Chapter 44: Thunder Apertures

Since having the "Shuowen Jiezi" of the Golden Seal Script, Lin Zhangqing had devoted all his energy to learning and translation work.

Except for seeing his father off and returning the Heavenly Thunder Bead when his father set off to hunt demons. At other times, as long as he had free time, he was researching and learning the Golden Seal Script.

It took more than a month to translate the cultivation method to the Golden Core stage part.

He didn't translate the later parts for the time being. Having these four parts of Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Purple Mansion, and Golden Core was enough for now.

He was also afraid that his attainment in the Golden Seal Script was still at the introductory level, and the translation was not accurate enough. These first four parts were also revised and revised, and he didn't know how much draft paper he had used.

Fortunately, although the Golden Seal Script could not be borne by ordinary paper, there was no problem translating it into the characters used now.

At the same time, he deeply admired the founders of this cultivation method. It was truly painstaking and ingenious. The full name of the cultivation method was "Five Directions Five Elements Thunder True Scripture", which was the core inheritance cultivation method of the Thunder Sacred Land in the upper world.

Although the Thunder Sacred Land had the name of a Sacred Land in the upper world, it had never been prosperous, and it was even more sparse compared to other Sacred Lands.

The reason lay in the fact that there were too few cultivators with thunder spirit roots. Fortunately, the Thunder Sacred Land's thunder techniques were powerful and good at killing and fighting, so it finally defended the name and territory of the Sacred Land.

Until a catastrophe that lasted for a thousand years and affected many great thousand worlds, all major Sacred Lands suffered heavy casualties, and the Thunder Sacred Land was almost removed from the upper world.

The Thunder Sect Leader felt this situation and decided to gather the power of the whole Sacred Land to create a cultivation method that ordinary spirit roots could also practice to produce thunder mana.

Although there was a great ambition, the progress had been small, until someone proposed that thunder spirit roots were also composed of mutations of multiple ordinary spirit roots.

As long as they understood how those spirit roots mutated and combined, they could practice thunder mana through ordinary spirit roots.

With a specific direction, through continuous research and experiments, they finally summarized the mutation methods of ordinary spirit roots.

All mutations of thunder spirit roots could not be separated from earth spirit roots. Earth spirit roots could practice different thunder mana through the combination of other four-series spirit roots.

For example, the thunder mana formed by the combination of earth-wood spirit roots could practice and cast Jia Wood Divine Thunder, Yi Wood Yin Thunder, Wu Earth Divine Thunder, and Ji Tu Yin Thunder.

Like Lin Changling, who had earth-fire dual spirit roots, the thunder mana she practiced could practice and cast Bing Fire Divine Thunder, Ding Fire Yin Thunder, Wu Earth Divine Thunder, and Ji Tu Yin Thunder.

Like Lin Zhangqing, who had all five elements of spirit roots, the thunder mana he practiced could practice and cast all known thunder techniques, and so on.

In this way, there could be many different combinations, and multiple thunder mana could also form different mixed divine thunders, such as Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, Tai Qing Divine Thunder, Small Five Elements Annihilation Thunder, and even Great Five Elements Purifying Thunder, etc.

Since the root problem of mana was solved, but because there was no thunder spirit root, the thunder mana practiced was easy to lose control and could not be perfectly controlled. Later, someone proposed borrowing the cultivation idea of the Heaven-Rank high-grade cultivation method, the "Heavenly Star Body Refining Technique".

The thunder mana practiced was used to refine and open up 365 apertures. As long as a thunder-attribute town object was placed in each opened aperture, it could be used to suppress the thunder mana practiced.

In this way, it could not only be used to refine the body with thunder mana but also store the thunder mana practiced in the opened apertures.

In this way, ordinary spirit root cultivators could not only practice five-element mana but also thunder mana. It was equivalent to having two sets of cultivation systems, so whether it was fighting or practicing alchemy and artifact refining, they possessed more mana than others.

This town object could be thunder-attribute dharma artifacts, spiritual artifacts, magic treasures, spiritual materials, etc.

And the town object was nourished by thunder mana and would become more powerful. Of course, the aperture could also be seen as a place for long-term refining of thunder-attribute treasures.

Most importantly, the aperture could be repeatedly refined. The apertures opened in the Qi Refining stage were definitely not as large as those in the Foundation Establishment stage.

In this way, through the method of repeatedly refining the apertures, the apertures could become larger and stronger, thereby being able to accommodate more thunder mana.

The Qi Refining stage required opening 36 apertures, the Foundation Establishment stage required opening 72 apertures, the Purple Mansion stage required opening 108 apertures, and the Golden Core stage required opening the remaining 149 apertures, totaling 365 apertures.

The Thunder Sacred Land spread this cultivation method to many lower worlds. All cultivators who had the fate to obtain and practice it would automatically obtain the identity of a disciple of the Thunder Sacred Land. After ascending to the upper world in the future, they could officially join the Sacred Land and enjoy all the benefits of Sacred Land disciples.

The beginning of the cultivation method also attached the "Spirit Gathering Secret Method", which was a secret method used to put the town object into the aperture, which could be said to be very thoughtful.

Up to here, it was basically understood. Now everyone in the family could practice and must practice.

But the problem now was that the Qi Refining stage required 36 town objects, and more in the future, which was another bottomless pit.

The benefit was that there were 365 more apertures that could practice thunder mana, which was equivalent to having 365 more small dantians, which was a great help for crossing the thunder tribulation in the future.

Like advancing to Purple Mansion, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, all required crossing the thunder tribulation,

Even for the sake of the future, everyone in the family must cultivate. One must know that when crossing the lightning tribulation, one must face it alone; others cannot help. If someone approaches without authorization, the power of the lightning tribulation will even double.

Moreover, this technique also has the effect of body refining. By borrowing the cultivation logic of a Heaven-rank upper-grade technique, one would imagine the body refining effect won't be bad either. A strong physical body can further improve one's survival ability.

Lin Zhangqing prepared to cultivate lightning spiritual energy and first refine one acupoint to see, but before that, he had to go to the Affairs Hall to ask if there were any lightning-attribute dharma artifacts or spirit objects.

Having made up his mind, he tidied up and flew toward the Affairs Hall. There were quite a lot of people today, so Lin Zhangqing could only honestly wait in line, while constantly bowing and greeting the uncles and elders in front of him.

There was no other way; those who could go out to complete tasks independently were all of the Mao generation or above. Those like the Chang generation still had to wait a few years, so Lin Zhangqing was the youngest here.

After waiting for quite a while, it was finally Lin Zhangqing's turn. Seeing the Fourth Elder, Lin Zhangqing hurriedly greeted him: "Hello, Fourth Grandfather!"

"It's Little Qing! What do you want to exchange for?" the Fourth Elder asked with a smile.

"Fourth Grandfather, please help me see if there are any lightning-attribute dharma artifacts or lightning-attribute spirit objects," Lin Zhangqing said respectfully.

The Fourth Elder thought for a moment, then took out a jade slip to check, and finally said: "There is one first-grade upper-grade thunder-struck wood sword, and about ten first-grade mid-grade thunder spirit pearls."

"Okay, Fourth Grandfather, I want them all. How many contribution points in total?" Lin Zhangqing asked, looking at the Fourth Elder.

"Let's count the first-grade upper-grade thunder-struck wood sword as 300 contribution points, and the mid-grade thunder spirit pearls as 50 contribution points each. There are 15 in total, counting as 750 contribution points. In total, it will require 1050 contribution points," the Fourth Grandfather said with a smile.

Lin Zhangqing checked his identity jade token and saw there were only 610 contribution points; raising the purple crystal scorpions and buying a lot of red flame crystals had consumed quite a few contribution points.

Forget it, let's exchange that first-grade upper-grade wood-attribute flying sword to the clan, and make up the rest with spirit stones.

Lin Zhangqing took out the wood-attribute flying sword and handed it over, "Fourth Grandfather, I'm exchanging this sword to the clan. See how many contribution points it's worth."

The Fourth Elder took it, examined it, and said: "Let's count it as 260 contribution points!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded, just as he had expected. He handed his identity jade token to the Fourth Elder and said: "There are 610 contribution points in here; I will make up the difference with spirit stones."

"Fine, wait a moment, I'll go get them for you." After the Fourth Elder finished speaking, he went to the back.

After waiting for a while, the Fourth Elder returned and gave the items to Lin Zhangqing. Lin Zhangqing then gave the Fourth Elder 270 spirit stones to make up the difference.

After thanking the Fourth Elder, he took the items and returned home.

(End of Chapter)