Before long, Zhang Ling learned some information from the young man. However, this information was of little use to him.
In the end, he took the storage bag from the man and ended his life with a fireball. He wouldn't let this person get away with trying to lure other cultivators to force his hand.
After killing the young man, Zhang Ling searched the three people's storage bags on the spot. To his surprise, there were indeed one hundred and twelve thousand spirit stones in one of the young man's storage bags.
Zhang Ling unceremoniously put them away, and then put all the useful things from the several storage bags into his own storage bag.
He also found three identical identity tokens on the three people, with the three characters 'Qing Lei Sect' engraved on the back of the tokens.
It seemed that these three people were all disciples of the Qing Lei Sect. Zhang Ling just sneered, and directly destroyed the three people's storage bags along with these things with identity recognition.
In order not to attract other cultivators, he also released thirty or forty huge thunderballs, directly bombing the place where he had just stayed, and quickly left the place after destroying the traces of spiritual power.
Not long after, Zhang Ling looked at a round bead in his hand in a hidden place in the mountain, and frowned slightly.
The round bead in his hand was cyan-blue and the size of a fist, with一道一道 of white light shining in the middle. This was a thunder bead. It contained a large amount of heavenly thunder, and the total amount was enough for him to condense three or four Yang-attribute thunder light spells.
This was obviously not a magic weapon, nor was it a magic treasure. It was a special treasure. There were also some faint blood-colored runes on it, which seemed to have other uses.
This thing was found in the short-shirted young man's storage bag, and it was also sealed in a jade box, which seemed to be very important to the young man.
Looking at this thing, Zhang Ling went through the information he had just learned using the Soul Seizing Technique.
The short-shirted young man's name was Ding Chen. He was an inner disciple of the Qing Lei Sect and also a disciple of the Ding family, which was affiliated with the Qing Lei Sect.
The Ding family was a family of cultivators with three Golden Core ancestors, and they were affiliated with the Qing Lei Sect. Their status in the Qing Lei Sect was extraordinary. It is said that experts at the Nascent Soul level had emerged from the family.
There are many cultivators like this who are both disciples of a cultivating family and disciples of a sect. Most of these cultivators have good aptitude, and the short-shirted young man was a cultivator with a thunder-attribute spiritual root.
The aptitude of异灵根 is generally cultivated by the sect and the family with all their strength, so they should not betray the sect. However, when this person obtained this thunder bead, he decided to betray the sect and also decided to leave the family and escape from Fenglei Island.
As for why, it was because Ding Chen injured his foundation in a battle with others in his early years, and his cultivation had not improved for decades. Because of this, the family and the sect correspondingly reduced most of his resource supply, which made him even more disheartened.
In order to break through and become a Golden Core cultivator, Ding Chen decided to take a risk. This thunder bead was the opportunity for him to break through.
He had previously seen a secret method in the ancient books of the sect. By using special treasures of the thunder attribute, he could not only repair his injuries, but also have a high probability of breaking through to the Golden Core cultivation.
This was an important reason for betraying the sect.
Once this thunder bead was refined by him using the secret method, it would be no less than taking spiritual objects to break through the cultivation.
As for the real purpose of the thunder bead, Ding Chen knew very little. He only knew that the high-level members of the sect had refined a total of thirty-six beads. Three days ago, the elders summoned the cultivators who were proficient in thunder attribute techniques, distributed one to each person, and also passed down a secret technique called Melting Thunder Technique, asking them to be proficient in it.
It is not easy for other sects to find so many cultivators who practice thunder attribute, but the Qing Lei Sect is famous for its thunder techniques. Most of the disciples in the sect practice thunder techniques.
Ding Chen was even more qualified with the Thunder Spiritual Root, so it was reasonable for him to obtain this treasure.
After that, the high-level members of the Qing Lei Sect would take these people to a secret realm, seemingly to do something big. As for what it was, the elders did not reveal any information.
Ding Chen naturally had no intention to care about these things, and only wanted to fight for the opportunity to break through to a higher level of cultivation, so he betrayed the sect.
But unfortunately, just after he took the thunder bead out of the sect for thousands of miles, it seemed that the sect received the news and sent people to hunt him down. Therefore, he fled all the way and ran into him.
Zhang Ling looked at the thunder bead in his hand. The heavenly thunder contained in it did make him a little tempted. With this thunder bead, he would no longer have to collect heavenly thunder. In addition to the heavenly thunder he had collected before, it was enough for him to cultivate nine Yang-attribute thunder light spells.
However, this treasure was refined by the Qing Lei Sect, so there must be risks in getting it.
Zhang Ling pondered. After a quarter of an hour, he decided to abandon this thing to avoid attracting the high-level members of the Qing Lei Sect. He directly drove his escape light to find a mountain stream, and used means to destroy the thunder bead.
The movement when the thunder bead was destroyed was not small. The thunder and lightning inside were released instantly, covering the surrounding hundred-zhang range. For a time, the rumbling sound continued, and the mountain stream was directly submerged in the thunder light.
This movement really startled Zhang Ling. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this thunder bead was indeed unusual. This kind of power was stronger than the high-level spells of the third or fourth rank. I'm afraid that even a Golden Core late-stage cultivator could escape safely if he was deeply trapped in it.
However, this also proved that this treasure was not an ordinary thing, and it was best to avoid getting involved in this kind of special thing.
Zhang Ling still remembered that when he was in the Qi Refining stage, he also obtained a special thing from a cultivator, which attracted Wei Shen of the Foundation Establishment stage, and then Wei Shen even held him hostage and almost died.
Of course, this was also based on the fact that this thunder bead was actually dispensable to him. In at most seven or eight days, he would be able to collect all the heavenly thunder he needed, so naturally he didn't want to cause any trouble.
If this was an ancient treasure or something of great use to him, Zhang Ling would naturally not give up easily, but would instead take the treasure and immediately escape from this place.
Looking at the thunder light in the mountain stream, Zhang Ling shook his head, smiled lightly, and left. In the next few days, he traveled to several places and collected heavenly thunder several times.
What Zhang Ling didn't know was that two hours later, a Golden Core female cultivator actually came to the valley where he had collected heavenly thunder before. Then she found the place where the thunder bead was destroyed, but both places were destroyed, and no trace could be found.
However, this woman did not seem to give up and searched nearby for most of the day.
More than ten days later, Zhang Ling finished collecting heavenly thunder and walked out of the Fenglei Mountains. He first went to Fenglei City and rented an inn for a few days to recover from the consumption of the past two months.
At the same time, he initially refined and stabilized the heavenly thunder in the Liangyi gourd.
