188: Chapter 188 Battle in the Clouds! Thor Descends!

Lin Qi's sincere words, transmitted through the arena's amplification equipment, clearly reached every corner of the Cloud Top Palace and into the ears of over ten billion viewers across the entire Federation.

The muscles on Li Pojun's face twitched violently; the expression that had just frozen in shock was now completely replaced by boundless rage.

What did he just hear?

"Thank you"? "Feels great"?

The sure-kill item he had spent an exorbitant price on and exhausted the Family's deepest connections to acquire—that Void Realm energy capable of cursing a Fourth-Rank powerhouse to death—had actually become a potent supplement in the mouth of this small fry!

This fucking wasn't just slapping his face; it was pressing his face—and the face of the entire Kyoto Li Family—into the ground and rubbing it back and forth with sandpaper!

"You are courting death!"

Li Pojun squeezed these three words through his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, while the electric arcs on his streamlined silver battle armor began to run wild and uncontrolled due to his intense emotional fluctuations.

Just then, Clang—! A distant, resonant bell chime rang out across the sea of clouds. The grand finals officially began!

Almost at the same moment the bell rang, Li Pojun no longer suppressed the volcano about to erupt within him.

He let out a roar that didn't sound human: "S-Rank Profession, Thunder Arbiter, full power activated!"

Before his voice even faded, a golden thunderbolt, thicker and more dazzling than any before, tore through the clouds above, carrying world-destroying power as it struck Li Pojun with pinpoint accuracy. Boom!

At that moment, the holographic broadcast camera feed went white for a split second due to energy overload, and the gasps from the audience were completely drowned out.

When the picture returned, everyone saw a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

As the lightning dissipated, Li Pojun was still standing in the same spot, but his entire form had undergone a heaven-turning, earth-shattering change.

His body had grown at least half a meter taller, and flowing through the gaps in his silver battle armor was no longer mere electric light, but nearly liquid golden thunder-plasma. Most exaggerated of all, a pair of enormous wings composed entirely of pure lightning suddenly unfurled from his back, each flap creating a series of ear-piercing sonic booms in the air.

He slowly ascended, his feet leaving the surface of the arena.

"My God! Is this the true power of an S-Rank hidden profession?"

"Inducing celestial phenomena, turning lightning into wings... is this... is this still within the realm of humanity?"

"A god! He is now the Thunder God stepped out of mythology!"

The commentator's voice was trembling; he no longer knew what words to use to describe the scene before him.

In the Kyoto Li Family's viewing area, the face of Li Qingcang, which had been gloomy for so long because of Lin Qi, finally revealed a satisfied smile.

That's more like it. This is the posture his Li Family's Qilin should have.

Using power that Mortals cannot comprehend, with the posture of a god, crush that ant who doesn't know the height of the sky or the depth of the earth into oblivion!

On the other side of the floating island, Zhang Wei, whose heart had just settled because Lin Qi had digested the poison, felt it leap back into his throat. He pointed at the god-like figure on the screen, his lips trembling: "Qi, Brother Qi, what do we do now? He, he can fly!"

The expressions of Old Mo and Instructor Su Qing were also grave to the extreme.

No matter how strong the martial arts, it is ultimately a body of flesh and blood. Facing an opponent who can invoke the power of heaven and earth and possesses air superiority, one is at an Innate, absolute disadvantage.

On the arena, Lin Qi looked up, calmly watching the figure that was slowly ascending and looking down at him from above.

The powerful perception brought by the Prototype Golden Body allowed him to clearly sense that the energy within the opponent had expanded to a terrifying level, connecting with the thunderclouds in the sky, as if it were endless.

"So what if you can fly?" Lin Qi muttered to himself, loosening his neck.

In mid-air, Li Pojun was completely intoxicated by this sense of power that controlled everything.

He looked down at the sesame-seed-sized figure on the ground; all his previous anger, shock, and stifled frustration transformed at this moment into extreme pleasure and cruelty.

He wanted to brutally kill him! He wanted Lin Qi to experience what true disparity meant in the midst of endless despair!

Li Pojun slowly extended a finger and pointed it from afar at Lin Qi's location. His voice carried unquestionable majesty: "Lightning, come!"

In an instant, the winds and clouds changed color! From unknown origins, large swathes of dark clouds surged over the previously cloudless Cloud Top Palace, shrouding the entire sky in ink-black darkness, as countless ferocious electric serpents frantically wove and gathered within the pitch-black clouds.

The next second, without warning! Hundreds upon thousands of violent thunderbolts began an indiscriminate carpet-bombing barrage! Boom, boom, boom, boom—!

The entire sturdy alloy arena instantly turned into an ocean of thunder. Blinding white light swallowed everything, and the deafening roar made all other sounds disappear.

"Lin Qi!" Zhang Wei let out a shrill scream, almost jumping out of his chair. Instructor Su Qing's nails dug deep into her palms.

The live broadcast's bullet comments came to a complete standstill at this moment, with over ten billion viewers staring intently at the area completely covered by lightning.

Is it over? Was the dark horse who had created countless miracles unable to withstand even a single move before the true posture of the Thunder God, and was he about to be blasted into ashes?

Inside the sea of thunder, Lin Qi's figure moved at high speed, dodging and weaving through the gaps between countless lightning bolts. He pushed Ghost Shadow Yu Step to its limit, his figure moving so fast that only a series of afterimages remained.

But it was useless. The number of lightning bolts was too great, the range too wide, and the speed too fast.

Crackle! An arm-thick bolt of lightning grazed his shoulder, instantly vaporizing a large piece of his sportswear and leaving the exposed skin scorched black. A strong sensation of paralysis spread through his nerves across his entire body.

The Prototype Golden Body activated automatically, a layer of faint golden light circulating beneath his skin, quickly dispelling the paralysis and repairing the damaged muscles. But this was far from over! After dodging one, there were ten, a hundred more!

He was continuously struck by the aftermath of the lightning; his clothes quickly became tattered, and waves of burning pain came from his skin. Although not fatal, it was extremely annoying.

This was the most frustrating fight he had fought since coming to this world. He possessed sky-reaching martial arts, yet he couldn't even touch the corner of his enemy's clothes.

"Hahahaha!" In mid-air, Li Pojun watched Lin Qi fleeing in a sorry state within the sea of thunder, letting out a hearty, unrestrained laugh.

This feeling was too good! Watching that small fry who had dared to mock him earlier now being played in the palm of his hand, this sense of revenge made him almost want to moan aloud.

This was exactly what he wanted! He wanted to make Lin Qi look pathetic under everyone's gaze, to have him exhausted of his stamina in the endless thunder punishment, and finally, to have him kneel on the ground, waiting for death in despair!

Li Pojun's voice, mixed with the thunder, resounded throughout the arena: "Do you see it, trash? This is the disparity between a god and a Mortal!"