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Chapter 249 I'm relieved that you're alright.
"Something feels off..." Song Shuhang entered Thunder Valley, dark clouds looming overhead. This wasn't quite the scene Jiu Deng had described. Song Shuhang couldn't help but pray silently, "Senior Bai, please protect me this time, please don't let anything go wrong, let me get away with this peacefully..."

Before the thought could even finish, a sudden change occurred.

Without warning, a menacing crack appeared in the seemingly calm dark clouds overhead. A bolt of lightning, as thick as a bowl and shimmering with an eerie purple-gold hue, ignored distance and position, and as if it had eyes, it took a tricky arc and struck Song Shuhang with perfect precision on the head.

"Holy crap?! This mine even has navigation?!" Song Shuhang could only think of these words of complaint.

A terrifying bolt of lightning instantly pierced through his entire body! Song Shuhang convulsed violently, his hair standing on end and emitting wisps of smoke. The intense numbness prevented him from even screaming; everything before his eyes went white, as if his soul was about to be "struck" out of his head by this unreasonable lightning.

Then came excruciating pain. The raging power of lightning relentlessly surged into his still-developing meridians, like countless red-hot irons wreaking havoc within. His muscle fibers felt as if they were being torn apart inch by inch and then forcibly glued back together, his bones groaning under the unbearable strain. His skin instantly charred and carbonized, emitting the acrid smell of burning protein.

The cultivation technique it had been practicing was forcibly activated under devastating pressure. Like a skilled worker, regardless of its master's wishes, it instinctively began to guide the raging power of thunder, stubbornly washing over its limbs, bones, and internal organs, attempting to transform the destructive power into tempering power.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch—!! I just passed by!" Song Shuhang grimaced in pain. If it weren't for the lightning, which would have evaporated the liquid, his tears and snot would probably have already flowed out.

Song Shuhang's first reaction was that he was doomed. But after the lightning subsided, he realized that the power of the lightning was within his tolerance range and he wouldn't die. It would just be extremely painful. He had to concentrate the last bit of his clarity and try his best to cooperate with the automatically operating technique within his body to "guide" this damned heavenly lightning.

The charred, dead skin on the body peeled away in the aftershocks of the lightning, revealing new skin underneath that shimmered with a faint bronze sheen. A large amount of murky, foul-smelling, black, viscous substance seeped from the pores, instantly vaporized by the remaining arc of electricity.

A series of crackling sounds, like popping beans, came from inside his body. It was his bones being forcibly "forged" by the heavenly lightning, becoming denser and tougher, and faintly revealing a jade-like luster.

Beneath the newly formed skin, extremely fine, light purple lightning patterns, like those on a circuit board, flashed by in an instant, a sign that the skin had begun to adapt to and integrate with a trace of heavenly lightning power.

Song Shuhang's originally somewhat calm college student demeanor now carried a subtle, almost imperceptible sharpness, like an unsheathed blade, and a fierce, violent intensity belonging to thunder. Although he was still lying on the ground, smoking, like a tattered sack, his entire "texture" had changed.

After a while, the lightning gradually dissipated. Song Shuhang lay in the scorching pit, his eyes struggling to move. He looked at his charred palms, feeling the unprecedented power within his body and the still faintly aching meridians.

The spiritual energy that was about to burst within him suddenly disappeared, as if it had entered a larger container.

"This is... Oh! The Heavenly Thunder Body Tempering has enhanced my physique, which is equivalent to raising my upper limit of endurance. So the spiritual power that was about to explode is no longer a problem. The seniors are really amazing. They knew and solved my problem before they even showed up." After feeling the condition of his body, Song Shuhang, who was still lying on the ground, couldn't help but sigh. His respect for the seniors grew even more.

Thunder Valley, where the Thunder Pig rests, presents the scene of Song Shuhang being struck by lightning. This is the benefit that Su Yun and the others planned, allowing the Thunder Pig to control the lightning to temper the bodies of members like Song Shuhang who are not strong.

As good as it is, Su Yun can also enjoy watching them get struck by lightning. Especially since it's sudden and unexpected, their reactions to the lightning strikes will definitely be more interesting.

But unexpectedly, Song Shuhang, that unlucky fellow, was the first to enter and bear the sudden heavenly lightning alone. Song Shuhang then shared his experience and gains in the chat group, so Cheng Yiyi and the others who entered later were mentally prepared; it was just a normal cultivation process. "No wonder he's Tyrant Song," Su Yun muttered to himself, stroking his chin. Song Shuhang's luck-based constitution, capable of helping others withstand disasters, is truly amazing; he's no wonder he's the best teammate for Venerable Bai.

Thunder Pig sized up Song Shuhang, then said to Venerable White and the others, "Fellow Daoists, is this young friend a junior you've trained? Truly remarkable, his physique and spiritual power are comparable to most second-grade cultivators. However, he looks somewhat familiar..."

The Thunder Pig was merely a seventh-rank Venerable and hadn't had much contact with Song Mutou. Unlike the White Dragon Sister below, or the powerful figures like Pavilion Master Chu later on, whose first reaction upon seeing Song Shuhang was to beat him up like Song Mutou.

Only after the fight did they realize that Song Shuhang was nothing like Song Mutou, neither in appearance nor in spirit. Tianlei Pig only felt that he looked slightly familiar, so when Song Shuhang arrived here in the original story, Tianlei Pig saw him and asked a question similar to "Do we know each other?" instead of "Who are you?"

It's like a familiar stranger. If someone looks somewhat familiar but you have absolutely no recollection of them comes up to say hello, you'll definitely have to ask if you know them or if you've met them before.

When Joseph Joestar and Cheng Yiyi, who had come with Ai Haibara, arrived, they saw Song Shuhang covered in charred soot. Cheng Yiyi instinctively said, "Seeing you in such a sorry state, I'm relieved."

Song Shuhang: "Hmm?"

Cheng Yiyi: "I'm sorry, I didn't realize that being unable to control my mouth is contagious."

Cheng Yiyi had only thought that since Song Shuhang had scouted ahead for them, they wouldn't end up in such a terrible situation. She only thought it to herself and didn't intend to say it aloud, but upon seeing Song Shuhang, she blurted it out instinctively. Cheng Yiyi herself was a little confused.

Song Shuhang was silent for a moment, because he thought of how he probably looked when he acted recklessly in front of Senior Bai.

"Let's go." Cheng Yiyi and the other two were somewhat prepared. After entering the valley, bolts of lightning struck down from above. The power of the lightning entered their bodies, working in conjunction with their spiritual energy to temper their physiques. Coincidentally, their reward for passing through the Black Dead Sea was a large influx of spiritual energy, which, combined with the lightning tempering, instantly boosted their base stats significantly.

"It's actually Heavenly Lightning Body Tempering... Come to think of it, Senior has never used Heavenly Lightning to temper the bodies of outsiders before." Jiu Deng pondered to himself as he watched Cheng Yiyi and the other two enduring Heavenly Lightning of varying power.

Over the years, countless cultivators have entered Heavenly Island by accident, and there has been no shortage of cultivators who have come to Thunder Valley, but none have ever received such treatment.

Nine Lamps only learned that the Thunder Pig could use Heavenly Thunder to help cultivators temper their bodies after joining Heavenly Island and experiencing it once. Furthermore, in his more than two hundred years on Heavenly Island, Nine Lamps had never witnessed the Thunder Pig using Heavenly Thunder. He had even rarely seen the Thunder Pig move.

The fact that the Thunder Pig was able to perform a Thunder Body Tempering for Jiu Deng, despite its severe injuries, shows how much goodwill Jiu Deng had earned here. It was only because Su Yun significantly mitigated its injuries that Cheng Yiyi and the others received this benefit.

(End of this chapter)