Volume Three: Rising Fame Chapter Sixty-Two: The Practitioners of Blue Star

The thunderbolt exploded, but the initial wave of damage was actually a blinding white light. At that moment, Li Yu had his back turned, naturally avoiding the harm.

However, the second wave of impact followed immediately. Li Yu took it head-on, and the fierce gust of wind swept him off his feet, sending him crashing hard onto the ground in a humiliating fall.

This move wasn’t new to Li Yu, but it was the first time he used it against an enemy.

When he first began developing his bloodline abilities, Li Yu realized that the exclusive lightning bloodline techniques were rather meager—so scarce, in fact, that there were hardly any dedicated manuals. The skills he mastered were mostly general techniques.

This was understandable. There were only a handful of people with the lightning bloodline, and the creation of a martial arts manual was no easy feat. Often, it required the collaboration of many to perfect a technique. The lightning bloodline was at a disadvantage; few possessed it, and even fewer could comprehend or develop exclusive manuals. Naturally, there were very few unique techniques.

So Li Yu had to explore attack methods suitable for himself. One involved compressing spiritual energy to strike the enemy. After all, while others had only developed a few lightning acupoints, his system granted him thousands... Wouldn’t it be a waste not to make use of them?

Yet this move was too narrow in scope. It was easy to injure himself during the condensation process. Once condensed, the attack could only be crudely thrown out, making it easy for enemies to dodge. These were its weaknesses.

The former could be improved through the system’s experience bonuses and training, ensuring Li Yu wouldn’t accidentally harm himself during condensation. But the latter couldn’t guarantee that every enemy would be foolish enough not to dodge!

Especially since Li Yu never imagined the enemy wouldn’t just dodge but would force him into a situation where he couldn’t.

“This is going too far!”

The gusts of wind grew stronger. Li Yu was blown around, rolling several times before finally coming to a halt. He looked up at the lightning orb, which had now dispersed and erupted explosively.

Beneath the dazzling light, arcs of lightning stretched out like tentacles, waving through the heavens and earth.

The attacks were visibly fierce.

As the arcs sliced through the sky, they seemed only to distort vision, but anyone thinking the power was insignificant would be gravely mistaken.

When the lightning arcs struck the ground, it was like a massive force plowing through the earth, carving deep trenches. The soil was scorched black, and white smoke billowed up.

In the next moment, the orb exploded with an even brighter white light. Li Yu grimaced bitterly and closed his eyes.

The thunderstorm raged violently.

Though it appeared slow, all of this happened in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile, the black-robed youth, after making his move to block, curled his body tightly, trying to cover himself fully with his robe. Not only that, but his entire body emitted an earthy yellow glow, exuding a sense of heaviness like the land itself.

His feet, in contact with the ground, seemed fused with the soil, with strange energy flowing between him and the earth.

The white-blue light flickered brilliantly, shining even in broad daylight, overpowering the sun’s rays.

Within this white light, a spherical energy mass continuously expanded. Because part of it extended underground, from a distance it looked like an inverted, growing hemisphere.

The heat was intense.

Even outside the nearly hundred-meter radius of the hemisphere, surrounding tree trunks dried and cracked under the heat, and many trees spontaneously ignited.

On another hill, Can Yishuang was affected by the heat. The sealed energy within her body loosened slightly. Moreover, because she had a temporary lightning acupoint, some lightning was drawn toward her, striking her body.

That blow nearly shattered her seal, threatening to break it open at any moment.

Neither of them escaped the lightning’s range.

Li Yu wavered, struggling to stand.

He had to endure the very attack he had unleashed himself—where could he even complain?

Still, Li Yu felt some relief—he only had to withstand the energy shock.

After all, the system rated his lightning bloodline as “controllable innate lightning.” Lightning was an unparalleled power, whether here or on Blue Star. On Blue Star, it was even said to embody the might of heaven itself. If one could command innate lightning, then taming the postnatal lightning he cultivated was effortless.

It was just a pity that while Li Yu was unafraid of lightning itself, he had to bear the shockwaves and searing heat alone.

“I definitely didn’t mishear that!”

Gritting his teeth, Li Yu braved wave after wave of impact. As for the heat, he could barely endure it; after all, his body had just been tempered and was far from weak.

More troubling than his physical suffering was the black-robed youth’s words—they cluttered his mind.

What beautiful words—how could he have misheard?

Nearby, the black-robed youth, whom Li Yu had been fixated on, also gritted his teeth.

He crouched, shaking, his earthy yellow aura dim and flickering. At his feet, the connection between him and the ground was breaking apart, clearly his last stand.

“Savages... madmen exist everywhere,” the youth muttered.

His black robe was torn in several places. His expression was grave, but he was helpless. Though the robe was crucial, survival was paramount—there was no difficult choice between life and exposure.

Only by living was there hope; death meant none.

The lightning raged within a hundred-meter radius, but this was a human attack lacking sustaining power. After several minutes, it began to fade.

“Phew!”

A figure slowly emerged.

Li Yu exhaled dark breath, then coughed violently, blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

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