novelraw Chapter 878 465_2: Blood Lightning
Chapter 878 465_2: Blood Lightning
Duan Yun guessed that that should be the Thunder God and Mother. Although the memory was blurry, the outline of her ugly face with an upturned nose was distinct.
The Thunder God and Mother passed through the "Treasure Light," arrived inside this palace, and then entered a room. From there, did she learn the secret technique to control Thunderfire through those strange runes?
Afterward, she established the Thunder God and Mother Sect, continuing her divine exploits from heaven to earth?
Earlier, the human skin Duan Yun cut from Madman Lei indeed bore runes somewhat similar to the texts in this palace.
This should be the origin of the so-called Thunder Language in the Martial World.
Yet, the palace in my memory only had half. Where did the remaining half come from?
The clues break off here.
Duan Yun was very interested in this fragment of memory, but unfortunately, with only half a piece left, the clues could no longer be dug out.
At that moment, Duan Yun suddenly remembered a certain detail.
In that room full of strange runes, there were also many twisted snakes.
Wait, maybe those weren't snakes, but vines.
Or tree roots!
Yes, tree roots!
This palace has a few large trees, so their roots should still be found.
Feng Ling'er hasn't reacted yet; Duan Yun quickly returned to the Metal Palace while saying, "Find the tree roots."
Where the trees are, it's precisely the place where Duan Yun and his group had just fiercely battled—utter chaos.
The flowering trees had long been uprooted and destroyed, leaving only fragments.
Finding some intact root systems won't be easy.
Duan Yun thought for a moment and plunged into the mud with a splash.
The mud, used by the Thunder God and Mother to form armor, is quite viscous. When inside, the resistance is great, and the key is that it dazzles the eyes, making it hard to see what's actually inside,
Fortunately, Duan Yun has practiced Pupil Skill.
Only to see his pupils blaze with fire, sweeping over everything around.
These muds, after they churned the waters earlier, were no longer in their original form.
But Duan Yun has a hypothesis: the flowering trees were large, and if their roots were deep enough, maybe some parts weren't damaged.
And as Duan Yun dived deeper, this hypothesis gradually proved true.
The mud here is thicker than expected—the upper segment shows clear signs of disturbance, but from here on, it disappears.
Duan Yun didn't know how long he had been diving; in a place as dark as this, one loses a sense of time.
Duan Yun kept diving, always using his Pupil Skill to explore, without blinking an eye.
At this moment, he felt his eyes dry up, and he couldn't help but blink twice.
Upon blinking, he truly saw something.
Tree roots!
In this mud, there were numerous tangled tree roots.
These roots were affected by the battle just now, merely pulled but not uprooted.
In this mud, these tree roots were like twisted snakes, continuously diving into the depths of the mud, somewhat resembling the memory in that half-disc.
Duan Yun kept diving, initially the surrounding tree roots were scattered, but as he went deeper, the pressure on him increased and those roots gradually gathered together.
If the previous tree roots were like many diving snakes, at this time, gathered together, they were more like a dragon diving into an abyss.
At this moment, suddenly in the immensely dark mud, there came a burst of light.
This light was red, flashing, reminding Duan Yun of the alarm lights from his past life.
Or perhaps, like the eye of a creature with ill intent.
Now, the Young Hero Duan retained his human's innate fear of the unknown and darkness, but this instinct weakened considerably in the face of his increasingly powerful strength.
In the eyes of many people in the Martial World, he was long no longer human.
Duan Yun dived over, eyes lit.
There truly was a space there.
This space separated from the mud, like a hollow cave, and the flashing scarlet light emitted from within.
With a splash, Duan Yun broke free of the mud and jumped down.
Below the entrance was a downward-sloping passage.
The passage was already engraved with those runes he couldn't quite understand.
Initially, he could comprehend the runes on Madman Lei's human skin, besides forcibly understanding with extraordinary wisdom, because those runes indeed bore traces of local script.
This should be the result after the Thunder God and Mother localized it.
But now, he faced what should be the most primitive version of this script.
This is akin to the difference between cooked and raw meat, the distinction is quite large.
This passage soon reached an end, and upon entering was a room.
This room wasn't too big nor too small, about the size of Yuzhu Manor's reception hall, with a single glance reaching the other end.
Honestly, this place being only this large was somewhat beyond Duan Yun's expectations.
At this time, Duan Yun also found the source of the red light.
The texts carved into the room were all in red, with the red pulsating like breathing.
Duan Yun squinted to see and even felt that the red within these fonts flowed like blood.
This should be the place from the half-disc's memory where the Thunder God and Mother realized enlightenment.
This red text originally should've covered the room's ceiling, walls, and floor, but many have eroded, and even after scraping off the sticking mud, it remained blurry.
The Thunder God and Mother came here and comprehended the red lightning; now what about him?
As a rare cultivation genius, Duan Yun also wanted to give it a try.
He stared at these flickering runes, at the red within them, observing very carefully.
At first, besides feeling somewhat dazzled, he hadn't any comprehension.
Yet suddenly, his breathing became heavier.
At that moment, Duan Yun felt his body's blood as if influenced by the strokes of these red texts, followed by its flow.
This flow involved not just direction but speed.
Starting from the top line of text, Duan Yun looked at, allowing the blood in his body to flow with this rhythm, shifting back and forth.
After finishing the first line, he felt somewhat warm all over, couldn't help but take off his clothes.
Afterward, followed the second line, third line....
Duan Yun watched faster and faster; then he heard the pounding heartbeat sound.
This heartbeat sound was immense, like beating drums.
Duan Yun only felt his entire bloodstream and meridians influenced by it, as if strongly stimulated, becoming exceptionally active.
Right after, a familiar sensation arose.
He found that whether it was the blood of the blood vessels or the True Qi of the meridians, both started to rotate.
This rotation bore some resemblance to the feeling of Twelve Layers of Spring Rain stirring demon electricity but altogether different in rhythm.
It's like two Breathing Techniques from distant regions, both are breathing, but inside they're entirely different.
Duan Yun gazed at the flickering texts and suddenly felt they were alive, his rotating blood was alive, carrying the cells in his body, too...
He even thought these red texts linked together, much akin to circuits.
With this sensation appearing, just hearing a series of crackling noises, Duan Yun felt electricity, distinct from the current generated by Twelve Layers of Spring Rain.
Crackling!
Two rotating red lightning emerged from Duan Yun's ears, making his ears tickle.
Next, the arm.
The leg!
Even the groin!
At the instant red lightning erupted from the groin, with a boom, the room's red text flickered twice fiercely, then all went out.
Duan Yun suddenly awoke and said, "What the heck!"
Just now during enlightenment, he had entered some mystical realm, resonating with the texts here, about to comprehend more good stuff.
But suddenly, this sensation was cut off, just like the red light of the texts.
If previously he thought the wall's texts were like countless currents, and the wall was a circuit board, then at this moment, it could be said the circuit shorted, and the circuit board burnt through.
Nevertheless, Duan Yun wasn't without gain; at least he realized this completely new red electrical light.
Duan Yun snapped his fingers, a cluster of red electrical light emerged.
This was completely different from the electricity he used before, for it arose from the blood.
"So then, I'll call you Blood Electricity in the future."
Duan Yun wanted to light up these texts again but couldn't elicit any response.
And right at this moment, he