Chapter 89: Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai! Hitting Me Is the Same as Hitting Yourself!

"Jingming, I'm right next to Mom. I just heard you finished the training camp?"

Cousin Tang Qi's crisp, pleasant voice rang out from the other end of the phone.

"Mm, finished yesterday."

"Back in high school, the college entrance exam training camp the school arranged already wore me out. Your Modu Ability University's training camp must've been even more exhausting."

"You don't need to come pick me up tomorrow. I'll just rest at the dorm, and I'll come over with my companions."

"It's fine, I don't have anything else going on tomorrow anyway..."

"..."

Before transmigrating, because of the original body's reclusive personality,

his relationship with cousin Tang Qi was neither particularly good nor particularly bad.

After transmigrating, Xu Jingming moved to his aunt's Jinghu residential community.

As the two sides spent more time together, his relationship with cousin Tang Qi gradually grew closer.

So, after chatting briefly with cousin Tang Qi on the phone for a few minutes, Xu Jingming finally hung up.

"Now I can finally try out the S-rank combat technique I just learned."

Xu Jingming's gaze sharpened slightly, and his mind stirred:

"Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai!"

Crackle, crackle, pop, pop—

Accompanied by the rumble of thunder, Doushen Shenlei rapidly surged across the surface of Xu Jingming's body.

However, unlike before, this Lei Ting didn't merely scatter and roam across his body's surface.

Instead, it condensed at astonishing speed into a suit of blue-purple thunder armor!

On the armor's surface, liquefied-like thunder constantly leapt and roamed, crackling and popping.

And Xu Jingming, wrapped within the thunder armor, felt his sense of security maxed out!

"Condensing the Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai cost me about one-fifth of my ability energy.

Duration is roughly half an hour or so—endurance isn't bad.

Even if a section of the thunder armor is damaged mid-battle, I can use Doushen Shenlei to patch it up without re-condensing the whole thing.

More importantly, the thunder armor's defense is even more well-rounded than a battle suit!"

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up slightly.

Ordinary battle suits are generally made from fierce beast hide, very tough, able to stop fierce beasts' claws from slicing into flesh.

But the tens of thousands of jin of impact force from a fierce beast's claw, a battle suit can't reduce by much.

Compared to fierce beasts, a human's physique is practically that of an infant.

Even if the battle suit blocks the tearing damage, that impact force alone is enough to kill!

That's also why ability users, even wearing battle suits, don't dare take a fierce beast's claw strike head-on.

But the 'Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai' is entirely different—it can greatly reduce this portion of the impact force!

For example, the ten thousand kilograms of impact force from a fierce beast's claw strike, after being weakened by the thunder armor,

perhaps only a thousand kilograms would act on Xu Jingming!

Impact force reduction as high as 90%!

This is the domineering aspect of the S-rank technique 'Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai'!

And this is still only at beginner proficiency.

As proficiency rises, the reduction rate will increase further!

Of course,

the thunder armor also has a tolerance limit. If the impact force exceeds that limit,

the moment the thunder armor shatters on the spot, all the impact force will act on the flesh without any reduction.

As for what the current impact force limit of the thunder armor is, Xu Jingming will have to test it before he knows.

"Additionally, the Lei Ting roaming across the Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai

will automatically counterattack the attacker—it's like wearing a thornmail!"

Xu Jingming was very satisfied with this.

Once the Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai is on, hitting me is the same as hitting yourself!

No matter how you calculate it, you won't come out ahead.

Besides, he was already going to wear a battle suit.

After the enemy's attack is weakened by both the Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai and the battle suit,

whether it can even deal damage to the powerful flesh of his Thunder Body Imperishable Body trained to the third layer is still a question.

"Activate Thunder Extreme State, then condense the Nether Prison Mingyu Lei Kai—I wonder just how astonishingly my defense will be boosted!"

Xu Jingming was faintly looking forward to it.

He then took out his phone, ready to check the time.

Unexpectedly, the lock screen showed a new message from his teacher Yang Zhentian, sent not long ago:

'Come find me at the villa when you're free.'

"Teacher's back?"

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up, and he quickly rose and left the reading room.

Teacher's villa, Building No. 23.

Xu Jingming had just walked in when he spotted his teacher Yang Zhentian's tall figure sitting on the sofa.

On the tea table, a cup of tea was leisurely steaming.

"Teacher." Xu Jingming stepped forward and said respectfully.

"Second-tier upper rank! Just as I expected."

As a seventh-tier upper-rank ability user with immense spiritual power, Yang Zhentian naturally noticed the change in Xu Jingming's rank at a glance.

He nodded in satisfaction:

"Sit down. When did you get back?"

"Yesterday."

Xu Jingming sat down across from the sofa and replied with a smile.

"Besides the rank, it looks like your other gains weren't bad either. You've killed people?"

Yang Zhentian asked with great interest.

If the Xu Jingming before going to the wilderness zone was still slightly immature,

then the current Xu Jingming exuded a sharpness and dangerous aura that ordinary people his age had never possessed.

Such an aura could not be condensed no matter how many fierce beasts one killed.

"There was a squad that wanted to kill and rob, but I turned the tables on them."

Xu Jingming briefly explained.

Then his heart stirred, and he took out a bottle of Earth Spirit Spring from his spatial ring:

"Oh right, Teacher.

The student harvested some Grade-S Earth Spirit Spring in the wilderness zone, a total of four bottles' worth. Please accept this bottle."

"Grade-S Earth Spirit Spring?"

Yang Zhentian's brow lifted slightly, and he said with a faint smile:

"The Source Water wilderness zone has been scoured by those high-rank ability users countless times—who knows how many times.

You could still find Earth Spirit Spring—your luck isn't bad.

But for an ability user of my level, the healing effect of Earth Spirit Spring isn't even as good as a single Grade-A seventh-grade pill.

You should keep this Earth Spirit Spring for yourself."

For ability users below fourth-tier, Earth Spirit Spring was an extremely effective holy medicine for healing.

But for ability users above fourth-tier, the healing effect would be much worse.

Of course,

the fact that Xu Jingming had this thought was already very satisfying to him.

After a pause, Yang Zhentian added: "However, you could give a bottle to your senior brother Liu Ming."

"Senior brother? What happened to him?" Xu Jingming was slightly startled.

"The battle in the southwest ran into trouble. He was seriously injured."

Yang Zhentian said in a deep voice, "During these few days away from the school, I went to the southwest to bring him back."

"Seriously injured?"

Xu Jingming frowned, about to press further.

Through the corridor leading from the living room to the villa's open-air backyard, senior brother Liu Ming, seated in a wheelchair, was pushed in by Uncle Fu.

His face was pale, both legs beneath him were already gone, and the right shoulder area was empty as well.

His sole remaining left arm was likewise wrapped in bandages, looking utterly pitiful.

"Junior brother."

Seeing Xu Jingming, senior brother Liu Ming forced out a smile with great effort.

"Senior brother?"

Xu Jingming's face showed shock. He sprang up at once and came to senior brother Liu Ming's side.

Only then did he discover that Liu Ming's injuries were far from being as simple as just physical wounds.

His original peak third-tier aura had actually plummeted to a level even inferior to his own!

"What's going on? Didn't yesterday's news report say the battle in the southwest, under the leadership of eighth-tier Grand Master Wang Linyang, had won a great victory?"

Xu Jingming frowned deeply.

Any battle involving fierce beasts would have a supervisory team specifically overseeing it; falsifying battle results would be impossible.

Since it was a great victory, as a peak third-tier ability user who possessed Lei Ting Immortal Body Third Layer, Liu Ming—

even if injured, shouldn't possibly be this badly hurt.