Four Months Later, the Match Began!

Because activating Antenna Hair consumed Soul Power, and maintaining Martial Soul Possession also consumed Soul Power, Yu Tianlin's Soul Power was completely exhausted after he had endured roughly fifty Lightning Strikes.

When his Soul Power ran out, he meditated to recover it.

He circulated the Thunder Dragon Art he had just learned and began meditating.

Being struck by lightning had not taken Yu Tianlin much time at all. Instead, meditating to recover his Soul Power took half the night.

Lightning Strikes to improve his Soul Ring, plus meditation to recover his Soul Power—this whole cycle took half the night, so over the entire night, Yu Tianlin managed to complete it exactly twice, which meant he was struck by lightning a little over a hundred times.

It took a hundred Lightning Strikes just to raise his Soul Ring's age by one year. That rate of improvement was truly too small, and Yu Tianlin's pale yellow Soul Ring looked as if it had not changed at all.

But there was no need to rush. He could take it slowly. If he could raise his Soul Ring's age by one year each day, then after four months, it would increase by around one hundred and twenty years. Added to its current original one hundred years, that made a total of two hundred and twenty years.

For a First Soul Ring to have an age of two hundred and twenty years was already considered quite good.

The same was true for Soul Power cultivation. After exhausting his Soul Power and then meditating to fully restore it twice in a row, Yu Tianlin could feel his own Soul Power improve by a trace.

If this continued, after four months, he would definitely be able to rise by more than one level. Reaching level twelve and a half would be no problem.

When Yu Tianlin withdrew from his meditative state and opened his eyes, he saw Yu Yuanzhen standing in front of him.

"How was it? What did you gain from cultivating all night?"

Seeing Yu Tianlin wake, Yu Yuanzhen asked aloud.

Yu Tianlin directly used Martial Soul Possession, summoned his pale yellow Soul Ring, and said, "I endured over a hundred Lightning Strikes last night. The age of my Soul Ring should have risen by one year, but I feel like there isn't much difference."

Yu Yuanzhen carefully sensed the pale yellow Soul Ring on Yu Tianlin and said, "Take it slowly. There are still four months."

Yu Tianlin nodded and asked, "Grandpa, what time is it now? How long have you been here?"

Because the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect was overcast all year round, it was still extremely dim outside the room, and Yu Tianlin could not tell what time it was.

"It's still morning. I've only just arrived too." Yu Yuanzhen picked Yu Tianlin up and said, "Come on. After we go back and eat breakfast, we'll continue today's training."

In the time that followed, Yu Tianlin repeated this hellish training every day.

However, it only took two months for Yu Tianlin to fully adapt to double gravity. Running under the Gravity Field was no difficulty at all, and later on, weights had to be added as well.

In the same two months, Yu Tianlin could already perfectly dodge the sandbags Yu Jian threw. Even with his Soul Power sealed and the Gravity Field activated, Yu Tianlin could still do it. So for the remaining two months, there was no longer much meaning in continuing to train his dodging ability, and it was directly changed to close-combat training.

In the third month, Yu Tianlin successfully broke through to level twelve, and his Soul Ring's age also reached two hundred years.

After the Soul Ring's age reached two hundred years, Yu Tianlin's First Soul Skill also changed. Originally, when he activated the soul skill once, he could only condense one Thunder Ball, but now he could directly condense two.

It seemed that every time the age of his First Soul Ring increased by one hundred years, he could condense one additional Thunder Ball. Once it broke through to the Thousand Year Level, that would be ten at once.

After all that, his First Soul Skill turned out to be an area-of-effect skill.

Just like that, four months passed, and Yu Tianlin finally reached the battle with Yu Tianqing.

Yu Tianlin had originally thought that the elders would widely publicize this match, then hold it in the sect's Training Ground under the eyes of the crowd.

But in the end, that was not the case. When the agreed time arrived, Yu Yuanzhen directly brought him to a remote great hall.

At this moment, several elders were already seated in the great hall, and aside from those elders, only Yu Tianqing stood inside the hall.

Ever since adding his Soul Ring, Yu Tianlin had spent every day in training. This was the first time he had seen Yu Tianqing in four months.

Yu Tianqing looked to have grown quite a bit taller, and the arms exposed outside his clothes were also somewhat thicker than before. It seemed his gains over these four months were not small either.

Yu Yuanzhen had Yu Tianlin and Yu Tianqing wait below, while he walked to the upper part of the great hall and sat in the sect master's seat in the middle.

"Brother Lin, long time no see."

Seeing that the elders had all gone up above, Yu Tianqing could not help moving closer to Yu Tianlin and greeting him.

Yu Tianlin nodded casually and responded, "Mm. It's been four months."

"Brother Lin, I heard about what happened to you too. It really is a great pity," Yu Tianqing said quietly. "I know the reason for this fight between us. I was originally wondering whether I should go easy on you, but my dad and grandpa..."

Hearing Yu Tianqing say this, Yu Tianlin could not help smiling and said, "Xiao Qing, you don't need to let me win. You can't beat me!"

"That confident?" Yu Tianqing muttered. "My First Soul Ring is..."

"Ahem!" Just as Yu Tianqing was about to reveal his own details to Yu Tianlin, Yu Luomian, who was seated above, gave a dry cough and interrupted Yu Tianqing. He said, "Big Brother, since Tianlin has arrived as well, let's begin."

"Just let the two of them fight freely," another elder beside him also said. "We old fellows are all watching here. There won't be any danger."

"Tianlin, Tianqing." Yu Yuanzhen swept his gaze over the two below and said, "This match between you two is very important. You must go all out and are not allowed to hold back."

Yu Tianlin and Yu Tianqing answered at the same time, "Yes!"

Originally, the two of them had been planning to chat for a few more lines, but now that those above had spoken, they could only start fighting directly.

The two separated and each walked to their fighting position. Then Yu Tianqing said one last thing: "Brother Lin, my grandpa is watching from above, so I really can't go easy. Be careful."

Yu Tianlin, however, stared intently at Yu Tianqing and said, "Come on!"

"Now, summon your martial souls."

Seeing the two stand in place, Yu Yuanzhen's calm voice came over.

As soon as his words fell, the same changes appeared on Yu Tianlin and Yu Tianqing.

The same lightning patterns, the same electric light coiling around them, and the same pale yellow Soul Rings!

"That's... a Hundred Year Soul Ring?!"

After seeing the yellow Soul Ring on Yu Tianlin, one elder could not help crying out in shock.

"Fourth Brother, you're already seventy or eighty years old, yet you're still like a young man, making a fuss every day. Can't you be a little steadier?" Yu Yuanzhen glanced at the elder who had cried out in shock and said, "It's just a Hundred Year Soul Ring. What's there to make such a fuss about?"