Chapter 1106: Chapter 80: Thunder and Lightning Clash
Xuan Yuan’s face turned incredibly serious at the sight of the light sphere. Although it was only one sphere, it seemed to be absorbing all the energy elements in the surrounding air, forming an immense field with a powerful suction force within a few dozen meters. Xuan Yuan forcibly stopped himself from moving forward, his expression solemn as he stared at the force field that was gradually approaching him. He no longer had the time to be surprised and could no longer afford to hold back, his body’s Golden Battle Aura shone brightly as he continuously changed his hand gestures, layer upon layer of golden waves undulated in front of his body. Xuan Yuan glared and thundered, "Divine Waves Conquer the Sea." The Golden Energy suddenly condensed in front of him, and as he pushed with his hands, the surging Golden Energy, like ocean waves, rushed towards Ah Dai with a roaring light sphere. Ah Dai barely managed to control his own energy using his remaining will.
When the golden waves hit the pale green light sphere, its immense suction force surprisingly absorbed part of the Golden Energy, forming a golden halo around the pale green sphere. Ah Dai murmured in a deep voice, "Thunder Clash, Break—" As he shouted, the pale green light sphere spun rapidly, its suction force abruptly intensified, and Ah Dai watched the sky with anticipation. Finally, his efforts were rewarded. The originally clear sky darkened in an instant, a not-so-large dark cloud enveloped everyone, Suddenly, a booming thunder sounded, and a dazzling blue lightning bolt struck directly into the pale green sphere, causing a huge burst of energy. The Thunder Clash successfully drew real heavenly thunder. Amid the booming noise, everyone was momentarily knocked senseless.
Xuan Yuan was the first to regain consciousness after what felt like an eternity. When the celestial phenomena started, he sensed something dire, quickly retracted his Divine Waves Conquer the Sea energy completely and protected his body, simultaneously summoning the remaining energy inside him to form a solid protective battle aura. He was at the very center of the storm; amid the booming noises, he temporarily lost his hearing and vision. The violent shocks made his body toss about like a small boat in the waves, and his protective battle aura rapidly faded. As the energy burst reached its limit, he too lost consciousness, only to fully awake now. He found himself, the judge of the Holy Church Court of Justice, ignominiously sprawled on the ground, his white robe mostly scorched to black, his once-prideful silver hair stood on end, largely singed, with not a trace of beard on his chin left, and sharp pains shot continuously from various parts of his body. For the first time in his life, he felt so utterly miserable. His inner True Qi was nearly depleted, leaving his body weak and powerless.
The power of Thunder Clash was incomparable even to the might of Tian Luo. Even for the Sword Saint of Tian Gang to use this move, it cost nearly forty percent of his energy, and naturally, when he executed Thunder Clash, it was much more powerful than Ah Dai’s. Thunder Clash was one of the ultimate moves that the Sword Saint of Tian Gang developed in his later years, magically utilizing existing energy between heaven and earth together with personal energy, resulting in such great power that even the Sword Saint himself dared not use it casually. Tian Luo was merely a move the Sword Saint of Tian Gang had spontaneously thought up based on Ah Dai’s condition at that time, using it to attack enemies in a transformative manner—compared to Thunder Clash, it was worlds apart. At the time, the Sword Saint hadn’t fully explained it to Ah Dai but just taught him the methods to practice the three moves. Thunder Clash was a move that the Sword Saint of Tian Gang had comprehended unintentionally. Because Tian Gang Mountain was extremely high, he once witnessed a massive bolt of lightning flattening a small peak of the Tian Gang Mountain range during a thunderstorm. Astounded by the sheer force of nature, he then spent nearly ten years in deep contemplation, finally figuring out how to use his own battle aura to beckon heavenly thunder. The principle of Thunder Clash was simple: using the principle of Yin-Yang attraction, by generating a highly Yang and robust True Qi in the form of a massive energy sphere, and then creating a small slice of energy with the same power, causing severe friction between them, which generated a strong suction, thus forming a Yang lightning. As long as the energy was profound enough, the Yang lightning generated sufficient suction, it could naturally attract the Yin lightning from the sky. The Yin-Yang collision would unleash destructive power that even the original Sword Saint found astonishing. The larger the self-created Yang lightning, the stronger the Yin lightning it could attract, and correspondingly, the power of Thunder Clash also increased. When Ah Dai and the Sword Saint of Tian Gang were up on Tian Gang Mountain, they had practiced this move countless times; Ah Dai managed to produce Yang lightning, but he never successfully attracted Yin lightning. The Sword Saint had told him that should Yin and Yang lightning collide, one must immediately distance oneself, otherwise one would be equally affected, as the exploding energy did not distinguish between friend and foe. If he could cultivate the transformation to the highest level, conjuring Golden Solid State Energy to form golden lightning and silver lightning, and then use this move, its might would surpass any Forbidden Curse in magic.
