Poison God's Heritage

The most impressive discovery isn't just the fact that I can swap position with whatever lands within my Divine Sense. But the fact that this metal can be bound together with Qi and mental prowess.

If I were to think of something similar, it would be nanobots. Though it's nothing but theory, the fact that these cubes can follow the guidance of Qi can probably allow them to operate in that way.

What the Blue Sun had made was a tattoo that simply absorbed the power of lightning using this metal and dispersed it. But it would be utterly useless once the power of the lightning becomes stronger.

As much as I admire the thought, that's out of the question. I don't have the theoretical knowledge to make something like that. But, I can still make protective gear made of that material. The only issue is, I'll need all types of this metal.

From what I saw, the cauldron itself had at least two different types of metal although they were of the same source.

I was only able to harvest one from the basic metal rock formation, and the few dark-colored cubes I currently have around my ring are from the Heaven Swapping Cauldron itself.

So I'll need to obtain more of this metal to know all of its properties.

The Gray one can solidify once it absorbs Qi, and the Dark one is able to save up Qi and discharge it when needed.

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Seeing that the lightning was constantly striking it, made it feel like it had no special trait. But, the more I look at this purple formation, the more peculiar it gets.

The rock formation itself was ever so steadily darkening in color, but it still remained purple. However no other visible change occurred besides that.

"What are we going to do now?" Law asked.

"The Palm of that cultivator gave me no obvious clues on how to proceed, the inscription is basically the same as the one in the arm we got. But still, the fact that the palm itself is still safe means that there is a way to survive the lightning," I said.

"How so?" Law asked.

"We'll have to wait for a bit," I replied.

Not longer than a few hours one of the puppets came out of the ship and told me that the project I tasked them with had been completed.

I went inside to inspect it and was amazed at their work.

They had fully recreated the tattoo, using the cubes from the strange metal. By now I should give it a name.

"Soulsteel, since it absorbs mental energy which is a type of soul energy, and uses it to function. Nice, catchy name too," I nodded to myself.

The tattoo was far smaller than what I have here and could only protect the arm of the cultivator. While this thing here is large enough for me to place it on top of the entire ship and have it stop the lightning from falling down upon us.

That was the basic idea. Since it was made using the same Soulsteel I can have it deflect or hide our presence from the lighting coming down at us.

"Why are you doing all this?" Law asked as he followed behind me.

"What do you mean?" I replied.

"This thing, I mean, if you just wanted it to stop the lightning from striking us, couldn't we just carry the entire boulder above the ship?"

Explaining conductivity to him will be a pain in the ass.

"The Soulsteel is not a simple metal," I said.

"Soulsteel?"

"Yeah, I decided to name it that. Regardless, the material itself is not simple. When it's gray, it takes in more lightning than even the lightning rods I have. It beckons it even. And only when it becomes paler does it start repelling and refusing lightning."

"So, what does that have to do with this construct you made?" Law asked, confusion still painted on his face.

"The Blue Sun's construct or Tattoo, was built in a way that it will always keep rejecting the lightning. So, in replicating her work on a massive scale I can theorize that it should stop the bolts from striking us, but like all things, we need to test this out first," I said.

I ordered several puppets to grab the entire rig and place it on top of the ship. Once it was set up, I infused it with a bit of my own Qi, solidifying the structure.

"This should be enough, we'll just hope it will work," I said as I hopped out of the ship.

"Wait, are we not riding?" Law asked.

"Euh, I'm not planning on making myself a test subject, also I can control the ship just fine from the outside."

Well, technically X will be driving it.

Soon, the ship lifted off and began moving toward the rim of the second region.

Slowly but surely the entire thing went past the border and was well within the second region. A thick lightning bolt formed instantly above the ship and fell down at incredible speed, however, just before it made contact it swerved and struck the ground beneath the ship.

"Success!"

We soon joined back into the ship guiding it this time not to delve deeper into the Thunder Domain, but to roam about.

"I would suppose you're looking for more of that Soulsteel," Law said.

"Yea, it's a pretty unique metal, and I want to see how far I can push it, and how where I can apply and use it. Perhaps craftsmanship, alchemy, or even steelwork. I need samples, and this land has plenty of it."

The ship resumed moving through the second region, where lightning constantly fell down, but avoided us at all costs. The bolts struck right into the Purple Soulsteel embedded into the ground.

We closed in on the boulder and I had the puppets begin excavation.

Thanks to the ship hovering on top of the Soulsteel, the lighting bolts that constantly struck it no longer did so. So we managed to pull it out in no time.

After doing the same thing for a few more times, I was finally satisfied with the haul and decided to move in deeper.

"Please!" I heard.

The voice was rather weak, and the owner seemed to be in distress.

"Fellow cultivator!" a man said as he propped up from behind the brushes all around us.

He clasped his hand, and yes, hand since his other hand was severed entirely. While his body was scarred and almost turned to ash. Not only did he have a pretty large sword gash on his side, an obvious sign of a fight.

The man slowly approached us.

"Could I please take shelter with you, I have been running away for some time now," he said.

"He looks like he had seen hell," Law said as he hopped off the ship and went towards the man.

The stranger approached Law slowly, showing that he wasn't dangerous and almost tripped forward.

Law's 'nice' gesture almost caused him to die as he tried to hurriedly grab the falling man.

But the sound of my handgun blowing through the area was as loud as the sound of the booming thunder as the man's head cracked open like a watermelon struck with a sledgehammer.

Law was stunned, confused and unable to understand what went on.

"Why did you do that for?" he asked.

"Look at his other hand," I said.

What Law didn't notice that when the man was falling forward he pulled a small dagger and was about to attack him.

"Everyone here is an enemy, you should keep that in mind," I said.

Law nodded as he realized that he could have lost his life right here and then.

Not a second later another man showed up, this one was looking all around as if searching for someone. Peculiarly, his hand which should have one single circle as a tattoo had two circles in it.

The moment he stood in front of us, he noticed the body on the ground and then us.

"You're the two guys that didn't get the stigma… did you kill this man?" he asked.

Neither me nor Law replied.

"From the trace of blood, I guess he walked all the way here, hmm, his arm has been cut a while ago, damn, what a wasted opportunity," the man spat right next to the corpse and flew forward ignoring the both of us.

Surprisingly the lightning never struck him, nor did he even vie or show jealousy for my ship.

"What was that about?" Law asked.

I thought for a moment and said, "I think I have a guess… but I'll need to confirm it first," I said and went inside the ship.

Law followed after me until we reached the lab and found me grabbing both of the arms of the two cultivators from earlier.

"What are you planning on doing with those?" he asked.

"A theory," I said as I pressed both hands together.

Soon one of the tattoos peeled itself away from one arm and stuck itself into the second hand. Creating an even smaller circle in the center, and seemingly reinforced the entire structure.

"I see," I mumbled.

Law waited patiently until I explained to him.

"The Blue Sun is pretty meticulous. Not only did she figure out how the Soulsteel works, she also implemented it as a multi-layer formation. You need to have the tattoos of other cultivators imprinted on your own to proceed into the next stage. I guess without a level two tattoo one wouldn't be able to move forward. And that was the same tattoo the man earlier hand…