69: Chapter 69 Thunder Pool Blessed Land, the legacy of the Immortal Lord of Transformation!

Half a year later, late autumn.

The final Formation Flag of the Tier 2 Lightning Attraction Array was set in place. With the auxiliary Formation eyes functioning smoothly, the entire grand array began to operate on its own!

Sun Lin stood at the Formation eye, hands forming seals as he funneled spiritual power into it.

The grand array activated!

Spiritual Qi from the Spiritual Vein was drawn out, flowing rapidly along the Formation lines that covered the Main Peak.

In the sky above, thick dark clouds suddenly surged into the previously clear sky; it was no natural weather change.

It was the grand array attracting lightning!

The first rumble of thunder rolled through the depths of the clouds. It wasn't loud, but heavy and low, as if something were tumbling at the edge of the heavens.

On the Main Peak, the branches and leaves of the Thunder-Attracting Spirit Wood stood up in unison, stretching toward the sky like countless arms beckoning and guiding...

The thirty-six Lightning-storing Copper Pillars lit up with dark runes simultaneously, emitting a low hum!

Immediately after—

"Boom!"

A bolt of mysterious yellow heavenly lightning struck down from the clouds, accurately hitting the lightning attraction wood grove atop the Main Peak...

The lightning followed the spiritual wood's root system and was quickly guided into the Lightning-storing Copper Pillars.

The lightning-conducting runes inside the copper pillars flashed brilliantly for an instant before redistributing the energy, transmitting it to the entire thunder fruit orchard!

The branches and leaves of the lei yuan fruit trees trembled slightly.

In the three-acre medicinal garden, a faint purple fluorescence simultaneously appeared on the leaves of all thunder-attribute spiritual plants.

They were eating.

They were greedily devouring the purified thunder spiritual energy!

Meanwhile, in a newly built stone pool next to the stone Immortal Cave on the back mountain, copper pipes channeled the excess electricity into the pool.

Instantly, electric light surged. Arc flashes continuously gathered within the stone pool, attempting to escape only to be trapped by a Formation...

As the electricity continued to gather and compress, it gradually transformed into drops of thick, pale purple liquid!

This was the so-called Thunder Spiritual Liquid, a Tier 1 High Grade spiritual item.

And this stone pool was a Thunder Pool.

A man-made Way of Thunder blessed land. Though still quite weak, after years of accumulation and cultivation, it would one day transform into a true blessed land for cultivation...

Shi Jian, who was in seclusion, felt the thunder spiritual energy flooding into his Immortal Cave.

He opened his eyes.

The ring of silver electricity on the demon core within his body jumped violently at the same moment, its rotation speed noticeably increasing!

The rotation speed was at least twenty percent faster than before.

"They certainly have heart."

"After laboring for so many years, they've finally started to give back to me..."

...

Half a month after the Lightning Attraction Array began operating, the changes on the back mountain were visible to the naked eye.

The trunks of the lei yuan fruit trees had thickened, and the new sprouts appeared more than two months earlier than in previous years, brimming with vitality.

The leaves of the Purple Electric Vines turned from light purple to bright purple, their grade increasing slightly. The roots of the Thunderglow Grass dug three inches deeper, showing pleasing growth.

Sun Caiya squatted in the medicinal garden every day, nurturing the spiritual items bit by bit, occasionally watering them with a drop of Thunder Spiritual Liquid to promote growth and advancement.

Sun Chengyue followed behind her, silently learning and recording, occasionally asking questions.

With the boost from the Thunder Spiritual Liquid and the supporting environment, the fruiting cycle of the lei yuan fruit trees had been shortened from the expected five years to just three!

In a three-year cycle, each round could yield ten to fifteen fruits.

When these figures were reported, Sun Boan was so happy he couldn't stop smiling. If the cultivation was good, the Old Ancestor would be happy, and as long as the Old Ancestor was happy, nothing else mattered.

Meanwhile—

Now that the Sun Clan's ancestral land had a complete thunder-attribute medicinal garden, a clan-protecting Lightning Attraction Array, and a man-made blessed land like the Thunder Pool,

to fully utilize this cultivation environment,

Sun Boan took the time to gather the clan's core members. The goal of this clan meeting was to collect various Way of Thunder legacies!

Cultivation Techniques, Talismans, Pill Formulas—anything even remotely related to the thunder attribute would be purchased at a high price.

A never-before-seen category was added to the Mingqiu Merchant Alliance's procurement list, and they began purchasing aggressively through the alliance's channels.

Sun Mao personally made several trips to Baiyun Market and also asked Sun Yao to transcribe two thunder-attribute auxiliary Cultivation Techniques from the White Cloud Temple's Scripture Pavilion.

Their grades weren't high, being just basic introductory materials, but they were better than nothing.

Immortal Master Daoist Yun Du naturally knew of this but didn't take it to heart. They were merely two inferior techniques that could only be practiced up to Qi Refining Perfection.

The greatest harvest, however, came from a Loose Cultivator passing through Hongtian City.

That Loose Cultivator was surnamed Zhou. In his early years, he had traveled to the borders of the Liang Kingdom and held a set of fragmented Thunder Talisman techniques that could craft Tier 1 and two types of Tier 2 Thunder Talismans.

It was said to have originated from the Liang Kingdom, but its specific origin was unknown.

Though the Legacy was fragmented, the descriptions regarding the condensation and guidance of thunder spiritual energy were extremely detailed...

Sun Mao bought it for eight hundred Spirit Stones and brought it back to the clan overnight.

Ultimately, this Talisman Legacy fell into Sun Wanqing's hands. She would comprehend the Talisman methods within, assimilate them, take the superior aspects, and incorporate them into the clan's own Talisman Legacy.

...

In the blink of an eye, several months passed. A great cold descended, and the world was wrapped in silver and white.

One evening, Sun Yao sent an urgent secret letter back from the temple.

The letter was very short, but its content was extremely weighty.

[The Kunyuan Secret Realm's centennial period has arrived; it will open in three months. White Cloud Temple has obtained three slots. Revered Master wishes to invite the Old Ancestor to represent the temple in entering the Secret Realm. The other two slots belong to me and Senior Brother Yun Che. This matter is of great importance; Clan Chief, please quickly report to the Old Ancestor for a decision.]

After Sun Boan finished reading the letter, his fingers gripped the paper for a long time without letting go.

Kunyuan Secret Realm.

The weight of these four words in the cultivation world was anything but ordinary!

Sun Boan had heard of it before, but this was his first time encountering the details.

Legend has it that during ancient times, a Soul Transformation Immortal Lord passed through this world and casually opened a temporary Immortal Cave in the endless Void Realm.

Later, he took three Named Disciples here, gave them some brief guidance, and then drifted away.

It was rumored that those three people later founded the Wei State, Liang Kingdom, and Jin State. After tens of millions of years, the three great cultivation nations evolved into the current Three Great Sects of the Wei State, the Four Righteous Sects of the Liang State, and the Five Demonic Gates of the Jin State.

The land beneath their feet was the Xuanling Continent.

In the eyes of that Immortal Lord, it was probably just an insignificant nameless island in a vast ocean, a place small enough to be just a resting stop.

And the world outside was vast to the point of despair!

The Kunyuan Secret Realm opens once every hundred years and only allows Foundation Establishment Cultivator to enter. Anyone at the Golden Core stage or above will be rejected by the Secret Realm's Laws.

Each Nascent Soul Sect could be allocated hundreds of slots.

Allocated down through the layers, White Cloud Temple, as a subordinate power of the Shangqing Sect—one of the three great immortal Sects of the Wei State—had been allocated three slots.

In the past, these three slots naturally wouldn't have fallen to the Sun Clan.

But now, White Cloud Temple had suffered misfortunes, and its Foundation Establishment Cultivator had withered away one after another; there were truly few who were presentable...

They couldn't very well let someone at the Early Stage of Foundation Establishment enter the Secret Realm to throw their life away.

Having thought through the causes and consequences, Sun Boan sighed softly and stood up to head up the mountain.