Ascension Through Generations

Qianlong Pavilion, training room

There is a heaven-circulating spirit gathering array on the floor of the room, with all sixty-four nodes inlaid with middle-grade thunder spirit stones.

At this moment, a big-bellied gold vase with a dark golden body and gilded thunder patterns all over the surface was placed in the center of the magic circle. The mouth of the vase occasionally spattered wisps of lightning.

Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged on the edge of the spirit gathering array, placed his hands on his dantian and pinched out the treasure bottle seal, his brows glowing faintly.

As the spirit-gathering array continued to operate, a large amount of thunder spirit energy emitted from the spirit stone, gathered into a ball of spiritual mist, and enveloped the mouth of the bottle.

After a while, thunder began to rise inside Zhao Sheng's body, and lightning flashed in the center of the Aquarius Seal.

At this moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and shouted loudly: "Zha! Thunder~ come on!"

The sound was like a thunderbolt, and then a dazzling thunder light appeared from the bottle mouth. In an instant, a light blue thunderbolt as thick as an arm jumped out of the bottle mouth, as if it had eyes, and hit the middle of the seal of the bottle, weakening part of its power. , instantly submerged into the Dantian Qi sea.

In an instant, countless rays of lightning appeared all over Zhao Sheng's body, and his whole body was wrapped in lightning. The skin on his body was constantly blackened and the black scabs quickly faded away, as if he was reborn.

The flesh and blood in his body were also continuously burned by the thunder, but they multiplied and healed rapidly.

At this moment, deep in the dantian, the whirlpool of spiritual power was wildly devouring the scurrying thunder and lightning, and was trying its best to refine the alien thunder power.

As the streaks of thunder were continuously refined, a steady rain of spiritual power began to fall in the dantian, and drops of pure thunder spiritual power continued to fall into the "pond" of spiritual power below.

The area of ​​​​the "pond" continues to expand, and Zhao Sheng's cultivation level is also rapidly improving.

At the same time, this physical body was repeatedly beaten by thunder, constantly broken and re-established, and the body also quickly became stronger in the cycle of breaking and establishing.

It has to be said that after several lifetimes of practice, the miraculous skill of "Star God Thousand Heart Techniques" has greatly helped Zhao Sheng on his path.

This life is no exception. He secretly cultivated this wonderful skill to a small level early on.

With multi-tasking, not only the major skills have made rapid progress, but also the three advanced thunder methods of "Seven Revolutions of Thunder Body", "Tiangang Five Thunder Methods" and "Thunder Divine Escape" have also been steadily improved.

The sun rose and set, and three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Three days and three nights of non-stop practice, surprisingly exhausted 90% of the spiritual energy inside the middle-grade thunder stone.

At this time, the natural thunder contained in the thunder bottle has also been reduced by nearly one tenth.

However, the results of this practice are gratifying!

Zhao Sheng has refined his first-level thunder combat body to a great level. His body is more than twice as strong as three days ago, and his cultivation level has also successfully broken through to the second level of foundation building. The scope of his spiritual consciousness has once again expanded outward by thirty-six feet.

The next day, the door to the training room opened with a bang, and Zhao Sheng stepped out from inside.

When he came out, he saw Chen Shou running up to meet him. He smiled flatteringly and said, "Congratulations, master, on your great progress in practice! I have prepared a bath for you. Please cleanse yourself and wash away the dust!"

Um,

Zhao Sheng nodded and asked casually: "Has anything happened in the mansion these days? Do the ladies get along well with each other?"

"Master, the ladies are like sisters and have a very harmonious relationship with each other. There is not much going on in the mansion, except for a large number of invitations coming from outside. The invitations have been placed in the master's study, waiting for you to take a look." Chen Shou said. He led Zhao Sheng to the shower room and said quickly.

"I won't read the invitation. You can inform Chen Fu later and let him handle it as appropriate! Just say that I am practicing in seclusion and it is not convenient for me to see guests."

"Master, I understand! The ladies told me to do it as soon as they see you come out of seclusion."

"I got it! You know what you should and shouldn't say. Go ahead! By the way, do you know who should be notified first?"

"Hey, don't worry, Master! I will report this to Mrs. Ying right now."

After saying that, Chen Shou quickly turned around and ran to Chengyingyuan.

…

Five days passed by, and Zhao Sheng was working hard despite rain and dew.

On this day, the weather was not good and cloudy.

With a creak, the door of Yumeizhai's main room was pushed open. Zhao Sheng walked out and looked at the gloomy sky with a smile on his face.

"Husband, the weather is bad today, why don't you stay at the slave's house and sleep a little longer? Why rush to leave!"

As soon as the words came out, Chen Shuang, wearing thin clothes, hurriedly chased out of the house and grabbed Zhao Sheng's arm, with reluctance written on her charming face.

Zhao Sheng gently advised: "Shuang'er, be good! I will definitely stay a little longer next time, but today is a thunderstorm day, which is a good day for practice. I am about to go to the lightning protection tower."

"Okay! Husband, it's important to practice." Chen Shuang slowly let go of his hand, with a look of reluctance on his face.

"Good boy, it's getting cold. Go back to your room quickly."

Zhao Sheng patted her shoulder, turned around and walked a few steps to the center of the courtyard.

With a flick of his hand, the Ten Thousand Years Thunderwood Sword flew out from the bottom of his sleeve and hovered one foot above the ground.

Zhao Sheng stepped onto the wooden sword, and his consciousness instantly communicated with the spiritual sword.

The next second, the Thunderwood Sword carried its master into the sky and flew towards the top of the first tree crown.

As the spirit sword flew forward, the clouds opened and the wind dispersed along the way, and the mist rolled back to both sides, forming a sky road three feet wide and stretching for hundreds of miles visible to the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye, flying hundreds of miles into the void, Zhao Sheng had arrived above the first layer of tree canopy.

Compared with the second layer, the area of ​​the first layer of tree crowns has greatly shrunk, with a diameter of only about a hundred miles and a cross-sectional area of ​​less than eight thousand miles.

However, the first layer of tree canopy is more than 200 miles away from the ground. It is a completely high-altitude environment. Most of the clouds are below it. The environment is extremely harsh. It is extremely cold all year round and water turns into ice. The air is extremely thin.

Therefore, this layer of tree canopy is completely unsuitable for human habitation. Only the Chen family's golden elixir and a very small number of people who have practiced special skills chose to open caves here.

The wind howled, and ice and snow flew all over the sky like knives, splitting the air.

Dark clouds dispersed and gathered, filling the sky for thousands of miles around, and even covering the huge sacred tree.

Through the vast ice, snow, clouds and mist, one can faintly see a large tree trunk protruding from the top of the tree crown, which is dozens of miles high.

At this time, at the top of the sacred tree, a new crown has begun to take shape, covering an area of ​​about twenty miles.

And in the center of this canopy, there stands a completely black octagonal iron tower. Under each of the eight eaves of the tower is a thunder bottle with a thin neck and a big belly.

Boom boom!

Waves of roars came from the depths of the dark clouds, and countless electric snakes and thunder pythons rolled and swam in the clouds. From time to time, thick lightning bolts were seen falling from the dark clouds, and all of them struck the lightning tower without falling.

Dense lightning flashed around the tower, but under the guidance of the power of the magic circle, most of the lightning poured into the tower, filling the empty spiritual stones with thunder aura.

The remaining thunder power was quickly divided into eight parts and obediently got into the lightning bottle.

The Great Chun Sacred Tree is a heterogeneous species of naturally giant tree. Because it grows too tall, it can easily attract thunder, which means it can easily be "struck by lightning".

Especially the sacred tree in front of me, which is more than 20,000 years old, has been struck by lightning all year round.

In addition, the great catastrophe of dryness and glory is approaching day by day, and all the thunderous energy floating in the sky and the earth within a radius of thousands of miles is attracted, which intensifies this phenomenon.

Zhao Sheng controlled the wooden sword and landed on the tree crown. After putting away the thunderwood sword, he walked along a three-foot-thick branch toward the lightning protection tower in front.

When I got closer, I saw a middle-aged man with a naked upper body and a body as majestic as a mountain, sitting cross-legged in front of the tower door.

This man's whole body is bathed in thousands of thunder lights, and he seems to be refining his body with the help of thunder.

As if he sensed that someone was coming, the giant man kept his eyelids open and his body remained motionless, but a strong and thick voice came from the air: "Little guy, this is not a place for you! Get down quickly!"

As soon as this sound came out, it immediately overwhelmed the roar of thunder in the sky.

When Zhao Sheng saw this, he cupped his hands and said, "Chen Guangxi, a descendant of the Chen family, has met Uncle Xiang."

Hearing this, Chen Xiangxiang suddenly narrowed his eyes and said in a slightly surprised tone: "Are you the little guy with the Thunder Spirit Root?! I haven't seen you for a few years, but you have actually been promoted to Foundation Establishment. No wonder... this bird is here. Come to a place where you don’t shit!”

Zhao Sheng smiled and said: "This place is an excellent place to practice thunder! Naturally, this junior cannot miss it."

"That makes sense. Come and sit next to uncle. I'll protect the Dharma and practice for you."

"Thank you for your care, uncle! Guangxi is very grateful." Zhao Sheng said, walked to Chen Xiangxiang in a few steps, and sat down cross-legged in a generous manner.

Then he took out the Ten Thousand Years Thunder Wood Sword and placed it across his knees, then took out the thunder bottle from the Qiankun Bag and placed it on the ground in front of him.

After a while, the thunder inside Zhao Sheng's body gradually began to sound, and the Ten Thousand Years Thunder Wood Sword lying in front of his knees also buzzed. The sword body gradually glowed with lightning, and the thunderous energy continued to gather and pour into the sword. body.

At the same time, bolts of lightning fell from the sky and penetrated into the lightning bottles one after another.

As Zhao Sheng's practice gradually improved, the surrounding thunder wasp pupae appeared, and finally his whole body was shrouded in a large ball of lightning thunder clouds.

The most pure heaven and earth thunder energy continuously poured into the Dantian Qi sea, and was quickly refined into drops of pure spiritual power.

Chen Xiangxiang on the side saw this scene with brilliant eyes, but he was almost shocked by the strange phenomena caused by Zhao Sheng's practice.

However, Chen Xiangxiang had no idea that Zhao Sheng still did not use his full strength and even distracted himself from his thoughts.

He originally regarded the lightning tower as an excellent place for retreat. Because few people come here, you can avoid people's eyes and ears.

But the appearance of Chen Elephant directly disrupted his plan.

With this person watching, he couldn't do anything else secretly.

If Chen Xiangxiang never leaves, Zhao Sheng will have to find another place.

Boom!

Bursts of dull roars continued to sound from the depths of the dark clouds. In an instant, the number of thunder increased several times, and densely packed electric snakes and thunder pythons flew down and bombarded the dark lightning tower one after another.

For a moment, the tower was flooded with thunder, and the dazzling lightning broke through the surrounding darkness. Countless lightnings shot out in all directions, instantly covering the tree canopy for dozens of miles in radius.

Caught off guard!

Zhao Sheng's whole body was scorched black by the lightning. Chen Xiangxiang was so frightened that he quickly opened his arms and held up a three-foot-thick earth-yellow light shield to protect Zhao Sheng.

Sensing an abnormality in the outside world, Zhao Sheng stopped practicing, his body shook slightly, and he saw large charred black scabs falling off his body, but the original injury was as white and smooth as an egg out of its shell.

Chen Xiangxiang looked shocked when he saw this, but he didn't ask any more questions.

…

The heavy rain has stopped, the clouds have dispersed and the sky is clear.

A figure flying with a sword broke through the layers of rain and fog, fell from the sky, and fell into the Qianlong Pavilion.

Not long after returning, Chen Fu hurried over and bowed: "Young Master, I have an invitation!"

Zhao Sheng was quite puzzled, but he still got up and went out, took the Crane Speeder and arrived at his adoptive father's mansion a hundred miles away.

Get off the car and enter the house. Soon I see the majestic Chen Dacheng in the living room.

After Zhao Sheng sat down, he immediately asked: "The father called the child here, but he doesn't know why?"

"Well, there are indeed some things that I need to discuss with you, Xi'er. According to family tradition, every member of the Foundation Establishment clan can be given a share of the industry to support their cultivation. Your father has taken back your share for you. You come and look at the industry list. If you are not satisfied, you can change it."

With that said, Chen Dacheng took out a jade slip from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng took the jade slip, and after his spiritual consciousness penetrated it, he quickly put it down, nodded and said, "No need to change it! The child is very satisfied. It's just..."

"Haha! I know that you are dedicated to cultivation and are impatient with worldly affairs. Therefore, you can leave the property under your name to Chen Fu. It can produce about 50,000 to 60,000 spiritual stones every year, which is barely enough for your foundation-building period. "

Zhao Sheng has one hundred acres of middle-grade medicinal fields, eight acres of top-grade spiritual fields, and two mines, which produce black iron and white maple stone respectively.

In addition to these, there is also a secular fiefdom with a radius of thousands of miles. The terrain is mainly plains, with a population of more than 700,000, a county-level city, and hundreds of villages and towns.

From now on, all children with spiritual roots who appear in the feudal city will be listed in the family tree and belong to Zhao Sheng's branch.

One day in the future, if Zhao Sheng can "occupy" a large sacred tree, he can branch out and build another one like other branch families.

He had to admit that the Chen family had nothing to say to him. This industry alone was one level better than others. More importantly, it had a large population and a large territory, so it had great potential.

Chen Dacheng smiled kindly and said: "Xier, as long as you are satisfied. By the way, there is one more thing. Xi'er, have you chosen which level of thunder power you want to practice in the future?"

Zhao Sheng paused after hearing the words, and then said seriously: "My child was about to tell his father. After thinking about it again and again, I decided to practice multiple thunders at the same time, but major in the divine thunder power."

Chen Dacheng was extremely surprised: "Shenxiao is the thunder of divine thoughts, and it is far more dangerous than other thunderbolts. Since ancient times, few people have succeeded in cultivating it. However, those who have succeeded in cultivating are all born with spiritual power that is far higher than that of their peers, and more than 10% or 20% higher." , but at least twice as much. I have read family records and found that in the past ten thousand years, there have been only two successful cases in the family. However, both of them were backfired by thunder and died by self-destruction. "

Having said this, Chen Dacheng earnestly advised: "Xie'er, you might as well get another level of Thunder from the Sky. In my opinion, the Thunder from the Cloud is very suitable. Firstly, there is a lot of Thunder from the Cloud, so it is very easy to pick it up. Secondly, The difficulty of spiritual power jump is greatly reduced, and it is countless times safer than the thunder power of Shenxiao.

In addition, as a father, it is highly not recommended that you study at the same time. You need to know that it is better to be knowledgeable than to be specialized! At least before the golden elixir is condensed, a true monk will never be distracted and work hard with all his heart to cultivate the right path! "

"What the father taught is that the child has learned the lesson. He will definitely choose to practice Yunxiao Thunder Power in the future." After hearing this, Zhao Sheng immediately replied respectfully and politely.

However, what he said on the surface was actually something else.

No one knew that he had decided to cultivate the triple thunder powers of Yunxiao, Shenxiao and Zixiao.

In addition, what he majored in was not the thunder power of Shenxiao, but the thunder power of Zixiao, which he had never announced to his mouth.

In his previous life, he had played with Zixiao Divine Thunder for hundreds of years, and he was extremely familiar with it.

The scene of this divine thunder destroying the heaven and earth is still vivid in my mind!

How could Zhao Sheng take the initiative to give up this powerful thunder power?