Inside the underground chamber, blue-white light flashed violently amid a series of crisp, tearing sounds.
A moment later, the light dimmed. Chen Mu collapsed to the floor, his clothes in tatters. White smoke rose from his chest, where the flesh was scorched black.
"If I don't open a new Secret Aperture soon, I'm going to get fried before I do." Chen Mu looked utterly hopeless.
To temper his bloodline, he suppressed his body's defenses and deliberately took the lightning head-on. But Kuishui Yinlei was only second tier and difficult to control. If he was even slightly careless and the Thunder Art grew a bit too powerful, his skin would split and his flesh would tear.
"Even if I can endure the pain and numbness, it'll take at least three days for my body to recover enough to withstand the next lightning strike."
"At this rate, I might as well honestly cultivate the Yellow Springs General Outline."
Chen Mu lay on the ground without getting up. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that striking himself with lightning was a losing deal.
"To speed up the opening of Secret Apertures, I either need to raise Kuishui Yinlei first and gain finer control over it."
"Or I need to find some supplementary method that can accelerate wound healing."
He looked at the Gray Wall before him, where a string of skills appeared.
Chen Mu fixed his gaze on one of the entries.
"Soul Seizing Yuan Returning Technique..."
This skill had come from the Wushan Six Siblings. Back then, he had only copied it to get several Secret Arts for free. After giving it a cursory look, he had never cultivated it. He vaguely remembered that this Secret Art seemed to possess the ability to speed up wound healing.
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