Top-Tier Draw: Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning

Jiang Zhe's innate aptitude grew stronger!

Looking at the cluster of cyan flames floating above his hand, flickering like a blooming green lotus, Jiang Zhe froze for a moment.

This... was only a low-tier draw!

And the beginner mission also came with a free top-tier draw!

If a low-tier draw could yield a heavenly flame on the level of the Green Lotus Core Flame, what on earth could a top-tier draw give him?!

At the thought, Jiang Zhe's heart trembled.

He steadied himself and suppressed the heat rising in his heart, preparing to use that top-tier draw!

But suddenly, text began flashing before his eyes.

[Detected: a Demon King of Havoc is committing evil and slaughtering living beings a hundred kilometers away]

[Host, please proceed there at once and kill him]

[Mission completion reward: 3,000 merit points]

The Demon King of Havoc?

Wasn't that the great demon from Brother Monkey's Flower-Fruit Mountain?!

That meant... he was only a hundred kilometers away from Flower-Fruit Mountain?!

Jiang Zhe's heart tightened, and he was now completely certain that he was indeed in the world of Journey to the West.

He felt a little apprehensive, but he couldn't help feeling a little excited too.

Journey to the West.

A story no Chinese person could escape in childhood.

But it was also an extremely dangerous world!

Here, mortals were like leeks, fenced in by demons and devils of every stripe and harvested crop after crop.

But here, too, was the hero hidden in every Chinese person's heart:

The eternal number one male lead!

Sun Wukong!

"The Demon King of Havoc... interesting."

The corners of Jiang Zhe's mouth lifted slightly. Then, without further hesitation, he used the top-tier draw granted by the beginner mission!

In an instant!

Heaven and earth spun!

Jiang Zhe felt as though he had been lifted above the multiverse, looking down from on high at universe after universe wrapped in crystalline bubbles, spreading out like a galaxy with no end in sight!

Good grief!

As expected of a top-tier draw-even the setting for the draw was on an entirely different level from the low-tier one!

Then a fishing rod seemed to appear out of thin air in his hand, while the endless multiverse surrounded him in layer upon layer, like a spiral.

He flung the fishing rod forward!

The line pierced countless bubble universes and dropped into the unfathomable sea of myriad worlds!

The next second, golden light erupted from the end of the line and shot skyward, forming lines of large characters suspended before his eyes:

[Draw successful: congratulations, host, you have obtained Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning!]

[Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning: the lightning of creation from the dawn of primordial chaos! It favors creation rather than destruction]

[Effects: rarely used for killing. It can repair the divine soul and physical body, and restore a shattered Dao foundation; it can also rewrite a living being's bloodline! Yet, the essence of lightning is destruction! The Divine Lightning of Creation can also be used to destroy, breaking its target's origin and severing its foundation!]

Even though Jiang Zhe had already developed a strong mental fortitude, he still sucked in a breath of cold air.

Primordial chaos...

Creation... divine lightning!

What the hell kind of thing was this?!

Within the Three Realms, when it came to lightning, heaven had the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, and the Thunder Department had the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Lightning Techniques. Those undergoing Tribulation Transcendence turned pale at the mention of them.

But no matter how strong they were, they were still lightning of the Three Realms, lightning bound by the framework of rules.

The lightning before him, however, had been born in primordial chaos!

Back then, heaven and earth had yet to be divided, yin and yang had yet to be separated, there wasn't even a shadow of the Three Realms, and the rules had yet to be written!

Before heaven was opened, it had been one of the first few thunderclaps in this chaos!

In a daze, Jiang Zhe seemed to see a vision:

A newborn universe, primordial chaos just beginning to open. All around was deathly silence: no light, no sound, no living beings.

Suddenly!

Boom!!

A bolt of cyan divine lightning thundered forth from the void!

That thunder sounded less like the roar of destruction and more like the clear first cry of a newborn! The cyan lightning burst apart, becoming a skyful of lightning rain that fell in a flurry across the primordial world!

Where raindrops fell on land, plants grew; where they entered water, fish began to swim; where they touched mud, walking and crawling creatures raced across the wilds!

A single bolt of lightning was an act of creation.

It was the midwife to every living being in this world!

Then, the vision abruptly changed!

The same bolt of cyan lightning had taken on a different face! It struck down like a sharp blade, and wherever it passed, mountains and rivers crumbled, divine souls were annihilated, and even the traces of their having "existed" were wiped clean!

Creation and destruction.

Two sides of the same whole.

That which gave it life could also destroy it.

Jiang Zhe stood rooted to the spot, a fine layer of cold sweat seeping from his back.

[Lightning-attribute origin detected in host's possession! Would you like to invest it in the Thunder Yatales Armor!]

[After investment: Thunder Yatales Armor activation will reach 86%]

"No!"

Before the system had finished speaking, Jiang Zhe refused without hesitation.

Was this a joke?!

If it could activate the armor completely, that would be one thing-he'd sell every pot and pan he owned to invest it! But at a mere 86%, investing it would be like throwing it into the water!

Besides, he now had the Flame Dragon Armor to fall back on and the Green Lotus Core Flame to bolster him. His combat strength was more than sufficient!

Most importantly, this lightning was far too special!

The Divine Lightning of Creation, the lightning of birth!

This was lightning that could reverse the acquired state and return one to the innate, improving one's origins!

Once he fused it into himself, his aptitude would be no weaker than that of the Innate Living Beings born at the dawn of the primordial world!

Immortal pills and spiritual medicines, marrow cleansing and bone refinement-all of them were jokes compared to this! It could rewrite Jiang Zhe from an acquired human directly into an innate human!

It would carry him across the heavenly chasm that countless cultivators could never cross in their lifetimes!

And that wasn't even the most crucial part.

The most crucial part was that the lightning's name was crowned with the words "primordial chaos"!

Once he fused with it, his fate could transcend it all:

Outside the Three Realms!

Beyond the Five Elements!

Beyond the cycle of reincarnation, untouched by karma!

No one would be able to divine the slightest trace of his whereabouts!

Heaven's secrets would be shrouded in dust, his fate a mystery.

Even if Dingguang Joyful Buddha tried again to follow the threads of karma and probe his background, all he would find was a blank!

"Phew..."

Jiang Zhe slowly breathed out a mouthful of turbid Qi, forcing himself to calm down.

A treasure like this naturally offered boundless benefits.

But fusing with this lightning would probably cause an earth-shaking disturbance.

For one thing, the mere act of reversing the acquired state and returning to the innate would be enough to alarm every true major figure in this world!

When heaven's secrets stirred, the stars were bound to shift.

If the gods and buddhas filling the heavens followed the disturbance to him, what could a little nobody who had only just achieved Dao Integration do against them?

So... after turning it over in his mind,

Jiang Zhe slowly turned his head, his gaze crossing the vast darkness of the night toward the east.

A hundred kilometers in that direction was a Demon King of Havoc who had seized a mountain as his domain and was committing all manner of evil.

Farther beyond that lay Flower-Fruit Mountain.

This blame!

He'd let Flower-Fruit Mountain shoulder it instead.

He could also take the opportunity to see whether Brother Monkey was still at Flower-Fruit Mountain!

He didn't know whether Brother Monkey was still studying at Mount Fangcun or had already returned from his studies.

The system was certainly a source of confidence, but his familiarity with how the world of Journey to the West unfolded was another.