Chapter 89: A Corpse (Extra Chapter for Tips)

"Bzzzz~"

What surprised me even more was that the thin bolt of lightning stayed connected to my forehead. The burning pain from the scorch wound spread from between my brows, then suddenly snapped off!

"Zzt!"

"Ugh..."

"Ah..."

Gritting my teeth against the searing pain between my brows, I forced myself to endure it and reached up to touch the spot. Damn it, was my face disfigured?

Fortunately, there didn't seem to be any burns. My body had even regained a little strength.

The voltage was too high. I couldn't absorb much of it; more than ninety-nine percent had poured into the ground around me. Black lines crawled wildly across the earth. With me sprawled at their center, it looked like I was lying in the middle of some strange spell formation.

"Damn it... I'm not cultivating immortality, so why the hell did you strike me?"

Gritting my teeth, I glanced up at the dark clouds. I'd recovered a little strength, but I still couldn't feel anything below the waist. Supporting myself on my upper body, I rolled over and lay on my back. The heat of the burn still lingered on my forehead, and the pain made my eyelid twitch from time to time. But an even worse pain was coming from my abdomen... right in the middle. My navel was gone, and there was a fist-sized hole I could see straight through to the ground.

A through-and-through wound. A large splash of blood had sprayed across the ground behind me. It had turned black, and it looked like it had been there for a while. Even the rain hadn't washed it away; it was still so vivid, all dried and caked to the ground.

My throat was painfully dry. I opened my mouth to the sky and let the