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Chapter 89 Human Power Against Nature

The sky over the grasslands can change in an instant; one moment it's a sky full of stars and a bright moon, and the next, it's filled with rolling dark clouds.

The wind suddenly picked up, and distant thunder rumbled, accompanied by flashes of lightning, creating a breathtaking scene.

Chu Ming, who was resting with his eyes closed in front of the fire, suddenly opened his eyes at this moment. His eyes flashed with a sharp light, which startled Bao Le'er, who was sitting opposite Chu Ming and secretly watching him.

"Brother Ming, what's wrong?"

Bao Le'er was still in shock.

"Changes in the flow of Qi, interaction between Heaven and Man—this is an impending calamity!"

Chu Ming muttered to himself, but he had no time to pay attention to Bao Le'er.

At this moment, in Chu Ming's mental world, it was as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had shattered. Endless shadows shrouded Chu Ming's heart, giving him an infinitely terrifying feeling, as if he were about to be destroyed at any moment.

Chu Ming knew that his tribulation of lightning had arrived!

In scientific terms, this is because his life magnetic field was too strong and unintentionally distorted and interfered with the magnetic field of heaven and earth, thus attracting lightning to strike him.

This is similar to the principle of a lightning rod. Compared to air, metal is more attractive to electric charges, so lightning will be attracted to it by a lightning rod.

Compared to ordinary people, Chu Ming's life magnetic field is hundreds or thousands of times stronger, and even the magnetic field of heaven and earth is distorted because of his life field.

Before Chu Ming had cultivated the state of forgetting himself and attained pure Yang in his mind, he would vaguely feel that he was going to be struck by lightning every time it rained.

At that time, he was still able to barely manage to harmonize his mind with the heavens and earth, preventing the lightning from striking him.

Now, with his cultivation of martial arts legend and awakening of his primordial spirit, his physical body and spirit have undergone another transformation. His life magnetic field has increased by more than tenfold. In addition, the true qi martial arts he cultivates are also extremely powerful and yang. The yang energy in his body is so abundant that even with Chu Ming's current spiritual realm, he is no longer able to harmonize it with the world.

At this moment, as the celestial phenomena changed and lightning emerged, Chu Ming's powerful life field acted like a unique lightning rod on this vast grassland, attracting lightning from all directions.

Chu Ming had only heard snippets of information in various boxing and Taoist scriptures mention that someone had cultivated martial arts to an unbelievable level, ultimately attracting divine retribution.

According to legend, when Bodhidharma achieved great mastery of martial arts in his later years, he was struck by lightning. After the lightning subsided, Bodhidharma was reborn and became young again, which later generations believed to be his attainment of the realm of immortals and Buddhas.

Unexpectedly, this kind of thing has now happened to him as well.

Of course, Chu Ming knew that his tribulation was not the kind of tribulation that one had to overcome to break through cultivation, as described in many myths and legends. It was simply because he was too strong now, so lightning struck him.

However, there is some truth to those ancient myths and legends; every now and then, those demons and monsters would be struck by lightning.

To explain this metaphysics scientifically, those demons and monsters cultivate negative energy and are filled with negative charges. On rainy days, when the positive and negative charges of heaven and earth converge, they turn into lightning. Those powerful negative energy bodies will naturally attract lightning.

Chu Ming, on the other hand, attracted lightning because his yang energy was too strong and his life magnetic field was too powerful. The underlying principles are similar.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Ming had covered nearly a hundred feet, his speed so fast that no one could see him clearly.

Although his speed was fast, it was nothing compared to the speed of the lightning attracted by his life magnetic field.

Even if Chu Ming were a hundred times faster, he couldn't possibly dodge lightning at its speed.

In the blink of an eye, a purple bolt of lightning crashed down, striking Chu Ming directly on the head. Accompanied by a loud explosion and a blinding white light, almost everyone present instinctively closed their eyes.

The power of lightning is terrifying; it is the true might of heaven, and its power is unfathomable. Even the Thunder Department martial arts that Chu Ming once practiced were merely borrowing the divine will of thunder, rather than truly controlling lightning.

But now, what is falling on Chu Ming is the real divine lightning of the Nine Heavens!

"Brother Ming!"

Seeing Chu Ming struck by lightning, Bao Le'er let out a cry of alarm.

The white light flashed by in an instant, and then Chu Ming's figure was revealed. At this moment, Chu Ming stood on the ground. The surrounding area was scorched black, but Chu Ming was unharmed. Even his clothes were not burned by the lightning. However, his once gray hair had turned into an almost purple color, with faint electric sparks flashing on it.

"Divine thunder descends from the heavens, bringing about the transformation of life and death, and harmonizing yin and yang—how wondrous, how wondrous!"

With his eyes closed, Chu Ming sensed the wondrous changes occurring within his body, down to the smallest details, as the lightning struck him, and couldn't help but laugh.

Originally, his yang energy was extremely vigorous, even to the point of harming himself. If it weren't for his strong essence and sufficient willpower, he would have probably gone into qi deviation long ago.

But at this moment, as the lightning struck, Chu Ming used the killing intent within the lightning to blunt the sharpness of his yang energy, and the life force hidden within the lightning to nourish his yang energy.

Lightning has always been an extremely mysterious thing. Even the first life forms were born from lightning. However, the power of lightning is too overwhelming for ordinary life forms to withstand.

Just as Chu Ming was speaking, the second bolt of lightning was also drawn towards him by Chu Ming's life magnetic field, like a sharp blade, about to cleave Chu Ming in two.

Faced with this bolt of lightning, Chu Ming remained unmoved, letting the lightning strike his head. After the lightning subsided, in the darkness of the night, every cell in Chu Ming's body seemed to radiate light, as if this bolt of lightning had triggered some kind of profound change within Chu Ming's cells.

"That's about enough. Too much of a good thing can be bad; adding another dish would be excessive!"

Chu Ming whispered, then suddenly raised his hand, his body surrounded by a gust of wind. Then, Chu Ming gathered his qi into a pill, and the void air was actually condensed into a white qi pill by Chu Ming's stirring and gathering!

Immediately afterwards, Chu Ming punched the sky, and the white Qi pill was launched out like a sword pellet, directly colliding with the falling lightning in the high sky, producing a huge explosion.

After this change, less than one-tenth of the lightning that struck Chu Ming remained. With the fall of that bolt of lightning, no more lightning struck Chu Ming.

Chu Ming stood quietly in place, focusing his mind inward, carefully experiencing the various changes he had undergone after experiencing the tribulation of lightning.

He was not injured. The reason for this was not that the power of the lightning was too weak, but that the lightning and his own yang energy were in harmony. If Chu Ming had not dispersed the third bolt of lightning in advance, but had let it fall, he would have been injured by the lightning in the end, given his vitality.

Too much of a good thing can be bad. Two and a half bolts of lightning were just right, ensuring that Chu Ming not only escaped injury but also gained considerable benefits.

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