Chapter 100

As Zhu Lingwu stepped into the second level of the Qi Refinement stage, he guided the innate spiritual energy bit by bit to condense within his body.

Zhu Lingwu found that the efficiency of the Ninefold Lightning Body Cultivation Technique in refining his lightning body had improved significantly. After the innate spiritual energy was integrated into his body, it actually transformed into a special type of electric current within him.

This made Zhu Lingwu extremely pleased. It meant that in the future, if he summoned electric currents using his innate divine ability, he could use the method of Qi Refinement to convert the innate spiritual energy in his bloodline into electric current through his body, essentially turning his body into a generator, although its power would be weaker.

However, the cultivation speed of the Ninefold Lightning Body Cultivation Technique had also slowed down. After all, transforming the physical body was not an easy task. Even though Zhu Lingwu could now use innate spiritual energy to replace the electric current produced by the Baghdad batteries, the innate spiritual energy he cultivated still had other uses and could not all be converted into electric power.

Otherwise, what was the point of Zhu Lingwu cultivating Qi? He couldn't put the cart before the horse!

Therefore, most of the time, Zhu Lingwu still relied on the Baghdad batteries to meet his body's need for electric current. Although the current output of the Baghdad batteries seemed insufficient for Zhu Lingwu's needs, he couldn't find a larger power source to replace them for the time being. He could only have people make as many Baghdad batteries as possible, and Zhu Lingwu didn't mind the cost.

The cultivation of the Ninefold Lightning Body Cultivation Technique temporarily stalled, but Zhu Lingwu was quite satisfied with the speed of his Qi Refinement. In recent days, he felt that he was on the verge of breaking through to the third level of Qi Refinement.

The third level of Qi Refinement is also known as the Qi Condensation and Object Control stage. Breaking through this stage means you have truly become a Qi Refiner capable of casting spells.

Of course, for a normal Qi Refiner, taking this step is not an easy task. Guiding the innate spiritual energy to condense within the body is relatively easy, but driving the innate spiritual energy out of the body and releasing it is not so simple.

The body's interior is the inner world, and the exterior is the outer world. The inner world is your own, and you can control it as you wish, but the outer world is influenced by various forces in the universe. Even a simple breeze can disperse the innate spiritual energy you release.

Therefore, for a normal Qi Refiner, this is definitely a critical point in cultivation. It's not difficult, but it is the first step for a Qi Refiner to transcend the ordinary.

If the innate spiritual energy in the body is insufficient or not well-controlled, it will be very difficult to break through.

Actually, for Zhu Lingwu, breaking through to the third level of Qi Refinement didn't seem to be a difficult task. With his powerful soul command as a guide, it was easy to direct the innate spiritual energy condensed within his body to the outside.

Zhu Lingwu was also confident that he could use his soul command to condense this innate spiritual energy and prevent it from dispersing for a short time. He had already tried this when he was at the first level of Qi Refinement.

As for the method of driving the innate spiritual energy, he naturally searched for it in Meng Yishi's memories. However, at that time, the innate spiritual energy in his body was too little to cast even a single spell.

Poor Zhu Lingwu had thoroughly digested Meng Yishi's memories and had a lot of knowledge about spells and the like in his mind, but he didn't have enough spiritual energy to experiment with them.

He could barely use innate spiritual energy to drive talismans, but he might not be able to activate high-level talismans.

Zhu Lingwu wasn't in a hurry to try, after all, talismans weren't cheap, especially those used by Qi Refiners. Fortunately, after three years of cultivation, Zhu Lingwu felt that his innate spiritual energy seemed to meet the standard for breaking through to the third level of Qi Refinement.

The sign of breaking through to the third level of Qi Refinement is simple: you must be able to continuously and freely cast ten basic spells.

Today, Zhu Lingwu wanted to try the feeling of casting spells. If he succeeded, he might be able to go to the ancestral hall of the Zhu family and claim his bet with the old ancestor Shi Ping.

As for those basic spells, Zhu Lingwu deliberately went to the Skill Transmission Hall to seek some simple spells.

Thus, he obtained some spells like Water Condensation, Fire Gathering, Dust Removal, Spring Revival, Rock Transformation, Object Control, Sound Transmission, Feather Flight, Fireball, and Palm Thunder.

Most of these were basic spells for daily life, such as Water Condensation, Fire Gathering, and Dust Removal, used for daily tasks.

Only two were offensive spells: Fireball and Palm Thunder.

Originally, Palm Thunder was a mid-to-high-level spell that a novice Qi Refiner like Zhu Lingwu couldn't use, but considering his innate ability, he could naturally try to use it.

In fact, Zhu Lingwu already knew many of these spells from Meng Yishi's memories, but he couldn't just know them without reason, so he had to go to the Skill Transmission Hall to request them properly.

Perhaps he could only use the spells from Meng Yishi's memories freely after leaving this family, but for now, he had to follow the rules.

However, this time, Zhu Lingwu's visit to the Skill Transmission Hall again caused surprise there. Zhu Lingwu was preparing to break through to the third level of Qi Refinement in just three short years.

Of course, after the previous bet, the Zhu family members no longer underestimated this child with a low-grade innate spiritual vein.

Well, Zhu Lingwu was already twelve years old, so he wasn't a child anymore but could be called a young man.

According to the Zhu family's rules, Zhu Lingwu had a name. According to the genealogy of the seventh branch, his name in this world should have been Zhu Yanghuai.

However, this name didn't work for Zhu Lingwu. He only recognized his original name, which was truly him.

This seemed to be a deep-seated desire from his soul, as if Zhu Lingwu would lose his true self, the legacy of the Witch King, if he didn't use this name.

Regardless, the news of Zhu Lingwu requesting spell techniques from the Skill Transmission Hall to break through to the third level of Qi Refinement would soon spread throughout the Zhu family.

But Zhu Lingwu didn't care about these things. He just went through the procedure to avoid arousing suspicion when he broke through to the third level of Qi Refinement.

After all, once a Zhu family member reached the third level of Qi Refinement, they had to report to the family's ancestral hall for registration, as becoming a true Qi Refiner meant they were part of the family's strength.

Zhu Lingwu went to the Skill Transmission Hall early in the morning and returned directly to his practice room, which was still early in the morning.

The rising sun shone through the transparent window paper, casting beams of light into the practice room.

In the practice room, the white fox was already lying in its small practice nest, wagging its tail and beginning to refine spiritual energy, looking as lazy as ever.

Seeing Zhu Lingwu enter, the white fox couldn't help but look up at him...