Lightning Forging Body

After returning to Black Dragon City, Rein began to maintain a regular daily routine.

He didn't need to worry about any of the city's affairs, big or small; Ymir and the council could handle them perfectly. As the city lord, he only needed to take care of himself, spending his days cultivating, eating, and resting in a repetitive cycle.

Several days later, dark clouds loomed over the city, lightning flashed and thunder roared in the sky.

The Karatva Basin has entered the rainy season, with thunderstorms occurring frequently.

Lightning in nature is the might of the heavens, and even Transcendent beings must avoid it.

The Mechanical City is made of steel, making it particularly prone to attracting lightning during thunderstorms. This wouldn't normally be a problem; building lightning rods would simply divert the lightning into the ground.

But today is different.

Behind the "dock" where airships are secretly forged in the inner city of Black Dragon City stands the city's tallest lightning rod.

At this very moment, there is a platform on the tower where a figure is sitting cross-legged in meditation.

And in the thunderclouds in the sky, a Purple Thunder Raven with a wingspan of tens of meters can be seen flying merrily, hunting lightning.

Snaking Lightning Serpent flashed down from the dark clouds, seemingly about to strike the lightning rod at any moment, but the figure remained completely unfazed.

In the advanced training grounds of Black Dragon City.

Gannix is attempting to fight a Third Tier Velociraptor, while Uncle Sam is instructing him on martial arts techniques.

After arriving in Black Dragon City, Gannix trained even harder and made great progress.

Before long, he had pierced the velociraptor's scales with his spear and killed this sub-dragon, which was stronger than a typical Tier 3 Magical Beast.

Uncle Sam felt that his disciple was becoming more and more to his liking, and he did not hold back his praise, "Gannix, well done."

Wiping his sweat, Gannix's face lit up with joy. "It's all thanks to your excellent teaching, teacher."

Just as he was about to say something modest, a muffled clap of thunder sounded, and a thick bolt of lightning struck the tallest lightning rod in the distance, illuminating the entire territory in an instant with a blinding white light.

Gannix glanced up and froze.

He immediately recognized the figure sitting cross-legged on the lightning rod tower. His eyelids twitched, and he pointed at the figure, exclaiming, "Teacher, isn't that Mr. Rein?"

Uncle Sam's eyelids twitched as well, and he slowly nodded. "Hmm."

Gannix felt he understood what Rein was doing, but he still found it hard to believe. "What is he doing?"

Uncle Sam said with a complicated expression, "If I'm not mistaken, he's practicing lightning-inducing cultivation."

Gannix: "But... under that natural lightning, didn't you say that even a fifth-tier Transcendent couldn't withstand it, teacher?"

Uncle Sam hesitated for a moment, as if he sighed slightly, before saying, "Mr. Rein, you can't judge this by common sense."

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Gannix was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He thought to himself, "We're both at the Third Tier the Transcendent, but I feel like the gap between me and Senior Rein is getting bigger and bigger."

Not only the master and disciple, but also all the experts in the city, looking at the figure on the tower, showed varying degrees of shock in their eyes.

In a tavern, Bazel, who was drinking, heard the thunder and clicked his tongue. "This kid has improved a lot on this trip. He really is a freak. If I hadn't watched him grow up, and someone told me he's a guy who only advanced to the Transcendent a couple of years ago, I would have slapped them across the face."

At the sound of thunder, Canossa, who was inspecting the shops on the street, looked up into the distance and a slight smile appeared on her lips, "Lightning Forging Body? No wonder he said he wouldn't have to wait long to advance to the Great Perfection of the 'Divine Steel Realm'."

On the top floor of the parliament building, Ymir gazed at the figure amidst the lightning outside the window, a strange light flashing in her crystal eyes. "What nonsense! They said they wanted to try it out, and they actually went."

In a certain attic, Guy, who had been practicing swordsmanship during the rain, slowly opened his eyes. "Mr. Rein already has the aura of a dominator."

At this very moment, beneath the tallest lightning rod in Black Dragon City.

Wudo looked up at the figure on the Thunder Tower with a look of fear and trepidation, her pretty face unable to hide her worry.

Fifteen minutes ago, Lei had instigated her to come along, and then he stripped down to his underwear and climbed the tower.

The person who's courting death isn't worried, but the bystanders are terrified.

Wudo, clutching his clothes, waited there in fear.

Fortunately, after several rounds of lightning strikes, the aura on the lightning rod fluctuated greatly, but it was clear that the person was still alive.

Wudo also breathed a sigh of relief.

On the hundred-meter-high lightning protection tower, Rein sat cross-legged, naked, meditating.

His only pair of underwear had been completely burned away by the previous lightning strikes. Stimulated by the lightning, his well-defined muscles looked exceptionally strong, bulging and throbbing, as if dragons and snakes were surging beneath his skin.

At this moment, his skin looked as if it were sprinkled with gold dust, radiating a faint golden hue. The mysterious purple totem was now shining with a dazzling light.

And just then, there was another "crack".

A bolt of lightning as thick as a water vat struck down, and in the blink of an eye, before anyone could react, it surged down from the top of the tower like a silver python, violently piercing through Rein's body.

Under the pull of the [Thunder Totem], the surrounding thunder elements rapidly gathered and were absorbed into his body.

Thick strands of silver light danced and shimmered on the skin.

If anyone else were present, they would surely have noticed that after the lightning struck his body, his skin was covered in cracks and fissures from the electric shock. But in the blink of an eye, the Gang Line appeared again, and the cracks healed automatically.

Lightning strike, absorption, healing. And so it goes on.

He was actually cultivating by drawing upon the power of natural lightning.

This is a crazy cultivation method that other Transcendent individuals, even the Ten Great Legends, dare not attempt.

Naturally generated lightning is unpredictable and uncontrollable, so even lightning-type Transcendent dare not use it for cultivation.

Natural lightning, with its violent energy often reaching hundreds of millions of volts, can easily reduce ordinary High-tier Extraordinary to ashes. Occasionally, a large-scale lightning strike might reach billions or even tens of billions of volts.

Rushing into a minefield could result in the immediate death of even the most Transcendent.

However, Rein is an exception.

He also has an [Immortal Thunder Raven].

Now that the contracted Thunder Crow is in tune with him, this silly bird seems to have grown tired of eating "canned thunder" for countless millennia and prefers to hunt natural thunder in the thunderclouds.

Those massive lightning bolts, exceeding Rein's tolerance, became food for the Thunder Ravens the moment they appeared.

Some small lightning bolts were attracted to the lightning rod and struck Rein, which he could withstand.

When it was his first time trying to draw lightning into his body, Rein was initially a little worried.

But after a few hits, he immediately turned to surprise.

He discovered that natural lightning could indeed greatly enhance the cultivation of the [Thunder God Art]!

The previous "Breath of Lightning" technique was a simple breathing method that could only absorb some mild lightning elements, and its breathing efficiency was generally low.

The [Thunder God Art] follows the path of "nourishing the body with qi," which not only dramatically increases fighting qi but also greatly enhances muscle strength and physical resilience.

This "Lightning Forging Body" is also a "shortcut" recorded in the secret method.

Normally, he would need to cultivate the technique to the fifth level and gain a certain degree of control over the Elemental Power lightning before he could use this method of "drawing lightning into the body" to cultivate.

However, because of the existence of the [Thunder Totem] and the Thunder Raven "Pikachu", he can now directly summon Heavenly Thunder at the Third Tier.

By circulating the Cultivation Method, the lightning will directly stimulate muscle growth and temper the body.

Even if the lightning caused injuries that his body couldn't withstand, he was a doctor and could heal them instantly.

Although this method looks a bit scary, it is actually not fatally dangerous for him.

The efficiency of body tempering is several times that of normal cultivation!

Moreover, not only has the efficiency of his Cultivation Method been greatly enhanced, but Rein's martial arts skills have also improved by leaps and bounds.

Truth is always the best way to hone martial arts skills.

Last time, I had a big battle with that Uhm Lopez at the "Black Wind Territory" banquet, and the system recorded detailed data about this opponent.

Then every night in his dreams, he would fight several battles against "Uhm," a character simulated by the system's data.

An opponent who could bring him a fatal crisis was also a genius fighter who was proficient in various fighting techniques, which made Rein's fighting skills improve by leaps and bounds.

The twentyfold increase in power, coupled with each all-out battle to the death, allowed him to hone his martial arts skills to the point that it felt like he had been honed to the limit for a year and a half in just a few days.

At the beginning, he was completely dominated by "Uhm" and had to rely on healing methods to wear down his opponent; later, he could fight his opponent for dozens of rounds simply by comparing fighting skills, and the gap in skills became smaller and smaller.

After a while, Rein felt that the skill gap between him and Uhm would gradually narrow.

In the battle at Black Wind Territory, Guy's superior physical strength, which he had previously suppressed with his exquisite Frost Moon Sword Master Rein Carlo.

It also made Rein see the path he would take in the future.

With the assistance of a "Mind Core," the efficiency with which he hones his skills is unimaginable to others.

He wants both strength and skill!

Two hours later, the most violent thunderstorm had passed.

A torrential downpour began.

Feeling refreshed after being struck by lightning, Rein jumped off the lightning rod.

"Doctor Rein, are you alright?"

"It's alright."

Wudo, already used to seeing Lei with his bare bottom exposed, handed him his clothes and said, "Princess Ymir just sent someone to tell you that she needs you to go to her place."

"Oh? Ymir is looking for me?"

Rein was slightly surprised, as he was usually a hands-off city lord who didn't get involved in things. "Okay."

Wudo helped him get dressed and then asked, "Doctor Rein, what would you like to eat tonight? The hunting party hunted a few Dark Magic Bear this morning and gave us one. I'm planning to make a meat soup."

Rein smiled at her, "Okay. We'll have broth tonight."

Wudo's cooking always whetted his appetite.

After getting dressed, Rein went to the city hall.

Ymir is usually there during the day.

They went up to the top floor and, sure enough, saw Ymir intently processing official documents.

"Your Ymir, did you need something from me?"

"Yes."

Ymir put down her quill, looked at Rein at the door, and instead of getting down to business, asked, "Was your training session going well?"

Rein nodded. "Yeah. Feels good."

"You're the first person I've ever heard of who can Lightning Forging Body."

Ymir glanced at him and smiled slightly.

Rein didn't try to hide anything and walked over casually. Reaching the table, she looked at the documents the woman was working on with a hint of curiosity.

"I have something important to discuss with you."

At this point, Ymir pointed to the map on the table and got down to business, "Didn't you previously guess that the 'Tomb of the Black Emperor' was in the mountains to the west? The good news is that our Wyvern Riders have brought back news these past two days that the tomb's location has been roughly determined, and it basically matches the map you drew. But there's also bad news: that area is infested with extremely powerful wyverns and other Dragonkin- blooded magical beasts. Even those with Transcendent senses have detected very powerful magical beast auras. Therefore, our Scavenger Gang won't be able to approach that area in the short term."

The map was naturally the same tomb construction plan he had seen in the desert ruins last time.

An on-site survey revealed no significant difference between the natural and systemic approaches.

"Oh?"

There were few surprises about Rein.

But upon hearing this, his eyes flickered, and he seemed to realize something. He said, "My teacher previously deduced, based on the distribution of magical beast ranks, that the area covered by High-tier Demonic Beast on the west side of the basin is very likely the lair of that black dragon. That special and powerful aura might be that black dragon."

The discovery of Dragon Claw Marks on the Airship Wreckage proves that the legendary black dragon is still alive. It now seems highly likely that its lair is hidden in the area near the tomb.

Ymir nodded. "Yes. Grandpa Ilubeck also mentioned this issue to me during the last council meeting. Judging from the intelligence we have, that black dragon is extremely powerful. Even if all the top warriors in our territory join forces, they might not be able to kill it. Moreover, Lord-tier monsters have the ability to drive away other magical beasts. If we force our way into that area, we may face endless attacks from High-tier Demonic Beast."

She paused, then continued, "Therefore, I think it's best to postpone the excavation of the tomb for a while. We can proceed after the hunters have come and explored the basin."

"Um."

Rein agreed, saying, "It's good that you've made your decision."

Their "Black Dragon City" is currently characterized by vast land, sparse population, abundant resources, but a severe shortage of manpower for land reclamation.

The resources in the "Karatva Basin" are extremely abundant. Even though Black Dragon City cannot move now, the resources in this area are enough for them to use for decades.

However, because the basin is so vast, it would be impossible for the people of Black Dragon City to explore it thoroughly even after hundreds of years of reclamation.

This is one of the reasons why they are preparing to open their city to attract hunters.

Cooperation and mutual benefit are the most efficient choices for development.

Ymir: "Oh, and there's more good news. We received word from Mr. Tuster that our airship's propulsion system is basically restored. The goblin technology has been a great help, and it shouldn't be long before our Mechanical City is airborne again. Our 'Mecha Assembly Line' is also in operation, currently producing about one high-level mech every two or three days. However, we still have a significant shortage of mid- to high-level craftsmen, and materials for certain key components are scarce, requiring shipments from various merchant guilds."

The city's development has entered a regular phase, and good news keeps coming.

Rein listened with a pleased expression.

What they lack now is population.

Animal husbandry, agriculture, textiles, and other industries that require a large workforce all need a large population, which is one of the most important reasons for the development of Prophet Black Dragon City.

They need a large population.

Rein: "Once the hunters and refugees arrive, our population pressure will be relieved immediately."

Ymir: "Yes. The first group of hunters should arrive in Black Dragon City in three days. At that time, we will definitely give the world a surprise."

"Um."

At this point, the two exchanged a knowing glance, their expressions revealing anticipation.

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