Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 186 - 8: Wind and Earth Veins, Ranking into the Minister of Agriculture Supervision

Chapter 186: Chapter 8: Wind and Earth Veins, Ranking into the Minister of Agriculture Supervision

"What a heavy thunder force, it’s too terrifying." Zhao Xing stared ahead.

The thunder force here couldn’t just be described as thick; it gave an overwhelming feeling.

From outside, it wasn’t apparent, but once inside the thunder zone, it felt suffocating.

"Unless you draw primordial energy from the earth veins, the air is all repelled by the thunder force, you can’t absorb even a bit."

"Even within the earth veins, only a small fraction of energy exists, mixed with a large amount of thunder attribute."

After taking a few steps, Zhao Xing noticed his hair floating upward like cotton.

"Run!"

His speed increased instantly, knowing that this area was about to be struck by lightning, he had to leave quickly.

"Swish~"

Zhao Xing leaped like a monkey through the valley.

As soon as he jumped away, a bolt of lightning struck his previous position.

Silently, the thunder seeped into the stone, and the thousand-pound boulder turned to dust.

"Terrifying, this is much stronger than my thunder magic, the two thunder spells I’ve comprehended are nothing before such a terrifying celestial phenomenon."

Zhao Xing’s scalp tingled.

It was really numb because more lightning was about to strike.

"Cloud shifting!"

Zhao Xing pointed skyward, casting a spell to hold up a cloud.

The cloud formed, and the Swallowing Cloud Skill began to gather cloud qi from the sky.

But a surprising scene unfolded before Zhao Xing.

The cloud he conjured turned purple-black in an instant.

Thunder brewed within, flickering wildly as if about to explode.

"What’s going on, I haven’t even used the thunder spell..."

Seeing the danger, Zhao Xing immediately jumped away from beneath his cloud.

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion, the thunder cloud burst, lightning scattered like water droplets, and Zhao Xing grunted, losing one-tenth of his energy.

"This is the first time I’ve lost control of the Cloud Skill."

"No, forcing through like this is not an option."

Zhao Xing had originally thought that relying on the Swallowing Cloud Skill, he could quickly pass through the thunder zone, but now it seemed his idea was naive.

"Whew~"

Zhao Xing accelerated, looking for a place to hide in the valley.

Quickly, he found a piece of barrier rock.

The rock slanted into the mountain, extending dozens of meters, seven to eight meters thick, a natural shelter.

"Any rock existing in the thunder zone isn’t ordinary, this is magnetostorm rock, used by the Mechanical School for crafting weapons and mechanisms."

Zhao Xing quickly flew over and hid beneath the magnetostorm rock amidst the thunderous onslaught.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!"

The thunder outside never ceased, lightning fell from the sky like rain.

It was a full-blown Ten Thousand Leich.

Seeing that he was temporarily safe, Zhao Xing began to recall the earlier scene.

"My Swallowing Cloud Skill began uncontrollably absorbing thunder clouds from the sky as soon as it was unleashed."

"Within an instant, it reached its limit threshold."

"The uncontrollable explosion was due to this."

Zhao Xing quickly identified the problem.

The Swallowing Cloud Skill could indeed cut and devour cloud qi, very dominantly.

But when facing such a terrifying Ten Thousand Leich, even the Swallowing Cloud Skill couldn’t handle it.

The thunder cloud was too heavy; Zhao Xing’s cloud burst as soon as it formed, without even transforming.

It was like a balloon inflating to its limit in one second, causing it to explode.

"Try again."

Zhao Xing hid beneath the rock, casting his spell, golden light flying out, beginning to condense the cloud at a parallel level.

The second spellcasting was much more cautious, controlling it with full attention, compressing the Cloud Skill to the extreme.

Only an eight-meter-wide cloud appeared.

Swallowing Cloud was an eighth-transition skill, Zhao Xing’s utmost control, although not as masterful as the Old Minister of Agriculture who had cultivated for a whole jiazi, focusing on thunder magic and cloud skills.

How long had Zhao Xing been practicing? Since obtaining the Preaching Painting to an eighth-transition spell, it had only been three to four months.

"Even when compressed to the extreme and controlled with full effort, it’s still unstable." Zhao Xing looked at the swaying cloud ahead.

It trembled continuously, showing signs of disintegrating.

"The eight-meter cloud can barely stabilize, but if struck by lightning, it would still be shattered."

"Let’s see how many strikes it can withstand."

Zhao Xing controlled the cloud, actively floating it towards the thunder zone.

"Boom-crack!"

A bolt of lightning struck the Swallowing Cloud.

In an instant, the Swallowing Cloud expanded from eight meters to sixteen meters.

"Compress!"

Feeling the cloud about to collapse, Zhao Xing focused intently, making his cloud contract.

The cloud shrank from sixteen meters to ten meters.

But the second thunderbolt struck next.

The cloud expanded to twenty meters.

Zhao Xing controlled it to shrink again.

The third heavenly thunder struck, the cloud expanded from fifteen meters to thirty meters.

"Boom-crack!"

On the fourth strike, the cloud burst open directly.

"Still not enough, using only the Cloud Skill to maintain the cloud can resist at most three heavenly thunders."

"However, this is just relying solely on the Cloud Skill for protection."

"I know more than just the Cloud Skill."

Zhao Xing cast the Swallowing Cloud Skill again.

Still an eight-meter cloud.

"Crack!"

Thunder struck, instantly expanding it to seventeen meters.

But this time, Zhao Xing took action.

"Draw Thunder!"

In his cloud, a thunderbolt descended to the ground.

Buzz~

The Swallowing Cloud shrank instantly to its original eight-meter size, returning to a stable state.

"Boom boom boom!"

Many more thunderbolts struck into the Swallowing Cloud.