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

"Boom—!"

Amidst the deafening thunder, the azure main bolt of lightning, like a raging ancient electric dragon, tore through the heavy rain.

It brought with it terrifyingly high temperatures that could destroy everything, and it slashed straight down at Lu Jingyan's head!

In that instant, the entire square was bathed in a stark white light.

The blinding light forced everyone to close their eyes.

The air was thick with the pungent smell of ozone and burning hair, as if the end of the world had come prematurely.

"Captain Lu!"

Su Xiaoxiao screamed inside the armored vehicle, tears streaming down her face.

Zhao Tiezhu, however, stared intently out the car window.

Although his hands were covered in sweat, his eyes revealed an eerie calmness.

He is waiting.

Wait for the "backup plan" arranged by the Marines to come into play.

In mid-air, Chen Beixuan's face was contorted.

Because he forcibly burned his essence and blood, blood was flowing from all seven orifices of his body, making him look like a vengeful ghost that had crawled out of hell.

"Die!"

"Under the Nine Heavens Thunder, turn to ashes!"

He roared arrogantly, as if he could already see that annoying policeman being hacked to pieces.

This is the ultimate tribulation he triggered by risking a hundred years of cultivation!

Let alone a mere mortal body.

Even titanium alloy steel plates would be instantly melted into molten iron!

However, just as the bolt of lightning, as thick as a bucket, was less than five meters from Lu Jingyan's head...

A sudden change has occurred!

"Buzz—!"

A low, mechanical hum suddenly came from the ground around Lu Jingyan.

Three bright yellow trucks that had been parked at the edge of the square suddenly lifted the camouflage tarpaulins on their tops.

This is a special emergency repair vehicle from the Municipal Power Supply Bureau.

"rise!"

Accompanied by the shouts of the repair workers.

Three super-large industrial-grade lightning rods, each as thick as a thigh and over twenty meters tall, were instantly erected by the hydraulic system!

They are arranged in a triangular shape, firmly protecting Lu Jingyan in the very center.

The thick, pure copper wire was connected at one end to the top of the lightning rod, and the other end was buried deep in the city's main power grid laid underground.

"What is it?"

Chen Beixuan was stunned for a moment in the sky.

Before his 500-year-old brain could even react...

At this moment, Faraday, one of the four great masters of physics, demonstrated to him the absolute dominance of science.

Electricity is the shortcut.

The raging lightning bolt from the Nine Heavens seemed to suddenly turn away from Lu Jingyan, like a shark that had caught the scent of blood.

It was instantly drawn to the three giant lightning rods next to it, which had extremely high conductivity and were closer to the clouds!

"Crackling sound—!"

The blinding lightning suddenly veered off course at a 90-degree angle in mid-air!

It cleaved through the air in an extremely comical "Z" shape.

Then, without reservation and with ferocity, it struck the three industrial-grade lightning rods.

"Zzzzz—Boom!"

Tens of millions of volts of high-voltage electricity surged wildly into the ground along the pure copper conductor.

In that instant, all the streetlights in the city center of Jinghai City flickered briefly due to the sudden surge of electricity.

It was as bright as ten thousand suns rising at the same time.

But soon, the smart grid's overload protection device was activated.

This incredibly vast energy was rapidly diverted and dissolved, then completely channeled into the earth.

The thunder subsided.

The electric light dissipated.

The torrential rain continued to fall, washing away the mud from the square.

Lu Jingyan stood quietly in the center of the three towering lightning rods, holding up his black umbrella.

Unharmed.

Not a single speck of mud or water was splashed on his gleaming leather shoes.

He slightly raised his head and looked through the rain at the immortal cultivator in the sky who had been completely petrified.

"Mr. Chen, thank you for your contributions to the development of new energy in Jinghai City."

Lu Jingyan pushed up his glasses, his tone as calm as if he were giving directions to a passerby.

"What you just did charged the city center's power grid with at least tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity."

"I'm even thinking of giving you a banner on behalf of the power company."

Chen Beixuan floated blankly in mid-air.

Rainwater streamed down his pale face.

His mind had completely stopped thinking, and his values ​​had been shattered beyond recognition.

Did it turn?

The divine lightning from the heavens that I summoned at the cost of sacrificing a century of cultivation and burning my life essence actually changed direction?!

Just to chop down those three broken iron bars?!

"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible..."

Chen Beixuan's lips trembled, and his eyes were glazed over.

He muttered to himself like a mentally unstable patient.

"That's the will of Heaven! That's a heavenly tribulation that locks onto the soul!"

"How could it be lured away by a few pieces of scrap metal?"

"What about the laws of heaven and earth? What about the ironclad rules of cultivation? Has this world gone mad?!"

"The world isn't crazy, you just lack common sense."

Lu Jingyan sighed and, through the heavy rain, gave this senior a vivid popular science lesson.

"Let's learn about the principle of tip discharge."

"In a strong electric field, charges will preferentially concentrate towards the sharpest part of the conductor."

"Your so-called soul locking is worthless in the face of electrostatic induction in physics."

Lu Jingyan looked at him with pity in her eyes.

Instead of complaining about fate here, you should go back and complete your nine years of compulsory education.

"Shut up!"

"Shut up!"

Chen Beixuan let out a hysterical scream.

He couldn't accept this cruel reality.

He, a dignified immortal, was actually defeated by a mortal's explanation of physics?

His eyes were bloodshot, and he desperately wanted to mobilize the internal energy within his body once more.

Even if it means dying together, we must tear this despicable policeman to pieces!

however.

The consequences of forcibly interrupting the Heavenly Tribulation spell were far more terrifying than he had imagined.

Heavenly tribulations are the resonance of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

His attempt to forcefully summon lightning failed, and the massive amount of true energy he had just poured out instantly lost its target.

Like a wild horse that has broken free, it rushed back into his body!

"puff--!"

Chen Beixuan's chest suddenly stiffened.

He spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.

His originally incredibly resilient meridians were cracking and snapping repeatedly under the backlash of the violent true energy.

It's like an engine that's been overloaded and suddenly explodes.

"Ahhhhh!"

"My meridians! My nascent soul!"

Chen Beixuan let out a bloodcurdling wail.

The azure aura surrounding him that had sustained his flight instantly dissipated.

Without the support of true energy, this once arrogant and powerful cultivator directly followed the most basic law of universal gravitation.

From a height of more than ten meters, it fell straight down like a dead duck shot by a hunting rifle.

"Bang!"

A dull, loud bang.

Chen Beixuan crashed heavily onto the asphalt road in the square, which was covered in water.

It smashed a huge crater in the shape of a human, with mud and water splashing everywhere.

He had countless broken bones and lay limp at the bottom of the pit like a lump of mud.

Blood and foam continued to gush from his mouth.

pain!

The pain that goes deep into the bone marrow!

But what hurt him more than his physical body was his Daoist heart, which had been crushed and shattered by science.

The doors of the explosion-proof vehicle were opened.

Zhao Tiezhu led a group of special police officers out like wolves and tigers, surrounding the "immortal" who was still convulsing in the pit.

"Wow, that was a really solid fall."

Zhao Tiezhu clicked his tongue in amazement and carefully poked Chen Beixuan's thigh with a riot fork.

"Captain Lu, this bastard seems to be done for."

Lu Jingyan put away his umbrella and slowly walked to the edge of the pit.

He looked down at the ragged, wretched cultivator in the pit.

Once upon a time, this man looked down on all living beings from hundreds of meters in the air, declaring that his actions throughout his life needed no explanation.

But now, he can only lie in the mud, barely clinging to life.

Chen Beixuan struggled to open his swollen eyes.

Through the blurred blood, I saw the tall, slender reflection of the figure standing at the edge of the pit.

"What...what kind of sorcery did you use...?"

He was barely breathing, still struggling with this problem.

Lu Jingyan squatted down.

He pulled out a cold, heavy silver bracelet from behind his waist, a bracelet that shone with the light of the rule of law.

"I told you, this isn't sorcery, it's science."

"Click."

The handcuffs clicked shut.

They handcuffed Chen Beixuan's hands, which had once been capable of manipulating events, tightly together.

Lu Jingyan looked at his desperate face, his voice flat and cold.

"Now, the lightning has struck, and the science has finished its explanation."

"Mr. Chen."

"We should go back to the station and settle your score for disturbing public order and endangering public safety."