Chapter 41: Five Years of Seclusion

  Lei Hao sat cross-legged in the secret chamber of the Water Cavern, his eyes tightly closed. Several small spirit-gathering arrays made the spiritual energy within the small space extremely dense, causing a faint mist to rise.

  Between Lei Hao's steady breaths, a large amount of spiritual energy was swallowed into his body. The 'Little Lei Hao' yuan spirit inside his body had its eyes tightly closed, pinching the technique to absorb the spiritual energy that was constantly surging into his dantian.

  It wasn't clear how much time had passed, but Lei Hao, who had been motionless, slowly exhaled a mouthful of black exhaust, and his eyelids twitched slightly. When he opened his eyes, two piercing purple lights flashed in the dimly lit room.

  Lei Hao's powerful aura burst forth as he emerged from his secluded cultivation, blowing away the dust that had accumulated on his body. After a quick calculation, he realized that half a year had already passed since he began his closed-door training. With a slight sense of excitement, Lei Hao felt a surge of joy on his face, for after six months of intense practice, he had finally stabilized his cultivation at the initial stage of the Demon King realm, and even made some slight progress beyond that. This speed was faster than he had imagined.

  Lei Hao didn't plan to leave the enclosure after waking up, his current cultivation as a terrestrial immortal was not enough, since he had already closed himself in, then he would break through to the heavenly immortal before leaving.

  This isn't Lei Hao being arrogant, he's very clear that every step after the Demon King realm will be extremely difficult. Just look at the Mixed World Demon King, his soul is weak, over a hundred years ago he broke through to the Demon King realm, but even after more than a hundred years until his death, he was still only in the initial stage of the Demon King realm.

  Lei Hao is not a demon king of the mortal world, he must break through to the realm of Tian Xian in a short period of time.

  The Earth Immortal Realm and the Internal Alchemy Realm are different. The Internal Alchemy Realm requires a lot of time to accumulate magical power, and also needs to use hard-won magical power to temper the physical body. In contrast, the Earth Immortal Realm only needs to comprehend the origin of the Five Elements to break through the current realm. As for Lei Hao's past life as a university student, what was his specialty? It can be said that he had no specialty, but it can also be said that everything was his specialty. After studying for over a decade, his greatest strength was his ability to learn and deduce. This ability is now fully utilized with the support of Lei Hao's powerful magical power.

  As for spiritual power, the current Lei Hao can swallow all the spiritual energy within dozens of miles in one mouthful to replenish the consumption of spiritual power, and no longer needs to spend a lot of time accumulating spiritual power.

  Lei Hao is now most lacking in time, he understands that the time left for him is not much. Sun Wukong has established the Huaguo Mountain Demon Kingdom, and soon the great battle of the Heavenly Palace will follow. Lei Hao's Xian-level cultivation is among the best in this proud country, but in the three realms, it is indeed too low.

  There are several earth immortals and demon kings on Mount Huaguo, but none of them can calm the situation when the Heavenly Court attacks Mount Huaguo. It has always been Sun Wukong who faces the challenges of the great generals of the Heavenly Court alone. Therefore, after Sun Wukong was captured, the Hua Guo Mountain Demon Kingdom, which had risen to become the first power in Dongsheng Shenzhou, would disappear in such a short period of time.

  When Lei Hao broke through to the Earth Immortal, he had a vague sense of the Heaven Immortal realm, so he felt that he could break through to Heaven Immortal in a short period of time. Only by fighting for more time would he have time to spend on cultivating and breaking through to Golden Immortal.

  If Lei Hao was still a demon soldier, if Lei Hao and Sun Wukong didn't have a deep relationship, he would choose to escape with Lei Wei and the Thunder Army from the Eastern Winning God State. But since it's not, he can't allow himself to do nothing.

  "Monkey, I'll do my best, the outcome is up to heaven's will." Lei Hao muttered to himself in a low voice with flashing eyes, completely unaware that everything he did was going against 'heaven's will'.

  After a long time, Lei Hao finally withdrew his stunned gaze. He rummaged through his chest with his large hands and pulled out an object, unfolding it to reveal the jade bottle that Sun Wukong had casually tossed to him earlier.

  Lei Hao opened the jade bottle and scanned it with his divine sense. Inside the jade bottle were three grains of golden dan medicine that looked ordinary.

  Lei Hao took out a dan medicine, and only after careful examination did he discover that there was a seal of law on the dan medicine. After a moment's thought, a stream of law power surged from his palm, carefully removing the seal of law from the dan medicine.

  At the moment when the seal was broken, a sudden change occurred. The ordinary dan medicine that had been ordinary just a moment before suddenly emitted a strong seven-colored light, forming a cloud of dragon and tiger shape on the top of the secret room, constantly emitting a soft hum, stirring up Lei Hao's hands that wanted to break free. But Lei Hao, who was prepared early, would not let this dan medicine fly away.

  Looking at the seven-colored strange phenomenon produced by this Dan medicine, Lei Hao knew that this Dan medicine was extraordinary, extremely extraordinary.

  "This dead monkey didn't even tell me that this elixir was so..." Lei Hao said with a flicker in his eyes.

  Lei Hao was deeply moved, looking at this strange phenomenon, even if Lei Hou's butt could understand that it was definitely an extraordinary treasure, the seven-colored light was not something that anything could emit.

  Lei Haoguang could tell how precious the Dan medicine was, and Sun Wukong, who had taken it before, knew even better. However, he still secretly left three pills for Lei Haoguang. This would be put to the test outside, but with this seven-colored phenomenon, a bloody storm could erupt. In this world where strength is supreme, even close relatives might turn against each other for the sake of obtaining a treasure that can enhance their cultivation...

  Sun Wukong's brotherly affection is too heavy. Lei Hao feels that the elixir in his hand is so heavy that he can hardly hold it...

  Lei Hao fell silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and tossed the divine pill into his mouth, starting to meditate.

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  In the grand hall of Shuǐ Zàng Dòng, Léi Dà Niú was distributing things to his brothers when he suddenly saw a golden light flashing inside the cave. His face changed drastically, and he opened his mouth in shock and anger, ready to shout loudly. However, he froze for a moment before relaxing.

  It was none other than Sun Wukong in a dashing outfit.

  The dazzling reflection made the Lei Wei brothers feel a bit uncomfortable, but after blinking a few times and focusing their eyes, they couldn't help but burst into applause.

  The mighty Monkey King, as the poem goes:

  Wearing a golden armor shining bright,

  A golden crown on his head, radiant and light.

  Holding a golden rod in one hand,

  His cloud shoes matching perfectly with each step he takes.

  A pair of strange eyes like shining stars,

  Ears that reach over his shoulders, firm and hard as ever.

  With a robust body full of transformations galore,

  A voice that resonates loud and clear like the sound of a bell.

  At this time, Sun Wukong was also excitedly scanning the crowd of demons, and after a long while, he found Lei Hao's figure. With some disappointment, he opened his mouth to ask: "Big Cow, where is Oxhead?"

  Lao Shi's Lei Da Niu opened his mouth: "Qǐ bǐng Měi Hóu Wáng..." Before he could finish, he was interrupted by Sun Wukong.

  All I saw was Sun Wukong with a look of impatience saying: "Stop calling me Beautiful Monkey King, you are the brothers of Ox Head, which means you are my brothers. From now on, call me Dead Monkey or whatever you want, just don't call me Beautiful Monkey King, it's annoying..."

  Lei Daniu's face was somewhat embarrassed, and he had also seen Sun Wukong's strength before. The invincible Mixed World Demon King back then didn't even draw his sword in front of him, and knelt on the ground begging for mercy like a quail. And Lei Daniu couldn't even get past one move under the Mixed World Demon King's hands. Just as Lei Daniu was about to speak, he saw Sun Wukong with an unpleasant face, so he had to change his words.

  "Let's still call him Second Brother, yeah, he hasn't come out of his closed-door meditation yet." Lei Da Niu said honestly.

  Sun Wukong was quite satisfied with this title for Lei Hao, and had no objection to being only the second brother. He fully understood Lei Hao's position in their hearts, which was one that nobody could surpass.

  Sun Wukong was not pleased to hear that Lei Hao was still in seclusion. He had just obtained a handy weapon and a dazzling cloak from the East Sea Dragon King, and had come specifically to show off to Lei Hao, but ended up striking out, so he was displeased.

  "What about the little fox?" Sun Wukong thought for a moment and then asked. Since Lei Hao had already acknowledged it, this little fox was indeed his sister-in-law.

  Lei Da Niu pointed in the direction of Lei Hao's closed quarters and said: "Little Fox has gone to guard the front of the secret chamber again."

  Sun Wukong listened, and his head hurt so much that he waved his hand and said: "How boring! How boring! Wait for the Ox-Headed General to come out of the pass and send a little demon to inform me. I'm leaving." After finishing speaking, he transformed into a golden light and disappeared in an instant.

  Lei Da Niu watched as Guang Lai Guang Qu's Sun Wukong came and went, not finding it strange. He knew that this was just his personality. Turning his head with a serious expression, he continued to distribute things to his brothers.

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  In the secret room, Lei Hao was still in a state of meditation.

  Only to see Lei Hao's face was covered with a purple glow, and behind him appeared a huge yin-yang fish. This yin-yang fish was slowly rotating at this time, illuminating the entire secret room very brightly. And Lei Hao had been in seclusion for so long

  His whole body didn't emit a single bit of stench, instead emitting waves of fragrance. The scent was just like the fragrance emitted by thousand-year-old ginseng. Obviously his cultivation had made progress again.

  Lei Hao's consciousness was no longer in a state of chaos as it usually was during his cultivation, but instead found himself in a world filled with lightning.

  On that day, after taking the Dan medicine and entering meditation, Lei Hao finally knew how precious this Dan medicine was.

  Because that Dan medicine actually sealed a thread of a certain powerful being's insight into the Great Way.

  Yes, the great way of enlightenment. The three thousand great ways all lead to the same destination. This thread of enlightenment is the origin of gold in Sun Wukong's eyes, and the origin of thunder in Lei Hao's eyes. And it is precisely because of this that this elixir is precious, for it is not only useful for earthly immortals and heavenly immortals, but even for the peak of golden immortality, it will have a huge help.

  Lei Hao was now completely absorbed in this world of lightning, as if he had lost all sense of reality.

  The purposeful thunderstorm is now in Lei Hao's eyes just a lively positive and negative ion. Fierce, but without any emotion.

  Just as he had previously understood justice and judgment.

  "Heaven's Thunder has no emotions, but I do. Heaven's Thunder is a tool for judgment in the hands of the Heavenly Way, and in my hands it can also become the power to defeat my enemies. Indeed, I am righteous, and those who oppose me will be evil." The drunk Lei Hao's eyes flashed with lightning.

  At the time when Lei Hao was completely absorbed in and enlightened by the Thunder, his understanding of the origin of the Thunder also grew rapidly.

  "The Great Way is fifty, Heaven's gift is forty-nine, no matter what, there will always be a thread of life. Thunder is the same, representing both ultimate destruction and perfect rebirth."

  As his magical powers circulated, Lei Hao's physical body grew stronger, with bulging muscles that rivaled those of the top-level bodybuilders he had seen in his past life. Every muscle on Lei Hao's body would occasionally flash with a streak of lightning, accompanied by a wisp of black smoke - these were the impurities being purged from Lei Hao's body.

  Lei Hao remained in a state of concentration, he had already grasped three-tenths of the Thunder Source, breaking through to the Heavenly Immortal realm was only a matter of time.

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