ocean-life Chapter 284 Something Big Has Happened
Chapter 284 Something Big Has Happened
chapter 284 something big has happened
translator: borntobe
long chen arrived at a familiar, bare mountaintop. looking up the sky covered in black thunderclouds, he sighed.
his cultivation base was completely stuck in an bottleneck he could not advance past, and he also couldn’t find the qilin fruit. the best thing he could do is come up with some alternative methods to raise his strength.
last time when he had fought yin luo, he had essentially exhausted all his thunderforce. and since he had been so busy ‘buying’ medicinal ingredients during this time, he hadn’t had the time to go recover that thunderforce.
now that he finally had a break, he came to this place.
long chen’s thunderforce was something merged within his blood. it would require a large deal of time and energy to replenish it through normal means. only by properly feeding his thunderforce runes would they produce more thunderforce for him.
rather than wasting time and energy on that, long chen preferred to just directly gather more lightning.
with long chen’s character, if he could accomplish something lying down, then he definitely wouldn’t bother sitting up. completing tasks in the quickest, safest manner was the way of a king.
long chen took out a kite three feet long. this kite was extremely special though. it was made entirely of iron.
it was something long chen had asked guo ran to make for him. the wings had thirty-six sets of springs. when the wind blew by those springs, it would cause them to constantly compress and decompress, allowing the kite to fly stably in the air.
once it was in the air, it wasn’t like other kites. it wouldn’t need someone to constantly change its direction.
guo ran estimated that as long as it was anchored to the ground and that there was wind in the sky, this kite could stay up forever.
furthermore, long chen’s kitestring was also very special and made of an especially tough steel wire. it was both slender and durable.
long chen quickly got the kite in the air, bringing it to a height of three thousand meters.
that was where the thunderclouds were densest. occasionally, lightning would strike the kite, and a powerful thunderforce would pass on down the kitestring.
but this thunderforce didn’t cause any injuries to long chen. in fact, this level of thunderforce was actually relaxing for him.
the thunderforce runes in his blood were like hungry wolves that had been awakened, crazily devouring this new energy.
as for the kite, even in the midst of all that lightning, it was only trembling slightly. there was no sign of it being damaged whatsoever.
“seems that guo ran’s devices are trustworthy.” this brother of his was surprisingly reliable in this aspect.
he found a boulder and tied the string onto it. he then took out a jar and poured in jade butterfly queen bee honey.
he lay back on the boulder, a straw connecting his mouth to the jar. with the sweetness in the mouth and the gentle massage on his back from the thunderforce, long chen felt like he might float to the heavens.
“this must be how gods and immortals cultivate...”
long chen was deeply moved. the thunderforce in the sky was constantly being conducted down onto his body, allowing the thunderforce in his body to quickly replenish. and after experiencing this exhaustion and replenishment, his thunderforce runes had grown slightly in size.
perhaps such a lazy cultivation method was something only long chen could think of.
other than his thunderforce, long chen didn’t have any other way to increase his strength. he was prepared to cultivate here until the jiuli secret realm opened.
later he had never come. one reason was that he was busy, but the other was that he didn’t want to come here just to see all the things he couldn’t afford to buy.
even later when he had needed medicinal ingredients to refine pills, he had always gotten tang wan-er to go buy them. he would rather not be vexed by the sight of these things he couldn’t afford.
the battle skill floor of the xuantian pavilion had around thirty senior apprentice-brothers guarding it. seeing long chen enter, they hastily greeted him:
“senior apprentice-brother long chen.”
long chen was startled, saying, “senior apprentice-brothers, have you made a mistake? you’re the senior disciples.”
“senior apprentice-brother long chen must not be aware of it, but all disciples in the xuantian monastery call you senior apprentice-brother now.
“senior apprentice-brother is a term of respect. those who are stronger have to at least be called senior apprentice-brother. it has nothing to do with who joined the sect earlier. the strong are the senior disciples.
“hehe, during that battle, senior apprentice-brother long really was too awe-inspiring. that was probably the first time in many years that we all felt our blood surging like that.”
those law enforcers were all filled with excitement just from thinking about that battle.
“senior apprentice-brother long chen, elder tu fang has already said that all the treasures of the xuantian pavilion will be open to you for free. you can take whatever you want.” one of the law enforcers was more astute and realized long chen must be busy and had come here for something.
“haha, then i’ll have to thank you all. i’ll just browse through them.”
within ling yun-zi immortal cave, ling yun-zi had already said that all the monastery’s resources would be open to him.
originally, long chen had been thinking of just getting medicinal ingredients, but then he had suddenly realized he was being stupid. of course he had to first take advantage of how many resources elder sun had had...
and so the matter of medicinal ingredients had been resolved easily and quickly, also allowing him to pay back a grudge.
he strolled around the xuantian pavilion for half a day, finding two suitable techniques: violent gale saber and thunderization art.
the two of them were both high earth class techniques. they cost nearly two million points.
long chen liked using sabers, but he had never trained in any saber arts. when he fought with others, he would always fight head-on, essentially just hacking at them. he had never learned any skillful techniques.
so this violet gale saber would definitely be of great assistance to him.
as for the thunderization art, it was the only lightning attribute cultivation technique[1] in the monastery. that was because people who could control thunderforce were incredibly rare in this world. they were so few that it was pitiful.
when he had found this thunderization art, long chen had been incomparably excited. when he tried to use thunderforce, he was only able to control it very simply, and was unable to truly use it properly.
but just at the start of this thunderization art, he saw many introductions towards methods to use thunderforce, and it was extremely detailed. it was just what he was lacking.
long chen couldn’t help sighing. the monastery really was amazing with a powerful foundation. carrying those two secret tomes, long chen contentedly walked away from the xuantian pavilion.
long chen didn’t train in these two techniques within the monastery, but decided to once more leave for a period. this time he was gone for even longer. he only returned two months later.
when long chen once more returned to the monastery, his blood and qi were soaring. in the last two months, he had killed an uncountable number of powerful magical beasts.
but when long chen returned to the heaven earth faction, he found that it was completely silent. he was completely bewildered. where was everyone?
“senior apprentice-brother long chen, you came back! quick, follow me! something big has happened in the monastery!”