Chapter 165 - 143: [Instant Thunder Without Delay Skill]

Chapter 165: Chapter 143: [Instant Thunder Without Delay Skill]

Kahong Mountain.

Zhang Ji’s current training ground.

The intensity and frequency of the celestial lightning here were far greater than that of a power plant.

In a way, this place could be considered a nexus of nature’s power.

However, under normal circumstances, few could withstand such celestial lightning. At the very least, an A-rank martial artist was required to fully utilize it.

Even Ferguson back then hadn’t dared to stand directly within the core cluster of celestial lightning.

And right now, Zhang Ji was here, cultivating the martial arts of the Celestial Thunder Sect.

Lightning struck down. He used no Yuan Qi for protection, and his Qi Body was dispersed.

Countless bolts of lightning ravaged the surface of his body. The searing damage from the high temperature was negligible. The harm caused by the lightning rampaging through his body didn’t even require his True Solar Flame or Celestial Silkworm Origin to act; Zhang Ji’s Yuan Qi alone was more than enough to heal it. His entire body tingled as lightning-bolt patterns appeared on his skin.

As the lightning furiously struck him, Zhang Ji calculated that after fifty minutes, one (Ordinary) grade Martial Arts Crystal of the Celestial Thunder Sect would form.

The martial art, derived using AI, was inherently far stronger than a typical (Ordinary) grade one. Zhang Ji had pushed it directly toward all sorts of theoretical limits. In terms of attribute bonuses alone, it was at least at the (Ordinary Eight-Star) to (Nine-Star) level.

Arcs of electricity, by no means weak, now naturally coiled around Zhang Ji’s body.

He could feel a vast amount of celestial lightning energy accumulating within him.

At the same time, his physical strength had increased by a large margin.

Although the martial arts techniques of the Profound Heart Stream were limited by the environment in combat, that absolutely didn’t mean they were powerless without it.

Moreover, the higher the level, the more this environmental limitation would gradually disappear.

This was because at higher ranks, although one could no longer borrow external elements, one could transform their own body into an element.

Even without borrowing external power, they could still display considerable combat prowess.

If these schools could only rely on external elements to fight, they wouldn’t have been worthy of being established as independent schools in the first place.

Zhang Ji’s cultivation continued, and time in the outside world flowed by quickly.

In June, a new bill was passed, officially establishing the Supreme Capital as the world capital.

The trend of world unification had become unstoppable.

In July, the World Alchemy Science Academy was established in the former Dragon Country region (now Longzhou). Robby was elected as the first chairman of the World Alchemy Science Academy, responsible for overseeing and standardizing alchemical science research, as well as guiding its further development.

In the same month, the martial arts rank assessment was officially adopted as a standard evaluation criterion across all industries. Its weight was even more exaggerated than the previous academic evaluation system.

「August 2nd.」

At the summit of Kahong Mountain.

Zhang Ji’s consciousness was immersed in the [Boundary] space.

He saw the one thousand (Ordinary) Celestial Thunder Sect Martial Arts Crystals within it.

Next, he was going to synthesize them according to a pre-planned method.

With a thought, the Martial Arts Crystals shimmering with white light before him began to arrange themselves neatly into categories.

[System Prompt: Synthesize (Ordinary) Thunder Step Martial Skill Crystal*1, (Ordinary) Thunder Condensation Body Skill Martial Skill Crystal*1, (Ordinary) Flash Leap Martial Skill Crystal*1... into a new Martial Skill Crystal?]

"Synthesize!"

"Synthesize!"

"Synthesize!"

Following Zhang Ji’s commands, one thousand (Ordinary) Martial Arts Crystals transformed into one hundred (Fine) Martial Arts Crystals.

But it wasn’t over yet. He still needed to perform a more advanced synthesis.

’Although the final result will be a single (Epic) technique, the synthesis order matters. If I mess it up, the effects will be vastly different. According to the plan, these should be synthesized separately, while those over there need to be cross-combined...’

Zhang Ji injected the one hundred (Fine) Martial Arts Crystals into his body one by one, sensing their effects and the deductive memories they brought, in order to determine their general categories.

There were no major discrepancies with the AI’s or his own deductions. The effects were basically identical, and in some aspects, even exceeded expectations.

This surplus was due to Zhang Ji himself.

When he synthesized the Martial Arts Crystals, he was in a "complete body" state, so the advanced Martial Arts Crystals were also influenced by his own condition.

It was like accomplishing the same task, but with more precise equipment, you could achieve a higher degree of completion.

Of course, this precise "equipment" also acted as a threshold.

None of the martial arts Zhang Ji had synthesized could be practiced by a normal Grandmaster.

Even some B-rank Terrestrial Immortals might not be able to learn the basics.

After sorting the one hundred Martial Arts Crystals into categories, Zhang Ji began the synthesis process once more.

They intertwined and collided, shining with a blue light.

Before long, ten (Excellent) Martial Arts Crystals appeared.

As usual, Zhang Ji first sensed their intrinsic effects.

The synthesis deduction continued to fulfill Zhang Ji’s requirements. The attribute enhancements were greater, with significant improvements in Control Power, lightning, and Spirit. It also included a specialized boost to speed, though it hadn’t yet reached the qualitative change of Half-Elementalization needed for a tunneling effect.

However, it had unexpectedly incorporated a significant measure of Yuan Qi.

Zhang Ji’s own Yuan Qi system had had a considerable influence on it.

Corresponding Yuan Qi usage techniques had appeared in all ten Martial Arts Crystals, enabling more efficient and faster movement or related functions.

It fused various systems, effortlessly simplifying the complex.

This was the power of [Boundary].

Zhang Ji felt that his future form would definitely be one that fused all the techniques from multiple worlds and multiple systems together.

He would be able to adapt to any environment and any state, possessing considerable combat ability in all of them.

"Time for the final synthesis!"

After sensing the effects of the ten Martial Arts Crystals, Zhang Ji’s consciousness-form reached out from a distance, making a grasping motion toward the ten (Excellent) Martial Arts Crystals.

"Synthesize!"

The moment his hand closed, the ten (Excellent) Martial Arts Crystals once again intertwined, collided, and fused.

A dazzling purple radiance bloomed, brighter even than the (Epic Nine-Star) Celestial Silkworm Rebirth Scripture, and was roughly comparable to the Primordial Divine Qi Scripture.

’It seems there are still differences even among (Epic Nine-Star) techniques,’ he thought.

Something infinitely close to (Legendary) might still be called (Epic), but they were ultimately not the same.

Seeing this, Zhang Ji became even more certain of the path he would take.

He absolutely couldn’t just start practicing a Cultivation Technique the moment he obtained it. He had to understand it, deconstruct it, and then reconstruct it with technology, transforming it into his own martial art.

Only then could he achieve better results.

[System Prompt: Successfully synthesized (Epic) Instant Thunder Without Delay Skill Martial Skill Crystal*1.]

’Let’s test its effects.’

With a thought, Zhang Ji merged the Martial Arts Crystal into his body. In an instant, a massive flood of information surged forth, and he felt his body begin to change.

In the inherited memories, Zhang Ji spent an immense amount of time making modifications and corrections bit by bit. He never took a wrong turn; every step was the correct one.

Even so, he had spent over six hundred years to finally deduce this technique.

It combined techniques from multiple schools, his own Yuan Qi, his Spiritualization technique, and the original Celestial Thunder Sect techniques to create this powerful Escape Technique.

Zhang Ji felt his life form change once again, just like when he had mastered the True Solar Flame. His body now possessed the characteristic of being able to convert into an energy state.

But this time, it wasn’t transforming into True Fire, but into celestial lightning.

Zhang Ji extended his arm, and in a flash, his entire arm transformed into lightning.

"CRACKLE! SIZZLE~!"

The condensed arm of lightning was almost completely elementalized.

The surrounding air was ionized, forming electrical arcs.

Faintly, the magnetic field was also being disturbed.

With a thought, Zhang Ji’s entire body transformed completely into lightning.

In this state, his perception was strange and wonderful.

He was no longer observing with his naked eyes, but perceiving with Spirit particles.

It was clearer, more precise.

At the same time, the magnetic field fed back a great deal of information to him.

He could sense many electromagnetic signals.

For now, however, he couldn’t interpret them. He lacked the corresponding informational framework to understand their meaning.

Suddenly, Zhang Ji moved.

"WHOOSH! SWOOSH~!"

There was no sonic boom like Ferguson’s. He felt almost no resistance and left no turbulence in his wake. In a mere instant, Zhang Ji appeared hundreds of li away.

In the middle of his flight, his form flickered once as he swerved from one direction to another, executing a sharp-angled turn.

’So fast!’

Even Zhang Ji himself was astonished.

Yuan Qi empowerment broke through air resistance, elementalization combined with electromagnetic acceleration, and all of it was integrated with the void-piercing technique of Spiritualization.

With the three combined, Zhang Ji himself wasn’t sure exactly how fast he was.

But he was certain he was much, much faster than Ferguson.

’At this speed, if I were to suddenly cancel my elementalization and use my inertia to power a lightning attack...’

’I’d probably be the first one to be unable to withstand it, right?’ Zhang Ji mused.

However, he had a hunch that a sudden strike at this speed would definitely have S-rank power.

It just felt like a move that would harm the enemy and himself in equal measure.

But his recovery ability was powerful. A broken arm or leg, or even some shattered organs, was a trivial matter. A move that hurt him as well as his enemy was fine. His health bar was thick, so he could very well use it as a semi-regular skill.

.......

Outside the Supreme Capital.

Zhang Ji performed a high-speed movement, and the relevant measurement personnel immediately provided the data.

"Maximum speed reached Mach 124, with a cruising speed of around Mach 110..."

This speed had already surpassed all of humanity’s technological devices on Origin Star. No missile or weapon could catch up to him.

Furthermore, Zhang Ji could change direction rapidly at this speed.

One could say that Zhang Ji was already more than ten generations ahead of the world’s most advanced fighter jets.

When the measurement personnel from the Physics Department saw the data, their eyes were filled with excitement and shock.

Although they believed in science, there was no doubt that in their minds, the Zhang Ji before them was worthy of being called a "god."

The power he commanded was enough to be called a mighty force!

Zhang Ji paid no mind to the looks of worship or longing. After getting the data, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The normal movement speed of someone at the Divinity Transformation Stage was about ninety times the speed of sound. The top-tier Sword Cultivators over there would be one level ahead, reaching over one hundred times the speed of sound, but even they couldn’t match his current speed.

It was safe to say he could now fight when he wanted and run when he wanted.

Moreover, Zhang Ji believed that with his current attributes combined with this speed, it would be enough to exchange a few blows with an S-rank at the Divinity Transformation Stage.

Of course, it was limited to just a few blows.

It was the kind of situation where he couldn’t defeat his opponent, but he could certainly annoy them.