After Xu Jingming had waited in the villa for over half an hour, Yang Zhentian finally returned.
With a flash of lightning, Yang Zhentian appeared in the villa's living room.
"Teacher." Xu Jingming hurriedly rose to his feet.
"I got the SS-rank Resource. Come, let's go to the Training Room!"
Yang Zhentian looked somewhat excited as he impatiently led Xu Jingming to the Training Room on the second floor.
"Exchanging for this SS-rank Resource took some effort. The Resource Department originally didn't want to let me trade two S-rank Resources for an SS-rank Resource.
"Fortunately, I called the Principal, and only then did they agree to the exchange."
Yang Zhentian flipped his right hand, and another glass vial containing essence blood appeared in his palm.
However, unlike the previous vial of essence blood, the blood inside this one was a peculiar silvery white!
Threads of electric arcs and a violent aura swirled within it.
"This is the SS-rank Resource, the essence blood of an Eighth-Order Lower Position Thunder Tyrant Dragon!"
Looking at the vial of essence blood in his hand, Yang Zhentian could not help feeling slightly emotional.
Dragon-type beasts were the most troublesome of all beast clans.
He could kill an Eighth-Order Lower Position Earth-Shaking Demon Python across ranks, yet he could not kill any Eighth-Order Lower Position dragon-type beast.
Even to him, a vial of essence blood like this was immensely useful.
Of course,
if it had not been so precious, the school would not have classified it as an SS-rank Resource.
Xu Jingming took in the scene and silently etched the kindness of his teacher and the Principal into his heart.
A drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring, let alone such a precious SS-rank Resource.
When he became powerful, he would repay every one of these debts several times over.
"Take off your outer clothes and sit cross-legged."
Following Yang Zhentian's instructions, Xu Jingming removed his shirt, revealing the strong muscles of his upper body, then sat down cross-legged.
The next moment,
he felt a slight chill on his back, followed by a faint prickling pain.
Though the pain was weak, it seemed to pierce deep into his bones, making him furrow his brow slightly.
"The essence blood of a Thunder Tyrant Dragon is naturally nothing to a High-Order Metahuman like me.
"But to a Low-Order Metahuman like you, it is no different from a deadly poison.
"Even touching it with your skin will cause a stinging sensation."
As Yang Zhentian explained from behind him, he smeared the blood from the glass vial across Xu Jingming's back.
At that moment, his eyes were filled with blue-white lightning.
He could clearly see every blood vessel and meridian in Xu Jingming's back, allowing him to apply it with greater precision.
More than ten minutes later, all the blood in the glass vial had been used up.
Xu Jingming's back was entirely covered in blood, turning silvery white.
"Next, I'll use my Wind Fire True Lightning to forge the foundation of your Thunder Undying Body.
"In truth, forging the foundation means refining the blood of a lightning-type beast into your own bloodline.
"Only then can you gain a physique comparable to a beast's, or even stronger!
"But how much essence blood you can ultimately absorb will depend entirely on you."
Yang Zhentian drew a deep breath, then let out a low roar. "Wind Fire True Lightning!"
Crackle—
Scarlet lightning countless times stronger than Xu Jingming's Purple Heaven Divine Lightning burst from Yang Zhentian's body.
The sound of thunder filled the air, and the temperature throughout the Training Room seemed to rise sharply with the appearance of the lightning!
"The entire process will last around four or five days. It'll hurt a little, so endure it.
"Most importantly, don't lose consciousness. Otherwise, the efficiency of absorbing the essence blood will be greatly reduced."
As his words fell, all the scarlet lightning surged forward and submerged Xu Jingming completely.
Any one of those bolts, if it accidentally struck Xu Jingming, would annihilate him on the spot.
However, with a Seventh-Order Upper Metahuman's control over his ability, such a thing was naturally impossible.
Yang Zhentian controlled the power of the Wind Fire True Lightning within the limits Xu Jingming could endure, sending it in through his back.
Strands of lightning carried the essence blood of the Thunder Tyrant Dragon as they coursed through Xu Jingming's body.
They continuously transformed his blood vessels, meridians, and even his bones!
Yet to Xu Jingming himself, this entire process felt like being gnawed by ten thousand ants, the pain reaching deep into his marrow!
Fortunately, he did not faint on the spot. He merely gritted his teeth, endured, and silently bore it.
Five days later, inside Villa No. 23.
"Uncle Fu, this is already the fifth day, isn't it? Is Teacher still not done?" Liu Ming, another disciple of Yang Zhentian's, asked the butler beside him as he sat on the living room sofa.
This was the third time he had come by in recent days.
Yet every time, the answer he received from Butler Fu Bo was that Yang Zhentian was still forging the foundation of Xu Jingming's Thunder Undying Body.
"It is not over yet. This time, the Dean is using the essence blood of an Eighth-Order beast to forge Student Xu's foundation.
"It takes more effort, and naturally requires more time as well," Butler Fu Bo replied.
Although Yang Zhentian could not spare his attention at the moment, he could still maintain basic communication.
That was why Butler Fu Bo knew what had happened, as well as that the essence blood being used for Xu Jingming came from an Eighth-Order beast.
"The essence blood of an Eighth-Order Thunder Tyrant Dragon..."
Liu Ming had learned this news the last time he visited.
It would be impossible to say he was not envious at all.
After all, they were both disciples of Yang Zhentian.
When Yang Zhentian had forged the foundation of his Thunder Undying Body back then, he had only used the essence blood of a Seventh-Order Lower lightning-type beast.
However, once he learned that Xu Jingming possessed an S-rank metahuman ability, he came to terms with it.
An awakener of an S-rank metahuman ability was indeed worthy of Teacher's painstaking cultivation.
"Eighth-Order dragon-type beast essence blood, combined with an S-rank Lightning Type ability... I'm actually looking forward to Junior Brother Xu's Thunder Undying Body."
As an S-rank Body Tempering Combat Skill, the power of the Thunder Undying Body was not fixed.
On the contrary, it was closely related to the essence blood used when forging its foundation, as well as the Metahuman's own Lightning Type ability.
Eighth-Order beast essence blood combined with an S-rank ability was clearly an explosive combination.
"Roar—"
At that moment, a roar resembling that of a dragon-type beast suddenly exploded through the villa!
The sound was filled with majesty and brutality. Merely hearing it
made one feel as though they had seen a powerful, violent dragon-type beast!
"Junior Brother's foundation forging succeeded!"
Liu Ming's eyes lit up.
With a flash of lightning, he directly used a Movement-Type Combat Skill and shot up to the second floor.
When he arrived at the Training Room on the second floor, the first thing he sensed was a threatening aura akin to that of a top-tier beast!
This sense of danger made even him, a Third-Order Peak Metahuman, feel a little alarmed!
Then, he saw the source of that threatening aura.
Xu Jingming stood tall in the center of the Training Room.
However, unlike the humble and courteous Xu Jingming from their previous meeting, Xu Jingming now radiated a violent aura.
His originally clear, spirited eyes had turned blood-red. Veins bulged across the well-proportioned, powerful muscles of his bare upper body.
As though influenced by their master,
the terrifying blue-violet lightning swirling around him had also entered a berserk state, continuously flashing and leaping.
The entire Training Room flickered unsteadily with the lightning dancing around Xu Jingming...
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