Without any hesitation, Li Yan imdiately closed the door and then lit the candle oil lamp, set up a complicated Eight Trigrams Array, and wrapped it with red thread, hanging up Yellow Talismans.
Then, he took out a cloth bundle.
Inside the cloth bundle were a piece of Yin Chen Wood, a stone from Yunng Swamp, a Victory Coin, a cracked pottery bowl for holding water, and an old oil lamp.
All of these had been collected by him. So were found by the Tuo Master, and others he had bought at the Baotong Zen Temple. They were not of the highest quality, but all were Heavenly Spirit Earth Treasures.
To this day, he could already freely control the Daluo Dharma Body and effortlessly absorb the blessings from the Heavenly Spirit Earth Treasures, so he did not fear carrying them with him.
This ti, he was not only constructing a tower but also building the "Fearless Wavy Plentiful Heavenly Palace" within the Six Palaces of Luo Feng.
This was the power of the Luo Feng Scripture.
The sa three-story tower could, compared to other magic thods, also establish an additional palace, signifying a deeper Dao and more potent casting abilities.
Not only that, but each of the constructed Six Palaces of Luo Feng would have corresponding Yin Constables’ Divine Skills, such as for the "Fearless Wavy Plentiful Heavenly Palace," it would be the Soul Hook.
As for what Divine Skills he would obtain from the next layer, the "Ancestral Spirit Seven Flaws Heavenly Palace," even he did not know. The Luo Feng Scripture does not ntion it, and Liu Gang, the strongest practitioner he knew of this thod, had not built the second palace before he completely gave up his status as a living Yin ssenger.
Outside the Golden Hall, when the old Daoist saw this, he imdiately frowned and turned to Wang Daoxuan, "This youngster must be that Li Yan, intending to build his tower within the Thunder Fire Refining Hall?"
Wang Daoxuan responded with respectful clasped hands, "Yes, senior."
Pfft!
A Daoist standing beside them nearly laughed out loud.
The old Daoist turned his head and glared at him, and then shook his head, "This is madness. One can only build a tower in the Thunder Fire Refining Hall on days with mild thunderstorms. On a day like today, no one has ever succeeded."
"Get ready to rescue him later."
"Oh, and tell Master Yu Hanzi to prepare soup and a bath to expel the Thunder Fire energy..."
The old Daoist was kind-hearted, not neglecting to prepare in advance simply because Li Yan was an outsider.
Wang Daoxuan couldn’t help but start to worry after seeing this.
anwhile, inside the Golden Hall.
Boom!
Terrifying thunder roared incessantly.
This Wudang Mountain Thunder Fire Refining Hall was sowhat like a Faraday cage. No matter how fierce the thunderstorm outside, it would not penetrate the hall.
But the Astral Bane Energy within the hall was altered because of it.
Even with his Divine Skills suppressed, Li Yan could sll the fresh yet stinking air churning up and down inside the great hall.
It was as if invisible ferocious beasts were leaping at the chance to strike.
One point where Li Yan was stronger than others was due to his possession of the Daluo Dharma Body, which emboldened him, allowing him to consistently tread the edges of extre precipices, inadvertently embodying the spirit of fearlessness in cultivators.
Hu~
After lighting all the oil lamps, a breeze suddenly sprang up inside the hall.
Strangely, the oil lamps did not flicker or dim but seed as if they were fueled, suddenly flaring up intensely.
Li Yan dared not hesitate. He sat cross-legged, his hands constantly forming spells, cycling through the twelve heavenly stems, and at the sa ti, he closed his eyes to Storing God.
The thunder continued to roar, as if deities were bellowing in his ears.
Li Yan forcibly stabilized his mind and gradually entered into ditation.
Soon, he arrived at the Storing God space.
Cultivating within the Thunder Fire Refining Hall was indeed vastly different.
Within the two layers of the Divine Que, the two Daoist Divine Generals he visualized opened their eyes at the sa ti and looked towards the sky.
The foggy and hazy heavens were now shrouded with dark clouds, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring incessantly.
All of these were influences from the external environnt.
Just like when he first built the tower, he had to draw in Earth Yin energy, using its power to press down, separate Yin Yang, and step by step visualize the Yin Sea, Luo Feng Mountain, and Divine Que.
Of course, now he no longer needed such troubleso thods.
Seeing the thunder in the sky roaring, Li Yan felt not fear but elation.
Each stage of cultivating the Luo Feng Scripture involved changes.
To build the First Layer was to separate heaven and earth.
The Second Layer was to clarify Yin Yang.
And building this Third Layer naturally ant distinguishing the Five Elents.
That was why he had specifically chosen Spiritual Objects of the Five Elents.
And with thunder as the pivot between Yin Yang, with its help, separating the Five Elents Yin Yang would beco much easier.
Of course, the premise was that he had to be able to withstand it!
Boom!
As the spell circulated, a bolt of lightning flashed in the sky.
The thunderbolt hadn’t fallen yet, but it seed to split the sky open.
Within the construction array in the building, the Five Elents Spiritual Objects began to release their aura. At the sa ti, in the Storing God space above, auras of blue, red, yellow, white, and black also descended.
The original Storing God space was dim and filled with Yin Chen Wood, seemingly only having black and white colors. However, as the auras of the Five Elents descended, the entire space quickly beca dynamic.
Of course, most of the Five Elents’ aura fell upon the mountain, enveloping the two Divine Que tiers, and gradually growing stronger.
Boom!
This action seed to have provoked the wrath of the heavens.
Thunder roared down and struck directly above the Yin Sea.
Waves exploded as if a tsunami had been triggered, surging tumultuously in all directions.
Boom!
Before long, the entire Yin Sea was flickering with thunder, which then began to expand outward, indicating that Li Yan’s Dao was rapidly increasing.
Li Yan’s two Storing Gods both revealed smiles.
His guess was correct; within the Thunder Fire Refining Hall, it was indeed easier to construct buildings. Before, when he divided the Five Elents, it took much longer than this.
However, his expression changed almost imdiately.
Above the sky, thunder gathered and swirled, forming a sea of thunder, turning into rows of figures lined up neatly, as if they were gods from the Heavenly Thunder Departnt.
What has happened?!
Li Yan was astonished; the unexpected transformation before his eyes was completely beyond his expectations.
Outside the Golden Hall, the expressions of the people around also changed subtly.
They saw dark clouds roiling above the sky, with thunderbolts falling like a torrential downpour, rumbling incessantly, causing everyone’s heads to buzz.
Wang Daoxuan was shocked, "Elder, what’s happened?"
The old Daoist also had a look of disbelief on his face, "This... I’ve never seen anything like this; this is the kind of scene that cos with Thunder Punishnt."
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Just then, several figures leaped into view.
The old Daoist saw and quickly gave a respectful greeting, "Greetings to the Master."
It was the anomaly in the Thunder Fire Refining Hall that had alard the seven elders of Wudang who were cultivating, with the leader being the Wudang Sect Leader, Yu Longzi.
"Who is inside?"
Yu Longzi asked with a slight frown.
"It’s that Mr. Li from outside the mountain."
The old Daoist hurriedly responded.
"Oh?"
Yu Longzi pondered, then turned to look at Wang Daoxuan and asked gravely, "Has this young friend Li ever practiced Thunder Technique?"
Wang Daoxuan dared not hide anything, "He originally practiced Yin Thunder Palm, but later he was taught the ’Heavenly Thunder Demon Suppressing Hamr’ by Senior Yu Longzi of your sect."
"Cultivating both Yin and Yang Thunder?"
Upon hearing this, one of the seven elders of Wudang frowned and said, "Thunder itself is the interplay of Yin and Yang. To cultivate both Yin Thunder and Yang Thunder is like pouring oil on fire; how could he be so recklessly daring?"
"This Yu Longzi, like his master, also..."
The speaker stopped midsentence, forcefully shutting his mouth.
Yu Longzi was well-known, considered one of the Ascenders of Wudang, fad as the number one demon hunter and exorcist in Ezhou, with extrely fierce Thunder Techniques.
However, Yu Longzi wasn’t from the lineage of Master Sanfeng of Wudang; he was originally a hermit on the mountain who later joined the Zhenwu Palace.
Simply put, he was powerful but not restrained, and as a notorious drunkard, he naturally rubbed so people the wrong way.
Of course, he was still unwaveringly loyal to Wudang Mountain; otherwise, why would he have been dispatched on a mission to Shu by the Sect Leader’s orders?
Nevertheless, Yu Longzi remained calm, forming the Shangqing Technique with his hands, and imdiately his eyes flickered with thunder. He strode forward.
The Thunder Fire Refining Hall was now enveloped in thunder light.
As he entered, the thunder roiled around him, rging with his body and rotating, leaving him wholly unhard.
He looked through the window into the inside.
There, Li Yan sat cross-legged, with bolts of lightning appearing out of nowhere, penetrating his body.
And this lightning was emitted from the mural alongside.
On that mural, auspicious clouds billowed, depicting ferocious-looking Divine Generals with red hair and flaming crowns, so holding swords, others brandishing hamrs, with banners fluttering at the back.
Since the Great Xuan Dynasty, Emperor Zhenwu’s status had been continually rising. Volu five of "Heavenly Emperor’s Supre Dao Calming Jade Decrees" states, "On either side of the Xuandi’s Hall should be statues of various gods from the Thunder Departnt."
The area of the Golden Hall was small, so murals were used instead.
And the leader among them, with a golden face and three eyes, wielding a golden whip in the right hand and the Thunder Technique in the left, his hair and beard flying wildly, was vivid and striking.
The lightning originated from the Thunder Hamr in his hands!
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