114: Chapter 114 Physical Salvation! You call this a blank slate? Pay the entrance fee!

That was not a physical entity, but more like a highly condensed state of energy, radiating a heart-palpitating aura of destruction.

The smiles on the faces of several adventurer teams in the distance instantly froze.

"Holy shit! It's Thunderous Specters!"

The burly man 'Lao Hei,' carrying a giant axe, let out a strange cry. The flesh on his face trembled as he grabbed his teammates and retreated frantically without a word.

"Run! These things are the bane of physical classes!"

"Damn it, how did these underground ancestors get disturbed!"

The mage in the team turned pale, explaining to the newcomer beside him while running.

"Thunderous Specters, Lv. 22 elemental creatures. They have no physical form and are immune to over 80% of physical damage! Moreover, they suck the life energy out of living beings; if you're caught, you're dead!"

"That kid attracted the lightning and woke them from their slumber!"

Everyone looked at the figure covered in black smoke atop the broken wall, their eyes filled with horror and... a hint of schadenfreude.

Of all the things to provoke, he just had to attract the most troublesome ghosts in the minefield.

Now he was in for it; forget being turned into charcoal, he probably wouldn't even have ashes left, being sucked dry into a withered corpse.

Over a dozen Thunderous Specters fully emerged from the ground.

They had no fixed form, appearing like clusters of distorted humanoid lightning, with only two hollow eye sockets.

Two points of eerie blue Soul fire burned within them, locking onto the 'food' on the broken wall that radiated a rich 'scent' of lightning.

To them, Lin Qi, who had just undergone Body Tempering from several bolts of Heavenly Thunder, was practically a walking Taotie feast!

"Hiss—!"

The dozen specters simultaneously emitted a sharp, piercing hiss that seemed to penetrate the eardrums and stab deep into one's Soul.

In the next second, they transformed into a dozen streaks of ghostly blue lightning, ignoring the rugged terrain and rushing toward Lin Qi on the broken wall at a speed difficult for the naked eye to track!

The scene was like a pack of wolves that had hungered for three days and nights finally seeing fresh flesh and blood.

Atop the broken wall.

Lin Qi slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air mixed with electric sparks.

He could feel the bones in his body undergoing an earth-shaking transformation, as traces of silver-white luster began to permeate from the depths of his marrow.

But at the same time, a massive and violent amount of lightning energy remained in his Meridians, crashing about and looking for a place to vent.

These blind fools had come at just the right time.

Watching the dozen streaks of lightning rushing toward him, Lin Qi didn't even lift an eyelid, nor did he reach for the three-hundred-pound zhan ye heavy sword on his back.

Dealing with this kind of trash didn't require it.

"Good timing, I'll use you to test my hands."

One Thunderous Specter was the fastest, reaching Lin Qi in the blink of an eye.

It let out an excited shriek, its illusory body charging directly through Lin Qi's chest, attempting to bore into his body and suck dry his blood and Qi, which were filled with lightning essence.

This was their invincible method of hunting.

However, at the very moment half its body was about to merge into Lin Qi's body.

A hand.

A charred hand, appearing as if burned to charcoal, reached out without warning, fingers forming a claw, fast as lightning!

Upon that palm, not only was there a layer of True Qi as solid as substance, but countless fine blue electric arcs were also jumping and racing at the fingertips!

It was precisely the power of the Heavenly Thunder he had just forcibly absorbed and not yet fully refined!

Sizzle!

A sound like a hot knife cutting through butter rang out.

The illusory body the Thunderous Specter was so proud of actually seemed to hit an invisible wall the moment it touched Lin Qi's palm, getting firmly stuck in mid-air!

The lightning power of the same origin made Lin Qi's palm a "Divine Artifact" that could touch and damage this elemental body!

For the first time, an emotional ripple akin to "bewilderment" appeared in the Thunderous Specter's hollow eye sockets.

It didn't understand.

Why could this "food" grab it?

"Suck me dry?"

Lin Qi grinned, revealing a row of teeth made stark white by the reflection of the lightning, his eyes filled with savagery and violence.

"You're not worthy!"

Before his voice finished, his fingers suddenly exerted force!

Bang!!!

A dull explosion!

That overbearing Thunderous Specter didn't even have time to scream before it was popped like a water balloon, exploding on the spot into a flurry of ghostly blue electric sparks that dissipated with the wind.

The entire battlefield fell silent.

The remaining dozen or so Thunderous Specters stopped in unison in mid-air, the Soul fire in their eye sockets flickering violently.

Their simple intelligence could not comprehend the scene before them.

That one... was popped?

Barehanded?

This isn't the script!

While they were dazed, Lin Qi moved.

He stomped his foot hard, creating a spiderweb-like crack on the hard top of the broken wall.

He shot out like a cannonball, advancing instead of retreating, leaping down from the hundred-meter-high wall and slamming into the group of specters below!

"All of you, get over here!"

Boom!

Lin Qi landed, legs slightly bent, as the ground beneath his feet instantly collapsed and cracked.

He didn't use any fancy Moves, simply pouring all the violent thunder force in his body into his fists!

A punch was thrown!

Before the punch even arrived, a piercing thunderclap had already exploded!

A Thunderous Specter instinctively met it, trying to use its illusory body to tank the hit as usual.

As a result, the fist wreathed in lightning crashed into its body without any resistance.

Immediately after, the Spiral Force and thunder force contained in the fist erupted simultaneously!

"Bang!"

With another explosion, the second Thunderous Specter followed in its companion's footsteps, suffering a Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering.

This wasn't a battle at all.

It was a one-sided, unreasonable slaughter!

Lin Qi completely let loose, charging through the group of monsters.

Every one of his punches and kicks carried surging thunder and matchless force.

Those elemental specters that would make any physical class practitioner's scalp tingle were as fragile as paper lanterns before him.

One punch for each, clean and efficient.

The more he fought, the more exhilarated he became. He even discovered that by integrating this Heavenly Thunder power into the fist techniques of the martial arts era, the power actually increased exponentially!

The original Inch Power now carried electric arcs in its fist wind!

The original Crushing Punch now sent the scent of ozone into the air when thrown!

"Refreshing!"

Lin Qi roared to the sky, his fists falling like raindrops.

The adventurer teams in the distance were completely dumbfounded.

Each of them had their mouths wide open and eyes bulging, even forgetting to breathe.

The axe in Lao Hei's hand fell to the ground with a clang, hitting his foot without him even noticing.

"He... he... damn it... he's using his fists to hit specters?"

"Aren't those things physically immune?"

"Immune my ass! Look at those specters exploding like double-bang firecrackers at New Year's!"

The mage in the team rubbed his eyes vigorously, almost suspecting he was under some kind of illusion.

Those were Thunderous Specters!

Their team had once used lightning nets and ice walls, playing all their cards just to deal with one, and it still got away in the end.

But the man before them...

No, this monster!

He was actually using the most primitive and purest physical method to perform salvation on these elemental creatures!

This is what you call Physical Salvation!

In less than two minutes.

The hissing on the battlefield came to an abrupt halt.

Over a dozen Thunderous Specters had been hammered to pieces by Lin Qi's iron fists, turning into a sky full of electric sparks that gradually dissipated in the air.

Lin Qi stood in the center of the dissipating sparks, slowly withdrawing his fists.

The charred skin on his body began to peel off, revealing the newborn skin beneath that shimmered with a faint silver glow.

He cracked his neck, making a series of crisp snapping sounds, feeling more comfortable throughout his body than ever before.

Then, he turned his head, his eyes still flashing with lingering lightning, and looked precisely at the few practitioners in the distance who were frozen in place.

The corner of his mouth curled into a playful arc.

"Have you seen enough?"

The voice wasn't loud, yet it clearly reached everyone's ears.

"If you've seen enough, it's time to pay the entrance fee."