The Way of the Dao

"Are you Chinese?"

Lan Yi spoke in Mandarin, his accent a perfect Tianjing dialect, unlike the stiff pronunciation of Dongyang people who couldn't distinguish between R and L. Tadokoro Koichi's face, like a chameleon's, turned ashen. His attitude instantly shifted from respectful to disdainful and angry.

What if he was tall, handsome, and had an extraordinary bearing?

If his mother country was trash, then naturally, he would be looked down upon.

He had actually been so respectful to a Chinese person just now. If this got out in Puhai, he would be laughed at by his peers, especially since he was desperately trying to integrate into the Ocean Trade Club recently.

"That's right, I did just call you the 'Sick Man of East Asia,' but you're very tall, so don't feel offended."

His attitude was completely different from before.

Tadokoro Koichi's tone immediately became impatient, and his gaze towards Lan Yi was somewhat unfriendly. Of course, it was only somewhat unfriendly for now, because Lan Yi's short hair, well-tailored shirt, and obviously educated demeanor made Tadokoro Koichi decide to investigate further before making a fuss.

But Lan Yi, who had already been offended, clearly had no intention of waiting to make a fuss.

He slowly raised his hand, spreading his five fingers towards the Dongyang man.

This Tadokoro Koichi had some nerve. Lan Yi hadn't seen someone so arrogant in front of him for a long time, so he decided to give him a proper burial.

Almost instantly.

Tadokoro Koichi's pupils contracted sharply, and the Dongyang woman beside him gasped with her mouth wide open in shock. It wasn't just them; the porters, drivers, gang members, constables, merchants, and foreigners coming and going near the dock all widened their eyes in unison, stopping their actions.

Lan Yi's short black hair instantly transformed into a strand of eerily writhing, snow-white, flowing hair!

Destiny Cluster [Cang Hua].

Location: Hair. Ability: As fine as spider silk, peerlessly sharp, controls magnetism to turn evil, seals divine abilities.

[Cang Hua] is one of the seventy-two Destiny Clusters required for the Destiny Diagram [Nine Heavens Responding Primordial Treasury], and it is also a Destiny Cluster that Lan Yi possesses. When the psionic energy supply is sufficient and the knowledge of Taoist arts is full, [Cang Hua] is enough as a material for casting Taoist arts to handle most situations in this world.

If driven by Lan Yi, in the eyes of 1909, it was like a demon god!

Lan Yi's fingers moved slightly, and a thin strand of white hair detached, rotating and landing in his palm. This strand of white hair instantly connected its ends, forming a rapidly rotating ring. This white ring spun stably at high speed, transforming into a mass of superfluid plasma, emitting a dazzling light comparable to the midday sun!

Shenxiao Peak Taoist Art - Palm Thunder.

An introductory Taoist art from a sect leader in an Artificial Divine Realm, it was now unleashed by Lan Yi in a modified form, with its power amplified a thousandfold!

BOOM!!!

Like heavenly thunder and lightning, it roared! Everyone within a thousand-meter radius was incapacitated and terrified, collapsing to the ground! Their minds went blank, like startled quails, not knowing what to do!

As the dazzling white light flashed, everyone's vision went from extremely bright to extremely dark and then back to normal. By the time they, with tears streaming down their faces, managed to see the scene before them, they immediately went from sitting to kneeling.

Tadokoro Koichi stood in place, completely unharmed.

Lan Yi lightly flicked his hand, then blew a breath at Tadokoro Koichi.

Whoosh~~

Immediately, Tadokoro Koichi, who was unharmed a second ago, turned into white ash, disappearing without a trace like a character in a comic who petrifies and then weathers away. The Palm Thunder didn't even affect the Dongyang woman holding his arm. The Dongyang woman let out a piercing scream and, in a panic, jumped into the river.

Lan Yi was very satisfied.

Although he had lost many Destiny Clusters, this body only retained the basic psionic energy furnace, and even his cultivation progress had been pushed back to the starting point. However, this did not prevent him from casting high-power Taoist arts. The power of geomagnetism was at his beck and call!

"The Thunder God has appeared!"

"An immortal has descended!"

"Grandpa Thunder God, please strike down these foreign devils!"

"Immortal bless us, strike down those beasts!"

"Heaven has opened its eyes, Heaven has opened its eyes!!"

The thunder was more direct than any trickery or magic performed by traveling Taoist priests, and the killing was more direct than any curse from a shaman or medium. Let alone in this era of widespread ignorance, even in modern times, people would hail immortals. At this moment, a vast crowd within a thousand meters knelt down, and not only knelt, but kowtowed repeatedly.

Their kowtows were so loud that some heads were broken and bleeding, their flesh and blood blurred. Many people who had been numb and lost moments before instantly became fanatical.

They hated it!

Losing their sovereignty and national dignity! Treated like pigs and dogs! Foreigners acting atrociously on their own land, let alone robbing their property or defiling their wives and daughters, even killing people would go unpunished! Those who could bring justice had long had their spines broken, becoming good dogs that bit people!

"Let me think about what other Taoist arts would be suitable..."

Lan Yi ignored the voices around him revering him like a god and looked at the ironclad ships on the river near the dock, which were already maneuvering and turning their cannons.

There weren't many Shenxiao Peak Taoist arts that could be used to directly destroy ships at the moment.

"Yes, I'll use this one!"

Lan Yi's expression brightened.

The eerily swaying white hair detached once more. This time, the strands of white hair did not fall into Lan Yi's hand but were suspended behind his head by magnetic force. The hair connected end-to-end, easily forming a ring and beginning to condense into a more complex circular structure.

Within the ring were very thin layers of cavities. Each cavity was controlled by [Cang Hua]'s magnetic rotation, maintaining powerful electrical energy like an energy crystal. When needed, all it took was for Lan Yi to control [Cang Hua] to break the electromagnetic balance and release it.

Using the psionic energy of the basic psionic energy furnace to leverage the psionic energy of light, fire, earthquakes, landslides, electromagnetism, and cosmic rays in the world was a compulsory course for every psionic cultivator.

Electromagnetism and magnetism were inseparable.

Ninety-nine percent of the phenomena in this world could be explained by electromagnetic force or magnetic field rotation.

Two bolts of lightning struck out from the crystal ring.

One struck the ground of the dock, shattering the bricks and exposing steel rebar. Another hit the river, instantly ionizing a large amount of water vapor.

"The current instantaneous output power is too much for [Cang Hua] to handle, so I'll use electrochemical agents instead of electromagnetic propulsion. Since there are no psionic cultivators interfering, the substitute effect should be about the same," Lan Yi muttered to himself, his hand movements, used for auxiliary control, speeding up.

The steel rebar, melted by the high resistance of the current passing through it, formed iron balls the size of lychees. The ionized water vapor was further compressed and heated by the current, rushing towards an ionized state in a vortex!

Lan Yi even began to levitate in mid-air!

With a flash of white light in his eyes, Lan Yi waved his hands, and in an instant, blue electrical arcs flashed behind him. The violent electromagnetic force was injected into the ionized water vapor, erupting in propulsion! The iron balls, electromagnetically fixed by [Cang Hua], hurtled towards the ironclad ship a kilometer away at ten times the speed of sound!

Nansheng Sect Dao Technique - Steel Armor Divine Thunder (Imitation).