Chapter 161: The Terrifying Lei Shen Zhi! Has My Mission Ended?

"Chen Laoshi, maybe I should go back and practice on my own first, otherwise I'll waste too much of your time."

In the open garden behind the villa, Xu Jingming hesitated.

"No problem, it won't take long."

Chen Lin didn't care.

He had nothing else to do anyway; might as well guide an S-rank.

This counts as contributing to Da Xia's cultivation of elite combat power.

Hearing this, Xu Jingming could only nod slightly and began channeling his spiritual energy according to the Lei Shen Zhi manual.

Brilliant golden Dou Tian Shen Lei coalesced around his body, as if draping him in a golden veil.

At the same time, a sacred, majestic aura, like that of a god, radiated from him.

"Good, your starting posture is flawless."

Chen Lin nodded in approval.

Lei Shen Zhi is studied by some outstanding lightning-affinity students at Jingda.

But even those students took over two months just to master the initial stance.

Boom—boom—

At this moment, thunder rumbled from the clear sky.

A heavy pressure, like that before a mountain storm, gradually spread.

"Huh? You've already succeeded in the second step—communicating with the heavenly thunder?"

Chen Lin's face showed surprise.

Even Jingda's top lightning-affinity students took over four months to master the second step of Lei Shen Zhi.

Yet Xu Jingming succeeded on his first try.

"Xu Jingming has previously studied Dou Tian Lei Shu; understanding this part isn't surprising."

Chen Lin nodded slightly, then smiled:

"But after this, forming the thunder into the shape of a finger is the hardest part."

Lei Shen Zhi, this S-rank top-tier combat technique, requires condensing thunder into the shape of a finger and striking outward.

The finger shape isn't for aesthetics—it's to maximize the thunder's power!

For example, ten bombs thrown randomly won't match the destructive force of precisely arranged chain explosions.

Naturally, this final step is extremely difficult to learn; it's normal that Xu Jingming can't master it yet.

Just as Chen Lin thought this, golden thunder suddenly surged violently from Xu Jingming's body!

Terrifying thunder coalesced into a pillar that shot skyward, piercing the clouds!

The next moment,

Amidst the roar of thunder, a colossal golden finger slowly emerged from the clouds above the clear sky!

This finger, formed of thunder, glowed golden, its surface covered in sacred and mysterious runes.

In the instant it emerged, the surrounding white clouds were instantly shattered!

The aura radiating from this golden thunder finger was like that of the true Lei Shen's finger—making one instinctively want to kneel and worship!

"Lei Shen Zhi has been successfully released?!!"

Staring at the thunderous finger in the sky, as large as an airplane, Chen Lin stood dumbfounded, utterly incredulous.

How is this possible?

Xu Jingming only received the manual yesterday, and he'd just finished asking questions.

According to normal progress, he should need three or four months of practice to master it!

How could he have succeeded in an instant?!

"Chen Laoshi, I can't retract Lei Shen Zhi!"

Xu Jingming, who had just completed the casting, shouted urgently.

If this were a normal A-rank technique, he could interrupt it after release.

But this S-rank top-tier technique, Lei Shen Zhi—he couldn't stop it at all!

Even though this is the faculty villa district, and even if Lei Shen Zhi struck down,

it wouldn't harm instructors with at least sixth-rank cultivation,

but the villas would be destroyed.

According to Xu Jingming's estimate, if this Lei Shen Zhi landed directly,

it would flatten every building within a thousand-meter radius!

He didn't want to turn this entire area into ruins because of his technique experiment.

"Leave it to me."

Chen Lin snapped out of his shock, eyes narrowing.

Terrifying deep-blue Lei Kuangyong surged from his body, rushing skyward!

The brilliant golden finger collided with the deep-blue thunder, turning the entire villa's sky into a sea of blue and gold.

Boom—boom—

Crack—crack—

Amidst the piercing roar, terrifying energy waves, laced with thunder, swept downward.

Xu Jingming and Chen Laoshi were unharmed; only their clothing fluttered softly.

But the flowers in the villa's backyard suffered.

This lush, blooming cluster of flowers, after the energy waves swept through—

As if struck by some extremely harsh weather, it withered in an instant.

"This energy fluctuation — indeed, Lei Shen Zhi has been fully released."

Chen Lin, with all the lightning around him fully retracted, was at a loss for words.

An S-rank top-tier combat technique that takes others a year or two to learn — you mastered it in just one evening plus one morning.

How are other people supposed to compete with that?

"Chen Laoshi, I think I've already learned Lei Shen Zhi. How about I return this manual to you..."

Under Chen Laoshi Lin's gaze, which regarded him as if looking at some kind of monster.

Xu Jingming took the Lei Shen Zhi manual out of his spatial ring, handed it back, and then quickly fled the scene.

"Why run so fast? Afraid I'll grab you and take you away?"

Chen Lin shook his head helplessly at the sight.

In reality,

If Xu Jingming weren't S-rank, he would have insisted on trying to transfer Xu Jingming to Jing University.

But reality has no 'ifs' — if he dared entertain such a thought,

He wouldn't even need Vice Principal Hearing Ling Shuang to step in; his own old friend Yang Zhentian would be the first to refuse.

"Speaking of which, now that Xu Jingming has learned Lei Shen Zhi, does that mean my mission is over?"

Staring at the original Lei Shen Zhi manual in his hand, Chen Lin was momentarily dazed.

His original plan had been to stay at Mo University for half a month, so that Xu Jingming would have a teacher to consult.

But now, that no longer seemed necessary...

"Worthy of being an S-rank top-tier combat technique — its power is terrifyingly monstrous."

On the road,

Xu Jingming was still immersed in the might of that finger strike from earlier.

With Lei Shen Zhi, when he encountered weaker fifth-tier ability users in the future, he would finally have a sliver of ability to resist!

However, Lei Shen Zhi still had the common flaw of high-tier combat techniques — high energy consumption.

That single Lei Shen Zhi just now had consumed nearly two-thirds of his Doushen Shenlei.

Of course,

This did not mean Xu Jingming's ability endurance was low.

On the contrary, among third-tier lower ability users, his ability endurance was already considered long-lasting.

After all, ability endurance is related to the ability user's physique and spiritual strength.

Over two thousand in qi and blood, and over one thousand five hundred in spiritual power — enough to let him look down on the vast majority of third-tier ability users.

"Looks like I'll need to prepare more pills for restoring ability energy in the future."

Xu Jingming murmured inwardly.

It wasn't that he lacked endurance — it was simply that he had mastered too many high-tier combat techniques, and his ability energy simply wasn't enough to sustain their use...