Chapter 522: 177-have you ever been kicked out by light?
Lu Chen almost jumped up when he heard the answer. There were too many benefits to it. First, he could consume a large amount of immortal Phoenix blood essence during his advancement and second, he could refine high quality blood essence.
However, it was obvious that he was happy too early.
After the “yes,” the system’s notifications popped up one after another.
[ system message: the host needs to spend 1000000 experience points to remove the evil force in the God blood and restore the sun god blood’s Foundation. Then, the host needs to spend 100000000 experience points to strengthen the God blood to the God immortal blood essence. ]
“What is this? One, Ten, One Hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one billion, one billion!”
f * ck, one billion? why don’t you just Rob us? ”
Looking at the system notification and counting to zero, Lu Chen almost lost his mind.
I can still try if it’s 100 million, but it’s 100 million!
While Lu Chen was in despair, the system’s voice suddenly rang again.
[ system message: if the host obtains the divine blood of an ordinary God, the host can spend 100 million experience points to strengthen it. The sun god is a powerful God, so it will cost one billion experience points. ]
[ system message: host can also transform into the sun god to absorb the power of faith from believers and convert the power of faith into sun-type divine power. 100000 points of sun divine power can be used to strengthen a drop of main God-level indestructible blood essence. ]
one hundred thousand points of Shen power, and it’s for the sun attribute. That’s a lot. I’m too poor.
The Lu Chen now, because he could store a huge amount of the power of the sun, could turn into the giant Sunbird and roam the world, and could even break through medium scale Shadow Realms, he thought he didn’t lack experience points anymore.
But now, he realized that he was overthinking things. As long as he wanted to be stronger, he would never have enough mastery points. Of course, Lu Chen was just too ambitious.
main God-level indestructible blood essence is a little too much for me. Ordinary people can advance to legend by refining demigod-level blood. I can also advance to bi an like this, but this kind of advancement is just barely. It’s the most ordinary among legends. Even if I have the foundation from before, I’m only slightly stronger among legends, and I can’t become an ultimate.
those who rely on the undying blood essence of gods are among the most powerful ones among the legends. It’s also the choice of the prodigies in the past several hundred years. As for those who rely on the blood essence of main gods, it’s rare to see one in a thousand years.
This was not an exaggeration. The blood essence of a main God was so rare. One hundred thousand points of divine power for a drop of indestructible divine blood was very important even for powerful gods.
however, not being able to see it also means that I’m powerful. If I rely on the main God’s indestructible essence blood to advance, I’ll be a legend that’s hard to see even in a thousand years. Furthermore, unlike the lucky ones who found the main God’s indestructible essence blood in the past, I’m already the strongest in the titled stage. If I obtain the strongest main God’s essence blood, the title of the number one legend in all of history will very likely fall on my head.
Lu Chen clenched his fists and made up his mind.
it’s decided then. I’ll accumulate energy and strengthen the sun god’s blood to the limit.
one billion experience points is a lot, but there are too many medium-sized Shadow Realms in this world. One billion experience points will be enough if we uproot all of them.
After making up his mind, Lu Chen was ready to leave the basement.
Before he left, he slammed his palm on the tombstone, ready to shatter it.
He was afraid that something would happen to the tombstone again. Without the divine power of death and the divine blood, the tombstone was smashed into pieces.
in the future, I can look for more information on cursed items. They are strange and powerful, but they also contain many rules and divinity. As long as I can survive it, I’ll be rich.
Of course, only Lu Chen was capable of doing such a thing.
Of course, other people could also obtain those cursed items, but after obtaining them, they had to pay a price every time they used them. After all, they were called cursed items because the divinity inside was contaminated.
Only Lu Chen could use his mastery points to get rid of the aura of the evil. But even so, it was very expensive, at least a million. Therefore, unless it was extremely precious, Lu Chen wouldn’t use his mastery points.
let’s go. I’m going to cultivate the great Lord of Light and take a look. What’s this? ”
Lu Chen was about to leave after he smashed the tombstone but before he left, he caught sight of a golden fragment. He grabbed the fragment and was about to take a look at what it was.
However, the moment he touched it, Lu Chen felt as if he was struck by lightning and his body froze.
“Hiss!”
After a long time, Lu Chen took a deep breath and looked at the crystal in his hand. His eyes almost popped out of his head.
“F * ck, I can’t believe I’m so lucky.”
At this moment, Lu Chen’s mind was filled with thoughts. However, he wasn’t good at writing and could only express his thoughts with a ” f * ck “.
But even with Lu Chen’s mental state, he was still able to say ‘holy shit’. One could only imagine how precious this crystal was.
you can’t bring this thing out. System, absorb and fuse it.
[ system message: host has come into contact with a divine fragment. After inspection, it is determined to be a divine fragment of the sun deity armor. ]
[ system message: the host has absorbed a shard of divinity. Congratulations, the Shard of divinity has been increased by 10 points. ]
That’s right, a divinity fragment, and a 10-point divinity fragment at that. Lu Chen would never have thought that there would be a divinity fragment in the tomb even if there was no immortal blood essence.
He quickly put the Shard of divinity into his mind and in an instant, Lu Chen’s divinity reached 12 points, which was an extremely ridiculous number. If the other four in the four heavenly gates could keep up with him, Lu Chen could be called a true God with weak divine power.
“We’re rich, we’re really rich this time.”
Lu Chen was overjoyed. He stood there for a long time before he calmed down. In the end, he didn’t leave and sat down with his eyes closed.
this is my lucky place. I’ll learn the Lord of Light here.
As Lu Chen closed his eyes, a total of 12 million streams of heat flowed through his body, washing away the Twilight divinity and returning it to normal.
[ system message: the host has spent 12000000 experience points to cleanse the Twilight divinity. Congratulations, you have obtained 12 normal sun divinity. ]
learn from the Lord of Light.
[ system message: the host has 36 million experience points and 12 sun divinity. The host can now learn the Lord of Light. Do you wish to spend 30 million experience points and 10 sun divinity to learn it? ]
“Yes.”
As soon as Lu Chen replied, the ten sun divinities shattered and turned into endless light laws that rushed into Lu Chen’s mind. He was immersed in the ocean of light and quickly learned a lot of laws.
While he was receiving the baptism of the sun divinity in his consciousness and deepening his understanding of the power of light, the remaining sun divinity and a huge amount of mastery points were also permeating and washing through his body, allowing his body to transform into the form of light.
When the sun divinity and a huge amount of mastery points filled Lu Chen’s body, he felt like his body was melting.
This was not a mere description. It had really melted.
His bones, flesh, blood, veins, and even his brain were all melted by the power of light.
Of course, Lu Chen didn’t die after his body melted away. He could still feel his existence. This time, he was no longer in his physical form but in the form of light.
“Elemental transformation, light transformation, is this my current form?”
While floating in the air, Lu Chen felt that he could control his body in light at any time.
In fact, he could even turn the scattered light into a variety of weapons such as Spears, swords, warhammers, feather Pixiu and so on. Lu Chen could make any shape of the light. However, Lu Chen also realized that the ordinary light forms only had the form and the speed and heat of light. They didn’t have any special abilities.
However, Lu Chen had learned the holy sword of Light, spear of justice, and wings of light before. Lu Chen’s light could also be combined at will and when the three forms were combined, they would come with their original skills.
as expected, other abilities can be combined with the Lord of Light.
Lu Chen was overjoyed at his new form, but soon, he realized that he was emitting too much light.
First of all, after being elementalized, one could not grow as big as one wanted.
After he could turn his body into elements, Lu Chen understood that there were two types of elements in his body.
The first method was to attract the free elements of the world. Creatures that could elementalize were all Masters of controlling the elements. They could naturally gather the free elements of the world around them.
For example, Lu Chen could allow the sun to surround his body and even absorb the light energy from the surroundings. These elements could also be used for attack and defense but they couldn’t form the Origin’s body.
The other type of element was the origin element. This type of origin element was branded by one’s own body and could be controlled like one’s own body.
For the original elements, if it was an elemental creature from a young age, they would have to cultivate bit by bit.
For an elemental creature like Lu Chen, the origin element was derived from his soul, body, blood, and other things.
In other words, the stronger the body, the more energy it had, and the more origin elements it could be converted into.
Of course, there was also the conversion rate. But Lu Chen’s Grand Lord of Light was created by the sun god of this world and it used 10 Suns to fuse with Lu Chen’s body. In addition, Lu Chen had a huge amount of the power of the sun in his body and the power of the sun was very compatible with the light element. Due to various reasons, Lu Chen’s body was converted to the element. The conversion rate was 80%, which was already an incredible number.
After all, there were too many elements in the human body. It was already very high to have a 20 to 30% success rate when it was converted into a single element. Lu Chen’s 80% success rate was something that no one could achieve other than the God who mastered the power of light.
Lu Chen’s element conversion rate was very high. Another point was that he had a lot of energy in his body and his qi and blood were very strong.
After all, Lu Chen was known for his high Constitution and energy.
With a strong foundation, a high conversion rate, and the fact that the power of elements would spread if it was not compressed to the extreme, there were all sorts of reasons that caused trouble.
A loud ” boom ” was heard. It was like a tidal wave or a volcano erupting. A huge amount of light energy was converted by Lu Chen and rushed out in all directions from the basement.
Because Lu Chen’s Foundation was too strong, the power of light spread out to half of the city in a very short time.
At that moment, the residents of heaven martial city seemed to be wandering in an ocean of light. The power of the golden-white light enveloped them like water.
A moment ago, the frost was raging, but now, it was an ocean of light. The envoys who were watching Lu Chen were confused. They didn’t know what the Prince was doing.
However, despite their doubts, they were determined to win Lu Chen over.
It couldn’t be helped. Be it the arrival of the cold winter or the explosion of the sea of light, the aftermath had affected the entire heaven martial city. This showed how powerful the Prince was.
While the other envoys were convinced, tai Zhao and Tai Yi looked at the ocean of light that was still expanding with complicated expressions.
“He has mastered it.”
“Yes.”
“This is way too big. Big brother, how big can you become when you transform into light?”
“Don’t say anymore. I’m going into seclusion.”
Looking at the endless ocean of light, Taiyi, who ranked first on the ranking list of young masters, felt desperate.
In terms of understanding of light, he thought he was the best among the young ones. In terms of elemental essence conversion, he also thought he was the best. In fact, his natural light divine body allowed him to convert up to 90%, which was even higher than Lu Chen.
Unfortunately, the Barbarian prince was too big. In the past, Taiyi had consoled himself that being big didn’t mean that he was strong. But now, he understood that the reason why he was big wasn’t strong was because he wasn’t big enough. When he was big enough, he could make people feel despair.
As Taiyi also knew the power of light, he knew better than anyone how strong Lu Chen was.
He knew that the vast power of light in front of him was only the Prince’s origin power. There was no trace of external free elements.
If the power of origin was already so vast, he didn’t even dare to imagine how powerful the Prince would become if he relied on the power of origin to absorb the free light essence in the world.
After elementalization, one point of origin Energy could absorb ten points of free elements in the world.
In other words, the stronger the origin Energy, the more power of light it could absorb. Absorbing 10 points per point was only the foundation. If one had a deep understanding of the power of light, or if one’s soul and will were strong, or if there were many light elements in the surroundings (elemental creatures had high requirements for their living environment), one point of origin Energy could control 30,50, or even 100.
“He’s able to cover half the city with his Origin Energy. If he were to use his full power …”
She didn’t dare to think any further. Her mental state collapsed and she went straight into her room, shutting herself up.
Lu Chen didn’t know much about the introverted Tai Yi. At this moment, Lu Chen was having a strange feeling. Wherever the light of the origin spread, Lu Chen’s consciousness would be in it.
Now, Lu Chen could clearly sense half of the humans in the town.
He also had a feeling that if he wanted to, he could change the light attribute to scorching heat and everything that was enveloped by light would be burned to ashes.
Of course, Lu Chen wouldn’t do such a thing. He didn’t convert the power of light into heat but instead, he converted it into healing attribute.
With the transformation of this energy, the people wandering in the light ocean were cured of their illnesses and injuries. Their physical bodies were even getting stronger at a visible rate.
“So this is elemental essence conversion? it’s so cool.”
Lu Chen was overjoyed when he felt that he could influence countless people with just a thought. He even wanted to absorb the light elements in the world and form a true body from the ocean of light.
However, after thinking about it, he gave up on this idea. It was too ostentatious.
Lu Chen’s consciousness returned to his body.
By right, the elemental essence should be able to transform the entire body, but Lu Chen’s body had changed. Most of his body, even his head, had been converted into light element.
There was only one thing that could not be transformed, and that was the ghost hand (the divinity could transform into anything).
At this moment, in the basement, other than the rippling power of light, there was also a ferocious ghost hand crawling on the ground.
the ghostly hand contains the evil power of the seven ghostly gods, as well as the black rope heavenly Bodhi Wisdom King. They are the archenemy of light. It’s impossible to turn them into light. Only by destroying the seven ghostly gods can they forcefully turn them into light.
Lu Chen didn’t want to get rid of the seven ghosts and the black rope heavenly astral Wisdom King. He couldn’t do it either.
However, the remaining ghost hands weren’t lu Chen’s burden.
Without a word, Lu Chen just used his will and a shadow appeared above the ghost hand. Under the shadow, the ghost hand disappeared into the void.
The third ghost, afterimage Jia Kai!
Since the black rope Libra deity was contained in the ghost hand and the deity avatar was a part of Lu Chen’s soul, Lu Chen could control it from a distance as long as it wasn’t too far away.
At the same time, there was also a heart hidden in the ghost hand (obtained when absorbing the demigod vampire, transferred to the ghost hand some time ago), which provided it with a source of power.
It had a consciousness, a source of power, and the power of the seven ghosts. In other words, the ghost hand was not only not a burden to Lu Chen, but also a helper. It could escape into the shadow world, reach into the void, release the power of darkness and the power of the seven ghosts.
Strictly speaking, this ghost hand was only slightly weaker than Lu Chen’s elemental hand.
the great Lord of Light is facing the enemy head-on while netherclaw sneaks from the side. Not bad.
it’s just a little strange. A godhood with a broken hand. I’m almost the same as the God of War and justice, Tyr.
Lu Chen then gathered the light element back into his body.
As the ocean of light dissipated, the heaven martial city regained its order. However, the residents of the heaven martial city felt a little regretful. They liked the warm feeling of the ocean of light.
“I’ve recovered.”
“My scar is gone.”
“Dad, your leg … Your broken leg has grown back.”
“I think I’ve got a little cream down there.”
……
Under the power of light, many people recovered their health or gained enhancements.
Of course, Lu Chen also found two cultists in the midst of the light. But they weren’t so lucky. They were washed away by the light and disappeared instantly.
“Only two. There aren’t many spies here.”
It was only natural. The evils were powerful but they were too chaotic and loved to kill. They were not suitable to be spies. With Lu Chen in charge of the heaven martial city, the place was like a dragon’s pool or a Tiger’s Den. It was more than enough for two people.
Lu Chen ignored the two cultists and walked out of the basement. It was already late at night.
Lu Chen wasn’t surprised. The absorption of the power from the tombstone allowed the fourth ghost to level up and learn the Lord of Light. It had been a long time since then.
The messengers from the other states who were trying to get close to Lu Chen all swarmed toward his door in hopes that Lu Chen would save them from the crisis first.
After all, the longer the evil lived, the more pressure they had to bear. If they couldn’t bear it, half of the continent’s humans would fall.
Lu Chen knew about this and he was prepared to make his move tomorrow. However, he wasn’t interested in the compliments.
after I get out, I’ll be pestered by the princesses they sent over. Seriously, I don’t know who spread this rumor. I’m not lecherous at all!
Lu Chen didn’t want to pay too much attention to these trivial matters, so he flew straight to the mountain Prefecture.
although we’re preparing to attack the Shadow Realm tomorrow, we can’t miss today’s sweep of the evil either. These are all experience points.
After learning the Grand Lord of Light, Lu Chen’s mastery of the power of light became more and more proficient, which made it easier for him to clean up tonight.
Before the sky brightened, he had already cleaned up and arrived at his original destination.
let’s keep moving forward, Bruce. You still dare to come!
Because of his speed and his mastery of the power of light, Lu Chen didn’t have to use up too much energy tonight. He was ready to move on.
However, as soon as he flapped his wings, Lu Chen felt that something was wrong. With his vision and the ability of apocalypse, he realized that Bruce, who he had killed once with time freeze, was lying in ambush.
This infuriated Lu Chen. He reached out his ghost hand and tried to grab him.
However, Bruce’s soul was more sensitive than Arnold’s. He could sense the spatial fluctuations when Lu Chen extended his hand. As soon as Lu Chen did that, Bruce’s figure flashed and he left his original position.
“Escape? do you think you can escape?”
Lu Chen didn’t pull his hand back. He continued to reach forward and his hand shuttled through space, trying to grab Bruce’s body.
Just as netherclaw was chasing Bruce, the void beside him suddenly collapsed, and a monster suddenly appeared.
The monster was huge, shaped like a head. On top of the head, other than the countless tentacles and eyes, there were also thousands of painful faces.
The face of a thousand grievances!
Lu Chen sensed it as soon as it appeared but sometimes, it wasn’t always better to have a higher perception.
As soon as he sensed the face of thousand resentment, Lu Chen realized that the monster’s shadow had appeared in his soul. At the same time, his soul was also affected. There were faces of anger, hatred, cruelty, and fear on Lu Chen’s body. After they appeared, they cursed at each other and even affected Lu Chen’s soul. It was as if his soul had been split.
“I’m in so much pain.”
“Kill me!”
“Bastard, this is my body!”
“Mine, mine, you’re all fake.”
……
The roars of the faces were enough to make one upset, but Lu Chen was very calm.
“Another one. Who else? come out together.”
At this moment, Lu Chen didn’t even realize that this was a trap for him.
As for how they were going to ambush him, Lu Chen had already figured it out. A few days ago, he was fine in the cloud Plains and the wilderness as he was flying around randomly.
In the past few days, Lu Chen’s flight path was planned after he got the information from Shanzhou. Although it made him kill the evils faster, it also allowed the enemies to figure out his plan.
However, it wasn’t the time to complain. Lu Chen was trying to lure the people around him to appear.
However, there was no sound in the surroundings, as if no one was lying in ambush.
On the other hand, Bruce, who had been constantly moving and even creating thousands of illusionary clones, spoke.
“Only the two of us can kill you.”
“Then stop and let me catch you.”
you’ll die even if you don’t stop. Can your consciousness still take it? ”
“Hehe, Yingluo.”
Was the face of a thousand grievances powerful? Of course it was powerful.
This was a legendary monster, a monster that was formed after the resentment of the gods when they were unwilling to die was infected by the aura of the evil.
As a vengeful spirit of a God, it had some of the characteristics of a God that could not be looked at directly.
Any human who could sense the face of thousand resentment would have their sea of consciousness invaded by it.
At the same time, godhood was the accumulation of the power of thousands of beliefs to build themselves, while the face of thousand grievances, which was born from the resentment of the gods, was the opposite. It could split a person’s soul into thousands of pieces.
As long as one did not have a Sacred Heart, humans would not be able to suppress their own thoughts. They would not be able to gather all their thoughts into one, which gave the face of thousand grievances a chance.
That was exactly what was happening to Lu Chen right now. The faces that carried negative energy were separated from Lu Chen’s mind.
The noise of so many faces was enough to make people upset. This kind of upset would make people irritable, which would then give birth to more faces. This was the ability of the face of thousand resentment. Those affected by it would often kill each other or be occupied by a chaotic thought, directly turning into an evil.
However, since it could affect others, it would be a death wish if it found Lu Chen.
The face of thousand resentment was indeed powerful, but Lu Chen’s Demon God was not easy to deal with either.
As Lu Chen’s ghostly hand moved, a green light swept across and the negative energy was sucked away.
The second Demon God, PU limeng of corrosion!
This evil god that devoured fear had become Lu Chen’s Guardian. Any ability that could attract fear, despair and negative energy couldn’t hurt Lu Chen.
The face of thousand resentment’s ability to split a person was triggered by the negative energy. When the negative energy disappeared, it would no longer be able to affect Lu Chen.
“The helper you found is not good enough!”
Feeling the ghostly hand that was moving in the void and trying to grab him, and listening to the words of the Barbarian prince, Bruce also felt a little suffocated.
However, Lu Chen was wrong about one thing. Bruce didn’t just find anyone to help him. He had carefully prepared for it.
Brosh had his own reasons for finding the legendary soul, the face of thousand grievances.
Of the four types of legends, legends with physical abilities were eliminated by Bruce at once. He knew how strong the Barbarian Prince’s physical body was. In Bruce’s opinion, even a legendary physical expert could only suppress it slightly and could not kill it in one blow.
After all, this was the human world. If they couldn’t kill him in one blow, it would mean their failure.
If the physical body couldn’t do it, the same was true for the energy. In his perception, the energy in the Barbarian Prince’s body was as vast as mountains and seas. In addition, he couldn’t fight a protracted battle, so he couldn’t let the experts in energy come over.
Physical bodies and energy were not enough. He would like to ask for will, but most of the anomalies were corrupted by the aura of the evil, and their will was very weak. It was impossible to find legendary Bruce who had broken through in this area.
Therefore, Bruce had no choice but to find the legendary spirit. He wanted to kill Lu Chen in one blow with his strange soul power. Even if he couldn’t kill Lu Chen in one blow, he wanted to make Lu Chen lose his consciousness for a while, just like how Lu Chen fought Arnold the Dragon in the Shadow Realm.
However, even after thinking about it, he realized that the Barbarian prince had no weakness in his will and soul other than his body and blood. The split of the face of thousand resentment couldn’t affect Lu Chen’s will.
In fact, after turning his head to look, he was horrified to discover that the wailing heads of the face of thousand resentment were actually slowly revealing a peaceful smile, and then they disappeared one by one.
“What is this? It was purified? The Barbarian prince has the purification ability of the Buddhist sect?”
Three questions appeared in Bruce’s mind, and soon, a voice mixed with anger and fear interrupted his thoughts.
purification my ass! It’s a monster! It’s devouring my negative energy!
It was the face of thousand resentment that sent the message. The monster that terrified others was now terrified of Lu Chen.
It couldn’t be helped. This was the first time it had encountered a situation where it couldn’t split apart another person and was being devoured.
“This guy is the real monster.”
When Bruce, who was running away, heard the sound, he knew that things were bad.
“Use your final killing move!”
There was no need for Brosh to shout, the face of thousand grievances, whose negative aura had been absorbed, was enraged.
“Death”
The thousands of faces roared at the same time, giving the voice an overlapping sense of holiness.
Of course, this didn’t affect Lu Chen at all. What made him squint his eyes was that as the voice rang out, the faces of the face of thousand resentment were changing rapidly from unique human faces to unified faces. The faces were becoming more and more like Lu Chen’s.
“Tsk, this move again.”
Lu Chen also noticed that when the evils cursed, they liked to transform into the person they cursed. The monsters had their own faces on their bodies. This didn’t make Lu Chen scared, but it made him feel disgusted.
However, he had misunderstood.
The evil changed people’s faces to scare people and gain fear. The second reason was that curses had to be done this way.
Curses seemed to be able to kill people from a thousand miles away and could also attack others through damaging items. However, no matter what kind of curse it was, it would need a medium.
The medium could be blood, hair, or commonly worn clothes. This was the principle behind hiding hair in a doll to cast a curse.
In addition to the physical entities mentioned above, the real name, face, and aura could also be used as a medium for curses.
Of course, the face of thousand resentment could use the aura to curse, but it could only curse ordinary people to death. In order to deal with Lu Chen, the face of thousand resentment changed Lu Chen’s face and called out his real name. This was to maximize the power of the curse.
“Chenxi, Chenxi, Chenxi, Chenxi!”
Under its call, the face of thousand resentment’s appearance became closer and closer to Lu Chen’s. Lu Chen had a feeling that when all the faces turned into him, something terrifying would happen.
Of course, Lu Chen wouldn’t allow it. When the face of thousand resentment changed its face, Lu Chen’s body suddenly collapsed and turned into endless light that spread in all directions.
“What is this, Yingluo? be careful, he’s looking for you.”
This was Brosh’s call of doubt. The thousand Faces of the face of thousand resentment also suddenly roared, and the violent roars caused the surrounding spirit energy and resentment to fly everywhere.
Chaos force field!
This was the protection of the face of thousand resentment. However, after the protection, the eyes of the face on the front side of the face of thousand resentment suddenly widened.
“Little Ye Ye Ye Ye Ye Ye Ye Ye Ye”
The overlapping voices did not finish, but Bruce already had a bad feeling.
after the Barbarian prince turned into light, he didn’t look for the face of thousand resentment. Instead, he came to me.
This thought only lasted for a moment. While he was thinking, he also wanted to escape.
However, there was no time. Brosh, who was dazzled by the light, heard a strange sound behind him.
“Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?”