Sect Technique, Thunder Dragon Art

After an entire afternoon of sandbag-dodging training, Yu Tianlin was in an extremely sorry state.

Yu Jian had not used any high-level moves like prediction or forcing his positioning. He had merely seized the right moment and thrown the sandbag straight at Yu Tianlin the instant he stopped, yet it still struck Yu Tianlin's body with perfect accuracy.

There was no other reason. It was simply fast. Yu Jian really could give the sandbag the speed of Thunderbolt Dragon Claw, leaving Yu Tianlin completely unable to dodge in time.

Fortunately, Yu Tianlin had improved somewhat as well. From being hit one hundred percent of the time at the start to occasionally dodging by the end, it could at least be said that he had not gained nothing.

Even so, Yu Jian was still very dissatisfied. According to him, this was only the most basic stage. Later, there would be predictive sandbags, continuous sandbags, Gravity Field, and sealed Soul Power, and he would have to dodge all of them one hundred percent of the time.

Sandbags, sandbags—hearing the word made Yu Tianlin dizzy. He almost wanted to ask Yu Jian if he had ever seen a fist as big as a sandbag.

Forget it. There were still four months left. He would take it slowly.

In any case, today's training was considered over. Next came the nighttime session of drawing lightning and cultivating Soul Power.

Yu Tianlin returned home, took a hot bath, and after dinner, went to the Council Hall to find his grandfather, Yu Yuanzhen. Under his lead, he headed to the Sect Master's exclusive cultivation room.

The Sect Master's cultivation room was on an isolated peak behind the sect. To get up there, one had to climb a five-hundred-meter-high cliff face.

With Yu Tianlin's current cultivation, he naturally could not do it, so Yu Yuanzhen simply grabbed Yu Tianlin and leaped toward the mountain summit.

Yu Tianlin only felt his vision blur, and then he arrived at the mountaintop. Before him stood a massive building with a pointed roof.

The clan grounds of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect were already filled with muffled thunder year-round, and now it was nighttime as well. Standing atop an isolated peak, it was as though he had been enveloped by boundless darkness and thunder. Yu Tianlin only felt an incomparable sense of oppression.

Yu Yuanzhen, however, showed no sign of anything unusual. He directly pushed open the cultivation room's doors and said as he walked inside, "This is the place where I cultivate. It's located atop the peak, close to the sky, where lightning-attribute energy is dense, making it more suitable for cultivation."

Yu Tianlin looked inside and found that the Sect Master's Cultivation Room was also very simple. There were no unnecessary objects, only a thick, long iron pillar in the very center that stabbed straight into the sky.

"That is the Lightning Rod. Its function is just like its name—it's used to draw down high-altitude thunder." Yu Yuanzhen looked at the iron pillar in the center and explained, "Originally, this thing continuously drew down thunder to maintain the abundance and activity of lightning-attribute energy within the cultivation room. But now that you have the ability to devour thunder and raise the age of your Soul Ring, the Lightning Rod has an even more important function."

"When you activate your External Soul Bone to draw lightning, it also consumes Soul Power. Now, with the help of the Lightning Rod, you can greatly reduce that consumption and increase the efficiency of devouring thunder."

As he spoke, a bolt of lightning struck the Lightning Rod, making Yu Tianlin nod in satisfaction.

As a plant-type Soul Beast, the Thunderous Hell Vine could not move. Even if it broke through to the hundred-year level and could actively draw lightning, it still had to wait for thunderous weather. Now that he was human and had the same ability, he could naturally choose a more suitable location and draw lightning every day. His rate of improvement would definitely be much faster than the Thunderous Hell Vine's.

After briefly introducing it, Yu Yuanzhen took out a thick book with a blue cover from his Storage Soul Tool and handed it to Yu Tianlin.

When Yu Tianlin took it, he saw the three large characters on the cover—Thunder Dragon Art.

Before Yu Tianlin could ask, Yu Yuanzhen explained, "This Thunder Dragon Art is a cultivation technique that our sect's predecessors explored and refined generation after generation. In other words, it is the route by which Soul Power circulates during meditation. Cultivating according to the circulation route described in the Thunder Dragon Art allows one to most conveniently accumulate lightning-attribute Soul Power. It is suitable for Soul Masters like us who possess the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul."

Yu Tianlin understood.

He had always thought that on Douluo Continent, the only cultivation method was the Mysterious Heaven Skill in Tang San's hands. He had not expected the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect to have one as well. Since the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect had one, the other major forces definitely had them too.

But this was not strange. In the original work, after Tang San acknowledged Yu Xiaogang as his teacher, Yu Xiaogang gave Tang San a crude cultivation method.

Even if the contents of that method were fairly ordinary, it was not something Yu Xiaogang could have worked out by his own strength alone. It was probably something he had modified and simplified based on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect's Thunder Dragon Art.

Seeing Yu Tianlin take the Thunder Dragon Art, Yu Yuanzhen said, "The route for circulating Soul Power is described in great detail inside. Unless you're so stupid you can't even understand a book, you just need to follow what's written here. I won't stay here to guide you. Cultivate properly on your own. I'll come pick you up tomorrow morning and take you down the mountain."

After saying this, Yu Yuanzhen turned and left, disappearing into the night.

Yu Tianlin walked over, shut the cultivation room's door properly, and then began flipping through the Thunder Dragon Art in his hands.

Because Yu Tianlin had never read any other cultivation methods and had nothing to compare it to, he did not know what level this Thunder Dragon Art could be considered. He only felt that it did not seem very difficult.

After reading it carefully twice, Yu Tianlin committed the contents to memory. Then he sat cross-legged and tried circulating his Soul Power twice along the route mentioned in the Thunder Dragon Art. He found that no problems appeared, and the cultivation effect was indeed somewhat stronger than ordinary meditation.

After a preliminary attempt, Yu Tianlin withdrew from his meditative state and went to the side of the Lightning Rod.

He activated his own Soul Power, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul possessed him. Immediately, a ball of blue light shone from the space between his brows, then spread in an instant, traveling from his forehead across his entire body. Blue-purple arcs of lightning, like little snakes, roamed around him.

At the same time, that pale yellow Soul Ring slowly emerged.

After entering the state of Martial Soul Possession, Yu Tianlin's resistance to lightning greatly increased.

Although, with the help of his Antenna Hair, Yu Tianlin would not be harmed by lightning, his body's twitching and spasms were still unavoidable, and that would affect the efficiency of drawing lightning. So Yu Tianlin simply used Martial Soul Possession to increase his lightning resistance and eliminate this negative effect.

After Martial Soul Possession, Yu Tianlin directly reached out and grabbed the Lightning Rod before him. With the Lightning Rod's amplification, Yu Tianlin only had to channel a small amount of Soul Power into the Antenna Hair on his head, and a bolt of lightning immediately struck down.

The second time he was struck by lightning, he was in the state of Martial Soul Possession, and his Soul Ring had been summoned, so Yu Tianlin could see that the instant the lightning struck him, his Soul Ring flickered.

It would take one hundred lightning strikes to increase his Soul Ring's age by one year. This was destined to be a time-consuming job.

Again!