Chapter 8

In the afternoon, the sun shone brightly, a gentle breeze blew. Yu Tianyun and the three of them returned once more to the mountaintop residence of Yu Yuanzhen and began training.

Yu Tianyun entered the Gravity Training room without hesitation. He knew well that to continually increase his strength, he must constantly challenge himself.

At this moment, he needed to adapt to his new bodily changes and fully unleash the power brought by his second Soul Ring.

Upon entering the training room, Yu Tianyun felt a gravity three times that of normal.

However, unlike before, his height had reached 1.65 meters, his body became more robust, his muscles hard and full, like a healthy calf.

His whole body exuded an explosive power that made people gasp in awe.

Before absorbing the Soul Ring, Yu Tianyun still found it somewhat strenuous under three times gravity, but now, with the Soul Ring's blessing, his body had undergone comprehensive strengthening.

The enhancement from the millennium Soul Ring was very pronounced, allowing him to easily handle this high-intensity training.

At this moment, immersed in the three-times-gravity environment, he began moving his body.

Only seeing his toes lightly touch the ground, he leapt up lightly, then landed silently; immediately he leapt again, repeating this, each jump higher than the last.

After several dozen jumps, he stopped and turned to swing his arms, throwing rapid punches forward.

At first, each punch he threw involved a brief pause of one second, then he retracted his fist and threw again; this motion repeated continuously, but the speed of his punches gradually increased.

Later, he could actually throw ten punches within a single second! This state of high-frequency punching lasted about ten breaths, after which he slowly lowered his fists.

At this time, his breathing was slightly hurried, but soon it returned to calm and smooth.

However, he felt that three times gravity could no longer fully meet his needs, and the benefit from the training effect had become relatively slow. Thus he reached out to touch the wall and continued to pour in soul power; only when the gravity increased to 3.5 times did he stop moving.

Just as his hand left the wall, a strong pressure immediately surged upon him.

Then he began to slowly move his body, allowing his internal organs to gradually adapt to the surrounding environment.

As time passed second by second, after a quarter of an hour, Yu Tianyun began a series of training exercises such as push-ups, sit-ups, and squats.

After half an hour had passed, he was seen drenched all over, as if he had just been fished out of a river.

"Indeed, 3.5 times gravity is just right. The millennium Soul Ring I obtained this time has truly greatly boosted my strength!" After fully understanding his own power, Yu Tianyun thought to himself.

Next came the time to test the power of his soul skill.

Thus, Yu Tianyun left the Gravity Training room and went to the adjacent courtyard.

In the center of the courtyard lay a huge, smooth black stone, shining with a mysterious light like obsidian.

The stone was three meters high, five meters long, and three meters wide, like a massive boulder, emitting a dull luster that seemed to proclaim its indestructible body.

Yu Tianyun approached the stone, summoned his martial soul Blue Electric Tyrannosaur, his whole body shimmering with fine lightning that then gathered on his forehead, forming a lightning symbol, with two Soul Rings encircling his body.

At this moment, the bright purple Soul Ring lit up, and Yu Tianyun's hands were wrapped in lightning, as if wearing a glove shaped like a dragon's claw.

Yu Tianyun opened his hands, clenched them, feeling his hands full of power, then looked at the stone before him.

He silently wondered whether his strike, backed by two and a half years of cultivation, could leave a mark on this stone.

The stone before him was no ordinary stone; according to Yu Yuanzhen, it was an extraterrestrial meteorite called Black Light Mixed Jade Stone, capable of withstanding a full-force attack from a Soul Saint of the strong-attack type without breaking.

Yu Tianyun gathered his thoughts, stepped back ten meters, and prepared to first try a long-range attack.

His right arm swung out violently, the dragon-claw glove attached to his right hand shot out swiftly, lightning-fast, and in the blink of an eye struck the stone.

A thunderous explosion rang out from the stone; Yu Tianyun stepped closer and saw that the stone remained as smooth as ever.

"Indeed, not even a trace remains."

Yu Tianyun didn't mind, after all, even a Soul Saint couldn't shatter this stone.

Next, Yu Tianyun retreated further to thirty meters and unleashed the Thunder Dragon Claw.

Its momentum seemed about the same as at ten meters; he consecutively struck five or six times, and in a sudden whim he clenched his fist and blasted out a Thunder Dragon Claw.

After several trials, its power was not much different from that of the Thunder Dragon Claw, but it was more condensed and had a somewhat longer range. However, it lacked the wide coverage of the Thunder Dragon Claw and also lacked the tearing effect of the claws.

Yu Tianyun simply named this form the Thunder Dragon Fist.

After several rounds of testing, Yu Tianyun found that the Thunder Dragon Claw could maintain maximum damage within thirty-five meters, with a furthest range of fifty meters; the Thunder Dragon Fist could maintain maximum damage within fifty meters, with a furthest range reaching seventy meters.

Yu Tianyun stopped, sat cross-legged, and began meditating to recover his soul power.

With his current soul power, he could only unleash twenty Thunder Dragon Claws.

"Since the Thunder Dragon Claw can be released in the form of a fist, I wonder if the energy could instead be focused on the fingertips for release?" Yu Tianyun had a flash of inspiration.

Like the Six Meridian Divine Sword, or like the Demon King Piccolo's Inertia Light Killing Cannon, concentrating all power at a single point for release would greatly increase penetration and range.

Saying it, doing it; after Yu Tianyun had recovered his soul power, he began to try.

He reactivated the second Soul Ring, covering his right hand with a dense layer of lightning.

Feeling the thunderous power attached to his right hand, he began slowly guiding that power from his right hand to concentrate on his middle and index fingers.

During the guiding process, Yu Tianyun discovered that the thunderous power was extremely difficult to control; his right hand kept trembling slightly, and soon a fine layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

As time passed, the thunderous power became increasingly unstable. The two fingers began to swell gradually, pain set in, lasting for a while as the fingers grew ever more painful, and the thunderous power on his right hand became ever harder to control.

Yu Tianyun immediately abandoned the attempt, and the thunderous power on his right hand slowly dissipated.

Afterward he found that his middle and index fingers had turned red and swollen; moving the muscles in his fingers caused a sharp, intense pain.

"It seems I can't continue practicing; I never imagined that condensing thunderous power would be so dangerous."

"Judging from the current situation, to gather thunderous power onto the fingers requires sufficient control, and the finger strength must also be able to withstand extremely concentrated thunderous power."

"It looks like in the days ahead I need to try more and focus on training finger strength." Yu Tianyun thought to himself.

Afterward, Yu Tianyun could only continue testing the use of the Thunder Dragon Claw with his left hand.

The long-range Thunder Dragon Claw had already been understood,

he began practicing the close-combat mode of the Thunder Dragon Claw.

First, he struck the stone with claw-form blows to test strength, over and over.

Then he clenched his fist, testing the strength of the fist form, again and again swinging his fists to impact.

For a while, booming explosions rang out nonstop here; after an unknown amount of time, when Yu Tianyun's soul power was exhausted, the blasting sounds finally ceased.

After testing, he discovered that the close-combat Thunder Dragon Claw was very economical with soul power, equivalent to an enhancing soul skill that only strengthens both hands, consuming soul power only when striking a target.

At this moment, the sun had gradually sunk to the horizon, like a brilliant red ball hanging in the western sky, dyeing the vast horizon a splendid red glow.

Yu Tianyun slowly stepped onto the path home, walking toward the tranquil little courtyard where he lived.

The maid Xiao Yue had already prepared a lavish meal in the room; she rested her chin on one hand, leaned on the table, gazing toward the door, like a wife waiting for her husband's return, almost turning herself into a stone that longs for her husband.

As Yu Tianyun slowly entered the courtyard, Xiao Yue immediately stood up, her face full of joy, and said: "Young master, you've finally come back! I prepared the food early and have been waiting for you here!"

"Didn't we agree you don't need to wait for me? Just eat first; I sometimes study cultivation techniques and might lose track of time." Yu Tianyun said softly.

"Young master isn't here; how dare I eat alone? The food is already coldPenetration, I'll go heat it up." Xiao Yue hurriedly replied.

"No need for all that trouble; I think these dishes are still warm, it's fine." Yu Tianyun responded gently.

"Xiao Yue, come over and sit down to eat together." He then added another sentence.

(End of chapter)