The True Explosive Thunder Fist

Bang

Fine sand scattered in all directions at the sound of the impact.

At that moment, a young man stood atop a large square vat, his right fist clenched before he suddenly smashed it down into the vat.

Bang rang out again, and the fine sand inside the vat scattered once more.

This was precisely the method Lin Ming used to cultivate the Explosive Thunder Fist.

Half a month had passed since the large vat had been moved in.

During those half months, Lin Ming spent An Hour every day cultivating the Explosive Thunder Fist.

The first few days had been rather miserable. His arms and fists had become red and swollen from the fine sand's repeated impacts.

However, after the gloves Lin Ming had ordered were completed, and with their protection as well as the First-Grade Pill "Living Blood" applied externally to his arms, the misery of swollen arms was basically gone. He could be lively and energetic again the next day and continue cultivating.

Although those in the Dou Qi stage could not take pills, this "Living Blood" was only used to heal injuries. Moreover, it was applied to the arms rather than consumed, so it had no adverse effects on Lin Ming.

After half a month of tempering himself with fine sand, Lin Ming could basically complete the circulation of the Dou Technique's meridians within a breath before immediately throwing a punch and unleashing the Explosive Thunder Fist.

As Lin Ming became more proficient in using the Explosive Thunder Fist, he could clearly sense that there was a problem with the Explosive Thunder Fist he was currently circulating.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

After throwing several more punches and using the Explosive Thunder Fist a few times, Lin Ming stopped his training.

Based on the Explosive Thunder Fist Dou Technique as he currently used it, it could at most be called a Thunder Fist. It could not be called an Explosive Thunder Fist.

When Lin Ming had read the description of the Explosive Thunder Fist Dou Technique, its introduction had clearly stated: "When the fist strikes, it is like the sound of exploding thunder, shaking one's heart and soul; the fist carries the force of the earth, suppressing all before it."

Yet when Lin Ming circulated and used the Explosive Thunder Fist now, he could at most achieve the latter half: "The fist carries the force of the earth, suppressing all before it."

That was why Lin Ming said that the current Explosive Thunder Fist could at most be called the Thunder Fist.

From the introduction to the Explosive Thunder Fist Dou Technique, Lin Ming knew that its creator possessed dual lightning and earth attributes. Therefore, Lin Ming guessed that the words "force of the earth" in its description came from the creator's Earth Attribute.

As for why the Explosive Thunder Fist he currently used lacked that "force," Lin Ming knew the reason clearly and did not dwell on it.

After all, Lin Ming was still in the Dou Qi stage. He did not even possess a Dou Qi Attribute yet, so how could he speak of the traits of each attribute?

What troubled Lin Ming was the earlier part: "When the fist strikes, it is like the sound of exploding thunder, shaking one's heart and soul."

When Lin Ming had first seen that description in the Explosive Thunder Fist Dou Technique, he had thought that the exploding thunder sound that shook one's heart and soul came from the user's fist speed reaching the extreme, punching out in an instant and bursting the air to produce a Sonic Boom.

It was not strange for Lin Ming to think that way. In his Previous Life, even people who had not cultivated such things could accomplish it.

Now that he had come to the Dou Qi Continent, people here could cultivate Dou Qi. They also had souls, and they could even refine pills with all sorts of effects.

With so many extraordinary things here, wasn't it perfectly normal for someone to burst the air and create a Sonic Boom?

However, after Lin Ming began cultivating the Explosive Thunder Fist Dou Technique, he had not noticed anything during the first few days due to his lack of proficiency. After all, it was normal for his fist speed to be slow while he was still unfamiliar with it.

But as Lin Ming continued using the Explosive Thunder Fist and gradually became more skilled, its power increased only slightly. It still had not reached the level described by the Explosive Thunder Fist Dou Technique, and Lin Ming felt that something was seriously wrong.

At that point, there was a considerable difference between the Explosive Thunder Fist he had cultivated and the one described in the Dou Technique. If the description had not been exaggerated, then there had to be something wrong with Lin Ming's own cultivation.

To test his guess, Lin Ming specifically went to consult Grandpa Liu.

Grandpa Liu's answer was that if one wanted to produce a Sonic Boom purely through fist speed, one's cultivation would basically have to reach Grandpa Liu's level.

Grandpa Liu's level of cultivation.

As far as Lin Ming knew, Grandpa Liu had already possessed peak Dou Ling cultivation many years ago.

Lin Ming could not say whether Grandpa Liu had broken through to the Dou Wang realm by now, but even if his cultivation had not improved at all over all these years, he was still at peak Dou Ling.

If one needed peak Dou Ling cultivation just to cultivate the Explosive Thunder Fist to the level of power that ordinary people could achieve—a level at best comparable to a Black Tier Low-grade Dou Technique—then no one would use the Explosive Thunder Fist.

A creator with that level of cultivation would not create such a Black Tier Low-grade Dou Technique either.

The Dou Techniques used by ordinary Dou Lings were generally Black Tier mid- or High-Grade. Black Tier Low-grade Dou Techniques provided them with almost no improvement, so who would use one?

Lin Ming fell into deep thought. His intuition told him that only by figuring out the thunderous sound could the Explosive Thunder Fist become the true Explosive Thunder Fist—and only then would it be a Profound Tier Dou Technique.

The Explosive Thunder Fist Lin Ming currently used could at most be called a Thunder Fist, because it had absolutely no effect of exploding thunder that shook one's heart and soul.

Lin Ming took out the Explosive Thunder Fist Dou Technique again, turned to the final meridian diagram, and compared it against his own meridians as he circulated it.

After completing one cycle, Lin Ming did not find the slightest problem. The meridians he had circulated were exactly the same as those described in the diagram.

Still unconvinced, Lin Ming circulated the Explosive Thunder Fist once more, but he still found no problem.

Since he could not find the issue in the meridian diagram, Lin Ming flipped Explosive Thunder Fist to the written description at the front and reread its contents from beginning to end.

As he read, one passage caught Lin Ming's attention. The original text stated:

"Separate the variant spiritual power. Guide it along the ends of the meridians and attach it to the arm. Vibrate the skin, causing the attached Dou Qi to vibrate in unison and emit a shaking sound. With greater practice and control, it can shake one's heart and soul."

"Holy crap." That was all Lin Ming wanted to say.

It was all because of the bad habit he had developed from reading novels in his Previous Life, skimming through ten lines at a glance. Wasn't that screwing himself over? Lin Ming swore that from now on, whenever he read a Cultivation Method, he would read it word by word.

"Guide it along the ends of the meridians."

The ends of the meridians. Lin Ming immediately returned to the final meridian diagram. Looking at the small branch-meridian ends drawn on it, he instantly felt embarrassed.

He had thought those small meridians were meant to help identify the main circulating meridians. At the time, Lin Ming had even smugly thought himself a genius for finding the main meridians after only one try.

"Mm, good thing no one knows. I can never tell anyone about this, even if it kills me," Lin Ming muttered quietly.

After becoming proficient in circulating it, Lin Ming had thought that the Explosive Thunder Fist involved far more meridians than other Yellow Tier High-grade Dou Techniques, yet its power was only about the same. It turned out that some of those meridians were used to control the skin's vibration.

Now that he had found the reason, Lin Ming began studying how to make his skin vibrate.

To avoid another mishap, Lin Ming first chose a small branch meridian to test.

Only after confirming there was no problem did he slowly begin circulating all the branch meridians together. Otherwise, if he circulated them all from the start and something went wrong, this entire arm might be ruined.

Calming himself, he sank his breath into his Dantian and guided his Dou Qi with his consciousness slowly toward one of the branch meridians.

Lin Ming was especially careful now, afraid that something might go wrong.

When the Dou Qi reached the end of the branch meridian, it stopped moving.

What was going on? Wasn't the Dou Qi supposed to attach itself to the surface of his arm and vibrate? Why had it stopped? Did he need to force it out? Then I'll try it. Lin Ming thought as he forcefully pushed the Dou Qi outward.

"Mm." Lin Ming felt as though he had been pricked by a needle. Then he saw a bright red rash appear on the skin corresponding to that meridian.

Looking at the bright red rash, Lin Ming fell into deep thought. Then he suddenly realized that this was the phenomenon of ruptured capillaries from his Previous Life.

Could this control of vibration rely on controlling capillaries? If it truly depended on controlling capillaries, then it made sense.

After all, capillaries were extremely tiny, seemingly less than one-tenth the width of a Strand of Hair. Lin Ming did not know exactly how small they were.

There were no microscopes in this world, so no one knew such things existed. Lin Ming had always assumed that the ends of the meridians were the smallest things.

But how had that creator discovered them? Could he have been someone who had Passed Through as well?

Forget it. Since he could not figure it out, Lin Ming did not dwell on it. Since he believed that was the case, he switched to another branch meridian. When the Dou Qi reached its end, Lin Ming divided it into portions even smaller than one-tenth of a Strand of Hair.

This time, the Dou Qi passed through the end of the meridian and reached the capillaries. Lin Ming sensed the skin in that spot visibly tremble.

"Yes! I did it!" Lin Ming jumped up and made a V-sign with his fingers.

The joy was beyond words. The delight of analyzing something bit by bit through his own efforts, experimenting, and finally succeeding was truly indescribable. At that moment, he felt that everything had been worth it.

Now that he had found the method, all that remained was painstaking work to gain control over each meridian branch.

One Month Later, Lin Ming shouted, "Explosive Thunder Fist!" Then his fist crashed down like a comet.

"Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz—boom!" Accompanied by an Ear-piercing buzzing and a thunderous boom, the fine sand in the large vat was blasted into a huge pit.

Looking at the huge pit, a burst of "Hahaha..." soon rang out.

Yes, Lin Ming was standing there laughing wildly.

Occasionally, he could also be heard saying, "So this is a Profound Tier Dou Technique!" followed by more "Hahaha..."

After a month of hard training, Lin Ming had finally unleashed the true Explosive Thunder Fist today.

When used, this true Explosive Thunder Fist matched the description exactly: when the fist struck, it was like the sound of exploding thunder, shaking one's heart and soul; the fist carried the force of the earth, suppressing all before it.

If Lin Ming had not occasionally produced that buzzing sound while experimenting and thus known it existed, that sound might have interrupted even him when he used the Dou Technique Just Now.

It affected even him like this, so it would be even more effective against an enemy.

Even if it could not interrupt an enemy's use of a Dou Technique, making them distracted for that instant and forcing them to take his attack head-on would still be good.

The true Explosive Thunder Fist could not only shake one's heart and soul, but was also far more powerful. The Dou Qi attached to the surface of the arm not only made the punch faster; it also increased the arm's defense and strength, thereby protecting it as well.

When the fist finally struck an enemy, that Dou Qi would also pour forth, increasing the damage of the punch. The pit in the large vat showed just how powerful it was. If this struck an enemy...

"Hehe."

In the days that followed, Lin Ming cultivated Dou Qi, then spent An Hour every day repeatedly practicing the Explosive Thunder Fist to increase his proficiency. Occasionally, he spent time with Ya Fei.