Chapter 129: The Chicken Keeper, the Law of Thunder, Comprehension

"Big Sister Ji!"

Dragging your heavily wounded body, you arrived at the eight hundredth step. There, you saw the purpose of this journey: Yang Ji.

Yang Ji suddenly turned around. Upon seeing it was you, a flicker of surprise passed through her eyes, and then she smiled. "Little one, why have you come too?"

You took out the kitchen knife and handed it to Yang Ji, saying solemnly, "Big Sister, you dropped your knife!"

"What a good kid!" Yang Ji looked at her intrinsic dharma treasure in her hand, her eyes instantly lighting up. She could not help but clap you on the shoulder and praise you.

"Once we get back, chicken will be served without limit!"

"Cough, cough." Your injuries immediately flared up, and you could not help but cough out blood.

"What's going on, you're injured?" Yang Ji furrowed her brow, sizing you up. Then she extended a hand, and a stream of true qi flowed into your body. She quickly discovered that strand of rule power within you.

"The Law of Lightning? Kid, you're blessed!" A smile appeared on Yang Ji's face once more as she began to explain for you.

"Don't worry. This Law of Lightning inside you is a good thing for you!"

"I remember, your body refinement requires Heavenly Lightning, right?"

"That's right, my body refinement art is indeed related to Heavenly Lightning. But what does that have to do with the Law of Lightning?" you asked.

"Try refining the Law of Lightning inside your body. It will benefits you as well!" Yang Ji did not say it plainly, instead letting you figure it out yourself.

"Alright, since you've delivered this knife here, I should continue on my way!" Yang Ji patted your shoulder, sighed with emotion, and continued forward.

"Sister Ji… are the Village Chief and the others doing well?"

Yang Ji's footsteps paused. After a long silence, she said, "Don't worry. They won't die for the time being. They're just trapped somewhere. Don't worry about it. I'm here for everything!"

"Alright, little one. I'll wait for you at the top. When the time comes, we'll properly reminisce!" Yang Ji waved her hand and stepped onto the next step, vanishing from sight.

You fell silent for a long time, and finally cultivated in place to recover from your injuries.

A mark of lightning appeared on your chest, threads of rule power surging and constantly destroying your physical body.

If I want to refine this rule power, then I must master it.

But mastering rule power is something only Return-to-Void realm cultivators can do. Can I really do it?

You asked yourself in your heart. After pondering for a long time, you decided to give it a try!

You began unraveling the threads, continuously coming to understand this Law of Lightning.

In the first week, you gained a preliminary understanding of the Law of Lightning. You could already begin refining the Law of Lightning inside your body, though the speed was extremely slow.

In the first month, through constantly analyzing and refining the Law of Lightning inside your body, you felt you had already gained initial mastery.

You began trying to mobilize this strand of law power inside your body. But clearly, you failed, and you fell into self-doubt.

In the second month, you rallied yourself and once again mobilized this strand of law power inside your body. You successfully moved this strand of law power from your chest to the position of your arm.

In the third month, you could already make this Law of Lightning appear anywhere in your body at will, and it no longer caused any harm to your body.

I can already mobilize this power now, but regardless, I cannot master it.

Could it be that unless my cultivation reaches the Return-to-Void realm, I truly cannot master it?

After three months of attempts, you already understood that this strand of law power was the reward of this golden step. With this Law of Lightning Mark present, you could mobilize any ordinary lightning power in the world.

Except the Heavenly Lightning of a cultivator's Tribulation Crossing!

You firmly believed that as long as you could completely master this Law of Lightning, you would absolutely be able to master the power of Heavenly Lightning!

I've already wasted three months here. It's time to continue forward! You ended your cultivation and once again set foot on the journey.

You looked at the phantom before you, and your heart immediately gave a start, all because the phantom before you was none other than yourself!

The phantom before you had cultivation identical to yours, physical body strength identical to yours, dharma artifacts identical to yours, and even the cultivation art it used was identical to yours.

You began fighting yourself. The same moves, the same habits, the same power. You were completely unable to do anything to the self before you.

After a great battle of three hundred rounds, you revealed a bitter smile. "So I was this strong?"

In this battle, you used up all your strength, nearly exhausting every method you had, and in the end, relying on tenacious willpower, you forcefully dragged the opponent to death.

You lay on the ground, utterly exhausted. Having fought who knows how many rounds, at this moment you only wanted to sleep soundly.

Three days later, your condition returned to its peak state, and you resolutely stepped onto the next step.

"What's going on, where is everyone?" You looked at the empty void before you, somewhat puzzled.

Soon, a stone fell from the void. You casually caught it and looked. An ancient Rune was carved into the stone.

You examined the stone. After discovering that it was merely an ordinary stone, you asked, somewhat puzzled, "What does this mean? No more fighting, switching to enlightenment?"

In the void, there was only you and a single stone in your hand. You calmed your heart, and a strand of Primordial Spirit merged into the stone as you peacefully began to comprehend it.

Within the unremarkable stone was recorded a leg technique. It was as if you saw the cultivator who created this art performing it before you.

You carefully memorized it one by one, and then began cultivating it.

In just a single day, you cultivated this art to the entry level, and after seven days, you directly reached grand completion!

The strength of this art is at most Mystic-Rank High Grade. With my current cultivation, what purpose did they serve?

You could not understand it no matter how you thought. Unable to figure it out, you decided not to think about it anymore and cultivated peacefully. After all, time did not mean much to you.

Half a month later, you cultivated this art to the Perfection Realm. You departed from the void and returned to the step.

You stepped toward the next step, and the you who had cultivated that leg technique appeared. The great battle began once more.

With the experience from the first time, this great battle ended very quickly. After a thousand moves, you kicked the phantom of yourself to death!

You entered the next step. Another stone recording a cultivation art fell. Having gained experience, you peacefully comprehended it.

On the eight hundred steps, you spent a great deal of time. From the initial Mystic-rank cultivation arts, they gradually evolved into Earth-Rank techniques!

You threw your entire body and mind into cultivation, forgetting the passage of time, constantly growing stronger.