Chapter 4713 — Struck by Lightning
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But this time it was not one bolt of black lightning that fell from the sky, but dozens at once, plowing the whole of the Heavenly Dao Mountain end to end; the ancient battlefield, already strewn with corpses beyond counting, was in an instant given over to a fresh crop of the dead.
And at the very moment the black lightning wrought its annihilation, Wei Zhao suddenly began to tremble from head to toe. Whether it was delusion or truth he could not say, but he felt as though one of those bolts had struck him; even now, turning his gaze inward, he could clearly see terrible currents running wild through every part of him, his bodily functions collapsing in an instant, every trace of sensation vanishing utterly.
His mind went blank. Apart from his primordial spirit, his physical body had been blasted away for no reason at all. Did that make him dead?
"Dead? What kind of death is that supposed to be?" The ghost thing's sneering laugh rang out suddenly in his mind. "If that counted as dying, I'd have died a hundred and eight thousand times over by now."
"Huh?" Wei Zhao gave a start. His whole mind had been sunk in that fragment of memory, and he had never expected the ghost thing to come barging in; he asked at once, "Then what is this? Why does it feel like this whole body isn't mine anymore?"
"I don't know where a brat like you got the luck, but you've actually caught the fancy of a top-tier sea beast. That's a stroke of fortune out of the heavens!" The ghost thing's tone carried a note of disbelief.
"Fortune out of the heavens? What's that supposed to mean?" Something stirred in Wei Zhao's heart at the words. His body being utterly out of his control was indeed enough to make his blood run cold—struck by black lightning for no reason at all, and now this so-called stroke of fortune? Where did that come from?
"You still don't get it? You merely inherited a fragment of memory in your sea of consciousness—do you think under normal circumstances lightning would come along and strike you?" The ghost thing, keeping him in suspense, answered with a question of its own.
"That… no, normally it shouldn't…" Wei Zhao shook his head. The situation was somewhat like watching a 3D movie, now that he thought about it—there was a feeling of things popping out of the screen.
"Which is why I call it a stroke of fortune and destiny. I suspect that when you met that electric eel before, its lingering obsession left a trace behind, and that trace has now resonated with this one, giving rise to the phenomenon…" the ghost thing conjectured, lost in thought.
"Then this is just plain bad luck for me, isn't it? Even if I took no real harm, getting the fright of my life counts as a stroke of fortune out of the heavens?" Wei Zhao was speechless. So it was because he had picked up a lightning-attracting array that the scenes in that memory fragment had been projected into reality—a calamity out of nowhere!
"You brat, you really don't know when you're well off. Last time weren't you sighing that you never truly obtained that electric eel's inheritance? Now you're given the chance and still not satisfied?" the ghost thing snorted.
"What? Senior, you mean—just because it struck me like that, I can obtain its inheritance?" Wei Zhao was both startled and delighted. That giant electric eel was in no way inferior to the Five Poison Flood Dragon. That scene just now in particular had made him tremble to the depths of his soul. If he really could obtain its inheritance this time, wouldn't that mean mastering a heaven-defying killing move to rival the Five Elements Killing Qi?!
"I only said it's possible. It depends on your luck. I needn't waste words—just examine the state of your body and you'll know," the ghost thing said.