Chapter 915: Eating the Tribtion Lightning (2)


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    Shortly after Valefor swallowed thest trace of tribtion lightning, he immediately isted himself inside a secluded mountain cave in the Purpleme Territory.


    The Purpleme Territory had few visitors and fewer who could travel to many ces in the burningnd. Thus, he figured it was the best ce to bury himself in researching the power of lightning tribtion.


    The sooner he figured out how to effectively use it, the faster he would grow.


    Meanwhile, the Fifth Progenitor and the other high-ranking vampires of digold City were left behind to handle the aftermath of the heavenly devastation.


    Although many buildings were leveled to the ground and the underground sewage system became a wreck, the high-ranking vampires in city managerial positions didn''t mind the extensive city damage as much.


    Instead, they only felt fortunate that the casualties among the livestock were minimal.


    After all, they had already lost a significant amount of livestock in the previous battle between Abaddon and Hecate. The city couldn''t keep taking such big hits on their livestock count.


    It would seriously affect the flow of their blood currency and force a heavier blood restriction on their daily drinking limit. Even if the lower-ranking vampires didn''t want to follow it, they would have no choice but to do so.


    In times of droughts, humans had to conserve water, while vampires conserved blood. It was the natural solution to sustain themselves.


    Nevertheless, while the various demon races and humans worked together to clean up the city and restore their normal lives under the vampires'' direction, the scene of Valefor challenging the lightning tribtion was relived in their minds.


    The unforgettable experience was etched into their memories permanently.


    They didn''t expect their new ruler to be so powerful. Even something as powerful as the heavenly punishment couldn''t do anything to him.


    However, everyone also realized they didn''t know anything about the heavenly punishment. As such, the curious ones all visited libraries to look up whatever they could find on it.


    The Fifth Progenitor, in particr, was the most curious about the heavenly punishment. After all, he knew a bit about the heavenlyws and understood the heavens wouldn''t deliver heavenly punishment for no reason.


    As such, there had to be something extraordinary about the lightning tribtion.


    Valefor decided to research the lightning tribtion because he also felt it was something particrly extraordinary.


    After all, Gehenna was considered a low-rank realm; its mana quality was too poor to birth a Divine Lord ever in its long history. Yet, the lightning-attribute mana contained within the lightning tribtion was of the highest purity.


    Mana of the highest purity simply didn''t exist in Gehenna. Yet, the lightning tribtion was formed in it.


    One couldn''t help but wonder where such pure lightning-attribute mana came from. Considering how quickly the lightning tribtion formed, it could have been far when it was gathered. In fact, there was only one answer - it naturally came from the heavens.


    Mana was the manifested form of existential power, which was ever-present in all parts of Chaos.


    There was no absolute void in Chaos despite the seemingly vast spaces that could be found everywhere. The formless power of the Law of Existence was always around, whether beings were aware of it or not.


    ''It seems I can only give up on this idea,'' Valefor thought after deeming it was impossible to generate such pure lightning-attribute mana from the void of Chaos.


    Only the heavens could do something like that.


    No, maybe even the fabled Soul Masters, who were like the favored sons and daughters of heaven, could do it. After all, they were said to be capable of bending reality to their will.@@novelbin@@


    Something like drawing out the purest form of mana from the void didn''t seem like muchpared to that.


    Shortly after Valefor fiddled around with the tribtion lightning in his body, he quickly gave up thinking too much. He decided he would just absorb it the same way he absorbed ughter energy, ording to the first volume of the Asura Codex.


    Even though he had never absorbed such tyrannical lightning power for his cultivation before, it was still mana of the highest purity.


    Something like that was very rare to see in the entire Skymagia Star Kingdom.


    Moreover, Valefor''s body had already been tempered to amodate the power of the ck lightning after eating so much of it. His body was currently overflowing with it.


    Just the slightest bit of movement would cause electrical currents to discharge from his pores and escape.


    As such, the longer he dyed, the more lightning power he would lose.


    Unexpectedly, the moment Valefor refined ck lightning power and added it to his umted cultivation of blood and ughter energy, the new element mixed well. It did not conflict with the existing properties within his energy core.


    On the contrary, it easily worked with his existing properties to push his cultivation beyond the Peak Divine Knight level.


    However, Valefor did not reach the Divine Lord level; it was something in between, known as the Half-step Divine Lord level. Reaching this level implied bing a true Divine Lord was just around the corner.


    Only further time and consolidation of power were needed to reach it.


    Although Valefor had never reached the Divine Lord level in the original timeline, he was quite certain he was only at the Half-step Divine Lord level.


    This was because a Divine Lord had absolute control over theirws within a fixed domain. Unless they faced another Divine Lord or stronger being whoprehended the samew, no other being would be able to wield the samew against them.


    That was the authority of a Divine Lord-something Valefor felt he had yet to acquire despite sensing his Asura Law and Blood Law strengthening after the breakthrough.


    He also felt some control over the Lightning Law but it was still far from one worthy of a


    Divine Lord.


    Nevertheless, the results were still far better than what he had hoped for.


    "I did expect to gain something, but I didn''t expect it to be this great," Valefor muttered with


    delight.


    Although the advancement to the Half-step Divine Lord level was smooth and simple, it wasn''t the biggest benefit of absorbing the lightning tribtion''s power; it was increasing


    hiswprehension.


    Just by absorbing the lightning tribtion, he could automatically improve the


    understanding of hisws.


    How heaven-defying was that?


    Valefor figured such an envious benefit had to do with the fact that the lightning tribtion was formed by the heavenlyws and contained some of its secrets.


    Suddenly, Valefor didn''t mind getting struck by the lightning tribtion a few more times.