149: Chapter 149 Gu Yan's Shock

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Seeing Li Wen's sincere attitude and clear gaze, Gu Yan felt slightly relieved and stepped aside.

After bidding farewell to Gu Yan, Li Wen arrived in front of that large gate.

An attendant wearing a grey uniform robe stood at the entrance.

Li Wen handed over his identity jade token.

The attendant checked the information on the jade token and confirmed that Li Wen's record of 100% mastery of the "Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Chapter" was correct before nodding slightly and stepping aside to push open the heavy gate.

A wave of even denser and purer lightning energy, carrying a sense of interwoven life and destruction, rushed towards him.

Li Wen stepped into the first-floor hall of the Lightning Induction Tower.

This was an extremely vast internal space with a very high dome, embedded with countless crystals that spontaneously emitted lightning, illuminating the entire space in a color of interwoven purple and white.

The air was filled with a faint mist of visible electric arcs, bringing a slight sense of numbness when inhaled into the lungs.

The entire hall was divided into thirty independent quiet cultivation rooms by invisible force fields and thick insulating Materials.

These quiet rooms were not randomly distributed but were clearly divided into three area levels based on their distance from the energy core source, room size, and the strength of the protective formations.

The front row area closest to the hall's core energy node was "Section A," with ten rooms in total. The lightning light at the door cracks appeared dazzling, clearly prepared for older Disciples with a certain foundation.

The middle area was "Section B," the most numerous, with fifteen rooms.

And the area Li Wen was currently being guided to was the last row located at the outermost periphery of the hall, right against the thick walls, "Section C."

There were only a few quiet rooms there, and the lightning energy seemed thinnest and mildest when it overflowed from the rooms.

According to the rules, a newcomer like him who came to Cultivate for the first time could only use the last room in Section C, where the lightning power was weakest.

Li Wen quickly found the quiet room marked with the characters "C-5."

Pushing open the door, the internal space was not large, about ten square meters.

The walls, floor, and ceiling were all cast as one from a dark purple metal that could efficiently conduct lightning energy, polished to an extraordinary smoothness, with the surface carved full of complex energy-guiding patterns, currently emitting a docile hum and a soft purple light.

As soon as he stepped into the room, the metal door behind him closed automatically and silently, sealing tight.

Suddenly, Li Wen felt the surrounding pressure increase sharply; the dense lightning energy from outside seemed to be compressed over ten times here.

Ubiquitous pure lightning particles probed his skin pores like fine needles, and even subtle electric arcs in the air actively wound around him, bringing a clear and continuous stinging sensation.

Although it stung, it was within a bearable range and far from reaching the level of destruction.

He could clearly feel the weak resistance spontaneously generated when the "Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Chapter" was operating, protecting his skin and superficial tissues.

Even so, Li Wen was still slightly surprised: "This is the room with the weakest lightning power? Its energy concentration and destructive power would likely have injured any other Super Martial Artist. Those front-row rooms, especially the second floor—no wonder the danger was emphasized repeatedly."

His gaze swept over the guiding lightning patterns on the walls that were becoming brighter and more complex, imagining to what terrifying degree the cultivation rooms closer to the core could compress and purify natural lightning power.

After a brief moment of reflection, Li Wen immediately composed himself.

The time allowed in the cultivation room each day was strictly limited.

Firstly, every activation, guidance, and storage of such vast and pure lightning power cost immensely, regulated and supplied by special devices;

Secondly, and most importantly, the human Physical Body has a limit to what it can endure.

Staying too long in this environment containing violent natural power, no matter how strong the Physical Body, it would inevitably be penetrated and eroded by continuous high-energy lightning particles, causing damage.

Once this damage exceeds one's self-repair capability, it is likely to be irreversible.

For a first-time cultivator like him, the safety time limit was set at two hours.

Exceeding this limit, the hidden injuries caused by the continuous bombardment of violent lightning power on deep muscles, bones, and even internal organs and the nervous System would be extremely difficult to recover from, bringing only harm and no benefit to the foundation of the "Nine Heavens Divine Body."

"Let's begin," Li Wen whispered, sitting cross-legged on the smooth, cold metal floor in the center of the room, concentrating with his eyes closed.

He was in no hurry to activate Absolute Focus right away.

Eldest Senior Brother Gu Yan's previous description had sparked a hint of curiosity in his heart—without using these special talents, relying solely on his own understanding of the "Foundation Chapter" and willpower to induce lightning for Body Refining, was it really as dangerous and difficult as Gu Yan said?

Li Wen slowed his breathing and circulated the blood and Qi in his body purely according to the Mind-Cultivation Technique essentials of the "Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Chapter."

As the guiding force was emitted, the stray lightning energy in the room soon seemed to receive a summons, becoming instantly active and violent like sharks smelling blood.

What were originally just threads of energy now gathered into purple electric snakes as thick as fingers, scrambling to plunge fiercely into Li Wen's body.

"Sizzle—!"

Intense pain! Completely different from the previous mild stinging, this influx of lightning power carried extreme destructiveness, brutally crashing into his Meridians, attempting to tear apart the blood and Qi circulation route; its power attributes were even more manic, scorching, and numbing.

His skin instantly charred, his muscles twitched incessantly as if pierced by steel needles, and the flow of blood and Qi was almost forcibly interrupted.

His brain also felt as if countless tiny electric needles were being inserted, bringing a sharp wave of dizziness.

After just a brief attempt, Li Wen deeply experienced the danger of walking on thin ice.

For a first-timer, trying to accurately guide and tame this level of violent lightning and use it to temper and strengthen the Physical Body without damaging oneself was simply like rowing against the current, a narrow escape from death! No wonder Gu Yan was so serious about it.

This was not just a test of the Mind-Cultivation Technique but also an extreme honing of willpower; with the slightest carelessness or relaxation of will, the violent energy would backfire.

"It seems... in a normal state, taming this kind of natural power is indeed no easy task." The thought flashed by, and Li Wen no longer hesitated.

With a thought, his eyes suddenly snapped open! A silver glow seemed to flow in the depths of his eyes, calm and profound, without a trace of the previous fluctuation.

[Absolute Focus Lv11]—Activate!

In an instant, the world became completely different in Li Wen's perception.

The complex external information and the intense pain from his Physical Body seemed to be filtered and isolated by an invisible membrane, leaving only the purest insight into the rules of power operation.

Simultaneously, the great power of the [Second Layer of Nascent Soul] was quietly mobilized.

The vast and boundless Primordial Spirit Power, like an invisible light net, instantly permeated his entire body, taking over the precise perception and analysis of every strand of violent lightning particles pouring into his body.

Under the collaboration of the dual supreme talents, everything underwent a world-shaking change.

The lightning power, which was originally as violent as a runaway horse, instantly became docile under the analysis of the Primordial Spirit Power and the precise regulation of the Absolute Focus intent.

They were no longer a raging stream of destructive energy but a gentle stream that had found the optimal path, being decomposed into finer basic particle streams under the guidance of Li Wen's thoughts.

This particle stream was led along the most suitable, safest, and most efficient route, beginning to wash, permeate,

And merge into every inch of Li Wen's muscle fibers, bone Meridians, internal organs, and bone marrow.

Only now did the Mind-Cultivation Technique of the "Nine Heavens Divine Body Foundation Chapter" truly exert its proper miraculous effect; every operational cycle was optimized to the limit under the internal vision of the Primordial Spirit's eye.

While tempering the Physical Body, the lightning particles also brought a faint vitality, quickly repairing the tiny damages caused during the previous attempt and strengthening cellular activity.

Letting the flesh and bones continuously transform between destruction and Rebirth, gradually taking on a faint but resilient unyielding aura belonging to the "Nine Heavens Divine Lightning."

Time passed rapidly in the state of absolute focused cultivation.

Until—

"Hum"

A gentle but unignorable humming sound, accompanied by the faint blue light emitted from the wall patterns, filled the entire quiet room.

The two-hour time limit was up.

The originally dense lightning energy supply in the quiet room rapidly decayed and dissipated.

The electric light on Li Wen's body also slowly retracted and subsided, but a faint electric spark still flashed across his skin surface from time to time; his physical strength had clearly improved by a small margin in his perception, and especially his natural affinity for lightning seemed to have increased.

He let out a long breath and steadily finished his practice. The silver glow in his eyes faded, returning to clarity.

Although he had efficiently utilized the energy under the Absolute Focus state, the two hours of intense mental concentration had also taken a toll, yet his physical condition was more vigorous than when he first entered, with his blood and Qi active and full.

Opening the heavy metal door of the quiet room, Li Wen walked out with steady steps, returning to the hall filled with purple and white electric arcs, and finally stepped out of the gate of the Lightning Induction Tower.

Outside, in the slightly dim sky, a tall figure immediately came forward; it was Eldest Senior Brother Gu Yan, who had been waiting outside the door.

Seeing Li Wen come out, the slight worry originally on Gu Yan's face immediately turned into surprise.

He hurriedly stepped forward a few steps, his gaze sharply scanning Li Wen's entire body, subconsciously preparing to ask if he was injured.

However, the words stopped at the tip of his tongue.

Because he clearly felt that what emanated from Li Wen was not the withered blood and Qi or energy disorder after an injury, but a kind of—full, overflowing, and not yet completely subsided pure lightning energy fluctuation.

The activity and purity of this fluctuation far exceeded what he expected from a first-time lightning induction body refiner.

"This—" Gu Yan's eyes flashed with brilliant light, his heart feeling as if struck by a heavy hammer.

He still vividly remembered his own first experience years ago.

Although also a Prodigy, his first lightning induction was by no means easy; his Meridians felt numb and swollen for several days, and the lightning power he absorbed and refined was minuscule, barely managing to hold on under the lightning strike and difficultly protecting a spark of Body Refining.

The lightning energy he absorbed back then was probably not even one-third of the aura on Li Wen that had not yet completely subsided.

Gu Yan's face was instantly replaced by deep joy and amazement, his previous worry vanishing without a trace.

After the two of them briefly exchanged a few words about their feelings regarding the first Body Refining and the precautions for subsequent cultivation, Li Wen looked at the sky and took his leave.

Gu Yan nodded, his gaze towards Li Wen full of expectation.

Under Gu Yan's gratified gaze, Li Wen's figure moved swiftly and steadily along the mountain path, disappearing into the thick lightning mist of Nine Heavens Peak.

Not until Li Wen's figure was completely out of sight did the smile on Gu Yan's face slowly fade, replaced by a complex expression interwoven with gravity and excitement.

He did not linger; his figure turned into a bolt of lightning, instantly shooting towards the grand hall on the mountaintop shrouded like a lightning throne—the Nine Heavens Hall.

He needed to immediately report Li Wen's astonishing performance during his first lightning induction Body Refining to the Peak Master.

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