My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 189: Fire of Community Thunder

"So it turns out going to the so-called Thunder Division was just a preliminary procedure; you have to steal the item before you can start the proper advancement," Li Rui muttered with a frown.

During others' advancement, it's not uncommon for them to awaken directly in the conscious space.

This is a test of willpower, and the process is simple: you must stabilize your spirit while integrating new powers, endure the pain, and stay conscious.

If you relax even a bit and can't hold on, it could lead to consciousness dispersing, so you must grit your teeth and persist.

Though the test process is simple, it's not easy and carries great danger.

However, his process seemed somewhat different; he first went to a Thunder Division Thunder City, which was either an illusion or reality, and then autonomously chose this profession.

Li Rui didn't hesitate much; he actively approached the fireball that resembled a blazing sun.

Since others could pass the test, he believed he could too.

As the distance grew closer, he could feel the heat waves continuously hitting him; when he got close enough, the fireball started to surge, as if ready to explode.

Bang!

Li Rui didn't expect it, having just muttered internally, that the thing would indeed explode like a balloon.

Countless flowing fires danced and sparkled in the dark consciousness space, ultimately transforming into a sky full of shooting stars, enveloping him like a cage.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The flames burned fiercely by his ears; Li Rui quickly felt that it wasn't the physical temperature, but that his brain seemed to get increasingly hot, soon turning scalding.

When a person has a fever of 40 degrees, it feels extremely uncomfortable, but his suffering now could be said to be hundreds, thousands of times worse than the sensation of a fever.

It was as if someone had opened a hole at the top of his head and poured a ladle of boiling water in.

"Ah——"

He fell headlong, rolling incessantly within the cage.

Of course, this was a consciousness space; the pain was mental, and his physical body wouldn't suffer any damage, provided he didn't touch the flame cage enclosing him.

Nevertheless, this test wasn't intended to torture those advancing; the pain was just a side effect when the power entered the body.

Gradually, that pain eased somewhat, but new sounds emerged in his mind.

Dong.

Dong dong.

Dong dong dong.

Muffled beats came from all directions, each strike seemed to pound on his heart.

Metal begets, fire retreats, linking the primal spirit, guarding the form internally, subduing demon spirits externally.

Embrace the spirit, hold unity, fortify the spirit platform. Metal disappears, fire arises, eternally falls into the Demon Dao.

Buzzing sounds like scripture recitation emerged out of thin air, Li Rui only felt as if several hundred Tang monks were circling him, chanting the tightening curse.

He seemed to feel himself burning, and also saw an icy spring ahead, as if jumping in would end this pain, returning his spirit platform to clarity.

Temptation.

That non-existent spring was tempting him.

Should he crawl forward struggling, he'd end up colliding into the flame cage and get burned and sliced, with his soul scattered forever.

Just then, a mutation occurred suddenly.

In the corner of the consciousness space, a mass of shadow started spinning, enlarging, and coalescing into a human form.

A figure clad in black armor stood before the cage, exuding murderous intent, not losing to the Power of Red Flame.

He wielded a battle ax, striding towards Li Rui, who was crawling unconsciously, seemingly intending to use the weapon to cleave the cage.

However, just as he raised a hand to strike, he suddenly halted.

Because at that moment, golden thunder entwined around Li Rui's body.

Sizzle, sizzle.

Amidst his muddled consciousness, he used his last rationality to activate the Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture.

He recalled those few incantations earlier, Metal begets, fire retreats, linking the primal spirit.

Even thunder has attributes.

Community Thunder has a fire attribute; Divine Thunder has a metal attribute.

He remembered the place he had gone was called Thunder Division, and saw the clergy related to wind, rain, thunder, cloud, mist, and there was also fire.

Back then, he couldn't understand why, according to subjective impression, there would be things like Fire Train General or Fire Bell General in the Thunder Division, only later realizing perhaps it was the populace possessing Community Thunder techniques.

Now what he had to fight against might not be Community Thunder itself, but rather the fire within.

Though he didn't know why metal could make fire retreat, he had no other choice now.

Li Rui didn't know what happened after activating the Shenxiao Thunderbolt Heart Scripture, but the armored figure saw clearly that the golden light protected the primal spirit, preventing the caged person from unconsciously approaching the flame cage, and the struggling gradually ceased.

Actually, Li Rui didn't know one thing, which was that others could grit their teeth and endure through career change, but his situation wouldn't allow it. Without Divine Thunder, whoever came would have their consciousness gradually burnt away.

Yet it seemed that some destiny in the dark ensured he happened to possess the power of Divine Thunder.

Before long, the flame cage dissipated, and Li Rui lay quietly on the ground, still asleep.

The armored figure stepped forward, looking down at him for a long time, then crouched down, extended a hand clad in ferocious iron armor, hovering over Li Rui's head.

After what seemed a long hesitation, he ultimately withdrew his hand, then dissolved into black mist, vanishing on the spot.

Soon after the person disappeared, Li Rui suddenly opened his eyes, not having slept at all.

"What the hell was that just now? A prankster."

He could only be certain that the armored figure had no malicious intent.

"Do I perhaps have some protective diamond body?"

As he intended to explore this space, seeking an answer, he suddenly felt the earth shudder.

Oh no, time to leave.

Li Rui felt somewhat disappointed; having a strange person in his mind was always unnerving, but he couldn't stay here.

No malice, what was that?

While pondering, the scene around him continued to change, and after a few breaths, he was back in the Ascension Divine Hall, still sitting cross-legged on the altar.

At this moment, he didn't do anything else but immediately reviewed the advancements.

First, there was an additional attribute called Potency, which some magic-oriented professions possess. It's a biased version of spiritual attributes, significantly boosting damage, but has a relatively low impact on spiritual power recovery speed; generally, most people won't raise this attribute too high, or the mana pool will be too short.

Beyond attributes, there were skills and talents.

[Great Fire Bell Spell lv1.]

[Rarity: Profession.]

[Effect: Uses the Power of Flowing Fire to manipulate Red Flame, dealing wide-ranging high fire attribute damage, enhanced by spiritual and potency attributes.]

[Eternal: Yes.]

[Aggressive as Fire.]

[Rarity: Epic.]

[Effect: Fire and thunder attribute damage increased by 20%.]

[Eternal: Yes.]

Simple and unadorned, purely high-damage skill set.

Who would have thought a Rain Summoner would turn into this monstrosity.

Support is impossible to support; even among strong attack professions, this belongs to the highest tier.

At this moment, new prompts suddenly appeared, repeating the situation from the first career change.

[Trigger random event: Unnamed.]

[Objective: Eliminate enemies.]

[Reward: Experience +190000, Skill point +1, Free attribute point +6.]