The original repairer

Chapter 117: Shenguang Island 5 Lines Territory 3

In a breath and a half, three earth walls were connected to the edge of the Blazing Fruit in the magma. Shi Chen stepped on the earth wall and quickly came to the top. He gathered the surrounding fire spirit energy and turned it into a knife shape, cutting off the stalk of the Blazing Fruit. The jade box accurately caught the Blazing Fruit, and then he immediately returned to the edge of the magma pool.

He stepped onto the black rock at the edge of the lava with steady movements and precise control, all done in one go.

"boom!"

Suddenly, the earth shield wrapped around his body instantly shattered, the hair all over his body spontaneously combusted, and the robes he was wearing were burned and torn by the high temperature.

It spontaneously combusted for less than a second before rushing into the isolation array. He didn't bother checking for burns on himself, but quickly sealed the Blazing Fruit in his hand with ice magic and stored it in his storage ring.

Only after doing all this did Shi Chen have time to check his injuries.

All the hair on the body is burned, but that’s not a big deal. As long as the skills are practiced, the hair will grow back quickly.

His skin was burnt, and his robes were riddled with holes. The effect and power of the robes could only be exerted at 10% or 20% of their original power, and the magic shoes on his feet were even damaged.

He put away the magic weapon on his body and took out the magic weapon and clothes he had used before. However, he changed his mind and realized that even the magic weapon and clothes could not withstand the burning of such heat, so it would be futile to wear the magic weapon.

After taking back the magic tools and clothes, he had no choice but to get naked. Fortunately, there were no other cultivators on Shenguan Island.

After swallowing the healing pill, the burns all over his body began to slowly heal and scab over.

This accident was caused by neglecting to calculate the time that the earth shield on the body would withstand the high temperature.

The earth shield and earth wall can withstand high temperatures for the same amount of time. They will be burned and broken apart in six breaths at most and lose their effectiveness.

Therefore, you can only cast three Earth Wall spells first, and then cast Earth Shield spell when you step out of the isolation array to avoid being hurt.

This extra step would give just enough time. Even a slight delay would result in the whole body being burned by the high temperature like before.

Shi Chen estimated that even with healing pills, he could only withstand such high-temperature burns ten times before his body would be damaged and fatigued and unable to heal quickly.

If exposed outside the isolation array, he would be reduced to ashes within three breaths.

Each magma pool is five or six feet apart. Walking between two magma pools, these routes are the places with the lowest temperature in the magma pool group.

Walk around and when you come across a magma pool with blazing fruits, set up an isolation array, collect the blazing fruits as quickly as possible, then retract the isolation array base and continue moving forward.

After walking in the lava pool area for nearly five hours, we finally walked out of the lava pool group.

In the magma pool group, forty-nine flame fruits were successfully picked, and the materials for ten isolation arrays were also used up.

He was not greedy. Forty-nine Blazing Flame Fruits were enough to refine many Fire Spirit Pills. There was no need to use up all the materials for the isolation array. He should leave some as a backup, which might be able to ward off a disaster at a critical moment.

After walking out of the magma pools and heading forward three hundred feet, the temperature dropped to normal, but all I saw was still a barren wasteland with no grass growing.

He released his spiritual sense again and felt the heavy breath of earth. The earth-attributed spiritual energy here was extremely rich.

He sat down cross-legged, practicing Qigong to heal his wounds. Three days later, his wounds were healed, his hair had grown back more than three inches, and his eyebrows and other hair had grown back. A circle of shed skin surrounded the place where he sat cross-legged.

Take out the robes and sandals and put them on to cover your whole body.

The earth-attributed spiritual energy was so rich, yet not even a single spiritual herb or tree could grow. Looking at the bare, yellow-brown land before him, Shi Chen couldn't figure out what the problem was.

His spiritual sense had already swept to the foot of the mountain. After ten feet, his spiritual sense could not penetrate, as if he had encountered a spiritual sense sealing formation.

After retracting his spiritual sense and releasing it only ten feet away, Shi Chen continued to move forward on this barren yellow-brown land. After walking two or three miles, he saw a half-exposed earth spirit fruit on the yellow-brown soil.

The growth environment of the Earth Spirit Fruit requires rich earth-attributed spiritual energy. The growth of an Earth Spirit Fruit will absorb all the nutrients and spiritual energy within ten or even dozens of feet around it, making it impossible for other spiritual herbs and trees on this soil to survive.

Therefore, in places with rich earth-attributed spiritual energy, as long as there is an earth spirit fruit, the surrounding area is often bare.

Looking at this piece of yellow-brown soil that is seven or eight miles wide, I wonder how many earth spirit fruits are buried underneath, which has created such a bare scene.

Unfortunately, the Earth Spirit Fruit cannot be scanned out by spiritual sense. The feeling it feels when scanned is exactly the same as the soil in which it grows. Unless you see it with the naked eye or touch it with your body, you can only find its location.

He released his spiritual sense and observed carefully. Within the range of his spiritual sense, the Earth Spirit Fruit exposed outside the soil was not detected. Maybe it existed, but in the perception of his spiritual sense, it just felt like an ordinary piece of soil.

After searching for two miles, I suddenly realized that it is extremely rare to see Earth Spirit Fruit exposed on the surface. They are usually buried deep underground.

It is difficult to find the Earth Spirit Fruit by walking on the ground, so if you burrow underground, the chance of encountering the Earth Spirit Fruit will be greater.

He used the earth escape technique to go underground and began searching forward.

With the help of the earth escape technique, he traveled underground. Everything in front of him was pitch black, and he could not see the surrounding situation clearly. He could only rely on his spiritual sense to perceive.

After walking more than a mile, we didn't find a single Earth Spirit Fruit. The search was very ineffective, and it was really difficult to find a few more Earth Spirit Fruits.

The normal way to find Earth Spirit Fruit is to find a place with strong earth-attribute spiritual energy. If you find a circle of bare land of several or dozens of feet, dig from the middle of the bare soil.

The growth depth of the Earth Spirit Fruit will not exceed half a zhang. Start digging in the middle and dig towards the four sides, with a depth of about half a zhang. You can find Earth Spirit Fruit within a radius of ten zhang.

However, in this barren land, conventional methods of gathering spiritual objects are not applicable.

If you want to find the Earth Spirit Fruit, you can only dig it bit by bit. This is extremely inefficient, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and if you are not careful, the Earth Spirit Fruit may be damaged.

After working for a long time, maybe one shovel may bring out half of the Earth Spirit Fruit and the surrounding soil. The value of the destroyed Earth Spirit Fruit will be greatly reduced, and the medicinal properties will lose their effectiveness very quickly, and will completely disappear after half an hour.

There was really no better way. I was thinking about leaving the underground and returning to the ground to leave this place, so I casually waved my hands.

"Ok!"

The earth escape technique empowers the whole body, allowing one to travel through the soil. When encountering an earth spirit fruit underground, it is like being blocked by a transparent object in the air.

Putting the Earth Spirit Fruit that his arm touched into the storage ring, Shi Chen used his hands and feet to scratch around, and while slowly moving forward, he used his limbs to scratch around. The search effect was greatly improved, and he could search within a half-zhang range around his body.

After walking more than a mile underground, I only encountered three Earth Spirit Fruits. Together with the two before, I harvested a total of five.

Summarizing some searching experience, the distribution of the Earth Spirit Fruits underground has no regular pattern. There will not be a second Earth Spirit Fruit within ten feet of the first one.

Based on this rule, I was thinking about whether to search back and spend more time to obtain more Earth Spirit Fruits.

In the end, I decided to move forward, collect whatever I could find, and search backwards. This was greed at work.

After walking two miles, he left the area. He did not walk in a straight line, but instead weaved through the ground within a radius of ten feet, searching as much of the area as possible.

When he emerged from the ground, he was already standing on a charred piece of land.

Checking the harvest, a total of eighteen earth spirit fruits were found in the earth attribute area.

The land before me was charred black, dotted with tall, pointed trees, twenty or thirty feet tall, their surfaces seemingly carbonized and covered in a layer of black bark. Apart from these scattered, pointed trees, no weeds or shrubs survived. From here, it was the slope leading up the mountain.

He released his spiritual sense, but it was confined within a range of half a meter. With the naked eye, lightning could be seen from time to time in the depths of the black scorched earth.

A mortal would certainly think this place was cursed, subject to constant lightning strikes. But in the eyes of the cultivators, this place was actually a land of accumulated mines.

There are lightning-struck trees in the land with accumulated mines, and purple berries will be produced in the areas with the most concentrated lightning strikes.

Purple berries are the fruit of a magical herb. They grow in areas with concentrated lightning strikes and use lightning as nutrients. They must absorb lightning at least once a day and cannot be struck directly by lightning. Before they mature, they can only absorb some scattered arcs of electricity.

The effect of purple berries is extremely powerful. Taking them directly can improve the body training to a higher level. It is also the best spiritual object for cultivators with thunder spiritual roots.

It is very difficult to find a place where lightning strikes every day. Even if there is one, there needs to be a tall lightning-attracting tree, a spiritual wood that can withstand the lightning strike.

While waiting for the purple berries to form, the berries must withstand three lightning strikes when they are ripe. Each time it withstands a lightning strike, the medicinal properties will double. After three lightning strikes, the berries will fall.

Purple berries need to be preserved with lightning-struck wood, which can be found everywhere in mine-covered areas.

The scattered carbonized trees in front of me were all lightning-struck trees. I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but after walking thirty feet into the black thunder field, the tallest lightning-struck tree thirty feet ahead was struck by a lightning bolt.

"Crack!"

Lightning struck down from the mountain, from the top of the tree along the trunk, along the branches, and finally reached the roots. The lightning-struck trees within a few feet around trembled for a while, and only calmed down after a cup of tea.

Seeing the blue arcs of electricity running around in the trees, Shi Chen felt that the intensity of this lightning was not as strong as what he had experienced when he was building his foundation. With his current physical strength, it should not be a problem for him to withstand fifty such lightning strikes.

After observing for a quarter of an hour, he discovered that in the land of thunder, every ten breaths or so, a bolt of lightning would strike from the mountain, and the landing points were irregular.

When we started climbing the mountain, there was no road in the minefield, only lightning-attracting trees everywhere. Other vegetation could not grow here and could not withstand the lightning at all.

"Crack!"

After walking ten feet, he was struck by a bolt of lightning from the mountain. The newly grown hair was bent by the electricity, and bursts of water mist and burnt smoke emerged from the surface of his body.

When the thunder struck down, he had a slight premonition and calculated the location where the thunder would fall. He instantly moved sideways, and the thunder turned in the air and finally struck him.

Advance another ten feet.

"Crack!"

The thunder still struck.

Continue forward ten feet.

"Crack!"

All the thunder that fell from the mountain fell on Shi Chen.

Being struck by the first lightning bolt could perhaps be considered an accident, but if being struck by the second lightning bolt still occurred, it would indicate that there was something wrong with the lightning bolt on the mountain.

After the third bolt of lightning struck again, he was certain that these downward thunders could lock onto the target, and with his current level of cultivation, he could not avoid them at all.

I don’t know how far it is to reach the top of the mountain. If I have to withstand fifty lightning bolts, my body might be in trouble.

After standing there thinking for more than ten breaths, without any warning, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck from the mountain and hit Shi Chen right on target.

This land of accumulated thunder, if you enter, you will be struck by thunder once every ten feet. If you do not move and stand still, you will be struck by thunder every fifteen breaths.

It’s really a very weird place!