299: Chapter 297 Thunder Incarnation

Yun Ming gazed at the Lightning Humanoid currently taking shape, and every hair on his body stood on end.

It was not fear, but instinct.

His Physical Body was telling him that the thing before him was a hundred times more dangerous than all the Lightning Dragons combined.

The Lightning Humanoid appeared as if it were condensed from moonlight; it was faint, silvery-white, and possessed a somewhat hazy beauty.

However, when Yun Ming's Divine Sense swept over it, what he felt was not moonlight, nor gentleness, but overwhelming tyranny and destruction.

That aura was so intense that it actually seemed calm, so intense that it made one feel it was gentle.

It was like the deep sea; the surface was calm and unruffled, while beneath lay an unfathomable abyss.

The Lightning Humanoid's features were still unclear; its facial features were blurred, and its limbs barely maintained the shape of a human.

It stood there, suspended in mid-air, looking down at Yun Ming from above.

It had no eyes, but Yun Ming could feel that gaze—indifferent, ruthless, as if looking at an ant.

Yun Ming took a deep breath, and all his Cultivation Techniques circulated simultaneously.

He pushed the Dao Scripture to its limit; his five Golden Cores spun crazily, and the Five Elements spiritual power surged through his Meridians.

The Tahua Zizai Escape Technique was poised for action, the moon-light patterns of the taixu moon-hiding robe lit up again, his figure under the Law of Heaven and Earth stood as steady as Mount Tai, and the Cold Spring Jade Quenching Record and Indestructible Body of Ten Thousand Tribulations strengthened his Physical Body to the limit.

He held the black tortoise heaven-suppressing shield horizontally before him, the cauldron of all things mother qi hovered above his head, and the cicada wing sword drifted by his side.

The map of mountains and rivers hung in his Sea of Consciousness, and the power of the world within the map bolstered his own strength.

He adjusted his state to the Peak.

Then, he stood ready, eyes locked on every move of the Lightning Humanoid.

The next moment, the Lightning Humanoid moved.

Without any warning, without any Escape Light, without the sound of wind, it simply vanished into thin air.

Yun Ming's pupils contracted violently; he subconsciously moved the black tortoise heaven-suppressing shield in front of him—it was too late.

That silvery-white fist had already pierced through his abdomen, protruding from his back.

Not from the side, not from the shoulder, but straight through the abdomen, piercing right through.

Fresh blood gushed out from the wound.

Yun Ming looked down at that arm, silvery-white and translucent, entwined with fine purple-gold electric arcs, as it slowly withdrew from his body.

Pain surged like a tide, almost causing him to suffocate.

As the Lightning Humanoid's arm pulled away, Yun Ming's body lunged forward violently, nearly collapsing.

Gritting his teeth, he activated the Tahua Zizai Escape Technique with all his might, and his figure retreated rapidly.

The Lightning Humanoid did not pursue.

It stood in place, looking down at the fresh blood staining its fist, seemingly finding it uninteresting.

It flicked its hand, and those blood droplets dissipated into red mist.

Then, it looked up, fixing its gaze on Yun Ming once again.

The horror of that punch had been deeply carved into Yun Ming's consciousness.

It was not just the speed; it was the power—that unimaginable, overwhelming power.

Under the circulation of the Dao Scripture, Yun Ming's wound slowly healed, but blood was still flowing; the damage to his internal organs could not be repaired in an instant.

He steadied his figure and took a third-grade healing Medicinal Pill from the map of mountains and rivers, popping it into his mouth.

As the Medicinal Pill entered his abdomen, a warm force surged into his limbs and bones.

His pierced abdomen healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, severed Meridians reconnected, shattered internal organs returned to their original state, and his spiritual power was fully restored.

He exhaled a breath of turbid air, his gaze becoming firm once more.

The Lightning Humanoid seemed to sense Yun Ming's changes; it did not give Yun Ming a chance to catch his breath, taking a single step that crossed a hundred zhang, appearing before Yun Ming.

The fist smashed down again.

This time, Yun Ming did not retreat; he maneuvered within a small space using the Tahua Zizai Escape Technique, avoiding a direct hit, while the cicada wing sword thrust out silently, the sword light aiming straight for the Lightning Humanoid's neck.

The Lightning Humanoid raised its hand and grasped the blade, squeezing it gently, causing the cicada wing sword to emit a piercing wail.

Yun Ming seized the opportunity to retract the cicada wing sword, held up the black tortoise heaven-suppressing shield, and withstood the Lightning Humanoid's punch head-on.

The shield's surface vibrated violently, and another crack appeared.

The two engaged in a fierce confrontation in the sky, their speed so fast that the naked eye could not capture it; one could only see two streaks of light intertwining, colliding, separating, and colliding again in the night sky, like two meteors chasing each other, tracing countless fine lines across the overcast firmament.

With every collision, a visible shockwave exploded, tearing the surrounding clouds to shreds.

The cicada wing sword played a significant role in the battle; it was silent and soundless, its sword light transparent, drifting around the Lightning Humanoid and specifically targeting its joints and weak points.

The golden fire dragon from the cauldron of all things mother qi also lunged from the side, the Golden Crow Flame scorching that silvery-white body.

The Lightning Humanoid was entangled by Yun Ming and could not break free for the moment, but every one of its counterattacks forced Yun Ming to pay a heavy price.

The battle lasted for nearly half an hour, and Yun Ming had already sustained over a dozen wounds—his left arm was torn open with a gash deep enough to see bone, his right leg's tibia was kicked and broken, and three ribs in his chest were fractured by a punch.

Yet, when he was beaten to the point of severe injury and had almost lost his combat ability, he suddenly took an enlightenment tea leaf from the map of mountains and rivers and swallowed it; his injuries were fully healed, his spiritual power restored, and he continued to charge forward.

The Lightning Humanoid seemed to notice Yun Ming's anomaly; its movements paused for an instant—not because of fear, but because of confusion.

It did not understand why this Mortal could instantly recover to his Peak state while in a state of near-death injury.

That moment of hesitation was very short, so short it could almost be ignored, but Yun Ming seized it.

He activated the Tahua Zizai Escape Technique with full force, his figure turning into a streak of light, cutting in from the Lightning Humanoid's blind spot.

He concentrated all the power within his body into his right fist—the amplification of the Law of Heaven and Earth, his third-grade Body Refining Physical Body, the full spiritual power of his Five Elements Golden Cores, the world power of the map of mountains and rivers, and that golden entry: "Serious Punch".

All power converged at the fist's edge, compressed, condensed, and exploded.

The moment that punch was thrown, the entire Lightning Tribulation cloud trembled.

The Lightning Humanoid sensed the danger.

Its instinct told it that this punch could not be taken head-on.

It wanted to dodge; its speed was fast enough, and its reactions were sharp enough.

But Yun Ming's fist was already pressed against its body; it only had time to move sideways by half a foot.

The fist grazed its waist, missing a direct hit.

But even just grazing it, that power was terrifying enough.

Half of its body exploded and disintegrated in an instant.

Because the power was so great and the speed so fast, the Lightning Humanoid did not even move far; it stood almost in the same place, its figure unmoving, but its left half of the body, along with its arm, turned into countless tiny purple-gold lightning bolts, bursting in all directions.

Those lightning bolts fell onto the ground, blasting out huge craters dozens of zhang deep; they landed on mountain Peaks, shaving off entire mountaintops; they fell into the night sky, illuminating the clouds for a thousand li around.

At the Lightning Humanoid's cross-section, lightning surged, attempting to re-condense, but those dissipated lightning bolts could not be retrieved in an instant.

With the support of the Enlightened Dao Fruit, Yun Ming's spiritual platform was clear, and his Divine Sense was sharp; he did not lose his footing because of the fierce battle, but instead pinpointed the fatal weakness of this Lightning Incarnation.

He did not give it time to react.

He swiftly sacrificed the map of mountains and rivers.

The scroll unfurled, turning into a size of a hundred zhang in the blink of an eye, and a huge black hole appeared in the center of the scroll, crazily devouring those dissipated purple-gold lightning bolts.

The lightning was sucked into the map, rampaging through the Small World of the map of mountains and rivers, but the Law of the world within the map suppressed them firmly, grinding down their tyrannical aura bit by bit.

The Lightning Humanoid discovered Yun Ming's scheme; amidst its shock, it no longer waited for the lightning to retract on its own, and dragging its incomplete body, it lunged violently toward Yun Ming.