Chapter 292: Lightning Body Refining
After Ryan returned to Black Dragon City, he started his regular daily routine.
He didn't need to worry about any affairs in the city, big or small. Ymir and the parliament could handle them all. As the city lord, he only had to take care of himself, practicing, eating, and resting every day... over and over again.
A few days later, dark clouds covered the city, and there were lightning and thunder in the sky, with constant rumbling sounds.
The "Kalatewa Basin" has entered the thunderstorm season, and there will be a thunderstorm every now and then.
Natural thunder and lightning are the power of heaven, and even extraordinary beings have to avoid them.
The mechanical city is made of steel, which is particularly prone to attracting lightning during thunderstorms. This is not a problem at first, as lightning rods can be built to lead lightning into the ground.
But today, something is unusual.
Behind the "dock" where airships are secretly forged in the inner city of Black Dragon City is the tallest lightning tower in the city.
At this moment, there is a platform on the tower, where a figure is sitting cross-legged in meditation.
In the thunderclouds in the sky, you can also see a purple thunder crow with a wingspan of dozens of meters flying happily in the thunderclouds, hunting for lightning.
From time to time, ferocious lightning snakes flashed in the dark clouds, as if they were about to hit the lightning rod in the next moment, but the figure was not afraid at all.
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In the advanced training ground of Black Dragon City.
Gannix is trying to fight a level 3 velociraptor, and Uncle Sam is teaching him martial arts.
After arriving in Black Dragon City, Gannix practiced harder and made great progress.
Soon, he had penetrated the velociraptor's scales with his spear and killed this dragon which was stronger than the average third-level monster.
Uncle Sam felt that his disciple was becoming more and more to his liking, and he did not hesitate to praise him: "Gannix, you did a good job."
Wiping the sweat off his face, Gannix showed a happy expression, "It's all because of your good teaching, teacher..."
Just as he was about to say something modest, at this moment, a muffled thunder sounded, and a thick beam of lightning hit the tallest lightning tower in the distance. The strong white light illuminated the entire territory in an instant.
Gannix raised his head and glanced, his expression frozen.
He immediately recognized the figure sitting cross-legged on the lightning tower. His eyelids twitched, and he pointed at the figure and exclaimed, "Teacher, that... is that Mr. Ryan?"
Uncle Sam's eyelids twitched as he saw the same thing, and he nodded slowly: "Yeah."
Gannix thought he understood what Ryan was doing, but it was a little hard to believe: "What...what is he doing?"
Uncle Sam said with a complicated expression: "If I am not mistaken, he is practicing by attracting lightning."
Gannix: "But...under the natural thunder, didn't you say that even a fifth-order transcendent couldn't withstand it? He..."
Uncle Sam hesitated for a moment, as if he sighed slightly, and then said: "Mr. Ryan...you can't use common sense."
“…”
Gannix was so shocked that he could not speak. He muttered to himself, "We are both at the third level of transcendence, but why does it feel like the gap between me and Senior Ryan is getting bigger and bigger?"
It wasn't just the master and disciple. At this moment, all the masters in the city looked at the figure on the tower with more or less shock in their eyes.
In a tavern, Bazel, who was drinking, heard the thunder and smacked his lips: "This kid has made great progress on this trip. He is really a freak... If I hadn't watched him grow up, if someone told me that this guy was a guy who had only been promoted to the extraordinary level for two years, I would definitely slap him..."
At the moment of thunder, Canossa, who was patrolling the shops on the street, looked up into the distance, and raised his mouth slightly: "Drawing thunder to refine the body? No wonder he said that it won't take long for him to advance to the 'God of Strength' realm..."
On the top floor of the Parliament Building, Ymir looked at the figure in the lightning outside the window, and a strange light flashed in her crystal eyes: "What nonsense... He said he wanted to give it a try, and he really went."
In a loft somewhere, Guy, who was meditating on swordplay on a rainy day, slowly opened his eyes: "Mr. Ryan already has the aura of a tyrant..."
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At this moment, under the tallest lightning tower in Black Dragon City.
Wu Duo looked up at the figure on the tower with fear, and her pretty face was filled with worry.
A quarter of an hour ago, Lei instigated her to follow him, then he stripped down to his underpants and climbed up the tower.
The person who is seeking death is not worried, but the bystanders are very scared.
Wu Duo was holding his clothes, waiting here in fear...
Fortunately, after several rounds of lightning struck, although the aura on the lightning tower fluctuated greatly, it was obviously still alive.
Wu Duo also breathed a sigh of relief.
On the hundred-meter-high lightning tower, Ryan sat cross-legged with his bare buttocks in meditation.
The only pair of shorts he had on were completely burned by the lightning strikes. After being stimulated by the lightning, his angular muscles looked particularly strong, knotted and bulging, as if there were dragons and snakes surging under his skin.
At this moment, his skin seemed to be covered with gold powder, exuding a faint golden hue. The purple mysterious totem was now shining brightly.
And at this moment, there was another "crackling" sound.
A bolt of lightning as thick as a water tank struck down, and before anyone could react, it rushed down from the top of the tower like a silver python and violently passed through Ryan's body.
Under the guidance of the [Thunder Totem], the surrounding thunder elements quickly gathered and were absorbed into his body.
Silver lines as thick as thumbs danced and flashed on the skin...
If someone else were there, they would have seen that after the lightning passed through his body, cracks appeared all over his skin. But in the blink of an eye, the lines of energy appeared and healed automatically.
Lightning strike, absorption, healing...repeatedly.
He was apparently cultivating by drawing upon the natural thunder.
This is a crazy training method that other extraordinary people, even the ten legends, dare not try.
Naturally occurring lightning has no regular pattern and is uncontrollable, so even those with extraordinary lightning powers do not dare to use lightning to practice.
Natural lightning, with violent energy of hundreds of millions of volts , can easily turn ordinary high-level extraordinary people into ashes. Occasionally, large-scale lightning may reach billions or even tens of billions of volts...
If one rashly steps on a mine, even a top-level extraordinary person may die on the spot.
However, Ryan is an exception.
He also has an [Undead Thunder Crow].
Now that the Thunder Crow has signed the contract with him, it is in tune with his mind. It seems that this silly bird is a little tired of eating "canned thunder" for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, and it likes to hunt for natural thunder in the thunderclouds.
Those huge lightning bolts that were beyond Ryan's tolerance just appeared and became the food for the Thunder Crow.
Some small lightning bolts were attracted by the lightning tower and fell on Ryan, who could still withstand it.
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It was his first time trying to draw lightning into his body, and Ryan was a little worried.
But after being hit a few times, he immediately became surprised.
He discovered that natural thunder could indeed greatly enhance the effectiveness of practicing the [Thunder God Technique]!
The previous "Thunder Breathing" method was a simple breathing method that could only absorb some mild thunder elements, and the breathing efficiency was very average.
The [Thunder God Technique] follows the path of "using Qi to nourish the body", which not only increases the fighting spirit exaggeratedly, but also greatly increases muscle strength and body toughness.
This "lightning-inducing body refining" is also a "shortcut" recorded in the secret method.
Under normal circumstances, he would have to cultivate the spell to the fifth level and be able to control the power of the lightning element to a certain extent before he could use this method of "drawing lightning into the body" to practice.
But because of the existence of the [Thunder Totem] and the Thunder Crow "Pika", he can now directly attract thunder from the sky at the third level.
When practicing the technique, the lightning will directly stimulate muscle growth and strengthen the body.
Even if the lightning caused injuries that the body could not bear, he was a doctor and could heal them instantly.
Although this method looks a bit scary, it is actually not fatal to him.
The efficiency of body training is several times higher than normal training!
Moreover, not only has the efficiency of practicing the skills been greatly enhanced, Ryan's martial arts skills have also improved by leaps and bounds.
It is always the best way to hone your martial arts skills.
Last time, I had a big fight with Um Lopez at the "Black Wind Territory" dinner, and the system recorded the detailed data of this opponent.
Then every night in his dreams, he would fight several fatal battles with the "Wum" simulated by the system data.
An opponent who can bring him fatal danger and is also a talented fighter who is proficient in various fighting skills, which also makes Ryan's fighting skills advance by leaps and bounds.
The twenty-fold increase in the worldly power, coupled with every desperate battle, made his martial arts proficiency improve in just a few days, as if he had been tempered to the limit for a year or two...
In the beginning, he was completely bullied by "Um" and had to rely on healing methods to wear down the opponent; later, he could fight with the opponent for dozens of rounds just by relying on fighting skills... The gap in skills is getting smaller and smaller.
After a while, Ryan felt that the gap in skills between him and Naum would become smaller and smaller.
In the battle in Black Wind Territory, Ryan was deeply moved by Carlo, the "Frost Moon Swordsman" whose physical strength was obviously much stronger than Guy's, whom Guy had suppressed with his exquisite sword skills.
It also made Ryan see clearly the path he would take in the future.
With the assistance of his "intelligent brain", the efficiency with which he hones his skills is absolutely unimaginable to others.
He wants both strength and skill!
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Two hours later, the worst of the thunderstorm had passed.
It started to rain heavily.
Ryan, feeling refreshed after being struck by lightning, jumped off the lightning tower.
"Dr. Ryan, are you okay?"
"It's all right."
Wu Duo looked at Lei's naked buttocks. He was used to it. He handed him clothes and said, "Princess Ymir just sent someone to inform you that she has something to ask you. She wants you to go to her place."
"Oh? Ymir is looking for me?"
Ryan was a little surprised. He was a city lord who usually didn't care about anything. "Okay."
Wu Duo helped him put on his clothes and asked, "Dr. Ryan, what would you like to eat tonight? The hunting group killed a few [Dark Demon Bears] this morning and gave one to us. I plan to make a pot of broth."
Ryan smiled at her and said, "Okay. Let's have broth tonight."
Wu Duo's cooking skills always whet his appetite.
Ryan got dressed and went to the City Hall.
Ymir was usually there during the day.
As I made my way to the top floor, I saw Ymir, who was concentrating on handling official documents.
"Your Highness Ymir, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"yes."
Ymir put down the quill in her hand and looked at Ryan at the door. She didn't talk about the business, but asked first: "Did the training just now go well?"
Ryan nodded, "Yeah. It feels good."
"You are the first person I have ever heard of who can draw lightning to refine his body."
Ymir glanced at him and smiled slightly.
Ryan didn't hesitate to walk over. He walked to the table and looked at the document she was working on with a little curiosity.
"I have something serious to discuss with you."
At this time, Ymir pointed to the map on the table and started talking about business. "Didn't you guess before that the 'Black Emperor's Tomb' was in the mountains to the west? The good news is that our dragon riders brought back news these two days that the location of the tomb has been roughly determined, and it basically matches the map you drew. But there is also bad news, that is, there are very powerful Asian dragons and other magical beasts with dragon blood in that area. The extraordinary perception also sensed the very powerful breath of magical beasts. Therefore, our hunting team will not be able to get close to that area in a short time..."
The map was naturally the mausoleum construction map that he had seen in the desert ruins last time.
After a field survey, there is no difference between nature and the system .
"oh?"
Ryan was not much surprised.
But after hearing this, his eyes turned, and he thought of something, and said: "My teacher previously speculated based on the classification of magic beasts that the area covered by high-level magic beasts in the west of the basin is most likely the lair of the black dragon. That special and powerful aura may be that of the black dragon."
Now we know that there are traces of dragon claws on the wreckage of the airship, which proves that the legendary black dragon is still alive. Now it seems that its nest is most likely hidden in the area near the mausoleum.
Ymir nodded. "Yes. Grandpa Irubek also told me about this problem during the last council meeting. Judging from the intelligence we have obtained so far, the black dragon is extremely powerful. Even if the top fighters in our territory join forces, they may not be able to kill it. Moreover, lord-level monsters have the ability to drive away other monsters. If we force our way into that area, we may face endless attacks from high-level monsters."
After a pause, she continued, "So, I think it's best to postpone the excavation of the tomb for a while. We can take action after the wasteland hunters come and find out the situation in the basin."
"Um."
Ryan agreed, "It's up to you to decide."
The current situation of their "Black Dragon City" is that the area is vast and sparsely populated, the resources are rich, but there is a severe shortage of manpower to open up the land.
The resources in the "Kalatwa Basin" are extremely rich. Even if Black Dragon City cannot move now, the resources nearby are enough for them to use for decades.
However, because the basin is too vast, it would be impossible for the people of Black Dragon City to fully explore it even if they spent hundreds of years to open up the wasteland.
So this is one of the reasons why they are preparing to open the city to attract scavengers.
Win-win cooperation is the most efficient choice for development.
Ymir: "Oh, there is another good news. Mr. Tust sent a message that the power system of our airship has been basically restored. The goblin technology has given us a lot of help. It won't be long before our mechanical city can fly. And our "mech assembly line" has also been put into production. Now we can produce a high-level mech every two or three days. However, there is still a big gap in the number of mid- and high-level craftsmen, and the materials of some key components are still in short supply. They need to be shipped by major chambers of commerce..."
Urban development is on track, with good news coming one after another.
Ryan looked very happy listening to this.
What they are struggling with now is population.
Animal husbandry, planting, textile industry, and factory industries that require a large amount of manpower all require a large population, which is also one of the most important reasons for the development of Prophet Black Dragon City.
They need a large population.
Ryan: "Once the scavengers and refugees arrive, our population pressure will be relieved immediately."
Ymir: "Yes. The first batch of hunters should arrive at our Black Dragon City in three days... Then, we will definitely give the world a surprise."
"Um."
Having said that, the two looked at each other tacitly, with anticipation on their faces.
