Chapter 181: Electric Current Training and Gravity Cultivation

Chapter 181: Electric Current Training and Gravity Cultivation

"Oh? You suddenly know how to cook? Have you found someone special?"

Upon hearing these words, Xue Jing's mind unconsciously flashed with a figure.

For some reason, it was Senior Sister Meng.

He then remembered that he had previously promised Senior Sister Meng to cook a delicious meal for her.

He hadn't kept that promise yet.

Xue Jing opened his panel and glanced at his cooking skill.

Cooking Lv.6 (2320/3000)



Ever since he set off for Feng City, he hadn't cooked a single meal.

He had only roasted a few dragon species back at the border, gaining a little cooking experience.

Xue Jing didn't really value this skill, which had no relation to his combat power... Well, perhaps it had some relation. Control over heat and dexterity with kitchen utensils did slightly help with his combat abilities, but the effect was minimal.

This skill, which he had activated the earliest, was now one of the lowest-leveled skills on his panel, on par with his recently activated Acting skill.

Xue Jing stroked his chin.

Hmm, it seemed close to leveling up. Once it reached Lv.7, he could cook a grand meal for Senior Sister Meng.

Seeing that he didn't deny it immediately, Nan Jiayu paused, a puzzled expression flashing across her youthful and beautiful face.

"Hmm? You really do have someone, don't you?"

Nan Jiayu immediately took out her phone from her pocket and swiftly tapped away on the screen. She then put it to her ear as if calling someone.

Xue Jing's lips twitched. "Mom, what are you doing?"

Nan Jiayu: "I'm calling Dad to share the good news."

She pretended to wipe away tears with her well-maintained, delicate hands, as if overwhelmed with emotion. "Ever since puberty, you've been giving all the girls your death glare, spending all your time with only Li Ge... And now, you've finally come to your senses... Mom is so happy."

"Up until today, Mom has been worried that you would open the door to a new world... Hmm? Wait a second, is your partner a boy or a girl?"

Nan Jiayu's eyes suddenly sharpened as she asked the last question.

Xue Jing rolled his eyes and reached out, snatching the phone from Nan Jiayu's hand before she could react and hanging up the call that was being dialed.

"I don't have a partner, and even if I did, it wouldn't be a guy. Is it wrong for me to want to cook for you?"

He replied with a pout.

Hearing this, Nan Jiayu's eyes curved into crescent moons as she smiled. "Mom loves to hear that."

She reached out and ruffled Xue Jing's hair. "You've become so good with words, and you say you don't have a partner? You can't hide anything from Mom!"

Xue Wan, who was lounging on the sofa, petting the cat, snacking on chips, and watching a drama, chuckled. "Mom, just let him cook. I'm also looking forward to laughing at his cooking skills."

Nan Jiayu turned to her with a smile. "If you dare put that meaningless 'mom' in front of 'mom' again, I'll peel your skin off."

Xue Wan shuddered, immediately closing her mouth.

Nan Jiayu's smile faded, and she spoke in a calm, unwavering tone. "Sit properly."

Xue Wan immediately jumped up from the sofa, shifting from her lazy reclining posture to a straight-backed, proper sitting position, with her hands on her knees like a well-behaved child in kindergarten waiting for a snack.

The cat sitting beside her on the sofa, with eyes like emeralds, suddenly looked up with interest.

Xue Wan sent a pleading glance at Xue Jing, her eyes almost popping out of their sockets. However, Xue Jing simply spread his hands, indicating his helplessness, and walked into the kitchen, feigning indifference.

"Have your thoughts started to wander now that you're in university, little Xue Wan?"

Nan Jiayu's youthful and beautiful face was expressionless as she sat down on the single sofa across from Xue Wan, her long legs crossed. She looked down at the lowered head of Xue Wan.

Xue Wan mumbled, "Wh-What do you mean? Who could possibly be wilder than you...?"

Nan Jiayu's eyebrows arched. "Hmm?"

Xue Wan quickly corrected herself. "I mean, how could I dare to be wild in front of you?"

"Meow~"

An extremely aggrieved meow sounded from beside them, and the cat, Xiao Fengwan, gently stepped on Nan Jiayu's thigh with her soft paw pads, lifting her innocent, big eyes to look up at Nan Jiayu.

In her cat form, Xiao Fengwan was already beautiful enough to be considered a 'beauty'. With a deliberate display of cuteness, this overwhelmingly adorable scene left Nan Jiayu unable to resist. She smiled and said, "Oh, little Fengwan is so cute, much cuter than your sister. Come, let Mom give you a good pet..."

Xue Wan's lips twitched at hearing her mother's self-proclaimed title.

Out of Control...

As the commotion from the living room reached Xue Jing's ears, he took out the ingredients he had prepared earlier from the fridge and began to prepare the meal.

He was now almost as exaggerated as those god-level chefs in culinary manga, with all his actions precise and swift. He moved like a fast-forwarded movie, chopping vegetables and seasoning with lightning speed.

The kitchen was filled with the clanging of pots and pans, sounding chaotic but surprisingly orderly. In no time, he had finished all the prep work, and the stove was filled with ready-to-cook ingredients. Xue Jing began the final stage of cooking.

After stir-frying, simmering, and deep-frying, a delicious six-course meal with soup was ready in less than an hour.

His panel notified him of the increase in his cooking experience: 【Cooking Experience +103】.

Xue Wan sat at the dining table, holding a pair of chopsticks and eyeing the mouthwatering dishes before her. She swallowed her saliva and stubbornly said, "Hmph, it looks quite decent."

Xue Jing took out a few sheets of tissue paper and wiped his freshly washed hands, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. "Oh, thank you. It's not as good as your instant noodles, of course."

Xue Wan's fists clenched tightly. "You're mocking me..."

Nan Jiayu sat beside them, a smile on her face as she looked at the spread of food. "Alright, let's eat! I can't wait any longer."

She glanced at the cat sitting on the table, with a bowl of food in front of her, and asked curiously, "Is Xiao Fengwan eating the same as us? Won't that be bad for her?"

"It's fine," Xue Jing replied. "She's always eaten the same food as me, and there haven't been any problems."

Nan Jiayu stroked the cat's head, feeling the smooth and soft fur. "I see... Her fur feels so healthy. I guess all those online tips about cat care are misleading."

Xue Wan picked up a piece of tender pork with her chopsticks and chewed on it for a while before swallowing. After a moment of silence, she grit her teeth and asked, "How is this possible?!?"

"How can it be so delicious?!?"

"Damn it!!!"

Muttering to herself, Xue Wan began to wolf down her food.

...

After dinner, Xue Jing was successfully elected as the family's head chef in a household vote, responsible for the daily meals from then on.

Xue Jing himself voted against it, but his vote was vetoed by Nan Jiayu's overriding veto power.

He then proposed abolishing Nan Jiayu's overriding veto power, which was supported by Xue Wan. However, this proposal was promptly vetoed by Nan Jiayu.

Time passed by in the midst of their playful bickering.

The next day, after getting up early, washing up, and having breakfast, Xue Jing made his way to the Canglong Dojo.

As it was still early, only a few diligent disciples were present in the training hall, and they were all familiar faces to Xue Jing.

Xue Jing entered the hall, caught up with them, and shared a few martial arts tips before leaving the hall and heading to his private cultivation room.

In the center of the mahogany floor, Xue Jing assumed the stance of the 'Quaking Armor Technique'.

Then, with a thought, arcs of electricity appeared on his forehead, condensing into two silver-white dragon horns.

Silver-white lightning began to flicker and dance across his body, crackling with energy.

"Using electromagnetic force to drive the tempering of the flesh is difficult, if not impossible. The challenge is far beyond my current capabilities."

Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces in the universe, and its inherent nobility and upper limit are almost unimaginable.

However, to influence the electromagnetism within the flesh, one would need control precise down to the molecular and atomic level... To drive the cultivation of the body, one would need to manipulate the electromagnetic forces within the atoms that make up their physical form.

If one could attain such a realm, the efficiency of physical training would increase by millions of times... One might even gain unimaginable abilities, capable of punching with the force of a nuclear blast.

But this was an almost impossible realm to attain, requiring control far finer than the most advanced photolithography machines in the world.

Although he could now influence electromagnetism to a certain extent due to his ability to wield silver dragon lightning and the dragon horns, his current limit was the ability to fire an electromagnetic cannon.

To influence atomic-level electromagnetism with dragon lightning was a goal far beyond his current capabilities.

"However, that doesn't matter... Even if I can't achieve electromagnetic driving, I can still enhance the efficiency of my physical training."

Xue Jing murmured softly, his mind stirring.

In an instant, the ability of the Dragon Lightning to influence gravity enveloped his entire body.

The gravity he endured increased evenly by about ten times, causing the wooden floor beneath his feet to creak under the sudden weight.

Weight training was a common method for strengthening the body.

Typically, this involved tying weights to one's limbs and body, which, while effective, still left some parts of the body unaffected by the training.

However, Xue Jing could uniformly increase the gravity for every cell in his body, much like the gravity training rooms in Dragon Ball.

Although he appeared slender and slightly thin, his weight was already over 120 kilograms.

With a tenfold increase in gravity, it became over 1,200 kilograms.

This weight was not an issue for him as long as he remained still or did not engage in strenuous activity.

Running, for example, increased the stress on one's skeletal structure by several times, or even more than tenfold.

Particularly strenuous were actions like bending and squatting.

And the Quaking Armor Technique that Xue Jing was about to practice was far more intense than running—by at least tenfold.

The tenfold gravity, which normally wouldn't be a significant burden, would now become extremely taxing.

Xue Jing took a deep breath. "Alright, let's begin."

...

An hour later, Xue Jing stood in the center of the training room.

His entire body was soaked as if he had just been pulled out of a river, and a large amount of crystal clear sweat spread from his feet, covering most of the training room's floor. He seemed to have lost some weight, and dehydration was evident.

"Huff... Huff..."

He panted heavily, feeling as if he had just run dozens of kilometers, his body pushed to its absolute limit.

Exhausted, more exhausted than he had ever been before.

It felt like he had just fought another battle with the true dragon at the border.

Every cell in his body was crying out in pain.

"Good, very good!"

Xue Jing clenched his slightly weak palms, excitement flashing in his eyes.

It had been a long time since he had pushed his body to such extremes, and he relished the feeling.

He picked up the twelve bottles of mineral water he had prepared earlier and, with a wave of his hand, sliced off the bottle caps, sending them clattering to the floor.

He brought one bottle to his mouth and, with a single suction, emptied its 500ml contents, crumpling the plastic bottle.

One after another, he quickly drank all twelve bottles, replenishing his severely depleted fluids.

Xue Jing closed his eyes, and the silver-white dragon lightning flickered across his body and internal organs, providing an electric therapy that felt tingly and numb.

At the same time, he used his mental power to stimulate the life fire, healing the damage caused by this brutal training.

Only when his condition fully recovered did he open his eyes and stand up, shaking his body to disperse the sweat and return his skin to a dry state.

He rubbed his arm, feeling the soft and delicate texture.

It even seemed to have a translucent, crystal-like quality, as if it were glowing.

The Quaking Armor Technique he had just practiced was a skin-strengthening exercise, simultaneously training his lungs, one of the five viscera.

"The results of this skin training are quite good," Xue Jing muttered as he continued to caress his arm.

He could clearly feel that the strength of his skin had increased significantly, and he even sensed some subtle changes that he couldn't quite put into words.

"One of the manifestations of the ultimate human physique in ancient legends—the Treasured Body, is known as the 'Glazed Skin'."

Xue Jing continued to stroke his arm, which now seemed to glow with an inner light.

"Glazed skin, flawless and without blemish... This is quite interesting."

"I wonder if the current pinnacle of Old Martial Arts, the Extreme Martial King, has truly achieved this realm?"

Xue Jing pondered as he tidied up the training room and made his way to the meditation room.

Upon reaching the door, he knocked and, receiving a response, twisted the doorknob and entered.

Li Qi sat in his wheelchair at the desk, writing something, and didn't look up as Xue Jing entered.

"Master."

Xue Jing greeted him and then asked curiously, "What was the trouble you mentioned yesterday that you needed me to resolve?"

...

(End of Chapter)

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