Chapter 157 – The Murong Brothers
Han Li exited the Yuelu Hall, and after bidding farewell to the two red-robed men, he drove his magic weapon towards the Hundred Medicinal Gardens.
In midair, Han Li thought about the Foundation Establishment Pill refining matter while looking down indifferently toward the rolling hills beneath his feet. Suddenly a loud rumbling came from below, causing him to be taken aback and he couldn’t help but fix his eyes on it.
Only to see that on a certain hill below, there were lightning strikes and flashes of electricity, as well as a multitude of shouts of approval coming from a hidden source, causing Han Li’s curiosity to rise, and he couldn’t help but drop his magic weapon down, stopping in the vicinity of the rumbling and then leaning over on his own.
”Brother Murong, one more, let’s see it again!”
”That’s right, it’s the first time I’ve seen the shape of lightning so close, it’s so scary!”
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Just as he walked to the top of the mountain, Han Li heard the noises coming from the front, and the call of Brother Murong made his heart flutter.
”Aren’t the pair of genius brothers with Thunder Spirit Roots who only just entered the gate surnamed Murong! Coupled with the loud noise just now, could it really be that their pair of highly regarded brothers are showing off their skills here?”
By this time, he could already see that there were about thirty to forty disciples of varying ages on the mountaintop, who were forming a large loose circle, pointing at the two eleven or twelve year olds in the center who were excitedly saying something.
And the circle on the ground there are a few scorched black pit, pit wall edge even into high temperature dissolution, but also a faint green smoke, a breeze blew after a charred smell wafted everywhere.
Seeing this scene, Han Li hurriedly walked over, and carefully surveyed the teenagers. Only to see that the two had clear eyebrows, white and tender, and very similar looks, but their eyes flickered lightly between blinks, a look of an elfin ghost.
At this time, because of the gazes and praises of the onlookers, the duo’s little faces were turning red with excitement, and after glancing at each other, they simultaneously strangled and recited incantations, and a flash of electricity flashed in the duo’s hands, followed by two thin lightning bolts that flew out and struck the nearby ground, emitting two loud bangs and a burst of dazzling white light, and two more deep craters were created out of it.
”This is the thunder attribute palm lightning? Whether it’s the power or the sound effect, this is much stronger than other spells of the same level such as the Fire Bomb Technique and Ice Cone Technique, it’s really not bad for being known as the most destructive thunder-attributed spell!” Han Li secretly marveled in his heart and became envious of the brothers’ spiritual root attributes.
Obviously, Han Li was not the only one who had this mentality outside the arena, other onlookers also mostly looked at the duo with acidic gazes, hating themselves for not being favored by the heavens, and having such an enviable superb spiritual root!
In the hoots and hollers of the onlookers, the two brothers, after casting the lightning strike technique a few more times, appeared to be a bit overwhelmed, after all, they were still a bit too young.
”What the heck! The power of the Thunder Spirit Root is nothing more than that, I don’t think it’s as good as my Wind Spirit Root!” Right at this moment, a somewhat loud male voice rang out from the crowd across from Han Li, causing everyone around to look.
Only to see a pair of young men and women standing side by side, the man handsome and straight, the woman as beautiful as a flower, obviously a couple in love. The man’s face of arrogance, seems to Murong brother’s palm thunder disdain, while the woman was so many people watching together, the face slightly red, some shyness adds a few points of delicate.
”Who is this man? So wild!”
”Wind Spirit Root? Isn’t this also a type of foreign spirit root! Could it be that this man also has a foreign spirit root?”
”I know this man, he’s Master Lu, he does have the attribute of a different spirit root, and his wind spells are very powerful!”
”Even if he’s also an Elemental Spirit Root, why would he say something like that?”
”Maybe he’s jealous! After all, he used to be the only one amongst the lower-ranked disciples who had a different spirit root, but now that two people with better qualifications than him have suddenly appeared, of course he’s not balanced in his heart!”
”What? You’re so jealous!”
”Shhh! Be gentle, don’t let him hear, he’s a man who holds grudges, it would be bad if he’s targeted!”
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Because of this young man’s appearance, the people nearby all exchanged words and whispered, as if this person’s popularity was really not good.
”Hmph! Little fellow, I’ll let you all see what a true Fey Spirit Root is!” When the young man saw the crowd talking about him in such a way, his face sank and he took a few steps to the center of the circle, then he said proudly, “You two, feel free to attack with your Thunder Spells, and if you dodge half a step, I’ll kowtow to you two little brats and confess your sins!”
When the two Murong brothers saw that this Senior Brother Lu was so domineering, defying the two of them for no reason, their little faces also turned white with anger.
”You’re not going to dodge?”
”Of course!”
”And you’re not allowed to use magic weapons?”
”Yes!”
The two brothers were truly not bad as fellow brothers, one person’s sentence finalized the rules in their side’s favor, while the youth also had a cocky, don’t-put-the-brothers-in-the-eye-at-all look, and didn’t have the slightest objections to the other party’s conditions.
”Good, then the two of my brothers will meet senior brother!” The teenagers exasperatedly said in unison.
”Senior Brother Lu, are you alright doing this!” The youth’s female companion got a little worried.
”Hehehe! What’s there to worry about when dealing with two little brats, just don’t worry about it, Senior Sister Chen!” The youth waved his hand carelessly before standing across from the Murong brothers in a big way.
After the teenage duo glanced at each other, they suddenly came together, each stretching out a hand to hold it together, then the other hand pointed towards the sky while reciting the exact same spell!
Seeing this, the youth sneered and casually cast a defensive spell onto his body, and a green-colored light shield immediately appeared around him, firmly wrapping him within it.
”Heavenly Thunder Chain Strike.”
The fellow brother’s incantation was finally finished, then he pointed his finger towards the youth’s head instead, as a result, a ten foot sized dark cloud immediately appeared in its sky, and with a flash of white light in the cloud, a lightning bolt as thick as a finger fell down, splitting onto the green-colored shroud, striking the shroud with turbulence, causing the youth’s face to turn pale, and it was obvious that the lightning bolt’s power was out of his expectation.
But this electric shock is only the beginning, from that hanging in the air in the dark clouds, “splitting la la” one after another dropped the same lightning attack, the shield to the flickering, dim, as if immediately to the edge of the broken.
Youth color gloomy down, suddenly hands a dazzling pinch, and then low roar, put both hands to death in the shield of light wall, let the light shield suddenly green light, not only restored to the original state, seems to be more than the beginning of the solid a few points.
The Murong brothers naturally refused to give up the advantage of the hand, also into the air on a variety of spells, so that the black cloud expanded up, the diameter reached more than a few zhang, the falling thunder and lightning is also more thick and frequent up.
In the face of the two brothers’ powerful attack, this Lu senior brother was shocked and furious, and had a feeling of being caught off guard, he never expected that the other party had mastered the low-grade middle-ranked serial thunder art at a young age, and for a moment, he was unable to draw back from the attack, and cast a separate spell to counter-attack. In front of so many people, he suffered such a big loss.
In this way, on one side were the teenagers struggling to support the continuous lightning strikes from the dark clouds, and on the other side were the youths painstakingly casting spells to defend themselves, constantly reinforcing their green shields. This competition had unexpectedly turned into a surprising tug-of-war.
According to reason, if one side attacked and one side defended, naturally the attacking side took advantage of the situation and could save a lot of mana compared to the defending side. However, as the attacking side, the Murong brothers, firstly, had used up a lot of mana in the demonstration just now, and originally did not have enough mana. Secondly, the young man surnamed Lu was after all much older, and the purity and depth of his mana was far from being comparable to that of the ones who had only just started, so they were still at a disadvantage in the battle of attrition.
So in full view of everyone, that black cloud in the release of the last few thunderbolts, the clouds dissipate into the clear, mana exhaustion of the teenager is still the first step forced to terminate the lightning strike.