Chapter 242: Lightning Body Tempering!

"Ka-ow-ow-ow-ow..."

Golden-yellow lightning coursed through Incineroar's limbs and bones, a strong sense of numbness spreading throughout its entire body, making it unable to stop letting out intermittent roars.

Pikachu stood with his arms crossed, watching Incineroar with a serious expression; this was the fastest way for a non-Electric-type Pokémon to sense Electric-type energy. Although it brought some pain, the efficiency was the highest.

Magnezone's control over magnetic fields was very skillful; it could easily generate a large amount of low-voltage lightning to course through Incineroar's entire body, which would neither cause too much damage to Incineroar nor prevent it from making zero-distance contact with Electric-type energy.

If Pikachu were to use Thunderbolt, it would be a real, full-strength Thunderbolt without any dilution.

After all, Pikachu admitted that his control over lightning wasn't as meticulous as Magnezone's; he was better at controlling the force of each punch.

Under the constant stimulation of the current, Incineroar seemed to be divinely assisted in the gaps between its body's movements, accurately grasping that fleeting moment of Electric-type energy.

Once the first time was grasped, the second and tenth times became much more proficient.

Incineroar continuously captured the Electric-type energy coursing through its body until it accumulated to a level sufficient for external release.

Like the breaking of dawn, the first arc of electricity formed on Incineroar's right palm, bringing a faint smell of scorching to the air. At the same time, more arcs gathered, eventually taking shape on Incineroar's right palm.

Incineroar's original expression of mouth agape and eyes closed vanished instantly; it knew the time had come.

The reason the physically powerful Incineroar was made to let out such wretched cries by a Magnezone of similar strength was that it had given up defense from the start, directly relaxing its body to let the current with the special magnetic field enter its body.

Now that the move had been mastered, Incineroar's muscles bulged, and the temperature around it rose.

The abundant Fire-type energy instantly broke through the golden-yellow current enveloping Incineroar.

"Ka-ow!!"

As Incineroar spread its arms and roared loudly, the golden-yellow electricity leaping on its right palm clearly indicated that it had initially released the Thunder Punch move!

Thunder Punch was the only Electric-type move Incineroar could learn, and it was also the most important link in Su Hao's envisioned strengthening method for Incineroar!

Looking across numerous anime and web novels, lightning not only represents majestic heavenly might in fantasy novels, but also has an inextricable relationship with many body-tempering methods.

Every time a cultivator breaks through a major realm, they are bathed in the tribulation lightning of heaven and earth; those with talent often rely on the lightning from these tribulations to cleanse their marrow and temper their physique.

Some science fiction works also feature plots where lightning is used to stimulate cells to achieve the goal of strengthening the body.

Su Hao had searched the internet to see if there were such methods for improving physical fitness in this world.

The answer was, yes.

Many Electric-type Pokémon can rely on their own resistance to current to circulate electricity through their limbs and bones, improving their body's toughness, speed, and so on.

But even for Electric-type Pokémon with excellent resistance to current, the success rate of letting current course through the body to stimulate muscles and achieve body strengthening remains shockingly low.

Among the numerous limitations, the most difficult to solve is physical recovery.

After all, neither Pokémon specialized in healing nor human medical technology can continuously provide support for Pokémon undergoing body tempering.

Pokémon healing moves work by stimulating vitality through healing energy to allow the recipient to self-heal; this healing energy can indeed help Pokémon undergoing body tempering recover, but the efficiency is too low.

It often requires consuming huge financial and material resources to achieve even low-intensity lightning body tempering.

However, the method of creating life energy that Su Hao learned from Xerneas and Celebi is a more advanced energy; it is entirely possible to create enough life energy from the start and store it inside Incineroar's body, then use high-voltage current to flow through the body, destroying muscles and then rapidly recovering them.

By gradually strengthening muscle toughness and endurance in this way, lightning body tempering can be completed.

As long as this training is persisted in, Incineroar's physical fitness will become stronger and stronger,

until it catches up with the "second-generation gods" in the team.

But this is only Su Hao's current vision; he cannot predict what changes might occur during actual implementation.

It is best for this body-tempering current to be controlled by Incineroar itself, so the first step must be for Incineroar to learn the only Electric-type move it can learn—Thunder Punch.

Now, Incineroar, having used Thunder Punch for the first time, has embarked on an unknown path that no one knows about!

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Two pictures of adult Cynthia; I flipped through and there are still plenty of pictures I can post, I'll find other champions next time.