Chapter 508: Talent "Thunder Punishment

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The Space Teleportation Array before them flashed, and a starship flew directly into it, vanishing from sight.

“Mu Xuan, we have entered the Teleportation Array. In two months, we’ll be back with our clan,” the elder, Baleng, said with a smile, looking at Li Yang.

“Mm,” the Thunder Star Beast Li Yang nodded. He thought for a moment before asking, “Lord Baleng, could you tell me a bit about our clan? I’ve been wandering alone for so long that I know very little about it.”

“Of course.”

The elder, Baleng, smiled. “Our Thunder Star Beast clan is one of the more powerful races in the Cosmos. Besides the ten major races like the Human Race and the Demon Race, who have Creator Ancestors, our race ranks among the top…”

The elder Baleng began to fill Li Yang in on some basic information.

“Creator Ancestors?” A look of deliberate confusion appeared in Li Yang’s eyes.

Baleng then explained what Creator Ancestors were, which naturally left Li Yang even more “shocked.”

His eyes shifted slightly as he asked with curiosity, “Lord Baleng, how many Dominators does our race have? Do you know the number?”

Hearing Li Yang’s question, Baleng chuckled. “I don’t know for sure, but compared to other races, we definitely have the advantage in numbers.”

At his level, he couldn’t possibly know the details about the race’s strongest combatants. Of course, even if he did, he wouldn’t explain it all to Li Yang right now.

Skipping over the topic, Baleng continued, “We Thunder Star Beasts have a very high life-form level. We are born at the World Realm! Our Talent is also extremely potent and isn’t restricted by our life-form level, allowing powerful individuals to emerge continuously!”

Naturally born divine races, like the Fire Nether Divine Beast and the Time Divine Tree, also have high life-form levels, but they are greatly suppressed by the Cosmos. It is incredibly difficult for them to grasp any law other than the Fire Element or the Time Law, respectively.

But Thunder Star Beasts are World Realm life-forms. Not only is their life-form level high, but they also aren’t significantly suppressed by the Cosmos. Aside from the Thunder Law, they can still easily comprehend other laws!

When you really think about it, the heavens favored the Thunder Star Beast race even more than races like the Fire Nether Divine Beast.

After all, an Emperor was the strongest a Fire Nether Divine Beast could become, and there weren’t even many of them.

But the Thunder Star Beast race has at least several Dominators!

At this point, a clear look of pride appeared on Baleng’s face. He continued speaking, and Li Yang nodded from time to time.

After a moment of thought, Li Yang asked, “Lord Baleng, I heard earlier that our branch is the weakest. What’s the story behind that?”

Hearing this, the smile on Baleng’s face faded slightly. He sighed and said, “Mu Xuan, the Thunder Star Beasts are divided into ten major branches. Of these, five branches have Dominator-level super-beings, and four have Emperor Level experts. As for our branch… including me, we now have only three Deities.”

“Uh…” The Thunder Star Beast Li Yang was stunned.

‘Out of ten branches, five have Dominators and four have Emperors. The strongest in the branch this clone was born into are merely Deities, and there are only three of them in total.’ The gap was so vast that it truly was the weakest branch.

To put it bluntly, they were pitifully weak.

For a race like the Thunder Star Beasts, a single, moderately powerful Divine Clan was probably stronger than their entire branch.

The elder Baleng sighed, but then a light rekindled in his eyes. “Mu Xuan, our branch wasn’t always weak. We once had a Dominator-level super-being as well. But a long, long time ago, all of our branch’s top experts left the clan and subsequently vanished.”

“Vanished?” Li Yang paused, taken aback.

He suddenly thought of that space on Earth. Inside that space was the body of a Thunder Star Beast, and his own Thunder Star Beast clone had been nurtured from a fragment of that very body.

‘Since this clone of mine belongs to Elder Baleng’s branch, that corpse must have belonged to it too!’

And as his own power had grown, Li Yang had come to realize the strength of that corpse—it had reached the Emperor Level!

‘Why would an Emperor Level expert from the once-powerful Baleng branch of the Thunder Star Beast race come to Earth back then?’ Li Yang wondered silently.

Thinking back, Earth was far too mysterious. To say nothing of other things, the corpse of the Ancestral Dragon in the Solar System alone was enough to prove how extraordinary Earth was!

Of course, the most extraordinary thing to Li Yang was undoubtedly the mysterious little sword in his mind. For some unknown reason, that sword had suddenly descended upon Earth.

The stronger he became, the more Li Yang could sense just how special the mysterious little sword was.

Right now, he felt that the mysterious little sword was at least equivalent to a Supreme Saint Artifact!

The mighty Human Race, the race that stood at the very pinnacle of the entire Cosmos, possessed only a single Supreme Saint Artifact.

“Yes, they all vanished. The Deities, the Emperors, the Dominators—all of them disappeared, and it’s been confirmed that they are dead.”

Baleng shook his head. “After that, our branch fell into a slump and never recovered. We’ve even had very few geniuses emerge since then.”

It was as if all the luck of their branch had been used up with the deaths of those experts.

“However,” Baleng said, looking at Li Yang with an astonishing light gleaming in his eyes once more.

“We now have another peerless genius, and that is you, Mu Xuan! With your Talent, breaking through to become an Emperor in the future will be no problem at all!”

Baleng’s eyes were full of expectation, hoping that Li Yang would lead their branch to rise again.

“Your cultivation speed is already this fast without even entering the Saint Mountain. Once you do, your progress will be even faster.”

“The Saint Mountain?”

Li Yang had heard of it before. Now that Baleng had mentioned it again, he couldn’t help but ask, “Lord Baleng, what exactly is the Saint Mountain?”

“The Saint Mountain is the sacred land of our race, left behind by our greatest expert, Gu Zhou!”

“Gu Zhou?” Hearing the name, Li Yang’s heart stirred.

“Yes, Lord Gu Zhou is the strongest expert of the Thunder Star Beast race. He also shared half of his bloodline with our branch.”

Speaking of Gu Zhou, Baleng’s face filled with pride.

“We Thunder Star Beasts are born at the World Realm. Our life-form level is very high, and our speed at comprehending the Thunder Law is astonishing! Our race’s strongest expert, Gu Zhou, studied our Talents and discovered a hidden, peerless Talent—Thunder Punishment!”

“Thunder Punishment?” Li Yang listened quietly, unfamiliar with the term.

“Thunder Punishment is a special application of the Thunder Law that is innate to us. When one awakens Thunder Punishment, their own potential is unlocked, and their strength soars under its enhancement!” said Baleng.

Li Yang was surprised yet again. “Potential is unlocked?”

“Mu Xuan, have no doubt, Thunder Punishment can indeed unlock potential!”

Baleng smiled and said, “However, very few have ever awakened it; there have only been a handful in our race’s entire history. Even so, awakening just a sliver of it can boost one’s potential and increase the speed at which one comprehends laws.”