85: Sequence 019: Lightning Kite

Underground Mo City was as silent as a tomb.

The desperate cries of the Thunderclap Sparrows still echoed against the dome, like a tolling funeral bell.

The Thunder Wood Demons cowered, the World-Cleansing Lotus dimmed, and all sequence units were shrouded under the intangible yet mountain-heavy warning of the Heavenly Dao, trembling.

The air was thick with the despair of the impending apocalypse, and... the increasingly cold and bone-chilling frantic Battle Intent radiating from Mo Yuan.

Heavenly Dao Thunder Punishment! A heavenly execution aimed at the entire Pseudo-Immortal Dynasty!

Conventional defenses were like paper before the might of heaven and earth.

No matter how strong the Nine Heavens Thunder Hell Formation was, its energy had already been exhausted.

Although the Thunderfire Qilin was fierce, its thunderfire would likely be a joke before the Divine Thunder of the Heavenly Dao.

The one hundred thousand Pseudo-Immortals were nothing more than meat on a chopping block!

Must... find another way!

Must find a glimmer of survival before destruction arrived!

Mo Yuan’s consciousness was like an overloaded crystal brain, frantically deducing at an unprecedented speed.

Countless plans emerged and were rejected.

Resist head-on? Ten deaths, no life!

Evade? Nowhere to run!

Neutralize? How to neutralize?!

The only commonality... this was a Thunder Punishment! The core must be the destructive Heavenly Thunder!

"Resist thunder... must cultivate... a sequence specialized in resisting thunder!"

"Use thunder... to counter thunder? No... need... to devour! Guide! Transform!"

"Materials... must possess... thunder affinity... Void Realm resilience... and... a greedy appetite!"

His gaze instantly locked onto the Nether world evolving inside the magic bottle—the Nether Lightning Pool!

The leaping dark blue Yin Thunder in the pool had properties of extreme Yin and evil. While it seemed to clash with the extremely Yang and rigid Divine Thunder of the Heavenly Dao, in reality, on certain levels... perhaps it could form a strange attraction and containment?

Like the two poles of a magnet!

Also... those newly cultivated Yellow Springs Ghost Soldiers, their ethereal characteristics might be able to avoid some of the direct damage from the lightning strikes?

But it was still not enough! A more specialized, more powerful carrier was needed!

"Search... all sequence libraries... look for... a base possessing Void Realm attributes or energy-devouring characteristics!"

The command was issued, and the magic bottle linked with the Thunder Talisman Network, searching at high speed.

In an instant, it fed back several low-level sequences that met the conditions: the Shadow-Escape Spider, which excelled at short-distance spatial blinking; the Energy-Devouring Moss, which could weakly absorb free Spiritual Qi; and... the remains of a captured Void Realm plankton that grew weakly by devouring starlight.

"Not enough! Too weak!" A cold light flashed in Mo Yuan’s eyes. "Must use the Nether Lightning Pool's Yin Thunder as a base! Use the Void Realm creature remains for form! Use the energy-devouring characteristic as the core! Forcefully... create!"

This was an extremely risky plan! To create an unprecedented new species specifically targeting Heavenly Thunder within a short time!

"Energy... need massive energy... to accelerate the cultivation process!"

Mo Yuan’s gaze turned to the mountain of remaining Spirit Stone reserves, then to the magic bottle in his arms that was constantly wailing, its cracks hideous.

"Bottle... inner world... time flow rate... can it be changed?"

An even crazier thought emerged! Use the incomplete rules and Chaos characteristics of the Small World inside the magic bottle to forcefully distort time!

"Burn the Origin! Burn Spirit Stones! Accelerate! One hundred years inside the bottle... one instant outside!"

He hesitated no longer! The Thunder God Arm slammed onto the cracks of the magic bottle, ignoring the painful shrieks coming from it, and forcefully injected his Chaos Thunder Gang and the remaining scraps of energy from the Thunder Crystal Mine into it frantically!

At the same time, a massive amount of High-Grade Spirit Stones were thrown into the cracks of the magic bottle, ignited instantly like firewood, turning into the purest torrent of energy!

"Internal time Law... distort! Accelerate!"

Hum——!!!!!!!!!!

The magic bottle emitted a death-like, tearing violent tremor!

The huge crack on the bottle body expanded crazily, and the Chaos Qi at the edges gushed out as if boiling!

The small Nether world inside was under unimaginable pressure at this moment!

Cracks in the sky spread wildly, fragments of the earth disintegrated at an accelerated rate, and even the Nether Lightning Pool boiled violently!

The time flow rate of the entire Small World, under Mo Yuan’s cost-no-object burning of Origin and massive energy infusion, began to... accelerate crazily at a speed that defied common sense!

One breath outside, ten years had passed inside the bottle!

Ten breaths outside, one hundred years of vicissitudes inside the bottle!

In this torrent of time accelerated by a hundred times, Mo Yuan’s will was like a cold Creator, guiding this crazy evolution experiment!

He used the purest dark blue Yin Thunder Origin from the Nether Lightning Pool as a base, mixed in the powdered remains of the Void Realm plankton, then integrated the spatial gland essence of the Shadow-Escape Spider and the core runes of the Energy-Devouring Moss, and finally, added a large amount of purified Spirit Stone energy and Chaos Qi as catalysts and binders!

All Materials were thrown into the depths of the Nether Lightning Pool, and under the hundred-fold time flow rate, they endured the frantic tempering of Yin Thunder and the brutal shaping of Chaos!

Failure! Failure! Failure!

Countless combinations were annihilated in time!

Energy structures collapsed, attribute conflicts exploded, Void Realm characteristics could not be compatible...

Countless deformed, short-lived freaks were born in the lightning pool and instantly turned to ashes!

Mo Yuan’s will endured the massive information shock under hundred-fold time, coldly recording the parameters of every failure, frantically adjusting the proportions and structure.

Fifty years inside the bottle... a worm-like creature that could briefly etherealize to avoid ordinary lightning but could not withstand the Yin Thunder Origin was born, and was immediately devoured by a stronger experimental subject.

Seventy years inside the bottle... a fungal mat that could weakly absorb Yin Thunder but was bloated and immobile was formed, lacking practicality.

Ninety years inside the bottle... a bird-like creature with sharp mouthparts that could peck at lightning but was extremely fragile appeared; it self-destructed while attempting to devour a slightly stronger Yin Thunder...

The cost was huge! Massive amounts of energy were consumed, the cracks in the magic bottle became more hideous during the acceleration, Mo Yuan’s face was as pale as paper, and his Divine Soul felt waves of weakness.

Just as ten breaths were about to pass outside, and the hundred years of time inside the bottle were about to run out!

In the ashes of countless failures, in the most violent center of the Nether Lightning Pool, a miracle was finally born!

It was a creature only the size of a palm, with a whole body presenting a semi-transparent texture like dark crystal!

Its form was hawk-like yet not, bat-like yet not, its streamlined body was perfectly flawless, without feathers, covered in fine crystal scales that could change their refractive index according to the environment!

Its wings were wide and thin as cicada wings, with sharp edges, causing almost no air fluctuation when flying!

The most unique part was its beak, like a miniature, constantly rotating energy vortex, exuding a greedy desire to devour!

And its eyes were two clusters of leaping, cold, dark blue electric sparks!

It shuttled happily through the violent Nether Lightning Pool; those dark blue Yin Thunders, capable of tearing apart souls, struck it, but instead of causing damage, they were mostly absorbed by its crystal scales, while the rest were easily devoured by the vortex in its beak, turning into nutrients for its growth!

[sequence 019: Lightning-Avoiding Kites]! Born in the acceleration of time!

Its aura was not strong, only equivalent to Middle Stage Qi Refining, but its characteristics were incomparably specialized and pure—extremely high lightning resistance, energy devouring, and Void Realm stealth!

"This is it!" A sharp light erupted in Mo Yuan’s eyes!

"Continue accelerating! Ripen! Proliferate!"

More energy was injected!

The Lightning-Avoiding Kites frantically devoured Yin Thunder in the Nether Lightning Pool, splitting and reproducing!

Its growth required devouring thunder, and the Nether Lightning Pool was the perfect hotbed!

"Several decades" passed inside the bottle again. When Mo Yuan felt the magic bottle had reached its limit and he himself was nearly collapsed—

Hum!

The magic bottle jolted violently, and the time flow rate returned to normal.

The cracks at the mouth of the bottle opened, and a large, dense swarm of Lightning-Avoiding Kites—numbering over ten thousand, with bodies like dark crystal, cold eyes, and energy vortexes rotating in their beaks—rushed out fiercely like a school of sharks that had smelled fish!

As soon as they appeared, they did not attack any sequence units, but instinctively flapped their wings, emitted silent screeches, and all raised their heads to "look" at the dome rock wall—

Their perception penetrated the thick strata, locking tightly onto the aura of the Heavenly Dao Thunder Punishment that was condensing above the Nine Heavens—an aura that made them both fearful and incomparably eager!

Devour the tribulation cloud to grow! This was an instinct engraved in their genes!

Mo Yuan watched this group of Lightning-Avoiding Kites circling above his head, exuding emotions of greed and anticipation, and a smile of extreme exhaustion yet cold as iron appeared on his pale face.

The first line of defense... was complete!

Although weak, although it was unknown how much of the Heavenly Tribulation's power it could offset...

But, this was, after all, a piece of meat bitten off from the rules of the Heavenly Dao!

"Go... have a good meal..."

"With your bodies... for Mo Sect... fight for a glimmer of Heavenly secret!"