Chapter 765: A Physique Comparable to an S-Rank Enhancement-Type!

April 28, 2:00 PM.

The sky was overcast, the gale howling.

And somewhere in the wilderness of Dayangzhou, the giant Lei Jiao Heihou King was thoroughly enraged by Xu Jingming!

"Roar!!"

A roar rang out, and brilliant blue Lei Ting surged from the sharp horn on its head, blasting toward Xu Jingming.

Compared with the Lei Ting of the seventh-tier Lei Jiao Heihou from earlier, this Lei Ting was more than five or six times stronger!

Yet Xu Jingming still chose not to defend, instead taking the hit head-on with his body!

Boom—!!

The Lei Ting engulfed Xu Jingming, and he finally felt a stab of pain.

Though the pain was intense, it was only to the degree of a light wound, utterly incapable of doing him much harm.

And because of his formidable physique, the pain was still steadily fading.

"So this is the elemental attack of an eighth-tier overlord-class fierce beast?" Xu Jingming was somewhat disappointed.

He felt that an eighth-tier lower-rank overlord-class fierce beast did not seem all that strong.

"Next, let's see how tough your body is!"

Swoosh—

The Fangtian Huaji in Xu Jingming's hand moved in an instant!

A piercing whoosh rang out as the sharp blade thrust forward, its speed reaching the point of making the air shudder and cry out!

He had aimed for the Lei Jiao Heihou's head, but it dodged at the last moment, and he only managed to stab at the neck.

Even so, it still made the Lei Jiao Heihou gush fresh blood, and it instinctively clamped a large hand over its neck to stop the bleeding.

At the same time, a rare flicker of fear surfaced in its crimson eyes.

It was no stranger to human ability-users; it had even killed quite a few.

But never before had any human given it such a bizarre feeling!

Clearly only a seventh-tier mid-rank aura, yet it could take its Lei Ting head-on, and even launch attacks it had no time to react to.

"Roar—"

A low growl sounded; Xu Jingming's strangeness made it feel fear.

Especially those dragon-like vertical pupils, which made it feel as if what stood before it was no human.

But a top-tier dragon-class fierce beast!

Just as Xu Jingming expected it to attack, the eighth-tier Lei Jiao Heihou turned tail and fled!

"Want to run? Not a chance! Lei Prison!"

Crackle-crackle—

Terrifying golden Lei Ting spread outward, caging Xu Jingming and the Lei Jiao Heihou King together like a prison.

Immediately after, Xu Jingming gripped his Fangtian Huaji and closed in once more!

In barely a minute, Xu Jingming had utterly slain the Lei Jiao Heihou King!

"Ding~~, killed one eighth-tier lower-rank Lei Jiao Heihou, ability points +10,000."

The system chime sounded, and at Xu Jingming's feet lay the corpse of the Lei Jiao Heihou King, its head blasted to pulp.

And Xu Jingming's Black Soul battle suit was already stained with quite a bit of fresh blood.

All of it had splashed from the fierce beast; not a single drop was his own.

"Eighth-tier lower-rank is still a bit too weak; next time I'll try an eighth-tier mid-rank one."

Letting out a long breath, Xu Jingming stored the Lei Jiao Heihou King's corpse into his spatial ring and asked Yi Wa:

"Did you collect all the data just now? What's the intensity of my physique now?"

"All collected."

The green-haired twin-tailed little loli Yi Wa poked out from the smart armguard, her Bai Xi little face full of wonder:

"S-rank. Your current physique intensity is on par with a top S-rank enhancement-type ability-user of the same tier!"

In other words, even if Xu Jingming now lost his SS-rank Doushen Shenlei, his physique alone would be enough to look down on most prodigies.

"Top S-rank enhancement-type ability?" Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

This was the result of his high-level Body Tempering Art, combined with absorbing large amounts of top-tier dragon-class fierce beast essence blood.

Otherwise, his physique would never have been this strong.

"Keep cultivating the Body Tempering Art, keep absorbing divine blood—maybe one day my physique will reach SS-rank!"

Xu Jingming mused to himself, growing ever more eager to upgrade his SS-rank "Divine Thunder Indestructible Body" to SSS-rank.

"During this period, the SS-rank Body Tempering Art I got from Instructor Su has already been thoroughly studied.

Only the final SSS-rank Body Tempering Art still needs further research.

Once the research is done, it might meet the conditions to evolve the Body Tempering Art's points into SSS-rank.

But before that, I have to accumulate enough ability points."

Sizzle—!!

Golden Dou Tian Lei Kuangyong surged forth.

He slew the three Lei Jiao Heihou on the ground that still had breath left in them, gaining another 17,000 ability points.

"Deep Blue."

He murmured in his heart, and a pale-blue system panel instantly appeared in his mind.

【Name】: Xu Jingming

【Level】: Seventh-tier mid-rank

【Ability】: Doushen Shenlei (SS)

【Physique】: Qi and Blood (+)

【Spirit】: Radiance (+)

【Skills】: Spear Art (Grandmaster), Fist Art (Master), Slave Heart Seal (SSS-rank, Beginner+), Lei Shen Jiangshi (SSS-rank, Beginner+)......

【Body Tempering】: Indestructible Divine Lightning Body (SS-rank, Ninth Layer)

【Spirit Refining】: Lei Hai Visualization Method (SSS-rank, Fourth Layer)

【Domain】: Lightning Domain (First Layer)

【Ability Points】: 210,000

"210,000 ability points — apart from combat skill proficiency, there's nothing else I can use them to upgrade."

Xu Jingming's brow furrowed.

Apart from rank, the most important things were the body-tempering art and the spirit-refining art.

The body-tempering art had only just broken through to the Ninth Layer last time; upgrading it to the Tenth Layer would still require a great many ability points.

By comparison, upgrading the spirit-refining art required somewhat fewer ability points.

It's just a pity that, for now, his ability points still weren't enough to upgrade the spirit-refining art.

One had to know,

although an ability's might was tied to the ability user's rank, physique, and spiritual power,

in practice, between the different types of abilities, there were still some differences.

For example, the ability might of Enhancement-type ability users tended to lean on rank and physique.

For Elemental-type abilities, the might leaned more toward rank and spiritual power.

Although his physique was formidable now, his lightning-type ability, Doushen Shenlei, was the true foundation.

The level of his spirit-refining art had to be upgraded as well.

"Once I get to Sister Xi's side, if there's no fighting on the front-line battlefield, I'll keep coming to the wilderness zone."

After a moment's deliberation, Xu Jingming began gathering the spoils of war.

Those three seventh-rank Lei Jiao Heihou, he put straight into his spatial ring.

As for the remaining fifth- and sixth-rank Lei Jiao Heihou, Xu Jingming only harvested the most valuable parts of them — their lightning horns.

"It's still nearly seven hours until the 9 p. m. appointment with Sister Xi.

I'll keep searching for fierce beasts first, and wait until the last hour before heading toward Nixi — there'll still be time."

Whoosh—

The resplendent Thunder-Dragon Wings unfurled, and Xu Jingming flew on toward another gathering point of fierce beasts his Heart Net had sensed.