Chapter 452: Chapter 5: Sand Bandits and Dongque City_3
The Life Thunder Fruit is a gift from the Thunder Force.
Within the Thunder Force, a divine medicine containing the energy and vitality of thunder is born, constantly drawing from the power of thunder, and eventually bearing the Life Thunder Fruit.
Consuming the Life Thunder Fruit and refining the strength within not only greatly advances one’s cultivation but also the infinite vitality it contains can extend the life of a cultivator. Besides, it aids cultivators in understanding and enhancing the Immortal True Intent.
In the past life’s Nine Heavens plot, a major regional task occurred in the Mogao Desert, drawing countless players from the Western Domain.
The massive scale of the event, coupled with the rapid information circulation among players, meant that even Lu Qingshan, who was not in the Western Domain at the time, had heard about it.
In the twentieth year of Immortal Martial, deep within the Mogao Desert, surge of auspicious energy and lightning pierced the sky, as if a chaotic treasure had emerged.
Subsequently, the entire Mogao Desert boiled over completely, and several terrifying Great Demons fought to the death for that unknown treasure.
It was a battle that shocked the world, where the terrifying aura of the Great Demons shook the entire desert wilderness, and even the aftermath was incredibly daunting.
The Sand Demons that lay hidden beneath the sands, dormant, were awakened by this aura and fled in terror, forming a horrific demon tide that completely submerged and devoured nine totemic great cities and thousands of small tribes of the Human Race within the Mogao Desert.
It was a great disaster, a terrible tragedy; a city’s people were engulfed in the blink of an eye, leveled to the ground, with not a single survivor, as if it were the apocalypse.
The task given to players at that time was merely to delay as much as possible, thus saving more of the Human Race.
Stop the demon tide? Even the officials had no such hope.
This was the great trend; who knows how many Sand Demons had been hidden and living in the Mogao Desert for thousands of years, and once erupted, they were unstoppable by human power.
Later, after all the dust had settled, the players finally learned the truth.
The origin of everything was because of this Life Thunder Fruit.
In a great storm, the Life Thunder Fruit fully matured, thus causing an explosion of infinite Spiritual Power and lightning, attracting the Great Demons of the Mogao Desert.
It was for this Life Thunder Fruit that the four Great Demons caused that bloody disaster.
Ever since Lu Qingshan arrived in Tianyuan, the memory of this task had been stirred up.
If a demon tide were to arise, he had no power to stop it.
But now, he had the ability to nip this bloody disaster in the bud.
Because the fuse for the bloodbath was that Life Thunder Fruit.
And now, it was only the fourth year of Tianyuan, and the Life Thunder Fruit had not yet matured, still gestating somewhere in the Mogao Desert.
If he could find that Life Thunder Fruit early and harvest it, wouldn’t the demon tide be prevented from arising?
With the opportunity to prevent catastrophe and save lives, given his character, how could he ignore it?
Not to mention, this Life Thunder Fruit was of great use to him.
An opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, why not seize it?
The current problem was that he only knew the Life Thunder Fruit was born deep in the Mogao Desert, but he was not quite sure of its exact location.
The Mogao Desert was vast, and trying to find a Life Thunder Fruit blindly was too improbable.
Therefore, since he had come across a great city of the Human Race, he thought of entering the city to see if he could gather some relevant information from the local cultivators.
Upon entering Dongque City, Lu Qingshan’s eyes brightened slightly.
The unique desert-style yellow earth buildings appeared within his sight.
The pedestrians on the road were all wrapped in long robes and headscarves.
This attire was to protect against sand and sun.
“Huh, that’s interesting,” Lu Qingshan suddenly remarked lightly.
Among the crowd of robe-wrapped pedestrians, Lu Qingshan caught sight of a young monk in a light red robe, which was quite conspicuous.
There’s a saying widely shared among players:
In the Western Domain, the one type of people you don’t want to mess with is the bald ones.
First, because, among those practicing Body Cultivation, the most fierce are the Ascetic Monks.
It’s very possible that a random monk you encounter is from the Ascetic Monk sect, whose Physical Body has already transcended the ordinary.
Second, because of the Dao Dragon Elephant Temple.
Although not all of them are monks in the Dragon Elephant Temple, at least seventy to eighty percent of the disciples are bald powerhouses.
However, what Lu Qingshan found interesting was not the sight of a monk but that this young monk, appearing no older than thirteen or fourteen, was dressed in robes that could only be worn by Preaching Monks.
At such a young age, he could expound on the scriptures?
Even more interesting was that within the folds of the young monk’s robes hid a small yellow bird, exceptionally spirited, clearly a sentient demon.
This was a peculiar combination of a young monk and a small bird demon.