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Chapter 56: Lightning Body Tempering - This Kid is Absolutely Infuriating
🕑 Added 2025-08-01 12:48:03 +0000 UTCDugu Bo watched as Ignaz stubbornly insisted on staying in Thunder Canyon to train. Could this kid's training method really be what he suspected? He asked with concern:
"Little Iggy, you're dead set on staying in Thunder Canyon—you’re not planning to use the surrounding lightning environment for cultivation, are you?"
Ignaz didn’t rush to answer, simply nodding silently. Dugu Bo continued questioning:
"How exactly do you plan to train? Fighting those lightning-attribute spirit beasts, or—"
"Fighting lightning-attribute spirit beasts is just part of it. Besides that, I plan to use the thunderstorms inside the canyon to temper my body!"
Dugu Bo immediately grabbed Ignaz’s shoulders, staring at him intently:
"You’ve lost your mind! You’ve completely lost it! Don’t think that just because you absorbed a Thunder Prison Vine spirit ring, your body can withstand heavenly lightning. Even most of the lightning-attribute spirit beasts here wouldn’t dare try such a thing!"
"Lightning is one of the most domineering of all elemental attributes. If you’re even slightly careless with lightning body tempering, at best your martial spirit will shatter, and at worst you’ll die under the thunder’s might."
Did Ignaz not understand Dugu Bo's concerns? Did he think Ignaz had made no preparations, relying only on the lightning resistance from absorbing three lightning-attribute spirit rings for body tempering?
Ignaz chuckled softly and pulled out a deep blue iron rod from his spirit tool, handing it to Dugu Bo:
"This blue iron rod is made from Lightning-Dispersing Ore.. After five or six years of testing, I found this ore works best for dispersing and weakening lightning attributes."
"According to my tests, this Lightning-Dispersing Rod—three fingers thick and about a meter long—can completely dissipate the strongest spirit skill released by a six- to seven-hundred-year lightning-attribute spirit beast."
Dugu Bo stroked the Lightning-Dispersing Rod in his hands, his face no longer showing as much worry. Instead, he seemed more satisfied with Ignaz for producing this rod:
"I thought you’d gotten arrogant after obtaining that spirit ring, but it turns out you had a backup plan all along. You actually forged such an excellent lightning-dispersing device."
"You're too kind, Senior. I’ve been preparing for lightning body tempering for five or six years."
Ignaz didn’t get carried away by the praise. He wasn’t entirely confident about the lightning body tempering either—this would be his first attempt.
Seeing Ignaz’s determination and thorough preparation, Dugu Bo stopped trying to prevent this attempt, saying cheerfully:
"Kid Ignaz, Yanyan happens to be on break recently, so I have time to keep you company here. In all my years, I’ve never seen anyone use heavenly lightning for body tempering. You’ll be the first, but I hope you won’t be the last."
If the lightning body tempering failed, worst-case scenario, he’d just rescue him from the lightning strike. For a Titled Douluo like himself, saving one person from a lightning bolt wouldn’t be too difficult.
The next day at dawn, the sky was barely light, but Thunder Canyon remained filled with dark clouds and lightning, with thunder continuously falling.
The three of them arrived once again at a small flat area not far from Thunder Canyon’s center. To ensure safety, Ignaz took out ten Lightning-Dispersing Rods and assembled them in sequence.
Dugu Yan stood to the side, watching Ignaz with great concern.
"Finally assembled!"
Ignaz wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked over to Dugu Yan, who had been helping with assembly, comforting her:
"Don’t worry, little sister. I’ll return to you as a brand-new Ignaz."
Then he extended his left hand toward her:
"Little sister, give me a bottle of Purple Lightning Liquid."
"Brother Ignaz, can’t you find another way to train your body? Even with these Lightning-Dispersing Rods, it’s still not very safe."
Though Dugu Yan didn’t want Ignaz to channel lightning into his body, she still handed over all the Purple Lightning Liquid, adding a threat:
"Brother Ignaz, if you die, I’ll accept Yu Tianheng’s pursuit and marry him."
"You wouldn’t dare!"
Before Ignaz could finish speaking, Dugu Yan wrapped her arms around him, pressing her body tightly against his.
"If you die, just watch and see if I dare."
Ignaz was speechless with this little girl. She had to provoke him with this, didn’t she? Just wait until he broke through to Spirit Sage—he’d show her then.
"Alright, I’ll be fine!"
Ignaz pulled Dugu Yan away, picked up the assembled ten-meter Lightning-Dispersing Rod, and walked toward the area where lightning continuously struck. He pulled out a four-meter lightning rod from his spirit tool and quickly planted it in the ground. Suddenly—
"BOOM—"
A bolt of lightning struck directly on the lightning rod’s tip. Fortunately, Ignaz was quick, avoiding being struck directly. Then came the second and third bolts, striking the lightning rod in succession. The lightning’s power grew stronger, and the frequency increased.
Ignaz quickly moved to the end of the Lightning-Dispersing Rod, using his Blood Thunder War Spear’s tip to pierce through the hole at the rod’s end. With arm strength, he forcibly lifted the ten-meter rod and threaded it through a ring designed on the lightning rod. He drank a drop of Purple Lightning Liquid.
"BOOM—"
An especially loud thunder roared, followed by what looked like a vicious blue dragon of lightning striking toward the lightning rod, surrounded by countless electric arcs. The lightning traveled along the conductor into the Lightning-Dispersing Rod.
As the conduction path lengthened, the blue violent arcs gradually weakened, until passing through the Blood Thunder War Spear (which had some lightning resistance) into Ignaz’s right hand, then gradually spreading throughout his body.
At this moment, Ignaz felt the not-so-violent current gently expanding his meridians, guided by his internal spirit power to be slowly absorbed by various parts of his body.
"Comfortable! This feels amazing!"
Watching from a distance, Dugu Bo saw Ignaz’s extremely satisfied smile and felt his previous tension completely disappear, genuinely happy for his future grandson-in-law.
In Dugu Yan’s eyes, however, Ignaz’s expression looked somewhat perverted—like the extremely lustful look men get when seeing beautiful women.
"Disgusting!"
Ignaz gently exhaled a breath of turbid air crackling with blue arcs, then opened his eyes, which flashed with two blue electric arcs.
"Looks like I was being too cautious. Ten meters of Lightning-Dispersing length is still too long—it should be shorter!"
Ignaz immediately removed one section of the Lightning-Dispersing Rod. The lightning power conducted into his body instantly increased geometrically. His clothing began burning and being destroyed by the lightning power, and even his skin started showing dancing electric arcs.
This scene left Dugu Yan completely stunned, staring wide-eyed at Ignaz’s upper body:
"That snow-white skin, those strong muscles, that..."
Just as the blushing Dugu Yan walked forward, preparing to get a good feel of Ignaz’s body, Dugu Bo immediately blocked her path and gently knocked her unconscious.
"This kid actually seduced my granddaughter—absolutely infuriating!"
