Wu Shattered Star River

Gao Mingyu and his two companions' arrival was less like a deliberate assault and more like a desperate flight from the Suanni beast.

The four of them had gone to lure the Suanni beast, and while they succeeded in drawing it away, they couldn't kill it. Instead, the Suanni beast burned Gao Ling to death, and the remaining three were all scorched.

Seeing the request for aid, the three could only return. However, they still couldn't kill the Suanni beast, and with the situation here having changed, continuing to lure it was pointless.

The three glanced back and realized that returning to help was meaningless. Of the original sixteen, only three remained, making a total of six with their group. On the Feixian Hall side, there were still fourteen people, plus the Suanni beast.

How could they fight?

“Retreat!”

As expected, the three of them frantically fled in another direction, not daring to get close, fearing being left behind by the Feixian Hall group.

Liao Hu turned his gaze to Jiang Han and asked, “Should we pursue?”

“No pursuit!”

Jiang Han said firmly, while also shouting at the Suanni beast, “Suanni beast, return!”

They weren't here to fight, but to compete for resources. The Zuma Palace team had suffered heavy casualties and wouldn't dare to cause them trouble. If that was the case, why continue fighting?

Gao Mingyu and his companions were clearly strong. If they forced a pursuit, someone on their side would likely die, which would be a net loss.

The Suanni beast roared a few times and returned. Jiang Han looked at Xiong Jingjing, who quickly began healing the Suanni beast.

Several beams of green light descended, and the injuries on the Suanni beast's body gradually healed.

Seeing this, the others looked at Xiong Jingjing with even more warmth.

This girl, previously considered a mere ornament, was now a treasure in everyone's eyes.

Her healing abilities were incredibly powerful, and she also possessed a confinement ability, making her invaluable in team battles.

Xiong Jingjing healed the Suanni beast and then tended to the injured. Liao Hu and the others quickly retreated to change into new clothes.

While Xiong Jingjing was healing everyone, they discovered that her healing technique could rapidly regrow their hair and eyebrows.

Moreover, their skin quickly shed, revealing new skin, preventing them from looking like black ghosts.

This made everyone even more grateful and fond of Xiong Jingjing.

After the healing was complete, Liao Hu said, “Jiang Han, you stay up here with everyone. Meng Yan, Li Yong, and I will go down to gather.”

There were still some Heavenly Lightning Fruits, which were all Xuan stones. Liao Hu didn't want to give them up.

“No!”

Jiang Han thought for a moment and said, “I'll take a few people down. You guys guard up here. I've just discovered some new techniques for using my Lightning Serpent skill. I want to go down and take another look at the sea of lightning, to see if I can improve it further…”

“Improve it further?”

Liao Hu and Meng Yan exchanged glances and chuckled awkwardly.

Jiang Han's ability to unleash lightning arcs with a single sword strike was already incredibly abnormal. Ordinary warriors, including them, couldn't even figure out how to counter it. Jiang Han still wanted to improve it; was he trying to leave them no chance to live?

“Alright!”

Jiang Han's increased combat power was a good thing for the team. Liao Hu waved his hand, and Jiang Han led four people towards the lower area.

Jiang Han walked in the front, having two purposes for coming down.

One was to accumulate more lightning energy, and the other was to observe the sea of lightning and the lightning itself, to see if he could further improve the Lightning Serpent skill and make it even more powerful.

Because he was at the front, his speed was faster, attracting most of the lightning arcs.

Having been struck by lightning so many times, his body's resistance to lightning had become stronger, and the damage it inflicted on him had begun to lessen.

Amidst sparks and lightning, he rushed down to the terrace. Jiang Han didn't collect Heavenly Lightning Fruits but had the other four do it.

He sat alone on the outermost edge of the terrace, quietly watching the falling lightning and the raging sea of lightning below.

Lightning arcs roared and engulfed Jiang Han, his body constantly trembling, but his eyes were wide open, staring intently at the chaotic lightning arcs.

“So fierce!”

The four Feixian Hall disciples huddled in a corner, watching Jiang Han, who was covered in lightning arcs, secretly admiring him, feeling like they were seeing a God of Thunder.

“Perhaps… I can combine the Lightning Serpents?”

Ignoring the pain of his body being damaged by the lightning, Jiang Han immersed himself in his thoughts, watching the turbulent sea of lightning below and recalling the scene when he released the Lightning Serpent with his war blade.

“The Lightning Serpent is formed by countless lightning arcs, and those powerful lightning bolts are also formed by countless lightning arcs. Then… theoretically, I can combine the Lightning Serpents into an even more powerful Lightning Dragon?”

“The question is, how to combine them?”

Jiang Han's gaze turned to the massive falling lightning bolts, observing them carefully, constantly deducing and verifying. Lightning arcs emerged from his palm as he began to practice and experiment.

After a while, the lightning arcs in the sea of lightning dissipated, and the four people huddled in the corner quickly jumped down to collect Heavenly Lightning Fruits.

A few breaths later, the four people jumped back up, returning to the corner of the terrace.

The lightning above continued to pour down, the sea of lightning raged, and the lightning arcs ran wild…

This cycle repeated!

After more than an hour, Jiang Han had accumulated a significant amount of azure energy outside the Heavenly Beast Cauldron.

Unfortunately, he didn't have any Xuan materials with lightning attributes, otherwise, with this energy, he might have been able to construct two layers of the altar and reach the ninth level of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

The Heavenly Lightning Fruits had all been collected. Jiang Han had observed the lightning and the sea of lightning for over an hour, but he hadn't managed to combine the Lightning Serpents into a Lightning Dragon.

He had tried many times and deduced countless methods, but he still couldn't do it.

“Let's go!”

Jiang Han didn't waste any more time here. Comprehension wasn't something that could be figured out in an hour. He could slowly study it when he had time in the future.

It would be good if he could succeed, but even if he couldn't, the Lightning Serpent skill had already greatly enhanced his combat power.

Leading the four people up from the Lightning Abyss, all the Heavenly Lightning Fruits were gathered, placed in a black gourd, and finally handed over to Jiang Lang for safekeeping.

Even when Zuma Palace sent such a strong team, Jiang Lang, with a few relatively weaker team members, managed to withstand them without anyone dying. This fully demonstrated his ability.

At least in terms of survival, Jiang Lang was very strong!

The number of Heavenly Lightning Fruits was tallied, and they had collected approximately six thousand four hundred, which was sixty-four billion Xuan stones.

This made everyone ecstatic. In addition, they had killed more than a dozen people from Zuma Palace, and they found many natural treasures in their black gourds, which Zuma Palace warriors had collected from resource points.

After counting them, they discovered that the natural treasures in the black gourds of these dozen people were worth over twenty billion Xuan stones.

This was an unexpected surprise. There were also a dozen or so spatial rings, containing varying amounts of Xuan materials and Xuan stones...

Killing and looting was indeed a good way to get rich quickly.

The only regret this time was that a teammate had died, but the others didn't grieve for too long.

Before entering the Divine Demon Battlefield, everyone had mentally prepared for the possibility of death. They had come in to snatch resources with their heads on the line. If someone died, they could only blame their bad luck and lack of skill.

“Where to next?”

The others put the body of the fallen disciple into a black gourd and quickly left the Lightning Abyss. While walking, Jiang Han looked at Liao Hu and asked.

The latter took out a map and looked at it for a while, saying, “Within a radius of a thousand miles, there are five bronze-level resource points, one silver-level resource point, the Dark Forest. This silver-level resource point has many demons and is very dangerous, but it's said to contain many Xuan materials, making it a treasure land.”

“Let's head towards the Dark Forest!”

Jiang Han thought for a moment and said, “We'll collect from the bronze-level resource points along the way and then go to the Dark Forest to take a look. If it's too dangerous, we can just retreat.”

“Okay!”

Everyone nodded, without any objections.

Imperceptibly, Jiang Han had become the core figure of this team, and everyone subconsciously obeyed his orders.

In this world, the strong prey on the weak, and the weak have a natural instinct to attach themselves to the strong.

After this battle, Jiang Han's glorious achievements made everyone understand a truth: Jiang Han was the strongest in the team.

Without question!