Only My Way

Those were peals of thunder, one after another.

As they relentlessly struck down from the heavens, the sky, filled with dark clouds and utterly black, would suddenly brighten.

Then, just as quickly, it would plunge back into darkness.

Accompanied by bolts of lightning dozens of meters thick and tens of thousands of meters long, they repeatedly bombarded the statue.

Finally.

A colossal tree-like diagram appeared in the black sky.

A lightning tree diagram formed by countless bolts of lightning!

At the same time.

The earth-shattering commotion persisted within a radius of dozens of miles.

Each time a bolt of lightning crashed down from the sky, it was as if a small-yield nuclear bomb had been detonated.

Countless amounts of soil and vegetation would instantly shatter.

The ultra-high temperature, easily reaching tens or hundreds of thousands of degrees, would completely destroy everything around it, along with the shockwave and massive explosion!

“Boom boom boom~~!”

When thousands upon thousands of lightning bolts fell simultaneously, even though they were hundreds of miles away, Wu Yanlian and the others could still clearly feel the ground around them visibly shaking.

Gravel was shifting.

Trees were swaying.

Even the mountains were experiencing landslides, with tens of thousands of tons of gravel constantly cascading down their slopes!

Moreover, within a radius of who knows how many miles, all the natural scenery suddenly lit up.

Even though the sky was covered in dark clouds.

Under the combined illumination of thousands upon thousands of super lightning bolts, the surrounding environment was even brighter than normal.

It was no longer just lightning in the simple sense, but a true thunderstorm!

The lightning, as dense as a torrential downpour, was rapidly falling like a dense rain!

The speed!

The power!

Even from hundreds of miles away, they could clearly see a certain crimson glow becoming increasingly conspicuous in the area where countless lightning bolts were striking; it was the ever-increasing temperature…

Clearly.

Under the continuous bombardment of numerous lightning bolts.

Centered on that pillar-shaped statue.

An ultra-high temperature was sweeping across the entire area…

It was an ultra-high temperature sufficient to instantly vaporize almost all conventional matter.

The moment it appeared.

That chaotic ultra-high temperature, like a roaring flood, tried to surge in all directions.

However.

The true qi from Ling Wuyuan had already transformed into an invisible barrier.

They forcibly confined all the ultra-high temperature within a radius of several hundred meters.

The temperature.

At that moment.

Instantly reached hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.

And this was a sustainable event.

Not some fleeting phenomenon too brief to capture.

Ling Wuyuan was artificially creating some kind of sealed and continuously heating ultra-high temperature chamber.

Even tungsten steel and diamonds weighing thousands of tons would have their molecular structures instantly disrupted under that ultra-high temperature, vaporizing and disappearing on the spot.

If one were to explain it using the modern science of Ling Wuyuan’s previous world.

Without a doubt, at this moment, the energy that Ling Wuyuan was mobilizing had reached some astronomical figure.

The electrical energy contained within this super-large thunderstorm alone would be equivalent to the continuous operation of tens of thousands of super-large nuclear power plants for decades or even centuries.

If he hadn't adopted a clever approach, borrowing the power of nature.

Even Ling Wuyuan would have found it difficult to mobilize so much energy.

Right now.

Just maintaining the thunderstorm in the sky and that artificially created ultra-high temperature chamber required Ling Wuyuan to expend a considerable amount of true qi.

However, even so, as the target being continuously bombarded by lightning bolts and bathed in an ultra-high temperature environment, the pillar-shaped statue remained completely unscathed.

It was as if those lightning bolts were merely some kind of special effect.

Looking at this scene.

Ling Wuyuan was a little disappointed.

Disappointed that his attempts had yielded no results.

But he felt more satisfaction in his heart.

Satisfied that the thing before him did indeed possess anomalies.

One must know.

Even a [Spirit Accumulation Realm] cultivator would find it difficult to withstand this level of attack.

Yet the other party was able to remain completely unharmed in the face of such an ordeal.

This directly indicated that the other party could not possibly be something ordinary!

It further proved that Ling Wuyuan and Bai Jingshu’s attempts were very necessary.

A full few minutes later.

Looking at the pillar-shaped statue that still showed no movement.

Just as Ling Wuyuan was about to give up on the current experiment.

Suddenly.

He noticed that the temperature inside the ultra-high temperature chamber, which was forcibly maintained by his own true qi, was dissipating…

No, it should be said that the temperature was being slowly sucked away.

What is the essence of high temperature?

Is it entropy?

Or is it active energy?

Ling Wuyuan didn't deliberately ponder it.

He only knew that as his experimental project continued, something had been awakened inside that ultra-high temperature chamber, something exceptionally hungry for energy…

As time passed.

It wasn't just the high temperature.

Even the crashing lightning bolts showed signs of being slowly absorbed.

At this moment, the pillar-shaped statue was simply like some kind of baby bird waiting to be fed…

At the same time.

Ling Wuyuan also sensed through his sixth sense that the lifeless thing before him was slowly developing a sense of threat.

Although there was no evidence.

Ling Wuyuan could just sense that the pillar-shaped statue was becoming increasingly dangerous.

That feeling… was a little difficult to describe.

It was a bit like suddenly realizing that you seemed to have triggered some kind of time bomb.

It was the kind of feeling where, even though you didn't know what the thing was, you would inevitably feel uneasy looking at the countdown timer on it.

Moreover.

As time continued to pass, Ling Wuyuan could sense that the sense of crisis was becoming increasingly intense.

If, at the beginning, that feeling was like some fleeting spark, merely a transient and dim thing, then now that feeling was like a small burning matchstick, more sustained and brighter.

“?”

“Oh?”

“Things seem to be getting interesting…”

Feeling that sensation.

A hint of a smile couldn't help but appear on the corner of Ling Wuyuan's mouth.

He understood that he had truly found something fun.

However.

Out of caution, he still remotely transmitted a message to Wu Yanlian and the others:

“Retreat another distance.”

“Retreat as far as you can.”

“?”

Faced with such a message.

Although they didn't understand why Ling Wuyuan would order them to do this.

Wu Yanlian and the others still resolutely chose to comply.

They didn't stop until they had retreated a full ten thousand miles, their figures having already reached the surging sea.

At this time.

Not to mention Ling Wuyuan and the pillar-shaped statue.

Even the super-large-scale thunderstorm in the distance had already become a tiny black dot; the three of them could only observe Ling Wuyuan through special tools.