Chapter 105: Secret Realm Exploration

Lu Zheng and Adara returned to Adara's mountain and immediately, Lu Zheng brought out eight thousand year thunderblitz trees.

Adara's eyes were glued to the massive fifty metre tall trees and she was beyond joy when Lu Zheng said that they belonged to her.

Lu Zheng did not mind. Three Peaks Mountain Lord had given him three hundred thousand year thunderblitz trees.

Adara set the eight trees in a certain formation and within moments, she summoned purple lightning to temper her body.

Lu Zheng took off his robe and sat in the eye of the formation he had arranged the hundred year thunderblitz trees in.

After the encounter with Derek, Lu Zheng's mood was lifted.

Against Derek who had third tier of Acquisition realm battle strength, Lu Zheng was able to stand his own ground.

Even though he had required serious aid from Adara, he was not useless in the fight.

~Soul path is truly wonderful. With high soul foundation, I can split my consciousness into many parts and focus on different things at the same time. It is because of my high soul foundation that I was able to control the Fire Deity, Lightning Deity, Fire Dragons and Lightning Dragons effectively while fighting Derek. If I can increase my soul foundation even more… can I use numerous techniques at once?~

Lu Zheng felt that it was possible.

When he went to Antarctica to save Hong Haoyu, he had killed two Void Passage realm experts and absorbed their souls, raising his soul foundation from the six thousand man soul level to the eight thousand man soul level.

Ever since that time, his soul cultivation had been stagnant.

Lu Zheng did not have soul stones. The only way he could raise his soul foundation was to absorb the souls of those he killed.

With higher soul foundation, Lu Zheng's rate of absorbing ambient Qi would also rise steeply and his cultivation would be faster.

This would in turn increase his battle strength.

Lu Zheng decided to stop brooding over the matter as he poured his Qi into the formation.

Like an answer, thunder boomed from the sky as blue lightning rained.

…..

Lu Zheng spent weeks cultivating.

When he was not tempering his body with blue lightning, he would be absorbing the Qi from the firestones, wind cores, frost gems and beast cores to further his cultivation base.

He also spent time eating the meat of high rank beasts to absorb the refined fleshy energy stored within them. He knew that the refined fleshy energy contained in the meat stimulated his bloodline and given enough time, he would surely learn another bloodline ability.

Adara was a lone martial practitioner and spent most of her days in seclusion. She barely left the mountain on normal days.

Now that she had the thousand year thunderblitz trees. All of her time was spent tempering her body with purple lightning.

Themur also spent this time cultivating and attacking the low ranked beasts that lived at the base of the mountain.

After many days, Adara walked up to Lu Zheng and urged him to accompany her to a certain place.

"Where are we going?" Lu Zheng asked as they flew mid-air.

"Flaming Stone Palace" Adara replied as her Sea of Consciousness spread around her, scanning everywhere.

Ever since Derek's attack, she had grown to be careful of ambushes. She didn't want a repeat of what occurred many weeks ago.

After a short while, the mountain ranges came to an end and a large plain could be seen.

The plain was filled with many signs of civilisation. Buildings were erected as roads twisted out of sight. Many people walked to and from.

The duo did not stop flying as they soared through the air. The humans below could not even glimpse a sight of them at all.

"We're here" Adara said with a smile as she descended. Lu Zheng did not hesitate to descend with her.

"Ah? Adara, you made it" A man's gentle voice welcomed them.

Lu Zheng turned to see the source and was pleasantly surprised.

The man was tall and dark with a fair amount of facial hair. His hair was like strands that covered most of his eyes but Lu Zheng could tell that his eyes were a golden yellow with flames burning in his pupils.

A golden halo floated above him, following him wherever he went.

"Dapo" Adara's tone was gentle. "Of course I made it"

Dapo walked towards the duo before wrapping his hands around Adara's and planting a gentle kiss on them.

"And this is?" Dapo looked at Lu Zheng quizzically.

"Oh, pardon my manners. Dapo, this is Lu Zheng. Lu Zheng, meet Dapo" Adara introduced them as she pulled her hand from Dapo's hold.

"Nice to meet you" Lu Zheng spared Dapo another glance before looking away.

Dapo was an Acquisition realm expert too.

"Well then, without much delay, let's enter the secret realm" Dapo smiled as he turned to face a large spatial gateway.

The ambient Qi thinned as the spatial gateway was activated. A swirling mass of darkness formed at its centre.

"A secret realm exploration?" Lu Zheng was surprised. Adara had not filled him in.

"Hmm. I figured you'd be interested" Adara smiled gently.

Lu Zheng smiled as the trio entered the spatial gateway. Instantly, the scenery around them transformed.