Lan Ling’s method of putting himself in a desperate situation and finding a way to survive was very simple and direct, he would let lightning strike him!
The lightning here was extraordinarily terrifying.
The enormous bolts of lightning, often thousands or even tens of thousands of metres long, were so powerful that even if Lan Ling’s cultivation were ten times stronger, he would still be reduced to ashes if struck by such terrifying lightning.
Previously, Lan Ling had taken an advanced and intelligent path.
His spiritual power entered the interior of the lightning energy to study it, then he created the “Yin Yang Formula” in the meditation world, and finally produced lightning energy.
That path had failed.
Therefore, Lan Ling chose the simplest and most brutal path.
He would forcibly draw the power of heaven and earth into his own body.
If he succeeded, he would successfully comprehend hell lightning.
If he failed, there would only be one outcome, he would be reduced to ashes!
The dark clouds in the sky continued to gather, gather, and gather.
They completely covered several thousand metres around the mountaintop…
Suddenly, a spectacular sight appeared in the sky.
Blood-coloured dark clouds hundreds of miles long and more than ten miles thick covered the entire area.
Half of Heaven-reaching Peak disappeared, completely swallowed by the blood-coloured dark clouds.
Both Lan Ling and Gou Li were deeply shocked.
Because throughout the past month, Heaven-reaching Mountain had never displayed such a spectacular sight. Even at its most terrifying, the blood-coloured dark clouds had never been so thick, so vast, or so deep.
The larger the dark clouds were, the more enormous the hell lightning they produced would obviously be.
At this moment, Lan Ling had not only removed his insulating crystal boots, but had also removed his clothes completely. He stood exposed at the summit with both arms spread wide.
Meanwhile, Gou Li and the three-headed Chimera Beast had already retreated to the foot of the mountain.
The blood-coloured dark clouds grew thicker and thicker, eventually almost completely enveloping Heaven-reaching Peak.
By now, it was already daytime.
Outside, the sun was shining brightly, with clear skies stretching for thousands of miles.
Above Heaven-reaching Peak, however, blood-coloured dark clouds pressed down from the sky, making it seem like the end of the world.
After a full two hours, the blood-coloured dark clouds finally stopped gathering. Instead, they began to rotate, rotate, and rotate.
Countless blood-coloured clouds seemed to become a circular vortex, while Lan Ling became the centre of the vortex.
Lan Ling clearly sensed that the earth-shaking hell lightning would soon arrive.
He closed his eyes and began to wait, wait…
The terrifying blood-coloured cloud vortex suddenly stopped rotating, and then…
“Boom…”
An earth-shaking bolt of blood-coloured lightning suddenly struck down.
A terrifying bolt of lightning one hundred metres thick and tens of thousands of metres long struck straight down towards the top of Lan Ling’s head.
This terrifying lightning violently tore through the darkness of the clouds. Even in broad daylight, it burst forth with dazzling light.
In an instant…
Lan Ling was struck by this earth-shaking bolt of hell lightning.
There was no chance of escape…
Lan Ling’s body was directly reduced to ashes.
This earth-shaking lightning contained an astonishing amount of energy. It would have been enough to reduce not just one Lan Ling, but probably even ten or a hundred of him to ashes.
Immediately afterwards, a second earth-shaking bolt of hell lightning struck down.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
The second, the third, the fourth…
One earth-shaking bolt of lightning after another struck down furiously.
Ten times, twenty times, thirty times…
After dozens of strikes from hell lightning,
Lan Ling’s physical body had completely disappeared, without even a trace of powder remaining.
His Golden Bloodline wanted to rapidly restore his body, but it could not keep up at all.
Thus, countless earth-shaking bolts of hell lightning passed through Lan Ling’s spiritual domain, his energy heart, and his energy meridians again and again.
Lan Ling’s energy body seemed to have become a conductor. The energy of the hell lightning passed through him before being guided into the earth.
At the same time, the earth-shaking hell lightning was also transforming Lan Ling’s energy heart.
Every strike of hell lightning was a process of transformation, and his energy heart also began to evolve.
Hell lightning seemed to be using this most direct and violent method to engrave its own energy properties into Lan Ling’s Golden Bloodline.
At the same time, Lan Ling’s Golden Bloodline was also circulating rapidly, desperately devouring the energy of the hell lightning, devouring, devouring, devouring…
Invisible reactions and changes were taking place inside Lan Ling’s energy heart.
After Lan Ling had comprehended the three demonic techniques, the Netherworld Sword, Death Entanglement, and Puppet Arts, three separate energy reaction chambers had appeared inside his energy heart.
At this moment, his Golden Demon Bloodline was transforming one of these energy reaction chambers into a hell lightning energy reaction chamber.
This required an enormous amount of energy, all of which came from devouring the hell lightning.
These energy reaction chambers within the heart were extremely complicated.
The three-headed Chimera Beast’s energy heart also contained three energy reaction chambers, one for breathing fire, one for spraying poison, and one for ultrasonic attacks.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
The earth-shaking hell lightning continued to strike down furiously.
Lan Ling’s Golden Bloodline continued to devour the energy and frantically construct the hell lightning energy reaction chamber inside his energy heart.
10%, 20%, 50%, 80%, 100%…
After more than a hundred strikes from hell lightning, the hell lightning reaction chamber inside Lan Ling’s energy heart was finally completed.
Next came the transformation of Lan Ling’s energy meridians.
When learning any demonic technique, apart from constructing an energy reaction chamber within the bloodline energy core, the meridians also needed to be transformed so that they could accommodate the passage of the energy used by these demonic techniques.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom…”
The hell lightning almost continuously bombarded Lan Ling’s energy body.
Most of the energy was guided into the earth, while a very small portion was devoured by Lan Ling’s Golden Bloodline, which used it to transform his energy meridians bit by bit, inch by inch.
Ten minutes…
Half an hour…
One hour…
Three hours…
This time, the earth-shaking hell lightning lasted for a full five hours.
During the first two hours, the Golden Bloodline devoured the energy of the hell lightning to transform Lan Ling’s energy heart and construct the hell lightning energy reaction chamber.
During the following three hours, it devoured the hell lightning energy to transform Lan Ling’s energy meridians.
After a full five hours!
The Golden Bloodline had completed its transformation of Lan Ling’s entire body.
At the same time, the blood-coloured dark clouds covering Heaven-reaching Peak gradually became thinner and thinner.
“Boom…” The final bolt of lightning struck down.
“Whoosh…” It passed through Lan Ling’s energy body and was guided into the earth.
The blood-coloured dark clouds around Heaven-reaching Peak completely dispersed and disappeared.
The sky above was clear blue, with the sun setting in the west and no clouds in sight.
Under the setting sun, Lan Ling’s body rapidly recovered. In only a brief moment, it had completely grown back.
A completely new Lan Ling stood at the summit of Heaven-reaching Peak.
He looked almost exactly as he had before, except that there was now a blue lightning mark on his chest.
……
Gou Li rode the three-headed Chimera Beast and flew up to the summit of Heaven-reaching Peak!
After dropping Gou Li off, the three-headed Chimera Beast immediately flew away and said, “Call out to me with a long howl whenever you want to leave. I’ll fly over immediately.”
It hurried away because it was worried that it might witness something awkward.
In its eyes, Lan Ling and Gou Li were the sort of pair who could get up to anything.
Although the three-headed Chimera Beast was already several hundred years old, it was still an innocent virgin. Even more tragically, it might remain one for the rest of its life.
“Master, did you succeed?” Gou Li asked.
Lan Ling nodded.
Gou Li continued, “Master, I can sense that deep down, you actually knew the method of comprehending hell lightning long ago. But at first, you did not choose that method. Instead, you chose the most difficult path, using wisdom to comprehend hell lightning.”
As a Death Warrior, Gou Li was an extension of Lan Ling’s will, so she naturally understood him well enough.
She was right. Deep down, Lan Ling might have known this simple and brutal method of comprehending hell lightning long ago.
However, he wanted to use his own wisdom and ability to find a different path, so that it would not seem as though everything depended on his Golden Bloodline.
“Master, thinking this way is unfair to yourself,” Gou Li suddenly said. “Because the Golden Bloodline is a part of you, just like your wisdom. No matter where it came from, it is still a part of you. You cannot deny it, and you cannot escape it. Even your will, personality and wisdom were inherited from your parents. A person has nothing that belongs entirely to themselves.”
Lan Ling smiled and said, “I never thought you would become a philosopher.”
Gou Li said, “I want to become an independent, noble, free and loyal Death Warrior, so of course I have to keep thinking. Do not forget that you gave me extremely powerful spiritual strength and even greater spiritual talent!”
Then Gou Li gave him a charming look and said, “My Master, since the three-headed Chimera Beast has already flown away, there is no need to waste its kindness. You have not even put your clothes back on yet.”
After that, Gou Li removed her own clothes.
Thus, another intimate encounter took place at the summit of Heaven-reaching Peak, accompanied by the rumbling of thunder and flashes of lightning.
……
More than an hour later!
Gou Li lazily rested in Lan Ling’s arms and said, “Master, would you like to try the hell lightning?”
Lan Ling raised his hand.
Immediately, the previously cloudless blue sky began to gather a mass of dark blood-coloured clouds.
The dark and bloodthirsty energy within a radius of several hundred miles was drawn out from beneath the earth and rapidly gathered.
At the same time, the energy within Lan Ling’s energy heart began to gather, gather, and gather. It passed through the hell lightning energy reaction chamber and was suddenly released.
It travelled through the energy meridians.
This powerful lightning energy burst forth.
At the same time, the surrounding blood-coloured clouds began to rotate and collide!
“Boom…”
A one-hundred-metre-long bolt of blood-coloured hell lightning suddenly struck down.
A deafening roar followed.
The dazzling light was like the blood-coloured star from more than a month ago, instantly tearing the dusk apart.
The incomparably powerful energy violently struck the air.
In an instant, all the air within several hundred metres was completely burned away.
The destructive power of this blood-coloured lightning far exceeded the limits of Lan Ling’s cultivation, and was far more powerful than the might of a five-star Demon Sect expert.
This was hell lightning, hell lightning with astonishing power.
Lan Ling had achieved complete success!
Half an hour later, Lan Ling and Gou Li put their clothes back on, then rode the three-headed Chimera Beast to participate in the duel with the Black Demon Flag Lord.
This duel would determine the ownership of the Black Demon Flag territory, determine Lan Ling’s fate, and determine Princess Sha Yan’s fate.