Poison God's Heritage

"Yes, it was always an excitement-inducing venture of mine. Going to the Sea of Demons and visiting the underground cave system there was something that I didn\'t want to repeat. Especially since I discovered that that was just the first level. As for the Thunder Domain, even I struggled to get to the third area and had to back away," he said.

"Where do you think the Blue Sun\'s handkerchief will be?" the commentator asked.

"Emm, this isn\'t a trial that is meant to kill the cultivators. But at the same time it is meant to fully explore their potential, to be called Strongest Under the Sun one needs to have a will like no other. So, of the five regions of the Thunder Domain, it will not be in the first second or third. Because with enough grit and luck one can still venture through them.

And it will definitely not be in the fifth because not even a lightning god can live to tell the tale of what is inside there. So I would guess around the peripheries\' of the fourth Zone," Eccentric Long said.

"A smart man deserves a reward," the Blue Sun said and threw a token toward Eccentric Long who grasped it as fast as lightning. With this he almost obtained all the tokens from all of the suns here.

"Thank you, your ladyship for this great generosity," he said.

"Why do you believe that no one of them can set foot in the fifth domain?" she asked.

"Simply put…" Eccentric Long took his time before adding, "Because they haven\'t earned the Title Yet. To be even able to witness the thunder and lightning inside the fifth zone is a miracle by itself, since it is from what I could guess the pure culmination of thunder law. Not to mention resisting it.

They\'ll also have to navigate the entire area as they\'re looking for the handkerchief turning stones upside down and still protecting themselves from the thunder, it is not a possible thing to do for anyone below the Heaven Realm. And even the Heaven Realm cultivators would have to pay dearly to trespass onto that land."

"As we\'re speaking, the thunder in the thunder domain is booming louder. I suppose that the waning phase is over and now it is starting it\'s aggravation phase. Let\'s see how they\'ll deal with this then," the commentator added as the screen began displaying the various cultivators struggling under the booming thunder.

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"So, not only did my master almost lose his life in the fifth region, he\'s still unable to use his right arm to this day," Law finished his words.

"For a bow user, to lose the function of an arm… it must be painful," I said.

"Well, he still is one of the strongest at the Heaven Stage so it\'s not that bad. Oh, I guess I talked too much and wasted time, the thunderclouds are thickening," Law said as he looked up.

I took note of something interesting. The hair on my body began rising, and Law\'s head hair also started slowly going up.

The massive metallic construct next to us began to lose its sheen for some reason.

"RUN INTO THE SHIP NOW!" I shouted as loudly as I could as I flew forward.

Law didn\'t hesitate to follow me and the both of us immediately went inside the ship.

Not a second later, light strong enough to blind a man for a second blasted from all directions, and a heavy lightning bolt struck into the rods above the ship.

Then came the booming sound of an explosive thunderbolt that almost ripped my eardrums.

"What the hell was that?!" asked Law.

"The metallic structure… it switched its electrical charge from positive to negative…" I said.

"Euh what?" Law said as he didn\'t understand a thing.

Explaining positive and negative charges to someone who doesn\'t understand the basics of physics will take a long time so I went with this.

"Basically, it transformed from a piece of metal to a piece of stone. And since we were the only thing in its presence, we were the lightning\'s main target. A source for the lightning to discharge through us…"

Strangely though, why did this piece of metal turn to a nonconductive material… I need a few samples.

Sadly, I can\'t ask the automaton for help to pull inside it the entirety of this metal, since it will violate the rules of the competition. As the pagoda is a heaven-grade treasure. But I can\'t just give up on such interesting material.

More lightning bolts kept coming down, one after the other against the ship. But thankfully nothing seemed to endanger or damage the rods.

Since I had a few hundred puppets already stationed inside the rooms of the ship, I ordered a dozen of them to go out.

They also have lightning insulators built inside them and even though they might be struck with lightning they can simply discharge it directly into the ground. They won\'t get fried since they\'re not built using electrical circuits but rather formations.

And since they also have a synthetic meridian they can also transform some of the lightning energy into internal energy they can use instead of the Saint Qi Stones inside them.

"I need you guys to mine that piece of rock formation, pull it out for me," I said.

The puppets immediately began working on the formation, digging it out by hand while the lightning strikes were constantly raining down upon them without stopping.

Surprisingly the rock formation wasn\'t that deep, and they managed to extract it in about a few hours\' worth of work.

I then placed it inside my holding bag when the lightning bolt seemed to slow down in intensity.

"What are you planning on using this for?" Law asked.

"I need to study this thing. But for now, since the ship can withstand this lightning we should probably keep moving forward." I said.

"Forward? Why? Didn\'t you tell me that the chances of the handkerchief being at the edge of the map or the center are about the same," Law asked.

"Yes, that was before I knew of the five regions of the Thunder Domain, the story of your master explained something that I didn\'t know of, and now I have more information to work with."

"So, where are we going?" Law asked.

"Hmm, I have a strong hunch that the item will be in the fourth region. The three first regions are probably too easy for any random cultivator to venture through, and it seems that the fourth which is the hardest is where the handkerchief will be.

Excluding the fifth where even your master lost the use of his arm, if he is in the heaven realm and was damaged to that extent then we\'re probably going to get obliterated if we go in there," I said.

"Right, that makes sense. Then let\'s keep moving forward," Law said.

I then started the ship and flew up, although we were constantly bombarded with lightning it was still not to the extent of causing any visible damage to the ship. The first region is relatively safe as it seems.

I just hope these lightning rods can survive the higher-intensity bolts.