Live-in Son-in-law-Chapter 1195: Heavenly Thunder Fruit

"Can we go in now?" Yun Qinglian asked eagerly, a little excited. She had never expected that her first foray into the martial world would lead her to a hidden treasure.

Qin Yi pondered for a moment, "Follow me closely, and be careful."

Yun Qinglian nodded and replied with a hum.

The cave was only one and a half meters high, which was quite unfriendly for Qin Yi, who was 1.8 meters tall, forcing him to hunch over as he walked.

Generally speaking, such deep caves without end would have a rotten smell or be damp and dark, but this cave felt very dry.

Qin Yi used his divine thought to navigate, but as he moved deeper, he discovered no danger.

"How long have we been walking?" Qin Yi suddenly asked.

Yun Qinglian thought for a moment and said, "Almost an hour." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

An hour was enough for them to walk through the entire mountain, yet they hadn't reached the end.

"Haven't we been walking for too long?" Even Yun Qinglian found something amiss.

Qin Yi nodded slightly, but he couldn't figure out what was going on, so he could only say, "Let's keep going."

As a result, after walking for about another hour, they still hadn't reached the end.

"My back is about to break." Yun Qinglian simply squatted down and refused to move. The cave was too low; after hunching over for two hours, even Qin Yi was feeling strained, let alone her.

"Qin Yi, do you think we've triggered some mechanism? Could we be going around in circles?"

But Qin Yi shook his head; he had thought of that long ago. However, as they walked along, there was no mechanism or array that could evade his exploration under the divine thought cover.

"Then what's going on? This mountain is large, but at our pace, we should have circled it several times by now, yet we haven't seen the end." Yun Qinglian was both sore and angry, picking up a stone and throwing it forward.

Qin Yi was about to comfort her, but his eyes suddenly focused on the stone Yun Qinglian threw.

The stone rolled on the ground, kept rolling far ahead before stopping.

Qin Yi thought for a moment, picked up a stone, and rolled it out, only to see the stone roll far away.

"Ah, I see." Qin Yi laughed.

Yun Qinglian exclaimed in surprise, "You figured it out?"

Qin Yi nodded, "It's a sinking spiral passage; we're not walking in a straight line, but spiraling around the mountain. The passage is built around the mountain and descends like a spiral staircase, which is why we haven't reached the end after walking for so long.

If we entered from the mountainside, then we should be near the foot of the mountain now. Come on, I guess we'll reach the end soon."

"Really?" Yun Qinglian was a bit skeptical.

"Trust me!" Qin Yi said as he walked ahead.

Yun Qinglian had no choice but to follow.

Half an hour later, their view suddenly opened up.

"Qin Yi, we've reached the end," Yun Qinglian said excitedly.

Qin Yi gazed at the vast space before them in shock; the entire base of the mountain had been hollowed out.

"Oh my God!" Yun Mengyao suddenly screamed, grabbing Qin Yi's arm, her voice trembling with excitement, "Qin Yi, look over there, quickly."

Following Yun Qinglian's direction, Qin Yi's eyes focused, and a look of uncontrollable joy appeared on his face.

In the center, a small silver tree emitted a faint silver light. The tree wasn't very tall, only about a meter, with just a trunk and no leaves. However, three pear-shaped silver fruits hung from the trunk.

"A Thunder Tree with Heavenly Thunder Fruits."

Qin Yi gulped down a mouthful of saliva; he never expected to find such a rare treasure here.

The Heavenly Thunder Fruit is said to be extremely hard to come by, a once-in-a-lifetime encounter. A single fruit is reputed to let an ordinary person ascend and become a top-notch Qi Refiner. Of course, Qin Yi knew that was an exaggerated claim because an ordinary person couldn't withstand the terrifying power within a Heavenly Thunder Fruit. However, it underscored the fruit's rarity.

"Wow, we're rich, we're rich..." Even Yun Qinglian, the eldest princess of the Yunyue Empire and always so composed and grand, was so excited she looked like a child seeing candy, jumping up and down.

Not to mention Yun Qinglian, even Qin Yi's fingers were trembling with excitement.

Unable to contain her excitement, Yun Qinglian rushed towards the Thunder Tree.

Qin Yi instinctively followed.

But when Yun Qinglian got within ten meters of the Thunder Tree, Qin Yi suddenly sensed something was wrong and shouted, "Get back!"

However, it was already too late.

Violent power of thunder and lightning surged from the ground, forming thunderous serpents. With a bang, Yun Qinglian screamed in pain and was knocked back, her body smoking.

Qin Yi, shocked, rushed forward to catch her.

Yun Qinglian trembled uncontrollably like she was having a seizure, her face charred and black, eyes rolled back, and even her hair was smoking.

Qin Yi was stunned; such a fierce power of thunder and lightning. He quickly cast aside all other thoughts and hurriedly used energy movement to heal her.

Fortunately, Yun Qinglian had only been hit by the edge of the lightning, and her injuries weren't severe. Under Qin Yi's treatment, she soon recovered, still looking at the Thunder Tree with lingering fear.

Qin Yi couldn't help but chuckle.

Yun Qinglian glared at him discontentedly, "I'm like this, and you're still laughing? Don't you have any sympathy?"

Qin Yi tried to hold back his laughter, but his lips twitched; Yun Qinglian's face was charred like a little black cat, making it hard not to laugh.

"Who told you to run so fast?"

Yun Qinglian complained, "This is the Heavenly Thunder Fruit; who wouldn't want to quickly pocket it when they see it?"

"Haste makes waste. With no one guarding it here, there must be protective measures. It's no wonder you got hurt being so rash."

Yun Qinglian looked longingly at the Heavenly Thunder Fruit, "The power of thunder and lightning around the Thunder Tree is too strong; we can't get close. What should we do?"

Qin Yi was about to speak when Yun Qinglian looked up at the sky, shocked, "What is that?"

Qin Yi looked up and saw a silver steel column descending from the dome, the column as thick as a leg, protruding several dozen meters from the dome, surrounded by a ring of steel spikes like a massive fork.

Qin Yi's eyes narrowed slightly, "Such a clever setup. This is a Thunder Attraction Device."

"What is a Thunder Attraction Device?" Yun Qinglian asked, puzzled.

Qin Yi said, "If I'm not mistaken, this steel column runs directly from the mountaintop to here. There's a protruding steel column at a certain point on the mountaintop. The Thunder Tree lives on the power of thunder and lightning, and this column's role is to attract the outside lightning here, with the finer steel spikes decomposing it, ultimately transmitting the power of thunder and lightning to the Thunder Tree.

And the passage we came through serves to decompose the power of thunder and lightning. If too much power is introduced, it would collapse the mountain. Those winding passages dissipate and disperse the vast power of thunder and lightning. Moreover, the passage has defensive functions. The owner here is truly ingenious."