Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World
Chapter 112 - 18 Repair

Chapter 112: Chapter 18 Repair

Bai’s Talismanic Dao’s first law might now only make Old Man Bai chuckle, but "Five Thunders Body" literally left him speechless.

Zheng Fa’s home.

Old Man Bai had always been obsessed with his dream of electromagnetic rotation and punching out stars. Hearing that Zheng Fa was cultivating the "Five Thunders Body" at home, he became curious and came to see.

Tang Lingwu followed as well.

Old Man Bai looked around, seemingly puzzled, and asked, "Do you usually practice at home?"

"Otherwise?"

"I read in novels that they rely on heavenly and earthly treasures, or at least find a waterfall to practice..."

"I do have a treasure." Zheng Fa thought for a moment and nodded.

"What?" Old Man Bai looked excited.

Zheng Fa pointed to the corner.

Old Man Bai looked at the transformer lying on the ground, plain and unadorned, with even a brand-new tag on it, and his expression became a bit dazed.

"Cultivation... is it so down-to-earth?"

Old Man Bai smacked his lips, a slightly disappointed look on his face.

Zheng Fa felt that he was failing to recognize a gem in the rough.

His own transformer, this treasure of the Thunder element, had been upgraded!

He had added two straps with metal plates to the previously exposed copper wires, which when wrapped around his wrist, the metal plates would touch his skin, making it look like he was wearing a wrist guard.

Before, when he practiced, he had to hold the electric wire with his hands, shaking while he practiced.

If an outsider saw him, they might think he was an electrician electrocuted by a mishandling.

Now it looked much more decent.

Zheng Fa connected the transformer to the power supply, set the dial to 90V, then sat back in his chair, strapped on the wrist straps, and sat cross-legged.

Old Man Bai and Tang Lingwu watched as the skin on his arms twitched and convulsed, both of them looking a bit worried.

But since Zheng Fa was cultivating, they both dared not speak, having to even soften their breathing, closely observing Zheng Fa.

"Tang Lingwu, help me out."

Zheng Fa suddenly opened his eyes and spoke to Tang Lingwu.

"Okay! I’ll turn it off for you!" Tang Lingwu apparently thought Zheng Fa couldn’t take it anymore, ran to the transformer, and prepared to turn off the power.

"No, help me increase the setting by one notch."

"Higher?"

"Yes, my ’Five Thunders Dharma Body’ is about to reach the next level." A hint of joy appeared in Zheng Fa’s eyes: "The current voltage isn’t enough."

Tang Lingwu pursed her lips, cautiously turned the voltage knob on the transformer to the right by one notch, with the pointer now pointing at 120V.

Zheng Fa’s brows furrowed slightly, veins on his hands throbbing.

Clearly, the increased current was making his body slightly uncomfortable.

Old Man Bai and Tang Lingwu held their breath and concentrated, observing Zheng Fa’s condition.

After a while, Zheng Fa opened his eyes again.

"Turn it off?"

Tang Lingwu asked again.

"Higher!"

This time Tang Lingwu hesitated even more, her hand rested on the knob, and she turned back to look at Zheng Fa, seemingly for confirmation.

Zheng Fa nodded slightly.

Snap.

"Higher!"

...Snap.

"Higher!"

The knob was turned to the 210V setting.

The pain was evident on Zheng Fa’s face.

Especially as muscles all over his body began to exhibit abnormalities—from his arms to his shoulders, even his chest and thighs, the muscles were pulsing, bulging and then disappearing.

To Old Man Bai and Tang Lingwu, it looked like dozens of little mice were scurrying under his skin.

What relieved them slightly was that Zheng Fa’s pain seemed temporary.

After about ten minutes, he seemed to have adapted, though the little mice were still scurrying, his eyebrows gradually relaxed.

After about forty minutes of cultivation, Zheng Fa opened his eyes, unable to speak, and could only gesture with his eyes for Tang Lingwu to turn off the transformer.

He felt his cheeks were a bit numb, but still managed to muster a smile for the worried pair.

He was not just comforting them, but there was indeed good news—his "Five Thunders Dharma Body" had indeed reached the stage of refining flesh.

...

Xuanwei Realm.

Zheng Fa opened his eyes and gently squeezed his fists, feeling a noticeable increase in strength.

He stood up, walked to the desk, picked up an iron paperweight, exerted slight effort with his hands—the iron paperweight became malleable like modeling clay, taking on any shape he wanted, extremely obedient.

Putting down the misshapen iron paperweight, Zheng Fa sat back on his cushion, introspecting his Dantian.

The advancement of the "Five Thunders Dharma Body" was expected, but the discovery of the Five Elements Child Talisman was a pleasant surprise.

He had an idea before—to adjust his well-formed Right Stand No Shadow Talisman and Frost Blade Talisman.

After discovering that the Five Elements Child Talisman was originally one with them, he looked at these two Primordial Talismans inside him and noticed some minor issues.

Despite being next to each other, they hadn’t truly become one.

Both need to completely merge into one entity, and this actually requires a bit of topological transformation—just like what he did on the computer, not only direction and size, but even stretching and curling.

For people in the Xuanwei Realm, discovering the Five Elements Child Talisman is an issue, and what’s even more difficult is this kind of transformation.

He controlled his Divine Sense, slowly adjusting the direction and shape of the two Spirit Talismans.

...

Up in the attic where Sun Daoyu and another person were.

Zhou Qianyuan, looking at Sun Daoyu who had been gazing in the direction of Zheng Fa’s courtyard, asked curiously, "Senior Brother, how long are you planning to watch?"

"Just a few nights." Sun Daoyu turned his head and smiled, "Actually, I can’t see him. What I can see is just the Five Elements Spiritual Energy in his courtyard."

"Five Elements Spiritual Energy?"

"Master’s Void Spirit Eye is divided into three realms; currently, I am in the first realm—Viewing Qi." Sun Daoyu, thinking of his junior brother who also needed to cultivate the Void Spirit Eye, explained, "Do you know why Master said Zhang’s talismanic Dao Foundation Establishment has flaws but he could mend them?"

"Why?"

"Because of this Void Spirit Eye." Sun Daoyu said with a bit of pride, "As you know, this is our lineage’s Basic Skill."

"Master has told me about it." Zhou Qianyuan nodded.

"You probably don’t understand why." Sun Daoyu chuckled, "The greatest ability of the Void Spirit Eye is actually its microscopic view; it can observe the attributes and flow of Spiritual Energy—clearer than Divine Sense, so Master could spot the issues in Zhang’s Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment right away."

"What issues?"

"Imbalance of the Five Elements."

"?"

"Zhang suggested that talismanic magic divides into Yin Yang Five Elements; Master had also made this discovery," Sun Daoyu spoke softly, "but Zhang possesses the Primordial Spirit Dao Body, capable of testing the Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment cultivation method."

"Master can’t?"

"Can one just casually alter their Foundation? Aside from Zhang, who dares to try this?" Sun Daoyu’s tone carried an indiscernible mix of envy or something else.

"Then... the imbalance of the Five Elements?"

"I don’t know, but Master once said that Zhang’s Primordial Talisman Foundation is not perfectly balanced, he used the Void Spirit Eye to observe her cultivation—there was a slight disharmony of Five Elements Spiritual Energy in her courtyard."

Zhou Qianyuan glanced at Sun Daoyu in front of him, suddenly feeling a bit of a toothache, "Master... observes... Zhang? Like you are doing now, Senior Brother?"

"Not like that, how could Master possibly squat here like me? He observes from home using the Void Spirit Eye." Sun Daoyu spoke with some envy, "When my Void Spirit Eye advances, I will also have to give it a try!"

"... Perhaps there’s no need to learn that?"

Zhou Qianyuan always felt there was something strange about their sect’s tradition.

Easy to be misunderstood.

"Actually, only by using the Void Spirit Eye, did Master have the confidence to refine this Cultivation Technique," Sun Daoyu mentioned something else, "But it’s not that simple. Master just wanted to try—if Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment could be perfected, it could become the number one method of Core Formation in talismanic Dao."

"Core Formation?"

"Of course!" Sun Daoyu’s face revealed a gleam of longing, "Why do you think everyone only talks about it as a Foundation Establishment method?"

"Why?"

"Because Zhang’s Core Formation had issues; if there were no issues, with Zhang’s Golden Core capabilities, she could draw top-grade talismans—the Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment could be acclaimed as the foremost method of Core Formation without a single flaw!"

Looking at Sun Daoyu’s expression.

Zhou Qianyuan understood that if the "Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment" could be perfected, this Senior Brother would definitely choose this cultivation method decisively; his current hesitation was only because the technique indeed had some problems.

"Unfortunately, repairing this method isn’t that simple... I heard that Zhang’s Master, Master Huang also tried, but it seems there was no clue." Sun Daoyu sighed lightly, seemingly not having enough confidence in his own Master.

"... Eh?"

Sun Daoyu looked up at the sky above Zheng Fa’s courtyard, with a puzzled expression on his face.

"What’s wrong, Senior Brother?"

"The Spiritual Energy above Zheng Fa’s courtyard—it changed!"

Sun Daoyu furrowed his brows, looking somewhat puzzled.

"Changed?"

Zhou Qianyuan was somewhat puzzled by Sun Daoyu’s words.

But Sun Daoyu’s expression changed rapidly, showing shock at one moment and gravity the next, as if he had discovered something incredible.

After a while, Sun Daoyu suddenly stood up.

"Senior Brother?"

"Zhang is truly the number one genius of the Jiushan Sect, she really solved the hidden risks in the Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment!"

"Ah?"

"The Earth Element and Gold Element Spiritual Energy on Zheng Fa’s rooftop are exceptionally harmonious now, entirely without the sense of disharmony that Master mentioned!" Sun Daoyu’s face was a complex mix of anxiety, desire, and joy.

He paced back and forth in the attic twice, then suddenly said to Zhou Qianyuan, "Junior Brother, I need to rush to report to Master... this ’Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment’ needs to be changed!"

Sun Daoyu was excited, "If this hidden risk has truly been resolved by Zhang, then we could also refine the ’Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment’ and might even have the chance to form a Core!"

"But this... thousand-year-old purple bamboo tears..."

Zhou Qianyuan did not forget that to change the "Talisman Dao Foundation Establishment," it required his batch of Thousand-Year Purple Bamboo Tears.

"Junior Brother, we cultivators blink through decades in a moment!"

Sun Daoyu patted his shoulder to comfort him.

"... Senior Brother, you previously told me, no matter how fast Zheng Fa progresses..."

"Junior Brother, my feelings for you are purely brotherly," Sun Daoyu suddenly remarked.

"Ah?"

"You’re not my partner, and when an opportunity to form a Core arises... Senior Brother truly cannot relinquish it."

"..."

"Even partners wouldn’t work!"

Seeing him silent, Sun Daoyu hurriedly added another line.