Chapter 3

Zhu Lingwu is not a powerful lich, lacking the various spells that liches should know, but he has lived for over sixty years in a technologically advanced world.

Although the knowledge of science and technology is not very useful in this feudal era with cultivators and aristocratic families, his breadth of knowledge is definitely richer than that of most people in this world.

The so-called cultivators in this world are those who, through cultivating qi and laying the foundation, transform their mortal bodies into innate spiritual bodies, thereby gaining the power to fly through the air, burrow into the earth, and control the seas. In the future, they even have the chance to ascend to the so-called immortal realm.

However, it seems that Zhu Lingwu cannot take this path for the time being, unless his other ability can still take effect in this living body.

However, this can be discussed later. The memories of the original owner of this body have given Zhu Lingwu another unexpected gain.

Well, it must be said that the body Zhu Lingwu has taken over is somewhat unique, which is why the little boy was so unwilling to be unable to cultivate and went to the extreme of seeking lightning strikes.

Don't look at this eight-year-old child's body; Zhu Lingwu, who has just recovered, hasn't yet felt the special constitution, but according to the memories, this body is actually what is known as an ancient shamanic deity mutant.

So, at such a young age, he has the strength of a thousand catties in his arms, and his physical constitution is different from that of ordinary children. It was precisely because of the peculiarities of this body that the Zhu family had high hopes for him from a young age. At first, the family thought that his bloodline should contain high-grade earth or metal innate spiritual energy, and he was likely to become another cultivator in the family who could lay the foundation.

Last year, during the family's annual sacrifice at the ancestral hall on Qingming Festival, the child participated in the bloodline test, hoping to determine the grade and attributes of the spiritual energy in his bloodline, so that he could find suitable cultivation techniques in the family and embark on the path of qi cultivation.

However, the final result was a low-grade innate mixed elemental spiritual vein, which made it clear that his unusual constitution had another reason.

In fact, the so-called ancient shamanic deity body is also a good physical condition. Zhu Lingwu understands it as a genetic mutation, a reversion to an ancestral state. Unfortunately, cultivation is the mainstream in this world, and no matter how peculiar the shamanic deity mutant constitution is, it is meaningless for the cultivation of qi and laying the foundation.

For this reason, the child's father, the current magistrate of Tongshan County, to soothe the child's emotions, brought him to Tongshan County, away from the other branches of the family, to avoid hearing sarcastic remarks. This was also out of love for his child.

Around the end of last year, while the child was wandering in Tongshan County, he met a commoner adventurer, either intentionally or unintentionally.

He described to the child a method for commoner children to seek the path of cultivation, which was to cultivate martial arts and break through to the innate realm of martial arts. Once they reached the innate realm, these commoner children without innate spiritual energy in their bloodlines could also sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and draw it into their bodies to condense innate spiritual energy in their bloodlines.

By choosing the appropriate martial arts cultivation techniques, it is said that after breaking through to the innate realm of martial arts, they could obtain high-grade innate spiritual energy. This is the only opportunity for commoner children to enter the path of cultivation.

In the hands of this commoner adventurer, there was the so-called Ninefold Lightning Mastery Body Technique, which is said to have been created by a commoner genius three thousand years ago. He successfully cultivated and laid the foundation through this method, eventually ascending to the immortal realm.

This genius predecessor is now said to be a thunder official under the Western Gouchen Great Emperor, one of the five great emperors in the immortal realm.

However, to cultivate this technique, one must draw lightning into the body, so commoner adventurers like him basically have no conditions to cultivate such techniques. The child's body, being different and being a member of an aristocratic family, should have the opportunity to successfully cultivate this technique.

After a series of persuasions, the child was moved and rewarded the adventurer with a lot of gold and silver, thus obtaining the cultivation technique of the Ninefold Lightning Mastery Body Technique.

But the child had nowhere to find lightning to cultivate the technique. Even as a member of an aristocratic family, lightning is not something that the technology of this era can create out of thin air. It's not as if a cultivator would use their magic to release lightning for him to cultivate.

Even if the child's identity was unusual, he was still just a mortal in the eyes of cultivators, not worth wasting their magic power. Besides, such lightning spells are also difficult to control in terms of power.

After a winter of frustration, the child became desperate. When the first spring thunder sounded in February, he couldn't wait and excitedly ran out to find lightning to strike him. And that was the end of it.

After the incident, Zhu Lingwu's current family learned the details and felt that the commoner adventurer must have been a fraudster, who had deceived a sum of silver at the end of the year and left Tongshan County to return home for the New Year. Therefore, Zhu Lingwu's current family is also issuing a warrant for the arrest of this commoner adventurer.

After all, he almost killed an aristocratic child, which is a serious crime in the current world.

Now that Zhu Lingwu has taken over this body, he has carefully thought about this matter. The commoner adventurer was indeed a fraudster.

Using martial arts to enter the path of cultivation, breaking through to the innate realm of martial arts to draw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, and condensing innate spiritual energy in the bloodline, thereby giving commoner children the opportunity to cultivate, this point is probably correct.

But to say that this can improve the grade of innate spiritual energy in the bloodline of aristocratic children is nonsense.

In fact, for commoner children to break through to the innate realm of martial arts through cultivation is not an easy task. An ordinary person may never achieve it in their lifetime.

Even if they really break through to the so-called innate realm of martial arts, it only puts them on the same starting line as aristocratic children who have innate spiritual energy in their bloodlines.

Now, for an aristocratic child to take the path of commoner children using martial arts to enter the path of cultivation is simply taking a detour and ultimately returning to the starting point.

Even if this method could really improve the grade of innate spiritual energy in the bloodline of aristocratic children, the lifespan of a mortal is limited, and there is no time to waste.

This beautiful lie was only believed by the original owner of this body, that eight-year-old child. Anyone else would generally not be deceived.

However, the so-called Ninefold Lightning Mastery Body Technique seems to be real.

When this body was struck by lightning, the child desperately circulated the heart method of the Ninefold Lightning Mastery Body Technique in his body, and this technique seemed to really absorb electric current and convert it into vital energy and essence.

This couldn't help but pique Zhu Lingwu's interest. To be honest, Zhu Lingwu has developed some psychological fear of lightning, but if this technique can really help him use lightning for cultivation, perhaps he won't have to fear lightning in the future.

Of course, directly letting lightning strike him during a thunderstorm is definitely not advisable, but if he can control the electricity and gradually increase it, there might be some unexpected gains.

The people of this era cannot generate electricity to cultivate techniques, but Zhu Lingwu has a way. He thought of the easiest method to make a Babylonian battery, a primitive battery.

As an aristocratic child, he doesn't need to make the Babylonian battery himself. If he even wanted to leave his courtyard, he would be stopped by the maidservants around him.

So, he just instructed the principles to the servants below, and had them make it. Now it seems that the Babylonian battery has been successfully developed.

"Ninefold Lightning Mastery Body Technique..."

Zhu Lingwu lay on the bed, secretly recalling the heart method of this technique in his mind. To be honest, it was his first time encountering such a technique.

Fortunately, the original owner of this body had left him enough information, so he didn't have to figure it out himself. Otherwise, he wouldn't know how to cultivate...