Chapter 261: Chapter 261

261: Chapter 257 Spring Thunder Day 261: Chapter 257 Spring Thunder Day Chen Hai asked a question that not only he wanted to know the answer to, but Lao Fang, Ye Cheng, and others inside the tent also wanted to know.

With white hair and eyebrows and a seemingly ethereal Taoist demeanor, Taoist Hu was currently full of confidence and smiled lightly.

His gaze swept over the others in the tent before finally resting on Chen Hai.

“Young friend,” he said, “there is a saying in military strategy that knowing yourself and knowing your enemy will ensure victory in every battle.”

“Be it Mountain Xiao or Zombies, their habits differ.”

“Some entities are drawn to the scent of blood and become completely enraged when they smell it.”

“Some detest filth and some simple things commonly seen, like glutinous rice, actually have certain restraining effects on them.”

“Without having confirmed what kind of entity is hiding on Little Golden Mountain, we cannot make specific preparations.”

“Other than waiting for the rabbit and watching changes, what do you think we could do?”

His face wearing a trace of disdain, Taoist Hu looked directly at Chen Hai.

He smirked meaningfully and continued, “I am limited in knowledge and skill, and besides waiting for that thing to show up again, I really can’t think of any other way to handle this.”

“Of course, young friend, you’re different.

If you have any good ideas for finding that thing on Little Golden Mountain?”

“Feel free to do it, I’ll support you spiritually…”

With an odd expression and a chuckle, after saying these words, Taoist Hu simply closed his eyes and started to meditate.

As for Chen Hai standing before him, he knew nothing about his actual capabilities.

But the man’s age was evident.

Such a young kid, even if he had started cultivating from the womb, what significant skills could he have developed in this day and age?

Whether that was true or not, Taoist Hu didn’t know, but that was what he believed!

People suffer not from scarcity but from unfairness.

Seeing Chen Hai, who in his eyes knew little more than a few tricks, being invited here,

and receiving a treatment far superior to his own,

though Taoist Hu didn’t verbalize it, he felt somewhat displeased.

The words he spoke to Chen Hai, although seemingly normal at first listen,

if thought over for a while, one could clearly sense an underlying tone of mockery.

“Chen Hai, besides divination, do you have any other methods to find the hiding place of that thing on Little Golden Mountain?”

Ye Cheng might be dissatisfied with his brother-in-law, but he had blind confidence in Chen Hai’s abilities.

Coldly glancing at Taoist Hu, who had begun to meditate, his face full of anticipation, he spoke up again to inquire.

Taoist Hu’s recent comments and the minor discontent toward his brother-in-law Chen Hai, Ye Cheng had quickly picked up on.

In his eyes, actions spoke louder than words.

Faced with Taoist Hu’s disdain, the best course of action for Chen Hai was to demonstrate his real skills and locate the thing.

“Brother Cheng, the Divination Skill is being disrupted, and I cannot calculate accurate results!”

“The few other skills I possess are not of much use in tracking and concealing.”

Chen Hai gave a bitter smile and sighed.

The area where the tent was located was slightly elevated compared to the surroundings.

Not long ago, when Ye Cheng led him here, he had already used Geomancy Inspection Skill to examine the military-sealed forested area.

This region appeared fairly open at a glance, like a crouching thin cat.

The entire area was densely covered in bushes and shaded with tall trees, untouched by sunshine.

Only a narrow path about a meter wide, fully exposed to sunlight, stretched into the depths of the forest.

Upon seeing the terrain for the first time, Chen Hai immediately recognized that it was amiss.

Such terrain, although seemingly full of Yang, was actually deeply Yin.

At least half of the sprawling forest spanning dozens of miles was perpetually engulfed in yin qi.

Tales of Corpse Nourishing Land could hardly compare.

To try and determine through Geomancy, where exactly on Little Golden Mountain the entity was hiding?

Chen Hai simply couldn’t judge, as the area cloaked in yin qi throughout the year was just too vast.

As for a Divine Soul’s departure to meticulously search over the entire forest?

He did indeed consider it, but he hesitated whether to really do so.

Upon arriving here with Ye Cheng, he had advised himself to prioritize safety and avoid putting himself in danger.

As for the entity hidden within the forest, who knew if it had the ability to directly harm the Divine Soul?

It is always better to be cautious than sorry.

Under complete ignorance of the unknown entity, Chen Hai recklessly allowed his Divine Soul to depart from his body and search the mountains, risking fatal dangers if he wasn’t careful.

If it were noon, with the bright sun blazing, he might have clenched his teeth and let his Divine Soul depart to wander in the mountains for a few laps.

After all, according to the information Ye Cheng had provided him, that thing did not show itself during the day but only appeared at night to commit acts of violence.

But now, although night had not completely fallen, it was already dusk.

“As long as we can find out where that thing is, what method do we need to restrain it?”

“To deal with that thing, our military has gathered quite a few heavy weapons.”

“Pistols and rifles can’t cause him fatal harm?

What about machine guns?

“If grenades don’t work, we can switch directly to depleted uranium armor-piercing shells.

As long as that thing dares to show up, I don’t believe we can’t blast it to death!”

“That’s easy to say, but it doesn’t show up during the day and at night visibility is poor.”

“Heat detection, infrared, these are useless against it.

Without being able to lock onto the target, our weapons, though powerful, still need to hit him to be effective.”

… The source of thɪs content is 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡~𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚~𝙣𝙚𝙩

Within the tent, everyone began discussing, one after another.

Unfortunately, despite all the suggestions and lengthy discussions, they could not come up with a truly feasible plan.

Unknowingly, night had finally completely descended.

Thinking of his girlfriend, Ye Qingqing, who by this time should have already returned to the West Mountain Villa.

And he, could only stay in this desolate wilderness, unable to go home and spend a tender time with her, made Chen Hai feel somewhat frustrated.

Seeing that the people continued to discuss back and forth without reaching any conclusion, Chen Hai simply stood up and walked out of the tent.

In the night sky, dense clouds covered the stars and the crescent moon, completely obscured.

Such a night, not quite pitch-dark, but nearly so.

For ordinary people, the view within a few meters around was already very blurry.

Last night, when that thing appeared, two people had already died by its hands.

Tonight, with such a vile aspect, if that thing appeared again, it likely wouldn’t be just two people who died.

Just as Chen Hai was contemplating whether to take a chance to inspect the corpses of those who had already died, a flash of lightning suddenly tore through the night sky.

Following that, the entire sky lit up with lightning and thunder, and rain started to pour down relentlessly.

After the New Year, it was considered to be the start of spring.

And now, the thunder and lightning in the sky marked the first Spring Thunder Day of the year.

Chen Hai had obtained the ancient Taoist Book that recorded the Little Five Thunder Skill some time ago.

The reason he had not started cultivating it was precisely to wait for the first Spring Thunder Day of the year.

Having missed today, if he wanted to practice the Little Five Thunder Skill, he would have to wait desperately for another year.

Letting the rain fall on him, Chen Hai sat cross-legged just outside the tent, facing the direction of the thunder and lightning.

His palms were facing upwards, fingers naturally straight, with the middle and ring fingers of both hands standing upright, both hands in the same posture.

Then he overlapped the index and little fingers of his right hand on top of the index and little fingers of the left hand, with the middle and ring fingers of both hands side by side…

This was the Thunder Jue.

Holding this Jue, he slightly closed his eyes.

Above the sky, the thunder continued to roar.

With the thought of the thunder in his mind, Chen Hai connected this intent of thunder with his own heart, liver, lungs, spleen, and kidneys, merging with them.

Then, he imagined the intent of thunder filling his entire body, slowly merging into one.

Lastly, he inhaled through his nose and mouth, imagining the essence qi of the thunder being drawn in, sinking into the lower Dantian, repeating seven times.

Opening his eyes, Chen Hai changed the Thunder Jue in his hands—left hand to Master Jue and right hand to Spirit Official Jue.

The cultivation of the Little Five Thunder Skill had extremely stringent requirements for the strength of the Divine Soul.

This Taoist Book had been stored with Limp Zhang for who knows how long.

But until his death, this book on the Little Five Thunder Skill had only gathered dust at the bottom of his chest—he had not possessed the strength to try practicing this skill.

Now, Chen Hai was already at the peak of the Day Tour Realm, not far from the Object Controlling Realm.

With the strength of his Divine Soul, during the moment he imagined the lightning entering his body, he experienced an intense pain as though his Divine Soul was being constantly torn apart.

Clenching his teeth, Chen Hai did not make a sound, fully immersed in the cultivation of the Little Five Thunder Skill.

His Divine Soul had an Undying Characteristic.

Introducing the intent of lightning into his body, even if it caused some damage to his Divine Soul,

he did not consider it a big deal in his opinion.

In two days, he should be able to fully recover.

“Chen Hai, Chen Hai, what’s happened?

What’s wrong with you…” Seeing that Chen Hai had left the tent and not seen returning, Ye Cheng, puzzled, walked out from the inside.

When he saw Chen Hai, who was thoroughly soaked and sitting motionless on the ground, he was completely stunned.

Especially after trying to call his name a few times without receiving any response, Ye Cheng grew even more anxious and paced back and forth in distress.