But just as the team was preparing to focus fire and annihilate the remaining three winged dragons, a sudden turn of events occurred.
Above, the light red thunderclouds grew denser, eventually brewing arcs of electricity. A red lightning bolt struck one of the injured dark winged dragons.
Roar! The struck dark winged dragon immediately let out an extremely painful roar, becoming completely berserk. Its already massive body rapidly expanded, its size instantly increasing, and the whites of its eyes turned crimson.
Its original five-meter wingspan stretched to eight meters, and the sharp demonic claws at the tips of its wings doubled in length, gleaming with a deep sharpness.
Instantly, the expressions of all the members of the expedition team, including the Taoist priest, changed drastically.
The Yu Zhibo clone, releasing the light spiritual energy of Chidori, was also startled and quickly asked the severed-armed fire user who had just run to his side to protect him, "What's going on?"
The fire user's face was solemn. "According to Taoist teachings, this is Karmic Red Lightning, formed from the karma generated by the tragic deaths of countless beings on this land."
The darker the color of the thunderclouds, the greater the power of the lightning. As for this lightest shade of thundercloud, its power was not enough to kill the winged dragon when it struck. It would cause the winged dragon to be burned by karma, fully stimulating all its potential. Its strength would double in a short period, and it would eventually die from the depletion of its life force."
"Double the strength?" Yu Zhibo's expression changed slightly, then a thoughtful look appeared on his face. "What if all the lightning struck it?"
"Of course, it would die!" The fire user glanced at him strangely and continued, "Dark creatures like this can only withstand one Tier 1 Karmic Red Lightning bolt; it's already their limit. What a shame, if only it were struck again."
The fire user sighed and shook his head, then stood up and walked out from behind the rock where he and the Yu Zhibo clone were hiding.
"Young man, protect yourself. I can't just stand by and watch anymore!"
The fire user, with half of his right arm corroded, stood up. While using his mental power to absorb the light spiritual energy purified by Yu Zhibo's clone into his dantian and absorb it with a sequence core, he walked towards the battlefield.
Halfway there, his entire body was engulfed in raging flames, and then he completely ignited, finally elementalizing into a fire dragon formed from flames.
"Fire User, you're actually a water ability user!" The blue-haired older sister's expression changed drastically upon seeing this. "Even though you're a fire element awakener, elementalizing in the Evernight World will still lead to assimilation by dark matter!"
"Stop wasting time, let's finish this quickly. We can still save it with lightning refinement when we get back, hurry up and kill it!" The Taoist priest gritted his teeth, blood spraying out again without regard for cost, empowering the Money Sword with pure Yang energy, and then charged forward, killing another dark winged dragon.
The ice ability user's temples bulged. He slammed his palms onto the ground, and the rainwater near his palms rapidly condensed into solid ice, which then spread, freezing the other winged dragon, excluding the berserk one, temporarily.
Having fought together many times, they had long since developed a strong tacit understanding. The moment the winged dragon was frozen, the power-type ability user stomped his foot. The ground beneath him cracked like a spiderweb and caved in, while he himself transformed into an afterimage and disappeared from his original position.
"Come and be cleansed!"
The next moment, the power-type ability user appeared in front of the frozen winged dragon. His entire body was as red as a boiled crab, steam emanating from his muscular physique as he swung his fist towards the winged dragon, instantly blasting its head apart.
The power-type ability user's state was like Luffy's first gear in "One Piece." His body was emitting steam, and coupled with his chuunibyou lines, it was clear he was a veteran otaku.
And just after he killed the winged dragon, only the last berserk winged dragon remained on the field.
Escape was no longer an option. Even though the winged dragon would collapse and die soon after its potential was exhausted by burning, the berserk winged dragon's speed was incredibly terrifying. The only possibility of escape was to be defeated one by one, turning all their efforts into bubbles.
The berserk winged dragon not only had doubled strength but also possessed a karma buff. Even an unintentional swipe carried karmic gales that, upon contact, could inflict pain as if scraping bones and tendons.
The blue-haired older sister gritted her teeth and elementalized herself as well. Following the fire user, two dragons, one of water and one of fire, became entangled with the berserk winged dragon. The remaining Taoist priest searched for opportunities with his sword, but his庚金 sword strikes only produced sparks against the berserk winged dragon's blood-red scales.
Their spiritual energy demands were too high. The Chidori released by Yu Zhibo, costing 100 points of spiritual energy, provided insufficient purified light spiritual energy for them to use.
The ice user and the strength user had just jointly killed a winged dragon and were exhausted, panting on the side.
The situation was precarious.
"Must I use that move?" the Yu Zhibo clone murmured, a look of eagerness flashing in his eyes.
He checked his internal spiritual energy. With the continuous release of Chidori, the 300 points of spiritual energy allocated by the main body were only over 110 points. However, the principle of that move was to borrow the power of heaven and earth's lightning, and in essence, it did not require much consumption.
In other words, the skill would consume as much spiritual energy as Chidori consumed.
His crimson Sharingan scanned the surroundings. The Yu Zhibo clone instantly found a suitable location to draw lightning and immediately began to run rapidly. He soon reached the foot of a hundred-meter-tall lone peak, channeled a small amount of spiritual energy to his feet, and then, defying gravity, used the ninja run to sprint up the steep mountain wall towards the summit.
At this moment, neither the Taoist priest's five-person expedition team nor the berserk winged dragon noticed him.
Chir chir chir~
The Chidori in Yu Zhibo's hand became even more intense. He raised Chidori high, and a thin, twisted arc of electricity surged into the thunderclouds. Simultaneously, his crimson Sharingan rotated, closely monitoring all movements of the lightning arcs within the karmic thunderclouds.
"The main body has failed me. My Shadow Clone Jutsu isn't mastered, so the Sharingan's abilities are only inherited by 80%. However, the thunderclouds in this world are relatively stable, with no extraneous elements. Lightning here is much easier to control than normal lightning on Earth. I can barely use Kirin."
The clone muttered to himself, focusing his attention on the thunderclouds above, while continuously pouring the remaining spiritual energy into Chidori.
Although the Karmic Thunderclouds contained an extremely vast amount of karma, the lightning born from them was essentially no different from natural lightning, only more terrifying in power.
The extremely complex information for "Lightning Style: Kirin" surfaced in his mind. Following the experience gained from learning Kirin, the Yu Zhibo clone slowly guided the Karmic Red Lightning with the lightning provided by Chidori. Each step was like dancing on a knife's edge; any mistake would lead to a severe backlash.
But in the end, he succeeded.
Thus, above the red clouds, a red Kirin formed from red lightning slowly condensed, its face ferocious and its eyes angry, lifelike, and letting out a silent roar.
And at the same moment the Kirin was born, a world-destroying pressure emanated from it, instantly drawing the attention of everyone present.
"Is this a lightning summoning technique?" The Taoist priest looked up and immediately leaped backward, looking at the Yu Zhibo clone atop the peak with disbelief.
The other four also changed their expressions drastically.
"Quick, Ice and Water, control the winged dragon!" The Taoist priest realized this was an excellent opportunity for a counterattack and quickly roared.