Sky Thunder Bamboo

Biodata

Appearance and Cultivation

• Age indicator: Ordinary Sky Thunder Bamboo changes color with its age and cultivation 25.
• Rare mutation: The specimen hunted by Meng Chen had a silver stalk threaded with gold despite being only over four thousand years old 25.

Abilities & Skills

Lightning Attraction

• Draws lightning from heaven and earth 25.
• Resembles Thunder Hell Vine in this respect, but is explicitly described as far less extraordinary 25.

Silver Sky Thunder Bamboo Mutation

• An exceedingly rare mutation with toughness greatly exceeding that of ordinary Sky Thunder Bamboo 25.
• Possesses a substantially stronger ability to draw lightning 25.

Soul Ring Contribution

Meng Chen hunted a Silver Sky Thunder Bamboo over four thousand years old and obtained his Thunder Hell Vine martial soul’s second Soul Ring from it. The resulting skill, Thunder Punishment Summoning, was modeled on the plant’s lightning-attracting power 25.

Thunder Punishment Summoning

• Activation: Thunder Hell Vine sways like a priest calling down heavenly punishment, gathering dark clouds overhead 25.
• Coverage: Its demonstrated cloud bank casts a shadow across a fifty-meter radius 25.
• Attack: Silver lightning forms within the clouds and descends on targets directed by Meng Chen’s finger movements 25.
• Later applications: Meng Chen summons the thundercloud rapidly against Yu Tianheng; later sparring scenes call the technique Thunder Prison Heavenly Punishment and show its lightning taking the form of curved spears 32 65.

Story Role

At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Meng Chen reveals the bamboo-derived skill while retaliating against Xue Beng’s lackeys for harassing Xiao Wu. He strikes one lackey first, then brings down five more bolts on the others as they flee, knocking all five unconscious. The dark clouds disperse after the confrontation 25.