens and ten earths. Seeing that the Five Thunders were brewing once again, Nanyangzi knew that he was about to die at this moment, and hurriedly screamed:
“Senior, Senior, please help me!”
As soon as he spoke, a cold snort echoed in the dark void.
“You finally spoke, but you said before that there was no problem, I only needed to add the Five Signs of the Decay of Heaven and Man to him, so why do you need me to do it myself now?”
Nanyangzi shouted: “Please save me, Senior, after this matter is over, I will definitely report to His Majesty, the Heavenly Net King, and will never treat you unfairly!”
“I hope you will consider the feelings of the Great Ancestor and help me!”
Five Thunders Strike the Top, struck down again!
Thus, a dried corpse appeared in the palace that had been destroyed by lightning. It was “He Suoyi”, who had previously annihilated all the Taoists of Xuanmiao Temple.
The dried corpse went out, raising a large bell in its hand. This large bell rose into the sky, actually resisting the Five Thunders Strike the Top!
Dang—!
The bell sounded throughout the ten directions of the world, and its body was covered with light. The power of the Five Thunders struck the bell and was dissolved by those lights.
The inner scenery divine tablet gave a description of this instrument:
[Xuanmiao Grand Bell: Heavenly Celebration Incense, Miro Protection!]
[Spiritual Instrument! The large bell used by Xuanmiao Temple to gather Taoist disciples and protect the mountain gate can emit thousands of golden lights to injure enemies, and derive the mysterious image of tigers, leopards, and azure clouds. It is attached with the Miro Treasure Light left by Xuanmiao Ancestor He Suoyi, which can enable the bell operator to resist the invasion of heavenly tribulations and earthly disasters!]
[The Miro Treasure Light cannot be broken by divine incantations! It is necessary to strike this large bell with a striking-type vibration instrument (golden striker) to shatter its treasure light!]
Ji Xiang saw this dried corpse. At this time, the dried corpse appeared here, and its empty seven orifices were full of black blood, as if crying for the tribulations suffered by his disciples and grandchildren.
The clay statue god was even more shocked and cried out:
“Demons, stealing my Ancestor’s corpse and turning it into a puppet! I will surely grind your bones to ashes!”
But the “voice” of that senior came from the mouth of the dried corpse.
“I’m afraid you won’t be able to grind the bones to ashes, you are too weak.”
He mocked the clay statue god, and then said to Ji Xiang:
“Ji Xiang, listen carefully, my name is Wu Baoyi, I came from Maoshan hundreds of years ago. Emperor Taizu of Song, Zhao Kuangyin, was old friends with me, so don’t blame me for killing you today.”
“I’m afraid I’m going to bear a lot of karma for this Gu Su tribulation. If I take action against you again, resisting the Heavenly Tribulation will only add disaster to my disaster, but since things have come to this, I have no choice but to quickly take action to eliminate you. This is called cutting losses in time.”
“You are even more of a target to be killed by the Song Court and many experts from within the mountains and rivers. Now it seems that you are indeed棘手 (jishou, thorny, troublesome). Although this dried corpse has devoured many souls to boost its magic power, it is probably difficult to defeat you in a normal competition.”
“So, don’t blame me for being unethical… Goodbye.”
The man behind the scenes who was manipulating He Suoyi’s dried corpse, a cultivator who called himself Wu Baoyi, raised his withered palm, and a small ball of nine-colored light appeared in his five fingers!