69novels Chapter 257 Devouring the Thunderfish, a Qualitative Change in Marrow Refinement
Chapter 257 Devouring the Thunderfish, a Qualitative Change in Marrow Refinement
Chapter 257 Devouring the Thunderfish, a Qualitative Change in Marrow Refinement
Ning Bu'er was completely unaware of what had happened.
Having been implanted with sixteen lightning crystal cores, she had mentally suggested countless times to herself not to care about physical contact, but in the end, she couldn't resist the normal physiological reaction. Besides, her body was only about a hundred years old, which was equivalent to a mortal's twenty-something-year-old body to a Golden Core cultivator with a lifespan of up to five hundred years. It was a sensitive time, so how could she not react after such contact and teasing?
Sitting on Chen Yi's shoulders, she could clearly feel his breath gently caressing her inner thighs. The warm touch filled her with an indescribable sense of panic and shyness, and her voice gradually lowered: "Aren't you going to put me down yet?!"
The next moment, Chen Yi gently lifted Ning Bu'er with a slight effort and placed her on the ground.
After landing, Ning Bu'er kept his head down and didn't say another word.
Chen Yi didn't say anything more. He knew Ning Bu'er needed time to calm down, so he stood quietly to the side and waited, his expression still calm, as if the incident had never happened.
After a long while, Ning Bu'er finally took a deep breath, his complexion gradually returning to normal. He exhaled a long breath of stale air before speaking softly, "Go to the Thunder Pool. I'll stabilize the crystal core in my body from behind and protect you while I'm at it."
"Okay." Chen Yi nodded.
After settling Ning Bu'er in, Chen Yi turned and walked towards the ancient Thunder Pool.
Although the lightning liquid in the lightning pool was only a few feet in diameter, it still exuded a fierce fourth-order lightning spirit power. Although Ning Bu'er said that it had lost its ability to test cultivators, that was only for Nascent Soul cultivators.
Chen Yi is only at the peak of the third stage of Body Refinement, and the spiritual power of this Thunder Pool is still a considerable challenge for him.
Moreover, he had just used up a lot of his magic power and divine sense to plant sixteen high-quality lightning crystal cores in Ning Bu'er, and he could use the lightning spirit power here to replenish it.
Chen Yi slowed his pace and cautiously approached the Thunder Pool, finally choosing to sit down a foot away from its edge.
Just one step ahead lay the Thunder Pool Liquid, shimmering with a bluish-purple light. Tiny arcs of electricity crackled and popped from its surface, landing on Chen Yi and causing a slight numbing sensation.
This distance was just right for Chen Yi—enough to touch the spiritual energy dissipating from the Thunder Pool without being directly injured by the lightning liquid. For him, it was the perfect position to replenish his lightning spiritual power.
He slowly closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and prepared to use the power of the fourth-tier lightning spirit to recover his own energy and prepare for dealing with the lightning fish later.
After Chen Yi sat down cross-legged, he showed no arrogance whatsoever.
Whenever an electric arc strikes him, he immediately activates the system's power to absorb all of that lightning energy.
At the same time, layers of lightning crystal armor began to appear on his body surface. Wherever the electric arc struck, the corresponding part of the lightning crystal armor instantly condensed, precisely resisting the damage.
The Thunder Crystal Armor's defensive capabilities are comparable to those of a near-fourth-tier unit. When facing a single fourth-tier electric arc, it can negate the vast majority of the damage, preventing Chen Yi from being burned.
Of course, this defense has its limits. If he were to jump into the lightning pool now, his lightning crystal armor probably wouldn't last even ten breaths before being torn apart by the violent lightning power at the bottom of the pool.
Chen Yi was not in a hurry to touch the core of the Thunder Pool. He knew very well that in the past few years, he had been busy dealing with the affairs of the Star Moon Sect and dealing with various forces, and had indeed neglected the matter of accumulating Thunder Crystal Cores. Now that he had this fourth-order Thunder Pool in front of him, he could take the opportunity to make up for it.
At first, dense fourth-order electric arcs kept hitting Chen Yi. He used the system to absorb energy while converting the lightning power into lightning crystal cores to replenish the reserves he had consumed when giving Ning Bu'er the first type of core.
However, as he absorbed more and more electric arcs, Chen Yi gradually discovered that the quality of the 99 newly refined lightning crystal cores far exceeded that of the old cores originally stored in his body.
He carefully sensed it for a moment and quickly understood the reason. It turned out that the quality of the fourth-order lightning arcs here was extremely high. Not only was it because its origin reached the fourth-order level, but also because the lightning pool had undergone evaporation and consumption over ten thousand years, leaving behind only the essence of lightning power.
Each arc of electricity was adorned with a faint, almost imperceptible golden dot, and that golden dot was a trace of the ancient thunder spirit's true essence contained within it!
Chen Yi had an idea and tried to condense a new lightning crystal core using only the electric arc of the lightning pool, without using the old lightning crystal in his body.
To his surprise, a faint golden lightning thread appeared at the center of the new lightning crystal core, which was the manifestation of the true meaning of the ancient lightning spirit.
For this reason, the quality of the new lightning crystal core far exceeds that of the past, and the lightning power it contains is also more refined and violent.
He secretly estimated that if he were to plant these new lightning crystal cores in Ning Bu'er, with her current physical body and cultivation level, she wouldn't be able to withstand 16 cores at all. At most, she would only be able to withstand 3 or 4 cores before reaching her limit due to the impact of the lightning.
Chen Yi has now reached the pinnacle of his cultivation and has begun the initial stage of marrow refining. His physical strength and the upper limit of his lightning power capacity have been greatly improved, which allows him to incorporate more lightning crystal cores into his body.
After attempting to refine several new cores, he realized that with his current strength, he could store at most a hundred of these new lightning crystal cores; any more would exceed the limits of his physical body.
Having figured all this out, Chen Yi became even more focused, concentrating on absorbing the electric arcs and condensing a new core, making full preparations for dealing with the Thunder Fish and breaking through to the fourth stage of Body Refinement.
But this is already pretty good!
Chen Yi was so excited that he immediately made a decision to take this opportunity to upgrade his equipment and replace all of his nearly a thousand lightning crystals and more than a hundred lightning crystal cores with this high-quality lightning spirit with golden threads!
He estimated that once all the replacements were completed, even without using the power of the Thunder Crystal Marrow, his combat strength would be close to the fourth-tier level, which would be a huge improvement for him at present.
A dozen days later, the crackling sounds near the Thunder Pool became more and more frequent, and the electric arcs struck Chen Yi faster and faster.
This is not because the Thunder Pool itself has changed, but because as the quality of the new Thunder Crystals in Chen Yi's body continues to improve, he can use the power of magnetic thunder more smoothly and actively accelerate the attraction of the surrounding lightning arcs, making it much more efficient than before.
At this moment, 70% of the more than 1,000 lightning crystals on his body had been replaced with brand new lightning crystals with a hint of gold.
As the quality of the lightning crystal improves, the corresponding defense of the lightning crystal armor also increases significantly, making it easier to withstand the impact of electric arcs. This, in turn, accelerates the efficiency of absorbing electric arcs and replacing lightning crystals, forming a virtuous cycle.
Several days later, Chen Yi finally replaced all the thousand lightning crystals in his body.
He temporarily stepped back, away from the edge of the Thunder Pool, and sat down cross-legged to rest and recover his depleted spiritual energy and physical strength.
After resting, he began to process the lightning crystal core. He took out a portion of the newly replaced lightning crystal, broke it, and turned it into the original lightning filament state. Then he guided these lightning filaments to re-condense, eventually forming a new lightning crystal core containing 99 strands of lightning power.
After repeating this process for several more days, Chen Yi finally completed the entire upgrade. All the hundred lightning crystal cores and thousand lightning crystals in his body were replaced with high-quality lightning spirits containing gold threads.
Only then did he stop what he was doing, pause briefly, and begin to think about the next steps.
He knew very well that he was still quite a distance away from being able to enter the Thunder Pool and touch that golden thunderfish.
But Chen Yi was not in a hurry, as cultivation is a gradual process.
He had already tried it before, and with the help of the new lightning crystal armor, he could now enter the fourth-order lightning pool and last for about fifty breaths, which was five times longer than before.
Even so, this short time was still not enough for him to venture deep into the Thunder Pool and catch the agile golden thunderfish.
Now that the Thunder Crystal Core and Thunder Crystal have all been replaced, take this opportunity to continue improving the quality of the Thunder Crystal Marrow in your body, and at the same time gradually advance the process of refining the marrow.
He knew very well that the lightning crystal armor on his body alone was not enough; his physical strength also had to keep up. Only by taking both into account could he cope with the violent lightning power in the lightning pool.
Having made up his mind, he sat down cross-legged again, adjusted his breathing, and focused his attention on the Thunder Crystal Marrow within his body, beginning a new round of cultivation.
What followed was another seclusion that lasted for more than a month.
Chen Yi patiently and tirelessly repeated the process of absorbing and condensing, continuously absorbing the lightning threads in the lightning pool and transforming them into new golden lightning crystals and lightning crystal cores;
On one hand, he shattered the old Thunder Crystal Marrow in his body one by one, and on the other hand, he used the new Golden Thread Thunder Crystal as a base to re-condense and improve the quality of the Thunder Crystal Marrow.
The whole process was tedious and tedious, but there was no slackening; every step was done with utmost care.
A month later, Chen Yi slowly opened his eyes and looked inward at his body. In the center of each of the six Thunder Crystal Marrows in his body, a clearly textured golden thread appeared, containing the true meaning of Thunder Spirit and radiating pure and powerful Thunder Power.
He carefully sensed it and found that the texture of the new Thunder Crystal Marrow was almost the same as the ten-thousand-year Thunder Liquid of Thundercloud Sect that he had obtained from Qiu Li, but the quantity was much greater, enough to support his subsequent marrow refining cultivation.
He looked up at the Thunder Pool and saw that the lightning liquid in the pool had only decreased by about 10%, still maintaining the power of fourth-order lightning force.
Chen Yi did not rush to go into the water to catch the thunder fish. Instead, he remained sitting by the thunder pool, adjusted his breathing, and began to circulate the Thunder Spirit Body Tempering Method, mobilizing the six brand-new thunder crystal marrows in his body to officially begin the marrow refining process.
As the cultivation technique was activated, the Thunder Crystal Marrow opened energy barriers at the bone orifices, releasing strands of extremely small but exceptionally high-quality thunder power.
These lace threads traveled along the bone veins, gradually seeping into the marrow, beginning to be tempered and purified. In an instant, waves of tingling, numbness, and excruciating pain spread throughout his body, as if countless fine needles were churning within his bone marrow. Chen Yi clenched his teeth, cold sweat beading on his forehead, and he endured the agony.
This was the first time he had truly experienced how painful the marrow refining process could be.
What alarmed him even more was that he knew very well that only by refining all the marrow fluid in his body could he initially reach the physical strength of a fourth-level body cultivator.
Thinking of this, Chen Yi felt a sense of fear. No wonder so many talented body cultivators throughout history have been stuck at the marrow refining stage.
This is not only due to the suppression of the power of heaven and earth, but also because the difficulty and pain of marrow refining itself are simply beyond the capacity of ordinary people to endure and complete.
After persisting in his cultivation for several days, Chen Yi checked his progress again, only to be disheartened by the result: the progress of his internal marrow refining was less than one ten-thousandth.
This speed made him feel a sense of despair.
He secretly estimated that if he relied solely on this slow refining process, it would probably take more than a hundred years to complete the entire marrow refining process.
Although he is only 107 years old, which is still young for a Golden Core cultivator, he is unwilling to spend more than a hundred years on this step and gamble on an uncertain outcome.
After all, he knew very well that he was not a true cultivation genius. He was able to get to where he was today not only because of his own hard work and caution, but also because the system had secretly provided a lot of help.
Without external assistance, he had no confidence that he could survive the long path of marrow refining by simply enduring it.
Thinking about this...
Chen Yi temporarily stopped cultivating and began to focus on figuring out how to use the power of the system to find a more correct and efficient method for refining marrow.
He knew very well that the so-called marrow refining was essentially similar to tempering the flesh, bones, and internal organs, all of which relied on the power of the lightning crystal to purify the marrow fluid little by little.
However, the danger, pain, and difficulty of this step far exceed any previous stage. The marrow fluid is hidden deep in the bones and is the source of the body's fundamental power. Its texture is extremely fragile, and the slightest carelessness may damage the foundation, making it even more difficult.
Chen Yi repeatedly deduced in his mind, trying to combine the system's devouring and transformation capabilities to plan the marrow refining path. However, after pondering for a long time, he still helplessly realized that relying solely on his existing knowledge and methods, it would be too difficult to accelerate the marrow refining process.
That's enough...
Chen Yi sighed softly in his heart. He had originally planned to save the golden thunder fish in the thunder liquid for last, and use it when he needed to further improve the quality of the thunder crystal marrow. But judging from the current situation, he probably had to capture it in advance and devour its spirituality to help his marrow refining process.
As for how to catch the golden thunderfish without going into the water, Chen Yi already had a plan in mind.
However, the thought that Ning Bu'er was still dozens of feet behind him made him somewhat hesitant. Doing this might allow Ning Bu'er to discover yet another of his trump cards.
But now that things have come to this, there's no time to worry about that. We can't just kick Ning Bu'er out of seclusion at this point just to keep the secret.
Chen Yi quietly released his divine sense to sense Ning Bu'er and found that Ning Bu'er was still stabilizing the crystal core in her body and was in a semi-secluded state. Without hesitation, he immediately mobilized his divine soul power and condensed a Thunder Soul Whip.
The whip was wrapped in a layer of gray divine soul power, with a faint golden-purple soul lightning intent emanating from within. As soon as it condensed, he gently lowered it onto the surface of the lightning pool, waiting quietly like a fisherman.
As a result, Chen Yi's fourth-order divine soul was undergoing the baptism and tempering of the scattered lightning power from the Thunder Pool, and that violent lightning spirit power was constantly impacting the boundaries of his divine soul.
If his soul had not been tempered by the tribulation of soul lightning, becoming exceptionally resilient, and if the system had not absorbed the overflowing lightning spirit power in real time to help him share the pressure, he would not have been able to support this action of directly contacting the lightning pool with his soul.
Even though Chen Yi had tried his best to conceal his aura, the fluctuations caused by the interaction between his fourth-order divine soul and the Thunder Pool still alerted Ning Bu'er behind him.
She was suddenly jolted awake from her seclusion, and her divine sense instinctively probed forward. When she sensed the aura of a divine soul that far surpassed the level of a Golden Core cultivator, she froze.
[This aura... Chen Yi's soul has actually reached the Nascent Soul stage?]
Ning Bu'er was shocked. A scene from sixty years ago flashed through her mind. At that time, in the underground cave of the Lake and Sea Secret Realm, she saw Chen Yi carefully absorb the power of thunder spirits by putting his arm into the thunder pool.
But in just a few decades, he has already been able to condense his divine soul power into a whip and probe the fourth-order Thunder Pool like fishing.
This speed of progress was far beyond her comprehension.
Ning Bu'er wouldn't even dare to think of such an act of "fishing" in a fourth-order lightning pool, using divine souls as bait.
Not to mention the technical difficulty of precisely controlling one's soul, even a true Nascent Soul cultivator might not dare to directly throw their soul into the lightning pool. The pain of being continuously washed by lightning is comparable to undergoing a lightning tribulation. Which cultivator could easily withstand that?
Not to mention, the golden thunderfish that you're trying to catch also possesses extremely strong soul thunder attack capabilities, and the slightest carelessness could damage the foundation of your soul.
However, the next moment, Ning Bu'er's eyes suddenly widened, and she subconsciously raised her hand to cover her mouth, barely managing not to gasp out.
In the Thunder Pool, the golden thunder fish that had been swimming slowly at the bottom seemed to be enraged by the aura of the Thunder Soul Whip, or perhaps it sensed the tempting "bait." It suddenly leaped out of the pool, transforming into a dazzling golden light, and lunged at the end of Chen Yi's thunder whip, which was hanging on the surface of the water, at a speed that left no time for anyone to react.
"Snapped!"
Just as the Thunderfish was about to bite the Thunder Whip, Chen Yi's divine sense stirred, and the Thunder Soul Whip lashed out at the Thunderfish's body as if it were alive.
With a soft crack, the lightning whip struck precisely, leaving a trail of fine golden light that scattered like stars across the water's surface.
[Ancient Thunder Spirit True Meaning detected; currently being absorbed.]
Almost the instant the golden light left his body, Chen Yi activated the system and used the Thunder Soul Whip to directly devour the golden light containing the true meaning of thunder spirit.
Immediately afterwards, he put away the lightning whip without hesitation, his movements swift and decisive, giving the golden lightning fish no chance to retaliate.
Sure enough, the thunderfish suffered a loss and instantly triggered the counterattack program set up within its body.
It suddenly swung its tail in the water and spat out a condensed golden light. The golden light carried a chilling aura of soul lightning and shot towards Chen Yi's soul like an arrow, with a power even greater than the previous soul lightning attack.
Chen Yi was prepared. With a thought, more than ten gray fourth-order divine sense shields instantly lit up in front of him, layer upon layer blocking the path of the golden light.
With a few soft "bangs," the golden light struck the divine sense shield. Although it shattered several outer shields, it was ultimately blocked.
But Chen Yi was not satisfied with simply stopping him.
This time, he tried to use his divine sense to envelop a portion of the dissipated golden light while activating the system. Unexpectedly, he actually succeeded in devouring it.
[Ancient soul lightning spirituality detected; currently being absorbed.]
Ning Bu'er, watching from behind, was even more shocked. This golden thunderfish was actually a spiritual creature that cultivated both physical and spiritual aspects. The thunder spirit power it contained possessed both the divine soul attack attribute of soul thunder and the physical level of fourth-order thunder spirit true meaning. It was of great help to Chen Yi's soul thunder cultivation and to improve the quality of thunder crystal marrow.
But Chen Yi now intends to transform the power of this precious spiritual object into high-level lightning spirit comprehension to accelerate marrow refinement.
In Ning Bu'er's view, this was indeed a waste of resources, but she also understood that for Chen Yi, who was currently stuck at the bottleneck of marrow refining, this might be the most direct and effective way to break through.
At this moment, Chen Yi was focused on sensing the power of the thunder spirit being absorbed by the system, and had begun to plan how to gradually deplete the thunder fish's essence through this "fishing" method, and eventually completely subdue it.
But there was no other way. Chen Yi knew very well that his true talent for body refinement was indeed insufficient. If he didn't use this "wasteful" method, he would not be able to catch up with the top geniuses, let alone surpass them.
Sure enough, he retreated dozens of feet, sat down cross-legged, and focused all his efforts on digesting the spiritual energy of the golden thunderfish he had just devoured, converting it into the energy needed for marrow refining.
A moment later, he looked inward and clearly sensed that his progress in refining his marrow had finally improved significantly. It was no longer at a near standstill of one ten-thousandth, but had actually made a real leap forward.
[If this continues, perhaps once the spiritual energy of this thunderfish is exhausted, I will not only be able to raise my marrow refinement proficiency to the level of a top genius, but the original marrow refinement time of over a hundred years should also be shortened to about twenty years.]
Chen Yi secretly calculated in his mind, a hint of certainty flashing in his eyes.
He also knew that it was a pity to waste the golden thunderfish like this. If the spiritual energy of the thunderfish were used to enhance the soul thunder or thunder crystal marrow, the effect would definitely be better than accelerating the marrow refining.
But nothing in this world is perfect, so Chen Yi didn't dwell on it too much and quickly made a choice:
He chose to prioritize refining his marrow, leaving the replenishment of the ancient thunder spirit's true meaning for later, when he could seek other opportunities.
The most urgent task is to raise one's physical strength to the fourth level, truly possessing combat power comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator, so that one can gain a foothold in the perilous cultivation world.
Once he made up his mind, Chen Yi began his daily, routine cultivation, using the Thunder Soul Whip to "fish" for thunder fish and acquire spiritual energy during the day.
At night, they refine energy and focus on marrow cultivation, repeating this cycle without interruption.
A year later, the golden thunderfish in the Thunder Pool had shrunk from over three inches long to less than two inches, clearly indicating that its essence had been greatly depleted.
What bothered Chen Yi even more was that "fishing" had become increasingly difficult during this period. No matter how he provoked and lured the Thunder Soul Whip, the Thunder Fish remained hidden deep at the bottom of the pool and never took the initiative to attack again.
[Could it be that it lost too much of its essence, triggering the protection program originally set up by the Thunder Soul Sect, causing it to stop actively exposing itself and instead begin to hide?]
Chen Yi looked at the calm and still Thunder Pool and made his own guesses.
However, he didn't care much; for him, the goal had been basically achieved.
During this period, his marrow refinement progress has reached about 3%, and his physical fitness has also broken free from the shackles of the peak of the third tier, steadily moving towards the strength of the fourth tier body refinement.
Even if he stops absorbing the spiritual energy of the remaining half of the Thunderfish, at his current pace, he can advance to the fourth level of Body Refinement in less than forty years.
Of course, having come this far, Chen Yi would not easily give up on that thunderfish.
He rested by the Thunder Pool for a few days and, after recovering to full strength, tried to touch the Thunder Pool directly with his physical body. To his surprise, after a year of marrow refining and lightning tempering, his physical body's resistance had greatly increased, and he no longer felt the burning pain when he touched the lightning liquid as before.
This means he might be able to try going directly into the water and completely subdue the hiding snakefish.
To ensure he could catch the hiding Thunder Fish, Chen Yi spent several more days practicing the Thunder Soul Whip's ability to split into multiple whips and form a whip cage.
He repeatedly adjusted the intensity and frequency of his spiritual output until he could smoothly split a single Thunder Soul Whip into seven or eight, and could precisely control each whip before he stopped practicing.
Finally, one morning, Chen Yi was fully prepared. His body was covered in golden lightning armor, with layers of lightning crystals stacked on his body, shimmering with pale golden lightning.
He activated the Lightning Escape Technique, his figure flashing like lightning as he leaped directly into the lightning pool.
"Crack! Snap!"
The Thunder Pool was instantly activated, and countless fourth-order lightning powers rushed towards Chen Yi like a madman. Bluish-purple arcs of electricity exploded around him, emitting a piercing sound.
However, all the violent lightning bolts that struck his golden lightning armor were blocked, and not a single trace of lightning power could penetrate into the armor.
With Chen Yi's current physical strength, coupled with the defense of the Golden Lightning Armor, he can easily last for two hundred breaths in the lightning pool;
If the system is restarted and the excess lightning power that the physical body cannot withstand is absorbed, it can last even longer.
He wasted no time, his eyes locked onto the bottom of the pool, and the next moment, seven or eight lightning whips flew out from between his eyebrows, lashing out at the slender golden lightning fish like serpents, blocking its escape route.
But the thunderfish was extremely agile, and it instantly appeared in another place from the bottom of the pool, easily avoiding all the whipping attacks.
Chen Yi tried twice in a row, but failed to even touch the tail of the Thunderfish. He had no choice but to give up temporarily, and with a flash, he jumped out of the Thunder Pool and landed on the edge of the pool to think of a solution.
He looked at Leichi, where the water level had dropped by about one-fifth since he arrived, and the pool surface had shrunk considerably.
[Now that my body refinement has progressed another step, my body should be able to hold even more Thunder Crystal Marrow. Since I'm already here, leaving this Thunder Pool here would be a waste, so I might as well make full use of it.]
Chen Yi turned to look at Ning Bu'er, who was not far away, and asked her about her recent plans.
Ning Bu'er said that her master, Fairy Xuan Yin, had not yet replied, and was probably still in the Black Mountain Secret Realm. She had nothing else to do for the time being.
Chen Yi thought for a moment and asked Ning Bu'er to demonstrate the results of his cultivation after fusing the demonic flame and the lightning crystal core.
After observing carefully for a moment, he offered suggestions for improvement regarding the location and operation of the lightning crystal cores in several acupoints on Ning Bu'er's body, making the fusion of lightning power and demonic flames smoother.
Then, he had Ning Bu'er sit not far behind him, and together they absorbed and refined the overflowing thunder spirit power in the thunder pool. After he filtered it with his divine sense, the originally violent fourth-order thunder spirit power became much gentler, and Ning Bu'er was able to barely refine a portion of it, so the thunder pool resources were not completely wasted.
Chen Yi himself sat by the pool and began to refine a large amount of the lightning liquid in the pool.
He first maximized the number of Thunder Crystal Marrow in his body, increasing it from six to eight.
Then, they focused on increasing the fusion strength of the Thunder Crystal Marrow, gradually increasing the number of lightning threads in each Thunder Crystal Marrow from 110 to 120.
After doing all this, he still didn't stop. He simply ignored the loss of Thunder Crystal Marrow and used Thunder Liquid as a catalyst to accelerate the Marrow Refining process.
After repeated practice, another six months passed.
The water level in the Thunder Pool dropped by half again, until finally, only a small area the size of a small vat remained at the bottom of the pool, and the Thunder Liquid was almost completely gone.
Chen Yi looked at the shrunken pool bottom, a smile playing on his lips, thinking to himself:
[Where do you think you're going, you little fish!]
Without further hesitation, he leaped into the lightning pool once more.
This time, he directly activated all the Thunder Soul Whips, weaving an impenetrable net of whips at the bottom of the pool, and lashed out to capture the Thunder Fish.
Having lost enough space to hide, the golden thunderfish could no longer teleport away and was eventually entangled by a thunderous whip, unable to move.
Chen Yi reached out and grabbed the golden thunderfish in his hand.
But the moment he grabbed it, his soul trembled violently. A surge of violent soul lightning power flowed into his soul along the lightning fish, as if his entire soul was being repeatedly whipped by lightning. He was instantly numb, and even his consciousness briefly stopped.
[Ancient Thunder Spirit True Meaning detected, currently being absorbed]
[Ancient thunder spirit's spirituality detected; currently being absorbed]
In an instant, Chen Yi's system activated at full power, beginning to devour the power of the thunder spirits. After the true meaning and spirituality of the thunder spirits entered his body, Chen Yi no longer conserved them, directly dividing them into multiple paths to nourish his soul, improve the quality of the thunder crystal marrow, and preserve a portion of the spirituality for use in marrow refining.