High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Song Chen opened the detailed information about Leiming Star and found that the situation here was much more complicated than he had imagined.

Thunderstar has a surface area four times that of Earth because its atmosphere is constantly filled with high-intensity electric storms, and the entire planet's sky is perpetually covered by lightning.

The Thunder Clan is an intelligent species that evolved from this environment. They are a hybrid life form of flesh and lightning elements, roughly humanoid in appearance, but they do not have pure blood in their bodies. Instead, they have a conductive liquid called "Thunder Plasma".

The heart of the Thunder Clan is a naturally formed psionic core that continuously discharges electricity from birth to death, only extinguishing after death.

This life form determined the direction of the Thunder Clan's civilization.

Their core ability is to control lightning, and their technology tree is entirely centered around electric psionic energy.

When the Alliance discovered this planet 12,000 years ago, the Thunder Clan had already spontaneously evolved to the level of a 0.8 civilization.

After the Alliance deployed the Source Spirit Star Stones, they produced their first seventh-tier civilization in just three hundred years, officially becoming a first-level civilization.

Thunder Star has four continents. Besides Thunder Continent, which Song Chen is going to, which is the main continent, there are three sub-continents: Cloud Hidden Continent, Abyss Continent, and Aurora Continent.

The main continent is more than three times the size of any of the subcontinents, and its spiritual energy veins account for 60% of the entire planet's reserves. Half of the Thunder Clan's seventh-tier powerhouses are concentrated on the main continent.

Although the three subcontinents have their own development, they are not as good as the main continent in terms of resources or the number of powerful individuals.

The alliance's debts were to be divided equally among the four continents, at least that's what was written in the treaty.

But the actual situation is completely different. For the past twelve thousand years, the Alliance's debts have been mainly repaid by the three subcontinents.

The main continent gives a symbolic share each year, and the rest is entirely given to the subcontinent.

The subcontinent was overwhelmed by the pressure and complained to the alliance several times, but the alliance's response was always "an internal matter, to be resolved by ourselves."

The alliance only cares about collecting money, regardless of who contributed how much or who contributed during the collection process.

As long as there's enough money, the Alliance won't care even if the Thunder Clan sells all the people on a certain subcontinent into slavery.

This oppression lasted for thousands of years, and finally exploded three months ago.

A seventh-tier peak expert named Lei Mo emerged on the Cloud Hidden Continent. Under the banner of "overthrowing the tyranny of the main continent," he formed the Thunder Extreme Army and swept across forty percent of the Thunder Continent's territory within three weeks.

Lei Mo's slogan was straightforward: The main continent has been sucking our blood for so long, now it's time to spit it out.

His appeal was extremely strong, and young people from the three subcontinents joined the rebels one after another, and the ranks grew bigger and bigger like a snowball.

After reading the intelligence, Song Chen turned off the screen and closed his eyes.

This task was a bit more complicated than he had thought.

It wasn't the complexity of the battle, of course. Lei Mo was at the peak of the seventh rank, and with his Silver Radiance Armor and the third level of the Star-Splitting Slash, defeating a peak seventh rank opponent was no problem.

What's complicated is the nature of this matter itself.

The main continent oppressed the secondary continent for tens of thousands of years, so it's reasonable for the secondary continent to rebel.

But the alliance doesn't care about right or wrong; the alliance only cares about the ability to repay.

The rebellion has escalated, affecting production across all four continents, making it impossible to raise the funds for the next loan repayment cycle.

If the money isn't enough, the alliance will send a disciplinary envoy, and Song Chen is that disciplinary envoy.

His goal in coming to Thunder Star was to end the internal strife and restore the ability to repay debts.

The question is, how does it end?

Should they side with the main continent and suppress the rebels? Or should they side with the rebels and overthrow the main continent, making Lei Mo the new king?

The intelligence report didn't say whether Lei Mo would repay the money if he came to power, but judging from his slogan, it was "overthrow the tyranny of the main continent" rather than "overthrow the alliance."

This person most likely still acknowledges the alliance's debts, but he wants the main continent to make up for the debts it previously defaulted on.

Song Chen rubbed his temples. This kind of thing had happened on Earth too, except in the universe it was called "unequal distribution of benefits within a civilization," but it was essentially the same thing.

Forget it, we'll talk about it when we get to Thunder Star.

He activated the spaceship and began the jump.

During the next four days of the flight, Song Chen spent most of his time cultivating.

Behind the cockpit of Shadow Bee was a small rest cabin, just big enough for one person to lie down in, where he meditated.

He also took out the Silver Armor and tested it repeatedly, and he had memorized the performance data of the armor.

When the 117th jump ended, Shadowbee was no longer in faster-than-light mode.

The starry sky outside the porthole changed from the blue band of light in the transition state back to the normal starry sky, and a planet wrapped in lightning appeared directly in front of us.

From space, the surface of Thunder Star is covered with a thick layer of charged clouds, within which lightning constantly strikes.

Each lightning bolt was hundreds of kilometers long, tearing blinding blue-white cracks in the clouds before being quickly swallowed up by new clouds.

The frequency of those lightning bolts was extremely high. Song Chen roughly counted that, on the sunlit side of the planet that he could see, at least several thousand lightning bolts lit up simultaneously every second.

The entire planet resembled a luminous sphere enveloped in lightning, constantly flashing in the darkness of the universe.

"That's pretty cool," Song Chen muttered to himself as he pushed down the control lever.

The shadow bee plunged headfirst into the atmosphere.

The spacecraft's hull rubbed violently against the charged particles in the atmosphere, turning the view outside the porthole into a pure white sea of ​​light.

The alarm sounded twice, and the ship's AI reported in a flat tone: the external temperature has risen, the armor coating is normal, and the psionic shield has been activated.

As the Shadow Bee passed through the densest area of ​​the charge cloud, a bolt of lightning struck the bow of the spaceship directly. The current was channeled along the psionic patterns on the hull to the engine room, where it was directly absorbed by the engine and converted into additional propulsion energy.

The engineers of the Punishment Department clearly considered various harsh environments when designing the Shadow Bee. This ship is not afraid of being struck by lightning; on the contrary, it can use lightning as a supplement.

As the spacecraft passed through the bottom of the clouds, the view outside the porthole suddenly opened up.

From the sky, Thunder Continent appears as a desolate land constantly battered by lightning.

The mountain's ridges are as sharp as knife blades, and the rock surfaces are covered with vitrified marks left by lightning strikes.

The vegetation on the ground is mostly dark purple, the tree trunks are short and sturdy, and the leaves have evolved to be needle-like to reduce the area to be struck by lightning.

The river is a fluorescent silvery-white color, with a high concentration of charged minerals dissolved in its water, and the river itself is constantly discharging electricity.

From high above, each river looks like a long, luminous line winding across the land.

Song Chen lowered the spaceship's altitude to three thousand meters and flew towards Thunder City along the route marked in the intelligence report.

Thunder City is the heart of the Thunder Continent, the residence of Thunder Clan Star Lord Lei Yuan, and the only entity on the entire Thunder Star recognized by the Alliance as a legitimate government.

The capital city is located in the very center of the continent, built on a plateau surrounded by mountains. Its size is about thirty times that of the Great Xia capital city on Earth.

As the spaceship approached the outskirts of the royal city, Song Chen's communication system received a signal.

The quantum communication encryption frequency band originates from the Star Lord's Mansion in the center of the royal city.

"Your Excellency, Envoy of the Department of Punishment." The voice on the other end of the communication was old but respectful.

"I, the old Thunder Star Lord Thunder Abyss, have prepared a welcoming ceremony upon learning of the arrival of Your Excellency."

"Please, Your Excellency, move to the central square of the royal city. The entire Thunder Clan awaits your arrival."