Morning Dao Lightning Field

Also called Lightning Paragon Art (雷霆宝术)
Long Chen learns the Heaven Striking Five Lightning Rumble paragon art from this.
“First of all, we really didn’t know that such a thing would occur. According to reason, if the paragon art rune lost its effect, the entire Morning Dao Lightning Field should have collapsed. Although the death gate had a ninety percent chance of death, with your power, it wasn’t that dangerous, which was why we left the death gate to you.” Yan Nantian smiled bitterly. He really didn’t know what to say about Long Chen’s luck. With his power, obtaining one of the paragon art inheritances should have been easy, but he had almost died instead.
== Three parts ==
"Brother Long, there are three parts to this paragon art rune. The gate part refers to the gate of the Morning Dao Lightning Field. As long as you place your spiritual seal on it, you can control it. When you return to your world, you can open the channel to the Morning Dao Lightning Field," said Dragon One.
So this was the essence of a paragon art. Long Chen thought of how Xiang Yunfei had also connected himself to another world with his paragon art.
"This is the Sundering Lightning Heavenly Wings and the Wild Lightning Soul Battle Spear. Both of them are for use in combat and extremely powerful. However, controlling them is very difficult," said Dragon One.
=== Control ===
Long Chen reached out and pressed his palm against the paragon art rune. The thunderforce inside his body circulated.
Rumbling rang out, and the entire Morning Dao Lightning Field shook. The gate image lit up.
Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit suddenly came out of his head. It was forming hand seals. That wasn’t something that he was controlling. It was the paragon art rune that was transmitting information to him, and he was simply following it.
As he formed hand seals, a giant gate appeared behind him. The gate grew larger and larger, and lightning runes flowed around it. It was both sacred and wild.
“How is the gate so big?! This is just your first time!” exclaimed Dragon One.
According to reason, the first time someone opened this spatial gate, it would be very small and unstable. It would be unusable. But Long Chen had summoned such a giant gate on his first try.
What the drakes didn’t know was that this spatial gate’s scale was based on the strength of the user’s Yuan Spirit.
When Xiang Yunfei had used his paragon art, it had taken him a long time to activate it. However, as Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit was far stronger, his activation time was much shorter.
Opening this gate wasn’t very difficult. As long as his Yuan Spirit still had energy, it would be easy. 
The void cracked. The huge gate began to slowly open.
“Brother Long! You can’t open the gate here!” shouted the drakes.
“This gate connects to the Morning Dao Lightning Field. We’re already here. Opening this gate will break the laws here. You can only open this gate in your world,” explained Dragon One.
“These hand seals are what connects you to the Morning Dao Lightning Field. Try reversing the hand seals, and you’ll find that your gate will allow us to come out to your world,” explained another drake.
Long Chen nodded. This paragon art was really interesting, but it wasn’t too difficult. It was easy to control.
Dragon One seemed to see what he was thinking and said, “Opening the gate isn’t difficult. The difficult part is the speed at which you can open it and the scale. My guess is the reason you can activate it so quickly is due to the divine lightning and your Yuan Spirit. The previous humans found it much harder to open this gate. Another reason it was more difficult was because at that time, the gate was connected to our contractual runes, and we would naturally resist as we wouldn’t want a weak master. Many humans died like that because their Yuan Spirits were unable to suppress us. But now our contractual runes have faded, so it’s naturally easier to just open the gate. You should try the Sundering Lightning Heavenly Wings and the Wild Lightning Soul Battle Spear. Those are the true attacking paragon arts. Cultivating them is very difficult.”
“Merge your Yuan Spirit with the paragon art rune. Your Yuan Spirit should enter a special space where you can comprehend how to use the paragon arts. It will take you time to fully understand their profundities,” said Dragon One.
“How much time does it take?”
“Quite a bit. If you’re fast, two to three years. If you’re slow, five or six years. That bit of time is nothing to us, but we know it’s longer to humans,” said Dragon One.
These nine drakes were all very intelligent. They had followed multiple generations of human masters along with their silver drake king. They had some understanding of humans.
“That’s too long. I can’t wait that long.” Long Chen shook his head. No matter how strong the paragon art was, he couldn’t use two years on it. “I have another method.”
=== Lei Long ===
Long Chen pressed his hand against the paragon art rune, and the lightning dragon mark on his arm lit up. Lei Long flowed down his arm and into the rune.
“Hahaha, I really am a genius!” laughed Long Chen, extremely pleased with himself.
“You… you’re having your lightning beast learn the paragon art?” The drakes were stunned.
“Yup. It’s an innate lightning spirit, so cultivating lightning arts is easy for it. For it to learn it is the same as me learning it, so won’t that be much simpler?” Long Chen smiled brightly.
“Are you not afraid of it one day growing stronger than you and betraying you? It might even kill you,” said Dragon One.
“Betray me? No, that’s absolutely impossible. There will be no betrayal between us. It won’t betray me, and I won’t betray it. When your king wanted to devour it, to tell the truth, I wouldn’t allow it even if I died here. Lei Long can die for me, and I can die for it. It’s not a lightning beast, and it’s not a tool. It’s a comrade I can trust with my life,” said Long Chen.
The nine drakes didn’t say anything, but there were large waves in their hearts. They were tools created by experts, and they were born to be used. In fact, this entire Morning Dao Lightning Field existed to be used.
The successive generations of masters they had had also only viewed them as tools, so they naturally disliked the human race. However, they couldn’t help feeling that Long Chen was different.
Suddenly, space trembled, and light came from the paragon art rune. Long Chen’s expression changed as he received a message from Lei Long.
Within the rune was a terrifying divine pressure that Lei Long couldn’t resist. Long Chen hastily pressed his hands against the rune, and his Yuan Spirit charged into it.
Within the lightning sea, the silver drake slowly opened its eyes and watched as Long Chen’s Yuan Spirit left his body, leaving behind an empty body. It muttered to himself.
“Either he’s a genius, or he’s a remarkably alike idiot.”
With his Yuan Spirit gone, any of those lightning drakes could kill his physical body without the slightest effort. Then they could kill his Yuan Spirit as well.
What they didn’t know was that Long Chen had the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art and its sharp senses toward malice. He had the confidence to do something like this. Moreover, these drakes had no reason to kill him.
He also did this on purpose to show the drakes that he trusted them. Would they still not help him upon seeing this trust?
Three days later, the paragon art rune suddenly dimmed. Long Chen’s eyes opened, and there was lightning in his eyes.
“Hahahaha, the paragon art is mine!” laughed Long Chen.
Lei Long was a manifestation of lightning. For it to learn a lightning art was simple.
Once it learned it, with their spirits connected, Long Chen would also be able to learn it quickly. 
The best part though was that when cultivating within the rune, Lei Long had absorbed a huge amount of thunderforce from it.
Lei Long’s quality didn’t necessarily change, but now it had practically a limitless reserve of energy.
Long Chen knew that this energy was left for those inheriting this paragon art. Only when you possessed enough thunderforce could you unleash this art.
=== Studying ===
This paragon art required his essence, qi, and soul to cooperate fully with Lei Long’s thunderforce. There couldn’t be the slightest deviation from the correct process. Any deviation and the least of his worries would be failing to unleash the paragon art. In the worst case, he would be heavily injured or even die.
Back when Xiang Yunfei had unleashed his paragon art, the reason he had dared to unleash it was because it was left behind by his ancestors and was being activated with the help of the Heavenly Bone Spears. He had borrowed the power of his ancestors to unleash it.
For Long Chen, he had to rely on himself. His cooperation with Lei Long had to be perfect. Since he could tell that the Yin Yang World was going to be dangerous, he had to increase his power as much as possible.
== Obtaining ==
The nine drakes lined up behind Long Chen, while in front of him was the unimaginably terrifying silver drake.
“Sorry, I can’t die yet. Can I ask, if I obtain that paragon art rune, will you stop trying to kill me?”
“That’s correct. As long as you can obtain the rune’s recognition, you will obtain the recognition of the Morning Dao Lightning Field. We naturally wouldn’t be able to kill you. However, don’t be so conceited. After being enslaved once by your human race, I won’t give you a chance. If you try anything, I will immediately kill you.” A vast aura from the silver drake locked onto Long Chen.
=== Mirror world ===
Accompanied by the nine drakes, Long Chen slowly approached the core of the hourglass. It was where the hourglass was at its thinnest, its center.
Through Dragon One’s introduction, Long Chen learned that this Morning Dao Lightning Field was its own minor world.
It was the result of a supreme expert separating part of a major world, leaving only the purest thunderforce inside.
However, no energy could exist on its own, including thunderforce.
Thunderforce itself was also split into different kinds. The greatest attribute that differentiated them was actually Yin and Yang. This was something that Long Chen had never encountered before.
He had always thought that lightning was the most supreme Yang existence in the world. He had never heard of lightning also being Yin.
Amongst the Yin and Yang lightnings, there were over ten thousand different kinds of thunderforce, each one with its own specialties.
The lightning sources of the hourglass were one Yin and one Yang. The two energies were constantly mixing. This place was the root of this minor world.
== Story ==
“Because the odds of failure with the death gate are already very high, and failure essentially means death. As for the lightning paragon art, amongst all the paragon arts here, it is the most berserk. Other paragon arts have a ninety percent chance of death, but the lightning paragon art has 99.99% of death,” said the elder (Ancestral spirit).
It was that exaggerated? Long Chen shivered. The space here was filled with the air of death. Just how many experts had fallen here?
Those qualified to obtain this inheritance had to be the best of their generation. But even people like them had a ninety percent chance of failure. This was absolutely monstrous. However, considering that he had Lei Long, he felt some confidence.
The elder didn’t try to change Long Chen’s mind. He slowly rose and stepped into the illusory gate. Long Chen hastily followed.
Once he was through, he found that he was stepping on empty space. It was like he was walking through space. There were some faint stars in the distance, and they seemed very minute.
The elder formed hand seals, and the stars in front of him moved. A spatial channel appeared in front of him.
“Take nineteen steps forward and then turn right. Good luck.”
Long Chen followed the elder’s instructions, going through the channel that he had opened. He carefully counted his footsteps. On the nineteenth step, he turned to look back at the elder.
=== World ===
Long Chen had no time to consider his options. He took a step to the right. The space in front of him twisted, and he appeared in a desolate world.
This world was barren. Craggy stones littered the ground and continued beyond the horizon. This world could not be more desolate. There wasn’t the slightest air of life.
The sky was filled with mist and thunderous rumbling. Lightning twisted and turned in the sky. Its light was what illuminated the ground.
He looked around, but he didn’t see anything else. The only thing he could hear was the booming of thunder.
=== Beasts ===
The mist in the sky surged and split open.
Only now did Long Chen see that the lightning within the mist was endless lightning beasts. They had been sleeping, and the booming thunder was their snoring.
His shout had startled them awake, and they roared furiously as they charged at him.
A sea of lightning charged down. They were of various colors and forms, and Long Chen’s hair immediately stood on end. He felt an intense sensation of danger. Thunderforce covered his body as he smashed a giant flaming bird.
That giant bird exploded, but a wild burst of flames threw Long Chen off.
He killed more of these lightning beasts, and shockingly, they didn’t just possess thunderforce but also other kinds of energy that made it difficult for him to deal with them.
Long Chen suddenly recalled the Mammoth Primordial Spirit Beasts that Xiang Yunfei had summoned. If he could subdue these lightning beasts, wouldn’t this paragon art have the same ability?
However, his shouting was ineffective. These lightning beasts couldn’t understand him, and they continued to attack fiercely.
The most irritating thing was that after destroying them, they would quickly reform and attack once more. It seemed that they had undying bodies.
To be sure he hadn’t misread the situation, he hunted down a certain lightning leopard, killing it seven times in a row. It always recovered to full power in a short moment.
However, he also realized that these lightning beasts were most likely connected to this world. Within this special world, these lightning beasts would never die.
He couldn’t be bothered with them. He charged past, wanting to see this world. What was going on here? Where was the paragon art?
Wherever he went, the void would erupt and slumbering lightning beasts would be startled awake and attack.
More and more of them appeared until there was a sea of lightning beasts chasing Long Chen. This sea was constantly growing larger.
Long Chen turned back and his scalp turned numb. Against this many lightning beasts, even if they couldn’t kill him, they could exhaust him to death.
As Long Chen fled, he found that the lightning beasts were endless. After six hours, he didn’t even know how many tens of thousands of miles he had traveled. In any case, the lightning beasts filled this world.
=== Drake ===
He flew for three days and three nights. Although there was no way to determine day and night here, he knew it had been at least seventy-two hours.
At this moment, he finally noticed something odd. In the distance, there was a giant pillar of light.
He was delighted to see that, and he rushed over. However, when he got closer, he realized this was no pillar of light but a strange hourglass-like object.
A vast body of water had appeared here, and there was also a vast body of water above. They were mixing, with the water above flowing down and the water down flowing up. It formed a marvelous cycle.
Long Chen was stunned by this discovery. This sea of water was so large that it was impossible to describe. Even after flying for several hours, he hadn’t reached an end. There were terrifying lightning fluctuations coming from it, and it was actually entirely composed of the purest lightning essence. At this moment, he felt Lei Long roar within him. It felt a fatal attraction to this lightning sea.
Long Chen suddenly found that the lighting beasts had stopped. They were just roaring at a certain distance.
He then meets a lightning drake.
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