Chapter 169: Heavenly Thunder Rods and Gathering Divine Grass
Zhang Fan, who had absorbed a lot of nutrients in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and had a deeper understanding of the Xuanfa School exercises and even the Xuandao exercises, of course understood that although his strength was superb, to a large extent, it was still based on the "information power" advantage of "spiritual power". If you talk about the power output of the exercises, under the bonus of the special thunder and lightning runes, you are just a peak-level Yuanying powerhouse. Therefore, in order to inflict heavy damage on the opponent in the shortest possible time, of course, it is necessary to use some targeted special exercises.
Relying on his understanding of the "Xingchen Jue" and the basic thunder technique of the Xuanfa School, Zhang Fan also quickly relied on the spiritual power comprehension of the god level to create a second self-created technique: the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Rod. In the case of a huge numerical disadvantage compared to the opponent but the mental power is much higher than that of the opponent, in order to achieve the effective killing goal with the least energy, of course, it is necessary to use the energy most accurately and efficiently.
In this case, the thunder attack is not about how thick or strong it is like a heavenly tribulation, but about concentrating energy to break through the defense of the opponent's most vital parts. At the same time, it is also necessary to accurately cast the thunder method according to the size of the breath in the target area.
After approaching the target at a distance of about 100 miles, Zhang Fan first suddenly unleashed the "Xingchen Jue" attack in the void, and used a series of lightning attacks like a series of flying stars to create a needle-eye-sized passage on the enemy's formation. But even so, in a very short period of time, the power of the laws inside and outside the Great Array was enough.
Zhang Fan almost sacrificed the magic trick at the same time as the passage the size of a needle's eye appeared, and the momentum of the series of thunderclouds was not huge, but it made the thunder in the entire large array flicker strangely in an instant.
Seventy percent of the 100,000 Jindan realm monks, a total of more than 70,000 Jindan powerhouses, suddenly felt a thunderbolt containing destructive energy bypassing the strongest protection on the front of the eyebrows from the direction of the weaker defense on the side of the eyebrows, and pierced into the key points of the Mud Pill Palace like a sudden lightning rod, and then quickly turned into a violent blade storm and destroyed the entire sea of knowledge, and the remaining 30,000 Jindan-level monks also lost their combat effectiveness almost instantly under this sudden thunder rod strike.
Before locking the opponent's position, or when the opponent had just revealed the general position of his body, he suffered such a major blow, which almost shocked the masters of the Ten Thousand Law Sect in the array.
Of course, the rest of the backbone cultivators who were able to become Yuanying powerhouses in the Ten Thousand Law Sect were not given in vain, and they still had strong adaptability and reaction ability because of their own experience, and almost in a short instant, they comprehensively strengthened the defense near the seven points of the head and even many key points. At the same time, a series of attacks launched a fierce attack that concentrated mana on the position that had just been exposed.
The blood light containing Gu poison and illusion like a snake's head also locked on and attacked in Zhang Fan's direction with overwhelming momentum in an instant, and it seemed that it was far from being comparable to the combined blow of the master array at the peak of the Ten Thousand Golden Pills, even Zhang Fan had to resist all of them without confidence.
At this time, Zhang Fan used his mobility and concealment ability to dodge this attack, and the capital still existed. However, in order to effectively temper himself in the face of this enemy formation that is obviously weaker than himself, but not too weak, he finally chose not to let the Qiankun Shield resist all the attacks, but exposed about 10% of them to bombard his body.
Similar to this kind of joint formation in a certain sense, in Zhang Fan's opinion, I am afraid that I will encounter a lot in the future, how to resist the harm of this kind of compound attack should also be like a vaccine, and I should first experience it and then find the right way to prevent it.
Even if about one percent of the energy attacks that intentionally leaked into the Qiankun shield were on Zhang Fan's body who was already prepared, it made Zhang Fan feel that he was suddenly stagnant from spiritual power to martial arts internal power, and the external abilities that invaded his body included Gu poison and some kind of spiritual power or internal qi destructive power. At the same time, the spirit and heart also felt a wave of confusion and fear that they had not felt before.
There is no doubt that if it weren't for the Qiankun Shield himself, he would have fallen into unknowable danger if he didn't say it well. Because the combined array of strong enemies relies on the energy of more than 2,000 Yuanying powerhouses, they can take advantage of the short time when they have lost their combat effectiveness to launch attacks one after another.
Of course, at this time, Zhang Fan was not just coming to the Silverless Continent and was helpless about many things. Relying on super spiritual power and even spiritual power and the law of thunder and lightning use, Zhang Fan patiently spent a few minutes to completely clean up the compound ability in his body that could not pose too fatal harm to himself, and in a short period of time, he summed up a targeted medical resistance type auxiliary talisman.
At this time, outside the Qiankun Shield, the people of the Wanfa Sect, who thought that their attack had a certain effect to a certain extent, were relieved to see that their counterattack was not completely ineffective. continued to attack one after another, even if it didn't seem to be able to do much harm to the Qiankun Shield, at least it was not without hope of breaking the game. After Zhang Fan recovered, he quickly controlled the Qiankun Shield and used stealth illusion assistance, escaping from the other party's detection range.
Time didn't pass long, and with the speed of tens of thousands of times per hour, the speed of sound was like light, and the sharp arrow of the star trick once again pierced the opponent's formation protection from a weak position, and a fierce and strange flash once again burst out from a large area within the formation.
Almost in a short period of time, nearly four hundred Yuanying-level powerhouses were instantly severely injured and lost their combat effectiveness under the thunder technique that burst in and attacked directly at the center of the eyebrows.
At this time, Zhang Fan also had a lot of experience: battlefield tactics to win, in order to maximize energy conservation and strengthen the attack effect and killing scale, it is not necessarily based on the standard of making the enemy die. As long as the first wave of damage can severely damage its combat effectiveness and make it unable to pose a threat and escape in a short period of time, then the next step is to sweep the field.
At this point in the battle, the other more than 1,000 experienced Yuanying powerhouses began to realize that the strength of this strong enemy was not something that could be effectively fought by forming a four-digit Yuanying Cultivator in a combined formation, so they were very experienced in breaking through from all directions.
Zhang Fan did not hesitate to cast the "Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Rod" again, this time the attack energy did not even have the standard of making the opponent hit hard, but made the opponent temporarily lose his ability to react during the interval between his attacks, and was injured to a certain extent
After lowering the attack standard, the fierce lightning covered all the enemies who planned to flee within a radius of several hundred miles. Although it was not possible to inflict heavy damage or destroy many people under the single blow, it at least created the conditions for a series of attacks and even the organization of the enemy's escape.
Under Zhang Fan's continuous attacks, the 1,000 and hundreds of Yuanying powerhouses of the Wanfa Sect who planned to break through separately and even the remaining more than 30,000 Jindan monks could only be wiped out under the continuous bombardment.
This tentative battle also made Zhang Fan's comprehension and even proficiency of the new exercises improve a lot, especially the energy consumption was far lower than his previous expectations. At least the energy consumed in battle is only equivalent to one-tenth of a high-intensity battle, and two-thirds of the energy and energy consumption are used to study and defuse the opponent's attack itself.
Zhang Fan also believed that through this blow, the Ten Thousand Law Sect and even the evil Dao cultivators within a radius of tens of billions of miles would no longer pose too deadly a threat to the Xuanfa Sect for at least a hundred years in the future.
Subsequently, Zhang Fan used his transformation spiritual power and internal qi, and used his unique illusion and even thunder magic to carry out the final "cleansing attack" against the items carried by the other party, and sure enough, as he had perceived before: of course, these evil monks also left a lot of "back hands" before, and under Zhang Fan's inspection and punishment, many spirit Gus, ghosts, and even other kinds of cursed spells and spirit beasts were suddenly released to threaten themselves again.
However, in the case that he had already taken precautions, these "back hands" who only relied on the previous arrangement and did not have too much wisdom were quickly solved by Zhang Fan one by one.
Among the storage bags, spirit beast bags, and even items carried by other means, Zhang Fan certainly had a great harvest. Although the monks of the Wanfa Sect rarely carried things such as spirit stones and elixirs in a state of battle, the "property" that Zhang Fan collected from these people also included 60,000 low-grade spirit stones and even more than 800 medium-grade spirit stones. The amount of spirit stone wealth equivalent to the intermediate level suddenly increased to as many as 1,400. Of course, this is not a small distance from Zhang Fan's expectations and requirements, but it is not a big or small windfall.
Among many other miscellaneous items, Zhang Fan also picked out a lot of useful items and classified them into special categories. One is the key rune seals, magic weapons, and elixirs related to stealth, demon beasts that are good at stealth and stealth illusions, etc., the second is mental desire items, the third is something related to Gu poison or curses, and the fourth is some monster materials that are tired of physical attacks. There are also some items like ghost path exercises.
Subsequently, in the neighboring areas of this area, Zhang Fan did not intend to let go, and spent about ten days to extract a large number of spirit stone resources equivalent to a total of 600 medium-grade spirit stone units from hundreds of millions of cubic meters of stone before finally choosing to leave.
Through this harvest, Zhang Fan returned the spirit stones of the Yuanying monks in the Central Holy City, and he did not break his promise to the community where the Vajra Ancient Ape was located, so he finally embarked on a long journey.
Almost at the same time, within the Qiankun Shield, Zhang Fan once again began to seriously study some of his things and was ready to conduct large-scale experiments again, and the long-distance journey and technical research were not delayed.
"The effective combination of atomic-level spirit stone dust and fine high-level demon beast inner pill dust can create artificial inner pills with different output properties, so what if you use spirit stone powder to strengthen Gu worms? What will happen if you strengthen the puppet?
In order to prevent anything from going wrong when studying these miscellaneous techniques, Zhang Fan finally planned to try a safer and safer experiment: first use the spirit stone aura to strengthen and catalyze the spiritual power pills and spiritual power herbs that had been captured, and see what the effect was. Now that he is facing a real strong enemy, the first problem is, of course, that even if he has reached the spiritual power level of the second grade of the gods, he still relies too much on external detection and stealth exercises and even luck.
There weren't a lot of herbs in the direction of cultivating spiritual power that the enemy carried in the face of battle, but there were more than forty of them in total, and there were almost no "Gathering Divine Grasses" with a range of years ranging from fifty to ninety-eight years, and those that were higher than a hundred years old. According to Zhang Fan's guess, the effect of hundreds of years of Jushen grass is very expensive, but the plant of Jushen grass will encounter a big bottleneck when it is about two jiazi in one hundred and twenty years, and many Jushen grass in the west cannot cross the threshold of two jiazi in one hundred and twenty years. As for the Gathering God Grass that was lucky enough to cross the threshold of the third Jiazi, Zhang Fan had only heard of it in those books and periodicals on the seventh floor of the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, and that kind of thing could only be purchased from the Great World hundreds of billions of miles away. The source of resources of many Avatar Cultivators is also the direction of the big world hundreds of billions of miles away.
According to the previous experience of cultivating the Gathering Spirit Grass, Zhang Fan at this time began to make more refined spiritual liquid and tried to cultivate these "Gathering Spirit Grass", but the result was unexpected. Even under the catalysis of the spirit stone spirit liquid, it didn't take too long for the color of those Gathering Divine Grasses that were just a Jiazi to look like a jiazi, and there seemed to be some thriving changes. There is no doubt about it: because at this time, his spiritual power and even the quality of the spiritual liquid he produced are far from being comparable to when he cultivated the Gathering Spirit Grass, and the effect has undoubtedly been greatly enhanced.
This also brought about some results that I hadn't thought of before: unlike the Gathering Spirit Grass or Qi Gathering Grass, which would not change too much growth cycle no matter how it was catalyzed, the Gathering Spirit Grass related to spiritual power was obviously catalyzed by the spiritual liquid and spiritual energy, and the growth rate in the Qiankun Shield was obviously much faster, almost three or four times the normal speed.
In order to prevent these plants from losing too much during the Jiazi Tribulation, whenever these Divine Gathering Grasses crossed the Tribulation in advance, Zhang Fan would use some medium-grade spirit stone spiritual liquid, and the density of the spiritual energy was a hundred times that of the previous one to ensure that there would be no problems.
In this way, in only twenty years inside the Qiankun Shield, or in about twenty days outside the Qiankun Shield, Zhang Fan obtained a total of forty Gathering Divine Grasses that were more than two Jiazi years, and some lucky Gathering Divine Grasses even broke through to three Jiazi years.
With some previous experiments and even a large number of spirit stones harvested, Zhang Fan did not hesitate to continue cultivating these precious Gathering Divine Grasses, until he cultivated most of the Gathering Divine Grasses for more than two Jiazi before further stopping. Because Zhang Fan had already discovered that the spirit stones consumed to get some Gathering Divine Grass through the Fourth Jiazi Tribulation seemed to be a little too huge.
(End of chapter)