Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

Chen Beixuan followed Lu Jingyan's finger and arrogantly raised his head.

Beneath the pitch-black, inky clouds, there seemed to be nothing but rolling thunder.

No.

There's something there!

Dozens of black dots flashing red anti-collision lights plunged headlong into the raging thunderstorm cloud in an extremely regular formation, showing no fear.

In the cultivator's divine sense, those black dots had no life force and no spiritual energy fluctuations whatsoever.

"What kind of sacred artifact is this?"

Chen Beixuan frowned, his cold gaze sweeping across the night sky, his tone revealing a hint of suspicion.

"It actually managed to ignore the pressure of the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder and directly rush into the center of the tribulation clouds?"

Zhao Tiezhu, hiding behind the police car, couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard this ridiculously chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) line.

"What the hell! That's a DJI high-wind-resistance drone from the provincial meteorological bureau!"

Zhao Tiezhu leaned halfway out and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Did the village just get internet, old man? Never seen a drone before?"

DJI?

Chen Beixuan didn't understand the meaning of the word at all, but he instinctively felt a sense of humiliation at being mocked.

"You mere mortal iron, how dare you enter my tribulation clouds? Shatter for me!"

He formed a sword incantation with one hand, and forced out a sharp cyan aura from his fingertips, slashing fiercely at the swarm of drones in the sky.

However, it was too late.

Before his protective aura could even touch the clouds, Lu Jingyan had already given the final instructions into the communicator.

"Artificial rain-making missiles, launched with full coverage."

"Let's cool him down."

The instant the command is issued.

Dozens of weather drones that had penetrated the center of the thunderstorm cloud simultaneously opened their launch bays.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

It was accompanied by a series of extremely dull popping sounds.

Hundreds of catalytic bombs filled with high concentrations of silver iodide and dry ice were detonated deep within the thick, dark clouds.

Chen Beixuan looked up at the clusters of white powder exploding in the sky, a look of bewilderment flashing in his eyes.

"this one?"

He burst into arrogant laughter, the sound piercing through the thunder. "Without real fire, without a magic array, you think you can break my heavenly tribulation with just this white ash? It's utterly ridiculous!"

"Lu Jingyan, you've run out of tricks!"

Lu Jingyan did not refute him, nor did he even glance at him. He simply opened a large black umbrella silently.

"Tiezhu, Xiaoxiao, get back in the car."

Lu Jingyan's voice was calm, "It's going to rain heavily."

Although Su Xiaoxiao and Zhao Tiezhu were confused, they immediately climbed into the armored vehicle because of their absolute trust in Lu Jingyan.

The moment the car door closed.

The sky has leaked.

At that moment, physics and meteorology demonstrated to this powerful cultivator who had been in seclusion for five hundred years what a true "dimensional reduction attack" really meant.

Water vapor that was originally unable to fall due to the strong electric field was instantly disrupted from its critical equilibrium upon encountering a large number of silver iodide condensation nuclei.

The rapid vaporization of dry ice caused the temperature inside the clouds to plummet below freezing within seconds.

There was no prelude whatsoever.

A once-in-a-century torrential rainstorm, like a bursting dam, poured down with tremendous force!

"Splash splash splash splash—!"

The raindrops, as big as beans, were so dense that they formed a wall of water, crashing onto the asphalt road and creating a white mist.

Chen Beixuan's maniacal laughter was instantly extinguished by the sudden downpour.

His protective aura, which he was so proud of, could withstand high-voltage power grids and tranquilizer bullets, but it couldn't stop the overwhelming and pervasive natural rainfall.

Because this isn't an attack, it's the weather.

"What's going on? Why is the rain... so heavy?"

Chen Beixuan was drenched in mid-air. His once ethereal blue robe now clung to his body like a thick layer of seaweed, outlining his somewhat gaunt figure.

His long, black, silky hair was dripping wet, clinging to his scalp, making him look exactly like a water ghost that had just crawled out of the moat.

But that's not the worst part.

The most dangerous thing was the thunderstorm cloud he had forcibly stirred up overhead.

"Snap!"

A bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket formed in the clouds, but it did not strike Lu Jingyan on the ground as Chen Beixuan had expected.

Water conducts electricity.

The extremely high humidity in the air, combined with the countless naturally conductive water columns formed by the torrential rain, directly disrupted the locking mechanism of the celestial tribulation.

The terrifying bolt of lightning lost its way in mid-air.

It followed the dense curtain of rain, like a maddened electric snake, crackling and darting around Chen Beixuan.

"not good!"

Chen Beixuan's expression changed drastically. Sensing the extremely chaotic and violent electrical charges in the surrounding space, he finally panicked.

He desperately channeled his inner energy, trying to control the course of the heavenly tribulation.

But human power seems so insignificant in the face of the laws of natural science.

"Sizzle—Bang!"

A stray arc of electricity grazed his shoulder, charring his right sleeve to a crisp.

"My tribulation! How is this possible!"

Chen Beixuan frantically dodged the lightning he had attracted in the torrential rain, yelling in a disheveled state, "What kind of sorcery is this?!"

Lu Jingyan stood in the rain, holding a black umbrella, watching the cultivator in the sky who was running around like a clown.

He picked up the megaphone, and his voice remained clear even amidst the rain.

"This isn't sorcery; it's the principle of precipitation catalysis by condensation nuclei."

Did you learn physics in junior high school?

"When water vapor in thunderstorm clouds encounters a condenser, it turns into rain. However, excessively high air humidity can cause a deflection of the charge release path."

Lu Jingyan pushed up his glasses, which were damp with water droplets, his tone full of academic mockery.

"Mr. Chen, you don't even understand the most basic common sense about electricity, yet you dare to come out and attract lightning?"

"You're not undergoing a tribulation; you're giving everyone a free demonstration of dangerous behavior during thunderstorms."

Murder and kill!

What is a magical attack? This is a true physical and magical double mental attack!

Chen Beixuan trembled with rage, and the true energy within his dantian surged wildly backward due to the intense fluctuations in his emotions.

His five hundred years of cultivation knowledge and his lofty immortal dignity were washed away and shattered in this artificial rain.

What Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder!

What kind of Heavenly Will is this!

It was all destroyed by a few DJI drones that cost several thousand yuan!

"Lu Jingyan—!"

Chen Beixuan let out a fierce roar, his eyes completely filled with madness.

"puff!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood, which mixed with rainwater and flowed down his chin, making him look ferocious and terrifying.

Since natural disasters are uncontrollable, and since science is so abhorrent!

Then he used the most primitive and domineering method to forcibly destroy all of this!

"Even if it costs me my cultivation to regress by a hundred years, I will drag you down with me!"

Chen Beixuan bit his tongue, and his hands swiftly formed an extremely brutal blood-red hand seal.

He actually forced himself to burn his own essence and blood, pouring all the remaining Nascent Soul stage true energy in his body into the last wisp of thundercloud above his head!

"Boom!"

The sky seemed to be torn apart.

The last and most violent bolt of azure lightning finally broke free from the rain's restraints and, under Chen Beixuan's forceful pull, locked onto Lu Jingyan on the ground.

The lightning bolt, carrying an aura of destruction, ripped through the night and struck directly at Lu Jingyan's forehead!

"Die!" Chen Beixuan roared like a beast in mid-air.