Chapter 234: Add Points! Thunder Indestructible Body Fifth Rank!

The Liquid State realm signifies that Xu Jingming has achieved an extremely high level of control over his lightning-based ability!

If the previous SS-rank Daitian Divine Thunder was a wild, unruly horse!

Now, the Daitian Divine Thunder is a tamed horse—fully controllable at will!

And the most direct effect is:

Xu Jingming no longer needs to rely on combat techniques—he can generate far more attack methods using only the Daitian Divine Thunder!

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 essentially a miniature version of the Storm Bear's innate skill!

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

"But compared to a true lightning storm, its power is vastly weaker."

Xu Jingming thought silently.

The Storm Bear's innate skill—Lightning 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 an empty imitation.

If Xu Jingming could truly replicate the Storm Bear's Lightning Storm entirely using his Daitian Divine Thunder,

He would have created a new lightning-based combat technique!

In fact,

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

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

And reaching the Liquid State in ability proficiency is his first step forward.

Otherwise, if he cannot even master control of his ability, 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, hovering ten centimeters above his palm!

The sphere grew 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 leaping continuously.

"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 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.

The golden lightning, now in energy form, vanished into the air.

"Reaching the Liquid State in ability proficiency 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 Rank Upper Tier

【Ability】: Daitian Divine Thunder (SS)

【Physique】: 3122 Qi Blood (+)

【Spirit】: 2610 Hz (+)

【Skills】: Gunplay (Master), Heavenly Thunder Art (Beginner+), Mingyuleikai (Beginner+), Thunder God Finger (Beginner+), Fist Technique (Advanced+), Thunder Dragon Fist (Beginner+), Thunder Spear (Advanced+), Chain Lightning Gun (Intermediate+), Lightning Flash (Advanced+), Thunder Prison (Intermediate+), Lightning Wind Break (Master+), Concealment Technique (Advanced+)

【Physique Training】: Thunder Indestructible Body (Fourth Rank+)

【Ability Points】:

"I still have 18, 00 ability points left, but it still feels far from breaking into the Fourth Rank..."

Advancing from Third Rank Middle Tier to Third Rank Upper Tier cost a full 23, 00 ability points.

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

"It'll likely take at least 40, 00 ability points. So, I'll use these 18, 00 to upgrade my combat techniques first.

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 overall champion.

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

The third, Survival, resembled the battlefield of the Wu Ke college entrance exam.

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

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

The only difference: contestants may attack each other and steal points.

Keep in mind,

The National University League has two phases.

Phase One begins on February 25, pitting all thousands of adept universities against each other.

Lasting half a month, it selects the top 10 universities to advance to Phase Two.

These 10 universities are known as the TOP10.

Of course, Mo University, Jin University, and Jing University hold an exalted status as seeded teams.

They bypass Phase One entirely and enter Phase Two directly, competing only against the other seven universities.

According to past experience, all participants from the TOP10—including the top-tier universities—are Fourth Rank adepts!

In Survival, vast numbers of Fourth Rank ferocious beasts are deployed for these adepts.

If Xu Jingming could kill all the Fourth Rank beasts in Survival, he couldn't even imagine how many ability points he'd accumulate!

It would surely be enough to reach Fourth Rank.

"Fourth Rank ferocious beasts are already rare in ordinary Wild Zones.

Since Survival offers a chance to slaughter them in bulk, I absolutely cannot miss it."

A smile curled on Xu Jingming's lips as he turned back to his system panel.

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

Yet among them all, the highest priority was undoubtedly the S-rank physique technique: Thunder Indestructible Body.

He immediately clicked the plus sign beside Thunder Indestructible Body on the panel.

【Ability Points】: →3218!

【Physique Training】: Thunder Indestructible Body Fourth Rank → Thunder Indestructible Body Fifth Rank!

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

BOOM!!

A muffled explosion rang within his body; golden lightning erupted violently.

His muscles, organs, and meridians all strengthened rapidly!

To him, it felt as if boundless power was swelling inside him.

"Comfortable!" The ultimate sensation of power made Xu Jingming groan aloud.

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

"Qi Blood increased by nearly a thousand points! No wonder I feel so much stronger."

Feeling the immense power coursing through him, Xu Jingming nodded in satisfaction.

Recall: advancing from Third Rank Middle Tier to Upper Tier only granted 500 Qi Blood.

And that only cost 15, 00 ability points.

Of course, this was closely tied to Xu Jingming's constant practice of Thunder Indestructible Body.

Otherwise, advancing from Fourth Rank to Fifth Rank would have required at least 30, 00 ability points.