Gus rubbed his arms in silence.
He had goosebumps all over his arms.
He realized that the gods and devils' ideas were indeed weird. They were indeed not something that mortals could understand.
"All in all, my mentor Li Yao, A Boxing Champion, and I fought for a long time just like that. Of course, when we ran into more ferocious enemies, we occasionally joined hands."
Lu Qingchen smiled and said, "To make a long story short, in my last battle, we did run into an enemy that was too ferocious to cope with. In order to finish the enemy, I lured it to a giant planet that was full of lightning and died together with it."
Gus was dazed for a moment.
"What is lightning exactly?" the young man asked curiously.
He had a feeling that the name contained mysterious and powerful power.
"I almost forgot that there is no lightning in your world. A Boxing Champion was too scared of me to add lightning as a setting in this world."
Lu Qingchen thought for a moment and pointed at the pale crack at the edge of the sky. "You may consider the enormous wound that is tearing apart the sky as a frozen bolt of lightning. The power inside the lightning is ten thousand times more powerful than steam. It can both support the glamorous life of a powerful civilization and blow the unparalleled experts into smithereens in the blink of an eye. Even their soul cannot escape the interference of the electric currents. Not even the slightest brainwave will be left.
"On the planet that I fell to, billions of lightning bolts were interweaving, swallowing, and splitting each other. Gradually, self-awareness was awakened."
"Ten thousand times more powerful than the power of steam?"
Gus was rather shocked.
The young man could not understand it at all.
He felt that Lu Qingchen was bragging. Even the strongest demon had its limits. How could there be a power ten thousand times more powerful than the power of steam in this world?
However, when he thought of everything he saw when he was training and fighting in "hell", especially the brilliance and destruction of the starships that were rumbling over his head when they opened fire, he subconsciously wanted to believe Lu Qingchen's words.
"Believe it or not, but after all, I was already frustrated and as calm as water when I fell from the lightning giant. I've done my best. Whether or not I can cause the slightest change to Li Yao, the federation, the civilization of mankind, and the Pangu universe is up to fate now. My journey has come to an end, and I can now face the destruction in any way frankly."
Lu Qingchen smiled and said, "I didn't know that fate played such a great joke on me. Instead of being ripped apart and destroyed by the billions of most violent lightning bolts, my self-awareness was melded with the previous life of lightning on the ancient giant star and turned into a certain unprecedented super life form of lightning!
Gus was stunned when he heard that.
"In hindsight, perhaps it was neither luck nor coincidence," Lu Qingchen explained.
"At that time, the ancient planet where the lightning lives were born was gradually approaching its doom. If there were no accidents, the lightning lives would've been buried together with the planet that gave birth to them very soon. However, survival and reproduction are the instincts of any life form. Even the lightning lives are no exception.
"The moment they captured me, the lightning lives must've realized that tearing apart and destroying my soul would not help them resolve their dilemma at all. They would still die in the near future.
"However, if they melded with me and absorbed all my wisdom and will, or rather, if they were granted the unparalleled power of lightning, there would be a one in a billion chance that we could escape from the planet that was about to fall apart and the hell that was destined to be destroyed!
"Just like that, in the Great Red Spot on the ancient planet, in the eternally roaring super lightning storm, the old Lu Qingchen and the old lightning lives were gone, only to be replaced by a new generation of lightning lives that boasted Lu Qingchen's will!"
As he spoke, Lu Qingchen could not help but wave his hands in great satisfaction.
Gus thought to himself that his appearance was quite fitting for the arrogance of the birth of demons.
"Although I was reborn, the fundamental problem had not been resolved yet. I was still trapped on the ancient planet as a lightning life form, and it wouldn't be long before I was torn apart by the upheaval of the star together with the planet," Lu Qingchen said.
Lu Qingchen said, "So, after thinking hard, I could only send a distress signal to the outside world."
"A distress signal?"
Gus was slightly dazed. "Will anybody come to your rescue? Well, I mean, do you have any other friends in the world of deities and devils?"
"No. I'm the only sober one when everybody is drunk. A sober person is always lonely. How can I be friends with the drunkards who are blinded by 'passion, courage, and justice'?"
Lu Qingchen smiled. "However, on many occasions, besides friends, there are also enemies who can save you!
"At this time, my mentor, Li Yao, was no longer in the Pangu universe for various reasons. Right, the Pangu universe is the world where the deities and devils live. Right now, it is Li Yao's good friend, A Boxing Champion, who is guarding the world."
"A Boxing Champion is our Fist God, right?" Gus asked.
"Yes. I'm talking about the creator of the Fist God's world, your creator, and the supreme 'god'."
Lu Qingchen chuckled. "However, he is not a real god. He is not even a real human being. He is actually a highly-automatic spiritual puppet, or rather, a robot with super intelligence."
"A … robot?"
Gus chewed on the weird term and frowned hard. "What's that? I don't understand."
"It's very simple and easy to figure it out," Lu Qingchen said.
"Don't you believe in the Church of Machinery and Steam? Take the steam machines that your father ran experiments in the basement and Luo Xinglong's steam cannon for example. There are a lot of tubes, gears, bearings, balls, and all kinds of other components inside. It's very complicated, isn't it?"
Gus thought for a moment and said, "Very complicated."
"No. In my opinion, it's far from complicated," Lu Qingchen said.
"Please close your eyes and imagine such an existence. It is made of billions of gears and billions of tubes. It is tens of millions of times more precise than a steam cannon. Countless streams of steam of different temperatures and pressures are running in the tubes that are as thin as hair, driving different components and performing calculations and actions that are even more complicated than nerves. Brilliant sparks are born in the collisions of the gears and the bearings, like the glittering wisdom inside the brain of a human being.
"If such a 'super mechanical structure' does exist, it won't be strange that it has self-awareness and becomes a real life, a 'him', right?
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