Tempering the Body with Lightning at the Clan Ancestral Land

Having only just become Dou Practitioners, the cultivation arts they trained in naturally could not be too advanced. There had to be a transitional period. With arts that were too advanced, they would not be able to handle them at present.

The cultivation arts of this world were divided into Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow ranks.

Each rank was further divided into high, middle, and low grades.

Different cultivation arts resulted in different cultivation speeds, but if you had a Dou Practitioner cultivate a Heaven-rank art, it would not necessarily allow them to soar to the heavens in a single step.

Everything required a gradual transition.

For his transitional cultivation art, Lei Qi chose a mid-grade Profound-rank Thunder Seal Body Tempering Art. Though this art was not of a particularly high rank, cultivating it could effectively strengthen one's physique.

That was naturally what appealed to Lei Qi.

He knew very well that a person's strength did not depend solely on offensive power. First, one had to be able to stand firm.

Lei Dong, meanwhile, chose a high-grade Profound-rank cultivation art.

After choosing their cultivation arts, Lei Ying told the two of them to rest. They would enter the ancestral land the following day.

As they returned to their residence, Lei Dong looked at Lei Qi with utter seriousness and said, "Lei Qi, I won't keep losing forever."

"Though no gambler loses every day, you should know that you're facing me." Lei Qi glanced at the little brat before him and replied without yielding an inch.

"Hmph, one day, I'll defeat you with the strongest lightning." Although it was true, Lei Dong still said it unwillingly.

"Then work hard. If you can keep up with me, Big Brother will take you around the world to have some fun." Lei Qi patted Lei Dong's shoulder and said seriously for once.

Lei Dong was the simple, straightforward type without any schemes. Whenever he was bored, he would even volunteer to be a punching bag. Lei Qi quite appreciated that.

"I'm older than you!" Lei Dong protested.

"This world has never cared about age. It cares about strength, understand?" Lei Qi added.

A trace of confusion appeared on Lei Dong's little face.

He even wondered, If I become stronger than my father someday, can I pin him down and spank him?

Lei Qi did not care what Lei Dong was thinking. Upon reaching his door, he opened it and walked inside.

The rooms arranged in this inner realm were far better than his residence outside.

Most importantly, there was even specially warmed medicinal liquid for bathing.

Eight years!

After a full eight years, he had finally gotten a taste of what it was like to be a "playboy" young master of a Dou Emperor clan.

Splash!

In no time at all, Lei Qi stripped off his clothes and climbed into the wooden tub.

If only there were a few beautiful young women here too...

Lei Qi suddenly shook his head. In a place like the Thunder Clan, where would he find beautiful young women?

Early the next morning.

Clan Chief Lei Ying and First Elder Lei Jin arrived.

With a pile of rare lightning-element crystals gathered there, the two acted almost simultaneously. Before long, the Thunder Clan Ancestral Land opened.

"Although you can stay here for ten years, whether you can endure for those ten years will depend on yourselves."

First Elder Lei Jin took out two jade slips and said, "If you truly cannot endure it, crush the jade slips I gave you. I will bring you out then."

The two each took one before stepping into the so-called Thunder Clan Ancestral Land.

The instant Lei Qi stepped inside, he immediately felt a numbing power of lightning course through his entire body.

The sensation was simply awful!

Crackle~~~~!!!

Crackle~~~~!!!

Once everything before his eyes changed, bolts of lightning began appearing from time to time.

This place was not dark, because lightning flashed everywhere!

Lei Qi looked around. It seemed that there was nothing here apart from lightning.

"Lei Dong??"

Suddenly, Lei Qi realized that Lei Dong was not beside him. They had clearly entered together...

Lei Qi did not rashly move forward. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the ground and began circulating his cultivation art.

This was the entrance area, and there was nothing particularly special about it. Cultivating here would be the best way to get a feel for the place.

Bzzzt...

Bzzzt...

The moment Lei Qi began circulating his cultivation art, the lightning around him gathered toward him.

Crackle.

Bang!

Crackle.

Bang!

Bolts of lightning exploded across Lei Qi's body.

As the lightning burst, Lei Qi immediately felt pain radiating from his body.

However, although the sensation was agonizing, the absorption of Dou Qi within his body was exceptionally abundant.

Cultivating before becoming a Dou Practitioner had been extraordinarily strenuous.

Yet after becoming a Dou Practitioner and obtaining a cultivation art, one's speed increased dozens of times over.

Here, the speed at which he absorbed refined Dou Qi energy became even faster. At the same time, though, the damage to his body also became much more severe!

Rumble!!!

After cultivating for only half an hour, Lei Qi collapsed to the ground in pain.

Once he stopped cultivating, the dense power of lightning ceased harming him and instead gently poured into his body. Although this energy was vastly different from what he absorbed during cultivation, at least not feeling pain was a good thing.

Lei Qi absorbed the refined Dou Qi energy while watching his surroundings.

The First Elder had said that this place had several levels, and the first level was nearly free of danger. However, it had not been opened for so many years that nothing was certain, so he still needed to be cautious.

As for the dangers here, they were some Dou Qi puppets left behind by the Thunder Emperor.

These puppets were neither particularly strong nor weak. In terms of cultivation, they should all be at least at the Dou Master level.

The strongest among them should be at the Dou Emperor level.

Though they could not improve on their own, that did not mean they would remain forever in fixed locations.

Fortunately,

After resting for an entire day, no other sounds came from Lei Qi's side apart from rumbling thunder and flashing lightning.

Lei Qi did not waste any time. After eating some food, he once again accepted lightning's baptism.

Every bolt of lightning that entered his body brought incomparably intense pain. Yet after the pain passed, Lei Qi could feel that both his body's toughness and his Dou Qi had greatly improved and increased.

One month later.

After a month of baptism, Lei Qi successfully broke through to the Dou Master level. The strength of his physical body had also increased by an unknown amount.

Moreover, his lightning seemed to have strengthened somewhat as well. He felt that the power of his lightning attribute was far greater than that of an ordinary lightning-attribute cultivator!

Though they were both ordinary lightning, at the same realm and with the same cultivation art, his attack power would definitely be stronger.

This truly was a good place.

Even after breaking through to the Dou Master level, Lei Qi did not leave. He still chose to remain here and cultivate. Although his cultivation speed was no longer as fast as it had been at the beginning, rashly going to the next level would not necessarily be safe!

Lei Qi wanted to grow stronger faster, but haste made waste. Being too anxious was useless. For now, he could only lay his foundation step by step. As for his "Clan Prosperity" system?

Once he left seclusion, there would naturally come a time for it to show itself and shine.