9 Heavenly Thunder Manual Chapter 339-341

Chapter 339 – I Don't Want To Kill You

"Whoos.h.!.+ Whoos.h.!.+"

"Bang!"

A single axe of the bull-head was able to block all six of the Void Immortal's sword qi causing the heaven and the earth to shake! The sand dune Lei Yu was hiding behind almost collapsed from the collision! It was fortunate that they still didn't notice Lei Yu while he continued staring at their battle.

Lei Yu wasn't worried about the bull-head at all because the bull-head explained to him some things back then. Once one reaches the Mahayana stage, there were no longer any levels to distinguish the power differences between each other. It now determined the amount of spiritual energy conversion the person had in their body. It was very clear that the bull-head had broken through for over a hundred years while the Void Immortal had only broken through for two years.

This took a while to explain but everything happened really quickly. The bull-head's single strike and blocked the Void Immortal's six sword qi's while there was still another golden beam of light that was flying towards the Void Immortal. The Void Immortal didn't have enough time to react and the bull-head's attack landed on him. His body then flew off like a cannonball for over a hundred meters before he finally stopped. A shocked expression was then clearly seen on the Void Immortal's face.

"I told you before that you weren't my opponent. Just leave, I don't want to kill you!" Bull-head lightly waved his arm and a huge momentum was released causing Lei Yu to almost suffocate. This was the true power behind the Mahayana stage?!

Lei Yu knew that although the exchange between the two of them quick and didn't have the expected large scale destruction, just a mere aura of their attacks could completely crush his existence!

"Don't think that I only have those moves! Take this attack!" The Void Immortal was like a cloud has his body became illusory and instantaneously arrived in front of the bull-head. His whole body was enshrouded with white energy and his momentum was no less than the bull-head's. It was only missing a bit of dominance and adaptiveness but this was also the gap between them two.

For someone who focused his cultivation around the sword, the Void Immortal instantly transformed himself into a huge sword. He had used his body to near the bull-head before transforming to a sword as his attack. Although this move was considered a cheap villainous act, it was still one of his strategic moves he had up his sleeves.

Bull-head looked unusually calm as the golden glow around his body immediately brightened. One could only hear a loud "bang" sound when the Void Immortal was once again forced backwards. When the huge sword reverted back to his original human appearance, one could see blood seeping out of the corner of his mouth. The Void Immortal now had eyes filled with fear as he stared at Minotaur Linos in front of him.

"I've been converting spiritual energy for the past a hundred years while you have only been doing it for two years. Did you really think that upon attaining the Mahayana stage, there would be no difference in levels? Simply laughable! I'm going to say it one last time – leave. Even though I despise you, I don't wish to kill you! Eventually, someone else will be going to take your life but that person won't be me!" Bull-head left these words and turned around to leave. He no longer cared about the Void Immortal who had a face filled with shock.

"What's above the Mahayana stage?!" The Void Immortal yelled at the back of the leaving bull-head when he finally came back to his senses.

Without turning his head, Minotaur Linos said: "Go comprehend it yourself! I hope that before you die, you are able to comprehend some of the mysteries of Mahayana! This will allow you to live a little bit longer!"

Lei Yu knew that the person bull-head was inferring to who was going to take the Void Immortal's life was himself. But why didn't the Void Immortal ask who that person was? Could it be that he already knows?

Seeing the Void Immortal's dispirited expression, Lei Yu's hate for him had actually lessened a little. But this didn't mean Lei Yu would forgive him. Even though he doesn't have the strength now, one of these days Lei Yu will pay back everything owed to him!

The Void Immortal slowly turned to leave. His goal was the bull-head but they only exchanged one move; a golden flash of light and the Void Immortal had no ability to counterattack. This clearly showed the power difference between the two was too huge.

The admiration Lei Yu had for the bull-head went up some more, and he also realized something: For a peerless expert, they don't necessarily need to show everyone they are powerful. Just doing things low key will also garner the respect of everyone.

Once the Void Immortal disappeared, Lei Yu floated up into the air and felt the residual powerful aura of the two's battle. Lei Yu didn't dare to stay here any longer because he could start to feel a slight difficulty with his breathing.

With a push of the internal energy at the sole of his feet, Lei Yu started flying towards the city.

Within the main halls.

"You have to leave now? You've already reach the late Soul Splitting stage?"

Towards this G.o.d-like existence, such a quick improvement in cultivation was still inconceivable to the bull-head. Lei Yu's advancement was truly too shocking.

"That's right; I've just broken through!"

Bull-head nodded, "Since you're in such a rush to take care of this, just go without any worries. Tai Lao, Hei Feng and Golden Tiger will accompany you there." Just as his voice faded, a group of people came in. They all had happy expressions on their faces except for Ai Er and the other three beauties. They had apprehensive looks on their faces because they knew Lei Yu would be leaving them once again.

"Master! I only have one word for you: So awesome!"

"Was that only one word you dummy?"

"Uh…"

"Lord Lightning, we've already prepared everything to accompany you on your journey!" Said Golden Tiger while Tai Lao and Hei Feng nodded along.

This was the originally arrangement but what others didn't expect was Lei Yu shook his head with a bitter smile on his face.

"What is it? Did something happen?" Nuo Hu was worried Lei Yu had encountered something problematic and was the first to ask.

"You cannot go alone! We have no idea what you are doing so what if you encounter something dangerous?" Telepha.s.sa frantically interjected.

Lei Yu was grateful to see how everyone was so worried about him but he had no choice in this matter. The Devil King also mentioned that having more people along was not necessary a good thing.

Lei Yu had some certainty of beating the first three guards so them coming along was unnecessary.

"It's actually safer if I went alone." Everyone had worried looks as they couldn't understand Lei Yu's words.

Lei Yu lightly smiled, "Golden Tiger, Hei Feng, and Tai Lao… the strength of you three aren't weak but do you have this ability?" Lei Yu's aura suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Everyone could only feel an empty area where Lei Yu was at but he was definitely standing there. They couldn't detect any of his aura or presence so what was going on?

Nuo Hu, Ai Er, Romon, and the bull-head already knew about this but everyone else was shocked. Their astoundment clearly showed on their facial expression, especially the three that was about to accompany Lei Yu on the journey.

"Lord Lightning! What sort of divine skill is this? How come your aura has completely disappeared?" Tai Lao asked with round big eyes.

Lei Yu released his aura, "This is an ability that I've grasped upon reaching a certain level of my cultivation method. It can escape all detection abilities!"

Those that didn't know finally realized how Lei Yu could always escape in the middle of a crisis. And being able to escape the detection of thousands upon thousands of demonic cultivators was truly mind boggling back then.

"I'm not going to be encountering anything especially dangerous there and I still have my backup help. That's why everyone shouldn't be worried because I will definitely be back in a few months time!"

Chapter 340 – Sea Emperor's Birthday

Lei Yu's promise looked like it wasn't a big deal, but he was mainly doing this so that his women and his friends wouldn't be too worried about him.

Since he had such an ability and his words were so determined, it didn't allow anyone else to rebuke him. If the situation could be solved stealthily but with the three accompanying him causing the situation to turn out into a big fight, then the whole situation was truly unjustified.

This time, Lei Yu felt rather relaxed leaving which was different from before. All his friends and those close to him were with the bull-head so their safety was pretty much guaranteed. The only thing that caused him to frown was finding a method to get rid of the despicable green energy within his body.

If he didn't accomplish this matter, he didn't doubt what the Devil King said would come true. By that time, his body will remain the same but his thoughts and soul will all belong to the Devil King. Lei Yu will no longer be anything different from a zombie and dying might be the better choice by then!

In order to save time, Lei Yu decided to use his Sky Devouring Sword. He only had to inject a tiny amount of internal energy into the sword to control its flying ability which was much less when compared to using his feet. Lei Yu had originally not wanted to expose the Sky Devouring Sword to the public that often ever since the bull-head mentioned to him: "I can sense that this Sky Devouring Sword is definitely not simple so you must protect it at all costs!"

While flying through the high alt.i.tude of the Immortal World, Lei Yu's speed can be described as a flash of light. It would not be an easy task if someone wanted to catch up to him at this point.

Although with the current strength of Lei Yu in the Immortal World wasn't considered something where he could walk sideways un.o.bstructed, he was still nevertheless considered one of the high ranking experts now.

During his time in cultivation, Lei Yu had also completely memorized the two books that Ceng Hong had gifted to him. He had familiarized himself with all the various methods of utilizing the herbs and their effects. But when it came to refining medicinal pills, now that was a c.u.mbersome topic. Lei Yu still carefully memorized the formulas except there were some areas that still required actually hands on practice before he could fully understand it. Without having actual practice was equivalent to not possessing real knowledge. An example was a so called stock experts – they could talk all they want on the television but a true in-depth a.n.a.lysis required their past experience in the field. Just by reading and talking about the topic, one cannot achieve the desired end results. One has to get their hands dirty in order to gain a method and depth of understanding belonging to themselves.

Lei Yu clearly remembered in the >, there was an herb recorded that was one of the main ingredients for refining the Green Vein Dewdrop Pill. This herb was extremely rare and was called "Green Revolving Gra.s.s." It was impossible to find this herb in ordinary lakes and rivers and could only be found in the depths of the deep sea. Even the broad underwater world of the Dragon Scaling Caves did not have such a gra.s.s. And there's definitely none around the water territory of the Southern Wild Lands. The only way to find traces of that herb was to head towards the depths of the sea located at the eastern side of the Immortal World. This herb belonged to a family of aquatic plants and was extremely rare. Not only did one require a powerful eyesight ability to search for it, one also needed a lot of luck. So no matter how strong one's eyesight was, it would be useless if they were unluckily in an area without the plant.

Since Lei Yu had to pa.s.s through the sea on his journey, he decided that he might as well travel through the underwater region. He wouldn't regret it even if he doesn't find any since he at least tried. Testing his luck wasn't a bad choice since the loss in time wasn't a huge difference.

After crossing a large portion of the Immortal World, Lei Yu slowed down a bit before descending.

The dark blue waters of the sea were endless and Lei Yu couldn't even see where the next piece of land ma.s.s was. With a "plop," Lei Yu dove into the sea. For someone that had reached Lei Yu's current strength, there was not much difference whether they travelled through the air, on land, or in the water.

There was a huge pressure while deep under the sea. If it was back then, Lei Yu probably wouldn't be able to resist it for too long. But now he had no feeling as if the pressure didn't exist at all.

Lei Yu played around by using his internal energy to make it encapsulate his entire body and forcing all the water away. He then childishly laughed, "So it looks like I have the same ability as Long Er!"

This was simply an idiotic statement of his…

Lei Yu then released his perception ability and realized the distance of his senses had been reduced quite a bit underwater. This was the case because there were too many uneven surfaces, living organisms, and the hydrostatic pressure of the sea. As long as Lei Yu kept his vigilance up, he shouldn't encounter any serious dangers.

As he propelled himself forward rapidly, Lei Yu kept an eye out on the surrounding cl.u.s.ters of corals. He was keeping any eyes out for the rare herb amongst the coral reefs and the seaweeds on the seabed.

It was around this time that Lei Yu was startled. "How come there's so many energy fluctuations up ahead?" Lei Yu could sense in front of him was a crowd of demonic cultivators gathered together. Still filled with vigilance, Lei Yu gradually got closer to the group. At the same time, he lowered a majority of his aura but didn't completely hide it.

The closer he got, the more shocked he was because there was over a thousand demonic cultivators here. These demonic cultivators were all related to sea creatures of different shapes and sizes. It was nothing out of the ordinary for him to see such demonic cultivators because he met many different species daily in the Southern Wild Lands. The only thing he was curious about was why there were so many of them gathered here today?

Over a thousand demonic cultivators were all gathered outside some type of underwater palace. At the top of the staircase over a hundred steps high was someone of the fish species on a stage, and it wasn't hard to tell that it was of the eel species. There many types of eels in the sea and was not a bad choice as a food item. The meat can be moist and very delicious tasting. But this wasn't a normal eel and was actually the rarely seen electric eel. Just like Lei Yu, it can release different intensity of electricity as its offensive ability.

This eel was at least three meters long and there was no need to mention that it had formed its essence. Although its body looked slim, its voice was very rough to the ears. One could hear it say to the thousands of demonic cultivators: "Today is our Sea Emperor's millennial birthday. Just leave your presents on the ground and the guards will come forth to accept it."

After hearing that, thousands of demonic cultivators started bowing at the waist. Some brought out items from their belongings while some took out items from their mouths. Some even dropped their beloved weapons on the ground right in front of them. Why would they present their own weapons as gifts?

Lei Yu was at a complete loss after witnessing such a scene. Just when he was still in a daze, a shrimp looking guard in an archer's outfit came over and looked at Lei Yu strangely. "Where's your present? Wait! You don't have the aura of a demonic cultivator! You're an outsider!" After saying that, he drew a weapon from his waist and stood in a stance about to attack. Upon hearing this ruckus, everyone turned over with strange looks in their eyes. When they saw Lei Yu, they all showed ill intentioned looks and began to surround him.

Lei Yu didn't panic or feel any fear. Under his perception ability, the strongest demonic cultivator out of the crowd was only at the early Fusion Soul stage. Although there were a lot of them, just using the Sky Devouring Sword to strike out twice with the Thirty-six Lunar Star technique's first form was enough to take care of all of them.

On top of a stage, the eel coldly harrumphed. "Outsider, why did you come here? Could it be that you want to cause trouble during our Sea Emperor's birthday? Capture him!" With that command, the thousands of demonic cultivators didn't move but a stream of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals streamed out of the palace and surrounded Lei Yu three levels deep.

Chapter 341 – The Black Tortoise True G.o.d

The first one to discover Lei Yu was the shrimp demonic cultivator. He then reached towards Lei Yu with a boastful att.i.tude in front of all his peers because it showed how acute his eyesight was in discovering the outsider.

"Surrender yourself or I can't guarantee there won't be any pain!" The shrimp soldier scoffed.

Lei Yu only lightly smiled because he wasn't placing this mere late Gold Core demonic cultivator in his eyes. It was already very difficult for the current Lei Yu to meet an equal opponent in the Immortal World. As for the current situation, the strongest was only at the early Fusion Soul stage. Lei Yu only had to act a bit serious and most likely there would no longer any demonic cultivators here left alive.

Upon seeing Lei Yu's expression, the shrimp soldier angrily frowned because this guy was not giving him any face at all. In front of so many people, this outsider was treating his words like a fart. And he was even smiling! This shrimp soldier wanted to grab onto Lei Yu but when his hand touched his shoulder, a strong energy rushed out of Lei Yu's body. It was only a brief instant when all the demonic cultivators present could smell a very delicious grilled shrimp smell.

Even though Lei Yu didn't take that shrimp soldier's life, his hand would still be crippled now.

The eel on the stage started descending with a frown, "You're truly here to cause trouble?"

Lei Yu gave the eel a strange glance, "I didn't even have a chance to speak and you guys wanted to capture me as an outsider causing trouble. From what I can see, it wasn't me that acted first but you guys."

"An outsider like you dares to act wildly in the Sea Emperor's territory?" The eel roared out. He previously sensed that there was a powerful electricity like energy that burst out of Lei Yu that attacked the shrimp soldier's hand. His ability was almost the same as Lei Yu so he didn't have any fear.

Thousands of eyes were looking at him. In the eyes of these thousands of demonic cultivators, his status was not low so now was the perfect chance to further enhance his own reputation!

"You still want to be safe and sound after injuring my subordinate's hand?" He then waved his arms at the surrounding shrimp soldiers and crab generals and said: "This guy has some skills so there's no need to make any unnecessary sacrifices. Let me personally handle him!"

This was something the surrounding demonic cultivators were hoping to see! They started backing up creating a large empty ground for the eel and Lei Yu to show off their moves.

"Outsider, what is your name?" The eel asked.

"Is there really a need for someone that's about to die to know their killer's name?" Lei Yu had an expression of disdain. There were experts at the Fusion Soul stage around but it wasn't this eel in front of him. This eel's strength had barely reached the late Nascent Soul stage so Lei Yu didn't even bother looking at him seriously.

"What bravado! Hand your life over now!" After roaring out, power exploded forth from the eel's thin body before he rushed towards Lei Yu. There were two long whiskers on his head that had started emitting dots of white light. Lei Yu was very familiar with the energy behind that white light because it was actually electricity, except the strength of it was too substandard for Lei Yu to care about.

"Playing with electricity in front of me? I'm like the ancestor of electricity." Lei Yu's lips curved into a grin. His forefinger and middle finger then clasped together and a purple light was condensed at the tip of his fingers. One could only see Lei Yu gently flick his finger and the purple light shot out at the eel who was currently rus.h.i.+ng towards Lei Yu.

The moment the purple light intercepted the eel, a brief flash of light was seen and the eel's body had a startled reaction. Right after that, the eel started falling over onto the bottom of the seabed. Its body had already stiffened up while it still had eyes of confusion.

This attack by Lei Yu made all the present demonic cultivators shocked. Although this eel was not the strongest existence around here, it was still someone that had a.s.sisted the Sea Emperor and may be even considered his right-hand man. Someone now dared to kill him which caused an unbelievable scene to appear before everyone's eyes.

"Outsider! You actually dared… dared to kill Lord Guman?! You… you are finished now!" Shouts were heard from the present crowd and discussions of this event were getting rowdier and rowdier. Lei Yu knew the eel wasn't dead; it was just acting like that because it couldn't handle the amount of lightning currently rampaging around its body. It only had to wait a few hours and the eel would gradually recover. But of course Lei Yu was too lazy to explain himself and only coldly harrumphed out loud. He stomped down on the ground and started shooting off upwards since he didn't want to waste anymore time here.

"You want to leave after injuring a person of mine? It looks like you aren't placing me, the Sea Emperor in your eyes at all." A voice that made the underwater area tremble came out from the palace. Lei Yu slowly turned around and suddenly stared with wide eyes in shock.

"I say… I say old senior, why… why are you here?" Lei Yu asked in a stuttering manner at the newly arrived huge creature.

The huge creature that appeared was also staring with wide eyes in shock, "Little Yu?"

"You actually know I'm called little Yu?" Lei Yu felt this was strange because he never mentioned his real name before.

"That brat Nuo Hu told me about it, and he kept mentioning that you had to be safe no matter what. It looks like your fate is truly tough – you were actually able to leave the Void Sect in one piece!"

That's right, this newly arrived creature was none other than the divine beast Lei Yu had entrusted to take care of Nuo Hu – The Black Tortoise Xuan Wu!

The old turtle remained the same as always. It had a pair of light blue eyes that gave of a pale light, and its long rough neck was over two meters in length. The old turtle had a brown spike on its head and the huge turtle sh.e.l.l on its back had clearly visible patterns on it. Within each pattern was a spike sticking out that looked beyond sharp.

Lei Yu gradually returned back onto the seabed. Even though the water pressure surrounding him increased once again, this wasn't considered much. Lei Yu then heavily knelt on the ground with a look of respect and grat.i.tude. "Thank you senior for taking care of my big brother! Little Yu humbly thanks you here in sincere grat.i.tude."

This scene had caused the surrounding crowd to become disappointed. The Sea Emperor's appearance didn't create a fight and instead, those two started chatting like old friends? What was up with this?

The old turtle spun around and after causing a bright flash of light. An elderly man with white hair then appeared in place. He then supported the kneeling Lei Yu up, "Back then, I was afraid the Void Sect would use some dirty methods so I brought little Hu all the way here to the eastern sea region. It was on a small island here that I brought him into the path of an Immortal cultivator. You should be the one thanked for everything because it allowed me to realize little Hu had the aura of the Black Tortoise true G.o.d."

"The aura of the Black Tortoise true G.o.d?" Lei Yu was like a monk rubbing his bald head in confusion to the old turtle's words.

"Come into my palace and I'll explain everything in detail to you." Only after those two started making their way into the palace did the over a thousand demonic cultivators recover their senses. When the old turtle appeared, they forgot to salute him. Now that the old turtle was going back inside, they obviously had to show respect by bowing and saying: "We respectfully send off the Sea Emperor!"

Once the two left, all the demonic cultivators were pus.h.i.+ng forward and jabbering about something. As for that eel Guman, he was already pushed to the back of their minds.