The spear of violet fire entered the crown of Lin Ke’s skull at the speed of light.
Every hair leftover on his scalp turned to grey ash before the nerves could transmit the sensation of heat.
Thirty percent of a Four-Nine extinction strike was still thirty thousand volts of packed sky star-fire. The live spark charge hit his Baihui acupoint and instantly sought the lowest flow pushback path through his mortal anatomy: his lower brain, his cerebrospinal fluid, and his heart nerve web.
If he tried to store even a single micro-coulomb of this charge in his dantian, the container would detonate like a brass bomb.
Pass-Through Routing Protocol, his mind screamed through the white-hot void of sheer agony. Zero holding! Pass-through only!
Lin Ke didn’t fight the fire. He surrendered the path.
He clamped down on the inside valves of his heart and internal organs, sealing them behind thick walls of Ashen Bone heat padding. At the same time, he threw his entire spinal column open to the sky surge.
The lightning poured down his neck bones like a river of molten copper.
