William was right, the lightning wasn't affecting his body in any negative way. However, there was something else that was suffering from such lightning, which was that seal.
William didn't know that his body was emitting an irresistible aura, one that was able to stir the swarms of flying hornets, forcing them out from the inner zone to the outer one. And it was also the one that affected the lightning inside this place.
This came all from his snake spirit. As he started to experience a spirit fusion, he started to gain traits from this spirit. One of them was this weird aura, one that'd stir up any toxic or corrosive element inside living creatures or even inside the world itself.
Just like this place, where lightning started to flock towards him without any sign of stopping.
As for why he didn't feel any pain or experienced any hurt when the lightning bathed over his head, that was because of a simple fact… This wasn't true lightning!
This was a very high concentration, a insanely condensed amount of corrosive and toxic spirit power. Usually only the monsters born inside such hellish place would be the only beings capable of withstanding such lightning.
If anything else tried to pass from outside through this thunderstorm, then they'd get hit severely by lightning, ending up getting fried and killed in mere breaths.
Only William was able to withstand so far thanks to his snake spirit. The moment the lightning fell over his head, they didn't just stir up the snake spirit, but started to nourish this spirt, and the other two as well.
William didn't feel it at the moment, but his overall power was growing. It wasn't an increase in spirit power amount, or rising in grade, it was an increase in his spirit purity, plus pushing the ongoing fusion forward for long shot.
As the lightning fell over his body, it started to fight hard against the resisting chain of the seal. The corrosive nature of this lightning, in addition to the nourishment it caused for William's spirit, all stirred up the seal.
A fierce battle that William wasn't aware of right now started, with the seal being pressured hard from the very start. The seal, no matter how strong it was, was facing up a world power, one that got the backing of the entire inner zone.
The clash didn't last more than one hour. During which, William continued to dash forward. He couldn't see anything, wasn't feeling any harm, and yet he didn't like any of this. He didn't want to end up getting another bad thing from here, like how it happened to him back at the Hot Snow world.
No matter how he tried to run away, he failed to get rid of the green lightning until two hours passed. In the first hour, his seal broke at last, and his body changed. He was now back to the giant form of his spirit, with a little surprise that awaited him.
As for the second hour, the lightning kept giving nutrition and support to William's spirit until he finally reached a point he couldn't take anymore.
His snake spirit seemed like an intelligent being. The moment William's three spirits got oversaturated; it stopped releasing such alluring aura.
The moment this happened, lightning receded fast, and the world started to show visible shapes in front of his eyes.
"At last, it's going away," William knew this wasn't thanks to his continuous dashes. But he wouldn't say no to such change. Instead, he prepared himself for a big fight waiting for him. The lightning came with hostile intentions. Even if nothing bad happened to him, he knew this didn't mean the lightning went away for no reason.
The only possible reason William thought of was the lightning guided him towards a very dangerous situation. He expected to see himself entrapped within endless swarms of ground and flying beasts. Yet the moment the world turned clear, he realised how gravely mistaken he was.
There wasn't a single monster around. In fact, even the gloomy dark green fog wasn't there. Instead, a weird milky white later was present, one that seemed more like the early hours at morning mist.
"This…" he was really surprised by this, yet when he noticed his body, he was more surprised, "hahahaha! It worked! Hahahaha!" he laughed like he scored it big or something.
He struggled and suffered during the past weeks thanks to that seal. He knew the value of his spirit body more than ever after this hellish experience.
Seeing his body with the fox and snake spirits merging together made him chuckle. And yet there was a little surprise there.
"I have four tails?!!! Since when I jumped a rank in spirit purity grade?!!!" he was totally shocked and wanted nothing more but to test his spirit at this moment.
And yet he wasn't in a situation to allow him to do such a thing. He turned around and started to look at this white mist in a different way. He regained his former power back and wasn't afraid of facing any monster or lightning at the moment.
The mist filled the entire world, with another layer of it covering up the ground. There were no swamps there, no monsters, nothing at all. All he could see was just a white land, rising up and down, without anything else.
"Hello… Where are you, monsters?" he shouted, but got no response except for the echo of his voice. The sky was gone like before, as the white mist thickened at high altitudes. Yet it wasn't like how gloomy it was when the dark green fog was filling everything.
He tried to spread his spirit sense and got nothing back except for a little pain. The white mist ate away his spirit sense like how the dark green fog did.
"I can only see up to fifty metres around, half the distance I could cover before…" he said to himself, before deciding to walk around and check the place.
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