"You created a life-form capable of controlling the Lightning Element." "Current Main Quest completion progress: 21/30."
With nine achievements left, he would obtain that so-called "Immortal Soul." He had no idea whether the reward would truly be what he imagined.
Given the current state of modern technology, it could neither prove the existence of souls and spiritual entities nor directly disprove it.
"Lightning Element."
Yan Anqing was very interested in those four words.
Under normal circumstances, the word "element" appeared hundreds of times more frequently than "factor."
Moreover, whether it was the Western concept of wind, fire, earth, and water as the four foundational elements of the world, or the Eastern cycle of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, neither included "lightning."
Yet its importance to life was beyond doubt.
Without primordial lightning and the ancient ocean, life would never have emerged on Earth.
This question did not trouble Yan Anqing for long.
In the blink of an eye, it was suppressed deep within his mind.
Many things had no answers for the time being. He could set them aside for now and solve them immediately once the timing was right and the conditions were sufficient.
Obsessing over them and getting stuck in a dead end would only waste energy and kill countless innocent brain cells.
After finishing the core paper on Thunder Swamp Cells, Yan Anqing sent a copy to Jiang Xinyue and began casually browsing webpages and programs.
He left traces across highly specialized circles, forums, news sites, and gaming platforms.
He quickly discovered something interesting.
"Earth Ranking Tournament private registration channel..."
He came across it in a promotional ad on a fifth-level Steam subpage while searching for resources for an old game that had been taken down years ago.
At first, Yan Anqing thought it