"Testing our sense of danger? Exactly!"
None of them were fools. Once Nie Yun stated it outright, how could they not understand?
"But... even if we know what we're being tested on, with lightning this dense, it's still almost impossible for us to get across..."
Hou Zhao's face was full of helplessness.
Everyone sighed at once.
He was right. Even knowing what the test was about would not help. The lightning before them poured down like a dense, raging storm, with barely any pauses. With their current strength, charging through was clearly an impossible task.
"Do you have anything like leather on you?"
Nie Yun did not answer him, but asked instead.
"Leather?"
Everyone froze, unable to understand the purpose of his question.
"I do. These are hides I obtained from hunting divine beasts back then!"
A young man stepped forward and flipped his hand. A pile of divine beast hides appeared on the ground.
For cultivators, hunting divine beasts and demonic beasts was extremely common. Many of them possessed quite a few such hides.
"Watch!"
With a grab through the air, Nie Yun seized a hide from the ground. With a light shake, he sent it flying forward close to the ground, straight into the region of lightning.
Rumble!
The instant it entered, the lightning seemed drawn by something and immediately surged toward it, blasting it into powder in an instant. Fur and hide fragments scattered everywhere, a terrifying sight.
"These hides came from divine beasts. Though they are dead objects, they are like living things and can attract lightning. Since this Sea of Lightning has no gaps, we can create gaps ourselves, then find a way to charge through!"
Nie Yun said.
"That's right!"
Everyone understood at once, and their eyes lit up simultaneously.
Nie Yun's action had