Volume 1 Chapter 43: Heavenly Thunder Palace

Chapter 43 Heavenly Thunder Palace

Set up a barrier for the house, and release the Fu Shen Snake and three big dogs from the beast taming bag. Snakes like quietness and are always lazy. After coming out, they lie on Zhang Pa and do not move. The big dogs are different. They run around happily, and even jump on the low wall and jump on the house to play. Zhang Pa took out a jade box, picked out a bottle of spiritual energy pills, took out a handful, and threw them out casually. The big dog and the little snake seemed to have received an order, and they flew up in an instant, each holding one, and then found a place to digest the pills. Zhang Pa waved to take back the extra spiritual energy pills, threw a cushion on the ground, and sat cross-legged in meditation.

From this day on, Zhang Pa concentrated on practicing the divine song, constantly splitting the soul, and then letting the split soul condense. He repeated this back and forth for several months, but he did not make any progress. He sighed and stood up, walked out of the room, and watched the three stupid dogs playing in the yard. I envied them a little. They ate, drank, and had fun. As they grew older, their cultivation naturally increased. They didn't need to practice at all. He didn't expect that monsters don't need to cultivate their magical powers to grow naturally, and they stop when they reach maturity; while human cultivators have weak foundations, but they have no end in sight. There is no comparison between the two.

Just like when they were in the Five Spirits Blessed Land, more than a hundred small snakes lazily lay on the big dog, letting the big dog take them for a stroll. Zhang Pa didn't worry about being discovered. Monsters have the skills to restrain their breath. As long as they don't actively emit it, it's difficult to be discovered. What's more, it's located in a remote area and the courtyard has a barrier, even if some breath is blocked.

Seeing Zhang Pa come out, more than a hundred small snakes flew into the air and rushed to Zhang Pa like lightning. In comparison, Zhang Pa's body is their favorite resting place. The big dog also came to please him with a wag of its tail. Somehow, Zhang Pa suddenly wanted to drink. Looking up at the sky, it was cloudy. After practicing for these days, the weather had turned cold. It was already late winter.

The advantage of winter is that there are few thunders. When Zhang Pa was a child, he would rather endure the cold and look forward to the arrival of winter. There were two wooden stools in the courtyard, one large and one small. He went over to sit down and took out the nephrite. Lin Sen brewed countless wines, and any one of them was a rare wine, but Zhang Pa liked nephrite the most, which was soft, sweet, refreshing and sweet. He took out two kinds of green vegetables from the fresh-keeping box and simply mixed two cold dishes according to Lin Sen's cooking method. Everything was ready, raised the cup and drank lightly, and then tasted the dishes.

The wine was still the same as before, delicious and refreshing, but the dishes were much worse. His cooking skills were too poor, so he couldn't blame others. He just made do with it, and his interest was inevitably reduced. After drinking two more glasses, he lost interest. He finally realized Lin Sen's boring mood of drinking alone. He sighed, put the wine and food into the fresh-keeping box, and sat cross-legged to meditate to refine the spiritual energy in the food. In fact, Lin Sen also gave him a lot of pickled or dried meat jerky, but for some reason, he didn't take it out to eat.

After meditating for a long time, the spiritual energy in the wine and food was almost completely refined. With a thought, he seemed to sense something, opened his eyes, put the big dog and the small snake into the beast bag, and then continued to meditate with his eyes closed.

Zhang Pa's soul was very powerful. In order to ensure that the Fu Shen Snake would not be discovered, he always used his spiritual sense to monitor the area of ​​nearly 100 miles. If there was any movement, he could find it immediately. The most terrifying thing was that he not only released his soul, but also practiced the soul refining song at the same time. With a large number of spiritual medicines such as Gu Shen Wan to replenish at any time, it was difficult for his soul not to be powerful.

After retracting his spiritual sense and waiting for a moment, a man came from the air with a sword. He flew over the courtyard and stopped, shouting loudly: "Brother Hongwu, Hongyuan from Ziguang Pavilion wants to see you."

Zhang Pa laughed out loud and shouted: "Come down, you still want to see me? You don't recognize me so soon?" Hongyuan landed in the courtyard and bowed: "Hongyuan greets you, brother." Zhang Pa was still laughing: "Why don't you change? Don't call me brother." Hongyuan smiled: "Okay, I feel awkward too."

Zhang Pa said: "Would you like to take a look? Take a look at my Taoist temple?" He just said it and laughed again. Hongyuan laughed: "This Taoist temple, yes, yes, it's very good, very mansion-like." The two of them talked nonsense with their eyes open.

There are four rooms in total. Standing in the courtyard, you can see that except for some furniture and supplies, the only things related to the Taoist temple are the futon and Taoist robes. Hongyuan looked around and said: "You have become much more cheerful after staying away from Tianlei Taoist Temple." Zhang Pa said: "Yes, if you dare to call the broken courtyard a mansion, I will be more cheerful." He laughed as he spoke. Hongyuan also laughed, looked up and found something strange, looked at the roof and asked: "The roof is very strange, the wood attribute aura appears and disappears, but it is just ordinary wood when you look closely. What's going on?" Zhang Pa didn't say he knew or didn't know, and omitted the key part and replied: "The wood was selected in the forest, and it was like this after it was built."

This sentence was absolutely true, but he couldn't hear anything wrong. Hongyuan looked at the roof again and said seriously: "Don't joke, this time the master wants to see you and summon you back to the mountain."

"See me? What's the matter?"

"I heard that the demons are attacking in large numbers, but I don't know why." Hongyuan didn't understand either.

"The demons are attacking, what does it have to do with me?" Zhang Pa was very confused, and Hongyuan urged him: "Ask the master and you will know, let's go."

It didn't take long for the two to fly back to the main peak of Tianlei Mountain. Hongyuan led the way, but the road he took was not the direction of Ziguang Pavilion. Zhang Pa asked in confusion: "Brother, where are you going?"

"To Tianlei Palace, the master asked me to take you directly there."

Behind Chaotian Gate is the street market. After passing the street market, go up and walk about ten miles. There are eighty-one huge stone steps, each half a meter high. After climbing the eighty-one stone steps, the view in front of you is suddenly open. It is a huge square, nine miles long and wide. Behind the square is a palace, tall and majestic, shining with colorful lights. As you get closer, you will see a black iron plaque hanging on the third floor of the main hall, with three big characters on it, Tianlei Hall. The whole plaque is pitch black, but only the three big characters are shining brightly, like a silver dragon trying to escape from the darkness.

The threshold of Tianlei Hall is high, and the door behind the threshold is open. The two doors are as big as Chaotian Gate, painted in vermilion, and stand on the left and right. A deacon Taoist boy stands outside the hall. Hongyuan brought Zhang Pa to the door and bowed to the deacon Taoist boy, saying, "I am summoning Hongwu to the hall to discuss matters by order of the master." The deacon Taoist boy looked at the two of them coldly and spread his hands and said, "Bring it."

Zhang Pa was stunned. What did he ask me for? Hongyuan pulled his sleeve and whispered, "Waist badge." Zhang Pa finally understood and took out the purple jade badge that he had never used since he got it and handed it to the steward Taoist boy. The steward Taoist boy took it, scanned it with his spiritual sense, and returned it to Zhang Pa, saying, "Go in." After saying that, he dodged to the side and said nothing more.

Zhang Pa asked Hongyuan, "You're not going in?" Hongyuan said, "Master didn't say, go quickly, don't let Master wait anxiously." Zhang Pa said he understood and walked in over the tall threshold.

The hall inside the threshold was huge and spacious, with more than a hundred vermilion columns firmly supporting the hall. There were many dragons, phoenixes, birds and beasts embossed on the columns, each of which was lifelike in shape. Zhang Pa walked in. The hall was a mile long, and at the end there were many fellow disciples standing or sitting on both sides, seemingly talking about something. Seeing Zhang Pa come in, they stopped talking and looked at him.

At the end of the hall was a lonely Taoist chair, on which sat Zhenru, the head of the sect, who was the only one who could sit there. Five meters away from the headmaster's chair, there are eighteen chairs on the left and right sides every half a meter, arranged in three rows, with a total of one hundred and eighteen seats. At this moment, only the thirty-six chairs in the first row are occupied, and disciples stand behind each person.

Zhang Pa did not dare to be presumptuous in the hall. He restrained his spirit and bowed his head respectfully. However, when he reached such a realm, his senses were extremely sharp. When he entered the door, he had already guessed the identities of everyone with a glance. The people sitting in the first row had a strong aura. Among them were Master Zhentian, Master Zhenkong and others. They were known to be masters in the Jindan stage. Most of the people behind them were respectful and probably disciples. He laughed in his heart: "I really have face. Last time I went back to the mountain, there were thirteen cultivators to welcome me. This time, there are thirty-six Jindan masters, plus the headmaster, all waiting for me." Although he felt a little satisfied, he couldn't feel at ease. He didn't know what he was called here for.