Ancient Strengthening Technique - Chapter 2416

Chapter 2416

AST 2416 - The Strength of Qing Shui's Nurture God Realm, The Caves' Abilities

The thunderbolts became increasingly thicker, and the seven-colored thunderbolts appeared extremely magnificent but yet also extremely terrifying at the same time . Qing Shui's body kept on absorbing the powers from them to temper his body .

Boom!

A thunderbolt that had the thickness of a person's arm landed on Qing Shui's body, causing him to shake a little . Qing Shui guided the thunderbolt to temper his muscles and bones, as well as his internal organs .

Two bolts, three bolts . . .

Gradually, Qing Shui felt that it was getting a little hard to bear . Right now, although the thunderbolts were still as thick as a person's arm, there were seven bolts of them . Each time they came crashing down, he would feel so numb, as if he had been knocked by a small truck .

Boom . . .

After the seven thunderbolts, there was a short interval before the next one . Qing Shui only recovered after a very long while . But thankfully, there was a short break . Otherwise, it was hard to say if he would be able to hold on . He might have really been in trouble .

Boom!

A thunderbolt that was as thick as a person's lower thigh came down .

Qing Shui guided the thunderbolt into his body and abruptly opened up his Dantian's violet cave, the Upper Dantian's Niwan Palace, and the Middle Dantian's Central Palace Blood Essence Pool .

Boom!

He now had the feeling as if waves of explosion were happening in him . It didn't feel very comfortable, but the feeling was exhilarating and straightforward . It was as if he had released everything that was pent up inside .

Qing Shui saw a layer of faint gray oil coming out from the pores of his body . It wasn’t much, but a thin, faint layer of it adhered to the surface of his skin .

To think that he was still able to experience the effect of impurities cleansing . This should be a deeper level of impurities cleansing .

Boom Boom!

The thunderbolts started to come down faster as if signaling the coming of a thunderstorm . Qing Shui opened up all ten of his caves . Right now, his ten golden caves were connected to Qing Shui's body and could be said to be a part of him .

Boom boom . . .

The seven-colored thunderbolts passed through Qing Shui's body and entered the ten caves . Suddenly, all ten caves glimmered in rainbow colors .

Boom boom . . .

After about 15 minutes, the surroundings fell silent and the clouds in the sky scattered . Qing Shui’s facial expression broke out into a happy smile . His Nurture God Realm had settled down . This tribulation was meant to stabilize the Nurture God Realm after the breakthrough .

The Nurture God Realm increased the body's toughness as well as the abilities of the existences in the caves . The Nurture God Realm depended on the number of caves one opened up . If there were only four, then it would be a Level Four Cave Realm . If there were eight caves, then it would be a Level Eight Cave Realm . If there were ten caves, then it would be a Level Ten Cave Realm . Each additional level increased a relative amount of abilities gained from the caves .

For example, a Level One Cave Realm provided one increment in abilities, and a Level Two Cave Realm provided two increments in abilities and so on . The Level Ten Cave Realm provided ten increments in abilities . The number involved was just a coefficient and didn't mean the folds or fractional [1] increments . Someone had tried to do a calculation before . It was bigger than percentages but smaller than folds . With each level, the increment was close to thirty percent . The actual amount was different for everyone, but the difference wouldn't be too great . This was with the exception of special caves . In the past, there had been an ice crystal cave amongst the caves a person opened up . At the first level, the person's strength doubled . Moreover, the ice sealing ability of the demonic beast in the cave had increased by multiple folds .

Right now, Qing Shui was at the first level of the Nurture God Realm . The first level of the Nurture God Realm meant that all caves were at the first level . It wasn't just one of the caves that had reached the level .

Qing Shui looked at his caves in great anticipation, hoping to see how much stronger his caves had become .

Fifty percent . . . fifty percent . . . Two folds!

Everything else had also increased by fifty percent . The tenth golden cave had actually doubled his abilities . Moreover, this was just the first level of the Nurture God Realm .

Qing Shui was very agitated . Other people's Level One Cave Realm would only increase their abilities by about thirty percent . Those who were a little more talented could get away with more, but those who weren't couldn't even reach fifty percent . Qing Shui's caves had passed through two paths and become golden caves . After going through Gold Cave Refinement, the increment he received reached fifty percent .

This didn't seem to be much of a difference . But as one's Nurture God Realm increased, for example, at the fifth level of the Nurture God Realm, things would be different . The gap would be massive .

What Qing Shui found most unbelievable was actually the tenth cave . Its abilities had actually increased by two folds, and this was only at the first level of the Nurture God Realm!

Qing Shui couldn't help but think of Tantai Lingyan . She had jade-colored caves, and he wondered how much additional strength her caves had given her and what realm she was at now .

The other time they met, which was half a year ago, Qing Shui felt that she had attained a breakthrough . She should have reached the Nurture God Realm and thereafter, left this place .

The strongest realm currently known was the Nurture God Realm, and someone had reached the tenth level .

It seemed that the person had also opened up ten caves and reached Peak Nurture God Realm . After the Nurture God Realm, it was the Regulation Realm . The Regulation Realm was a legendary realm . After attaining it, one could decide on certain regulations . However, this was a legendary realm, and there were people who didn't believe that it existed . Therefore, the strongest realm known to people was the Nurture God Realm .

It was only now that Qing Shui tried to sense his current strength . He wanted to see how much stronger he had become after attaining a breakthrough and stabilizing his strength . Half a year ago, the connection of his nine caves had already increased his strength by quite a lot—with it being almost doubled what it used to be . This time around, he had connected the tenth cave and to top it off, attained a breakthrough . He could sense that his strength was terrifying now .

Qing Shui's current strength was 200 billion dao force, and his defense was at two trillion dao force .

The Heavenly Fate Treasure Pagoda of Defense increased his defense by twenty percent . Therefore, Qing Shui's defense reached 2 . 4 trillion dao force .

The Heavenly Fate Treasure Pagoda of Violence and the Parry Heavenly Fate Treasure Pagoda increased his deflecting ability by another two hundred billion dao force . Qing Shui now had a defense of 2 . 6 trillion dao force .

Qing Shui's Divine Weapon Flying Sword could fend off an additional 3 . 2 billion dao force, and increase his defense by 5 . 4 billion dao force . Qing Shui's current defense had reached a bit more than 2 . 6 trillion dao force .  

In addition to the Battle God Halo, formations, Area Dominance, battle techniques and other attributes, Qing Shui's defense had already attained a breakthrough to five trillion dao force .

Right now, even Qing Shui found it a little unbelievable . To think that he had become so powerful . This was the difference between the Nurture God Realm and the Cave Realm . Moreover, this was when he had just stabilized his Nurture God Realm . He could still get a lot stronger in the future .

He had ten caves and in principle could reach Level Ten Cave Realm . People who only had seven, eight, or nine caves would only be able to cultivate to reach level seven, eight, or nine . Therefore, Qing Shui's capital could be considered the greatest .

Qing Shui smiled happily . Right now, he had the capital to head to the Upper Three Regions as well . It seemed that it was time for him to leave .

With there being ten caves, Qing Shui put the Golden Primordial Bear's spiritual body into the tenth cave . Right now, the Golden Primordial Bear's strength was no longer the state when it had just attained success in its cultivation . It was now also part of Qing Shui's terrifying battle prowess .

There were also the Divine Battle Puppet, Dragon Slaying Beast, Diamond White Tiger King, Primordial Dragon Elephant, Dark Phoenix, Long Zhu`er, Thunderous Beast, Dragon Slaying Beast, and one Black Ice Divine Worm . All ten caves had a "God" in them . The Nurture God Realm was self-explanatory—a wonderful thought of being able to nurture these creatures into gods .

Other than the tenth cave with the Golden Primordial Bear, the other nine’s strength increased by fifty percent, which was already half of their previous battle prowess . At this level, the Nurture God Realm had already displayed how terrifying its nurturing strength was .

It wouldn't be long before one of his demonic beasts or the Divine Battle Puppet would be able to kill the previous Qing Shui when he was at the Cave Realm . This was the difference in realms—a gap that couldn't be crossed .

[1] Relative to percentages, where one fractional portion = 10% .