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  The huge body of the thunder turtle quickly approached the two, with lightning flashing and thunder booming in the sky, and a heavy rainstorm. The two felt extremely sluggish in this storm, but still struggled to escape the range covered by the wind and rain.

  The lightning turtle was getting closer and closer, Li Hui's heart sank, realizing that it would be difficult for the two of them to escape with their own strength.

  "With the wind, Fu Bao!" Li Hui shouted loudly, and a white jade talisman appeared in his hand.

  Lou Feng heard Li Hui's cry and immediately understood, taking out a similar jade token.

  "Ahh!"

  The Thunder Turtle let out a deafening roar, its massive body suddenly closing in on the two within a range of ten zhang, its head raised high as it prepared to unleash another thunderball attack.

  "Explode!"

  Li Hui let out a loud shout at the same time, and his spiritual energy poured into the jade symbol in his hand. Lou Sui Feng also made the same move.

  A white light burst forth from the jade token, shooting out of his hand and flying into the air, instantly transforming into a gigantic knife shadow over ten zhang in length.

  "Rumble!"

  A flash of knife light, a loud thunderclap, countless wild electric arcs jumping on the knife.

  The mighty skills of the Lou family, most of which originated from the Supreme Skill "Thunderbolt Apocalypse Blade", generally also borrowed the power of thunder and lightning. At this time, in this environment of thunder and lightning, it was even more magnificent.

  The tortoise's body paused, but it raised its head to look at the two huge knife shadows that suddenly appeared in the air, vaguely feeling a few points of danger.

  The Thunder Turtle is skilled at wielding the power of thunder and lightning, but from these two knife shadows, it feels a violent destructive aura, whose power of thunder and lightning far surpasses its own.

  "Hoo-hoo!"

  Two sword silhouettes like mountains, wrapped in the power of violent thunder and lightning, and a destructive aura that could destroy heaven and earth, slashed down fiercely at the Thunder Turtle below.

  "Ahh!"

  The Thunder Turtle let out a loud roar, and its body shone brightly. The coral, moss, and aquatic plants that grew on the small mountain-like shell on its back were all reduced to flying ash. White electrical arcs danced across the massive shell, and the uneven patterns on the turtle's shell, under the flashing lightning, actually formed an Eight Trigrams formation!

  "Hoo-hoo!"

  Two enormous blade shadows hacked down fiercely, the surrounding aura suddenly becoming violent, a massive storm swept over, Li Hui and Lou Suifeng felt their bodies tremble, almost being drawn into the storm, hurriedly circulating the spiritual energy within their bodies to stabilize their forms.

  Lei Gui stretched out his body horizontally, and on the turtle shell-like back that shone like a mountain, a Bagua formation made of lightning gleamed, heading towards the two knife shadows that were slashing down.

  Two knife shadows almost simultaneously slashed onto the back of the Thunder Turtle, and the Eight Trigrams formation on the turtle shell suddenly burst into radiance, fiercely colliding with the two knife shadows.

  "Boom!"

  In the midst of a tremendous roar, where the knife's shadow met the turtle's back, a dazzling light burst forth, shooting out in all directions towards the ground like a radiant sun rising.

  Li Hui and Lou Sui Feng couldn't help but blink their eyes, not daring to look directly at the light, while their bodies quickly moved and fled towards the high sky.

  A massive spiritual storm surged and spread, sweeping away the dark clouds in the sky, rolling up dozens of feet high waves on the river surface, and the entire river was like boiling.

  That Thunder Turtle's body shape, however, was cut off by two knife shadows and fell rapidly into the river below, and the water pillar supporting its body also disappeared in an instant.

  In the sky, the knife shadow like a mountain quickly dispersed after one strike, and once again turned into two jade tokens, but flew back to Li Hui's hands, with a slightly dimmer luster.

  "Hurry up!"

  Li Hui let out a light shout, his body transformed into a blue light that flashed through the high sky like lightning, disappearing far away. Lou Suifeng's figure also closely followed after him.

  At this moment, the wind and rain in the sky dispersed, and the two figures were not affected at all. After flashing several times, they crossed the river and shot towards the distance.

  "Ahh!"

  A loud roar came from behind, and at the same time, dark clouds gathered again above the river, with lightning flashing and thunder booming.

  With this Thunder Turtle's defense, the power of the talismans alone would not be able to harm it, and could only temporarily repel it, giving the two a chance to escape.

  This Thunder Turtle has been cultivating for countless years, its cultivation had long reached the peak of the Golden Core's late stage, only one step away from transcending the Tribulation of Transformation and transforming into a human form. However, the rules of this space have suppressed its cultivation, making it impossible to increase even a single bit further.

  The Thunder Turtle has been trapped here for who knows how many years, its temperament has become violently abnormal. Today, the two human youngsters appeared, originally thinking of making a delicious meal out of them, but ended up suffering a setback instead. How could it let them off like that?

  "Rumble!"

  Amidst the flashing lightning and rolling black clouds, a gigantic tortoise-like creature flew through the air, resembling a small mountain, rapidly chasing after the two.

  The two men's faces changed drastically as they urged on the escaping light under their feet, shooting forward intensely.

  The thunderstorm in the rear was getting closer and closer, and neither of them dared to stop for a moment.

  In the sky, a massive dark cloud enveloped in lightning flashed forward at high speed, and hundreds of feet ahead, two streams of light streaked across the void.

  But all things have their own strengths and weaknesses. The turtle-like monster, born with a variable defense, has speed as its weakness. This Thunder Turtle, although second only to the Divine Beast among the heteromorphic beasts, also has somewhat unsatisfactory speed.

  However, this Thunder Turtle was a late-stage Golden Elixir demon beast after all. Although speed wasn't its forte, for the time being, it hadn't been shaken off by the two. One in front and one behind, they rapidly advanced through the sky.

  They chased each other for several hours, and after Li Hui and Lou Suifeng ran out of nearly a thousand miles, the thunder in the back gradually went away. The lightning turtle stopped chasing reluctantly and turned back to return to its habitat in the big river.

  The two of them didn't dare to be careless at all, and after running forward for several hundred miles again, they finally stopped and fell to the ground.

  At this time, the great river where the Thunder Turtle dwelled was already a thousand miles away, and below was a towering high mountain.

  Two people in one circle, fell into the mountains.

  Li Hui dispersed his spiritual awareness completely and scanned the surrounding area of nearly ten miles in radius, but didn't find anything unusual. Only then did he let out a long sigh and put down his guard.

  That last battle was truly a heart-pounding experience. The Thunder Turtle is indeed a formidable beast with the blood of divine beasts, stirring up waves in the river and changing the color of the sky. And that abnormal defense also made us feel extremely powerless; even when both of us simultaneously activated our talismans to attack, we only managed to temporarily repel it without causing any injury.

  The two of them had already used up one attack each with their talismans and could only use them twice more.

  "Li Hui, let's rest here for now and recover our state before going to find the alien beast again." Lou Suifeng said with a hint of fear on his face.

  Li Hui nodded, the previous fierce battle, plus the desperate escape in the sky, both of them had consumed a lot of spiritual power and their spirits had been highly tense all along, indeed needing to recover for a while.

  Lou stretched out his hand in the storage bag and patted it, instantly a white light shot out, but it was a small building that suddenly appeared, transformed into a building with a height of several tens of meters, standing on the empty ground between the mountains.

  This was the third defensive treasure given by Lou Zhengming when they set out, Qianji Pavilion.

  This Thousand Machine Pavilion was a pavilion made using puppetry techniques, cast from various rare materials and driven by spiritual stones. Coupled with the array within the pavilion, even Golden Dan period cultivators would find it difficult to break through.

  "This Qianji Pavilion is indeed ingenious!" Li Hui exclaimed in admiration, revealing a hint of reverence.

  Lou smiled faintly and said, "This Qianji Pavilion was refined by a friend of my father's who is skilled in the art of puppetry. It is one of my father's treasured possessions. This time, for our safety, he temporarily lent it to me."

  Li Hui nodded and the two of them walked together into the building.

  The furnishings in the building are simple, but exceptionally delicate and exquisite. There is a small hall with a desk and other items that can be used for temporary receptions. On either side, there is a small quiet room for rest and meditation.

  In front of the hall, there were two vivid stone carvings of lions. Lou Feng walked to one of the lions and pressed his hand on its eyes. Suddenly, the lion's huge mouth opened wide. Lou Feng took out several high-quality spirit stones from his storage bag and filled them into the lion's mouth. Then he did the same action in front of another lion.

  After doing all this, Lou Suifeng's hands formed several strange hand seals, and the entire pavilion was enveloped in a white light, shrouded under a layer of light. The defensive formation of the Qianji Pavilion had been activated.

  From the outside, the place where this building is located is a rugged mountain with lush greenery and wild grass growing on top of it, blending seamlessly into the entire mountain range without any sense of discord, yet it is covered by a layer of illusion.

  Li Hui was ignorant of the way of formation, and at this time, seeing such a scene, he also secretly admired it. Although the Qianji Pavilion cannot be compared with his own Yuankai Xianfu, it is still considered a rare treasure.

  Lou looked at the building with a faintly pained expression and said, "This Qianji Pavilion is indeed exquisite, but it's really too extravagant in its use of spirit stones. Moreover, it requires top-grade spirit stones to operate, which is something that low-level cultivators like us can't afford."

  Li Hui also deeply believed that puppets relied on spirit stones to provide energy for their use, and the higher the level, the higher the grade of spirit stone required. Legend has it that there are combat puppets that require top-grade spirit stones to activate, with a single strike rivaling that of a Tribulation Period cultivator.

  But let's not mention the value of that puppet and the materials used, just the top-grade spirit stone alone is almost an extinct object.

  The two entered the Qianji Pavilion, but each entered a quiet room and sat down to practice.

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