Chapter 1456: Thunder Origin! Power Skyrockets!

Boom—!!!!

As if the first thunder of the universe's creation had exploded!

Not from outside, but bursting directly from the depths of Xu Jingming's soul!

Immediately, the blood-colored mist that had filled the gorge seemed violently churned by invisible giant hands, spinning wildly outward.

Not clouds gathering—but lightning descending!

Boom boom boom~~~

The sky over a hundred kilometers around suddenly blazed with countless darting, fine lightning serpents!

These lightning serpents were not the ordinary blue-white, but a deep, noble dark gold!

They did not move randomly, but followed an exquisitely profound pattern.

Interweaving and entwining, as if sketching a vast thunder array covering heaven and earth!

In the blink of an eye, the entire sky became an endless, boiling sea of dark gold lightning!

Within the Lei Hai, thick lightning serpents as large as dragons rolled and roared.

Fine lightning threads fell like rain, and countless strange runes formed from thunder flickered in and out, radiating a pressure of law that made all things tremble!

The cosmic thunder origin manifested here!

"Roar—!!"

"Howl—!!"

"Hiss—!!"

"......"

Within a hundred-kilometer radius, all beasts.

No matter their strength, no matter where they hid—in caves, swamps, or deep forests—now all let out terrified roars and wails.

Instinctive primal fear forced them to prostrate themselves, trembling uncontrollably, lacking even the courage to lift their heads and gaze upon that annihilating Lei Hai.

Some weak Star-grade beasts were instantly shattered by the overwhelming heavenly might of this origin aura, their livers and gallbladders ruptured, dying on the spot!

The brilliant Lei Guang was clearly visible to competitors over ten thousand kilometers away.

All turned in shock toward the sky, toward the center of the Lei Hai.

"Is this... origin manifestation?! Someone has awakened the thunder origin?!"

"Cosmic origin has descended—what terrifying pressure!"

"I wonder which faction it is—wow, so envious."

"......"

Countless gazes, across vast distances, turned toward the churning gorge of the Lei Hai, filled with indescribable awe and envy.

Domains, laws, origins, origin recognition—these are different stages of comprehending cosmic laws.

Generally, one must reach the Cosmic stage to awaken an origin.

Awakening one at the Star stage—even for the peak talents among Cosmic humans—is unquestionably a genius among geniuses.

And someone achieved this during the Beast Hunt Competition; naturally, they were filled with envy.

At the bottom of the gorge, the core of the Lei Hai.

Xu Jingming was utterly unaware of the outside world's shock and clamor.

He was now immersed in an unprecedented, wondrous experience.

After the point allocation completed, he felt his soul violently shake.

His combat merits in thunder seemed to snap free from invisible chains, leaping into a boundless new realm!

An unparalleled sense of power filled his entire body.

This was not merely a surge of raw energy, but a deeper level of control.

He clearly sensed a previously unattainable, intimate connection established between himself and the omnipresent thunder energy of the cosmos.

With a mere thought, the thunder within a hundred li became extensions of his limbs—easily directed, summoned at will.

He could even faintly perceive the aura of the far vaster ocean of thunder laws deep within the cosmic void.

"This is the thunder origin......"

Xu Jingming slowly opened his eyes.

Deep within his pupils, it was no longer simple flickering lightning arcs.

But two miniature, slowly rotating clouds of dark gold thunder, brimming with infinite mystery and majesty.

He exhaled slowly—and within that breath, faint crackling sparks of lightning flickered.

"Compared to the feeling of being rejected and erased by the cosmos while practicing the Source Core Scripture—this is a complete opposite extreme."

Feeling the cosmos's newfound affinity toward him, Xu Jingming could not help but sigh.

The Source Core Scripture can shatter life's limits and reshape the genetic origin.

Each step feels like challenging the cosmos's inherent rules, naturally drawing subtle rejection.

But awakening the thunder origin means aligning one's life frequency with a fundamental rule of the cosmos—naturally earning its favor.

"Come to think of it, last time I forgot to ask my teacher about the cosmos rejecting me for mastering the Source Core Scripture."

Xu Jingming shook his head, temporarily suppressing the doubt, "But it's still far until my next point allocation to the first layer of the Source Core Scripture."

After the Beast Hunt Competition ends, I'll find a chance to ask my teacher or Sister Ye Li."

He slowly rose from the smooth rock.

Crack!

Merely a trace of origin thunder power leaking out as he stood.

The black boulder beneath his feet—tough enough to withstand his thunder strikes for months without cracking—instantly spiderwebbed with fissures, then turned to dust.

Xu Jingming paid no mind to it; he stirred his intent slightly.

Crackling—

Brilliant golden Lei Ting suddenly swirled around his body, radiating a lethal threat.

"This lightning's power is at least five times greater than before!"

Xu Jingming instantly sensed the difference.

"This is merely the Lei Ting entering its origin; if the Destruction Dao reaches its origin, my lightning's power will be even stronger!"

Now Xu Jingming understood why Chi Huang and his group were so arrogant.

Mastering the origin at the Star Stage is truly peerless within the same rank.

"But he probably never imagined that I, too, have now entered the origin realm."

"The Lei Ting origin is complete; next, it's the Destruction origin..."

Xu Jingming slightly lifted his head, gazing at the golden thundercloud above the canyon, its fury subsiding but still radiating residual power.

He stirred his intent.

Ziiiip—!!!

A golden Lei Guang, denser and more brilliant than ever before, erupted suddenly!

His entire body transformed into a straight beam of golden Lei Guang, as if capable of tearing through space.

No need to deliberately flap his wings—merely through the natural fusion of origin-level Lei power and space, he achieved a speed far exceeding the former limit of his Thunderwing.

Clearly, the Lei Ting entering the origin realm had greatly enhanced Xu Jingming's entire arsenal of combat techniques!

Immediately, he shot toward a point in his spiritual sense where demonic beast energy was especially concentrated.

So fast was his speed that a long-lasting Lei trace remained in his wake, along with an excruciatingly sharp sonic boom cloud.

"In terms of strength, the Lei Ting origin, combined with the terrifying physique granted by the Star Core Lei Gang Body and the genetic amplification of the Origin Core Secret Scripture—"

"Even without yet comprehending the Destruction origin, I can still fight against a Star Peak powerhouse like Luo Li, who wields two origins—and I have a high chance of winning!"

Xu Jingming's eyes gleamed with sharp light.

This meant that, on this Blood Refining Star, save for a handful of prodigies, he could now crush nearly all other contestants!

But challenging and eliminating others now would be meaningless.

In the Beast Hunting Contest, points are primarily earned by slaying demonic beasts.

Eliminating other contestants grants only half their current points.

The contest is halfway through, and everyone's accumulated points remain modest.

It would be too wasteful of time to actively seek out other contestants for such meager points.

I can wait until the final month, when all contestants' coordinates will be displayed in real time on the leaderboard.

For now, the urgent priority is to hunt demonic beasts as efficiently as possible, accumulating more Origin Points to break through to the Destruction origin.

With his power having surged, Xu Jingming's efficiency in slaying demonic beasts will increase geometrically.

The remaining months should be more than enough to gather the Origin Points needed to advance the Destruction origin...