Chapter 155: Golden Lightning? Xu Jingming Was Stunned!

With the Deep Blue System, cultivation resources critical to other psychics were of little importance to Xu Jingming.

Having raised his psychic ability to SS rank, what he most wanted now was to improve his control over it.

But Eva's response made Xu Jingming frown slightly.

Hedong City—he knew it, located in the central-northern part of Jiangnan Province, less than a hundred kilometers from his hometown, Jiangcheng.

Its economy wasn't particularly developed, ranking mid-tier within Jiangnan Province.

Before this, he had never heard of a Lei Ting Sacred Realm in Hedong City.

Fortunately, Eva immediately explained:

"The Lei Ting Sacred Realm was formerly Cang'er Town in Hedong City, due to unknown reasons.

Seventy-seven years ago, thunderclouds suddenly gathered over Cang'er Town, and lightning continuously struck down, continuing to this day.

Initially, Cang'er Town was still managed by the Hedong City government, but later taken over by the Lei Ting Martial Arts Gym.

They transformed it into the Lei Ting Sacred Realm, unknown to ordinary people, exclusively for training the gym's elite geniuses.

External psychics wishing to enter must hold a pass.

And this S-rank Lei Ting Sacred Realm pass is sufficient for you to train inside for one month."

"I see."

Xu Jingming suddenly understood.

According to his Element Academy instructor, there were only three ways to improve lightning-based psychic control.

The first was continuous practice using the psychic ability.

The second method was observing natural thunderstorms, seeking commonalities among lightning strikes, to better control one's own lightning-based psychic ability.

The third method was consuming rare heavenly treasures or pills to enhance it.

However, compared to the first two methods, the third had slight side effects.

What Eva offered was precisely the second solution.

"Hedong City is in Jiangnan, and winter break is coming soon—I'll just make a trip there."

Spring Festival is on February 14 next year; Mo University will officially close on January 24.

Xu Jingming had originally planned to spend the entire winter break hunting ferocious beasts in the Wildlands.

The appearance of the Lei Ting Sacred Realm gave him a new option.

"By the way, Eva, are there ferocious beasts inside the Lei Ting Sacred Realm?"

"Yes, and most of them possess the ability to control lightning."

"Good."

Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

It seemed the Lei Ting Sacred Realm would be his best destination for the coming month-plus of winter break.

Of course,

the school's resource depot surely still had S-rank cultivation resources that could better enhance psychic control.

But even S-rank resources varied in quality—the seven-grade Breakthrough Pill given by Jing University.

Among S-rank cultivation resources, it was neither particularly good nor particularly bad.

Exchanging it for a pass granting one month of training in the Lei Ting Sacred Realm was still worthwhile.

So, Xu Jingming no longer hesitated and immediately called over a staff member.

He exchanged his seven-grade Breakthrough Pill for a Lei Ting Sacred Realm pass.

With the study trip over, first-year students' classes would resume in three days.

Xu Jingming had no intention of going to the Wildlands during these three days.

He planned to train and rest well on campus.

After continuously battling ferocious beasts in dangerous Demon Caves for over a month, then suffering a surprise attack by the Tianming Sect, even iron would crack under such strain.

So, after obtaining the Lei Ting Sacred Realm pass,

in high spirits, Xu Jingming hummed a tune as he walked out of the Resource Department, heading back to his dorm.

On the way, he idly opened his phone and tapped into the messaging app.

Since entering Mo University, he had used the messaging app less and less.

During the recent study trip, he hadn't opened it once.

Now, when he opened it, every group chat had 99+.

There were also numerous individual messages from friends and relatives.

Among them was a message from his cousin Tang Qi:

"Jingming, are you free recently? Let's get together sometime?"

This message was sent half a month ago, when he was still fighting for his life against ferocious beasts in the middle of No. 7 Demon Cave.

Thinking back, since the September semester began, after picking up Tang Qi, Zhou Mingyang, and others at the station,

they had only met once in October, and never since.

They were all in the Mo University City, yet their chances to meet were so rare.

Xu Jingming couldn't help shaking his head.

Of course, the main reason was that he was just too busy.

"Alright, I'm free these next few days."

Xu Jingming casually replied to his cousin and continued checking for any missed messages.

After replying to everything, he browsed the group chats.

Xu Jingming had joined many group chats: his high school group, and since entering Mo University, the "Freshman Group," "Class Group," and others.

Most of the group chats were filled with trivial gossip and idle chatter.

Only one pinned announcement in the 'Meteorite Club' group chat still piqued Xu Jingming's interest:

"December 13th, 6:30 PM, an exchange meeting will be held in the Conference Hall of Teaching Building 2."

"The 13th — that's tomorrow. I can go."

A few months earlier, Xu Jingming had followed the advice of his senior fellow disciple, Liu Ming.

He chose to join the Meteorite Club and became its vice president.

It had to be said, the benefits and treatment of a top-tier club were indeed excellent.

Right after joining, they gave him 100 credits, plus one B-grade cultivation resource.

Additionally, the exchange meetings held periodically were also quite interesting.

Ability users from different departments would share their cultivation and combat experiences, making it easy to draw analogies and gain insight.

Xu Jingming had attended the previous few exchange meetings, and he wasn't planning to skip this one either.

Just as Xu Jingming finished checking all the messages and was about to exit the chat app, his older cousin replied with a message:

"Recently my courses have been a bit packed. Let's get together on Friday — we'll meet at the university town gate at 7 PM first."

"Okay, see you then."

Xu Jingming naturally had no objections to this.

The courses for ordinary ability university freshmen were all very packed, as if they wished the students could train 24 hours a day.

But Mo Da, as a top-tier institution, was different — study if you want, drop out if you don't.

From freshman year to senior year, classes only ran from 9 AM to 6 PM.

Even Friday classes were scheduled to end at 4 PM, with the main focus being thoughtful consideration for students.

Although management was relaxed, students at Mo Da rarely skipped class.

After all, course instructors were at least sixth-rank ability users — missing even one class would be an enormous loss.

After replying to the message, Xu Jingming put his phone back in his pocket and continued walking toward the dormitory.

Spatial rings were convenient for everything, but unfortunately they would block electronic signals.

So, unless he was entering the wilderness zone, Xu Jingming generally kept his phone on his person.

The Resources Department was quite far from the student dormitory — walking took about half an hour or so.

Xu Jingming had only been walking for a little while.

But he unexpectedly received a call from his teacher, Yang Zhentian, who said he had just returned to the school.

Asking him to come to the faculty villa to discuss the situation regarding absorbing the divine blood earlier.

"Looks like the teacher is really quite anxious — just got back and already wants me to come over."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Jingming shook his head and turned to head toward the faculty villa.

Ten minutes later,

Xu Jingming walked into the faculty villa and, at a glance, spotted Teacher Yang Zhentian in the living room.

He seemed to have just returned from the wilderness zone, wearing a black combat suit stained with blood.

Terrifying fluctuations of Lei Ting energy still faintly lingered around his body.

Just sitting there, an awe-inspiring sense of overwhelming power came rushing at him.

"Oh? Jingming, you've entered the third rank?"

Originally, Yang Zhentian had intended to ask about the matter of absorbing the divine blood.

But with a sweep of his gaze, he was startled to discover that Xu Jingming had entered the third rank!

He couldn't help but widen his eyes and exclaimed in surprise.

"Mm, I broke through during the research trip."

Xu Jingming said with a smile.

Hearing this, Yang Zhentian's expression turned odd.

That casual tone — why did it feel like breaking through the third-rank bottleneck was as simple as eating and drinking?

"The first semester of freshman year isn't even over yet and you're already third rank. By graduation day, won't you be a seventh-rank Grandmaster?"

Even Yang Zhentian, who was accustomed to Xu Jingming's monstrous talent, couldn't help but click his tongue in wonder.

After a good while, he straightened his expression and said:

"Let's go, we'll head to the training room and see what changes your body has undergone after absorbing the divine blood."

"Okay."

Xu Jingming followed his teacher Yang Zhentian to the training room.

"Teacher, do I need to do anything specific?"

"No need, just unleash your ability. I'll first do a simple observation of the changes in your body."

In the training room, Yang Zhentian's eyes were wreathed in lightning, and he had already prepared for observation.

The body-tempering combat technique Lei Ting Immortal Body could be said to be the crystallization of his lifelong efforts.

If it could be strengthened through absorbing divine blood, then the rating of this combat technique would absolutely not be limited to S-rank!

Crackle, crackle, pop—

Right at this moment, Xu Jingming also activated his ability.

In an instant, dazzling and violent golden Lei Ting, like ball lightning, instantly filled the area around Xu Jingming.

"Hm?"

Looking at that dazzling golden-yellow color, Yang Zhentian was slightly taken aback.

What's going on? Wasn't Xu Jingming's Doushen Shenlei blue-purple?

It's only been a month — how did it change color?