bioinnovel Chapter 4: The Gun Fires Like Thunder, Thunder Shakes the Sky
Chapter 4: The Gun Fires Like Thunder, Thunder Shakes the Sky
A glint flashed in Lin Yuan's eyes. He gripped the gun barrel tightly with his right hand, and poured the lightning-type supernatural power that he had been suppressing into the gun without reservation.
A blinding flash of lightning appeared at the tip of the spear—though faint, it was enough for that instant.
At the same time, he gently clenched his left hand at his side.
The surrounding air distorted silently.
The roar of the armored bull suddenly slowed down, as if an invisible hand had held it back, slowing it down by a full beat.
Lin Yuan's speed, however, remained unchanged—no, it was even faster than usual thanks to his lightning-type ability.
In a split second, the spear tip had already pierced the throat of the armored bull.
Lightning exploded.
The massive body of the armored bull crashed to the ground.
[Defeat the Tier 1, Level 4 Armored Bull Monster, +35 Ability Points]
Lin Yuan drew his spear, wiped the blood off the tip, and turned to look at Zhao Tianyu and the other two.
Zhao Tianyu's expression was beyond ugly. He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.
A Rank F lightning-type "useless" individual single-handedly killed a Tier 1, Level 4 Armored Bull. Meanwhile, this Rank B fire-type "genius," with two helpers, couldn't even break through the monster's defenses.
"Things." Lin Yuan held out his hand.
Zhao Tianyu's face turned ashen, but under the watchful eyes of everyone—even if they were just his two lackeys—he had no face to lie.
He gritted his teeth, took off his storage bag, and pulled out a faintly glowing card from his pocket, tossing it to Lin Yuan.
"Walk!"
Zhao Tianyu turned and left with a livid face.
The two lackeys quickly followed, not daring to even look back.
Lin Yuan opened his storage bag and glanced inside—there were several demon cores and a few low-grade spirit herbs, which together could sell for two or three thousand Chinese yuan. Adding the B-grade ability card, he'd earned at least fifty thousand yuan on this trip.
More importantly, the remaining ability points on the system panel have increased to 153.
"That's enough."
Lin Yuan found a secluded crevice in the rock and sat down cross-legged.
[Consumed 100 Energy Points, cultivation level increased to Tier 1, Level 2]
A warm energy surged from the dantian and flowed through the limbs.
Lin Yuan could clearly feel his physical abilities improving—strength, speed, and reaction time had all increased by at least 30% from their original levels.
He had 53 ability points left, but he wasn't in a hurry to use them.
As night fell, the howls of various monsters echoed across the wasteland.
Lin Yuan leaned back on the rock, holding a spear in his right hand and spreading his left palm upward.
A slight thought.
The space above his palm rippled, and a small pebble vanished into thin air, reappearing on the ground three meters away the next second.
S-level spacetime ability.
Although it is only at the first level of the first tier, the range and duration of its influence are extremely limited.
However, combined with the spear technique of "Thunder Walks Through the Nine Heavens," it was enough for him to gain an absolute advantage in battle.
With time stop and lightning spear, even a Tier 1, Level 4 armored bull can be killed, so it should be no problem for monsters below Tier 1, Level 5.
Lin Yuan looked up in the direction of Donghai City, a smile playing on his lips.
There are six days left until the ten-day deadline.
The Su family wants to use an S-class superhuman to suppress him?
Then he'll show them what a real S-class is all about.
It was already late at night when we got back to the city.
Lin Yuan signed the exit record at the wasteland entrance registration point. The registration uncle saw the words "single" and then looked at the materials for the Ironclad Bull he was carrying on his shoulder, and remained silent for a long time.
"Are you really an F-rank?"
"Um."
The middle-aged man closed the registration book and said with a complicated expression, "Young man, come again often."
Lin Yuan smiled and carried the materials toward the trading market.
He sold the bone armor plates and horns of the Ironclad Bull for some Chinese Yuan, and with the items in Zhao Tianyu's storage bag, he finally had some money in his pocket.
On his way back to the old town, he made a detour to the bookstore on East Street and bought a copy of "Monster Compendium: East Sea Wasteland" and a detailed map of the wasteland.
Knowing yourself and your enemy is never wrong.
It was past midnight when I got home.
Lin Yuan took a shower, sat cross-legged on the bed, and opened the system panel.
[Host: Lin Yuan]
[Special Ability 1: Weak Lightning Strike (Rank F, Tier 1, Level 2)]
[Special Ability 2: Herrscher of Time and Space (S-rank, Tier 1, Level 1)]
[Special Ability Points: 53]
[Combat Skill: Thunderclap Across the Nine Heavens (Proficiency: Beginner, 0/200, can be improved)]
"The road ahead is still long."
But it's okay.
He closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into his body, beginning to solidify the realm he had just broken through to today.
......
Over the next few days, Lin Yuan's life became as regular as a precise machine.
I got up before dawn and left the city with a long spear on my back.
They fought from dawn till dusk on the wasteland. After dark, they returned to their small house in the old town, washed off the smell of blood, and then sat cross-legged on the bed to cultivate.
But his cultivation method is different from everyone else's.
After an ordinary superhuman awakens, the level and realm of their superhuman ability are linked—the level of their superhuman ability determines their realm.
Lin Yuan's situation is even more unique.
His F-level lightning ability and S-level spacetime ability are calculated separately.
Lightning type, Tier 1, Level 3; Spacetime type, Tier 1, Level 1.
This means he needs to spend twice the time and twice the resources to improve both paths simultaneously.
Normally speaking, this is absolutely a choice made by someone who's mentally ill.
Why not train an S-class superpower instead of an F-class "walking light bulb"?
But Lin Yuan discovered a secret that no one else knew.
When he broke through to the third level of the first tier of lightning last night, he felt his spacetime ability tremble slightly.
Although his level of mastery remained unchanged, his control over the power of spacetime was slightly clearer than before.
He verified it three times, and finally confirmed one thing—
His lightning-based superpowers are his "anchor".
The power of time and space is too elusive.
It does not belong to the material world and exists outside the rules. To master it, one needs extremely strong mental strength and a stable "coordinate system".
Lightning-based superpowers provide this coordinate system—lightning is one of the most violent and direct forms of energy in the world, and its very existence is a form of spatial positioning.
The stronger the lightning, the more stable the anchor, and the higher the upper limit of spacetime abilities.
In other words, his two superpowers are not parallel lines, but intertwined spirals.
The deeper one's F-rank lightning cultivation goes, the greater the power that one can unleash with their S-rank spacetime cultivation.
"I see."
Lin Yuan sat on a rock in the wasteland, a few strands of electricity dancing between his fingers, lost in thought.
No wonder the system gave me lightning-based gun techniques.
No wonder "Thunder Walks the Nine Heavens" requires lightning to drive it, yet it allows him to subtly touch the trajectory of spacetime.
The gun shot out like thunder, and the thunder stopped the sky.