King of Creation
Chapter 440 - 434 Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering

Chapter 440: Chapter 434 Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering

Boom!

A black serpentine lightning suddenly burst out from within Ye Zhen’s palm, and in the instant the thunderclap echoed, a huge rock a hundred meters away turned charred and shattered.

Not far away, the Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten that was on guard for Ye Zhen shrank its neck, its huge tiger eyes filled with fear.

"After three and a half months, condensing a Thunder Pearl, mastering the Heavenly Thunder of Fright, it has finally become..."

Ye Zhen sighed with satisfaction, recalling the suffering he underwent in the initial days of cultivating the Heavenly Thunder of Fright, bleeding profusely every day. Now that the Heavenly Thunder of Fright was mastered, it was all worth it.

Although Ye Zhen did not know the exact extent of the power of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright, he believed it couldn’t be far off.

Because, merely from its appearance, the Heavenly Thunder of Fright was worlds apart from the previous Thunder Light of Fright.

The former Thunder Light of Fright was a tiny flash of lightning incited by Ye Zhen’s Wind Cloud Sword Qi, not only was it exceedingly fine, but its color was also very faint. A blast of Thunder Light of Fright emerged as only a dim black light.

However, the color of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright that had just been discharged was now ink-black, and because it was refined with the power of Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul, the color was even deeper than that of natural lightning by twenty percent.

The power can be imagined.

Ye Zhen estimated that the might of his Heavenly Thunder of Fright would be much stronger than that of ordinary heavenly thunder, considering that ordinary lightning did not contain soul power consecrated by secret techniques.

The Thunder Pearl was condensed, but that did not mean Ye Zhen’s cultivation of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright was at an end.

On the contrary, condensing the Thunder Pearl was just the beginning of the cultivation of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright.

The production of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright and the Thunder Light of Fright were in fact the same. The Thunder Pearl’s existence wouldn’t result in the Heavenly Thunder of Fright materializing out of thin air.

Ye Zhen needed to continuously absorb the power of heavenly thunder into his body and, after ritualistic refining, store it within the Thunder Pearl in the Thunder Aperture.

The Thunder Pearl was merely a stable vessel for storing the Heavenly Thunder of Fright.

After Ye Zhen tried to blast out a Heavenly Thunder of Fright just now, the newly condensed rice grain-sized Thunder Pearl within the Thunder Aperture had already dimmed.

Ye Zhen estimated that this rice grain-sized Thunder Pearl could still release five blasts of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright. However, after those five blasts, the newly condensed Thunder Pearl would completely crumble.

Therefore, Ye Zhen’s primary task now was to absorb heavenly thunder to strengthen his Thunder Pearl. He would not leave until he had condensed and stored at least a few hundred bolts of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright.

Boom!

Another heavenly thunder roared down from the clouds, and with the first transition of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright, more than ninety percent of the heavenly lightning was led into Ye Zhen’s body, infused into the Thunder Pearl.

The remaining ten percent of the lightning turned into a dense electric net that surged and flashed over Ye Zhen’s bare upper body, hammering and tempering as if to refine, causing the flesh on the surface of his body to tremble rapidly at a minuscule scale.

Not just that, under Ye Zhen’s deliberate control, a strand of lightning, as thin as a hair, was split into eleven bolts. Under the intentional control of Ye Zhen’s Divine Soul Power, these strands were then split further and guided by Ye Zhen to strike his five internal organs and six hollow organs individually.

Fzzt!

In an instant, Ye Zhen’s whole body shook violently like a vigorously spun rattle-drum.

Although the lightning was incredibly fine, perhaps only one ten-thousandth or even less of a single bolt of heavenly lightning, it was still much more delicate compared to flesh, bones, and organs.

Under the strike of the lightning, all the internal organs began to contract violently, pain twisting Ye Zhen’s facial features. Stimulated by the lightning, all the organs received extremely minor injuries.

However, almost in the moment the lightning struck, Ye Zhen had already prepared a surge of Red Jade Spiritual Power from within his Dantian, which rushed towards his organs, nourishing and repairing the slightly injured internal parts.

Under this intense contraction and vibration, not only did the spiritual power penetrate everywhere, but the organs themselves began to actively absorb it.

Before long, just as the organs had recovered slightly, another bolt of heavenly thunder crashed down and Ye Zhen did the same. The organs were once again stimulated and slightly wounded, with the previously prepared spiritual power rushing into the organs again.

This cyclic process of stimulation, slight injury, and absorption of spiritual power was rapidly refining Ye Zhen’s organs, gradually making them tougher and enhancing their functionality considerably.

The amount of lightning Ye Zhen directed to temper his five internal organs and six hollow organs grew more and more, becoming thicker over time.

In this cyclical process, Ye Zhen’s progress in refining his Acquired Spiritual Body was swiftly advancing.

Actually, using the infusion of lightning to temper his body was an unintentional discovery by Ye Zhen while cultivating the Heavenly Thunder of Fright Infusion.

After a month of infusing himself with lightning at Thunder Ridge, as his body’s resistance to lightning increased, Ye Zhen no longer needed to use Lightning-avoiding Ointment on his skin, merely needing to consume Lightning-avoiding Pills instead.

Lightning was swift and rapid. Most of the time, even with all the attraction Ye Zhen could muster from within his body, it was not possible to channel all the heavenly lightning inside; often a tenth or two would remain, ravaging Ye Zhen’s skin.

At first, Ye Zhen paid it no mind.

But before long, he suddenly realized that the speed at which he tempered his flesh had mysteriously increased by fifty percent.

Originally, to temper a palm-sized piece of flesh while consuming Hundred Herbs Body Forging Pills, it would take him five days to complete.

But now, in just three days, just three days, Ye Zhen could temper a palm-sized piece of flesh, an increase in speed of more than fifty percent.

This was a truly astonishing discovery.

Under normal circumstances, after refining the flesh and blood, advancing one’s Cultivation from the Spirit Transformation Realm Third Stage to the Fourth Stage would take a natural genius approximately a year and a half, even with an abundance of resources.

The Hundred Herbs Body Forging Pill could triple the speed of Cultivation. Given a sufficient supply of Hundred Herbs Body Refining Pills, Ye Zhen’s Cultivation could break through from the Spirit Transformation Realm Third Stage to the Fourth Stage within half a year.

But now, it would take less than four months.

This discovery left Ye Zhen both shocked and delighted.

He had originally been concerned that the Hundred Herbs Body Forging Pill would only barely enable his Cultivation to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm Fourth Stage, but in his current state, the effects of one bottle plus three Hundred Herbs Body Forging Pills could last for seven months.

At the current rate, before the effects of the Hundred Herbs Body Forging Pill wore off, Ye Zhen’s Cultivation could surge to the midpoint or even the later period of the Spirit Transformation Realm Fourth Stage.

At the very least, it saved Ye Zhen three years, or even more, of arduous Cultivation.

Because the speed of refining the organs at the Spirit Transformation Realm Fourth Stage was much slower, some genius Martial Artists spent two years breaking through from the Fourth Stage to the Fifth Stage, which was already considered an astonishing speed.

As for ordinary Martial Artists, spending four to five years was considered fast.

In order to maintain this incredible speed of body refining, Ye Zhen spurred his Divine Sense to carefully search for the inexplicable root cause of the accelerated flesh-refining speed.

Upon exploring, Ye Zhen found that the source was the residual Thunder Light left on his body that hadn’t been absorbed.

The flesh on the surface of his body, stimulated by the one or two percent of residual Thunder Light, suffered micro-damage, which triggered the body’s own repair capabilities. This transformed the flesh from passively accepting the refinement of Spiritual Power to actively assimilating it, naturally creating a difference like night and day.

Most importantly, Thunder Light itself had the ability to temper the flesh.

Each time the residual Heavenly Thunder’s Light flashed on the surface of his body, it would purify and refine any impurities within Ye Zhen’s flesh. When Spiritual Power refined it again, it proved to be twice as effective.

With such a discovery, and given Ye Zhen’s intellect, he certainly would not waste it. Instead, he became even more proactive in guiding the remaining Heavenly Thunder to temper his body, which significantly improved the effects of his Thunder Body Tempering and caused his Cultivation to advance by leaps and bounds.

Half a month ago, which was three months after Ye Zhen entered Thunder Ridge, he had completed the tempering of his entire body. Each piece of flesh had become as hard as steel, as tough as silk!

A Low Grade Treasure Sword filled with Spiritual Power could, at best, leave a faint white mark with one strike. Even someone with equivalent Cultivation to Ye Zhen wielding a Low Grade Treasure Sword would not be able to injure him.

This was the terrifying aspect of the Red Jade Battle Body.

After all, the defensive capabilities of the Red Jade Battle Body were twice that of a common Acquired Spiritual Body!

In the following three days, after insanely refining hundreds of High Grade Spirit Crystals and using the Mirage Dragon Pearl to refine and devour more than a dozen Earth Level Monster Cores, Ye Zhen’s Cultivation quietly broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm Fourth Stage, entering the Organ Transformation Realm.

That was nearly two months faster than Ye Zhen had anticipated.

Then occurred the scene of Ye Zhen using the Heavenly Thunder to accelerate the tempering of his internal organs.

With the experience of tempering his flesh, Ye Zhen naturally wouldn’t give up the shortcut of the Thunder Body Tempering.

However, the internal organs were many times more fragile compared to the flesh. The slightest miscalculation could lead to severe injuries.

Fortunately, after more than three months of drawing over a hundred thousand Heavenly Thunders into his body, Ye Zhen developed a certain resistance to the Heavenly Thunder inside and out.

Additionally, Ye Zhen had taken Lightning-avoiding Pills in advance, and by deliberately guiding extremely small and fine Thunder Light for tempering, his organs naturally withstood the tempering of the Heavenly Thunder.

In this state of Thunder Body Tempering, Ye Zhen’s organs grew stronger at a rapid pace.

However, these were not Ye Zhen’s greatest gains.

In Ye Zhen’s opinion, his biggest gain was actually the powerful resistance his body developed against the Heavenly Thunder during the Thunder Body Tempering.

If it were before, a direct strike from the Heavenly Thunder would have left Ye Zhen gravely injured if not dead. But now, although he wouldn’t claim to be entirely unharmed, such a degree of Heavenly Thunder was merely like massaging his back or scratching an itch.

As for the Thunder Spirit Power cultivated by the likes of Mo Xinsui, aside from the threat of the Spiritual Power itself, the Thunder Attribute attacks could simply be ignored by Ye Zhen!

Once the Thunder Attribute of Thunder Spirit Power was ignored, its attacking power would be even less than that of ordinary Spiritual Power.

Of course, the rapid advancement of his Cultivation also thrilled Ye Zhen immensely.

Under the Thunder Body Tempering, in another two or three months, who knows to what degree his Cultivation would rise?

Spirit Transformation Realm Fourth Stage Midpoint? Or perhaps the Late Stage?

Ye Zhen was looking forward to it!

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While Ye Zhen was engaged in painstaking Cultivation with the aid of Thunder Body Tempering, within the Thunder Clouds several miles away, a pair of grim eyes watched as Ye Zhen’s figure flickered within the Thunder Light, Lio Guang’s eyes glittering...(To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)