Lightning Body Refinement

After drafting the Soul Beasts' development plan for the coming year, Jerry returned to the cabin to cultivate. First came Lightning Body Tempering: using lightning to temper his entire body and increase his Body Strength, then gradually increasing the electrical power so his Body Strength would slowly rise as well. The principle was simple. Jerry had cultivated Heart Separation Control, and with his powerful Spiritual Power, his control over his Martial Soul and Soul Power was precise down to the finest detail. But the moment he began, he felt as if his entire body were being torn apart. His hair stood straight up from the electricity! This Lightning Body Tempering really was not something ordinary people could endure! He hurriedly cast Light of Healing on himself, and only then did he feel much better.

Jerry felt there was something wrong with this Secret Technique. It hurt so badly right from the start. The lightning spread throughout his body, and all his cells immediately began to tear apart. This alone showed just how formidable Lightning Attribute attacks were!

This Secret Technique originally relied on tearing apart the cells throughout the body, restoring them, then tearing them apart again and again. After repeated cycles, all the body's cells would grow stronger. It truly was not something ordinary people could cultivate! Jerry felt this was wrong. Cells could indeed become stronger, but some cells absolutely could not be shocked—Brain Cells, for example. If they were damaged by electricity, some could not be repaired. No wonder that in the Original Work, Yu Tianheng and clan leader Yu Yuanzhen acted as if they had gone berserk whenever they fought, violent and irritable. They had probably fried quite a few Brain Cells. Even Healing Soul Masters could not repair that! Jerry had no desire to become an Iron Hunk. Fortunately, he had taken Biology Class and understood Human Anatomy, so he could temper different parts separately!

With that said, he began experimenting. He first used lightning to temper the muscles in his Left Arm, controlling the lightning and gradually increasing its intensity. Once he felt a tingling numbness, he stopped increasing it. This numbness was not the pain of cells tearing apart, and Jerry felt he could endure it. So he directly controlled the lightning to begin tempering the muscles throughout his body, followed by the surface layer of his skin, then his bones and bone marrow. He did not dare try anywhere else. The Internal Organs and the Brain were truly stimulating with even the slightest shock! Waves of numbness washed over him. Half an hour later, Jerry felt he had reached his limit, so he withdrew the lightning and cast a healing spell on himself. He felt every cell in his body absorbing the energy of the Healing Skill. Jerry cast three more healing spells before he felt his body had fully recovered! When he checked, his Body Strength had improved by the tiniest amount!

Jerry told Xiao Wu about the method of Lightning Body Tempering. His control over lightning had already reached the point where he could help others temper their bodies! Yet Xiao Wu immediately cried for him to stop as soon as they began. Sure enough, lightning was not something ordinary people could endure!

Da Ming and Er Ming were willing to try, but their bodies were too large. Even if Jerry converted all the Soul Power in his body into lightning, he still could not cover them! They could only wait until later! At that moment, Da Ming suddenly asked solemnly, "Besides increasing Body Strength, can your Lightning Body Tempering really increase resistance to lightning?"

"Of course it can. As the lightning gradually grows stronger, the body will slowly adapt to it. The greater the lightning intensity it adapts to, the more it can become immune to lightning below that intensity!" Jerry said.

"That's wonderful, truly wonderful! We Soul Beasts are very afraid of lightning. When a Soul Beast breaks through to one hundred thousand years, a Thunder Tribulation descends. If it survives, it gains another thousand years to continue cultivating. After that, it will face another Thunder Tribulation for every additional hundred thousand years it gains. Legend says that after surviving the tenth Thunder Tribulation, a Soul Beast that breaks through to the Million Year limit can become a god! But many Soul Beasts die in the first Thunder Tribulation. Upon reaching one hundred thousand years, they can choose Humanoid Transformation and begin cultivating from scratch, but their lifespan will only be a hundred years! Just living a hundred more years is far too short for Soul Beasts, so many are unwilling to undergo Humanoid Transformation, only to eventually perish. Sister Xiao Wu chose Humanoid Transformation because she did not dare face the Thunder Tribulation after becoming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. Er Ming and I have Thick Skin, so we managed to withstand it, but the Thunder Tribulation still nearly took our lives," Da Ming said sorrowfully.

"Now there is a Sacred Light Unicorn with 99999 years of cultivation. It has been suppressing its Soul Power Growth and does not dare break through! Soul Beasts of its kind have small Body Types. Can you help it?" Da Ming asked.

Jerry thought about it. It should be possible. A Thunder Tribulation was, plainly speaking, just an Electric Current of enormous power. This world had no physics, but there should be a way to survive it! They could give it a try!