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Chapter 76

Gravis walked down the corridor until he found a room with a "16" painted on the door. Gravis put the key in, opened the door,and entered.

The room looked different than he thought. He had expected lightning coming out of the walls, yet he only saw a small cabin withtwo holes. One hole was on the ceiling and the other one on the floor beneath it. The two holes were only about five centimeterswide. This was probably where the lightning was supposed to be.

Gravis closed the door and thought back on the Lightning Codex. When he was confident, he started walking forward and sat ontop of the hole. He waited, but nothing happened. After a while, Gravis noticed a lever to his right, which could be accessedeasily from his position.

He prepared himself and pulled it down.BZZZT!

Lightning came from the top hole and hit Gravis’ head, but Gravis didn't react. His Elemental Synchronicity was always active,and lightning without a will behind it could do nothing to him. The lightning went through his body and into the bottom hole.

Gravis pulled his hand back, and the lever popped back into place. The lightning also immediately stopped. "Interesting," Gravisthought. Gravis took a deep breath and readied himself. This would probably hurt a lot.

While using his Elemental Synchronicity, Gravis could ignore the lightning, yet he was supposed to temper his muscles. If hedidn't absorb the lightning, he wouldn't be able to temper his muscles nor create a Lightning Seed.

He could let elements pass through his body, unhindered. Back when he fought against the low-grade demonic beast snake, hehad used it to get rid of the poison. He had been bitten and Gravis had used fire to cleanse his body. While his body remainedunaffected, the poison was burned since it was not part of his body, after all.

Gravis pulled the lever down again, and the lightning returned. With a last sigh, Gravis stopped his Elemental Synchronicity, andthe lightning fully hit his head and rampaged throughout his body. Gravis clenched his teeth but stopped after a while. It was notas painful as he had thought, actually. He had expected something more painful.

Gravis concentrated on the lightning and made it move towards his dantian. He couldn't place the Lightning Seed inside thedantian since it would just destroy the whole thing, but he could place it right outside it. In the future, Gravis would use hisdantian as the place for his Energy Vortex.

Manipulating the lightning inside one's body was usually done differently than Elemental Synchronicity. The practitioners wouldmanipulate their bodies so the lightning could only go in, but not out. When enough lightning was compressed in a specific spot,it would condense a Lightning Seed.

Gravis smirked. "Even though condensing a Lightning Seed is different from my Elemental Synchronicity, | can still use it to makethe lightning gather in one spot," he said to himself.

He willed the lightning to move towards his dantian, yet also willed the lightning to attack him. He had to temper his muscles,after all. All the lightning started gathering in his dantian, and not even a little bit left his body. Without his ElementalSynchronicity, this would be impossible.

After a while, Gravis felt something condense beside his dantian. "It's already done?" Gravis exclaimed in surprise as heinspected his body. There was something akin to a small star beside his dantian, and it was continually sparking with lightning.Sure enough, Gravis had already condensed his Lightning Seed.

Gravis was quite surprised. The Lightning Codex said that creating the Lightning Seed took, by far, the longest time in cultivatinglightning. Normal people had to bathe in lightning for weeks before they could condense it. Gravis' Elemental Synchronicity hadsaved him a lot of time by forcing all the lightning to stay in one place.

Gravis couldn't use his Lightning Seed yet. He could only create new lightning by funneling his Energy through the LightningSeed, and he didn't have any Energy. He would first need to step into the Energy Gathering Realm before he could use it.

Gravis looked at the timer above the door. In the beginning, it had shown 20 remaining hours, and now it showed a little morethan 15 remaining hours. Gravis had taken less than five hours to create his Lightning Seed.

“Well, no point in wasting good lightning," he said as he continued tempering his body. His Lightning Seed was automatically atthe Destruction Energy ratio of the lightning in the room. There was no point in pushing more lightning into it. Instead, he woulduse all remaining lightning to temper his body.

After 15 hours, the lightning stopped flowing, and Gravis couldn't activate it anymore. He looked at the timer and saw that histime was up. Gravis stood up and performed some practice attacks, yet he didn't feel a difference.

"45 hours of pure tempering in lightning, and | don't even feel a difference in my muscles," he sighed. "This will take a while. TheCodex said the tempering depended on the destruction and recreation of muscles. My muscles are probably already too strongto be harmed by such weak lightning. | need stronger lightning," he concluded as he left the room.

He locked the door and went back to the reception desk. He placed the key down and also 50 gold. "five hours on the secondfloor," he said to the woman.

The woman didn't show an expression as she took out a new key, but inside, she was sneering. A lot of first-timersunderestimated the time it took to create a Lightning Seed, and some of them tried to condense it on the second floor, thinkingthat would expedite things.

Of course, it didn't work that way. Their bodies first needed more lightning resistance before they even could attempt to temperthemselves on the second level. "Room 3," she said and tossed the key over.

Gravis received the key, nodded, and went back into the Lightning Tower. He quickly found his room on the second floor andentered. The room was identical to the last one. Gravis sat down and pulled the lever.

BZZZT!novelbin

The lightning came down, and Gravisalready felt the difference. It was waymore painful, and it also felt moreviolent. Gravis couldestih teethpain eadilyand smiled. "Now, this isway better," he said to himself as hestarted pushing the lightning into hisLightning Seed. He would firstincrease the purity of his LightningSeed before he went onto temperinghis body. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis concentrated on increasing the Destruction Energy ratio of his Lightning Seed, and he felt like he was already halfwaythere when the lightning suddenly stopped. Gravis pulled the lever down, but nothing happened. When he looked at the timer, henoticed that his five hours were up. ‘What? Already? I'm only halfway there!’ he thought in frustration.

It seemed like Gravis' situation was the opposite of a normal person. Regular lightning practitioners needed, by far, the longesttime to condense their Lightning Seeds, but for Gravis. For him, it took longer to increase the purity of the lightning.

Yet, Gravis made a mistake in hisassumption. He thought that he tooklonger to increase the purity of hislightning than othenpeople- bet thotwas arid Yue, He was stillaround three times faster than otherpeople in increasing his LightningSeed's destruction. It only felt so longfor him because his condensation ofthe Lightning Seed was manytens-of-times faster than others. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!

"Seems like | need about another fivehours to get my Lightning Seed to theright destruction purity. The LightningCodex also said thayagry Sdeltihal19% takeldéuble the time of theprevious 10%. So, in total, it wouldtake me 10 hours to go from 20% to30%. By that calculation, | would need20 hours to go to 40% and 40 hoursto go to 50%," Gravis said whilenarrowing his eyes. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis then started calculating. "| have ten gold left, and | need another five hours on this level, which is 50 gold. So, to finish thislevel, | need another 40 gold. Then | need around 20 hours on the third floor, which would come up to... 2,000 gold," he utteredwhile taking a deep breath.

“| need money."

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