DipNovel Chapter 102 Lightning Element Godhood
Chapter 102 Lightning Element Godhood
In the Panlong World, deep within the Magic Crystal Mine, lies a miniature dimension.
April 20, 10002 (Yulan Calendar)
Two years and four months have passed since that day of destruction. Lin Yun has been in seclusion in this secret chamber for more than two years.
Within the miniature plane, the fluctuations of the seven laws remained clear and intense, dozens of times stronger than those outside. Outside the membrane, spatial turbulence churned eternally, multicolored energies intertwined in the void, and spatial rifts appeared intermittently, devouring everything before quietly closing again.
Lin Yun sat cross-legged on the stone bed, his eyes closed, his brows slightly furrowed.
Since he obtained the secret manuals of Meteorite Star more than a year ago, his speed of comprehending the laws has soared again by cultivating these manuals and combining them with the incredibly clear law fluctuations in the secret chamber.
Now, he has mastered 99% of the "Speed of Lightning" of the lightning element and the "Speed of Light" of the light element, and is only a hair's breadth away from fully mastering them, thus reaching the level of a lower god.
The progress in other profound arts is equally astonishing—the "Lightning Resonance Profound Arts" and "Lightning Explosion Profound Arts" of the Light element, the "Light Refraction Profound Arts" of the Light element, the "Dark Element Profound Arts" of the Dark element, the "Power Profound Arts" and "Earth Movement Profound Arts" of the Earth element, the "Fire Element Profound Arts" and "Explosion Profound Arts" of the Fire element, the "Mist Illusion Profound Arts" and "Ice Sharpness Profound Arts" of the Water element, and the "Clone Technique Profound Arts" and "Dimensional Profound Arts" of the Wind element—each of these has reached at least 80% comprehension.
Now, in terms of strength, he is only below the god level. Even the top experts of the Saint Realm on the Yulan Continent—Fan, Hisai, Desli, Tulilei, and others—are no match for him. His ability to rotate and fuse the seven elements of law makes him virtually invincible in the Saint Realm.
But the problem is—
"I feel like I'm just a tiny bit away from becoming a god, but a month has passed and I still can't break through." Lin Yun opened his eyes helplessly, looking at the endless spatial turbulence outside the secret chamber, and fell into deep thought.
That final layer of paper seemed so close, almost within reach, but every time he tried to break through it, it slipped away. He knew it wasn't a matter of insufficient preparation, but rather a problem of mindset. He was too impatient; the more impatient he was, the less he could break through.
"Forget it, since I can't break through for the time being, I might as well go out for a walk." Lin Yun stopped worrying about it, stood up, and walked towards the stone gate.
He pushed open the stone door and returned to the magic crystal mine. Then he used his earth-walking spell to ascend and return to the surface.
The sunlight felt warm and comforting on my face.
But the sight before him stunned him.
Outside the magic crystal mine, lightning flashed and thunder roared.
Endless dark clouds blanketed the entire sky, pressing down heavily as if the heavens were about to collapse. Amidst flashes of lightning and thunder, the lightning itself darted through the layers of clouds, sometimes transforming into a dragon spanning the sky, sometimes into a long sword cleaving the earth. The thunder rumbled, shaking the very ground.
The air was thick with dampness, and torrential rain poured down, pounding on Lin Yun's body, the ground, and the distant treetops, creating a dense, resounding sound.
Lin Yun stood at the entrance of the mine, looking up at the sky.
The instant that dazzling white light streaked across the dark sky seemed to shatter the shackles that had bound him for so long.
Good fortune comes to mind.
Lin Yun had a feeling deep down—he clearly felt that he had crossed a certain boundary. It was the boundary between the Holy Realm and the Divine Realm, the boundary between mortals and gods.
He closed his eyes, no longer using his eyes to see, but using his soul to perceive.
Thunder.
It wasn't just the lightning in the sky, but also the lightning elements in the world, the fluctuations of lightning-based laws, and... the lightning-based laws within his own body. All the lightning resonated at this moment.
Lin Yun opened his eyes and looked up.
"Buzz—"
A vast, soul-shaking power suddenly descended, completely engulfing Lin Yun. The surrounding space distorted, seemingly isolating him from the other areas. His body was actually suspended in the air, floating uncontrollably. Outside, a world of thunder and lightning raged, but here, the entire world seemed to have fallen silent.
"How terrifying." Lin Yun could sense that vast, boundless, ancient, and strange power. To be precise, it should be something akin to a law or rule. Before it, Lin Yun felt like an ant.
"This must be the rule of heaven and earth for determining whether one becomes a god." Lin Yun was extremely shocked.
In the world of Panlong, becoming a god isn't achieved through self-cultivation of a divine spark, but rather determined by the laws of heaven and earth. When your understanding of these laws reaches a certain level, they will descend and condense a divine spark based on your soul's essence. This is the true path to godhood. Refining someone else's divine spark will never allow you to reach this level.
"Hiss—"
Just then, above Lin Yun's head, a power imbued with the aura of laws began to condense. The lightning elemental power between heaven and earth surged wildly towards that point, and purple lightning condensed, compressed, and rotated in the void.
Lin Yun could sense that something was being nurtured within that power. It was his soul aura, his understanding of the laws of lightning, and the culmination of his years of cultivation.
A moment later, the surging elements of heaven and earth dissipated.
A black crystal emitting a pale purple light floated above Lin Yun's head—it was the divine spark of a lower-level god of the lightning attribute.
The divine spark was small, only the size of a thumb, entirely black, with a pale purple light flowing across its surface. The light flickered, like breathing, like a heartbeat. The moment it formed, it naturally connected with Lin Yun's soul. This was because this divine spark was formed based on Lin Yun's soul aura, perfectly matching him.
Even if you successfully refine someone else's divine essence, you can never match the divine essence formed by the laws of heaven and earth based on your own soul.
"godhead."
Lin Yun looked up at the floating divine spark that emitted a pale purple light, and a surge of excitement welled up in his heart.
"Finally, I've become a god." A smile appeared on Lin Yun's face.
At that moment, Lin Yun's soul naturally received a message—the laws of heaven and earth allowed him to choose whether his divine essence resided outside his body or inside it.
Lin Yun did not hesitate at all.
He had already planned this out in the world of Swallowing the Stars. He would achieve godhood outside his body, allowing his divine essence to levitate, thus creating an additional divine avatar. This avatar could cultivate independently and comprehend the laws of lightning, while his main body could continue cultivating the other six elements. This would significantly increase his cultivation speed.
"To achieve godhood outside the body." Lin Yun made his choice.
He controlled the divine essence, making it float beside him.
"ah--"
Lin Yun couldn't help but let out a bloodcurdling scream. The intense pain caused all the muscles in his body to convulse. At that moment, deep within Lin Yun's mind, in the ocean of his soul, a sword-shaped soul was suspended, and under the embrace of the laws of heaven and earth, it actually split into two with a "bang".
The soul is divided in two.
This pain was a thousand times worse than physical torture. It was the feeling of the soul being torn apart, an uncontrollable agony surging from the deepest recesses of the body. Lin Yun's vision blurred, and his consciousness was on the verge of collapse.
At that very moment, another body in the world of Swallowing the Stars also inexplicably received a message from the primordial universe. However, at this moment, the souls in both of Lin Yun's bodies completely stopped thinking and had no energy to look at this message.
Gradually, Lin Yun's painful screams subsided.
In his mind, the broken soul had transformed into two smaller, sword-shaped souls. One soul remained deep within Lin Yun's mind, while the other flew directly out of his body.
The departing soul drifted towards the divine spark suspended in the air, then easily merged directly into it. The soul and the divine spark became one—this was the sign of successful divine spark refinement.
"Phew." At this moment, Lin Yun regained his ability to think.
He also felt much weaker. The splitting of his soul had caused immense damage, likely slowing down his comprehension and deduction of the laws by several times. However, Lin Yun had no other choice but to continue comprehending the other six elements of the laws. Moreover, although the soul of his divine clone had shrunk, its ability to sense the lightning law was a thousand times clearer than before he became a god—a pleasant surprise indeed.
Suddenly, the surrounding space trembled.
The soul within the divine essence miraculously sensed a peculiar place—a place at the very core of boundless space, a vast and limitless plane, a place that only those who have reached the realm of gods can sense.
Ocean of Elements.
"boom--"
It was a misty space, devoid of any light from the sky, with only the pale purple glow emanating from the elemental ocean barely illuminating this plane. Boundless elemental tides surged and receded—this was an ocean of lightning elements.
The surface of the elemental ocean is composed of solid, liquid-like elements of heaven and earth. Lin Yun's soul, through his divine essence, can sense a certain depth below the surface of the elemental ocean.
The ocean of elements has an elemental liquid surface, but beneath it lies endless divine power.
The deeper the divine power is in the ocean, the more refined it becomes. However, Lin Yun could only barely break through the "surface layer of the elemental liquid" and sense a location ten meters below the surface. The difference between the divine power below the surface and the divine power ten meters below is only ten meters, but the refinement of the divine power differs by nearly two times.
Lin Yun was unaware that those who refined a divine spark to become gods could initially only barely sense a meter below the "surface of the elemental liquid." He became a god by condensing a divine spark through the laws of heaven and earth, so his starting point was much higher than those god-level powerhouses who refined divine sparks.
"Boom!"
Ten meters below the surface of the elemental ocean, a great deal of divine power suddenly vanished into thin air, descending directly to Lin Yun's location along a special channel formed by the laws of heaven and earth. Then, centered on the lightning elemental divine core that had fused with his soul, it began to condense into a divine body.
"Hiss—"
Clearly, starting from the head down, a body almost identical to Lin Yun's original form formed. Lin Yun's heart stirred, and he immediately controlled the divine power within his body to condense a light purple robe on his body.
At that moment, the special power representing the laws of heaven and earth vanished into thin air.
Under Lin Yun's control, the divine avatar merged with the original body. Lin Yun immediately sat down cross-legged and began to carefully observe the changes within himself.
Deep within the mind, above the ocean of souls, not only floated a smaller version of the soul, but also below it, on the surface of the ocean of souls, floated a figure sitting cross-legged—the divine avatar dressed in a light purple robe.
"This soul space is quite peculiar," Lin Yun thought to himself in admiration.
In truth, there's not much difference between a divine avatar and the original being. After all, both bodies contain a soul, and both are equally important.
Through his divine spark, Lin Yun once again sensed the plane at the core of the boundless universe—the boundless tide of elements surging and turbulent. He sensed a location ten meters below the surface elemental liquid and attempted to draw upon the divine power of lightning.
"Hmm?" Lin Yun realized that the speed at which he was absorbing divine power was too slow.
Divine power flowed directly into his body through a special channel, bit by bit. Although he was also absorbing divine power, the speed was nowhere near as fast as when he was controlled by the laws of heaven and earth earlier—he had absorbed a large amount of divine power in an instant and condensed it into a divine body.
"This is quite similar to what happens after becoming an immortal in the world of Swallowed Star," Lin Yun thought to himself.
In the world of Swallowed Star, only upon becoming an immortal will the laws of heaven and earth supply an unlimited amount of divine power to transform one's divine body. Afterwards, whether breaking through to the Venerable or the Lord of the Universe, or actively absorbing divine power in ordinary times, the speed will be extremely slow. However, the strength of a lower-level god is far inferior to that of an immortal.
"It seems I need to be more careful in the future. Once this divine body is destroyed, it takes too much divine power to condense it again." Lin Yun sighed – he could clearly sense that there was endless divine power in the ocean of elements, but he could only draw it out bit by bit.
Lin Yun opened his eyes and stood up from the ground.
He raised his right hand, and a purple arc of lightning condensed in his palm. The arc wasn't large, but the power it contained was more than a hundred times stronger than before he became a god. His perception of the laws of lightning was also a thousand times clearer than before he became a god.
"The power of lightning attribute divine power, when used to unleash the 'Profound Mystery of Lightning Speed,' is far more formidable," Lin Yun murmured.
He tried to unleash the profound power of lightning, his body transforming into a streak of purple lightning, traversing the torrential rain. The speed was so great that even he was astonished—at least a hundred times faster than before he became a god.
"This is god-level power." Lin Yun stopped in mid-air, letting the torrential rain wash over his body.
He closed his eyes and felt the changes within his body.
The main body's strength hasn't improved much, remaining at the peak of the Saint Realm. However, the divine avatar possesses the strength of a lower-level god, and its strength will continue to increase as it deepens its understanding of the lightning laws.
More importantly, the main body cultivates the other six elements, while the divine avatar cultivates the lightning element. The cultivation speed will be more than twice as fast as before.
"However, splitting the soul does have side effects." Lin Yun sensed his own soul state.
The two smaller souls were significantly weaker than the original souls. This had some impact on the speed of deducing the laws of perception, but the divine avatars' perception of the lightning laws was hundreds or thousands of times clearer than before they became gods. Overall, the speed of cultivating the lightning laws was actually faster.
The other six elements will experience a slightly slower cultivation speed due to their weakened souls. However, Lin Yun possesses the secret manuals from Meteorite Star, allowing for cross-verification between the two worlds, so this shouldn't be a major problem.
"Next, I need to continue cultivating and comprehend the other profound mysteries of the lightning-based laws one by one," Lin Yun thought to himself. "Of course, I'm not in a hurry to become a mid-level god or a high-level god. My goal is to comprehend and integrate the mysteries as I go. To me, there's not much difference between a low-level god and a mid-level god; they're just tools for cultivating the laws!"
He took a deep breath, landed from the air, and stepped back into the magic crystal mine.
He needs to return to the miniature plane to consolidate the power of his divine avatar before continuing his cultivation.