Lin Fan wasn’t surprised by this door that suddenly appeared since he already knew about it thanks to the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor’s memories.
In fact, what he was looking for was hidden behind this secret door.
He went through the passage and it didn’t take long before he arrived at a room that wasn’t too big.
This was a medium sized room that was simply decorated.
The only thing that was special about it was the podium that was placed by the back wall and the box that was on the podium.
This box was exquisitely decorated and it was clear that there was something expensive that was hidden inside. This box was also what Lin Fan came here for.
According to the memories of the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor, this box had something very special.
When Lin Fan opened the box and bright light came out of it, he couldn’t help covering his eyes and looking away. This light was just too bright for him to look at it directly.
But eventually, he was able to adjust to this bright light and he looked down at the thing inside of the box.
There was a bolt of lightning that was lying inside of the box.
This was something that the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor had found back when he had been a rogue cultivator. He had found this bolt of lightning inside of a cave in the middle of nowhere.
While he didn’t have any idea where this bolt of lightning came from, he had been able to feel the powerful energy that came from it and had been attracted to it.
After experimenting with it, he had found that it had the ability to control heavenly thunder.
That was right, this bolt of lightning was able to control heavenly thunder.
By holding this bolt of lightning, one gained the ability to summon heavenly thunder down wherever they wanted to.
But the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor took it further by experimenting on how to control this heavenly thunder.
He was able to develop a method of storing the heavenly thunder, which was what he had used to create that first trial.
Lin Fan didn’t know what this bolt of lightning was based on the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor’s memories alone, so he had to see it first to understand what it was.
But the moment that he did see it, he couldn’t help being shocked.
That was because the information he received from his Appraisal Eyes was…
Zeus’ Lightning Bolt.
That was the official name of this bolt of lightning.
That was right, both he and the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor had made the same mistake.
Since this was a cultivation world, they had assumed that this bolt of lightning was a very normal thing.
However, even if this was a cultivation world, there were very few people that could control lightning in the first place, let alone form it into a lightning bolt like this. So this lightning bolt was without a doubt a very strange and unusual item.
The even stranger thing was that one could touch this lightning bolt without being shocked.
Without some kind of powerful technique to create this lightning bolt, it was impossible for this to happen.
Perhaps this was something that could only be done by the gods.
And the key thing was that there was a certain name in the description of the lightning bolt.
Zeus.
That was the Greek god of thunder in Lin Fan’s previous world.
Could it be that the entire Greek pantheon existed in this world?
After all, Lin Fan had already met Aphrodite back when he first came to this world, so it would make sense that all of the Greek gods existed in this world as well.
But why were there so many of their artifacts scattered around the world like this?
He had also found Aphrodite’s artifact when he met her back then and then he had to return it…
Could it be that he would be meeting another god soon?
That was actually the last thing that he wanted since what he actually wanted was this bolt of lightning.
Since this was an artifact from a god, then didn’t that mean that he would be able to finish the main mission that he hadn’t been able to finish for the longest time?
[Main Mission]
Find a divine artifact or god fragment containing divine energy.
Divine energy: 0/1
Reward: System level up.
The last time that the system levelled up, it was able to unlock the mission function.
What would it unlock this time?
Lin Fan couldn’t help feeling worried as he slowly made his way over to the bolt of lightning. Then when he was standing in front of it, he slowly reached his hand out until it was just an inch away before stopping.
Taking a deep breath, he grabbed onto the bolt of lightning and waited for a voice to ring out.
But after waiting for a while, he found that nothing was happening.
It was as if there was no reaction that came from this bolt of lightning.
Lin Fan couldn’t help looking around himself, but he couldn’t sense anything appearing around him.
It was as if there really was no one that cared about this lightning bolt.
What he didn’t know was that this was just one of the disposable lightning bolts that Zeus had thrown in his free time, so he couldn’t care less about this. This was something that should have degraded naturally, but because of the Hidden Dragon Sect ancestor’s interference, it didn’t degrade and became a part of the world as an artifact.
So that was how this lightning bolt came to be.
After confirming that no one was coming for it, Lin Fan checked with the system if this fit the description of the main mission.
The system confirmed that this bolt of lightning did indeed have a fragment of divine energy and could be used for the upgrade.
After receiving the system’s confirmation, Lin Fan revealed a wide smile and was about to give it to the system, but then he stopped himself as he remembered something.
“Wait, this thing can control heavenly thunder…Then doesn’t that mean…” Lin Fan muttered to himself.
He stood there in silence for a minute before suddenly grabbing tightly onto the bolt of lightning and squeezing on it. As he squeezed on it, there was a glow that suddenly came from the bolt of lightning.
This glow became brighter and brighter, but it was a gentle glow that didn’t force Lin Fan to close his eyes.
As this glow appeared around this bolt of lightning, Lin Fan could feel the lightning energy gathering above him.
This room wasn’t that big, so there wasn’t much space for it to gather. It didn’t take long before there was a thick layer of dark glows glowing with lightning energy just above his head.
It was like a storm was about to happen, but there wasn’t any wind that came with these thunder clouds.
Lin Fan wasn’t worried at all as he watched those thunder clouds gather since he could tell exactly how strong the lightning gathering was.
If he was just using his senses, he wouldn’t be able to tell, but he got a clear feeling of how strong they were based on the feeling he received from the bolt of lightning in his hands. It was as if he could adjust the power of the heavenly thunder at any moment as long as he held this bolt of lightning in his hand.
Once the clouds had finished gathering, Lin Fan didn’t hesitate at all to summon the heavenly thunder down.
The bolts of lightning rained down on him and he quickly absorbed all of them without any pain.
These bolts of lightning were stronger than the heavenly thunder execution that he had experienced before, but with the bolt of lightning in his hand, he didn’t feel any pain from it at all. It was as if the lightning energy of the heavenly thunder was completely tamed by this bolt of lightning and obediently entered his body.
He could feel the Heavenly Thunder Seed inside of his dantian growing stronger and stronger until…𝑜𝑽𝐋xt.𝒸𝗈𝗆
With a burst of light, it suddenly bloomed.
Lin Fan was shocked when he saw what appeared after it bloomed.
This Heavenly Thunder Seed had turned into a sapling.
It was a sapling that was completely golden in colour.
Lin Fan was shocked that the Heavenly Thunder Seed had bloomed into a sapling instead of a bolt of lightning or a ball of lightning as he had expected, but since it had bloomed, that was all that was important.
He could feel the power that it contained and when he used his spiritual energy to invoke it, he found that he could summon heavenly thunder in the palm of his hands.
Not to mention that when he checked the status screen, he found that this thing was called the Heavenly Thunder Tree (Sapling) and that it no longer needed heavenly thunder to grow. All it needed was to absorb the spiritual energy that he would absorb naturally for his cultivation and it would grow into a full tree, producing even more heavenly thunder for him.
Since that was taken care of, Lin Fan chose to offer the Zeus’ Lightning Bolt to the system.
As soon as it was offered, it disappeared from his hand.
Then he received a notification from the system.
“The main mission has been completed. The system will now enter a short period of hibernation before being upgraded.”