Chapter 234: Add Points! Lei Bu Mie Shen Fifth Stage!

The Liquid State realm signifies that Xu Jingming has achieved extremely high mastery over his lightning-based ability!

If the previous SS-grade Doushen Shenlei was a wild, unruly horse!

Then the current Doushen Shenlei is a tamed horse—fully controllable at will!

And the most direct effect is that,

Xu Jingming no longer needs to rely on combat techniques—he can now generate far more attack methods using only Doushen Shenlei!

For example, right now...

Xu Jingming stirred his thoughts, and the golden lightning swirling around his body rapidly converged.

Crackling—

Flashing lightning, within the room, a small golden lightning storm, over a meter tall, suddenly formed!

Whoosh—

Whoosh—

The thunder roared, its powerful suction tearing at surrounding objects.

This was practically a miniature version of the Thunder Storm Bear's innate ability!

"I can expand this storm to no more than ten or so meters in height.

But compared to a true thunderstorm, its power is much weaker."

Xu Jingming thought silently.

The Thunder Storm Bear's innate ability—the Thunder Storm—is not merely the aggregation and churning of lightning.

It involves many factors: how to rotate for greater suction, how to interweave for greater potency.

His current lightning storm is merely superficial.

If Xu Jingming could truly replicate the Thunder Storm Bear's Thunder Storm entirely using his own Doushen Shenlei,

He could claim to have created a lightning-based combat technique!

In fact,

Many of an adept's combat techniques are optimized and refined from the innate abilities of ferocious beasts.

In the future, Xu Jingming will certainly create his own combat technique.

And reaching the Liquid State in ability mastery is his first step toward that goal.

Otherwise, if he cannot even control his ability proficiently, how can he speak of creating combat techniques?

"Besides enhanced control over his ability, the defining feature of the Liquid State is compressing lightning into liquid!"

Xu Jingming extended his right hand, palm upward, then stirred his thoughts.

Golden lightning surged toward him, compressing and gathering into a sphere of liquid lightning just over ten centimeters above his palm!

The lightning sphere grew rapidly from the size of a ping-pong ball to that of a basketball!

Crackling—

The liquid sphere resembled a golden miniature sun, radiating violent energy, with lightning arcs constantly leaping across its surface.

"Simply gathering lightning into liquid form and hurling it is enough to inflict terrifying damage!"

Xu Jingming felt eager.

What if he threw this liquid lightning sphere into a group of ferocious beasts—and then detonated it? How satisfying would that be?

"When I return to school, I'll find a chance to head back to the Wild Zone and test how much stronger I've become since reaching the Liquid State."

His right hand clenched slightly, and the golden lightning sphere hovering above his palm shattered instantly.

It dissolved into golden lightning energy, vanishing into the air.

"Reaching the Liquid State in ability mastery makes this winter training in the Thunder Secret Realm well worth it."

Xu Jingming exhaled deeply, then opened his system panel.

【Name】: Xu Jingming

【Level】: Third Stage Upper Tier

【Ability】: Doushen Shenlei (SS)

【Physique】: 3122 Qi (+)

【Spirit】: 2610 He (+)

【Skills】: Gunplay (Master), Tian Lei Shu (Beginner+), Mingyu Leikui (Beginner+), Lei Shen Zhi (Beginner+), Fist Technique (Advanced+), Lei Long Quan (Beginner+), Lei Mao (Advanced+), Lianhuan Lianhuan Lei Qiang (Intermediate+), Lei Shan (Advanced+), Lei Yu (Intermediate+), Shan Dian Ji Feng Po (Master+), Lianxi Shu (Advanced+)

【Body Cultivation】: Lei Bu Mie Shen (Fourth Stage+)

【Ability Points】:

"I still have 18,000 ability points left, but it still seems far from breaking into the Fourth Stage..."

Advancing from Third Stage Middle Tier to Third Stage Upper Tier cost a full 23,000 ability points.

Xu Jingming was certain that breaking from Third Stage Upper Tier to Fourth Stage—a major tier advancement—would require even more.

"It'll probably take at least 40,000 ability points. Since that's the case, I'll use these 18,000 ability points to upgrade my combat techniques first.

Then, when the National University League begins, I'll harvest a massive wave of ability points!"

Xu Jingming watched every edition of the National University League.

He knew the league had three distinct event types: Solo, Team, and Survival.

The university that won any two of these three events would be crowned the overall champion.

The first two—Solo and Team—were easy to understand.

But the third, Survival, resembled the exam arena of the Wu Ke Gaokao.

Contestants must kill as many ferocious beasts as possible within a designated area.

Rankings are determined by the level and number of beasts slain.

The only difference is that participants in the Survival Match may attack each other and steal opponents' points.

Keep in mind,

the National University League is divided into two phases.

The first phase begins on February 25th, with all thousands of psychic universities across the nation competing.

It lasts half a month, during which the top 10 universities are selected to advance to the second phase.

These 10 universities are known as the TOP10 universities.

Of course, Mo University, Jin University, and Jing University hold a superior status as seeded competitors.

They do not participate in the first phase; they enter the second phase directly and compete only against the other seven universities.

According to past experience, all participants from the TOP10 universities—including the top-tier ones—are fourth-rank psychics!

For these fourth-rank psychics, the Survival Match deploys large numbers of fourth-rank ferocious beasts.

If Xu Jingming were to kill all the fourth-rank ferocious beasts in the Survival Match, he couldn't even imagine how many psychic points he'd accumulate!

It should be more than enough to advance to fourth rank.

"Fourth-rank ferocious beasts are already rare in ordinary wilderness zones.

Since there's this opportunity to kill and harvest them in large numbers, it must not be missed."

A faint smile appeared on Xu Jingming's lips, then he turned his gaze back to his system panel.

He had to admit, he possessed far too many combat techniques.

Yet among all his techniques, the highest priority was undoubtedly the S-rank body-strengthening technique: Lei Ting Bu Mie Shen.

He directly clicked the plus sign next to Lei Ting Bu Mie Shen on the panel.

【Psychic Points】: →3218!

【Body Strengthening】: Lei Ting Bu Mie Shen Level 4 → Lei Ting Bu Mie Shen Level 5!

【Physique】: 3122 Qi Blood → 4102 Qi Blood!

Boom!!

A muffled sound exploded within his body, and golden lightning erupted suddenly.

Xu Jingming's muscles, organs, and even meridians strengthened rapidly!

To him, it felt as if boundless power were swelling inside his body.

"Comfortable!" This ultimate surge of power made Xu Jingming involuntarily groan.

After a long while, he gradually adapted to this new, formidable physique.

"Qi Blood increased by nearly a thousand points! No wonder my physique feels so much stronger."

Feeling the immense power contained within his body, Xu Jingming nodded in satisfaction.

Keep in mind, advancing from mid-third rank to upper-third rank only added 500 Qi Blood.

And this only cost 15,000 psychic points.

Of course, this was closely tied to Xu Jingming's constant cultivation of Lei Ting Bu Mie Shen.

Otherwise, advancing from Level 4 to Level 5 would have required at least 30,000 psychic points.