Rebirth of the Supreme Immortal Emperor-Chapter 554 - 551: Heavenly Thunder Strikes Earth Fire! [Third Midnight Update]
Chapter 554: Chapter 551: Heavenly Thunder Strikes Earth Fire! [Third Midnight Update]
"Whoosh!"
Lightning split the sky, like a distant galaxy bisecting the night.
Upon seeing this, Li Chen’s joy was unmistakably written all over his face.
Inside the Underground Palace, there was already a giant lightning rod. It seems Miyamoto Musashi also planned to exploit the Heavenly Thunder to stir up some trouble.
Too bad his luck wasn’t good enough to enjoy the fruits; all the benefits went to Li Chen instead.
Li Chen set up a Lightning Attraction Formation in front of Miyamoto’s original device to guide the Heavenly Thunder down through the volcanic crater and into the Underground Palace.
At first, the Heavenly Thunder was like a proud princess, stubbornly refusing to come in.
However, after Li Chen’s thirty-seventh attempt at directing it, it obediently complied.
"Crack!"
The first bolt of Heavenly Thunder struck down, the wild Thunder Element coursing through the lightning rod and into the magma.
When Heavenly Thunder met Earth Fire, it was like thirsty lovers reunited after years, fiercely crackling and popping upon contact.
The thunder tore through the magma, sparks flying everywhere, creating booming sounds of thunderclaps.
Seeing his success, Li Chen glanced at Jiao Long: "Jiao Long, stay here and guard this place. Don’t leave, protect the ritual for me, got it?"
Seeing the Heavenly Thunder strike, Jiao Long too seemed quite excited, letting out two low roars to indicate his understanding to Li Chen.
Seeing that Jiao Long understood his command, Li Chen took out a Dragon Blood Fruit and brought it to its mouth.
Catching sight of the bright red fruit, Jiao Long’s eyes shone with excitement, eagerly chewing it away.
In no time, a fruit as big as an adult’s fist was devoured clean by it, not even spitting out the seed but swallowing it whole.
Immediately after, it lay down on the ground like a Samoyed begging its master for food, its eyes fixated on Li Chen.
Meaning: Keep going, keep going, don’t stop, please don’t stop!
Li Chen helplessly patted its head: "Hey, Little Dragon, where’s your integrity? All for a single fruit, you’re ready to abandon it?"
Jiao Long lifted its eyelids, uttering a "woof" from its mouth, seemingly asking: What’s integrity? Can you eat it?
Li Chen was speechless, he thought for a moment, then stretched out five fingers and said: "No more fruits now, but if this is successful, I’ll reward you with five Dragon Blood Fruits!"
Hearing about five Dragon Blood Fruits, Jiao Long’s eyes lit up. Drool shined as it began to drool from the corner of its mouth.
Ever since tasting the flavor of Dragon Blood Fruit, it has been unable to forget it. But Li Chen hid them so well that it couldn’t find anywhere, leaving it no choice but to reluctantly give up.
Now Li Chen was offering five at once; how could it not be thrilled considering its intelligence equated to that of a six- or seven-year-old child?
Seeing the shameless Jiao Long, Li Chen was at his wit’s end. He looked once more at the Earth Core Magma, seeing that the fermenting substance was almost taking shape, and admonished once again: "Hey, you glutton. You must protect the ritual well, don’t run off, you hear me?"
"Roar roar!"
As Jiao Long roared, its one remaining paw slapped the ground, signaling to Li Chen to be completely assured, that there would be no problems.
Li Chen nodded at this scene and then leaped, diving into the Earth Core Magma.
Inside, aside from the rolling flames, were the howling thunderbolts. An ordinary person, probably wouldn’t last half a minute inside.
Li Chen first threw out five Spiritual Pearls, letting them float around him, using the power of the Five Elements Interactions to form a relatively sealed space.
Once the environment was stable, he began trying to open the Life Gate, slowly letting in Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire to start hammering and smelting his body.
The flames roasted his body, scorching hot, giving off the feeling of being cooked at any minute.
When thunder struck his body, it felt like being pierced by a hundred thousand volts of electricity in an instant; the agony was indescribable.
This really was not merely Heavenly Thunder or Earth Fire, but if they combined. Flame roast + Thunder Strike made for an ultra-luxurious combo, simply a masochistically delightful experience.
Just at the beginning, the Five Elements Spiritual Formation only opened a Life Gate, with a very limited influx of lightning and flames.
However, as more Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire began to surge in, the Five Elements Spiritual Formation suddenly became somewhat uncontrollable, with roaring flames and rampant lightning, forging Li Chen’s flesh through thousands of hammerings and numerous refinements.
In the face of this, Li Chen only had one method, which was to endure.
To grit his teeth and endure!
If his teeth shattered, he would swallow them and continue to endure!
Just like what Zheng Banqiao wrote in "Stone Bamboo":
Clench the green mountains unwaveringly, roots stand firmly in the cracked rocks.
Through countless grindings and beatings, still mighty strong, withstand all winds from east, west, south, and north.
Not knowing how much time had passed, Li Chen’s body began to gradually adapt to such intensity of pounding. To be exact, he had lost all sensation.
He could clearly see his own flesh and bones, being devoured bit by bit by the lightning and flames. First the clothes, then flesh, followed by bones and meridians.
However, when the devouring nearly reached the Dantian area, a dazzling and brilliant light suddenly burst forth from within.
Immediately after, Li Chen could clearly sense that the Meteorite Heart, lying dormant in his Sea of Consciousness, was beginning to awaken.
First, it began rotating counterclockwise at a speed invisible even to an ultra-high magnification microscope.
Then, as the rotation speed increased, it gradually became visible to the naked eye.
At the pace of a creeping snail!
At the speed of a carousel horse rotating!
At the ferocity of a hurricane raging at sea!
With the rotation speed getting faster, Li Chen felt his Dantian expanding like a rapidly inflating balloon, possibly about to burst at any moment.
Fortunately, his concerns did not materialize.
When the Meteorite Heart reached the rotational speed of a level 15 hurricane, it seemed to have hit a critical value.
However, Li Chen realized that this critical value was much faster than the last time it awakened and rotated in the Miao Territory.
It seemed that the more violent the external energy, the faster its rotation speed.
If he let it continue to operate like this, once the speed surpassed the speed of light, a black hole would be formed inside his own body.
Thinking of the terrifying object that is a black hole, Li Chen shuddered involuntarily, not daring to think any further.
But his shudder had not yet passed when he suddenly let out an excruciating scream of pain.
This was the Meteor Storm inside and the external Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire beginning a fierce confrontation.
And Li Chen’s body was the main battleground where they clashed.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
"Whooosh!"
"Crack, whoosh!"
Fire Sea, Thunder Storm, Hurricane, Starry Sky, all sorts of bizarre and dazzling scenes began to appear before Li Chen’s eyes, extremely thrilling and shocking.
But these had only a visual impact on him, with no tactile sensation whatsoever.
Because everything except for his heart, Dantian, and brain’s Sea of Consciousness, such as limbs, flesh, and bones had been completely burned away to cleanliness.
If the Meteor Storm took the upper hand, it would devour the Heavenly Thunder and Earth Fire, transforming them into its own power, constructing a perfect foundation.
Conversely, if not, he would be incinerated without even ashes remaining, his soul obliterated into nothingness.
Hence, this current moment was critical for life and death, with no room for the slightest negligence!
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