At that moment, he released the other two treasures.
The second box opened on its own, revealing a dark blue seed floating in pure lightning energy, its veins glowing faint green; it was the Genesis Thunder Seed. The third box shook violently before bursting open, revealing a floating gray-white orb, spinning slowly like a tiny planet. Each spin sent ripples of thunder through space; it was the Chaos Resonance Orb.
As soon as both treasures were free, the pressure inside the golden domain grew many times stronger. The air became thick with raw lightning energy, so dense that cracks appeared on the domain's surface. The entire realm seemed to shake under the weight of the energy.
Shen Yi clasped his hands together, his energy sharply condensing.
The Primordial Art activated instantly; runes flickered around him like streams of lightning scripture, wrapping around his body and merging with the treasures' energies.
The Genesis Thunder Seed dissolved into a stream of golden jade lightning and entered his dantian. The Chaos Resonance Orb released countless shimmering lightning, each hitting his meridians like hammering thunderbolts.
Pain surged through him... deep, intense, yet exciting. His meridians expanded, muscles hardened, and his bones made sharp cracking sounds as they reshaped under the lightning's cleansing.
Within his mind, the lotus petals continued melting one by one, merging with his soul until all nine had vanished completely. And then… silence.
Only the rhythmic pulse of thunder remained.
The Primordial Art changed its path within his body, the old routes dissolving into newer, more complex ones. He felt his Dou Qi crystals particles becoming thicker, purer... heavier like tungsten metal.
"So this is… the next evolution," He whispered, his voice echoing faintly inside the domain.
"No longer Semi-Supreme. The Primordial Art itself… has reached the level of a true Supreme Art."
And then came the surge; his energy erupted like a volcanic storm.
The golden domain expanded violently, consuming the surrounding empty space. Rings of lightning stretched outward, burning everything within a thousand-mile radius of space.
One Star Dou Saint Achieved.
Two Star Dou Saint Achieved.
Three Star Dou Saint Achieved.
His power level climbed quickly, Dou Qi spinning into an unstoppable whirlpool. The golden color of his lightning deepened into amber, and faint arcs of gray lightning began dancing in the middle of his dantian.
The golden domain trembled but continued expanding, ten miles, a hundred, a thousand…
Four Star Dou Saint Achieved.
Five Star Dou Saint Achieved.
Six Star Dou Saint Achieved.
The entire space shook under the rising pressure. Even the void beyond began to twist, flickering with unstable energy waves. Every node in the nearby void trembled faintly, as if they couldn't endure the pressure of his energy might.
Seven Star Dou Saint Achieved.
Eight Star Dou Saint Achieved.
His veins glowed white-blue beneath his skin. Every cell within his body pulsed with life and lightning energy. His Dou Qi sea within his dantian raged like a storm-filled ocean.
Nine Star Dou Saint Achieved.
At that instant, the flow of power stopped. The Chaos Resonance Orb and Genesis Seed dimmed, their energy completely transferred into his body. The light within them faded like dying embers.
Around him, the golden domain stretched past one hundred thousand miles. Its surface rippled as lightning of various colors... red, silver, green, brown, blue, black, and gold... shot out from the inner walls, colliding in the center.
When they met, a new thunder was born.
A pure gray lightning!
Its color was dull yet terrifying. Its presence caused even the void itself to ripple and distort. The air became heavy and oppressive... as though time itself hesitated to move near it.
Shen Yi slowly opened his eyes, his pupils reflecting the swirling gray lightning before him. He reached inward with his senses and saw that inside his dantian, all of his hybrid lightning attributes... ice-lightning, wind-lightning, earth-lightning, flame-lightning, space-lightning, time-lightning... were coming together at a single point.
That point condensed into a tiny gray dot, barely the size of a sand grain, yet giving off an aura so dreadful that even his soul quivered.
His dantian vibrated violently, unable to withstand the pressure of the newborn energy. Yet, instead of collapsing, his body began to strengthen using the gray lightning released by this energy... meridians thickened, bones solidified, and flesh sparkled with thunder runes.
"Chaos Lightning…" Shen Yi whispered, holding his breath. A faint smile appeared on his lips, and he added, "So this is the essence of fusion… all elements returning to one origin."
The gray lightning pulsed, and a wave of chaotic energy flowed through him, cleaning every impurity that still remained in his Dou Qi. His meridians shone with alternating streaks of gold and silver, then dimmed as everything blended into that same dull gray.
"Very good," Shen Yi's voice deepened, filled with quiet satisfaction. "A few years of stability… and this Chaos Lightning will become my true lightning origin. Once it does… I'll break through Dou Supreme directly."
He closed his eyes again, focusing inward. The storm inside his soul roared, and the outlines of nine glowing figures appeared around him... his spiritual clones, each giving off powerful soul pressure.
Without hesitation, they moved at the same time, merging one by one into his main body. Each fusion sent shockwaves across the domain, and by the ninth merge, the entire golden realm was shaking uncontrollably.
The instant the last clone fused, Shen Yi's energy became completely silent... no longer bright or oppressive, but utterly calm. A stillness that contained infinite destruction.
He gazed at the massive ocean of gray lightning swirling in the middle of the domain. It was growing denser, forming slow swirling patterns, consuming the last bits of golden light around it.
"It's time to leave," Shen Yi murmured softly, rising to his feet.
With a single step, his body blurred into streaks of light and vanished. The moment he disappeared, the balance broke.
The gray lightning raged, expanding like a wild storm beast. Within seconds, it consumed the entire golden domain. The small realm shattered, its pieces swallowed by roaring chaos lightning. The explosion's shockwave silently rippled through hundreds of thousands of miles of empty space before fading away, leaving nothing but emptiness.
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