The orb of lightning was several feet across, and it glowed with such brightness that it was hard to look at. It washed the rest of the hollowed-out cavern with its blue glow, making it look quite incredible.
Nine trails of lightning flowed out of the orb like small rivers. They pierced through the ground in various different parts of the hollowed-out chamber, seemingly flowing to other parts of the Thunder Realm. Although he was standing at the very edge of the hallowed-out chamber, John could feel the incredible potency of the lightning sphere.
A weaker disciple would have already been overwhelmed by its power, and some may have been gravely injured just by entering this cavern.
'This sphere is already so overwhelming just standing here, and I can tell that more than ninety percent of its power is being sent elsewhere through those lightning streams. Just how incredible is this lightning orb? Does it power this entire lightning realm?"
John could only muse on that last point, but figured it was a fairly good guess as to what this lightning sphere was. It was like a power-core for the entire realm, which allowed for the clouds above the realm to spew out powerful lightning in perpetuity, and also powered the other various parts of the realm.
An excited yip left Kirii's mouth, and he quickly dashed forward towards the lightning sphere in glee.
"Hold on a minute," John called out as he grabbed Kirii by the tail, stopping him from moving forward. He could tell that Kirii was attracted here by the lightning sphere and wanted to obtain it. However, it was far more powerful than anything Kirii could withstand, and John did not want Kirii to get hurt.
"We'll have to take this slowly," John said to Kirii, who sulked after hearing that but remained in place and followed John's instructions.
His gaze shifted back onto the lightning sphere, which continued to glow with absolute brilliance. Although most of the power was contained within the sphere and the lightning streams, a small amount leaked out amongst the rest of the cavern, basking it with smaller and less powerful lightning strikes.
However, this lightning was still incredibly powerful, and was even powerful enough to harm John. A sigh escaped John's lips as he looked forward, and he shook his head in self-pity of the pain to come. With such an opportunity before him, he knew what he had to do. He had done so within the Elysian Lightning World, and knew he had to do so here again.
'Is cultivating the Celestial Lightning Script seriously going to be an endless loop of excruciating painful cultivation after excruciating painful cultivation? Is this the price to pay for forcibly making a Lightning Attribute Body?'
While he was not looking forward to the incredible pain to come, John knew he had no other choice. It was either cultivate the Celestial Lightning Script to its utmost, or die in his next tribulation.
A piece of jade suddenly appeared in his hands as he attuned his mind to it. He took a deep breath and steadied his mind before proceeding forward towards the sphere. The flickers of lightning slammed onto his body, as well as Kirii's as they approached.
Although fine at first, John's skin began to char as he got closer to the lightning sphere, and soon the lightning began to rampage wildly within his body. He grit his teeth in silent pain as he allowed the lightning to rampage within, while he started channeling the principles of the Celestial Lightning Script.
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"Why the hell is this fog so fucking thick?" an exasperated cry boomed out from Adam as he kicked a nearby rock. The rock shot off into the fog, disappearing from sight as Adam sat on the ground in an exasperated manner.
"Where the hell is John anyways? Shouldn't he have already found us alrea-…ah forget it. He must be even more lost than me within this fog," Adam grumbled. "Oh well, I need to find John and Chase somehow. That bitch Iris can get lost for all time for all I care."
A few seconds later, a rock suddenly pierced through from the fog unexpectedly and slammed into his forehead with great force.
"Gah!" Adam cried out in pain as he was unable to dodge in time. He flew backwards for a short distance before coming to a stop. He groggily rubbed his head in pain and slowly stood up as he looked towards the direction the rock had come from.
"Who's there!" Adam exclaimed in panic and fear but received no answer.
He rubbed his head in frustration as an item suddenly appeared in his hands. It was a box made of some sort of metal, around one foot on each side. There were incredibly rune markings on the outside, and the top of the box was made of four triangles that met in the middle and closed off the top.
He took out the same platform object from earlier in the labyrinth and sat on it as he calmed his mind. A large pile of spirit crystals, numbering in the hundreds of thousands suddenly appeared next to him, also on the platform he took out.
The formation ran on the platform below him and the box in his hands began to glow as he started channeling his Qi into it. At the same time, a faint rune light pierced through the shoulders of his robes, clearly from the formation disks embedded into his shoulders.
"I didn't want to use this exhausting and expensive formation, but I guess I have no other choice. Find the way forward for me, as well as where that rock came from. If I can find John and Chase, even better! It'll be an opportunity for me to once again prove how awesome I am hahaha."
As soon as he said this, the top of the box opened outwards as hundreds of small orbs no more than a centimeter across shot out.. They hovered before Adam for a moment before each shot off in a different direction, seeking out the truth of the foggy room.