Chapter 820: You Should Feel Honored! Fusion of the Jiyao Thunder Ring!

BOOM BOOM~~~

Dark clouds churned across the sky, black lightning slithering through them like tiny snakes.

An extremely powerful aura was brewing within, as if about to erupt at any moment!

Xu Jingming had originally intended to rush forward and kill Gao Ka with a single spear thrust, but seeing this, he became intrigued.

Come to think of it, aside from Teacher Su, this is the first time I've fought a lightning-affinity adept at this level.

Xu Jingming's clear eyes held a faint burning battle intent: "I wonder—whose lightning is stronger, my Doushen Divine Thunder or his lightning affinity?"

The next instant,

Brilliant golden lightning surged from his body, roaring upward into the stormy clouds above!

Xu Jingming's action stunned Gao Ka for a moment, then he reacted.

The opponent was trying to use Doushen Divine Thunder to interrupt his battle technique's release!!

"Naive!"

Gao Ka's face was filled with contempt, "You think an SS-class ability is invincible?

Impossible! Don't forget—you're a full major rank below me!

That's a chasm you can never cross!"

Worried Xu Jingming wouldn't understand, Gao Ka deliberately mocked him in Daxia language.

The deep voice mixed with thunder, as if tearing the air apart!

"Is this really the number one prodigy of Blue Star? I overestimated you—you're actually..."

Gao Ka's dark face wore a wild, arrogant grin—but the next instant, his voice cut off abruptly.

Because before him, Xu Jingming's aura, suspended midair, suddenly surged!

His body swelled as well, rising from 1. meters to three meters in an instant.

At the same time, a crimson blood aura encircled Xu Jingming's body.

The once brilliant golden lightning now took on a tinge of crimson, turning into crimson-gold.

The aura radiating outward made Gao Ka's heart jolt—he felt overwhelming danger!

"Divine Blood Secret Art? Are you from the Sect of Destiny?" Gao Ka was stunned.

But after careful sensing, he realized Xu Jingming's aura wasn't chaotic like the Sect of Destiny's Divine Blood Envoys—it was incredibly condensed.

While he was still stunned, Xu Jingming extended a right hand like a dragon's claw toward the sky and gently clenched it.

BOOM BOOM!!!

Brilliant golden lightning instantly condensed in the sky, exploding with the brilliance of noon sunlight!

At that moment, the brewing dark clouds and black lightning scattered as if encountering their mortal enemy!

THUD!

Gao Ka let out a muffled groan; his mental energy became chaotic, causing the rotation of the black ring behind him to slow.

This was mental backlash from forcibly interrupting a technique's release.

But compared to the mental backlash, Xu Jingming's action shocked him even more.

To interrupt his SSS-class technique with pure ability alone—what terrifying suppression was this?

Keep in mind that

He was an eighth-rank peak elemental master; even another eighth-rank peak elemental master could only interrupt a technique's release with some probability.

No one could do it as calmly as Xu Jingming!

But when he sensed the divine aura radiating from the brilliant golden lightning sea in the sky, he immediately understood.

This was an ability gap!

This was absolute suppression of an SS-class ability over an A-class ability, even with equal mental strength!

Then the question arose—Xu Jingming was only seventh-rank upper tier; how could his mental energy be this terrifying?

"Even if you're practicing an SS-class mental refinement art, it's impossible to be this strong! What kind of monster are you?!"

Gazing at the powerful figure hundreds of meters away, drenched in lightning like a human Tyrannosaurus,

Gao Ka abandoned his earlier arrogance and revealed unprecedented panic.

Because he realized the situation had slipped beyond his expectations.

At that moment, a voice like a god's rang out ahead:

"You should feel honored—you are the first ability user to witness me in this form.

Your death will thus gain meaning! Divine Thunder Finger!"

Xu Jingming pointed his right hand at Gao Ka; a colossal golden lightning finger roared down from the sky toward him!!

"No!!"

Gao Ka pushed his black lightning to its limit, forming a terrifying thunderstorm zone around him!

The ring behind him spun wildly, layers of lightning barriers stacking over his body.

But before the Divine Thunder Finger, they were utterly useless!

The entire golden finger shattered every black lightning strand like dry grass before a storm.

Amid Gao Ka's screams, golden lightning like a nuclear blast swallowed him whole!

BOOM!!

A golden lightning mushroom cloud rose from the ground!!

When the lightning faded, the ground now bore a crater hundreds of meters in diameter!

At the crater's center, Gao Ka had been reduced to a charred corpse.

"An S+ class Divine Thunder Finger can obliterate an A-class eighth-rank peak. My power after breaking into seventh-rank upper tier is even stronger than I imagined."

Xu Jingming smiled.

Gao Ka was the strongest opponent he'd faced in the Ye Er Secret Realm.

Before this, he hadn't even needed to activate Thunderstorm Form—Thunder Extreme Form alone sufficed.

"It seems the more powerful SSS-class techniques—Heavenly Thunder Divine Punishment Sword and Thunder Star Spear—must be saved for those two S-class seventh-rank upper tier opponents."

Xu Jingming smiled.

He fired three or four more Heavenly Thunder Spells, confirming Gao Ka was truly dead before descending.

"Is this the second round of Jiyao Thunder Ring?"

Xu Jingming pulled the ring from beneath Gao Ka's corpse.

Even without Gao Ka's black lightning enhancement, the ring remained pitch black.

This was the Jiyao Thunder Ring's original color—his own ring was the same.

"S-class—this is Lei Shen's Jiyao Thunder Ring, and it should be the third of the five rings."

At this moment, Eva had finished scanning and confirmed the ring's authenticity, murmuring in wonder:

"I wonder where this black man dug it up.

During our Second Civilization era, we only found one."

The First Civilization era also left behind relics, but they were buried even deeper.

Even the advanced technology of the Second Civilization era failed to fully explore them all.

"Finding a second Jiyao Thunder Ring among five is already a good start."

Xu Jingming smiled, then asked with slight confusion:

"How do I use these two Jiyao Thunder Rings? Do I need to return and have a Weapon Master reforge them together?"

"This is a Perfect-class weapon. Do you know what 'Perfect' means? It means flawless in every aspect!

The metal used in the Jiyao Thunder Ring is extremely special—your Doushen Divine Thunder can restore them into one."

Eva giggled.

"That easy?"

Xu Jingming was surprised.

Still, he removed the Jiyao Thunder Ring from his back and overlapped the two rings.

Brilliant golden light flared as golden Doushen Divine Thunder enveloped both rings.

Then something miraculous happened.

The rings greedily absorbed the lightning; after about three minutes, the two rings merged into one.