Chapter 83: Chapter 81: Advancing the Thunder Technique, Newcomer Earth Grade

The next day.

Zhao Huai woke up well-rested, conducted several business deals, and acquired several valuable items at a low price through the pawnshop.

Seeing that his warehouse was full of treasures, he thought it was time to sell them at the black market.

Nowadays, the pawnshop’s funds were plentiful. Aside from various miscellaneous items that could be sold, there was also the share of the deceased swindler.

By processing those ill-gotten gains, he could earn another tens of thousands of taels.

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The small pawnshop was richer than an entire state, which was not an exaggeration to say.

As a person, with money, anything is possible.

Zhao Huai then went to the Heavenly Treasures Trade Association and bought Nurturing God Grass, Vigor Nurturing Pills, and other spiritual medicines and elixirs that could enhance spiritual power, spending thousands of low-grade spiritual stones.

He went through such great lengths because today he wanted to study the Three Thousand Thunderbolt Technique in depth.

These thunder talisman techniques were divided into four categories: Basic thunder talismans, five-word thunder talismans, three-sky thunder talismans, and finally, the Heaven and Earth thunder talismans.

Basic thunder talismans were the simple talismans drawn on ordinary talisman paper that Zhao Huai had long mastered.

Five-word thunder talismans were those with extremely long names and had special uses; he had also almost mastered these talismans.

Now, by further enhancing his spiritual power, he would have to inscribe the three-sky thunder talismans a few more times.

Compared to the first two categories, the power of the three-sky thunder talismans was significantly higher and their degree of difficulty more profound. These talismans no longer relied on talisman paper and primarily incorporated drawing them with the user’s own Thunder Qi. It was a very useful method.

Drawing the talisman with Thunder Qi meant using the cultivator’s own thunder qi, which was quite simple for Zhao Huai to learn after looking at the instructions.

First, he took all the purchased spiritual medicines and elixirs, absorbed them by circulating his True Vigor, and made perfect use of the effect of the Spiritual Wood’s Friend to absorb the medicinal power.

The rich medicinal power soared, nourishing his sea of consciousness, and gradually strengthened his spiritual power, making his mind more agile.

A strong spiritual power was characterized by the ability to not leak any qi while keeping the explosive power like a pressure that could crush everything.

Now, Zhao Huai’s task was to draw the talismans efficiently.

Ball Talisman with Wind and Thunder: A ball-shaped thunder talisman with extremely fast speed, invisible and traceless.

Thunder Palm Talisman: The most convenient thunder talisman to use, just inscribe the seal on the palm, and unleash it with palm power to exert remarkable strength.

Original Sound Thunder Talisman: A sound-wave thunder talisman that condenses True Vigor into a Thunder Qi within the flesh body and uses thunderous sounds to eliminate evil. Ordinary ghosts and demons cannot withstand it.

Zhao Huai practiced the inscription again and again, and each time he practiced, he gained different insights.

The three-sky thunder talismans were derived from talisman inscriptions and could already be regarded as real Thunder techniques.

With its high degree of freedom, it could be combined with sword skills, palm techniques, or fist techniques to create different effects.

When combined with the throat, a rolling thunder sound could be released.

It took him half a day to practice the three-sky thunder talismans thoroughly. Fortunately, he achieved results at last and was able to use them at a basic level. However, it would still take some time for him to use thunder qi at will.

As for the final Heaven and Earth thunder talisman, Zhao Huai could not study it for the time being, not because he could not understand it, but because it was only an incomplete fragment that he couldn’t learn anyway.

After studying the Thunder techniques, he shifted his attention back to his destiny.

He had not forgotten the opportunity to upgrade a mysterious-level destiny/life grid that he had obtained in the rock cave.

Choose a mysterious-level destiny/life grid to upgrade at will.

The only difficulty was that he had many mysterious-level destinies to choose from, which required much thought.

There were destinies for sword cultivation, strengthening the flesh body, stabilizing the Taoist mind, as well as those with special effects, such as the auxiliary destiny of the Spiritual Wood’s Friend.

Each of them played its role to varying degrees, but there was one particular destiny that no longer had the same effect it once had – the Peak Ultimate’s Intension.

Peak Ultimate’s Intension, which was his most useful destiny during the refining qi stage, could increase the stacking strength of flesh body. Basically, no one could compete with him in physical strength, as anyone who tried would be crushed.

Now that he had broken through to the Initiation Stage, this destiny seemed somewhat insufficient.

After all, the Initiation Stage was different from the refining qi stage, as it no longer relied on physical strength but focused on magical power and the prowess of magical abilities.

Whoever had the most powerful magic would win.

With this in mind, Zhao Huai immediately made a decision.

“I’ll upgrade the Peak Ultimate’s Intension.”

He was actually quite looking forward to it, as the previous effect of the Peak Ultimate’s Intension, once it was upgraded, would undoubtedly become even stronger.

Zhao Huai entered his sea of consciousness and looked around.

In the pitch-black sea of consciousness, various colored lights of different sizes bloomed like stars in the sky.

There were warm bright yellow lights, a large number of dazzling dark blue lights, and a few clusters of shining orange lights.Above the numerous balls of light, there was a giant purple light ball, which, like the sun, illuminated the entire sea of consciousness.

Looking at these destinies, Zhao Huai couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.

When he first obtained the golden bronze coins, his sea of consciousness was pitch-black like the night.

Looking back now, it was full of stars in the sky.

Each star represented a destiny.

A deep blue light fell from the sky of his sea of consciousness and came to his face.

After a gentle touch from Zhao Huai, the deep blue light shrank inward and emitted a dazzling orange glow.

Then the light became brilliant.

A line of text floated in front of his eyes.

[Thousand-Mile Lone Rider (Superior Earth Grade)]: A thousand miles to ride alone, one person can equal a thousand. If you are victorious in battle, your magic power, flesh body, and vitality will continuously increase, stacking infinitely. At the end of the battle or if defeated, the momentum will collapse.

“Thousand-Mile Lone Rider?”

Zhao Huai murmured.

In ancient times, the martial saint Guan Yun Chang made his thousand-mile journey with a single sword and horse, mastering the technique of dragging a knife with one hand. Through five passes and slaying six generals, it was all about a vigorous fighting spirit.

This [Thousand-Mile Lone Rider] and the so-called sword momentum on his body can be said to be of the same kind: full of energy at first, then declining, and finally exhausted.

If the momentum stacked enough, his cultivation could continue to climb, becoming stronger in battle and fiercer in victory. Even if he was the only one to defend a point, it would be unsurpassable by thousands of men — and it was not an impossibility.

After reading this destiny, Zhao Huai couldn’t help but marvel. Wasn’t this a Killing Sword?

Just keep stacking!

After [Thousand-Mile Lone Rider] appeared, it hung high in the sea of consciousness.

Zhao Huai exited his sea of consciousness. He hadn’t noticed any change in his body yet. He guessed it would require battle before he could feel it.

After carefully counting, he had quite a few Earth-Grade destinies, but when could he finally witness the Emperor and Immortal Grades?

As for the top two-tiers, he couldn’t imagine how powerful they were. He felt that even the earth and sky’s power was already terrifying, let alone Demg more powerrul—now could tney De to wnat extent(

Shaking his head, he decided not to ponder further.

Sooner or later, he would get there himself.

Having practiced for a while, Zhao Huai also felt a bit tired.

He yawned and stood up, feeding the goldfish on the shelf with bait.

He took the opportunity to water the flowers and plants in the corner as well.

As he got up, he saw many people passing by on the main street outside the door.

Basically, the street was crowded with elderly people, all of them over sixty or seventy years old.

Zhao Huai found it strange. What were these old people doing?

Setting out for a collective walk?

He had seen elder women gathering to dance in the square, but he had never seen so many elderly men and women going for a walk together!

Zhao Huai stepped out of the pawnshop and caught a familiar blue-robed clerk, asking, “What are all these old people doing?

The blue-robed clerk had a record book in his hand and added a stroke to it with a brush, giving a bitter smile: “It turns out to be Boss Zhao.”

“His Majesty the Emperor is holding a national banquet for his sixtieth birthday, Taxpayers are specially invited, and now they are on their way to the banquet. I am counting the number of people.”

“So troublesome?”

Zhao Huai was startled after hearing it; he had not heard of this custom before, and did not know which scoundrel came up with it.

These old people were already advanced in age and needed to rest. If they went through long journeys, not to mention the bumps on the carriage, where would they get the strength to attend banquets?

“Jinzhou is located in the far east and has a considerable distance from the capital. Can these old folks hold up?”

The little blue-robed clerk glanced around and whispered, “I heard some news that the Emperor’s original decree was for able-bodied people to participate, so there was no need to force them. However, after waiting for a long time without any movement, the high officials in the capital couldn’t bear it and forcibly recruited them.”

Zhao Huai listened and frowned at the staggering septuagenarians on the street. He didn’t speak for a long time.