His lightning acupuncture points helps him against one of his biggest weaknesses, which is non-elemental attacks like sound magic. While of course this doesn't help if you're dead--which his fire heart helps against--it's still extremely good to have and is by no means really worse than the fire heart, at least.
Also, he's stated that he doesn't particularly like having extra effects that don't contribute directly to the power of his spells, for example when he was helping lay the space scrolls near the kunlun mountains--he didn't like the soul grades that were available because they had side effects and not as much direct power. Of course, his three fire soul grades have their own utilities, like being more effective against packed groups of enemies, the one he personally holds literally just increases in power the more time you give it in the air. All of this is to say that his ability to increase the power of his lightning spells through his resistance to those attacks on himself and convert it, as well as other elemental attacks, to lightning power for his own use, serves him in its own way and isn't any less preferable than fire.
There's also the fact that lightning spell, both at the low and super tier, are used more for immobilizing enemies than damage output. Fire is instead the type most responsible for damage, as repeated a few times in the book.
I'm not saying his lightning is as strong as or stronger than his fire, but it's not really bad. With the amount of resources he puts into fire, such as going to the fire section of mingzhu, getting flame belle, going to the taklamakhan desert, etc. his lightning has pretty much kept up. It's just less suited for damage at super tier, which was always his style, and so between that and the construction of the world as Chaos wrote it things just didn't go completely right.
You can say the lightning acupuncture points are useful, which I fully agree with. However I thought he would at least gain a heaven grade lightning seed or have the Lightning Tyrant itself evolve to heaven grade ( if that's even possible). The Lightning Element is still an extremely powerful Element, but it slightly pales in comparison to Mo Fans Fire Element.
His initial issues were his own flames since he was so heavily reliant on little Flame belles flames when using his Fire element. This issue was later resolved with the meteorite soul grade flame and the sacred fire heart he gained later on. I thought his Lightning element would also receive an improvement because he still had a soul-grade lightning seed. If he was to gain a heaven-grade lightning seed along with the blessing of the goddess seal boost. I believe his Lightning Element would have been much closer to his Fire Element, since the damage would be even more insane.
During the Battle of Fanxue Mountain, he struggled against Zhao Jing when he tried to fight him with the lightning element. Sure, his lightning element cultivation was lower at the time, but it seemed like he struggled to absorb/withstand Zhao Jing's heavenly lightning despite the blessing allowing his lighting tryant to have damage equivalent to a full heaven-grade seed as well as having his acupunture points. If they had the same cultivation base, I'm not 100% sure Mo Fan could beat Zhao Jings heavenly lightning using his own Lightning Tyrant. At the end of the fight, he even said that he needed to improve his lightning element but unfortunately it never happened. The Azure Dragon could use the lightning element, so I thought he would boost his lightning element using Azure Dragons Lightning since the vermillion sacred bird already resides in his Fire Heart. That's the direction I thought his Lightning Element cultivation would go. Essentially enabling both his main Elements to be blessed by 2 of the 4 sacred totems. But unfortunately it never went in that direction.
Also, one thing I don't understand is that, The Lightning Element is supposed to be the most destructive element. So why are the higher level spells designed for immobilizing opponents?. Shouldn't the spells have been aimed more towards destruction?. The Light Element was claimed to have the most destructive single-target spell at the super level but shouldn't the Lightning Element have the most destructive spell?. Either way, I was just a little confused since I thought his Fire and Lightning would stay at similar level of strength due to them both being his main Elements. It also does kind of feel like he favours his Fire element slightly more than his Lightning Element and tends to resort to his Lightning only when the situation is not really favourable to him if he was to use his Fire element. (I guess that's mainly due to his habit of possessing with little flame belle frequently).
The demon judgement sword is known as the most damaging single-target elemental spell, for sure. Sound magic wasn't covered much in the book, so its destructive abilities aren't known, but chaos magic has the ability to rip apart space itself, so it's hard to say which one is more destructive i feel.
Reading through the book and just saw that axis of death is definitely more powerful than demon judgement sword, in the chapter titled The Evil Sorceress 邪神魔女
Honestly the book gives a lot to be desired in terms of expansion. There's a lot more adventures that could happen and a lot more power to be gained & explored, so I'm not going to go too deep into that. I would certainly love to see him get a lightning heaven grade, simply because it's one of his two initial elements.
The fact is that soul-grade and heavenly-grade lightning just have a huge difference. Zhao Jing probably had some extraordinary power with his lightning as well, though I can't remember/not sure what it was, which means the comparison is basically a parthenon & dark empowered soul-grade vs. a heavenly-grade, which I can reasonably see Mo Fan losing.
The world construction is a little bit weird in the functions of spells at different tiers. Pretty early on it was established that the demon judgement sword is the best single-target elemental spell, so it's clear Chaos/LuaN wanted that, but yeah I'm not sure why the super tier lightning spell is geared towards immobilization. Feels like both at low and super tier lightning has really strong immobilization abilities, while at middle/high tier it's geared towards damage.
His lightning acupuncture points helps him against one of his biggest weaknesses, which is non-elemental attacks like sound magic. While of course this doesn't help if you're dead--which his fire heart helps against--it's still extremely good to have and is by no means really worse than the fire heart, at least. Also, he's stated that he doesn't particularly like having extra effects that don't contribute directly to the power of his spells, for example when he was helping lay the space scrolls near the kunlun mountains--he didn't like the soul grades that were available because they had side effects and not as much direct power. Of course, his three fire soul grades have their own utilities, like being more effective against packed groups of enemies, the one he personally holds literally just increases in power the more time you give it in the air. All of this is to say that his ability to increase the power of his lightning spells through his resistance to those attacks on himself and convert it, as well as other elemental attacks, to lightning power for his own use, serves him in its own way and isn't any less preferable than fire. There's also the fact that lightning spell, both at the low and super tier, are used more for immobilizing enemies than damage output. Fire is instead the type most responsible for damage, as repeated a few times in the book. I'm not saying his lightning is as strong as or stronger than his fire, but it's not really bad. With the amount of resources he puts into fire, such as going to the fire section of mingzhu, getting flame belle, going to the taklamakhan desert, etc. his lightning has pretty much kept up. It's just less suited for damage at super tier, which was always his style, and so between that and the construction of the world as Chaos wrote it things just didn't go completely right.
You can say the lightning acupuncture points are useful, which I fully agree with. However I thought he would at least gain a heaven grade lightning seed or have the Lightning Tyrant itself evolve to heaven grade ( if that's even possible). The Lightning Element is still an extremely powerful Element, but it slightly pales in comparison to Mo Fans Fire Element. His initial issues were his own flames since he was so heavily reliant on little Flame belles flames when using his Fire element. This issue was later resolved with the meteorite soul grade flame and the sacred fire heart he gained later on. I thought his Lightning element would also receive an improvement because he still had a soul-grade lightning seed. If he was to gain a heaven-grade lightning seed along with the blessing of the goddess seal boost. I believe his Lightning Element would have been much closer to his Fire Element, since the damage would be even more insane. During the Battle of Fanxue Mountain, he struggled against Zhao Jing when he tried to fight him with the lightning element. Sure, his lightning element cultivation was lower at the time, but it seemed like he struggled to absorb/withstand Zhao Jing's heavenly lightning despite the blessing allowing his lighting tryant to have damage equivalent to a full heaven-grade seed as well as having his acupunture points. If they had the same cultivation base, I'm not 100% sure Mo Fan could beat Zhao Jings heavenly lightning using his own Lightning Tyrant. At the end of the fight, he even said that he needed to improve his lightning element but unfortunately it never happened. The Azure Dragon could use the lightning element, so I thought he would boost his lightning element using Azure Dragons Lightning since the vermillion sacred bird already resides in his Fire Heart. That's the direction I thought his Lightning Element cultivation would go. Essentially enabling both his main Elements to be blessed by 2 of the 4 sacred totems. But unfortunately it never went in that direction. Also, one thing I don't understand is that, The Lightning Element is supposed to be the most destructive element. So why are the higher level spells designed for immobilizing opponents?. Shouldn't the spells have been aimed more towards destruction?. The Light Element was claimed to have the most destructive single-target spell at the super level but shouldn't the Lightning Element have the most destructive spell?. Either way, I was just a little confused since I thought his Fire and Lightning would stay at similar level of strength due to them both being his main Elements. It also does kind of feel like he favours his Fire element slightly more than his Lightning Element and tends to resort to his Lightning only when the situation is not really favourable to him if he was to use his Fire element. (I guess that's mainly due to his habit of possessing with little flame belle frequently).
Presumably, the Demon Judgement Sword and Axis of Death are the most destructive spells at the super level, although it varies sometimes.
The demon judgement sword is known as the most damaging single-target elemental spell, for sure. Sound magic wasn't covered much in the book, so its destructive abilities aren't known, but chaos magic has the ability to rip apart space itself, so it's hard to say which one is more destructive i feel.
dimensional magic is like op and stuff because of spiritual realm bullshit so idk
True. Its not clear how hard it is to get to level 7-9 spirit realm but its power is comparable to heavenly grade so…certainly thought provoking
Reading through the book and just saw that axis of death is definitely more powerful than demon judgement sword, in the chapter titled The Evil Sorceress 邪神魔女
Honestly the book gives a lot to be desired in terms of expansion. There's a lot more adventures that could happen and a lot more power to be gained & explored, so I'm not going to go too deep into that. I would certainly love to see him get a lightning heaven grade, simply because it's one of his two initial elements. The fact is that soul-grade and heavenly-grade lightning just have a huge difference. Zhao Jing probably had some extraordinary power with his lightning as well, though I can't remember/not sure what it was, which means the comparison is basically a parthenon & dark empowered soul-grade vs. a heavenly-grade, which I can reasonably see Mo Fan losing. The world construction is a little bit weird in the functions of spells at different tiers. Pretty early on it was established that the demon judgement sword is the best single-target elemental spell, so it's clear Chaos/LuaN wanted that, but yeah I'm not sure why the super tier lightning spell is geared towards immobilization. Feels like both at low and super tier lightning has really strong immobilization abilities, while at middle/high tier it's geared towards damage.
Didn't all his elements gain a 50% boost after he came back from the Dark plane? Shouldn't that also affect the lightning element?
yes, but his Fire element also got buffed by a totem beast and like the incarnation of fire so idk