The Lightning Rod

Name: The Lightning Rod
Author: Redhead's Evening Tale

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by Redhead's Evening Tale (红头叙晚)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 1.6M Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Fantasy High-Concept
Updated: 1d ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

When Lu Chen woke up, his mouth was full of a burnt taste.

Not the kind of burnt taste you get from barbecue. It was the smell your body gives off after being electrocuted from the inside out, the sort that says, “You should be dead by now.”

He had been struck by lightning nine times, and he was still alive.

Because he was a one-in-ten-thousand “insulator”: tribulation lightning couldn't kill him. Instead, it charged him up.

Sounds great? Don't forget, the Heavenly Dao keeps accounts. Every bolt he endured added another debt to the ledger. Interest compounded daily, growing by one percent a day. Couldn't pay it back? The final reckoning would erase you from the threads of cause and effect.

To stay alive, Lu Chen became a tribulation lightning stand-in: he took the strikes for cultivators who couldn't withstand them, earned spirit stones, bought materials, and deliberately drew lightning to pay down his debt.

But the more he repaid, the more he owed.

Then he discovered a terrifying truth: it wasn't that he wasn't paying enough. His constitution itself was “borrowing automatically.” Being an insulator wasn't a blessing, but a curse. He was a flaw in the Heavenly Dao System, marked “awaiting deletion.”

Even more absurdly, the flaw was a backdoor deliberately left behind by the ancient powerhouse, the Thunder Emperor. And Lu Chen was the Thunder Emperor's reincarnation.

The Heavenly Dao's pursuit, the six great holy lands closing in, his lightning debt snowballing... Everyone told him he had two choices: reboot the System and bring the world crashing down, or become the new System and lose himself.

Lu Chen chose a third path:

He would let the lightning shatter him and scatter his fragments into every bolt.

From then on, whenever thunder rumbled, the whole world would know that the same chatty guy was still around.

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