Chapter 104: Celestial Phenomenon

Chapter 104: Celestial Phenomenon

"Not good!"

Ji Xinghuo exclaimed in his mind, "How could there be a meteor celestial phenomenon?"

In the star realm, various peculiar celestial phenomena occurred, such as the 'Star Tears' he had encountered before. And now, a phenomenon known as the "Meteor Celestial Phenomenon" was unfolding before his eyes.

The reason for its occurrence was already well-known—the emergence of a meteor-level ability!

In fact, the very name 'meteor ability' came from the accompanying celestial phenomenon. When such an ability manifested, it was like a falling star detaching itself from the reflection of the Milky Way, descending into the star realm.

Be it exotic species, abilities, mystical objects, or treasures, any phenomenon of this caliber would trigger the meteor phenomenon.

And once it occurred, it signaled the presence of a meteor-level treasure in the area!

Of course, Ji Xinghuo had known about this for a long time.

However, he had assumed that when Qinghong evolved and mutated from an ordinary iron arrow into a spiritual object, it must have already triggered a meteor celestial phenomenon. He had merely shared its ability and didn't expect another phenomenon to occur.

Never in his wildest dreams did he expect to be wrong.

At this moment—

The entire Midway Fortress was in an uproar. People poured out into the streets or emerged from their army camps, craning their necks to gaze at the falling star in the sky.

"Meteor Celestial Phenomenon!"

Many exclaimed in excitement, "It's a meteor phenomenon! Who acquired the meteor exotic species?"

"The meteor is falling towards the fortress!"

"The meteor exotic species must be within the fortress, or at least not too far from it."

"Damn it!"

"Who is it? Who's that lucky?"

The people in the streets wore expressions of excitement, envy, shock, and bewilderment. Some stared intently at the direction of the falling star, trying to pinpoint its exact landing spot, their eyes gleaming with greed.

Ji Xinghuo's heart raced as he watched the phenomenon in the sky, more anxiously than anyone else. From his perspective, the falling star seemed to be plummeting straight toward him from the distant sky. It was merely an illusion, not an actual falling meteor.

Even so, it revealed a lot of information.

Fortunately, the meteor was very far away, and its trajectory covered a wide area, causing half the population of Midway Fortress to believe that the meteor was headed their way.

Ji Xinghuo breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He had read online that the meteor phenomenon wouldn't pinpoint an exact location; instead, it covered a large area, encompassing a broad, vague region.

Boom!

A loud peal of thunder reverberated from the mountain-top district of Midway Fortress.

People turned their heads, and in the distance, they saw a figure rising into the air. Dark clouds hovered over his head, and dazzling, gigantic lightning bolts crackled around him.

Ji Xinghuo's Myriad Phenomenon Star Pupil clearly captured the scene, causing his pupils to constrict slightly.

A Heavenly King anomaly!

The Midway Fortress was guarded by a Heavenly King, but it wasn't a fixed person. Instead, various countries took turns sending a Heavenly King to guard the fortress. The guarding Heavenly King didn't interfere in military commands or administrative affairs, nor did he have the authority to command the army. His sole responsibility was to fight and kill any formidable enemies that might appear.

Currently, the Heavenly King guarding the Midway Fortress was from the Western Alliance, a man named Heinrich Muller.

He was a "Superconductor Stringer".

It was an advanced profession for superconducting sorcerers and spiritual stringers. Heinrich possessed tremendous power and was ranked ninth on the global Heavenly King leaderboard!

Heinrich had a very domineering nickname—Zeus!

He wasn't a magnetic field rogue, and his initial profession template had been that of a superconducting sorcerer. Later, he acquired spiritual energy and specialized as an electric field stringer. Combining the two, he mastered the powerful force of lightning. Each time he made a move, it was accompanied by thunder and lightning, creating a grand spectacle reminiscent of the god-king Zeus from Western mythology.

While Heinrich might not be as powerful as the mythical Zeus, he wasn't far off.

Initially, he hadn't liked this nickname and had strongly resisted it. But after more than a hundred years, everyone, including himself, had gotten used to it.

"Zeus!"

"Sir Heinrich has appeared. Could he have obtained the meteor ability?" Ji Xinghuo heard someone questioning on the street.

"How do you know it's definitely an ability? It could be some other treasure."

"It's probably not something Sir Zeus obtained."

"Look at Zeus' expression; he also seems surprised..."

The people around them discussed the matter animatedly, unaware that the true culprit was hiding in this very inn.

Ji Xinghuo watched the falling star, which seemed to be rapidly approaching, though it was still quite far away.

According to the information he had read, the meteor wouldn't actually land.

Now it seemed that this was indeed the case. Ji Xinghuo was more concerned that someone would discover his connection to the meteor phenomenon. Ordinary anomalies might not be able to figure it out, but a Heavenly King anomaly might possess unknown information and methods. If Zeus were to find out...

His gaze kept drifting towards Heinrich, who was floating in the air above the mountain peak.

Even from a distance of several kilometers, Ji Xinghuo could clearly see Heinrich's every move. This Zeus had a distinctive appearance—a tall and robust build, wearing a loose white robe with blue trim, long hair and a beard that reached his chest, both already flecked with silver. His high-bridged nose and deep-set eyes gave him a dignified appearance.

At a glance, he resembled the mythical Zeus.

"Is he cosplaying?"

Ji Xinghuo scoffed inwardly.

With the nickname Zeus, his daily attire, and his overall aura resembling that of Zeus, how could he deny that he wanted this nickname?

This was like performance art!

But he only dared to grumble in his mind, afraid that Heinrich would suddenly turn his head and look his way. He would occasionally steal a few glances from a distance before quickly averting his gaze, not daring to look for too long.

Heinrich's gaze swept across the entire fortress as if searching for the origin of the phenomenon.

From time to time, he would look up at the meteor, calculating its angle.

"Damn, he won't really be able to calculate it, will he?" Ji Xinghuo's heart skipped a beat. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, he retreated from the balcony back into his room and entered a stealth state, preparing to quietly leave the inn.

"Hmm?"

Ji Xinghuo had been secretly observing Heinrich and found that instead of having discovered him, the other party had determined that the origin of the starry sky phenomenon was in this direction.

Crackle!

With a peal of thunder, Heinrich's figure shot through the sky like lightning, appearing several kilometers above the Level One district.

"Lord Zeus has arrived!"

"Could the starry meteor be nearby?" The people around him were in an uproar, and some had fiery enthusiasm in their eyes as they looked around.

Ji Xinghuo was so scared that he dared not move.

At this moment, Heinrich was less than a kilometer away from him, and with the perception of a Heavenly King, any movement he made would likely be noticed.

Ji Xinghuo returned to the balcony once more, gazing at the celestial phenomenon in the sky as if he were like everyone else.

Time passed slowly.

Ji Xinghuo felt as if a year had gone by, it was excruciatingly long. The falling star in the sky never fell. Finally, after about ten minutes, the starry meteor phenomenon slowly faded, the star dimmed, and the sky gradually brightened, returning to the daytime scene.

The people on the street looked disappointed.

If the starry meteor phenomenon had occurred in a sparsely populated wilderness, it would have been a rare opportunity to search for it thoroughly.

But for the phenomenon to occur in Midway Fortress, with its complex urban layout and a population of several hundred thousand, it was impossible to find it.

After the phenomenon disappeared, Heinrich stayed for a few more minutes.

In the end, he gained nothing.

With a booming thunderclap, Zeus disappeared, presumably returning to the mountaintop district.

Watching Heinrich's departing figure, Ji Xinghuo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, he didn't find out."

After all this commotion, he didn't dare to test the Dimensional Stomach Bag in his hotel room anymore. He waited for two hours before leaving the inn and heading to the nearby private training ground. He rented an arena and began to explore the usage of the Dimensional Stomach Bag.

Even though he had witnessed its abilities several times with Qinghong, having the Dimensional Stomach Bag himself felt completely different.

Ji Xinghuo closed his eyes and carefully sensed the power.

"Turns out it doesn't have to go in and out through the mouth!" he exclaimed with great delight, focusing his mind, and the Dragon Falcon Eagle Bow in his hand suddenly disappeared.

Ji Xinghuo felt as if an extra organ had been added to his stomach, attached to his gastric system.

He could constantly sense the internal space and every item within it. With a mere thought, he could clearly and accurately obtain information about them.

It was as if he was holding the items in his hand.

He could see, touch, and smell them, and all the information about their state was laid bare.

Ji Xinghuo focused his thoughts again, and the Dragon Falcon Eagle Bow reappeared in his hand, exactly as it had been when it entered the bag. Time seemed to be stagnant within the Dimensional Stomach Bag.

Whatever went in came out in the same condition.

The entrance and exit of the Dimensional Stomach Bag were not fixed either; he could specify any part of his body, and the opening was about half the size of a palm.

Ji Xinghuo took out an arrow and threw it up; soon, it began to fall under the force of gravity.

He reached out and opened the entrance of the Dimensional Stomach Bag on his palm, and the arrowhead disappeared the instant it touched his hand.

There was no process.

The entire arrow appeared instantly within the Dimensional Stomach Bag, and its kinetic energy was also stopped.

Ji Xinghuo tried to take out the arrow, but the exit direction had shifted.

Suddenly, the arrow flew out from his chest, but it only flew two or three meters before falling, as the kinetic energy on the arrow was too small.

"Interesting!"

Ji Xinghuo's eyes lit up; just this characteristic alone could lead to many applications! First of all, defense.

The entrance of the Dimensional Stomach Bag, which takes in items, could, to some extent, be an invincible shield. As long as it was used skillfully, by timely opening the entrance at the point of the enemy's attack, any damage, including physical strikes and energy attacks, could be 'confiscated' by the Dimensional Stomach Bag!

This required a very skilled application of the Dimensional Stomach Bag, with quick activation and precise positioning.

Of course, the volume of the items to be stored must not exceed the space within the Dimensional Stomach Bag.

This could be upgraded! Ji Xinghuo looked at the interface, and to upgrade the Dimensional Stomach Bag from level one to level two, he needed 1021 points of Spiritual Source Energy, which could be achieved by hunting for four to five days.

He invested the remaining 156 points of Spiritual Source Energy into the Dimensional Stomach Bag, and as expected, the space expanded.

Soon it exceeded two cubic meters! Ji Xinghuo found that the opening of the Dimensional Stomach Bag had also increased slightly, and he was delighted. If the opening was large enough to cover his entire body, wouldn't it mean that he would be invincible?

Secondly, the Dimensional Stomach Bag's offensive capabilities were also extremely powerful.

Putting something with great destructive power inside and throwing it out at a critical moment would be something that ordinary enemies couldn't defend against.

It could also greatly increase the frequency of archery!

Ji Xinghuo tried this by putting dozens of arrows into the Dimensional Stomach Bag. He pulled the string of the Dragon Falcon Eagle Bow, and at the moment the string was fully drawn, he took out an arrow from the dimensional space and placed it on the bow, the positioning was perfect. He then shot it out.

Zzzzz!

He soon mastered this high-speed archery technique, and the frequency depended on the speed of the draw.

In the state of high-frequency thinking, the Thousand Spirit Dexterous Hands were as fast as a shadow, and at the fastest, it could shoot three arrows in one second!

This was obviously not the limit.

When the Thousand Spirit Dexterous Hands were upgraded, the archery would only get faster.

Ji Xinghuo looked at the dozens of arrows stuck in the bullseye and said to himself, "Maybe it's time to upgrade the Thousand Spirit Dexterous Hands..."

(End of Chapter)

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