Chapter 150: Chapter 44: Sweeping Heaven and Earth with Thunder
Praise from Yara was a high form of validation. The Five Extremes Divine Thunder True Technique, aside from its method for achieving the Innate Thunder Spirit Yang God, also contained various cultivation and application methods for Thunder Techniques. Most of these were remarkably insightful and profound. Su Zhou didn’t know how it compared to the Five Thunders Righteous Method from his homeland, but he felt that even if it fell short, their essence had to be interconnected. It was truly a fundamental Secret Technique!
"Thunder Techniques are the weakness of the ’Undying Wood.’ Both fire and thunder can completely alter the ’water’ structure inside the Divine Wood Undying Root. That complex water structure, formed through Spiritual Qi, is the truly vital component within the Undying Root—it’s as important as the human brain."
"But merely cutting, crushing, or freezing it cannot completely destroy this structure, leaving room for ’regeneration’ and ’immortality’."
"I understand the key to it now!"
At the peak of the mountain, Su Zhou let out a long breath. He opened his eyes, and a flash of Thunder Light blossomed within their blue-purple depths.
The next instant, he raised his hand and pointed a finger to the sky!
BOOM!
Amidst the churning, dark clouds, a clap of thunder suddenly resounded! Blue lightning flickered between the layers of gray clouds!
Although Su Zhou quickly withdrew his finger, causing the thunder to subside, a blue arc of electricity still coiled around it. Su Zhou stared at his finger. The entire digit had been charred black, but he still burst out laughing with delight.
"So that’s how it is—no wonder even the National Preceptor needs a Magic Sword to summon thunder! So that’s why the National Preceptor, in just two hundred years, could obtain more data than Elder Sages accumulated over a thousand years!"
"An Immortal Body truly is the perfect tool for researching Thunder Techniques. So useful, so useful!"
One could see the charcoal-like shell flaking off Su Zhou’s charred wound, layer by layer, revealing his slender, fair finger, just as it was before. He had also gained experience and information that other Thunder Technique Cultivators could only obtain through extremely cautious experiments.
Better still, because he experienced it firsthand, the memory was etched even deeper.
"Good, this is great!" Even though the wound was excruciatingly painful, Su Zhou was still filled with joy. But then he thought about what lay behind the National Preceptor’s legacy: the blood and tears of millions, perhaps even tens of millions, of people. A sense of injustice immediately swelled in his heart.
’Immortality, immortality... Is this immortality that all living things crave truly worth such a great price?’
The young man, who loathed evil as if it were his personal foe, muttered to himself, ’If immortality truly drives people mad, then could I just sever all paths to it? I could make it so that all living things must face life and death. Whether heaven or earth, God or man, ghost or demon—all would have to face their end. Wouldn’t that be so much better?’
At that moment, upon hearing this, Yara couldn’t help but think, ’I’m floored. This kid really is a natural-born Demon Lord. How twisted must his logic be to land on a Demonic Thought like "the annihilation of all beings"? Normal Evil People wouldn’t have such ideas even with Celestial Demon Possession, but this guy... he got there with ease, all based on a "good intention"!’
But in the end, Su Zhou fortunately shook his head with regret. ’No, that won’t work. It wouldn’t stop people from going mad. If not immortality, there’s still Longevity, and life extension. It would only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. The problem isn’t "immortality" itself, but the madness of human desire. Rather than destroying immortality, maybe it would be better if everyone was immortal... but would that really be a good thing?’
After a moment of silence, Su Zhou did not grow disheartened. He simply raised his hand again, a blue Thunder Light dancing on his fingertip, and pointed far to the south.
Su Zhou gazed toward the far end of the snow-white world, toward the ’Southern Celestial Capital,’ the abode of the Demon Emperor. The Demon Hunter made a vow in the most resolute of tones.
"—With this thunder, I shall sweep clean the heavens and the earth, and restore righteousness to this world!"
Across the heavens and earth on the mountaintop, thunder boomed as if in response.
「The next day, at noon.」
The Blade of Annihilation, a Divine Soldier, was forged!
