Golden Snake Lightning Art

Wei Suo pushed two items before the Green Robe Old Man. One was the map fragment he had found on Lin Daoyi's body, and the other was the two Azure Jade Talismans sold by the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion.

Since Lin Daoyi had kept this map fragment so solemnly, it should not have been some useless piece of trash. The markings on it were all ancient script, and Wei Suo felt that the Green Robe Old Man, another antique from ancient times, might recognize them.

"Yin Feng Mountain... Peach Lake..." Sure enough, the Green Robe Old Man merely glanced at it before reading out several place names from the fragment. "This is a map fragment of the Qingcheng Ruins." The Green Robe Old Man quickly reached his conclusion.

Wei Suo asked curiously, "Qingcheng Ruins? What kind of place is that?"

"The Qingcheng Ruins are the remains of a great ancient sect. There are many artifact refining materials inside, as well as remnants of ancient cultivators' magic treasures. Over the past tens of thousands of years, many cultivators have entered to search for treasure. However, the Qingcheng Ruins lie in the demon beast wilderness between Tianxuan Continent and Cloud Spirit Continent. Powerful demon beasts roam there, and there are also many ruined restrictions whose dangers are impossible to predict. Thus, eight or nine out of every ten cultivators who venture inside to seek treasure perish there. Even if not much has been left behind by that ancient sect, there are still plenty of things on the cultivators who died within. So within those thousand li of ruins, there are certainly many good things."

The Green Robe Old Man looked at Wei Suo and explained, "This should be a map drawn by cultivators who entered the Qingcheng Ruins back then. It marks where demon beasts gather and which places are safer to enter. If you had a complete map, searching for treasure in the Qingcheng Ruins would be somewhat safer. Unfortunately, yours is only a corner fragment. And with your current cultivation, even if you obtained the other fragments and pieced together a complete map, going to the Qingcheng Ruins would be little different from courting death."

"The ruins of a huge sect? Damn, I'm definitely going to take a look someday. Maybe I'll get lucky and find the rest of the map." Wei Suo's eyes immediately lit up again. Leaving aside everything else, anyone who could reach such distant places in the wilderness beyond the Firmament was probably far stronger than Lin Daoyi. Lin Daoyi already had so many good things on him, let alone those people.

"Just wait slowly, then." The Green Robe Old Man looked disdainfully at Wei Suo, whose eyes shone whenever he heard about good things. "Bring those two jade talismans over and let me have a look."

If the Green Robe Old Man had asked Wei Suo to do something at any other time, Wei Suo might have dawdled. But upon hearing this, Wei Suo immediately placed the two jade talismans before him at lightning speed without another word.

The Green Robe Old Man stared at the two azure jade talismans resting in Wei Suo's hand for a while. Then, all of a sudden, he transformed into a streak of green flame and seeped into one of the azure jade talismans.

"Damn, what's that?"

The instant the green flame formed by the Green Robe Old Man seeped into the azure jade talisman, a mass of black radiance suddenly lit up within it. Looking closely, it formed into a fierce, savage black wolf that lunged at the Green Robe Old Man's green flame.

The Green Robe Old Man's green flame transformed into a green skull, tangling with the black wolf inside the azure jade talisman. The black wolf desperately bit at the green skull, while the green skull opened its huge mouth and went crack, crack, crack, biting back at the black wolf with all its might. The sight was somewhat comical.

"Damn!"

After a moment, the green flame formed by the Green Robe Old Man retreated from the azure jade talisman. The moment it came out, he cried out and resumed his old form. He looked as though he had been bitten into a miserable state, panting heavily.

"Huh? What's with that black wolf inside? Old man, don't tell me you can't beat it?" Wei Suo stared at the Green Robe Old Man in astonishment.

"Pah! It's only a restriction sealed with the soul of a Black Wind Wolf. A mere Black Wind Wolf soul—I refuse to believe I can't deal with it!" After catching his breath, the Green Robe Old Man immediately transformed into green flame again and surged into the azure jade talisman.

Soon, the black wolf and the green skull within the azure jade talisman were once again biting each other desperately.

"Damn it... I refuse to believe I can't beat it!" Before long, the Green Robe Old Man retreated again, panting. After resting for a while, he plunged back in.

"Damn it, again!" Before long, the Green Robe Old Man retreated once more in an utterly bedraggled state.

"I don't believe it! Wei Suo, hurry and give me some Fire Scorpion Blood to drink! Watch me kill it!"

"Haha, you little brat, I finally killed you, didn't I? You still dared bite me! Back in the day, I could have crushed you with one finger!"

Wei Suo watched speechlessly as the Green Robe Old Man, stubbornly refusing to admit defeat, went in and out like he was passing through a city gate. After seventeen or eighteen rounds, and after drinking Fire Scorpion Blood once, the black wind wolf within the jade talisman finally grew dimmer and dimmer before being completely torn apart by the green skull. The Green Robe Old Man emerged and burst into extremely smug laughter.

"The restriction's been dealt with?"

Wei Suo looked at the azure jade talisman, from which the black radiance had completely vanished, and cautiously poured a stream of True Essence into it. This time, the distinctive mark on the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion jade talisman indeed no longer emitted azure light. As his pale purple True Essence flowed in, a spell diagram formed from pale purple radiance slowly emerged on the jade talisman.

"Good stuff! Brother Lin Daoyi really was a wonderful man!"

Wei Suo's mouth nearly twisted with delight again when he saw it.

"Golden Snake Lightning Art." What this azure jade talisman recorded was actually a lightning-element spell art.

Moreover, low-level spell arts such as the Azure Water Blade Wei Suo currently cultivated had very single-minded means of attack. No matter what level one's True Essence cultivation reached, it would always produce a gleaming azure water blade when cast; only its activation speed and power differed. But this Golden Snake Lightning Art was truly a fine thing with multiple methods of attack.

The entire Golden Snake Lightning Art was divided into five levels.

The first level could be cultivated with the True Essence cultivation of the Second Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. It could unleash three bolts of lightning around two feet long, each somewhat resembling a snake.

The second level could be cultivated with the True Essence cultivation of the Third Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. Once mastered, it could unleash ten golden bolts of lightning, twisted together into the shape of a sharp shuttle.

The third level could be cast by cultivators at the Fourth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. It released twenty serpentine bolts of lightning coiled into a thunderball. When it struck an opponent or an opponent's defense, it would explode, and the twenty exploding serpentine bolts of lightning would cover an area of two zhang.

The fourth level could be cast by cultivators at the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm. It released a great net formed from fifty serpentine bolts of lightning, covering an area of five zhang.

The final level was called Golden Snake Dance. Only cultivators at the Circulation Realm First Level or above could cultivate it. Once cast, over a hundred serpentine bolts of lightning would lash wildly within a radius of ten zhang.

Wei Suo had already been short on cultivation methods and spell arts, and this Golden Snake Lightning Art was clearly the lightning-element spell Lin Daoyi had used when they fought in the cavern. Wei Suo had seen it with absolute clarity then. Lin Daoyi's lightning art was not only quite powerful, but more importantly, the golden snake lightning could paralyze opponents. Even a tough man like Ye Xiaozheng, who cultivated the Golden Armor Technique, had been unable to move for a long time after being struck by Lin Daoyi's thunderball. If it had been an ordinary cultivator like Wei Suo, even if he could withstand the thunderball's power, he would likely have convulsed on the ground like an epileptic for ages.

Wei Suo's Azure Water Blade was still passable in terms of power, but against some faster demon beasts, it was difficult to hit them. Back in the cavern, he had seen that Nangong Yuqing's Ice Shield Technique and Lin Daoyi's lightning art could slow opponents down, and he had wanted to cultivate such a spell art. He had never expected to obtain one now.

Lin Daoyi was already a cultivator at the Fifth Level of Sea of Consciousness Realm, yet when fighting Wei Suo, he had only released the third-level thunderball at most. This showed that Lin Daoyi had not obtained this spell art long ago and had not even had time to cultivate the fourth-level Golden Snake Net. With Wei Suo's current cultivation, he could at least cultivate the second-level Golden Snake Shuttle.

After grinning foolishly at the lightning art for a while, Wei Suo glanced at the Green Robe Old Man, who was still laughing smugly. "Old man, you only killed one Black Wind Wolf. You definitely can't kill the Black Wind Wolf inside this other one."

"Bullshit! I could kill ten more of them!" After shouting that, the Green Robe Old Man transformed into a streak of green flame again and charged into the other jade talisman in Wei Suo's hand.