Chapter 45

Back home, Lin Zhangqing did not immediately start cultivating, but instead began to brew tea; he had now developed the habit of drinking tea.

And he discovered that the time spent brewing tea could calm his mood. This might be the reason why many people like tea art! Taking advantage of this moment, Lin Zhangqing roughly calculated his net worth; he had less than a hundred spirit stones left.

There were quite a few vermilion fruits, but he couldn't take them out to sell! There were still five earth soul fruits; except for the three given to his grandfather, the others had been used by Lin Zhangliu, who digested one about every three months.

He had to leave one for his parents and second uncle as a backup, and the remaining four could almost support them until the next earth soul fruit harvest.

The three jade essence mushroom seedlings bought at the stall during the Seven Prefectures Small Meeting were also planted in the space, and they would mature in over a month. However, Lin Zhangqing planned not to harvest them yet, but to continue cultivating them to see if small spirit mushrooms would grow out.

He had not yet started using the bloodline contract on the bloodthirsty thorn vine, mainly because his energy had been focused on translating the true scripture recently. Moreover, the bloodline contract would consume Lin Zhangqing's essence blood, so he would wait until he had time to contract it later! After taking stock of his assets, he discovered one word: poor!

Now he could only hope that his grandfather and aunt would return soon, otherwise he would not be able to resist going to the Wanbao Pavilion to sell vermilion fruits again.

Better to cultivate first; today he would try to cultivate lightning spiritual energy to open up an acupoint.

After adjusting his state, he drank a cup of green jade spirit tea; it was indeed refreshing, and his thinking became much clearer.

He began to carefully circulate the Five Directions Five Elements Thunder True Scripture. After circulating for one heavenly cycle, he finally produced a wisp of lightning spiritual energy. It was indeed much harder to control than Five Elements spiritual energy, and there was a violent aura within it.

He carefully sent it toward the Hukou acupoint on his right hand; this was the first acupoint Lin Zhangqing chose.

As soon as the lightning spiritual energy touched the acupoint, a numbing sensation immediately spread through Lin Zhangqing's whole body, as if he had been electrocuted.

Fortunately, he was prepared, otherwise he might have jumped up directly! He understood a little; it turned out that the process of opening up acupoints was the process of body refining.

During the process of opening up acupoints, the lightning spiritual energy constantly acted on the physical body, which was exercising the physical body; no wonder it was said to have a body refining effect.

And it looked like it should be very effective, but he still had to wait for a period of time before he could truly draw a conclusion.

This was just a wisp of lightning spiritual energy; he was still far from successfully opening up the acupoint! Lin Zhangqing estimated that if he persisted in cultivation, it would be good if he could successfully open one in a month and a half.

From then on, Lin Zhangqing added another task of cultivating lightning acupoints, all arranged after the spell cultivation was completed at night.

After experiencing thousands of hardships—no, it should be said thousands of electric shocks—the effort he put in finally paid off.

After one month and twenty days, he successfully opened up the first acupoint. Next was to incorporate the suppressing object into the acupoint.

This step also required a lot of preparation work. First, the lightning-attribute dharma artifact had to be refined in advance so that the dharma artifact could be used by the owner with ease.

Then, by constantly using the secret method of the Spirit Absorption Technique, the dharma artifact was constantly compressed and shrunk, and finally successfully incorporated into the acupoint.

Because it was the first time, it took three days of effort to successfully incorporate the first-grade upper-grade thunder-struck wood sword into the acupoint through the Spirit Absorption Technique.

In this way, as long as Lin Zhangqing had a thought, the thunder-struck wood sword could appear in his hand; those who didn't know would think it was a magic treasure! It's just that magic treasures are stored in the dantian for nourishment, while Lin Zhangqing's is placed in the acupoint to suppress lightning mana, and of course, it is also indirectly nourished by lightning mana.

The space of the acupoint opened during the Qi Refining stage is not large. Next is to cultivate lightning mana to fill this acupoint space, which of course also takes time.

The lightning acupoint was successfully opened, and now he could use the Palm Thunder spell. Of course, this spell was also appended to the back of the cultivation method.

Lin Zhangqing had been envious of this Palm Thunder spell that could be used during the Qi Refining stage for a long time.

Thunder techniques are much faster than things like Fireball or Golden Needle, arriving in the blink of an eye. Thunder techniques are basically very difficult to dodge; unless one uses defensive talismans or defensive dharma artifacts, one can only take it head-on with the body.

This is also the reason why Thunder Cultivators are as famous as Sword Cultivators; both are professions recognized in the cultivation world for their formidable combat power and ability to fight across stages.

It was precisely with admiration for Thunder Cultivators that Lin Zhangqing practiced very diligently.

However, it still takes quite a while to cast a Palm Thunder now. When his proficiency increases later and he can cast Palm Thunder instantly with a wave of his hand, that will be powerful.

For now, he can only practice Palm Thunder first; he has to wait until at least three acupoints are opened to save enough lightning spiritual energy to cast a real divine thunder.

That is to say, even if Lin Zhangqing successfully opens all thirty-six acupoints, it would only be enough to cast twelve divine thunders.

But this is enough to settle the outcome during the Qi Refining stage. If used to ambush a Foundation Establishment cultivator, perhaps it could result in a one-hit kill if caught off guard.

Lin Zhangqing has already chosen to learn Geng Metal Divine Thunder and Gui Water Yin Thunder first, and will learn the others slowly later.

Of course, before learning Geng Metal Divine Thunder and Gui Water Yin Thunder, he must first learn the secret method of Thunder Control, which is just like the secret method of Sword Control for Sword Cultivators.

The secret methods of Sword Control for each Sword Cultivator sect may be different, each with its own merits and characteristics; the same principle applies to Thunder Control.

However, Lin Zhangqing is cultivating the core technique of the Thunder Sacred Land in the Upper Realm, so he imagines this secret method of Thunder Control shouldn't be bad.

With the secret method of Thunder Control, he can better control the divine thunder he casts, rather than just letting it fly straight toward the target after casting.

As a Thunder Cultivator, Thunder Control is a secret method that can be practiced for a lifetime.

He chose Geng Metal Divine Thunder because it has the strongest lethality among basic thunder techniques, and Gui Water Yin Thunder is the most yin-soft among basic thunder techniques. With these two extreme divine thunders—one yin and one yang—he should be able to handle most situations for the time being.

Of course, the effect of Geng Metal Divine Thunder cast with the lightning spiritual energy of three acupoints is definitely not as good as the effect of Geng Metal Divine Thunder cast with lightning mana.

It can only be said that the higher the cultivation base, the greater the power of the divine thunder.

Moreover, as Lin Zhangqing's trump cards, Geng Metal Divine Thunder and Gui Water Yin Thunder will not be easily used unless absolutely necessary. After using them, he must also try his best not to leave any survivors.

In daily dharma battles, he should still try to use conventional means or dispatch the purple crystal scorpions as the first choice.

If Lin Zhangqing used thunder techniques alone, he could tell others he had a lightning spirit root, but if his whole family or the entire clan could use them, then everyone would know there was a problem.

By then, the destruction of the clan might not be far off, so he must control the scope of dissemination; it is best to control it to just these few people in the family.

And he must also make them try their best not to expose the existence of thunder techniques; even if they use them, they must ensure no survivors are left.

Lin Zhangqing will explain the stakes clearly to his family when teaching the Thunder True Scripture to ensure that his family will not make such low-level mistakes.

Moreover, he won't let his family know about the Thunder True Scripture immediately; he still has to wait for his grandfather to return, and after the two of them discuss it, they will decide. But he will definitely let his family learn it; it's just that the time might be a little later.

Before his grandfather returns, Lin Zhangqing won't do anything; he can only cultivate diligently, try his best to improve his cultivation base, and incidentally open a few more acupoints so that he can use Geng Metal Divine Thunder or Gui Water Yin Thunder sooner.

(End of Chapter)