76: A qualitative change in lightning! Dark tribulation lightning that devours the abyss!

“Pfft!”

Lin Yuan bent over, unable to catch his breath, almost collapsing on the spot.

An indescribable sharp pain erupted from his lower abdomen, sweeping through his entire body!

“What’s wrong with you?”

Su Wanqing’s voice rang out immediately, tinged with a hint of nervousness.

She flashed to Lin Yuan’s side, reaching out to help him, but her hand stopped halfway in the air.

Liu Yan, Shi Lei, and Mo Chen also gathered around, their expressions wary as they scanned their surroundings.

“Is it that kind of mental attack?” Shi Lei’s voice was muffled, already adopting a defensive stance.

“No!” Mo Chen shook his head, “He shows no signs of mental erosion. Instead… his energy fluctuations are incredibly chaotic!”

“Lin Yuan!” Liu Yan frowned, her tone displeased as she growled, “What trick are you playing now?”

Lin Yuan was grimacing in pain, unable to speak.

What trick was he playing?

He wanted to know too!

The two forces in his belly, unwilling to submit to each other, had launched an earth-shattering battle!

Lin Yuan’s own lightning power was like a pitiful mediator, caught in the middle, being furiously attacked from both sides, shattering upon impact, utterly without dignity.

“I… I’m fine…”

Lin Yuan squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

“Maybe… the lunchbox was unclean, and I got a bad stomach.”

Everyone: “…”

Liu Yan’s eye twitched violently. She almost wanted to slap this scoundrel to death.

At a time like this, and you’re still spouting nonsense!

Su Wanqing withdrew her hand that had been suspended in the air, looking at him coldly: “Your body is glowing.”

Lin Yuan was startled, looking down.

Indeed.

Streaks of dark purple and pitch-black electrical arcs were seeping out from under his skin, darting all over his body.

He couldn’t keep up the act anymore.

Lin Yuan simply straightened up, wiped away the cold sweat, and a ruthless expression appeared on his face.

Damn it.

Fortune favors the bold!

If he couldn’t mediate, then he wouldn’t!

Let them fight! The fiercer, the better!

He would just pick up scraps on the side!

With a thought, he no longer suppressed the two forces. Instead, he actively pushed his own origin power towards them.

His goal was clear—the heavenly thunder fragment.

Although this thing was volatile, it was ultimately of the same origin as lightning, making it a great tonic for him!

As for the abyssal origin, that thing was too sinister, so he would leave it alone for now.

“Buzz—”

When his divine body’s origin came into contact with the violent thunder energy emanating from the heavenly thunder fragment.

Lin Yuan trembled all over.

A pure energy spread through his meridians, diffusing throughout his body!

Primordial Thunder God Body, activated.

High-purity lightning law energy detected. Initiating absorption…

Current Divine Body charge: 31%… 32%… 34%…

It worked!

Lin Yuan was overjoyed!

The sharp pain in his Dantian seemed tolerable in the face of this rapidly increasing charge.

He even wished they would fight more fiercely!

However, he rejoiced too soon.

Just as he was diligently “picking up scraps,” the neglected abyssal origin became restless.

It seemed to sense that its mortal enemy was “recharging” Lin Yuan, and it became even more violent.

A mass of darkness broke through the heavenly thunder fragment’s blockade, encroaching upon Lin Yuan’s divine body origin!

“Holy crap!”

Lin Yuan was startled, quickly trying to retreat.

But it was too late.

That wisp of pitch-black energy instantly merged into his lightning origin.

Boom!

Lin Yuan’s mind buzzed.

His lightning had changed.

It was no longer simply purple, but now carried a deep hint of black.

This newly born “dark lightning” was completely beyond his control, rampaging through his meridians!

“Sizzle—”

A hair-thin black-purple electrical arc shot out from his fingertip, struck the air, and then silently vanished.

“Hmm?”

Su Wanqing, who had been watching him, furrowed her brows even tighter.

In that instant, she had sensed an ominous aura.

Chaos, corruption, greed… that was definitely not Lin Yuan’s own power!

“Lin Yuan, what exactly is inside you?” she demanded sharply.

Lin Yuan was now in a predicament, unable to speak.

He was busy suppressing the “mad dog” biting everywhere within his body and had no time to answer.

Just then.

The charge within his body was still soaring wildly.

Divine Body charge: 45%… 47%… 49%…

Current Divine Body charge: 49.9%

The number stopped there.

After clashing to the extreme, the heavenly thunder fragment and the abyssal origin strangely reached a balance.

Wisps of Abyssal power were forcibly crushed by the heavenly thunder, imprinted into the laws of lightning;

And the destructive aura of the heavenly thunder also infected the chaotic essence of the Abyss.

His lightning was undergoing a qualitative change!

Lin Yuan slowly exhaled a turbid breath, feeling that control over his body had finally returned for the most part.

That newly formed “Abyssal Tribulation Thunder” was suppressed by him into a corner of his Dantian, enveloped by ordinary lightning power, temporarily forming an isolation zone.

“I’m fine now.” Lin Yuan waved his hand, his face still a bit pale, “Minor issue, technical adjustment.”

Liu Yan rolled her eyes, just about to speak.

Suddenly.

“Hiss hiss…” A strange sound came from all directions.

The sound was very soft, like countless snakes slithering on the ground, or like fabric being torn.

On this desolate street, it sounded particularly eerie.

“What’s that sound?” Shi Lei immediately became alert.

Mo Chen closed his eyes, sensing with all his might. A few seconds later, he suddenly opened his eyes, his face filled with shock and confusion.

“Nothing! There’s nothing!”

“Within my sensory range, there are no living beings! And no energy sources!”

No sooner had he spoken.

“Hiss hiss hiss—”

The sound grew closer and denser!

It was as if something invisible was emerging from the shadows in all directions, rapidly approaching them!

Invisible enemies!

A chilling aura emanated from Su Wanqing, and a long ice crystal sword slowly condensed in her hand.

Wind swirls also began to gather around Liu Yan.

Only Lin Yuan’s expression changed from confusion to shock, and finally to a strange look.

In his Electromagnetic Induction world.

The previously “blank” area was now becoming incredibly “lively.”

Transparent, ghost-like entities were seeping out from the walls, from beneath the ground, from the bodies of the slumbering…!

They had no physical form; from the perspective of Electromagnetic Induction, they were like clusters of garbled code.

But their target was incredibly clear.

It was him!

No, more precisely, it was that wisp of “dark lightning” that had leaked from him earlier!

Those phantoms were greedily pouncing on the area where the energy residue lingered, frantically devouring it.

And with each act of devouring, their ethereal bodies seemed to solidify a bit more.

Lin Yuan understood.

These ghostly things were the culprits that caused the entire city to fall into slumber!

And he, unable to control himself just now, had not only given them an extra meal but had also attracted all of them!

“Oh crap…”

Lin Yuan couldn’t help but curse under his breath.

What kind of situation was this?

He came to solve a problem, but ended up becoming the source of the problem himself?

“Money in hand, the Soul Forbidden Zone will be abandoned!” Lin Yuan encouraged himself, shouting to his wary teammates:

“Be careful! They’re coming!”

“What’s coming?” Liu Yan asked anxiously, “Where?”

Lin Yuan pointed to the empty street ahead.

“Right there! A whole bunch of them! They look like bad signal!”

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed.

It was empty there.