Chapter 35
Lightning Body Refinement
Chapter 35 Lightning Body Refinement
After formulating the development plan for his soul beast for the following year, Jerry returned to his hut to begin training. His first step was lightning tempering, using lightning to temper his entire body, thus increasing his physical strength. He would then gradually enhance his electrical abilities, further increasing his physical strength. The principle was simple: Jerry had cultivated distraction control, and coupled with his powerful mental strength, his control over his martial soul and soul power was incredibly precise. However, as soon as he started, Jerry felt a tearing pain all over his body, and his hair stood on end due to the electricity! This lightning tempering was truly unbearable for most people! He quickly cast a healing spell on himself, and only then did he feel much better!
Jerry sensed something was wrong with this secret technique. It was so painful right from the start, with lightning spreading throughout his body and causing all the cells in his body to tear apart. This also showed how powerful lightning-attribute attacks were!
This secret technique originally relied on tearing apart all the cells in the body, then repairing and tearing again, over and over, until all the cells became stronger. It was something no ordinary person could cultivate! Jerry felt this was wrong. Although cells could become stronger, some cells truly couldn't withstand electricity, like brain cells. Some damaged cells couldn't be repaired. No wonder in the original story, Yu Tianheng and the clan leader Yu Yuanzhen were so violent and irritable when fighting; they probably had many brain cells killed by the electricity, and even healing soul masters couldn't repair them! Jerry didn't want to become a complete idiot. Luckily, Jerry had studied biology and knew about human anatomy; he could refine them separately!
After finishing his explanation, he began the experiment. He started by using lightning to temper the muscles of his left arm, gradually increasing the intensity of the lightning until he felt a tingling sensation. This tingling wasn't the pain of tearing cells; Jerry felt he could tolerate it. So, he directly controlled the lightning to temper all the muscles in his body, then the epidermis, then the bones and bone marrow. Jerry dared not try other places; the internal organs and brain would be truly stimulating with even a slight shock! Waves of tingling sensations washed over him. After half an hour, Jerry felt he had reached his limit, so he withdrew the lightning and cast a healing spell on himself. He felt all the cells in his body absorbing the energy of the healing skill. Jerry then cast three more healing spells before feeling his body fully recovered! He felt a slight increase in his physical strength!
Jerry told Xiao Wu about his method of tempering bodies with lightning. Jerry's control over lightning was already good enough to help others temper their bodies! But Xiao Wu immediately stopped him as soon as he started, because lightning was indeed not something ordinary people could withstand!
Da Ming and Er Ming were willing to try, but their bodies were too large; even Jerry's entire soul power converted into lightning couldn't cover them! They'd have to wait until later! At this moment, Da Ming suddenly asked seriously, "Besides increasing physical strength, does your lightning tempering really increase resistance to lightning?"
"Of course! As the intensity of the lightning increases, the body gradually adapts to it. The stronger the lightning intensity you adapt to, the more immune you become to lightning of lower intensity!" Jerry said.
"That's wonderful, truly wonderful! We soul beasts are terrified of lightning. When a soul beast breaks through 100,000 years, a lightning tribulation will descend. If we survive it, we can continue cultivating for a thousand years. After that, we will undergo another lightning tribulation every 100,000 years. Legend has it that after the tenth lightning tribulation, a soul beast can break through the million-year limit and become a god! However, many soul beasts die in the first lightning tribulation. After breaking through 100,000 years, they can choose to transform into human form and start cultivating from scratch, but their lifespan is only a hundred years! However, living an extra hundred years is too short for soul beasts, so many soul beasts are unwilling to transform and ultimately die. Sister Xiaowu chose to transform into human form after breaking through 100,000 years because she was afraid to face the lightning tribulation. Erming and I are tough and survived, but the lightning tribulation almost took our lives." Daming said this with some sadness!
"Now there's a Holy Light Unicorn with 99999 years of cultivation, which has been suppressing its soul power growth and daring not to break through! Soul beasts like them are small in size, can you help it?" Da Ming asked!
Jerry thought about it and figured it should be possible. A lightning tribulation is essentially just a powerful electric current; this world doesn't have physics, so there should be a way to overcome it! He could give it a try!
(End of this chapter)