Song of Adolescence

Chapter 160 Thunderous Clouds in the Ninth Heaven

The shield formation changed instantly, with four of them moving forward, and the other four withdrawing backwards. They divided the eight shields into two rows and raised them high.

"The higher they raise their shields, the greater the power of the explosives they’re about to block," Xie Qidao remarked solemnly.

"First, we’ll let you have the Ear-piercing Thunder!" Lei Jingbu jumped up, waved his long sleeves, and threw out a long bamboo tube from his hand. There was a sudden roll of thunder, and the tremor caused all the leaves to fall from a row of large trees along the road. But the thunder was even more amazing because it wasn’t a single sound, but a continuous roar one after another.

In the midst of the smoke and dust, Su Muyu suddenly closed his eyes.

The thunder still roared.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

After the thirteenth roar, Su Muyu suddenly opened his eyes, jumped up, and the oil-paper umbrella opened instantly. In the place where he originally stood, the most powerful thunder yet exploded. He blocked the impact with his oil-paper umbrella, turned around in the air, and landed steadily.

But, Xie Qidao was still holding his sabre unmoving. Although his clothes were torn, he was completely unscathed. Amongst the three Hidden River Houses, the Su House practiced swords, and the Xie House practiced internal martial arts. Although Xie Qidao was highly skilled in his swordsmanship, he was also the most proficient in Xie House’s internal martial arts in the Hidden River.

"This is what they mean by, the next mountain is always higher, a solitary city sits on its own in a whole mountain range!" Lei Jingbu exclaimed. "This internal martial arts is not too far from Buddhism’s Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill. Change formation again!"

The shield formation changed again, and the eight people suddenly leaned over and flattened against the ground.

"Listen well, this one is called Level the Ground with Thunderwind!" Lei Jingbu lay on the shield and spoke in a muffled voice.

Eight black shadows rushed towards Xie Qidao and Su Muyu, a continuous roar in their wake that was getting stronger as they got closer until they almost razed the ground in front of them.

"Stop!" Su Muyu swiftly swiped up his umbrella, and created a deep and long trench in front of himself and Xie Qidao. The eight explosives that blew wind and summoned thunder were immediately blocked in front of that trench.

"Stop!" Xie Qidao also yelled, thrusting the long sabre in his hand into the soil forcefully, cutting off the ninth explosive that almost snuck through.

"They’re damn tricky ah!" Lei Jingbu abruptly waved his shield, and then changed formation again. "Let them taste our Proclaim the Might of Lei Clan!"

The eight people came together in an instant and surrounded themselves with their eight shields in a ring. Lei Jingbu pressed both his hands to the ground. "Do you think we were just playing around before? I’m going to make you understand what it’s like to die with regrets, regret that you dared to invade our land!"

As soon as he said the last word, there was thunder everywhere. Within thirty zhang, it was as if all the explosives went off simultaneously and a whole three inches of soil below the ground were raised up and dropped down again. If there were ordinary people within this range, even their bones would have been blown to pieces.

The Ear-piercing Thunder, Level the Ground with Thunderwind and Proclaim the Might of Lei Clan were three explosives that Lei Wujie once gifted Xiao Se for self-defense. But in Xiao Se’s hands, the effects of these three explosives seemed to be no different from that of a firecracker. Back then, when he used them against ordinary assassins from the Hidden River Xie House, he could only temporarily frighten them. But, in the hands of the Lei Clan Eight Horsemen, the explosive power was tremendous.

The explosions seemed to go on for almost a hundred times. After the explosions stopped, Lei Jingbu moved the shields aside and exhaled a long breath. "That should do it."

But, amidst the flying dust, there still seemed to be two people inside, but they were standing very still. They couldn’t tell whether they were dead. Lei Jingbu asked, "Are those two actually dead or not?"

"Boss, why don\'t you go take a look?" Asked one of the Lei Clan disciples who looked very thin.

"How about you go look." Lei Jingbu kicked him angrily.

The group of them hesitated, and suddenly a cold light shot out.

Lei Jingbu was taken aback, and a thin sword had already landed right in front of him. He hurriedly raised his shield and blocked the sword.

"Not dead yet!" Lei Jingbu put down his shield and shouted.

The other seven people hurriedly stood up, and quickly layered the seven shields above and below again, forming up in front of Lei Jingbu.

"Boss, what now? We’ve used up all our tricks. There’s only the Qilin Flaming Fang left," the Lei Clan disciple, who was already sweating profusely, said with a pained expression.

"What flaming Qilin fang? Why would I have such a thing? That toy’s in our clan leader’s hands." Lei Jingbu frowned. "Let’s look at the situation first. Maybe they’re already half dead, and they were just fighting with their dying breath just now!"

The dust gradually dispersed, revealing the two figures inside. Xie Qidao\'s clothes on his upper body had been blown to pieces, revealing knotted muscles, and a few more bloodstains on his body. The oil-paper umbrella in Su Muyu\'s hand had also been blown to pieces, revealing the thin metal swords that were the umbrella’s ribs. The swords fell to the ground, and invisible blade wires were wrapped around the dozen or so thin swords.

"Muyu, I haven\'t felt so wretched in a long time," Xie Qidao said with a smile.

"The Lei Clan explosives have a well-deserved reputation," Su Muyu replied lightly.

"They look completely fine, Boss." The Lei Clan disciple with the pained expression looked out through the gap between the shields, and was shocked into a cold sweat. How could these two people have survived such a blast? What kind of evil spirits were they?

"There’s no other way then." Lei Jingbu let out a deep sigh. "Since they want to see our Summon Thunder from the Ninth Heaven Arts, let’s give them a proper show."

"But…" That Lei Clan disciple still looked pained.

"No more buts. Any more buts and we’re all dead!" Lei Jingbu suddenly jumped up and landed on top of the seven shields. He turned around, picked up his own shield and smashed down on the seven shields.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Each collision was no less than the sound of explosives going off. Anyone within hearing range would be so frightened that he’d just want to cover his ears.

Su Muyu raised his head and whispered, "The sky has changed."

Along with the roar of one thunderclap after another, there were suddenly dark clouds in the sky.

"Thunder from Earth, bring forth thunder from Heaven!" Lei Jingbu raised his shield furiously and slammed it down again. A blue-violet light suddenly fell from the sky, first onto his shield, then following Lei Jingbu’s fierce deflection, it bounced off and went straight towards Su Muyu.

"Stop!" Su Muyu waved his hand and raised three of his swords, but they were instantly shattered by the thunderbolt. He raised another three swords and just managed to block the thunderbolt. His whole person was forced to retreat seven steps, and those three sharp swords broke into halves and dropped onto the ground.

"This is the power of the Lei Clan Thunder Shield Formation." Su Muyu took a long breath. "Truly awe-inspiring."

"Using the thunder from Earth to bring forth thunder from Heaven definitely has a secret trick to it that us outsiders naturally wouldn’t understand. The Lei Clan gave up using steel weapons but there was obviously a reason why they’re still ranked among the top clans under Heaven. But this is not the time to stop and praise others. We need to hurry up and get to Lei Clan Fort." Xie Qidao looked at Lei Jingbu, and said in a deep voice, "We need to figure out how to break their formation."

"Now you get it. Thunder, Bolt!" Lei Jingbu raised his shield again and slammed it down.