In the afternoon, after hunting that giant lizard, falling into the river, and riding on a velociraptor through the tropical jungle and highlands for hours, I was splattered with a lot of blood while carving up the Alien Species. I hadn’t had a chance to clean up, and my body was still covered in sweat and the stench of blood.
Ji Xinghuo sniffed himself and felt a bit repelled, so he immediately headed to the bathroom.
When he came out, he was clean and refreshed.
Wearing only a pair of shorts, showing off his firm and well-proportioned muscles, he walked into the living room and saw Zhao Manying handing over the Electrostatic Field Alien Species.
"Go ahead then," Zhao Manying said with a teasing smile.
Ji Xinghuo couldn’t help but smile as he saw through her thoughts and quipped, "Are you so eager to push me to fuse with the Alien Species because you want to shift my focus?"
Zhao Manying immediately shook her head, "Not at all!"
"Relax, I’m not going to eat you up," Ji Xinghuo shrugged his shoulders, "Haven’t we been living together for so long, and you still don’t know my character?"
"I know you won’t do anything rash," Zhao Manying nodded slightly, biting her lip, "but I’m afraid I can’t control myself."
Ji Xinghuo was at a loss for words.
He suppressed the urge in his heart, took the Alien Species, and entered the Cultivation Room.
Sitting down in the middle of the Cultivation Room, Ji Xinghuo closed his eyes and took several deep breaths, dispelling fanciful thoughts from his mind; his spirit quickly cooled down, and his gaze became focused.
Spreading his palm open, a vial of deep red potion appeared on it. This was the "Red Scale Factor," a capacity-expanding wonder he had purchased for 55 million over a month ago. Below Legendary grade, consumption of it gives an extra chance of fusing with an Alien Species, and it had been kept in the Dimension Stomach ever since.
The dose of the Red Scale Factor was tiny, only 3 milliliters.
Ji Xinghuo opened the bottle cap, tilted his head back, and downed the potion in one gulp. A fishy stench surged up his throat, almost making him vomit.
"It’s like badly pickled, spoiled sauerkraut juice..."
He complained, but soon felt an overwhelming sense of hunger.
The Red Scale Factor took effect rapidly, absorbed within two to three minutes, and Ji Xinghuo knew he was ready to fuse with another Alien Species.
Picking up the Electrostatic Field Alien Species, it was transparent crystal but elastic, soft and jelly-like. It made a sound of electric current when rubbed with fingers. Inside the Alien Species, one could vaguely see dots of lightning, flickering and vanishing too quickly to catch with the eyes.
With a bit more force, the flashes of lightning became more intense, giving a slight numbing sensation to the fingertips.
"Is this static electricity?" Ji Xinghuo guessed.
An information interface popped up in his field of view.
[Alien Species: Electrostatic Field]
[Grade: Transcendent]
[Fusion Success Rate: 99%]
With a fusion success rate as high as 99%, it was the same as the Rotating Magnetic Field. Besides these two Alien Species, only the Spiritual Energy had a 99% fusion rate, the others were less.
The fusion success rates provided by the Wanxiang Star Pupil were an implicit recommendation index.
Clearly, the Electrostatic Field was a perfect match for me!
Without further thought, Ji Xinghuo threw the Alien Species into his mouth and swallowed it. Just like when he had fused with the Rotating Magnetic Field, he couldn’t taste anything; it went straight to the stomach.
Soon, the Alien Species was digested in the stomach.
A familiar and yet foreign sensation emerged, and Ji Xinghuo felt an energy spreading from his stomach throughout his body, like an electric current, tingling and permeating his blood, bones, brain, and the trillions of cells that made up his body, as if countless bolts of lightning were dancing within him.
Electric currents appeared on his skin, hairs stood on end, and his hair sparkled with lightning.
Amidst the sound of electric current, Ji Xinghuo’s eyes lit up, with bright electrical flashes jumping in his pupils. The world changed once more before his eyes.
Before, he could only sense the shape of the magnetic field with his brain.
Now, he could directly see the countless leaping electric charges in space through his eyes, densely packed and ubiquitous, forming the entire world.
Everything that is material has both a magnetic field and an electric field.
Recalling his physics knowledge, Ji Xinghuo remembered that what were once abstract concepts were now something he could comprehend in the most direct way. An electric field is a physical field caused by electric charges, while a magnetic field is a physical field caused by electric currents and magnetic materials.
Both electric and magnetic fields are two sides of the same electromagnetic field.
Previously, I could only sense magnetic fields, but now electric fields as well, making my perception more powerful, rich, and perfect, finally touching the deep essence of things!
As the fusion deepened, more and more lightning appeared around Ji Xinghuo, growing brighter and affecting the lights in the Cultivation Room, flashing erratically.
A bolt of lightning sprang from his body, piercing the air.
Ji Xinghuo watched the entire process of lightning formation: electric charges clustered together, creating a higher electric potential, and the electric field strength broke through the critical point of the air medium, ionizing it, hence the conductivity.
Crack, crack, crack...
Lightning bursts proliferated outward.
Before fusing with the Electrostatic Field, Ji Xinghuo’s Rotating Magnetic Field could only generate current within his body and not outside unless he released Thunderbolt Hand.
Now he could easily do so.
Ji Xinghuo recalled his previous fusion with the Rotating Magnetic Field.
Back then, his lack of control caused such a commotion that he did considerable damage to the Cultivation Room of the Alien Species store; it looked as if it had been scorched by fire.
He certainly didn’t want the Cultivation Room in his home to suffer the same fate.
Instantly, all the lightning bursting outwards was confined within a two-meter radius, unable to cause greater damage.
When the fusion with the Electrostatic Field was halfway done, the Rotating Magnetic Field was automatically stimulated, and the Star Power in his body also spun up rapidly, with the lightning erupting from his body becoming like fuel added to fire, in terms of density and intensity increasing by an order of magnitude.