Chapter 1173: Manifesting the Manifestation! Ye Lan

"Could this 'Lei Yuan Shi Ri Xiang' really be this difficult to cultivate?"

In residence A-708, Xu Jingming had already browsed through nearly all the secret texts given to him by his teacher Lu Wen.

He had begun attempting to cultivate the T7 Premium-grade 'Lei Yuan Shi Ri Xiang'.

Yet after several attempts, all of them failed without exception.

"The 'Lei Yuan Shi Ri Xiang' requires carving the Manifestation Diagram into the consciousness sea."

The diagram contains ten thousand thunder runes and ten thousand destruction runes."

Only when all thunder runes and destruction runes are successfully engraved is one considered to have entered the threshold."

"But I've tried three or four times, and I still can't engrave even one ten-thousandth of the required runes!"

Xu Jingming was beginning to doubt his own existence.

His mental strength was undoubtedly among the strongest in his same cultivation level among psychics.

Yet faced with this Manifestation Diagram, he had absolutely no idea how to proceed.

"No wonder my teacher gave me a hundred years—and even my senior brother doesn't have much faith in me."

Xu Jingming let out a quiet breath.

At this rate, it would take at least several decades just to successfully engrave the Manifestation Diagram and manifest the Manifestation.

"S-level, don't rush. Manifestation manifestation is inherently difficult."

"When I was at the Starlight level, it took me over a hundred years to manifest a T8 Manifestation."

"Even the Magma Giant took thousands of years to manifest its Manifestation."

A holographic projection of Eva, the green-haired twin-tailed little girl, appeared before him, speaking to comfort him.

A faint hint of worry lingered on her cute little face.

On Blue Planet, Xu Jingming had risen like a genius.

From awakening to becoming invincible on Blue Planet, it had taken him less than three years.

Now, cultivating a single Manifestation required over a hundred years.

The gap was simply too vast—she feared it might crush Xu Jingming's spirit.

"I'm not in a hurry."

Seeing Eva's concern, Xu Jingming smiled calmly.

He truly wasn't in a hurry.

Because during those first few attempts,

he had already gained a preliminary understanding of the 'Lei Yuan Shi Ri Xiang' sufficient to use the system's point-boosting feature.

'I originally planned to try cultivating it myself, but that would take too long.'

'Forget it—just boost the points directly, Deep Blue!'

With a silent mental command, Xu Jingming tapped the plus sign on the system interface.

Source Points -1000!

Lei Yuan Shi Ri Xiang → Lei Yuan Shi Ri Xiang (Entry Level)!

Boom—

In his mind, ten thousand thunderclaps exploded, and a flood of profound knowledge about Manifestation construction surged in like a tidal wave.

His consciousness was pulled into a strange space, where he saw a colossal giant's shadow, towering to the heavens and earth, its entire body entwined with black-purple thunder.

Its eyes were like sun and moon; every gesture shattered space—this was the complete Lei Yuan Shi Ri Manifestation!

Swish-swish-swish—

As if given a blueprint, boundless mental energy in his consciousness sea began engraving the Manifestation Diagram.

Previously, Xu Jingming could only engrave a few thousand runes before stopping.

Now, his mental energy began engraving these runes as if following a perfect answer.

In an instant, ten thousand runes were completed!

Next... twenty thousand... thirty thousand... forty thousand...

In his consciousness sea, the number of destruction and thunder runes skyrocketed in an instant!

"S-level, your talent is already monstrously extraordinary."

"Honestly, even if this Manifestation takes longer to manifest, as long as you..."

Eva was still babbling when suddenly her voice cut off.

She saw endless Divine Thunder surging out from Xu Jingming's body.

It wove into the air, forming a dense lattice of thunder runes.

"Huh?" Her clear, large eyes widened sharply.

This commotion... it felt exactly like someone was manifesting a Manifestation...

Outside the villa, space rippled.

A tall, slender figure suddenly appeared.

It was Ye Lan.

As a master of spatial law, spatial teleportation was as routine for her as breathing.

Today, she wore a fitted dark-gray combat suit, its material clinging to her skin like liquid metal, accentuating every curve of her legs.

Long, straight lines extended from her toned thighs down to her slender ankles.

Each step seemed to tread upon ripples in space—elegant and lethal.

"Residence A-708—this must be the place."

She gazed at the villa ahead, confirming her location.

Just as he was about to land, a sudden BOOM—

Violent, pitch-black lightning erupted from the center of the villa, and the entire building vanished in a thunderous explosion!!

The patterns of thunder and destruction intertwined.

Gradually, they took shape in the void, forming a towering hundred-meter-high phantom of a thunder giant, lord over all under heaven!

"This… is the Dharma Body! Someone is forming a Dharma Body! Is it Xu Jingming?!"

Ye Lan's crimson lips parted, her lovely face filled with disbelief: "Is that the T7 Premium-grade Thunder Abyss Swallowing Sun Phantasm?! How is this possible?!"

As Niki's prized student, she naturally recognized this thunder Dharma Phantasm, famed throughout the Sacred Land.

But wasn't Xu Jingming only just recently taken as a student by the Immortal Lu Wen?

Logically, he should have just received this Dharma Phantasm scripture—how could he have already completed its cultivation?

"Two possibilities: one, Xu Jingming is not from a native planet.

He obtained this Dharma Phantasm scripture long ago, cultivated it secretly, and only just finished.

The other possibility: Xu Jingming truly is from a native planet, and truly completed the Dharma Phantasm cultivation…"

Ye Lan knew full well how powerful the Noah Empire's sentient lifeform, Lord Hei Yu, was.

Information confirmed by him could not be wrong.

And any being capable of deceiving Lord Hei Yu would not tamper with something so trivial.

Thus, Xu Jingming is most likely the latter.

"From the end of the assessment to now, at most three hours have passed.

Three hours to form a T7 Premium-grade Dharma Phantasm? This…"

Ye Lan felt her mouth go dry.

How long had it taken her to form her own T7-grade Dharma Phantasm?

Thirty years? Forty?

"So this is the Dharma Body?"

Xu Jingming felt the surging power within him, as if a single gesture could tear open the heavens.

He tried swinging his right arm, and the thunder giant above him mirrored the motion.

The air within a kilometer radius was compressed into a vacuum, unleashing a deafening sonic boom!

"If I had formed this Dharma Body back on Blue Star, I could have swatted the Magma Fire Beast dead with one palm!"

Too bad… this Dharma Body cannot last…"

The colossal thunder giant vanished with a thunderous crash, condensing behind Xu Jingming into a radiant thunder halo roughly three meters in diameter.

This was the initial form of the Thunder Abyss Swallowing Sun Phantasm; at its center, a microscopic black hole spun faintly, radiating a terrifying wave of destruction.

Dharma Phantasms are divided into six stages: Entry, Initial, Intermediate, Advanced, Peak, and Perfect.

From Entry to Intermediate, one can only maintain the halo form.

Only upon reaching the Advanced stage can one freely manifest the Dharma Body.