Chapter 2: The Lake of Thunder

"Yes, say it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info" Chen Hao replied, "himself" background finally has some clues, for him this is good news.

"Then I'll talk to my lord about the history of the continent first. A thousand years ago, there were two monarchs in our Phantom Continent, and after a hundred battles, they each ruled a part of the Phantom Continent and created their own empires. ā€

"On the northwest side of the continent is the Kongming Empire, the territory is two-fifths of the entire continent, the Kongming Empire is mainly based on the study of fantasy inscriptions, and it is said that now they have the ability to make fantasy inscriptions; And on the southeast side of the continent is the Broken Illusion Empire, and the things that destroy the research of the Empire are just the opposite of the Empty Ming Empire, which pursues the power of illusion, and the territory accounts for three-fifths of the continent. ā€

"Although the territory is more than that of the Kongming Empire, the strength of the two sides is almost the same, and there are no less than a hundred large-scale wars between the two, as the two largest forces in the world, their battles have lasted for thousands of years."

"But just ten years ago, an organization arose on the continent, its name was the Clock Tower, and the emergence of the Clock Tower organization broke the balance that lasted for thousands of years. The clock tower was built in the Broken Illusion Empire, and learned a lot of secrets about the illusion in the Broken Illusion Empire, but secretly colluded with the Empty Empire, not only to provide the stolen research results of the Broken Illusion Empire to the Empty Empire, but also to plot with the Empty Empire to destroy the Broken Illusion. ā€

"Just a week ago, a terrible disaster happened one night, the royal family of the Broken Illusion Empire had just held a birthday celebration for their seven-year-old crown prince, and that prince's name was Chen Hao, that is, your lord!"

"Your queen mother seems to have already anticipated the impending danger, so she ordered her lord to go out to the Thunder and Lightning Forest to train on the test of her seventh birthday, and set off immediately. At that time, there were a hundred guards accompanying the lord to protect him. ā€

"At twelve o'clock on the night after the lord left, a bell rang, and the sound was so loud that it rang for twelve before it stopped, and these twelve sounded and alarmed everyone in the palace, including me."

"I did not travel with the Lord, but remained in the palace as the Lord's Mother, the Queen's guard, and I was at the door of the Queen's palace at that time, and I was awakened and immediately prepared to open the door and enter the palace where the Queen lived. Many shadows appeared from all directions, they all seemed to have no substance, they could pass through the wall, but they were real, and the Shadow Lord who had chased me before also saw it, they were all surrounded by a strange dark gas, and they couldn't see their true faces at all. ā€

"Summoning sin, sin is the name of my sword, and when I was about to start a battle with those shadows, the queen's screams came from the palace, and I didn't dare to delay, so I went to find the queen after cleaning up the shadows. It's a pity that I didn't find the queen, but there was a note left on the table, and I couldn't read, so I brought it out. ā€

"Well, that's it." Ye Di said, took out a piece of paper from his clothes, and handed it to Chen Hao.

Chen Hao took it and looked at it a few times, and it read: The clock tower did it!

"And then?" Chen Hao subconsciously clenched his fists, after all, that was his current mother, if there were three long and two short, how could he be worthy of the owner of the original body.

"I took this note and some money at the time, and I thought I might use it next, so I brought it with me. Rushing out of the palace all the way, he encountered the corpses of many attendants on the way. And my illusion is extremely sensitive to this kind of thing, as long as it is a dead creature, if it is touched by my sin, it will turn into the source of evil and enter the sword. The amount of transformation depends on the ability of the absorbed object, which is a way of cultivation for me, and the source of sin can quickly improve my cultivation, and it is also the energy I need to use sin. ā€

"When the source of sin is insufficient, I will consume my own life if I continue to use it, and because of this, the queen often has to find some death row prisoners to accumulate the source of sin for me to maintain my ability to fight. For example, when I fought against the Frozen White Tiger just now, the skill I used 'Dead Mourning, Death Sigh' consumed the source of sin too much, plus the consumption of my self-recovery, fortunately I had the corpse of the Frozen White Tiger as a supplement, otherwise I might lose my ability to fight. ā€

Chen Hao didn't know what to say at this time, Ye Di's phantom strength was based on killing, although he was a killer in his previous life, he shouldn't feel disgusted. But Ye Di is still a child, and listening to what she said before, she is obviously numb to killing.

Ye Di continued: "When turning the corpses into the source of evil, I also found a strange phenomenon, those corpses did not have any wounds on their bodies, there were only some abrasions, and there was no sign of poisoning on them. ā€

"Due to the situation at the time, I didn't investigate carefully, but I just turned them into evil sources and absorbed them, but it was because of the evil sources they provided that I was able to defeat the Ice Frozen White Tiger and survive its sacrificial blow."

"After that, I can always encounter some shadows, but they are not strong, so I still escaped, maybe the strong have gone to attack the Emperor's Palace, the battle over there is very fierce, and sometimes the air currents generated by the collision will affect my side."

"After escaping successfully, I rushed all the way to the Thunder and Lightning Forest, but there was always a shadow chasing me on the way, and when I passed through the town, I heard that in the end, the clock tower won, and most of the Broken Royals died in that battle. And the shadow is still chasing after him, delaying a lot of time, and the lord knows what happened after he arrived at the Thunder and Lightning Forest. ā€

"Well, did the queen mother let me complete some tasks?" When Chen Hao heard the last sentence, his body couldn't help but shudder, the blood of the royal family withered, and he had to bear the burden of reviving the Broken Empire.

"Yes, the queen ordered the lord to go to the lake of thunder in the forest of thunder and lightning to find the gem in the heart of the lake - the heart of thunder." Ye Di looked around and asked in surprise, "What about the hundred guards?" There is a 100,000-year-old phantom in the Lake of Thunder Heart, which is responsible for guarding the Heart of Thunder, and if it weren't for those hundred guards, with the ability of one star in my Illusion Realm, I wouldn't be able to compete with it at all. ā€

Being asked like this, Chen Hao remembered the hundred corpses in the ruins of the boulder pillar, and according to what the purple-pupiled dragon said, it should be the phantom spirit that guards the lake of thunder for 100,000 years.

It turns out that the Purple Pupil Dragon is so powerful, no wonder it can escort us all the way to the ruins of the Giant Stone Pillar with just coercion. Chen Hao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, although he had also guessed the ability of the Purple Pupil Dragon, but the purple aura was too similar to the aura emitted by the 10,000-year-old phantom spirit, and he had always thought that the Purple Pupil Dragon was a 10,000-year-old phantom spirit.

Come to think of it this way, didn't it also say that it didn't run a child while fighting the people who trapped it? Thinking about it this way, Chen Hao immediately had an idea, and this series of fragmentary stories should be:

"Myself" led a hundred guards to crusade against the Purple Pupil Dragon, the hundred guards were fighting with the Purple Pupil Dragon, but "I" fled, although they successfully trapped the Purple Pupil Dragon, but the whole army was killed, but "I" still did not escape the clutches of death, and finally the original self was reincarnated into this world through the dead corpse, and the map refers to the place where the Purple Pupil Dragon was to be led, but I mistakenly thought that it was the destination of the original owner of the body.

"I seem to have a little clue, the great power of the Lake of Thunder may have been trapped by those hundred guards, and now there are no guardian beasts in the Lake of Thunder Heart." Chen Hao's words were a little vague to Ye Di. has lost her memory, and now she has a clue, but Ye Di does not question Chen Hao's statement, she has absolute trust in Chen Hao.

"Even so, the lord must be careful, and this matter must not be careless."

"Got it." Chen Hao replied to Ye Di, and then looked at the sky, the moon was about to set, and it was not far from dawn, "I don't know how Shi Chu is." Muttered in a low voice, let Ye Di lead the way, and the two went to the Lake of Thunder Heart.

"Oh, Ye Di." Chen Hao suddenly stopped and called out to Ye Di. Ye Di seemed to be a little unhappy, and he looked like he wanted to say something.

"What is the illusionary reality star you mentioned earlier?"

Ye Di sighed and said: "That is one of the names of our illusionist's class system, the star rating is the different degrees of each class, each class is divided into ten star ratings, and after the star is full, you can break through to the next class segment." ā€

"The class from low to high is divided into: fantasy, illusion, illusion, illusion

"And for the convenience of memory, the people of the Empty Ming Empire have removed the star system and directly used the hierarchy system, and the Broken Illusion Empire still uses the star system."

"According to the hierarchical system, there will be an additional fantasy class, and the people in this class are all illusionless, which can also be understood as a sporadic fantasy world. The Illusory Lord class will be divided into three sub-classes, namely the Illusory Monarch, the Illusory Commander, and the Illusory Holy Lord. ā€

"The rank corresponding to the class is:

Fantasy: Level Zero.

Fantasy: Level 1 to Level 9.

Phantom Condensation: Levels 10 to 19.

Illusions: Levels 20 to 29.

Phantom reality: Level 30 to level 39.

Phantom: Level 40 to level 49.

Illusory Self Heart: Level 50 to 59.

Phantom Spirits: Levels 60 to 69.

Illusory Thoughts: Seventy to seventy-nine.

The Inscription: Eighty to Eighty-Nine.

Phantom Sovereign: Levels 90 to 94.

Illusion Order Lord: Level 95 to Level 98.

Illusory Holy Lord: Level ninety-nine. ā€

"That's all for the basic system, is there anything else to ask?"

Chen Hao listened carefully, these are all information about this world, and how many collection points are useful.

Looking at Chen Hao in a daze, Ye Di's face was a little hot, and he was hesitant, wanting to say something but not saying it.

Chen Hao just came back from his contemplation at this time, and glanced at Ye Di, "Just say what you want, we have to hurry up to the Lake of Thunder Heart." ā€

"Oh, then I said, please don't be angry." Ye Di's words paused, and then said in a very small voice: "Can the lord not call me Ye Di in the future?" ā€

"What's that called?"

"Well, you can call me...... Me, Xiaoyi? ā€

Chen Hao immediately laughed when he heard it, "Just for this matter, okay, I'll call you Xiao Di in the future." After speaking, he returned to his serious tone and said, "After what you want to say, let's go, Xiaoyi." ā€

"Hmm!"

……

At the Lake of Thunder, the jewel in the heart of the lake, the Heart of Thunder, was suspended on a stone pillar, emitting a faint light, and the wisps of blue silk shimmered around it. A green shadow flashed in the water, as if rejoicing, constantly jumping out of the water and then diving, like a dance, expressing the joy in his heart.

Suddenly, the green shadow disappeared without a trace, and when it reappeared, it jumped onto the stone pillar in the middle of the lake, where the heart of thunder was, and when the green shadow fell, the heart of thunder disappeared with it.

……

"Haven't you arrived yet?" Chen Hao stretched his waist and asked with a sleepy face, he hadn't slept since he crossed over to now, and he had been worried about Shi Chen's affairs for a long time, and it was normal to be tired.

Ye Di stopped helplessly and reproached: "No matter how lazy the lord is, we won't be able to reach the Lake of Thunder Heart." ā€

Chen Hao nodded, yes, now is not the time to rest, Shi Hao is still in the ruins of the boulder pillar, hurry up, thinking, Chen Hao caught up with Ye Di and let her continue to lead the way.

"Mm-hmm, that's right." The corners of Ye Di's mouth hooked slightly, and he muttered in a voice that Chen Hao couldn't hear: "Ah Xin, I found the lord before you, hehe." ā€

After a quarter of an hour, the two of them finally came to the Lake of Thunder Heart, a lake with a diameter of 100 meters, glowing with a little silver light under the light of the bright moon, and the night added a sense of mystery to it.

Only then did Chen Hao know that the so-called Lake of Thunder Heart was the lake they encountered when they entered the Forest of Thunder and Lightning, and there was still a stone pillar standing in the center, no different from before, but there was still a little change, and the gem in the heart of the lake on the stone pillar - the Heart of Thunder was gone.

Not only Chen Hao, but Ye Di also discovered that although she had never seen the Heart of Thunder, she knew that it was placed on the stone pillar in the middle of the lake by the guardian beast.

"How so?" Ye Di reacted first, immediately walked to the Lake of Thunder Heart, and began to look around, Chen Hao also stepped forward to look for it when he saw this.

Wisps of blue silk began to appear on the surface of the Lake of Thunder Heart, Ye Di was startled, and shouted to Chen Hao: "Quick! Stay away from the Lake of Thunder. When Ye Di reacted and gave a prompt, Chen Hao had already evacuated, and he also saw the blue silk.

At the moment when they jumped away, a green shadow jumped out of the water, it was a huge anaconda, bright blood-colored pupils stared at Chen Hao, with cyan scales all over its body, twelve meters long and about four meters wide, the scales were extremely hard, covering the entire python body, and seven inches behind the head there was a strange piece of reverse scales, beside it, there were wisps of blue halo.

Chen Hao was stunned, and said in a stiff tone: "It's it!" ā€

(To be continued)