Chapter 405 - 175: Mind if I Steal a Little Electricity?

Chapter 405: Chapter 175: Mind if I Steal a Little Electricity?

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「Several hours later.」

Chen Fan arrived at the New Continent. The moment he stepped off the platform, he saw Wang Mazi waiting anxiously at the exit and immediately striding toward him.

"Domain Lord, Lame Monkey told me you want to get a closer look at the Thunderstorm Sea Realm."

"If there’s anything you need, you can just have us do it."

"The Thunderstorm Sea Realm is too dangerous. Getting swept into it is a near-certain death sentence. I’ve made it out of there alive twice, so I’m sure I can survive a third time."

"No need."

Chen Fan walked past Wang Mazi, striding forward as he spoke softly.

"You’ll come with me. We don’t need to get too close to the Thunderstorm Sea Realm; we’ll observe it from a relatively safe distance."

Boarding a Sea Ship.

They set out to sea.

Three Sea Ships departed from the New Continent’s Port, sailing magnificently toward the Thunderstorm Sea Realm!

「Some time later.」

Standing on the deck of the Sea Ship, Chen Fan gazed at the Thunderstorm Sea Realm before him, now only a few hundred meters away. The waves here were already immense, and the ship was rocking violently. He looked at the scene ahead, silent.

Only by witnessing the Thunderstorm Sea Realm up close with his own eyes...

...could one truly understand what an impossible feat it was for Wang Mazi and the members of the Commerce Pavilion to have made a round trip through it. It was a miracle.

A thick layer of black clouds covered the sky above the Thunderstorm Sea Realm.

Countless bolts of lightning flashed within the clouds, striking the sea’s surface. Amidst the churning waters, one could vaguely see endless Ghost Objects trapped in the area, wailing in agony.

It was a scene straight out of Hell.

"Have you tried flying over the Thunderstorm Sea Realm? Through the air?"

Chen Fan looked up at the sky above the Thunderstorm Sea Realm.

"We’ve tried," ℴ

Wang Mazi said, shaking his head. "It’s impossible. The black clouds over the Thunderstorm Sea Realm are extremely thick. We tried to fly over them, but as we got closer, the rate at which our Flying Ship consumed Ghost Stones suddenly skyrocketed. We burned through tens of thousands of Ghost Stones in just a few breaths."

"Luckily, we were carrying a lot of Ghost Stones. Otherwise, we might have run out and plunged into the Thunderstorm Sea Realm."

"But even with more Ghost Stones, it would probably be impossible to cross. The closer we get to the Thunderstorm Sea Realm, the faster the Ghost Stones are consumed. On top of that, there’s an incredibly strong gravitational pull coming from the seabed."

...

Chen Fan wasn’t too surprised by this answer. After all, some Ghost Objects could fly. If one could simply fly across the Thunderstorm Sea Realm, it wouldn’t be nearly so terrifying.

As far as the eye could see, the Thunderstorm Sea Realm stretched on without end.

It was like a cage, enclosing the Eternal Night Continent, yet it was also like a protective umbrella, shielding the continent from the invasion of Ghost Objects.

He glanced back at the nearest island.

He could clearly see a Celestial Pillar several hundred meters tall standing steadily at the island’s edge. He had created it when they passed the island earlier.

Today, he was going to conduct an experiment.

He would try to see if he could conduct the electricity from the Thunderstorm Sea Realm and channel it into the Celestial Pillar.

The first step.

First, test which materials could withstand the "Thunderbolts" of the Thunderstorm Sea Realm.

Though they looked similar, the Thunderbolts here were clearly not the same as the lightning from a normal rainy season. These Thunderbolts were more violent and frequent.

And as the Sea Ship cautiously inched closer, he vaguely saw a bolt of lightning strike a Ghost Object directly on the head. The creature only let out a pained roar, but its body was completely unharmed.

Once they were close enough, having made sure they wouldn’t be dragged in, Chen Fan took a pile of materials from his robes and handed them to the member of the Battle Pavilion who had accompanied him—a warrior with a Martial King Cultivation.

First up was...

...a Ghost Stone.

The Battle Pavilion member took out a Ghost Stone and, with all his might, hurled it straight into the Thunderstorm Sea Realm. The moment it entered the region, before it could even begin to fall, a bolt of lightning slammed into it, shattering it to pieces.

"Alright then."

Chen Fan pursed his lips. ’I really thought the Ghost Stones might work,’ he mused, ’after all, the ones inside the heads of all those Ghost Objects seem to be perfectly intact.’

A Copper Pipe.

The thrown Copper Pipe was also smashed to bits by a bolt of lightning.

An Iron Pipe, a Mortal Realm Token, a Suspended Basket—item after item that could potentially conduct electricity was hurled forcefully into the Thunderstorm Sea Realm by the Martial King Cultivation Battle Pavilion member, but without exception, they were all obliterated by the lightning.

Moreover, it seemed there was some kind of mechanism within the Thunderstorm Sea Realm.

The moment something new entered, it would attract a bolt of lightning.

"Mazi."

Chen Fan turned to Wang Mazi with a strange expression. "How exactly did you cross the Thunderstorm Sea Realm back then? Didn’t the lightning strike you?"

"It didn’t."

Wang Mazi shook his head, also looking baffled as he said hesitantly, "Maybe it’s because I’ve never made any oaths in my life?"

"You have. You made plenty of them during the first rainy season."

"Er... then maybe it’s because I’ve never broken an oath?"

"Forget it."

Chen Fan stood on the deck, his body swaying with the Sea Ship on the waves. After a long moment of thought, he shook his head. It seemed that channeling the Thunderbolt into the Mortal Realm or moving the Celestial Pillar to the Thunderstorm Sea Realm were both unrealistic.

For one thing, he currently had no materials that could withstand the baptism of the Thunderstorm Sea Realm’s Thunderbolts.

’I should head back to the New Continent first and check on the progress of the ’Sparks Set the World Ablaze’ plan,’ he thought.

Just then—

"Domain Lord."

The Battle Pavilion member beside him took out a Big Saber and asked tentatively, "Why don’t we try this?"

"Oh?"

Chen Fan raised an eyebrow, his gaze falling on the Big Saber in the Battle Pavilion member’s hand. It was made entirely of Earth Gold. Originally, only members of the Dark Pavilion possessed daggers forged completely from Earth Gold. However, ever since they had discovered a massive deposit of it on the New Continent, Earth Gold had gradually become commonplace in the Mortal Realm.