Solar Power

"Solar... power?"

Cult Master Chi froze. As the leader of the Radiant Sun Cult, he knew everything there was to know about the sun, but what exactly did Young Cult Master Lu mean by "solar power"...?

"Going by the words themselves, does it mean the sun's energy?"

"Roughly speaking, yes."

Lu Yang suddenly changed the subject. "You said your Sun-Ascent Plan kept failing. I imagine it was only launched in recent years, and before that, you'd been studying the sun's power from a distance."

"If so, why are you trying to ascend to the sun to study it?"

Cult Master Chi sighed. "Young Cult Master Lu, you don't understand. Our research into the sun's power has recently hit a bottleneck, so the radicals proposed ascending to the sun for a closer study. But the sun isn't so easy to approach. Several Body Integration Realm cultivators have already been burned to death by it."

Lu Yang leaned lazily against the back of his chair, picking at imaginary dirt beneath his fingernails. "Your cult has some nerve. You actually dare to ascend to the sun."

"Do you know that the stars that once filled the sky were all phantoms? More than a hundred years ago, a peerless cultivator wielded an astonishing power to fill the places where those phantom stars had been?"

How could Cult Master Chi not know? The previous cult master had offered himself to Heaven over that very incident.

"That peerless cultivator is such a thorn in even the Heavenly Court Sect's side that we can barely handle him. And your Radiant Sun Cult dares to ascend to the heavens and investigate the sun? Aren't you afraid you'll cross his taboo and have him wipe out your entire cult in one fell swoop?"

Cult Master Chi broke into a