Chapter 111: Mingyu Lightning Armor + Lei Ting Tai! Insane Defense!

The villa's open-air training ground roared with crimson lightning!

Finally, after Teacher Yang Zhentian amplified his own ability's power to ten times third-stage peak...

The Nether Prison Thunder Armor could no longer withstand the force and shattered with a BOOM!

"Good! Very good!"

Yang Zhentian, his body now stripped of all lightning, laughed heartily:

"The attack strength of a fourth-stage low-tier ability user is roughly ten times that of a third-stage peak."

In other words, Jingming, your Nether Prison Thunder Armor can only be breached by a fourth-stage ability user!

Keep in mind,

the fourth-stage ability user I'm referring to isn't an ordinary one.

At minimum, they must possess an A-rank ability!"

Against lower B-rank or C-rank abilities, even a fourth-stage low-tier might not break through!"

Of course, conversely, if the attack came from another S-rank ability user,

then merely third-stage peak or even third-stage mid-tier might suffice to pierce the defense!"

"An S-rank combat technique combined with an S-rank ability can reach such a terrifying level?"

Xu Wei, watching from the side, sucked in a sharp breath.

Xu Jingming is only second-stage high-tier—and yet he can already resist attacks from fourth-stage ability users, crossing two major stages!"

What kind of monstrous combat power is this?"

"Combat technique trial complete. Time's about up. Let's go eat."

In high spirits, Yang Zhentian checked the time—it was already 11:32 a. m.

His banquet was set for noon; with a little travel time, arriving on foot would be perfect.

"Teacher, wait a moment—what I just did isn't my limit," Xu Jingming called out quickly.

"Not your limit?"

Yang Zhentian blinked in surprise, still too stunned to ask further—

when suddenly, a BOOM echoed as an aura tenfold stronger than before erupted from Xu Jingming's body!

Immediately, Xu Jingming's stature surged to two meters tall, his eyes transforming into blue-purple dragon-like vertical pupils.

Powerful, ancient blue-purple lightning exploded outward from his core!!

"Is this... Lei Ting Tai?!"

Teacher Yang Zhentian was stunned; Liu Ming and the others beside him wore expressions of disbelief.

"Lei Ting Tai?! Has Jingming's Thunder Unkillable Body advanced to the Third Layer?!"

"Holy shit? Is my little brother-in-arts this brutal?!"

Even the mild and composed Xu Wei couldn't hold back—he let out a rare curse.

Training the Thunder Unkillable Body requires daily tempering of the body with one's own lightning ability.

Additionally, specially crafted body-refining potions can accelerate progress.

Over the past two months of summer vacation, he spent nearly all his time on missions outside.

All resources gained from completing those missions were poured entirely into his cultivation.

Of those, over half went directly into training the Thunder Unkillable Body.

Even so, he only just entered the Third Layer of the Thunder Unkillable Body a few days ago—and only just mastered Lei Ting Tai.

Tong Yue, the senior beside Xu Wei, also wore a look of shock.

Her Thunder Unkillable Body was still only at the Second Layer...

"I knew it! That's why your body could effortlessly withstand the weakened impact—your Thunder Unkillable Body has reached the Third Layer!"

Yang Zhentian laughed, crimson lightning swirling once more around him:

"Then let's continue! Twelve times third-stage peak power!"

The thunderous roar erupted again!

"Fourteen times!"

"Sixteen times!"

"..."

After Xu Jingming activated Lei Ting Tai, his physical strength and ability power received a full-spectrum boost.

Teacher Yang Zhentian ultimately had to unleash twenty times third-stage peak power to finally pierce the Nether Prison Thunder Armor's defense!

"Twenty times! That's equivalent to the attack strength of a fourth-stage mid-tier ability user to break through!!"

Yang Zhentian exclaimed in delight.

No wonder—it's forged from SS-rank Thunder Tyrant blood.

When activated, Lei Ting Tai grants nearly a tenfold increase in power!

"Thank you, Teacher."

Xu Jingming exhaled deeply as he exited Lei Ting Tai.

Now he finally knew the true extent of his defensive power.

Going forward, when he activates the Nether Prison Thunder Armor, he can ignore any attack below fourth-stage ability strength!

If he combines it with Lei Ting Tai, even fourth-stage low-tier attacks won't threaten him!

"Jingming, achieving this far exceeds even my expectations."

Yang Zhentian walked forward with a smile.

Generally, students seeking combat techniques would come to him for guidance.

But Xu Jingming? He just learned it directly.

Among all his students, Xu Jingming was undoubtedly the one who gave him the least trouble.

"I'm just a bit more talented than the others,"

Xu Jingming smiled and said, "Teacher, let me change clothes and then we can go."

He was wearing a regular shirt, which had already been torn apart when he activated the Thunder Extreme State.

His pants below were also somewhat damaged, but he had used Purple Sky Divine Thunder to shield the critical areas.

Immediately, under the cover of Purple Sky Divine Thunder swirling around him, he pulled out a pre-prepared short-sleeve shirt and long pants from his space ring and changed into them.

For this scene, the senior students had no sense of embarrassment.

After changing clothes, the group of six, including Fu Bo, laughed and chatted as they left the villa.

They got into Teacher Yang Zhentian's SUV and set off for the hotel in the center of Metropolis City.

"Senior Liu, both the Ash Society and the Meteor Society have invited me— which one should I choose?"

In the car,

Xu Jingming thought for a moment, then asked Senior Liu Ming about his choice of society.

"Meteor Society."

Liu Ming didn't even hesitate before replying.

"Huh? Senior Liu, I thought you'd want little brother to join your Ash Society."

Xu Wei was somewhat surprised.

After all, he himself had received an extremely enthusiastic invitation from Senior Liu Ming to join.

But he felt the Ash Society wasn't suited to him, so he declined.

He never expected that Senior Liu Ming would now let such an outstanding little brother slip away.

"If the Ash Guild hadn't run into trouble, I'd certainly have wanted little brother to join our society.

But now the Ash Guild has been severely damaged—whether it can even continue to exist is uncertain, and the Ash Society will be affected too.

It simply can't compare to the Meteor Society and its intact Meteor Guild behind it."

Liu Ming shook his head.

In reality, the Ash Guild was currently facing pressure from all sides of Wang Linyang's family for gathering evidence to expose Grandmaster Wang Linyang.

Wang Linyang was, after all, a veteran eighth-rank Grandmaster, and his family's influence was immense; the intensity of this pressure was no small thing.

He didn't want Xu Jingming to join the Ash Society and get dragged into this mess.

"Given your personality, I thought you'd choose not to join any society at all,"

Yang Zhentian, in the front passenger seat, said with a smile.

In his view, Xu Jingming had always preferred to act alone, whether in training or entering the Wild Zones.

He didn't seem like the type to join a society.

"I actually did consider that—if a society takes up too much of my personal time, I'd rather join none at all," Xu Jingming mused.

"Don't worry about that—whether it's the Ash Society or the Meteor Society, their internal constraints are quite relaxed,"

Liu Ming said with a smile.

Especially the fourth-rank adepts who serve as society leaders—they're usually busy with their own affairs.

They only appear when absolutely necessary, serving merely as a symbol.

"Why join someone else's society when you can create your own and have complete freedom?"

Yang Zhentian, in the front passenger seat, immediately laid out a plan:

"Jingming, spend one or two years in a society; by your third or fourth year, you can start building your own.

After graduation, these people will become your first core team when you establish your own force."

"Establish a force? Teacher, that's too much trouble—I haven't even thought about it,"

Xu Jingming shook his head.

"Trouble? Not having your own force is the real trouble!"

Yang Zhentian spoke with the tone of someone who'd been there:

"When I was young, I thought exactly as you do—now look where I am.

I have to handle everything myself!

For example,

Most of the lightning-element beast blood used to forge your Thunder Indestructible Body foundation—I personally hunted and obtained it.

If I had my own force, I wouldn't have needed to lift a finger for these things!

Jingming, remember: building a force is so they can replace you in gathering resources.

So you have more time to focus solely on your own cultivation, instead of being bogged down by trivial matters.

When you reach the Grandmaster realm, you'll understand how painful it is to run all over the world just for a little cultivation resource."

Yang Zhentian's gaze carried a sense of reflection.

He had never been able to break through from Grandmaster to Daoda Sect.

It was likely because, during the prime years of his cultivation, he'd wasted all his time chasing after resources.

If he'd had his own force back then, everything would have been far simpler.

Hearing this, Xu Jingming paused slightly—he hadn't considered this point at all.

Although he had a system that could directly raise his rank and combat techniques, freeing him from resource shortages,

He still had to personally hunt beasts and acquire ability points.

If he had his own force, they could collect the beasts for him, and he could then kill them all at once.

Wouldn't that greatly improve the efficiency of harvesting ability points?

Thinking of this, Xu Jingming nodded slightly:

"Teacher, I understand."