I Studied Abroad in the Modern Times-Chapter 179Book 2: : All Thunder Techniques Originate from Jiushan

Vol 2 Chapter 179: All Thunder Techniques Originate from Jiushan

"But Master, to be precise, thunder and lightning actually have nothing to do with spiritual energy."

Zheng Fa thought for a moment and still corrected the Sect Master’s statement.

He glanced at the audience below—many of them looked confused.

What he said was too abstract, too broad. Many of the senior and junior brothers who had just started to be exposed to his ideas were struggling to follow his train of thought.

"Senior and junior brothers, do any of you have questions?"

Zhou Qianyuan had probably listened to Zheng Fa’s Dao discussions with Senior Sister Zhang before and seemed to understand his personality—he showed no stage fright at all—

"Senior Brother Zheng, I can more or less understand what you’re saying and what it means, but…" Zhou Qianyuan pursed his lips, "what’s the use?"

The other brothers couldn’t help but nod at that.

Obviously, no matter how incredible Zheng Fa’s theories sounded, they cared more about the benefits—if they studied Zheng Fa’s stuff, would it help them cultivate faster, make their techniques stronger, or help them live longer?

Little Sister Zheng Shan puffed up her cheeks, as if she had also understood the doubts of these senior and junior brothers.

But Zheng Fa wasn’t surprised at all—he already understood how cultivators in the Xuanyi Realm thought.

With a wave of his hand, a copy of Introduction to Thunder Techniques appeared on every brother’s desk.

"What’s this?"

"This is the thunder technique you’ll be learning. The thunder technique I’ve studied…" Zheng Fa said with layered meaning.

"Zheng Junior Brother’s thunder technique?"

The room instantly buzzed—everyone couldn’t help but start whispering.

Who didn’t know how outstanding Zheng Junior Brother’s thunder techniques were—just how outstanding exactly?

Xiao Yuying is powerful, right?

She has the Primordial Magnetic Dao Body, and she’s a Nascent Soul cultivator.

And yet Zheng Junior Brother still forcefully took control of the Heavenly Monument Realm!

One senior brother suddenly shouted, "Zheng Junior Brother, you said this is the thunder technique you’ve studied. Does that mean… if we learn this, we’ll reach the same level in thunder techniques as you?"

"No!" Zheng Fa smiled. "If you learn this, you’ll be much better than me."

Zheng Fa wasn’t being humble.

His understanding of electromagnetism was far from thorough.

If someone truly mastered this book, their skill in thunder techniques would probably run very deep.

Hearing this, the people below looked at Introduction to Thunder Techniques with noticeably heavier breathing.

To be honest, Zheng Fa’s response was the best possible answer to Zhou Qianyuan’s question!

Seeing their expressions—eager, yet somewhat doubtful—Zheng Fa said,

"Please turn to the first page."

Everyone opened their books, unable to wait any longer.

Their divine sense was far beyond the average person's.

To help them understand, Zheng Fa had made a point to write the material as simply as possible.

Even so, he could still see the confusion on the disciples' faces.

Even his own Master was frowning as he looked at the first page of Introduction to Thunder Techniques.

On the very first page, only one sentence was written:

"Thunder and lightning are the movement of charged particles. Thunder techniques are methods of influencing that movement."

The Sect Master felt a bit of a headache coming on.

His own disciple’s words might be short, but the implications were huge!

What is heavenly lightning?

To mortals, it's a power of the immortals.

To cultivators, it's the most powerful offensive spell.

You could say, among the countless techniques of the Xuanyi Realm, thunder techniques are uniquely special.

They’re mysterious, powerful, difficult to control, and deeply alluring.

But what was Zheng Fa saying?

Just two sentences, and he wanted to strip the mystery away from heavenly lightning?

It wasn’t just the Sect Master—even the other senior and junior brothers looked skeptical.

"This sentence will be the central theme of this book," Zheng Fa said with a smile. "You could say, if you understand this sentence after finishing the book, then you’ve truly learned it."

Zheng Fa felt helpless, too.

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The sentence seemed simple, but it contained many fundamental concepts of physics.

And those concepts… none of the Jiushan Sect brothers knew them.

Especially the words “particles.”

Trying to explain that was practically going to cost Zheng Fa his life.

"First, we need to understand what ‘charged’ means—or put differently, what is electricity."

He skipped the hardest part—particles—and started with something simpler.

With a wave of his hand, a slender piece of amber and a strip of silk flew into the air in front of him and began to rub together violently.

After a while, Zheng Fa separated the two, then tapped the air.

Everyone in the room suddenly felt the spiritual energy in the classroom surge out like birds growing wings, joyfully flying outside.

The classroom temporarily became a spiritual-dead zone.

Everyone looked a bit puzzled.

As Zheng Fa’s control over the Sun and Moon Bell deepened, he had gained the ability to briefly and locally manipulate the spiritual energy within the Jiushan Realm—quite handy for teaching.

Zheng Fa held the amber and stepped down from the podium, walking over to his Master, who looked at him with a hint of confusion.

He gently brought the amber closer to his Master’s finger.

Closer and closer.

Until it was less than a tenth of a hair’s width away.

The Sect Master’s finger gave a slight twitch.

Off to the side, Martial Uncle Pang, using his Void-Seeking Spirit Eyes, saw a minuscule electric spark.

"This… is what it means to be charged."

Zheng Fa said to the Sect Master.

Some of the other disciples had also cultivated spiritual sight techniques and saw the spark—they started explaining it to the people around them.

But the group still didn’t really understand what Zheng Fa was trying to prove.

Was this any different from the previous experiment?

Zheng Fa didn’t speak. He simply rubbed the amber on his Master again, then held it up and brought it close to the Master’s finger once more.

This time, no matter how close he got—

Not even a trace of a spark appeared.

The Sect Master looked at the amber, and his expression slowly shifted.

"So, the amber originally had a charge, which is why it gave me a shock."

"But after touching me, the charge transferred to my body… and that’s why there was no spark the second time?"

Zheng Fa hadn’t expected his Master to be so sharp—he instantly understood what Zheng Fa was trying to say.

"Exactly," Zheng Fa said. "As for why it flows…"

"And in what direction it flows…"

"That’ll be covered in the next chapter."

Zheng Fa glanced around at everyone attending the lecture and sighed a little in his heart.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to explain more.

It’s just that this group really was too hard to teach...

"Next class, I’ll be teaching alongside Senior Sister Zhang," Zheng Fa said. "If you really want to learn my thunder techniques, studying mathematics is absolutely essential."

Even to explain electric potential, Coulomb’s law, the measurement of electrons—

All of it required some prerequisite knowledge...

At the very least, their math needed to be solid.

...

Watching the disciples leave, the Sect Master flipped through Introduction to Thunder Techniques.

"Why did you leave so much blank space between the chapters?"

Zheng Fa smiled. "Take this chapter, for instance—I explained electrostatic field theory, but it doesn’t have a direct impact on thunder techniques."

"So I left these blank sections—on one hand, I plan to collect thunder techniques that correspond to this theory, to apply the learning in practice... on the other hand, I also hope these disciples can create new thunder techniques."

"Create techniques?"

"Yes. I figured that just explaining the optical principles wouldn’t interest the brothers, but applying those principles might actually grab their attention," Zheng Fa added.

He wasn’t talking about inventing new talisman diagrams—

Rather, like Martial Uncle Pang’s Linked Talisman Technique or the Sect Master’s Formation Talisman Method, integrating different thunder talismans for composite use.

"Also, the more thunder techniques there are, the more beneficial it might be for the Sun and Moon Bell."

Off to the side, Senior Sister Zhang smiled and said, "Just as Xuanyi has the saying: ‘All the world’s sword techniques come from Tianhe.’"

"If what Junior Brother Zheng says becomes reality, then perhaps one day, all thunder techniques will come from Jiushan."

"Low cultivation, but big ambitions!" The Sect Master huffed at Zheng Fa upon hearing that. "How’s your third secret technique coming along?"

"I’ve yet to get started, Master."

"That Yin-Yang Fusion Technique could improve your chances and quality of Core Formation. You’ve already reached the late Foundation Establishment Stage—don’t slack off."

The old man seemed to still be holding a grudge over Zheng Fa’s earlier challenge to orthodox thinking.

He said it pointedly.

"Yes, Master!"

Zheng Fa replied respectfully.

As Zheng Fa walked off into the distance, the Sect Master flipped through the book in his hands again, looking somewhat absorbed.