Thunder God

The Divine Realm was gone.

Yet the legacies left behind by the gods were everywhere.

There was no need to mention the Dragon Clan; they were all descendants of the Dragon God.

The same went for dragon-kin and Soul Beasts with dragon blood.

Besides them, the Thunder Hell Vine carried the bloodline of the Thunder God.

The Titan Snow Demon carried the bloodline of the Ice God.

Among the Spirit Pagoda's Qiangu Family's inherited divine artifacts, the Soul-Absorbing Tablet contained a wisp of the remnant soul of Medusa, the Third-Class Deity known as the God of Sin.

Mu Han now possessed the Power of Faith,

and though he lacked Yun Ming's method for condensing the embryonic form of a divine position, he could still make use of these things.

The Dragon Clan's bloodline had already been diluted beyond measure.

On top of that, because of Gu Yue, Mu Han didn't want to make a move against the Dragon Clan for now.

The Soul-Absorbing Tablet was also the Qiangu Family's treasured trump card. They certainly wouldn't take it out.

But the Thunder Hell Vine was still easy enough to deal with.

In fact, Mu Han had sent people to search for the Thunder Hell Vine long before founding the Fatui.

They hadn't found many in the end, but he could simply breed them himself.

The Thunder Hell Vine accelerated its growth by absorbing electricity.

And how hard could it be to generate artificial electricity?

In fact, many civilian Soul Tools no longer needed Soul Power.

Mu Han had established a huge breeding facility back then.

Calling it a breeding facility was generous; it was more like a cage.

After placing the Thunder Hell Vine inside, he continuously sent electric current into it.

In the end, the Thunder Hell Vine still exploded because its body couldn't withstand that power.

But its seeds remained, and Mu Han cultivated them again.

That was also how Mu Han and the Thunder Hell Vine cooperated.

Mu Han supplied it with an endless stream of electricity, and in return, the Thunder Hell Vine had to provide him with seeds.

Even though the Thunder Hell Vine knew full well it would die if it kept absorbing lightning, that was simply the nature of its species.

Besides, electricity generated through Soul Power was far weaker than the lightning in the sky.

That Thunder Hell Vine endured until it was ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old before finally dying.

Ordinary Thunder Hell Vines only lived to about fifty thousand years, right?

Using the Thunder Hell Vine Soul Bone that had come tantalizingly close to ten thousand years as its core, Mu Han built a new breeding facility.

A large number of Thunder Hell Vine seedlings shared the damage from the electricity.

Even if one really did explode, it would only return its life force to the surrounding Thunder Hell Vines.

And after exploding, it could also produce even more seedlings.

But none of this was what Mu Han wanted.

So what if he could mass-produce ten-thousand-year Thunder Hell Vines?

Soul Rings and Soul Bones? Mu Han wasn't short on those things either.

But Mu Han knew of a certain phenomenon.

Most house cats released into the wild would starve to death.

People said cats ate fish, but in reality, most cats couldn't catch fish, let alone eat them properly.

Cats only knew how to eat cat food. At least, that was true of house cats.

The farmed Thunder Hell Vines were more or less the same.

Once they reached the hundred-year level, Thunder Hell Vines could attract heavenly lightning on their own.

After reaching ten thousand years, the place where a Thunder Hell Vine lived became a field of lightning.

But the farmed Thunder Hell Vines now relied entirely on the electricity supplied by Soul Tools to grow.

As a result, certain abilities of theirs were gradually regressing.

Yet as they regressed, their abilities in other areas were surely improving.

Just as humans' brains had grown larger as their teeth grew smaller.

The farmed Thunder Hell Vines had begun to mutate.

Mu Han remembered that the original story had mentioned that Ice Jade Scorpions were originally poisonous.

Their toxins were even stronger than those of the Vermilion Clear Ice Toad.

They had simply abandoned their poison attribute in pursuit of Ultimate Ice.

So what new ability would Thunder Hell Vines develop as they gradually lost the power to summon heavenly lightning?

Mu Han wasn't sure whether he was interested.

But the Thunder Hell Vines that had lost this ability would regard him as the "Thunder God."

Because only Mu Han could give them an inexhaustible supply of lightning!

That was the result of generations of inheritance.

The Thunder Hell Vines grew fast and died young, so several generations had already passed during this period.

Now, the Thunder God bloodline within the Thunder Hell Vines was gradually fading.

But it was also gradually merging into the original Thunder Hell Vine Left Arm Bone.

This Thunder Hell Vine Left Arm Bone had been something Mu Han prepared for himself from the start.

When matching Soul Bones,

if one of the four limbs had already been equipped, the best match for the second Soul Bone was the one on the opposite side.

Mu Han already had the Bloodthirsty Demon Bear Right Arm Bone and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Right Palm Bone.

Adding this Thunder Hell Vine Left Arm Bone would surely give him a tremendous boost.

And Mu Han wasn't going to absorb it directly. He had even prepared a Soul Bone from a Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Thunder Bear.

That Ten-Thousand-Year Purple Thunder Bear was a sacrifice for fusing Soul Bones.

He would use the Purple Thunder Bear as an offering to help the Thunder Hell Vine Left Arm Bone break through the final hundred-thousand-year bottleneck.

After all, Mu Han's right arm bone came from a Bloodthirsty Demon Bear, and his right palm bone came from a Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

The Purple Thunder Bear Soul Bone could also improve the compatibility between the Thunder Hell Vine Left Arm Bone and the other two.

Mu Han's fifth Soul Ring had also been born from this Soul Bone.

It was purple-gold all over, and looked steeped in nobility.

"Is that the Thunder God's divine position?" Just then, he suddenly heard a seductive woman's voice.

The woman wore blue-black vine armor that barely covered her private parts. Her waist was so slender it seemed boneless, making her look like an enchantress.

Though she was one.

"You're the Thunder Hell Vine? Which generation?" Mu Han frowned.

Apart from special cases like the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, Soul Beasts capable of taking human form were all hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts.

"The first generation." The woman gave him a resentful look. "You took my Soul Bone, and now you don't even recognize me?"

"Soul Bone?" Mu Han's expression changed. "Weren't you already dead?"

"My descendants lost the Thunder God bloodline, but they gained new abilities."

"Like Blue Silver Grass, they thrive without end. And I'm the product of that endless renewal."

Though it had lost the Thunder God bloodline, the Thunder Hell Vine before him was the first hundred-thousand-year Thunder Hell Vine.

But Mu Han didn't particularly care.

He had already obtained the Thunder God's divine position.

Even if it was only an artificial counterfeit, created after the fact.

But nobody had ever said a fake was necessarily inferior to the real thing.

The Thunder God was only a First-Level God.

But Mu Han's counterfeit Thunder God divine position might one day reach the God King level.

Still, none of that mattered right now.

At the very least, he didn't need to think that far ahead yet.

With a lightning-attribute fifth Soul Ring, Mu Han could begin trying Heaven Forging ahead of time!

Normally, that was a technique only Titled Douluo could attempt.

But who said Mu Han's spiritual power hadn't already transformed into Divine Consciousness?

Who said Mu Han's fifth Soul Ring wasn't equivalent to the tenth Soul Ring of the gods throughout history?

And who said his fifth Soul Skill didn't happen to have a lightning attribute?