Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 20 – Struck by lightning

On the opposite side of the mountain cliff, three men and a woman stood there like statues, motionless.

"There are people over there," the long-haired woman whispered.

It was nighttime, with a bright moon and sparse stars, and the weather was good, but the woman was holding a flower rain umbrella, which was quite strange.

Next to her was a monk with a round face, round eyes, and a string of prayer beads hanging around his neck. Each bead was the size of a fist and rotated automatically around his neck without touching his body.

"San Niang, the people near Tianmen Town may not really be human," the monk said expressionlessly. "The people in Shuofang City may not even be human, let alone this eerie place of Tianmen Town. The person over there is accompanied by four fox demons, so he is probably a demon who has transformed, not a human."

"We came here to see who has the guts to mess with my Tong family, but we didn't expect to encounter a poisonous viper that has transformed into a dragon," the third person, a Confucian scholar, said calmly.

"The value of a dragon is extraordinary, and the value of a poisonous dragon is even higher. After this poisonous viper transforms into a dragon, it becomes a highly toxic black dragon, which can be used as a mount or given to dignitaries in the Eastern Capital," he continued.

The fourth person was a young scholar who traveled with Tong Fan and Yang Sheng in the ghost market. However, his eyesight was too weak, and he couldn't see Su Yun's appearance clearly under the moonlight, so he didn't recognize him.

"Uncle Xuan, Yang Sheng has gone to catch that kid, but there has been no news these days. I don't know if something has happened," the young scholar said.

"Yang Sheng is a good young man and can be promoted," Tong Xuan, the Confucian scholar, said. "But he is a bit impatient and needs to be tempered for a few more years. The Tong family needs people like him, but ambition needs to be suppressed."

He was an experienced person who knew a lot and knew that Yang Sheng was trying to please the Tong family and rise to power. However, he did not expect that Yang Sheng had already died.

"The key is Tianmen Town," Tong Xuan furrowed his brows. "We have not found Tianmen Town these days, which is really strange."

"The town is very sinister. It is said that even the emperor of the Eastern Capital was alarmed by what happened there," the monk said. He frowned and did not continue. The others seemed to have thought of something that made them wary and stopped talking.

Below, the breathing of the big black snake in the snake stream suddenly became rapid, and the moonlight from the bright moon in the sky converged and formed a beam of light as thick as a water bucket, shining diagonally into the snake stream!

The light was condensed, causing the surrounding area to become dim.The beam of light shone on the body of the large black snake coiled around the reef. The spots of light moved slowly from the head of the snake along its body to the tail, then back to the head.

Where the spots of light shone, there were crackling sounds as if something was exploding.

The skin on the head of the large black snake had already split open, and the location of the split was exactly where Su Yun had cut it with the sword in the snake's mouth.

At this moment, the long snout of the large black snake had already emerged from its skin.

The reason it was called a snout was that, compared to a true dragon, the mouth of a jiao dragon was thin and long, like a bird's beak, but it was also filled with extremely sharp dragon teeth, which looked very ferocious.

The small dragon horns on the top of the head of the large black snake were also revealed, and the body beneath the skin wriggled slowly. Under the moonlight, which was highly condensed, the black scales showed a metallic color.

Although Su Yun couldn't see this scene, he immediately felt the changes in the large black snake's blood and energy!

Originally, the blood and energy of the large black snake were like a large egg, but at this moment, he felt that there was something moving inside the egg, refining and extracting the blood and energy.

The most peculiar thing was the way the blood and energy flowed in the large egg. The blood and energy of the large black snake formed several strange patterns on the surface of the egg.

In Su Yun's "vision," these patterns flickered and changed. With each illusion and change, the blood and energy of the large black snake were constantly refined, sublimated, refined again, and sublimated again!

Each time the blood and energy were refined and sublimated, it was accompanied by the breathing of the large black snake, refining when exhaling and sublimating when inhaling.

What puzzled Su Yun was that the blood and energy of the large black snake never seemed to decrease, but instead showed a trend of increasing, which was definitely against common sense!

The "energy" in the blood and energy referred to the elemental energy, while the "blood" referred to the blood.

During the process of refining and sublimating, the total amount of elemental energy would decrease, but the large black snake was increasing.

"Perhaps it is due to its absorption of the essence of the sun and moon."

Su Yun thought to himself, "There is also a way to absorb the essence of the sun and moon in the transformation of the Honglu. I breathe and meditate towards the rising sun every morning to absorb the essence of the sun. However, the speed at which the entire village absorbs it during meals is many times faster than that of the Honglu transformation!"

He carefully remembered the patterns on the blood and energy egg that he "saw," and tried to use the elixir furnace in his body as the cauldron, his own elemental energy as the egg, and placed it on top of the cauldron.

Su Yun tried to make the egg of elemental energy rise and fall with his breath, and also tried to create those strange patterns on the egg of elemental energy. However, he still couldn't get it right, and always felt that something was missing. It was probably due to the extremely special martial arts of the large black snake.

At this moment, he suddenly sensed several weaker blood and energy auras around him.

"It's the nearby villagers!"Su Yun's spirit shook: "They have suffered enough, so they are taking advantage of the village's feast to cross the tribulation and take his life!"

As time passed, the qi and blood in the surrounding mountains and forests increased, and soon Su Yun sensed hundreds of qi and blood.

"It's going to be lively now!" Su Yun was very excited.

At the foot of the mountain, the big black snake had already shed its skin, revealing a huge head like a bull. Its body wriggled, and the qi and blood in its large egg suddenly became extremely bright.

There was a buzzing vibration from the egg, and the trees around were shaken with rustling leaves. The water in the snake creek was also covered with ripples!

Suddenly, thunder sounded in the sky. Hua Hu, the four people opposite, and the "villagers" hiding in the surrounding forests all looked up, only to see that the moon in the sky had been blocked by clouds at some point.

But the moonlight penetrated the clouds like shining lines, shining on the body of the big snake that was shedding its skin in the snake creek.

The moonlight rubbed against the clouds, causing thunder to sound inside the clouds, and occasionally a light would suddenly appear from the clouds.

That was the thunder light.

When the thunder light shone, one could vaguely see a shadow of a dragon swimming in the clouds, whether it was a real dragon or an illusion caused by the shadow was unknown.

Su Yun couldn't see this scene, but he "saw" a qi and blood rushing into the sky from the large egg, connecting with a cloud of qi and blood in the sky.

The scene he "saw" was completely different from what others saw!

"Meng Gu---"

The big black snake raised its dragon head and a loud dragon chant resounded throughout the mountains!

The big black snake wriggled its body and suddenly jumped forward, breaking free from a section of its skin. With a snap, a shiny black claw full of strength was deeply embedded in the reef.

The half-snake and half-dragon monster raised its head and let out an even more high-pitched dragon chant. The clouds in the sky seemed to be commanded, and a blood-red light burst out from the clouds and struck the monster!

Crack--

The thunder light was like a sharp blade that cut through the night, illuminating the snake creek. The brightness at this moment was as bright as day.

The half-snake and half-dragon monster was cut open, blood splattering everywhere. A burst of cheers came from the surrounding mountains and forests: "Great!"

Scholar Tong Xuan took advantage of the lightning flash to look around and saw a group of monsters dancing wildly in the surrounding mountains and forests. Those monsters were extremely happy to see the half-dragon and half-snake monster suffering.

"The hundred-mile radius of Tianmen Town is indeed a no-man's land. It has completely become a world of monsters!" He frowned.

Su Yun did not "see" the blood-red thunder that struck. He saw a more pure and refined qi and blood rushing towards the large egg, and the dragon in the egg was devouring this qi and blood to reconstruct its body and undergo metamorphosis and evolution!He couldn't see it with his naked eye, he could only sense the qi and blood. The scene he "saw" was completely different!

"The qi and blood here are too strong. Does the whole village rely on this to transform?"

He had a sudden realization. To transform from a snake to a dragon, one had to ascend from one form of life to another. Simply accumulating through cultivation was not enough, one had to borrow the power of heaven and earth to transform themselves!

"The whole village relies on the qi and blood of heaven and earth to transform!"

Su Yun didn't know if the cloud of qi and blood in the sky was the qi and blood of heaven and earth, but the whole village relied on it to transform, using the power of heaven and earth to ascend to another form of life and become a dragon!

"I thought crossing the tribulation was just about getting struck by lightning. I didn't expect there to be so many tricks involved without seeing it with my own eyes or sensing it myself!"

Su Yun became excited. "If my Crocodile Dragon Roar can transform crocodile dragon blood into dragon blood, can I also transform like this?"

He was eager. "I don't know how to gather the qi and blood of heaven and earth, but the whole village does! Maybe I can try to borrow some qi and blood from them!"

He immediately tried again to control the fluctuations of his elemental qi and formed a large elemental egg above the furnace of heaven and earth within his body.

At this moment, a second bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck the transforming dragon in the snake pool.

Before this bolt of lightning fell into the snake pool, for some reason, it split into a small bolt of lightning that struck Su Yun's head beside them, causing Hua Hu, Hu Buping, Qing Qiuyue, and Li Xiaofan to look at him in shock.

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