Chapter 790: Shock And Lightning
Shirong felt like he had seen a new world view today, a new reality, a broader truth.
‘He progressed to the third stage in seconds?!’ he was truly at a loss for words.
~RUMBLE~
But then Lin Wu showed him something that shook his very soul.
Shirong watched as the lightning and wind danced across Lin Wu’s tail. The lightning was now moving in a very strange manner. It was almost as if it had become like the water.
“Can your immortal Sky Shaker art do this?” Lin Wu questioned.
“No… this level of control on lightning is… unprecedented.” Shirong answered truthfully.
He knew that while the power of the lightning in front was not that much and he could easily exceed that, the control of it had reached a level that he had never imagined. Even his great grandfather who had cultivated the Immortal Sky Shaker art and was in the Immortal Ascension realm didn’t have such control.
“This is a little improvement to the original. The Taiji Celestial’s inheritance is all encompassing and allows one to learn about the Yin and Yang. If one has control over them, no element is too hard to control.” Lin Wu explained.
Lin Wu’s words were striking to Shirong and made him recall some other things.
“The tribulation lightning…” Shirong recalled something that had happened in the past.
“So you’ve experienced it already. Good.” Lin Wu said mysteriously.
Hearing this, Shirong’s eyes went wide.
“Wait, it can be done?! Tribulation lightning can really be controlled?” Shirong questioned.
“Of course. It is difficult of course, but with practice, it can be done. The traces of Dao hidden within the lightning can be overcome.” Lin Wu answered.
Shirong couldn’t help but be impressed. One of the steps in reaching the third stage of the Immortal Sky Shaker art was to absorb a part of the tribulation lightning. It was a very dangerous step and if not for the help of the spear, Shirong would have been unable to do it without a great chance of dying.
Shirong watched as the lightning swam around Lin Wu, like carps around a pond. The control was smooth and there was almost no perceptible stuttering.
“Also… with the Taiji Celestial’s inheritance, you will be able to expand to more than just the wind and lightning. Like I’ve said before, it encompasses almost everything in the world. The Taiji is the beginning of all and was born from the Wuji.” Lin Wu stated.
~huu~
Shirong took a deep breath and was entirely convinced.
“I shall gladly accept the inheritance senior.” Shirong stated.
“Oh you won’t get it just like that.” Lin Wu replied.
“I understand senior. I shall prove it to you.” Shirong said without hesitation.
He wasn’t so naive as to think that he would get an inheritance served on a platter.
‘The senior is only doing this because he has some karma with me. Perhaps that spear might have been the only reason he allowed me to come here.’ Shirong thought.
“Good.” Lin Wu smiled. “You shall start from the Sky Bright Daoist’s trials like everyone else. If you pass them, you can take the Taiji Celestial’s trials.” He added.
“As you wish, senior.” Shirong replied respectfully.
He was interested in both trials, so it was in his favor either way.
“Oh, and before you go, I have something more for you.” Lin Wu said.
“What is it senior?” Shirong asked feeling interested.
“Just stay still and don’t move.” Lin Wu stated.
“Huh?” before Shirong could react though, he saw Lin Wu’s tail moving at a blinding speed.
In less than a second, a thin spike touched his forehead and he could feel something piercing his head. A sharp pain spread from it but was gone in the very next moment. Shirong felt his vision go dark and didn’t know what was happening.
During this time, Lin Wu was getting the system to do a proper check and also install the Pentagem.
“System, scan the man and also get the Pentagem ready.” Lin Wu ordered.
~DING~
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SCANNER: Activated
TARGET SELECTED: Shirong
SCAN: Completed
TARGET: Shirong
CULTIVATION BASE: Adult Soul Stage Of the Nascent soul realm (suppressed)
VITALS: Stable
BLOODLINE: Thunderpool Serpent (unawakened)
COMMUNICATION LINK: Stable
LOCATION: Available on map
FUNCTIONS AVAILABLE: a. Detonate
B. Remote Skill activation
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Lin Wu was surprised by seeing the information that system gave him.
“Seems like he’s using a technique to hide his cultivation base. He’s atleast Adult Soul Stage but will appear to other one or two stages below. Though the ones at his cultivation stage won’t be able to tell.
This one is for those experts who are Dao Shell realm or above and probe him. No wonder I couldn’t tell it acculturate at the start either.” Lin Wu quickly analyzed.
He was learning more and more as days passed, and didn’t need the system’s help all the time either.
But the thing that surprised him the most was that Shirong now had a bloodline.
‘Where the hell did he get a bloodline from? He certainly didn’t have it in the past.’ Lin Wu was confused.
“System, what’s that bloodline?” Lin Wu questioned.
~DING~
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ANSWER: The Thunderpool Serpent is an extinct beast that has not been seen in the Ming Dao world for over twenty thousand years. It was exterminated before the rise of the guardian beasts and has not appeared since then.
The Thunderpool serpent has great potential and can reach the Immortal Ascension stage when matured. An infant when born is at the core condensation realm and will reach the Nascent soul realm when it becomes a juvenile.
The Thunderpool serpent is a lightning elemental beast and has a body filled with dense electricity. It is said that it can devour lightning tribulations and the more it devours the more it loses its physical form.
At its peak, it will turn into true lightning and will not have a physical form.
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The information given by the system was strange to Lin Wu as there was even a picture of the beast on its side.
“The heck? It’s an eel?”
In front of Lin Wu was what looked like a slim eel. It was very long and only a finger thick. There were deep blue patterns on it while its teeth were sharp.
“And this is supposed to be its immortal ascension realm form?” Lin Wu was not expecting it to be small.
“Affirmative” The system responded.
“What happened to the point where it turns to lightning at its peak?” Lin Wu asked feeling confused.
~DING~
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ANSWER: This is not the peak of the Thunder Pool Serpent. While its potential allows it to reach Immortal Ascension realm, it won’t simply let it reach its peak like that. The Thunderpool serpent needs to devour tribulation lightning several times.
But since below the immortal realm this can only be done during the tribulation of the nascent soul realm, the only way the beast can achieve this is by stealing other creatures’ lightning tribulation.
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“I see… rather interesting.” Lin Wu nodded his head. “Though the question still stands, where did this bloodline come from? Did he assimilate it himself or something?”
~DING~
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SUGGESTION: The system can extract memories after reinstalling the backdoor.
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“That still works? Great, do that then.” Lin Wu agreed.
~DING~
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INITIALIZING PROGRAM: Backdoor control
INITIALIZATION COMPLETED: Pentagem linked
INSTALLING: Please wait patiently…
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Lin Wu watched as the system did its work. He knew that the new upgrade to the Pentagem had increased its capacity and that it could do more, but didn’t think that the backdoor function could be used again.
It was something Lin Wu was only able to use in the past because he had directly linked to Shirong. It was not something that could be replicated easily after that. The Pentagem was in a way an inferior version of it with slightly different functions.
With each upgrade in its versions, its capacity and capabilities improved as well. The latest had the extra capacity for an extra program, with it being the backdoor control.
Lin Wu knew that just the addition of remote skill activation was a big burden. After all, it could allow Lin Wu to execute a full power attack skill, without him being there. Just the storage of spirit Qi needed was massive and then there were also the modulation issues that could arise with conflict of bodies.
But now the system could add more.
Lin Wu waited for about ten minutes as the system, finished its work.
~DING~
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INSTALLATION COMPLETED: Backdoor control installed successfully.
NOTIFICATION: Scanning Memories…
EXTRACTING: Data nodes condensed
NOTIFICATION: Data node extracted
DATA BANKS: Updated
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With another string of notifications, the system declared the end of its task.
“Alright, find the reason behind him getting the bloodline.” Lin Wu ordered.
Lin Wu barely had to wait two minutes before the system found the reason.
~DING~
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ANSWER: The subject Shirong used several combinations of cultivation resources one of which was the fossilized egg of a Thunderpool Serpent. Due to the way it was fossilized, there was no way to tell it was an egg and simply looked like a crystal rich in lightning elemental spirit Qi.
It also allowed Shirong to rapidly break through from the Child Soul stage to the Adolescent soul stage. The fake spear also has traces of the same lightning elemental spirit Qi from the fossilized egg.
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“I knew it would be something like this…” Lin Wu muttered.
‘The man has been binging on them resources huh… and even fed the spear a lot of them.’ Lin Wu thought as he saw several more windows showing the memories of Shirong that played like a movie.
