Elder Tian Min just returned from Xuanxiao Palace. When he walked to the training grounds, he could feel the lingering power of a domineering spiritual energy. He knew the two of them had just faced off again. “You two have been very diligent recently.”

“Master.” Cheng Qi was still in meditation, Li Tianyan stepped forward to greet Elder Tian Min.

Every time he heard Li Tianyan call him master; Tian Min felt extremely complicated. He felt he was really wise and discerning, he actually picked up such a disciple at once, but he was also feeling anxious, fearing his disciple would catch up to his level soon.

Tian Min’s thoughts changed but he still pretended to be calm. He nodded to Li Tianyan and handed two more tokens into his hands. “This is given to you two by the sect master.”

Li Tianyan took the token and took a look at it. Seeing the word “Thunder” engraved on the token, he looked at Tian Min with some confusion, as if asking what the token was used for.

“With this token, you can unconditionally enter the sect’s thunder pond three times, use the thunder pond to temper your body, and when you are ready to form the core, you will have more chances to survive under the heavenly tribulation thunders.” Elder Tian Min explained to Li Tianyan.

It wasn’t easy to go to the Thunder Pond to practice. The sect leader gave these two tokens because he was interested in the two people’s qualifications and felt they had hope in forming core in the future.

“Thank you,” Li Tianyan’s eyes moved slightly as he looked at the two tokens. He recently had a vague hunch that the way he cultivated was too contrary to the heavens, and he was afraid there would be a disaster when he formed the core. He wanted to find a way to temper his body to resist the heavenly thunder, these two tokens came at the right time.

“Okay, remember there is a competition soon. You two should be prepared,” Tian Min warned again before turning back to the palace. The disciples were so diligent and hardworking, and he, as the master, couldn’t be lazy anymore.

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The next day after getting the token, Li Tianyan took Cheng Qi to the sect’s Thunder Palace, preparing to practice in the Thunder Pond for a period of time.

“Young master, look, it says that entering the Thunder Pond for one-hour costs one thousand contribution points,” Cheng Qi looked at an old and simple stone tablet in front of the palace and couldn’t help but take a deep breath. How many pills they need to sell for this?

“Come in and take a look,” Li Tianyan found the palace was shrouded in a lock formation, probably to seal the thunder and lightning.

The two of them took out the thunder cards to activate the teleportation formation outside the palace, and the next moment they entered the thunder pond room inside the palace. The blue flashing thunder pond in front of them was more than a foot wide, and the aura of thunder and lightning was already very strong when standing by the pond.

Cheng Qi glanced around and saw this place was sealed by a stone wall and was actually a secret room with no exit. The only way in and out was through the teleportation formation.

Li Tianyan’s spiritual consciousness swept around the secret room, and after making sure no one was here, he stepped forward to explore the thunder pond. As soon as his hand touched the water in the pond, a thunderous aura instantly spread throughout his body, and he couldn’t help but remind Cheng Qi, “Don’t go down yet, just soak your feet by first.”

Cheng Qi’s current level of cultivation was too low for the thunder practice, and Li Tianyan brought him here just to let him get used to it first.

“Oh,” Cheng Qi responded and saw Li Tianyan taking off his clothes and only wearing a pair of white pants and submerging into the water. His strong chest was clearly visible. Cheng Qi’s cheeks turned red unconsciously, and he quickly took off his shoes and socks to soak his feet in the water to divert his attention.

Sure enough, as soon as his foot was put into the thunder pond, there was an unbearable tingling sensation in his body, and he suddenly lost all thoughts. Seeing the feet in the water being burned by the power of lightning and the wounds opening up was shocking. Cheng Qi could only use his spiritual power to repair them, but more new wounds soon appeared.

At this time, Li Tianyan already walked to the middle of the thunder pond. The feeling of being surrounded by thunder and lightning was obviously uncomfortable. The skin all over his body was like Cheng Qi’s feet, cracked everywhere and quickly restored under his true spiritual energy.

However, Li Tianyan possessed wood-type energy and could repair it much faster than Cheng Qi. He quickly adapted to it after squatting in the water for a while. Fortunately, his innately deficient body had been completely improved before and was now able to withstand the lightning entering his body.

Cheng Qi soaked in the water for a few moments before he could no longer bear it. He quickly took out his bloody foot, repaired it with the last remaining spiritual energy, and then took out two spiritual stones to absorb the spiritual energy.

Although this practice method was painful, the effect was still quite good. When he put his feet into the thunder pond for the second time, the speed of the skin cracking slowed down slightly.

Li Tianyan held on longer and emerged from the water three hours later. Cheng Qi took a breath when he saw the scars on his body. “Young master, are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Li Tianyan said, his eyes seeming a little excited. After saying something to Cheng Qi, he meditated by the pond and circulated the wood energy around his body. The wounds on his body visibly recovered.

Both of them seemed to like this kind of self-mutilation practice, but after five days, Cheng Qi reached his limit and was the first to leave the Thunder Pond Secret Room.

Li Tianyan stayed in it for nearly a month. At first, he could only last three hours, then it became one day, then three days, until he emerged from the water for the last time after being in it for five days.

Tian Min breathed a big sigh of relief when he saw Li Tianyan appear. The thunder pond room was filled with powerful thunder and lightning elements, and it was easy to absorb the spiritual energy into his body. But it was still a painful training method, even the foundation-establishment cultivators did not dare to stay there for more than ten days. Cheng Qi’s ability to persist for five days was impressive. As a result, Li Tianyan had been gone for a month. Tian Min even doubted if it was not for the Five Regions Competition, Li Tianyan would not have planned to come out.

“The aura in the thunder pond is violent. If you feel uncomfortable, don’t force yourself,” Elder Tian Min said, only blaming himself for speaking too late.

“I know it,” Li Tianyan nodded and spoke. He didn’t feel uncomfortable with the thunder and lightning energy. Instead, he used the thunder pond to practice a thunder and lightning technique during this period, and it had begun to show results.