High Martial: I Grind Professions

CRACKLE—BOOM!

The moment he entered the outer region, dense Electric Snakes crazily lashed against his Cosmic Domain.

The domain roiled and his True Qi was rapidly depleted. Each collision put Li Wen under considerable pressure.

The lightning here contained fragments of a Law.

Its power far surpassed that of ordinary Celestial Thunder, enough to easily grievously injure or even kill a normal King-level expert.

He didn’t dare to be careless. With his mind highly focused, he continuously used the power of his Primordial Spirit to scan and predict the lightning’s trajectory.

His figure weaved and flickered through the dense web of lightning, sometimes taking a direct hit, other times skillfully guiding the bolts to graze past him.

The space beneath his feet seemed to become a silken ribbon he could fold at will, allowing him to narrowly avoid terrifying pillars of lightning that could instantly vaporize the body of a peak King-level expert.

The deeper he went into the core region, the more profound the color of the lightning became.

It shifted from incandescent white to deep violet, and even a liquid-like, violet-black lightning plasma began to appear.

This lightning plasma flowed within rifts in the void, exuding a destructive aura that made one’s very soul tremble.

A single violet-black bolt of lightning, only a few meters thick, grazed the edge of Li Wen’s domain.

Space silently annihilated like fragile glass, leaving behind a dark fissure that refused to heal.

Li Wen’s pupils contracted. He could clearly sense that the destructive power contained within this bolt was enough to threaten a newly-ascended Venerable.

Although his physical body had been strengthened many times, it was still fundamentally at the King-level.

If he were struck head-on by such lightning, even with the protection of his domain and True Qi, he would undoubtedly suffer grave injuries, or perhaps even be directly annihilated.

Every step was like dancing on a knife’s edge. His Primordial Spirit operated at full capacity, calculating the optimal path.

His Spiritual Power poured out like floodwaters from an open dam, maintaining the stability of his domain and the agility of his Body Technique.

He no longer pursued speed, instead prioritizing caution above all else.

After nearly ten minutes, Li Wen finally reached a relatively safe and calm area.

It wasn’t that there was no lightning here. On the contrary, every bolt that fell from above was as thick as a dragon, its color a deep violet bordering on black, containing enough terrifying energy to instantly turn a peak Great Demon King to ash.

But the strike points of the lightning here seemed to follow a more profound pattern. The density was slightly lower, and space was relatively more stable.

The violent energy raged around him, forming a natural barrier and Energy Field.

’This is the place.’ Li Wen hovered in the air, his surrounding domain steadily resisting the impacts of the violent external energy.

He sat down cross-legged, his mind serene, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

’[Absolute Focus]—activate!’

In an instant, it was as if the world’s mute button had been pressed.

The roar of the violent lightning, the shriek of tearing space, the howl of turbulent energy... all the noise was completely shut out.

Li Wen’s mind became as clear as a mirror, his thought processes soaring to an unimaginable level.

The 180% boost to his comprehension from Lv18 was like opening a gateway to the very source of the Law.

The power of his Primordial Spirit extended like the most precise of probes, attempting to merge with and analyze the lightning hell before him.

Under the enhancement of [Absolute Focus], the originally violent, chaotic, and elusive True Intent of the lightning Law became instantly clear, like dust motes illuminated by a powerful beam of light.

He saw the personification of destruction.

The explosion of each bolt of lightning was like the birth and death of a microcosm. Violent energy was released in an instant, annihilating matter and tearing space.

This was the most direct manifestation of the Law of destruction, containing the true meaning of "Annihilation" and "Finality."

At the apex of destruction, where the lightning struck, the void was torn and chaotic energy surged. Faintly, a weak aura of "Creation" began to spread.

This aura was extremely faint, mixed within the torrent of destruction. If not for his greatly enhanced comprehension, it would have been impossible to detect.

This was the other side of lightning, the universal principle of "yin born from extreme yang," of "destruction begetting creation."

At the same time, the speed of lightning was the limit that matter and energy could reach in a conventional universe.

Li Wen keenly perceived that when the lightning tore through space, its trajectory was not a straight line.

Rather, on a microscopic level, it was constantly making spatial jumps, as if countless tiny spatial nodes were being linked together in an instant.

This coincided with his own exploration of the True Intent of extreme speed in his blade arts within the Domain Realm, and even provided a more direct and profound template for reference.

Furthermore, under the deep analysis of his Primordial Spirit, the seemingly random strike points vaguely revealed a kind of string-like energy trajectory.

These strings of Law were not physical entities, but the very network through which the Law operated—the internal logic governing the transmission and eruption of lightning energy.

They intertwined and vibrated, forming the underlying code that governed the operation of this lightning region.

Li Wen tried to use his Spiritual Power to simulate and resonate with the vibrational frequencies of these strings.

And so, time passed, bit by bit.

Every day, Li Wen was immersed in this state of deep comprehension.

He was forced to stop only when the Spiritual Power in his Sea of Consciousness was squeezed to its absolute limit by [Absolute Focus].

At these times, he would gather his focus and operate his Cultivation Technique, frantically absorbing the dense energy in the Star Domain to restore his Spiritual Power.

At the same time, he would take out various books he had already prepared from his storage bracelet.

These books were all-encompassing, including the *Star Dome Story*, which described cosmic wonders and forms of energy.

There were books analyzing the topological structure of energy in higher dimensions, and even some cutting-edge works of modern physics on the nature of electromagnetism and particle acceleration theory.

In the process of recovering his spirit, reading these books wasn’t just about accumulating scholar experience points.

More importantly, it provided different perspectives and systems of thought that collided and supplemented his knowledge, aiding his comprehension of the Law of lightning.

The theoretical knowledge and the actual phenomena of the Law before his eyes corroborated one another, often sparking new flashes of insight.

「Galactic Calendar, Year 245, April 14th.」

SNAP.

Li Wen gently closed a thick tome on ancient runic energy channeling and returned it to his storage bracelet.

During his reading just now, the Spiritual Power in his Sea of Consciousness had been restored to its peak, like a rising tide.

Without the slightest hesitation, his gaze once again became sharp and profound.

’[Absolute Focus]—activate!’

His mind instantly sank into that violent ocean of the Law of lightning.

After half a month of day and night comprehension, deduction, and verification.

Countless fragments concerning lightning’s destruction, creation, speed, and network of rules spun rapidly in his mind like puzzle pieces, combining and restructuring.

He felt that the membrane separating the peak of the Domain Realm from Venerable Level blade techniques had become as thin as a cicada’s wing. All that was left was the final push of epiphany and integration.

This time, his immersion lasted less than three hours.

The cross-legged Li Wen’s eyes suddenly flew open!

The light in his eyes was no longer one of pure comprehension, but was instead filled with an eagerness and a sharp edge.

He rose to his feet, and with a flick of his wrist, his long saber was in his hand.

Without any earth-shattering fanfare, Li Wen began to slowly swing his saber within the safe zone, surrounded by the raging lightning.

His movements were slow at first, as if guiding invisible threads. Wherever the blade’s edge passed, space rippled with faint, regular patterns.

Gradually, his movements began to accelerate. The glint of his saber went from slow to fast, transforming into a series of afterimages difficult for the naked eye to follow.

Every swing of the saber carried the faint sound of wind and thunder, and fine arcs of purple electricity began to dance upon its edge.

His blade techniques were no longer bound by any fixed routine. Instead, they constantly changed, adjusted, and merged, following the lightning trajectories, energy flows, and string vibrations captured by his Primordial Spirit.

At times, it was like an exploding thunderbolt. The light of his saber would erupt with an unstoppable, destructive force.

At other times, it was like a slithering Electric Snake. The path of his saber was cunning and unpredictable, its speed reaching an extreme, leaving countless space-cutting marks within a tiny area.

And at other times, it was like a needle attracting lightning. The tip of his saber would actually pull at the surrounding violent lightning energy, causing its trajectory to shift imperceptibly.

His figure dodged and weaved within the limited space. The long saber seemed to have become an extension of his body, as well as a medium to communicate with the Law of lightning in this area.

The light from his saber grew more intense, and its resonance with the surrounding environmental energy grew stronger.

Some of the lightning that was originally striking other places was actually drawn by his formless Blade Intent, actively gathering near the trajectory of his saber and letting out explosive crackles.

This practice session continued for the better part of a day.

Li Wen was completely immersed in a profound state of unity between "Saber and Lightning."

He forgot time, forgot the danger he was in. In his eyes, there was only the saber, only the lightning, and only the brand-new realm about to break free from its cocoon.

Finally!

After a seemingly ordinary upward diagonal slash, Li Wen’s figure froze abruptly.

The sharp glint in his eyes, which had been accumulating for half a month and had long since been refined to the extreme, erupted as if it were tangible, piercing through the violent lightning energy before him.

There was no earth-shattering roar, only a low shout that seemed to come from the depths of his soul:

"Void Break!"

The saber moved.

It was not so fast as to be traceless, but carried a decisive will to sever all obstacles and separate order from chaos, as it slowly cleaved downward.

The instant the saber’s edge fell, an unbelievable change occurred in the dense, violent region of lightning ahead.

It was as if a monarch had arrived, and all the lightning bowed in submission!

Wherever the saber’s edge pointed, the terrifying, deep violet-black lightning that could tear space apart seemed to encounter an invisible barrier.

It was as if it were commanded by a higher will, actually parting to the sides and retreating on its own before the blade even fell!

A vacuum-like tunnel formed in an instant.

Immediately after, a beam of saber light, condensed to the extreme and seemingly compressed from the purest destructive lightning,

followed the trajectory of the slash and blasted forth along the channel the lightning had automatically cleared.

This beam of saber light was not particularly large, but the True Intent of the Law it contained made the surrounding lightning energy twist and submit.

Wherever it passed, space was silently cut open, leaving a smooth, black fissure that wouldn’t close for a long time.

Fine arcs of purple electricity danced at the fissure’s edge, as if announcing this slash’s temporary "severance" of the rules of space!

BOOM!!!

The beam of saber light finally struck a distant mountain peak composed of exceptionally durable Star Domain rock.

There was no expected earth-shattering explosion. The part of the mountain that was hit,

as if cut by the most precise laser, silently vanished, leaving behind a cross-section as smooth as a mirror.