Boom!

Dark clouds surged and lightning flashed in the sky.

A storm was raging, which was very rare.

Splash!

The Snake Monkey Island, the Land of Radiation.

Even in this weather, a naked man with heavy muscles was still bathing in the misty Radiation Hot Spring with his eyes closed.

To be able to enjoy the hot spring in the open air in a thunderstorm meant that the person was either out of his mind or very capable!

Apparently, it was the latter.

Because when the rainwater poured down onto his skin, it flew away before it made contact, as if it was “afraid” of the man.

And the water made no sound when it fell into the hot spring, as if it didn’t want to disturb the man’s bath.

However, the scene seemed to have infuriated the dark clouds in the sky.

Crack!

With the ear-splitting sound, the sky suddenly lit up, and a streak of lightning charged out of the cloud.

It aimed at the top of the man’s head like a dancing silver snake or a thunder sword coming down from heaven!

Boom!

The lightning arrived even before the sound.

Still soaked in the hot spring, the man was hit right in the head before he could even open his eyes.

Buzz, buzz, buzz…

But surprisingly, the thunder that could melt most metals didn’t even make a scratch on him.

The lightning turned into countless streaks of sizzling “silver snakes”, as if it was torn up by some invisible power.

After that, in a matter of seconds, the lightning was completely absorbed by the man’s well-tanned muscles.

Pa!

After all the silver lightning snakes disappeared, the man in the water finally opened his eyes, but they had turned completely silver in color.

Pop! Crackle!

Immediately after that, the thunder came back again.

A great amount of silver current rose out of his body, sweeping across the area.

The spring water also rolled and surged against gravity, pouring out together with the electric current.

In a split second, the area within 50m was entirely covered by the water and the thunder energy, and a lot of mud and plants were destroyed by the ferocious force.

It lasted for seconds before everything calmed down.

Thunder Power (Electricity Manipulation)

Level: Extraordinary Rank-9

Rarity: Perfect

Description: The superpower the master of the Twin Dragon Island gained after fusing the Radiant Hot Spring that contained enormous radiating energy.

If the players and natives of the Twin Dragon Island wanted to gain superpowers, they had to soak themselves for long periods in the Radiant Hot Spring at the risk of getting physical mutations. Moreover, the superpowers they gained in the end would be completely random.

But Ji Ye was a different story.

When his Fusion talent finished its Cooldown period six days ago, he directly chose the hot spring water in the Land of Radiation as the target of his Fusion because it had the highest radiation energy. In this efficient and self-selected manner, he had obtained a very powerful superpower—Thunder.

Today, he activated his talent again, absorbing the radiation energy that had accumulated these days after the hot spring was destroyed by the power of providence. That way, he was able to improve the superpower that he had named “Power of Thunder” to Extraordinary Rank-9, which was equivalent to the Flawless stage in martial arts.

This superpower mainly had to function.

First of all, it could absorb and release lightning, just like what it did earlier.

Since the Twin Dragon Island was sunny most of the time, and thunderstorms were very rare, it wouldn’t be very practical to absorb the thunder energy this way.

Luckily, because Elder Jiao had been pushing hard to develop the electric power system, it had already taken shape on the island. The active volcano in the Magma race’s settlement now worked as a thermal power plant, and the Silver Liquid Pool in the Metal Men’s settlement could generate electricity as well.

Because of that, Ji Ye didn’t need to worry about having no electric power to absorb.

More importantly, probably because of the impact the Fire Core had on him during the previous Fusion, Ji Ye realized that, even without absorbing the lightning directly, he could still transform his own cellular energy to the Power of Thunder.

And the other way around would also work!

It meant that, after gaining this superpower, he could even convert the electric power he had absorbed to True Qi!

Not only would it be simpler and faster than absorbing other people’s inner strength like the Northern Ocean Technique, but it would also avoid infuriating other people. That was why this superpower was given the Perfect evaluation.

Apart from that, the second ability of that superpower was to stimulate one’s body with the electric current to greatly boost the momentary physical strength.

The effect would make him stronger, faster, and quicker to react.

Ji Ye already had a very impressive explosive force before. When he burned the Flood Dragon Blood, he was strong enough to fight against heroes like Lu Zhishen, who had talents that could enhance their bodies.

With the additional Power of Thunder, his explosive force would be very rare even among the Extraordinary Rank-9 cultivators.

Of course, using both stimulants would exceed the limit of the human body. It might damage his cells and even create lasting damage such as broken blood vessels or shattered energy channels.

Because of that, although techniques such as “The Omen’s Disintegration” could grant one with a sudden surge of energy, it could only be used as a last resort.

But Ji Ye was different. With his Healing talent, he could cancel out the side effects.

“Moreover, Five Thunder Heavenly Spirit Technique works mainly with the thunder energy.

“Although the thunder in Taoism isn’t the same as the ordinary thunder, the two are somewhat related. I can try to make some improvement in my next Fusion.”

Ji Ye thought to himself as he walked out of the hot spring. The Dragon Aura had turned into a white mist, covering his private parts.

“But I won’t have enough time now. There are only a few hours left before the advancement test, and I’m very close to reaching the Flawless stage in the Dragon-Subduing Strike.”

Compared to the Yin and Yang Sutra, which was an inner energy skill one could make advancement on with one’s own understanding and a suitable environment, and outer strength art like the Dragon-Subduing Strike, which consisted of stances, was quite difficult to work on. Even though Ji Ye had learned all the theories and details with his Fusion talent, he still couldn’t make the final breakthrough.

By fusing all the energy of the Radiation Hot Spring, he was able to reach Extraordinary Rank-9 in his superpower in a very short time, but the hot spring itself was only an Extraordinary resource that didn’t involve any Transcendent power.

Both the thunder superpower and his True Qi needed to consume his own energy, so they were to some extent incompatible. Therefore, he hadn’t actually achieved the “Double Rank-9”.

To be absolutely certain, he had to raise the level of the Dragon-Subduing Strike, the Perfect Palm Strike.

“By deducing the stances behind closed doors is empty talk after all. The Greater Mastery is as far as I can get…”

Ji Ye frowned.

He had made advancement from Basic to Greater Mastery in the Seven-Sided Mantis Fist at the very beginning by cultivating with his EXP, and he didn’t hit any serious bottleneck.

But the final breakthrough was only made when he was in actual combat against the Extraordinary Rank-5 Forest Monster leader.

“Perhaps it’s time to make the leap of faith!”