603: Weird special uses

Boom~

As soon as Yang Dian stepped into the Strange Star, which had just become an affiliated Grotto-Heaven of Huaxia and whose name had not yet been officially decided, he heard a clap of thunder from the horizon.

Turning his head to look at the sky, Yang Dian was momentarily stunned.

"There are still Strange Stars at the Star-Patrolling Realm level?"

"Why didn't I sense them during the previous sweep?"

"Did they hide deep underground or in the deep sea, or did they just advance to the Star-Patrolling Realm level?"

Stepping forward in confusion, Yang Dian's figure then crossed thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, arriving at the Strange Star's seashore.

Looking up at the clear sky for hundreds of miles, a sky without a single cloud, a string of question marks popped up in Yang Dian's head.

'I understand dry thunder on a clear day, but directly pouring down a lightning pillar, isn't that a bit exaggerated?'

His gaze followed the lightning pillar downwards, and Yang Dian then saw the strange creature in the sea, its body numb from the electricity, deep blue all over, shapeless but able to freely change its form.

'What terrible deed did this strange creature commit to suffer a Heavenly Tribulation?'

Just as the thought arose, Yang Dian felt another aura appear somewhat abruptly beside him.

Turning to look at Lei Ming, who had suddenly appeared beside him, Yang Dian couldn't help but narrow his eyes: "Uncle Lei, your speed?"

Lei Ming's speed was a bit off.

Too fast.

So fast that before Yang Dian could even react, he had already flashed from who knows how far away to the seashore.

It wasn't an instantaneous space jump or anything similar, but pure speed.

Even with Yang Dian's current eyesight, he couldn't capture any trace of Lei Ming's movement.

Only the slightly vibrating air told him that a large black rat had just darted past.

Hearing Yang Dian's surprise, Lei Ming raised an eyebrow and said casually, "Just now, the Dimensional War officially ended, and the moment the Strange Star became an affiliated Grotto-Heaven, I got struck by lightning."

"Then it was as if I suddenly had an Epiphany, and many ways to use lightning popped into my head all at once."

"Transforming into a bolt of electricity, crossing hundreds of thousands of miles in an instant, that's a small trick I just had an Epiphany about."

"The principle is to lock onto the destination through charge interaction, transform the body into lightning elements, issue the thought of going to the locked target in one's consciousness, and then the power of lightning will naturally resonate with Heaven and Earth, strengthening the electromagnetic field, building a discharge channel, and then transforming into a bolt of electricity to perform the jump..."

Lei Ming, seizing a rare opportunity to show off, tried to teach Yang Dian what he had comprehended.

But Yang Dian only felt a headache.

Lei Ming's explanation was too vague.

Perhaps, probably, maybe, like this, like that... and if he got excited, he would even gesticulate wildly.

The storytelling might be good, but trying to comprehend anything from his narration?

The difficulty was unusually high.

Looking at Lei Ming, who seemed ready to talk until the end of time if he didn't interrupt, Yang Dian was thoughtful.

'Uncle Lei's understanding of the ability [Electric Light Teleportation] doesn't seem very deep.'

'Many things in his description are quite ambiguous, more like 'I think I can, so I can.'

'Normally, he shouldn't be able to use [Electric Light Teleportation] with such vague understanding.'

'But he just used it.'

'How does it feel like someone inscribed this ability into Heaven and Earth, and once someone meets certain conditions, they can use this ability at will?'

'It feels like a skill in a game.'

'So... what exactly was the situation on Earth in the past?'

'If I go billions of light-years away, will I be able to see Earth in ancient times?'

As thoughts surged in his mind, Yang Dian looked up at the sky again, interrupting Lei Ming's endless chatter: "Uncle Lei, besides you, have other Expeditionary Force warriors received such 'rewards'?"

"Also, you are a lightning-attribute ability user, can you sense why that strange creature was suddenly struck by lightning?"

Lei Ming, who was speaking happily, stuttered like a disconnected network, then shook his head: "I sensed an abnormality in the lightning-attribute aura here and immediately rushed over; I haven't had time to communicate with anyone else."

"As for this place, I don't have any special feelings."

As he spoke, he looked at the Star-Patrolling Realm strange creature again, somewhat eager: "It just feels like that strange creature is a magnet; I want to strike it with lightning a couple of times."

Yang Dian pondered for a moment before entering the Unity of Man and Nature state.

Then he suddenly understood the strange creature's current state.

"Lightning Stone?"

"Lightning Stone?" Lei Ming was curious about the two words that came out of Yang Dian's mouth: "What Lightning Stone?"

"You're saying this strange creature is called Lightning Stone?"

Yang Dian shook his head, then waved his hand towards the strange creature.

Afterward, a light blue, basketball-sized strange stone, inscribed with countless patterns on its surface, was forcibly summoned out of the strange creature's body by Yang Dian.

Strangely enough.

The moment the Lightning Stone left the strange creature's body, the lightning pillar that had fallen without reason from the sky stopped, leaving only the scorched smell of electrified air lingering by the sea.

However, the strange creature, due to the residual electricity in its body, remained numb in the seawater, unable to move.

"Sizzle~"

The Lightning Stone landed in Yang Dian's palm, immediately emitting sizzling electric light.

Rubbing his slightly numb and itchy fingertips, and looking at the patterns on the surface of the Lightning Stone, which, though complex and beautiful, were somewhat incomplete upon closer inspection, Yang Dian's eyes couldn't help but show regret.

"It should have been struck by lightning for a bit longer."

Lei Ming, whose gaze was firmly attracted by the patterns on the Lightning Stone, was about to speak when he saw Yang Dian put the Lightning Stone back into the strange creature's body.

Unfortunately, no thunder fell from the sky again.

Seeing this scene, Lei Ming finally couldn't help but ask, "This is?"

Yang Dian reached out to recall the Lightning Stone, thought for a moment, then pulled out a Star Core, packaged the strange creature into the Star Core Space, and then threw it along with the Lightning Stone to Lei Ming.

"It might be a miracle born during the world's Fusion."

"The strange creature devouring the Lightning Stone caused a magnetic field disturbance, which happened to coincide with the Strange Star and Earth's dimensions completely overlapping."

"After multiple factors overlapped, the scene of lightning striking the strange creature just now appeared."

"If the Lightning Stone had been taken out later, allowing it to absorb more lightning essence within the strange creature's body, perhaps the lightning patterns on its surface could have been made even more perfect."

At this point, fearing that Lei Ming wouldn't know what lightning patterns were, Yang Dian added, "The lightning patterns on the Lightning Stone are the concretization of the Law Runes of Lightning."

"Although incomplete, if you carefully comprehend the lightning patterns on it, Uncle Lei, your strength should also receive a good boost."

Lei Ming looked at the Lightning Stone in his hand, which felt somewhat warm to him, like a large power bank.

Then he looked at Yang Dian again.

Then he frowned and thought for a moment, decisively placing the Lightning Stone into Yang Dian's palm: "After you comprehended the Five Elements Runes, you could create Five Elements Cultivation Techniques of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth through them."

"Now the Lightning Runes are here; it shouldn't be difficult to create a lightning-attribute Cultivation Technique through them, right?"

"If this Lightning Stone is given to me, it can only benefit me alone, or a few ability users who have awakened lightning-attribute abilities."

"But if you can create a lightning-attribute Cultivation Technique, it can benefit more ordinary people, and even enhance Huaxia's overall national fortune."

Looking down at the Lightning Stone Lei Ming had placed in his palm, Yang Dian looked at Lei Ming again: "Uncle Lei, are you really thinking this way, or do you find comprehending runes too tiring and want to take advantage of me?"

Lei Ming had a righteous and grand expression: "Do I look like the kind of person who fears hardship?"

"I am thinking of those ordinary people who have a low affinity with the Five Elements attributes but may not necessarily be incompatible with lightning attributes!"

Yang Dian chuckled: "Of course you're not the kind of person who fears hardship and fatigue."

"But you are the kind of person who can't sit still, who would rather wander the world fighting little monsters."

After teasing Lei Ming, Yang Dian threw the Lightning Stone back to him: "I've already memorized the lightning patterns on the Lightning Stone; I'll create a lightning-attribute Cultivation Technique when I have some free time."

"You can use this Lightning Stone for now."

Lei Ming carefully took the Lightning Stone, and just as he was about to say that they shouldn't be so rough with their 'lightning-attribute sacred object,' he heard Yang Dian speak again: "The reason for this Heavenly Lightning's descent was indeed a coincidence of various factors coming together, but since this coincidence can happen once, there's no reason it can't happen a second time."

"Don't kill the remaining strange creatures and ghosts; raise them."

"Next time the dimensions merge, bring these ghosts to the world that is about to merge with Earth, and see if we can turn coincidence into inevitability."

Hearing Yang Dian's words, Lei Ming's eyes lit up: "You mean this coincidence can be achieved again through human intervention?"

As he spoke, he tightened his grip on the Star Core containing the strange creature: "Looking at the situation just now, even if you hadn't taken out the Lightning Stone, this strange creature wouldn't have been able to withstand many more lightning strikes."

"If we help the strange creature improve its strength so that it can withstand more lightning strikes during the next Lightning Tribulation, can we make the Lightning Stone even more powerful, and its lightning patterns more complete?"

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