hotmtlnovel Chapter 142 Struck by Lightning!
Chapter 142 Struck by Lightning!
Chapter 142 Struck by Lightning!
Although he had gained a great deal this time, the thought of disappearing without a trace for seven whole days made Yu Tianyun frown and a sense of worry rise in his heart. He wondered how anxious his wives must be.
Eager to return home, his mind was filled with the gentle smiles of his beautiful wives and concubines. Their radiant faces, like beautiful paintings, kept appearing in his heart.
So he unleashed his full power to fly, using all his abilities: Blue Silver Domain, Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone Soul Skill, Dragon Wings, First Soul Ring, Fourth Soul Ring, and Fifth Soul Ring.
At this moment, if anyone could see Yu Tianyun flying high in the sky, they would surely think that it was a blue meteor streaking across the sky with a long tail of flame. Its brilliant light illuminated the heavens, and the clouds that blocked its way were torn into huge cracks that could not be closed for a long time.
Half an hour later, looking down at the increasingly dense villages and towns on the ground, Yu Tianyun, high in the sky, gradually slowed down.
He knew in his heart that he was getting closer and closer to Tiandou City, but for some reason, a sense of unease welled up in his heart, as if an invisible hand was gently tugging at his heart.
Suddenly, he realized that the ground in front of him was shrouded in shadow, becoming extremely dark, like a moonless night.
He looked up at the sky, and the once clear sky, which was cloudless, was now covered with dark clouds. The thick clouds were like heavy mountains pressing down on him, with flashes of lightning interspersed among them, like tiny silver snakes weaving through the clouds.
"I hope I won't get struck by lightning! Speaking of which, I wonder if I'd be injured if I were struck by lightning these days? Just how powerful is naturally occurring lightning?"
"In past stories, cultivators would bathe in lightning to temper their bodies and souls. I wonder if it works the same way in this world!"
Looking at the dark clouds ahead, Yu Tianyun suddenly had a suicidal thought, but he quickly shook his head.
"Let's forget about it. A wife, kids, and a warm bed are more practical. It's better to be safe than sorry. But we can't get around these dark clouds, so let's just fly lower!"
Yu Tianyun's flight altitude gradually decreased. To avoid attracting attention, he tried his best to suppress the lightning swirling around his body, while using the Blue Silver Domain to conceal his spirit rings.
And so, he flew silently into the dark clouds that resembled night.
The dark cloud was vast and extremely dense, resembling a giant black vortex, clearly brewing a terrifying storm.
As soon as Yu Tianyun flew within a kilometer's distance, a gale rushed towards him, and the trees below swayed wildly in the howling wind, their leaves rustling.
After flying tens of thousands of meters further, a torrential downpour began, like a waterfall pouring down, the rain as if the Milky Way were flowing backwards, and the world seemed to be shrouded in a thick curtain of water.
The rain had no effect on him; instead, it formed a transparent barrier around him. In this way, Yu Tianyun seemed to have torn a passage in the air and moved forward rapidly.
Suddenly, the entire earth lit up as if it were daytime. A dazzling bolt of lightning suddenly struck down from the dark clouds. Its winding trajectory made it impossible to know its destination, but in the end, it struck Yu Tianyun without missing a beat.
Lightning is incredibly fast, the fastest thing in the world, and no one can escape it.
The lightning bolt, like a raging silver dragon, carrying boundless destructive power, instantly enveloped Yu Tianyun.
Its light was dazzling, illuminating the entire dark world, accompanied by a deafening roar, as if it were about to tear everything in the world apart.
In an instant, Yu Tianyun felt a sharp pain all over his body. An unimaginably powerful electric current surged wildly through his body, as if countless steel needles were piercing every inch of his muscles and nerves.
His hair stood on end, his face contorted in pain, and his entire body trembled uncontrollably. Every cell in his body was being ravaged by the violent electric current, as if he were in purgatory.
Yu Tianyun's body was also blasted downwards, but he quickly regained his balance.
His physical strength was even greater than that of an ordinary Title Douluo. Although he was in some pain, he did not suffer any substantial damage.
"Damn it, you son of a bitch, you motherfucker..." Yu Tianyun cursed incessantly, his eyes instantly becoming bloodshot. Although he wasn't seriously injured, he was in a terrible state. All his clothes had turned to ashes and were scattered in the wind, leaving only a charred body.
In an instant, he unleashed his full soul power, and a layer of blue-purple soul power light surged from his body, forming a soul power barrier in an attempt to resist the lightning strikes he might encounter next.
The lightning power in nature is different from the lightning power he condenses with his own soul power. The lightning power condensed with soul power needs to be actively controlled by the soul master before it can attack the target, so the speed will naturally be much slower.
But lightning in nature travels at the pure speed of light.
Yu Tianyun didn't know the level of a god, but he knew that humans had absolutely no chance of dodging it. They simply couldn't react in time. Even if they could react, they would need to master spatial skills such as teleportation to dodge it.
Just as Yu Tianyun erected a soul power barrier, more lightning gathered in the dark clouds, like ferocious silver snakes, intertwining and forming a huge electric net.
His curses seemed to have enraged the thunderclouds, for the lightning bolts then struck him with even greater ferocity and force. Each bolt carried a chilling power, as if the wrath of the heavens had been unleashed in that instant.
Upon seeing this display of power, Yu Tianyun felt a sudden tremor in his heart. He knew that his simple soul power barrier was simply insufficient to withstand the attack, so he was about to use the Mountain Dragon King's soul bone technique—Mountain Dragon Defense—to defend himself.
But before he could unleash this soul skill, the lightning bolt struck him.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
Each bolt of lightning struck, causing his body to tremble violently, and the circulation of his soul power within him immediately became disordered.
The power of lightning surged through his muscles and meridians like a wild horse, paralyzing his body and confusing his mind. He was unable to maintain flight and plummeted straight down.
Yu Tianyun's body plummeted like a meteorite, with the wind howling in his ears.
Just as he was about to crash to the ground, he relied on his strong willpower to forcibly mobilize the chaotic soul power in his body, and at the same time, he tried his best to flap his dragon wings. Finally, at the last moment, he regained control of his body and barely managed to land on the ground.
At this moment, his entire body was not only charred black, but his skin was also cracked, the cracks resembling parched earth, making him look extremely miserable.
"Hiss!" Just as Yu Tianyun, who had survived the ordeal, was about to smile, a sharp pain struck him, and he couldn't help but grimace.
At this moment, due to his extremely high resistance to lightning, he had completely regained control of his body.
However, still shaken, he didn't bother to check his injuries. His first, third, fourth, and fifth soul rings lit up simultaneously to amplify his soul power and defense. Finally, he unleashed the Mountain Dragon King Soul Bone Skill – Mountain Dragon Defense.
Only after he finished doing all this did he let out a long breath, look up at the sky, and think to himself, "Now that I've landed, it shouldn't strike me again, right?"
"Boom!" At this moment, the lightning and thunder in the dark cloud became even more intense, and the rolling thunder sounded like countless war drums beating at the same time, making people tremble with fear.
This made Yu Tianyun, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, startle with a pounding heart. "Could it really be that they're coming to strike me down again?"
He subconsciously circulated his soul power frantically, and the soul rings on his body shone brightly. He no longer cared about using the Blue Silver Domain to conceal himself and pushed the Mountain Dragon Soul Control Bone Technique to its limit, forming a solid shield.
A moment later, bolts of lightning descended from the sky, illuminating the entire world. Surprisingly, the lightning seemed to have eyes and actually struck straight at Yu Tianyun's location.
Upon seeing this, Yu Tianyun's expression changed drastically. He gritted his teeth, realizing that there was no way to dodge and that he could only take the hit.
At this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little fortunate that he had unleashed his full defensive power in advance.
The lightning bolts struck the shield one after another, causing ripples to spread across it.
Yu Tianyun's soul power was being rapidly depleted. Although the Mountain Dragon Soul Control Bone Technique was extremely powerful in defense, it also consumed a great deal of soul power.
After holding out for five minutes, Yu Tianyun gradually felt weak. During those five minutes, lightning bolts half a foot thick kept bombarding his shield. The lightning seemed endless, wave after wave.
At this moment, the thunder finally stopped. Yu Tianyun looked up at the sky again, and suddenly he felt like he was going to vomit blood. His eyelids twitched. He saw that the thunderclouds still showed no signs of dissipating and were still gathering a lot of lightning, as if they were going to hit him hard.
Yu Tianyun wanted to cry but had no tears, but at this moment he also noticed something strange.
If the first and second thunderbolts struck him because he was flying in the sky, which naturally makes it easy for him to attract lightning, that makes sense.
But he's already landed and no longer at a high place, yet he still attracts lightning? That's just outrageous!
"Could it be because I've made too many vows lately? Even God can't stand how awful I am? That can't be!" Yu Tianyun couldn't help but doubt himself.
"No, attract lightning, attract?... " Just as Yu Tianyun was about to find the correct answer, a dazzling bolt of lightning as thick as a water vat struck down from above. The lightning was like an angry dragon, baring its fangs and claws as it pounced. The Mountain Dragon Defense Shield rippled violently, as if it would shatter at any moment, and Yu Tianyun's soul power was rapidly depleted.
He dared not spare a single thought, focusing all his energy on activating the Mountain Dragon Control. As long as the Mountain Dragon Control Soul Bone Technique's attack power did not exceed the God level, it could not break through his defense. Of course, this was on the premise that his soul power was sufficient.
But under the relentless bombardment of lightning, his soul power was less than 20%.
Yu Tianyun's muscles were taut, his bones creaking, and his eyes were filled with grief and despair, but he still held on desperately.
The surrounding ground was scorched black by the lightning strikes, with dirt and rocks flying everywhere. The soul power emanating from Yu Tianyun's body flickered on and off, like a candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered, letting out a low roar.
"Crack!" A cracking sound rang out, and Yu Tianyun's heart skipped a beat.
"Is this the end? Yan Yan, Rong Rong, Zhu Qing, Zhu Yun, Er Long, Ling Ling, and Xiao Yue... I'm sorry, again..." Yu Tianyun thought of the women who were still talking about him going home.
But before he could finish speaking, everything went black and he lost consciousness.
At that moment, more than a dozen bolts of lightning, each as thick as a water vat, struck the area and all hit Yu Tianyun.
After these dozen or so thunderbolts struck, the area finally quieted down, the thunderclouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and the sky began to clear.
This area was barren, except for a large, dark pit.
Yu Tianyun's body did not disappear in the lightning, but his appearance was extremely tragic. He lay quietly in the dark pit, like a broken doll, a pitiful sight.
Looking at his head, it was a mess, with crisscrossing wounds, blood gushing out, not a single hair left, his scalp rolled back, and his skull appearing to be shattered.
His face was crisscrossed with deep wounds that revealed the bone. His once handsome face was now unrecognizable. His lips were cracked like a parched riverbed, and dried bloodstains were visible at the corners of his mouth, a shocking sight.
Looking at his body again, his chest was a bloody mess, his ribs were clearly visible, his arms and legs were charred black, his skin was peeling off, his muscles were exposed, and his tendons were twisted, as if he had been brutally ravaged by a demon.
The blood from the wound mixed with rainwater, forming dark red streams that emitted a nauseating, bloody stench.
The only relatively good spot was the dragon. Although it hadn't suffered any serious damage, its thick body was swollen and covered in tiny wounds. Blood dripped from its pink dragon head, making it appear particularly fragile and pitiful amidst the carnage.
Clearly, in the final moments, his body instincts compelled him to protect his vital parts as much as possible. Men, indeed, value that area more than their own lives.
The rain gradually stopped, but Yu Tianyun remained motionless, his fate unknown, as if abandoned by the whole world, sinking alone into endless pain and darkness.
After an unknown amount of time, footsteps suddenly echoed through the desolate place, followed by a woman's startled cry: "Your Highness, there's someone here!"
Then came another series of hurried footsteps, followed by a startled male voice: "Hmm? Yu Tianyun? Someone, take him away immediately and do everything you can to save him!"
Soon, a group of people gathered around, carefully lifting the unconscious and pitifully injured Yu Tianyun, and hurriedly running away into the distance. Their figures, bathed in sunlight, cast long shadows, seemingly carrying Yu Tianyun's uncertain fate, as they gradually disappeared into this desolate land.
Yu Tianyun, lying on the stretcher, remained motionless. As the crowd moved his broken body, blood seeped from his wounds, staining the stretcher red. It was unknown whether he still had a glimmer of hope.
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(End of this chapter)