Thunder Body Tempering

Thunder Body Tempering

"Thunder Body Tempering... This technique is incomparably dangerous. I absolutely can't cultivate it here. At the very least, I need to enter Dragon Mountain first!" The thought of the Thunder Body Tempering secret art made Zhou Tong shudder inwardly.

This method was far too cruel and painful. Without entering Dragon Mountain, the surrounding restrictions would not be strong enough, and he would not dare cultivate it at all. If he were ambushed by a ferocious beast during cultivation, the consequences would be disastrous.

After resting for a while, Zhou Tong continued onward.

There was no more danger along the next stretch of the journey. Finally, three days later, he saw the deepest part of Kunlun Mountain. The place where the Immortal Ascension Cauldron rested had finally appeared before him.

"What astonishing scenery!" Zhou Tong exclaimed.

The sight before him was utterly breathtaking. More than ten thousand mountain peaks clustered together, forming an enormous valley. Every peak resembled a dragon's head, as though formed by nature itself!

The dragon heads atop every peak exhaled essence outward. Immortal Qi swirled, spiritual energy steamed, and all of it gathered within the valley, unfathomably mysterious.

The bodies of more than ten thousand dragon veins lay buried underground, with only their dragon heads standing proudly above the earth, exhaling all manner of heavenly and earthly essence to nourish the immortal truth of the Immortal Ascension Land.

"It's impossible to imagine just how extraordinary the central valley must be!!" Even as Zhou Tong marveled, the heat in his eyes grew increasingly intense.

He stared at the countless dragon-head peaks. They seemed like great dragons coiling, soaring, and winding around one another, tens of millions of Great Dragons raising their heads and roaring—all formed from dragon qi. Especially within the immortal valley at the center, surrounded by myriad dragons, there was a vast, hazy expanse that sprayed Auspicious Qi. Countless rays of rosy light and streams of immortal radiance shot forth.

Steadying himself, Zhou Tong recalled the entire map once more, then immediately headed toward those mountains.

The Immortal Ascension Land transcended the mundane and should not have existed in this world. There was no soil, stone, or dust upon the ground; instead, it gleamed like jade marrow. Not a single weed grew here. Ordinary plants could not survive in this place—only Treasure Herbs of an exceptionally high grade could grow here.

"I've finally entered this place! I'm safe!" The moment he arrived, Zhou Tong gave it no further thought. He sat cross-legged on the ground, grabbed a Treasure Herb he had found along the way, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it.

"Begin—Thunder Body Tempering!" Without the slightest pause, Zhou Tong began.

The Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique circulated. With a boom, a bolt of lightning surged forth, incomparably thick, like an electric serpent shooting into the sky. Yet the serpent abruptly changed direction in an instant, and the snakehead formed from lightning suddenly swallowed Zhou Tong—

Rumble!!

Who knew how many arcs of lightning exploded, dancing around Zhou Tong's body. Blazing electric serpents darted about at extreme speed, wildly and frenziedly.

Almost immediately, Zhou Tong's skin burst apart. Everywhere the electric serpents passed was scorched black. Crimson blood seeped from the cracks, only to be swiftly evaporated by the current.

With merely this first impact, Zhou Tong's entire body was seized by unbearable pain, as though countless serrated blades were viciously sawing through him, cutting open every part of his body. He felt as if his body might fall apart at any moment.

Piercing pain!

Bone-deep cold!

As though he were being sliced apart a thousand times.

Feeling that intense agony, Zhou Tong's thoughts boiled endlessly in his mind. He wanted to resist, but beneath the electric current, his entire body had gone numb. He could not move, and he could not even scream.

Endure! Endure! If I can't even endure this little pain, how will I compete with those geniuses in the future? Zhou Tong possessed a ruthless streak as well. He forcibly endured the agony and began cultivating according to the body-tempering secret art.

The Treasure Herb he had just swallowed immediately transformed into a warm current that flowed throughout his body. The places destroyed by the electric current immediately began to undergo rebirth!

Step by step, he circulated his divine power, drove his blood and qi, and broke through the barriers.

This was a method of forcibly surpassing the limits of the Blood Movement Realm, a supreme secret art created by sages of the Chaotic Ancient Era. So long as one could endure such pain while cultivating this method, one could advance ever farther in the Blood Movement Realm, breaking through extreme limits step by step and surpassing the boundaries of the Blood Movement Realm!

Finally, three days later, the medicinal effects of that Treasure Herb had completely dissipated, and the electric current around Zhou Tong vanished along with them.

Zhou Tong abruptly rose to his feet and shook his body. The muscles all over him swelled outward, and a layer of crystalline treasure light surfaced. This was the treasure light at the limit of the Blood Movement Realm, but compared to before, it had grown several degrees denser.

"One hundred and nine thousand five hundred jin of divine power!" Zhou Tong estimated inwardly and immediately gained a rough understanding of his current state. His first Thunder Body Tempering had increased his divine power by a full three thousand five hundred jin.

"Again!"

Zhou Tong walked forward several more steps and found a fresh Treasure Herb. He repeated the process, swallowing the herb before circulating the Thunder Emperor Method once more.

This Thunder Body Tempering method was extraordinarily dangerous. It not only required the cultivator's own perseverance, but also a large supply of Treasure Herbs. Otherwise, recklessly enduring lightning strikes would ruin one's body.

Fortunately, this was the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains of Kunlun Mountain. What it lacked least was all kinds of Treasure Herbs.

Even though Zhou Tong knew nothing of alchemy and could not fully bring out their medicinal effects, with Treasure Herbs of such quantity and quality, completing Thunder Body Tempering was more than easy enough.

Rumble!!

Lightning descended without pause. Every bolt had been stimulated by Zhou Tong using the Thunder Emperor Method, possessing the utmost hardness and yang energy.

With every Thunder Body Tempering, Zhou Tong's flesh seemed to be torn apart and reassembled, torn apart and reassembled. His ruptured body absorbed the medicinal potency of the Treasure Herbs according to the body-tempering method, then reassembled itself.

For a full two months, Zhou Tong tempered himself without interruption, and his body grew stronger and stronger.

When he reached one hundred and twenty thousand jin of strength, this Thunder Body Tempering finally came to a stop.

"With a swing of one arm, I possess one hundred and twenty thousand jin of divine power. This is already the limit of the Blood Movement Realm!" Zhou Tong silently said to himself. If I want to continue using this method, I'll need to cultivate to the Heavenly Cave Realm.

The Thunder Body Tempering method could not strengthen him without end. Reaching one hundred and twenty thousand jin of divine power was already the ultimate limit.

To grow stronger still, he had to break through to the Heavenly Cave Realm. In fact, during the Chaotic Ancient Era, many powerful cultivators of the Current Era Method would only recultivate their former realms through ancient methods after reaching the Heavenly God Realm.

"Next, I can try again and see whether I can activate my Wheel Sea!" Zhou Tong took a deep breath and sat down cross-legged once more. He quickly calmed himself.

His entire body gleamed, rune after rune blooming within him. An enormous amount of essence continuously gathered, then, following the method of the "Feather Transformation Scripture," surged toward his lower abdomen—

Rumble!!

Zhou Tong heard a tremendous crash. He vaguely felt his essence strike something like a steel plate, utterly unable to penetrate it, followed by violent tremors in his blood and qi.

"Failed again! It seems I really might be a Primordial Sacred Body. The Sea of Bitterness is like divine iron and can only be melted open by an incomparably powerful treasure..." Zhou Tong sighed softly. "It seems I can only continue cultivating according to the Chaotic Ancient Method!"