Already too late

"Ahem, uh, you, mm..."

Tong Shan smiled awkwardly and tried to change the subject. "Made another... breakthrough?"

Ji Jue said nothing.

He raised two fingers and pointed them at him.

A fine strand of purplish-black lightning, like iron wire, emerged between his slightly parted fingertips, flashed once, and went "Biu!"

Tong Shan's vision blurred. The thirty-two layers of telekinetic barriers he constantly maintained around himself were pierced clean through in one strike—from outside to inside, then inside to outside. Sixty-four layers in total!

Effortlessly...

Now it was Tong Shan's turn to sweat.

What the hell was that?!

Ji Jue's Entropy Lineage creation hadn't been this absurd before. Its destructive power had still been terrifying, but it had remained confined to changes in properties and explosive output, without possessing such bizarre characteristics...

"Cry Out When Thunder Comes?"

Coming from a family steeped in Ether, Tong Shan understood at once, which only left him more bewildered. "Is that how Thunder Comes is supposed to work?"

Cry Out When Thunder Comes was a blessing chain spanning Celestial Origin, Entropy, and the Waste Ruins. Its essence lay in commanding the formless and giving it form, endowing energy with an impact proportional to its magnitude, so that ordinarily intangible lightning and flames inflicted physical damage equal to their magical damage.

Simply put, the higher the voltage and temperature, the harder it hit.

This was a handy little defense-breaking trick the Entropy Lineage's Chosen Ones had devised after suffering enough at the hands of the Waste Ruins' turtle shells. If they couldn't burn you to death, they would smash you to death; if they couldn't smash you to death, they could keep burning you.

But the point was, nobody had said this thing came with magic penetration!

"That's pressure, Brother Shan."

Ji Jue's smile practically billowed