"I knew it. It is a nuclear bomb!" Lu Changsheng huffed.

This world's technology was already fairly advanced. It had the internet, satellites, electrical appliances, and many other technologies familiar to him, yet nuclear weapons had strangely never appeared. It was as though some crucial step in its technological development had been skipped, preventing anyone from unlocking atomic fission. 

But clearly, the Flame Dragon Federation had finally achieved that breakthrough, and it had kept the resulting weapon secret until now. 

The bomb had detonated only about one hundred zhang[1] away from Lu Changsheng. At that distance, he was practically at the epicenter of the nuclear explosion. 

At the heart of the explosion, the temperature soared past ten thousand degrees in an instant. Although that extreme heat lasted only briefly and was concentrated around the center of the blast, the surrounding temperature...