Chapter 488 - 480: Instant Body! Flash Thunder

Chapter 488: Chapter 480: Instant Body! Flash Thunder

Quite suddenly, the pearl began to speak. The Profound Old Ghost wasn’t the least bit surprised by this strange occurrence, as he had once entrusted his own Spiritual Power to an object.

But when the Holy Soul Essence Pill asked its question, the Profound Old Ghost said no more. He knew he no longer needed to speak; he just needed to listen.

"Heh... Just as you said, after so many years of hatred, so many years of obsession, I’ve grown tired. Besides, in my current state, my ultimate fate is to be absorbed by a human or a Magical Beast. Rather than being absorbed by a human or Magical Beast full of desire, it’s better to be absorbed by someone who can understand my pain, isn’t it?"

The Holy Soul Essence Pill’s voice was tinged with sorrow, yet also a sense of relieved joy. "You mentioned that this child could let me witness the path to the peak. Is that the Emperor Realm?"

The Profound Old Ghost smiled faintly. His lips moved, uttering a few words, and the Extreme Spirit Pearl fell silent.

"..."

Just as Mu Chen was still lost in the scene the Profound Old Ghost had described, he suddenly felt a searing heat between his brows. A golden, glowing pearl appeared before him with a FWOOSH. Before he could even react, it shot directly toward his chest, transforming into a bolt of crackling Thunder that burrowed into his body.

"Ugh!"

With a muffled groan, an expression of extreme pain crossed Mu Chen’s already deathly pale face. The clothes on his chest, where the pearl had entered, suddenly exploded, revealing his fair skin. But this was no time to admire his complexion. A strange, purple Thunder Talisman had appeared on his chest, wreathed in a circle of golden light and radiating a terrifying pressure.

Fortunately, Mu Chen was in a Cultivation Room specifically for members of the Inner Mountain. Not only could it defend against powerful Primordial Power impacts, but it could also effectively conceal fluctuations in Primordial Power. Otherwise, his current state would have undoubtedly alerted Chu Aoqing in the room, and worse, could have even been sensed by Martial Artists within a hundred-mile radius.

"CRACKLE!!"

Flashes of thunder and lightning pulsed in rhythm with Mu Chen’s beating heart. At this moment, not a single scrap of clothing remained on him; his body was completely wreathed in arcs of purple Thunder.

The purple Thunder shot out with his every breath. Each time a bolt of Thunder Power was unleashed, it would blast a section of the room, leaving it scorched black. It was precisely these violent blasts that activated all the Defense Array Maps on the surrounding walls. Six curtains of light completely enveloped the room, protecting it from being destroyed by the Thunder.

This was what was happening on the outside. Looking inside Mu Chen’s body revealed an even more astonishing scene. His meridians, which once carried blood, were now shot through with lightning. His faintly glowing bones were wreathed in purple bolts. The entire space within his body had become a world of Thunder.

But that wasn’t the most critical part. The most critical part was that his Dantian space, which had been suffering from the aftereffects of him using the special Extreme Wood Attribute Secret Technique, had subconsciously begun to spin rapidly! In the process of this high-speed rotation, the gray rock encasing his Dantians gradually flaked off, revealing their original, stunning colors!

What Mu Chen found strange, however, was that only eight of his nine Dantians had been unsealed. The sole exception was his Thunder Attribute Dantian, which held the gray rock tightly around itself, as if it had encountered something terrifying and was trying to protect itself!

But before Mu Chen could ponder this, the purple, golden-glowing pearl broke through his Dantian space. Carrying the might of a thousand thunderbolts, it slammed into his Thunder Attribute Dantian with a deafening ROAR!

"WAAAH!!!"

Mu Chen’s tightly shut eyes suddenly flew open. From the Hua Tong of his Ice Extreme Demon Pupils, two beams of purple-gold lightning shot out and slammed into the wall with a RUMBLE! A large mouthful of fresh blood sprayed from his lips, only to be instantly scorched and evaporated by the Thunder filling the room. Mu Chen’s expression immediately slackened!

’My Thunder Attribute Dantian... it was destroyed!!’

Looking inside his body, Mu Chen suddenly discovered that where his Thunder Attribute Dantian used to be, a sphere flashing with purple-gold light was now slowly rotating alongside the other eight Dantians. It was the same size as the others. Even more astonishingly, this purple-gold sphere had directly integrated itself into the Dantian trajectory created by the Extreme Spirit Chaos Technique, completely replacing the original Thunder Attribute Dantian!

"Kid... remember your dream! Carry my hopes and aspirations, and go witness the view from the very peak of this continent. Then my sacrifice of my own soul to reforge the Holy Thunder Dantian for you will not have been in vain!"

’This is...’

Mu Chen listened, stunned, to the words echoing in his mind. Enduring the churning of his qi and blood, it took him a long moment to finally realize something: the resentment-filled Holy Soul Essence Pill had become his Dantian... a Holy Thunder Dantian!

"Crackle... CRACKLE-CRACKLE..."

He slowly raised his hands, watching the arcs of Purple Gold Lightning that roamed and burst across his palms, the backs of his hands, and his arms. Mu Chen was ecstatic. Although the pain of his Dantian shattering hadn’t faded, it was negligible compared to the return of his vigorous Primordial Power!

It was like being reborn. For the first time, Mu Chen felt just how wonderful it was to have Primordial Power surging through his body!

His gaze traveled down his arms, and he quickly noticed something embarrassing. He was stark naked. Without even stopping to test the effects of his Holy Thunder Dantian, he quickly stood up and pulled his only other set of Institute Uniforms from his Storage Ring.

Shaking his head with a wry smile, he recalled that Wang Miaoling had only given him two sets of the Institute Uniform in total. Now that one was destroyed, it seemed he would have to go ask for another when he had the time. Otherwise, even doing laundry would become a problem.

Once dressed, the awkwardness finally faded, leaving only the desire to investigate the special qualities of his Holy Thunder Dantian. No sooner thought than done, Mu Chen quickly sat cross-legged on the floor and circulated the Extreme Spirit Chaos Technique. The moment he did, he discovered what was so special about the Holy Thunder Dantian.

Propelled by the Extreme Spirit Chaos Technique, the Holy Thunder Dantian’s speed of absorbing Thunder Attribute Elemental Power was no less than that of his Extreme Ice Dantian and Extreme Wood Dantian, reaching almost the same rate! Compared to his previous Thunder Attribute Dantian, it was a full tenfold increase!

Not only that, but when Mu Chen tried to attack the Holy Thunder Dantian with Primordial Power from his other Attribute Dantians, he found that before the Primordial Power could even get close, it was instantly disintegrated by blasts of purple-gold lightning erupting from it! Among his nine Dantians, this was the only one that defended by attacking!

’Powerful!’

Opening his eyes, Mu Chen unhesitatingly gave the Holy Thunder Dantian a high evaluation! He had originally thought that absorbing the Holy Soul Essence Pill would increase his absorption speed of Thunder Attribute Elemental Power by at least eight times. Now, it seemed he had greatly underestimated the Holy Soul Essence Pill.

However, a big question mark remained in Mu Chen’s mind. Why had the Holy Soul Essence Pill, which had been so resentful it wanted to devour him just moments ago, voluntarily transformed into his Dantian after being taken by his Master? It seemed this was a question he would only get an answer to when his Master decided to tell him.

’Right! The Seven-color Thunder Armor Secret Skill!’

Mu Chen cried out in alarm and looked at the spot where he had been sitting cross-legged. If he remembered correctly, he had placed three items from his ring in front of him. The remnant map was already put away, and the Holy Soul Essence Pill had been absorbed. But no matter where he looked on the floor, he couldn’t find any trace of a book.

His eyes widened as a possibility suddenly occurred to him: it had been destroyed by the Thunder Power from the Thunder Attribute Holy Soul Essence Pill. The moment this thought appeared, Mu Chen was certain of it. The Thunder Power generated back then had been so immense that even the surrounding Defense Array Maps could barely withstand it, let alone a book made of paper.

Sighing to himself, Mu Chen quickly came to terms with it. ’A person can’t be too greedy,’ he thought. ’Absorbing the Holy Soul Essence Pill is already a heaven-sent opportunity for me. If I were to learn another Secret Technique on top of that, perhaps even the heavens wouldn’t tolerate my existence.’

Realizing he hadn’t used his Primordial Power in nearly two days, he felt an unbearable itch in his heart. With a single thought, he channeled the Thunder Attribute Elemental Power from his Holy Thunder Dantian into the soles of his feet and took a step.

A faint sizzle sounded as the Thunder Power spread between the soles of his feet and the floor. And then... Mu Chen’s figure vanished strangely, leaving only a silvery illusion flickering with Thunder Light in his place. He himself had already passed through the door...

"..."

Standing outside the room, Mu Chen swallowed hard, staring in disbelief at the closed door of the Cultivation Room. He took another step, and his figure vanished again, once more replaced by a silvery illusion flickering with Thunder Light. And Mu Chen himself was back inside the Cultivation Room... Beside him, the illusory afterimage of Thunder Light from his first step still remained, incredibly solid!

"Instantaneous Step! It’s really Instantaneous Step, a Step Technique for Small Range Instant Teleportation!!"

Two words escaped Mu Chen’s lips, his face a mask of astonishment. Catalyzed by the Thunder Attribute Holy Soul Essence Pill, the Moving Character Technique within the Furious Thunder Force had directly evolved, reaching the Third Step: the Instant Body stage!

’If so, could the Blast Rune Technique have evolved as well?’

With that thought, Mu Chen raised his right fist. A flash of Purple Thunder sparked in his Ice Extreme Demon Pupils, and countless streams of purple-gold lightning instantly erupted from his hand. He threw a punch, which shot out like a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning. It carried a blinding light as it slammed directly into the light curtain projected by the Defense Array Map, sending violent ripples across its surface!

’It’s more than ten times faster than the Thunderbolt Fist!’

Not only that, but he hadn’t heard a single sound as he threw the punch. Conventionally, the greater the power of a fist, the louder the sound of it breaking the air. Yet this Flash Thunder Fist seemed to travel directly from its starting point to its target, completely skipping the intermediate process of releasing inertia and accumulating power!

’It truly lives up to the name Flash Thunder!’

A grin spread across his face. Mu Chen could already imagine the devastating impact the combination of Instant Body and Flash Thunder would have on an enemy in actual combat! A soundless Speed Fist—could you perceive it with your ears? If you couldn’t, you could only rely on your primitive sense of sight! But the dazzling Thunder Light produced by the Flash Thunder Fist would completely shut down your vision, the only sense you could use to judge the punch’s trajectory! With your sight sealed and no sound to feel, how could you possibly defend against this light-speed strike?!