Chapter 17: Could It Be a Coincidence?

The deafening boom echoed across the sky.

Even the viewers in the livestream heard it clearly.

【Holy crap, what’s going on?】

【Streamer, what happened over there? Was that the sound of an explosion?】

【Wait, isn't the streamer at school? With an explosion that loud, could it be the cafeteria?】

【Streamer? Streamer! Why aren't you saying anything?】

The viewers were startled by the loud noise. Seeing Lin Nan staring straight out the window without speaking, they began to worry about his situation.

Lin Nan, however, had turned to look out the window the very instant the sound erupted.

Others might not know what caused the boom, but as the one who drew the array and cast the spell, how could he not understand?

Sure enough, the moment after the sound, Lin Nan saw drops of rain falling one after another onto the dormitory windowpane.

It really was raining!

So, once one possesses magical power, one truly can wield the abilities of a deity!

Watching the raindrops drifting down from the sky, Lin Nan felt incredibly excited.

Before obtaining the system, who could have imagined that an ordinary person could possess the abilities reserved for gods?

Only after confirming the rain was falling did he turn his attention back to the livestream.

To his surprise, in the mere tens of seconds that had passed, the comment section was already filled with worried messages from his viewers.

Seeing that everyone had misunderstood, Lin Nan explained

"Don't worry, everyone. That wasn't an explosion; it was just a particularly loud clap of thunder."

As he spoke, he turned his phone camera toward the window.

"Look, it's raining outside now. That loud noise was just the thunder before the rain."

【Damn, you scared me to death. I thought something had exploded. Good thing it was just thunder.】

【Seriously, that rumble was way too loud.】

【Streamer, you were staring out the window without saying a word, I thought something had gone wrong.】

【Wait a minute! The streamer was just praying for rain on the playground, and now it's actually raining? Isn't that a bit too coincidental?】

【Could it be that the streamer was actually possessed by the Thunder Ancestor at that moment?!】

When the viewers in the livestream realized how coincidental the timing was, those who were already inclined to believe in the divine began flooding the chat with prayers.

【Nine Heavens Universal Thunder Sound Puhua Tianzun is above, please bless our village with favorable weather!】

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【Tianzun bless us...】

Lin Nan looked at the comment section with a wry smile, wanting to tell them to stop. If they did this every day, his mortal body wouldn't be able to take it!

【Congratulations to the host for completing the suggestion: The Thunder Ancestor descends to walk among mortals, fulfilling the duties of the Nine Heavens Universal Thunder Sound Puhua Tianzun, manifesting divinity before men, and summoning clouds and rain.】

【Obtained Roleplay Completion: 8.5%; Total Completion: 14.1%】

【Roleplay completion surpassed 10%, reward obtained: Purple Heaven Divine Thunder Technique】

Just as he was about to speak, the system's notification sounded.

Purple Heaven Divine Thunder Technique!

Could this be a spell once used by the Thunder Ancestor himself?!

The name of the spell sounded cool and domineering, and Lin Nan’s heart surged with excitement.

"I still have some magical power left in my body; I wonder if I can use this spell?"

When he cast the Nine Heavens Primordial Spirit Rain-Praying Array on the playground earlier, he could feel most of the magical power in his body being drained by the array in an instant.

In other words, sixty years' worth of magical power was only enough to cast the Nine Heavens Primordial Spirit Rain-Praying Array once.

If he wanted to use it a second time, he would need to replenish his power.

The consumption was terrifyingly high!

Lin Nan could only sigh at how powerful divine abilities were; sixty years of power could only be used once.

But then again, deities measure time in *huiyuan* cycles; sixty years is nothing more than a blink of an eye to them.

He didn't know how much power the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder Technique would consume, so he didn't dare to try it lightly. Suppressing his curiosity, he quickly spoke to persuade his viewers

"Everyone, please stop praying to me. I'm just a small streamer in the roleplay category; I can't handle your worship."

"If you really want to pray to the Thunder Ancestor, you can go to a Taoist temple and pray to the true deity's statue."

With Lin Nan's repeated persuasion, the craze for worshipping him in the comment section finally came to an end.

...

On the other side, at the playground.

The sky had just been as bright as day, followed by that deafening boom.

The sudden anomaly left the freshmen, who were happily holding their orientation activities, completely bewildered.

"No way, what is going on?!"

"Was that loud noise just thunder?"

"But there were fire clouds just a moment ago; it makes no sense for it to suddenly rain."

The situation made everyone instinctively look up at the sky.

The scene of orange-red clouds covering the sky had been replaced by a pitch-black night.

Just as everyone was staring at the sky in disbelief at the sudden transformation, another flash of purple-white lightning filled the entire sky.

Immediately after, another "rumbling" boom followed!

*Pitter-patter...*

Under their astonished gazes, raindrops began to fall one after another from the dark canopy above.

The students instinctively wiped the rain from their faces.

"Holy cow, it’s actually raining!"

"How could it rain?"

"Could it be that Lin Nan's rain-praying array actually worked?"

"What are you talking about? He told us himself to believe in science."

"But, isn't this a bit too coincidental?"

Everyone instinctively looked toward the array Lin Nan had drawn with cinnabar.

The legendary "Nine Heavens Primordial Spirit Rain-Praying Array" still lay quietly on the ground.

It was being washed away by the falling rain, and its intricate design quickly began to fade.

Even though Lin Nan had said he was just roleplaying the Thunder Ancestor and had urged them to believe in science, it had only been about ten minutes since he finished drawing the array, and now it was actually raining. Wasn't that a bit too much of a coincidence?

The rain continued to fall. Although it wasn't heavy, they couldn't just stand there getting soaked.

Zhang Yong and the instructors in charge of the other classes exchanged glances and said in unison

"Dismissed! Everyone back to the dorms to get out of the rain!"

"Yes!"

With the instructors' order, the freshmen ran faster than rabbits.

Those with jackets pulled them over their heads to shield themselves from the rain.

Those without jackets sprinted toward the dorms, baptized by the downpour.

The instructor, however, didn't leave immediately. Instead, he stood there, staring blankly at the array Lin Nan had drawn.

Lin Nan had asked for leave to go back to his dorm ten minutes ago, claiming it was for better lighting for his stream, but now it was raining...

"Old Zhang, what are you looking at? Let's go!"

"Coming."

Hearing his comrade's call, Zhang Yong finally stepped away from the playground.

...

When Wang Chengyu and Jiang Tao arrived at the dorm, they were soaked to the bone, water still dripping from their hair.

*Click.*

Wang Chengyu panted as he shut the dorm door.

"That's insane, Nan-ge. Your rain-praying was perfectly timed."

"Yeah, Old Lin, how did you know it would suddenly rain tonight?"

The two of them didn't truly believe that Lin Nan had summoned the rain.

They only assumed that Lin Nan had somehow learned about the incoming rain through other means.

However, Lin Nan feigned ignorance.

"I didn't know it was going to rain!"

The two were stunned. Wang Chengyu, while drying his hair with a towel, said in disbelief

"No way! Then why did you come back early?"

Lin Nan pointed to his phone, which was still livestreaming.

"Didn't I say? I came back to stream."

The two were speechless.

Could it really just be a coincidence?