northernbook Chapter 1148 Thunder Bead
Chapter 1148 Thunder Bead
The crystal was pitch black, yet it emitted a warm glow that was incompatible with its surroundings. Nebulae seemed to be slowly flowing within it. Upon closer inspection, those nebulae were actually composed of countless tiny runes... When Liu Yang's fingers touched the crystal, a huge torrent of information flooded into his mind - this was the Core of the Abyss, a magical weapon condensed from the original energy of the Soul Abyss, and the core prop used by Su Qingyao to stabilize the spatial energy when setting up levels...
The unique feature of the Abyss Core is its ability to devour and transform soul energy... Liu Yang attempted to inject a trace of soul power into it, and the crystal instantly erupted with a powerful suction force, not only devouring the soul power he injected, but also actively absorbing the remaining abyssal energy in the space, and then feeding back to Liu Yang an even purer soul power...
Even more bizarrely, the Abyss Core can reflect the inner thoughts of its holder... As Liu Yang gazed at the crystal, the nebula within began to shift, revealing his past experiences, even some long-forgotten details... But unlike ordinary illusions, the Abyss Core does not trigger negative emotions. Instead, it allows the holder to examine their past from an outsider's perspective, thus gaining a clearer understanding of themselves...
What interested Liu Yang most was that the Abyss Core could resonate with his superpowers... When he activated Eternal Freeze, the nebula inside the crystal would condense into ice crystals; when he used lightning control, the nebula would transform into flashes of lightning; when he performed future deductions, the nebula would split into countless tiny bands of light, like branches of the future...
"Looks like a good harvest..." Liu Yang took the Abyss Core into his palm, feeling the immense energy contained within it... He didn't know that this core was refined by Su Qingyao using fragments of her own soul, originally intended to detonate at a critical moment, completely trapping the intruder...
Unexpectedly, under Liu Yang's absolute zero freezing, the core's connection with Su Qingyao's soul was severed. Instead, it absorbed Liu Yang's lightning energy and mutated, becoming an ownerless treasure...
Liu Yang looked up at the door leading to the 34nd floor, which had slowly opened... He weighed the Abyss Core in his hand, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Su Qingyao,... I really look forward to the moment when we communicate..."
With that, his figure transformed into a flash of lightning and vanished into the portal, leaving behind only the empty sixty-first floor and the still-melted ice crystals as witnesses of this leisurely journey through the customs...
The Abyss Core trembled gently in Liu Yang's palm, as if responding to the expectations of its new owner and foreshadowing even more exciting adventures in the future...
On the higher floors of the Tower of Babel, Su Qingyao looked at everything displayed in the crystal ball. For the first time, a solemn expression appeared on her delicate face. She realized that she might have underestimated this man with strange superpowers...
When Liu Yang appeared on the teleportation platform on the 62nd floor of the Tower of Babel, the ancient stone hall that was supposed to exist was instantly torn apart... The trial field that Su Qingyao had tailored for him unfolded in an instant - endless darkness like sticky ink, swallowing up everything in the world, even compressing his spiritual consciousness within a three-foot radius...
Thick white fog swirled beneath my feet, and every step I took felt like sinking into a bottomless quagmire. A faint creaking sound of bones rubbing against each other could be heard through the mist, as if countless pairs of eyes were staring at the intruder from the void...
Even more frightening was the lightning that pierced the darkness... Purple-blue electric snakes slithered through the mist like living creatures, sometimes transforming into a web-like barrier to block the path ahead, and sometimes condensing into thick pillars of lightning that crashed down... These lightning bolts were not natural phenomena, but energy bodies drawn by the formation, each one containing the power to rip apart a spirit... Su Qingyao had injected the "Mysterious Attraction" restriction into the core of the formation. The trajectory of all lightning would change with the movement of the intruder. The seemingly random slashes were actually hidden lethal moves, and the slightest carelessness would be shredded by the power grid...
Monsters are the true fangs of this layer... Hundreds of "shadow beasts" lurk in the fog. They are covered in obsidian scales, have claws on their limbs, and their backs are covered with bone spurs like lightning rods...
These creatures are completely invisible in the darkness, their claws slicing through the air only to gleam with a silvery glow when they attack... Even more problematic is their control over lightning. Shadow Thunder Beasts absorb ions from the air, condensing them into ball lightning in their mouths. Any creature struck by the lightning not only suffers paralysis from the current but is also instantly marked, drawing the siege of all nearby Shadow Thunder Beasts...
Hidden deep within the level are three traps... The "Inverted Thunder Pool" flips a ten-meter radius when triggered, transforming the ground into a void streaked with lightning patterns; the "Mist-Locked Soul Cage" condenses mist into a physical cage, its bars composed of compressed lightning, inflicting a backlash upon contact; and the ultimate "Lightning Purgatory" is Su Qingyao's ultimate move: when the intruder is within a hundred meters of the gate, the entire space erupts with billions of thunderbolts, creating a destructive storm that lasts for the duration of an incense stick...
Liu Yang stood at the edge of the transport platform, the hem of his black windbreaker gently blown by the air seeping out of the mist... When the first thunder boomed overhead, he didn't even look up, but simply extended his right index finger, a wisp of silvery cold air lingering on the fingertip...
The Shadow Thunder Beast's sharp claws had silently touched the back of his neck, and the sulphurous wind was almost licking his skin. But at this critical moment, Liu Yang's figure suddenly turned into ice crystal fragments on the spot...
"Too slow..."
An icy voice echoed from three feet away. Liu Yang's figure appeared as a flash of lightning pierced the darkness... In his left hand, he clutched a freshly frozen cone of ice, while his right gripped the Shadow Thunder Beast's still-twitching neck. The monster, attempting a sneak attack, was covered in hoarfrost, its limbs frozen in ice, unable to move. Only its eyes continued to roll in fear...
Liu Yang applied a slight force with his fingertips, and the ice spike accurately pierced the gaps between the scales on the Shadow Thunder Beast's head. With a muffled sound, the beast was completely transformed into an ice sculpture, and then he casually threw it into the mist...
He didn't fight blindly. Instead, he began to deduce the future the moment he stepped onto this level... Countless possible paths flashed through his mind: three shadow thunder beasts were lying in ambush seven steps to the left, twelve feet ahead was the trigger point of the inverted thunder pool, and the frequency of thunderstorms coming from the northwest hinted at the location of the mechanism's core...
A faint blue light flickered in Liu Yang's pupils. Those intersecting future images automatically filtered like flowing water, finally settling on the optimal solution...
&34;Ka-la—&34;
Another shadow thunder beast leaped out of the mist. This time, it had learned its lesson, and while launching its attack, it released a ball of lightning... However, Liu Yang's teleportation was faster than lightning. His figure disappeared the moment the ball of lightning exploded, and when he reappeared, he was standing behind the monster...
He pressed his right hand against the Shadow Thunder Beast's back, covered in bone spurs. The power of eternal freezing surged madly along the point of contact. The creature, originally surging with lightning energy, was instantly frozen into a crystal-clear block of ice. Even the current flowing through its body was frozen into beautiful ice flowers...
Facing the incoming electric net, Liu Yang didn't even bother to dodge... He raised his hand and clenched it towards the void. The purple-blue lightning seemed to be grabbed by an invisible hand and twisted into a spiral in his palm...
His ability to control lightning was fully demonstrated at this moment—not only was he immune to damage from electric current, he could also transform the opponent's attacks into his own weapons...
With a flick of his wrist, Liu Yang's tamed lightning transformed into several precise beams, which shot like shotgun bullets towards the shadow thunder beasts hidden in the fog. After a few shrill screams, several charred corpses appeared in the darkness...
Through future deductions, he had already seen through the patterns of the Mystery Guidance... Whenever a footstep landed in a specific direction, the surrounding lightning would gather along a fixed trajectory...
Liu Yang deliberately stepped on the trigger point. As dozens of lightning bolts gathered around him like venomous snakes, he suddenly unleashed a large-scale freezing... Silvery-white cold air erupted from him, freezing all the lightning bolts in mid-air, forming a crystal-clear barrier of lightning and ice...
The Shadow Thunder Beasts hiding behind the barrier hadn't reacted before they were cut off from view by the sudden ice wall. By the time they broke through the barrier, Liu Yang had already teleported a hundred meters away...
The process of breaking the inverted minefield was even more relaxed... When the ground beneath his feet began to spin and space began to distort, Liu Yang didn't panic at all... He slightly separated his feet, and a hexagonal ice barrier instantly formed around his body. No matter how the outside world turned upside down, the space within the barrier remained stable...
At the same time, he formed seals with his left hand, directing the surrounding lightning to reverse its course. Under his guidance, the energies that would have torn apart space collided and canceled each other out. The mechanism that would have taken half an hour to quell was completely destroyed in three minutes...
While trying to break free from the Mist-Locking Soul Cage, something unexpected happened... Liu Yang had intended to freeze the cage bars, but he hadn't anticipated Su Qingyao's hidden plan within these lightning bars. The moment the ice and lightning came into contact, the cage erupted in a blinding white light, and all the frozen lightning energy instantly compressed, forming a walnut-sized bead...
This bead is a chaotic color, with its surface covered with constantly moving golden lines. It looks neither like metal nor jade, and it feels warm in the hand...
The most peculiar thing is that the inside of the bead seems to contain a miniature thunderstorm nebula, with countless tiny lightning flashes and disappears in it, and occasionally you can see a light and shadow similar to a human face flash by...
Liu Yang initially thought it was the remnants of a mechanical explosion, until he probed a trace of his spiritual power into it and discovered its magical power... The bead contained extremely pure space-time lightning energy. When he injected the power to control lightning, the golden lines began to flow in reverse, and the flow of time around them seemed to slow down.
When he activated his teleportation ability, the bead would vibrate slightly, guiding him to the weakest point of the spatial node...
The moment the beads touched the future prediction, a strange change occurred - the originally clear trajectory suddenly became richer, and even some hidden futures that were previously overlooked could be seen...
Liu Yang instantly understood that this was a magical weapon that could interfere with the fate line. When the formation mechanism designed by Su Qingyao collapsed, it happened to resonate with his lightning control ability. By chance, this fate-defying lightning bead was condensed...
With his newfound magic weapon, he was even more powerful... Utilizing the Lightning Orb's spatial perception, teleportation became even more precise, even capable of penetrating the Shadow Thunder Beast's invisible barrier... Facing the final lightning inferno, Liu Yang chose not to withstand it head-on, but instead tossed the Fate-Defying Lightning Orb into the air...
The chaos-colored bead shone brilliantly in the thunderstorm. The lightning that was about to tear him apart suddenly changed direction and circled around the bead as if in worship...
Su Qingyao's carefully planned killing move had become a source of energy nourishing the magic weapon... The golden lines on the surface of the lightning bead grew brighter and brighter, eventually transforming into a pillar of light that pierced through heaven and earth, completely dispelling the darkness and fog of the entire 62nd floor...
When the light faded, Liu Yang was standing in front of the portal leading to the 63rd floor... He played with the Fate-Defying Thunder Orb in his palm, a faint smile on his lips... The level that Su Qingyao had painstakingly set up ultimately became his stepping stone...
As for those shadow thunder beasts still struggling to survive in the fog, he had already completely forgotten them - in the face of absolute strength and wisdom, these obstacles were nothing more than scenery along the way...
The portal slowly opened, revealing an even deeper darkness beyond... Liu Yang stepped in without hesitation, the Fate-Defying Lightning Orb pulsating gently in his palm, as if anticipating the next adventure...