Chapter Eighty-One: Fierce Beast

  Thunder is called the pivot of heaven and earth! Therefore, it is considered to be the command of heaven, with the greatest power among all laws.

  Chu Ping suddenly had an idea, wanting to subdue Lei Feng and capture him within the Ruyi Pearl. Later, when facing enemies in a battle of magic, he could release him from the pearl. The plan was excellent, but it overlooked the power of Lei Feng!

  Lei Ting dominates the three realms and nine lands, whether it is a cultivator who has achieved great success or an immortal divine spirit, they all have boundless reverence for him. How could he be so easily tamed and contained?!

  However, in a short time, the Yuanyang Pearl swallowed countless lightning bolts, and threads of electric light emerged from it, floating above Chu Ping's eyebrows. The crackling sound was incessant, like silk threads entwining, causing Chu Ping's muscles to convulse violently, his hair standing on end, as if he had been startled like a wild beast!

  "What an incredible lightning bolt! But I underestimated it!"

  Inside the Ruyi Pearl, it was like boiling hot water, bubbling and churning non-stop. Countless air currents swirled and flew about, colliding with thunderclaps within the pearl, producing a fierce rumbling sound!

  "When soldiers are in combat, they all stand at the front of the formation!"

  Chu Ping let out a low shout, and the massive True Essence suddenly began to revolve, transforming into nine mysterious handprint shapes that crashed into the Ruyi Pearl!

  These nine great hand seals shot into the pearl, and immediately rose up, like stars suspended in the night sky, shining brightly. As the light of the hand seals flowed, a calm and peaceful, seemingly able to soothe all violence, suppress all turmoil, worry-free Zen state emerged, overflowing from Chu Ping's body!

  The nine great hand seals radiate brilliant light, swirling and coiling within the pearl, transforming into a majestic formation that unfolds all the mysteries Chu Ping has ever seen. The violent lightning is entwined thread by thread, then suppressed and calmed, transformed into clear and distinct electric snakes that lie dormant!

  A hundred refinings of hard steel are transformed into silken threads!

  After suppressing the raging thunder, the nine great handprints suddenly transformed into nine bright talismans, which were exactly "all soldiers fighting in front of the array", floating and sinking inside the Ruyi Pearl, and immediately gave birth to countless bright yuan forces. These yuan energies condensed into small beads like golden elixir sarira, each surrounding the talismans!

  On the surface of the pearl, these nine big characters are like nine bright fixed stars, radiating light and heat. The yuanqi condensed into the yuanzhu is like a planet attached to the surrounding fixed stars, forming a nebula-like cloud around the nine major star systems, which solidifies on the transparent wall of the Ruyi pearl, refining the thunder dragon and electric snake inside the pearl!

  "This is troublesome, receiving thunder and lightning, and having to sort out and suppress one by one! It's even more troublesome than drawing talismans and inscriptions!"

  The Taoist talismans often say, "A spark of spiritual light is the talisman." This means that when drawing a talisman, it should be done in one breath, with the brush guiding the spirit energy, and the mind silently contemplating. The brush strokes are like dragons and snakes, which is the method of talismanic art.

  It can be said simple, but also can be said not simple!

  The talismans made from the yellow paper infused with cinnabar can already rival many magical artifacts! And the legendary Thunder Talismans of the Heavenly Master Sect, renowned throughout the world, are said to have several levels, among which the most powerful Purple Thunder Talisman is almost comparable to the power of many precious treasures!

  Chu Ping originally wanted to adopt Lei Ting, but didn't expect it to be so troublesome, and still had to suppress and refine one by one, which was somewhat not worth the gain.

  "If only there was a formation that could refine thunder within the Ruyi Pearl! Unfortunately, neither Wuxiang Temple nor Qitian Sect are proficient in this way. I suppose the Shenxiu Sect must have a formation for refining thunder, and the Tianshi Dao should too. If I can take a look, it would be..."

  Chu Ping Hu thought wildly, feeling the thunder in the Ruyi Pearl finally calm down, like a cloud of air swirling inside the pearl, and also like a deep and quiet pool of water, completely different from its previous ferocity!

  Slightly sensing the lightning in the pearl, Chu Ping's mind stirred slightly. Instantly, a wisp of electric light danced and fluttered from her fingertips, like a string of firecrackers, constantly tearing and stretching, making a crackling sound, which was quite spectacular.

  "Not bad, not bad, it's just that it's a bit of a hassle!"

  Chu Ping let out a long sigh, retracted his electric light, and floated in the Thunder Layer, slowly inhaling and exhaling.

  In the Thunder Layer, only the power of thunder and lightning is present, excluding all other forces. Not a single thread or hint of any other energy can be found. As Chu Ping breathes in, his body absorbs strong electric currents and thunderfire, like countless wild beasts rushing into his meridians, rampaging and surging uncontrollably, extremely difficult to tame. After finally suppressing them, they transform into tiny bits of primordial energy, flowing through all the orifices. Immediately, threads of electric light entwine around the hidden Primordial Dan in the apertures, constantly refining it, releasing Primordial Force within his bones and meridians, driving out and purifying the impurities within his body!

  Even if it is the realm of physical perfection in the present, it still cannot be considered a perfect body! Only when the outside is not stained with dust and the inside does not produce impurities can it truly be called a perfect Dharma body!

  Even if one becomes a celestial immortal, there will still be the five declines of heaven and humanity. It can be known that the physical body is ultimately a tangible object, and if it is not constantly refined, it will slowly disappear in the long river of time!

  Heaven and man are still like this, let alone a small practitioner like Chu Ping!

  Feeling the subtle changes within her body, Chu Ping slowly floated up a hint of a smile!

  "I don't know how vast this thunder layer is, and as I venture deeper inside, I have no idea just how fierce the thunder will be."

  Chu Ping's thoughts slowly turned, and she couldn't help but stretch out a thread of divine sense, pulling it into a thin line, slowly probing into the Heavenly Thunder Layer!

  Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

  The sky was filled with thunderbolts, thick and heavy lightning, as wide as a bucket, swirling around, flashing uncertainly, like locks and chains. Chu Ping's divine consciousness crashed into it, immediately turning into nothingness!

  "What an awesome thunderbolt!"

  Chu Ping took a few deep breaths, calming down the shock in her heart, and didn't dare to investigate further!

  At this moment, the distant thunder suddenly became more violent, swirling and dancing in the air, twisting into countless huge whirlpools, with lightning flashing above, stirring up a myriad of purple and red colors, dazzling to the eye, and beneath the splendor, there were countless rampaging forces, rumbling thunderbolts, crashing and surging wildly!

  "What is this?"

  Chu Ping's heart moved, and the twin wings behind her shook violently. A whirlwind immediately rose in the Thunder Layer, sweeping up countless lightning bolts like a giant mouth swallowing seawater. Then, they burst out again, like inflated balloons bursting with a loud bang, layer upon layer of folds pushing outward, scattering in all directions like ripples on water!

  In an instant, he arrived at the periphery of the thunderous layer where lightning was bursting forth. Chu Ping concentrated his mind to investigate and saw that in the center of the swirling vortex of wild lightning, there stood a young man with his eyes closed, cultivating some sort of technique!

  He was about twenty-four or five years old, with long hair scattered behind his head, tied up with a silk ribbon. His face was quite ordinary, but he had an air of elegance and refinement that made him look particularly handsome. He wore a yellow Taoist robe all over his body, with an eight-trigram pattern printed on the back of his chest, and a seven-star crown on his head, which gave off a somewhat immortal aura.

  This person was holding an octagonal bronze vase in his hand, and on the eight corners of the copper vase, a talisman paper was attached to each one. The surface was radiant and misty, but it couldn't be seen what was drawn on it!

  The lightning around was attracted by this octagonal bronze bottle, and poured into it. The eight mysterious light curtains formed by the eight talismans on the eight corners of the copper pot filtered and refined them, like gentle water waves pouring into the bottle, accumulating!

  "What a formidable method!" Chu Ping was shocked at the same time, and also admired it extremely!

  This person's cultivation is clearly not as good as Chu Ping, and he hasn't even discovered that Chu Ping is eavesdropping on him from the side. He is completely focused on absorbing the thunder, accompanied by the gurgling sound of water in the bottle, and a smile is also gradually rising to his face.

  Chu Ping was pondering in her heart what kind of sect this person was from, when suddenly a massive aura rose up from below, unlike any she had seen before from the various cultivation sects. It carried a coarse and wild energy!

  This aura is extremely powerful, and the incoming person's accumulated magical power is obviously very high, surpassing even Chu Ping's own!

  A young man standing in the thunder, collecting lightning, also sensed this breath, his face changed slightly, and he suddenly turned into a five-colored light, with fine electric currents mixed in the light, like small dragons, hidden in the dense thunder of the heavenly thunder layer.

  Just as he was moving, Chu Ping clearly sensed that a mysterious aura of yuan force emanated from the bronze vase, enveloping him, and in an instant, it became indistinguishable from the surrounding thunder and lightning.

  The young man had just hidden for a short while, when the massive aura below the thunder layer rushed into the thunder layer. Chu Ping's spirit was like silk, and he discovered that the newcomer was actually a huge barbaric beast!

  This fierce beast resembles an ox in shape, with a whole body of cyan color, a single horn on its head, sharp and curved like a sword, four legs are crimson red, about two zhang long, five feet high, all over the body emitting a kind of dull and vast vibration.

  "What kind of beast is this, so strange?"

  Chu Ping's eyebrows slightly furrowed, and she was secretly puzzled in her heart.