By evening, Ning Fa could no longer bear it. He was anxious to know what had happened to his body, so he made an excuse about recovering and returned home.
Inside the alchemy room.
In the quiet, the feeling of spiritual power surging towards him like a gentle breeze became even more apparent.
Ning Fa also clearly felt that his perception of Thunder Spiritual Power had become incredibly sharp, improving to an astonishing degree.
He even felt like a monarch, with the surrounding Thunder Spiritual Power being his subjects, desperately rushing towards him, cheering and celebrating the arrival of their king.
This feeling was truly extraordinary.
Ning Fa's expression was excited; something must have changed within his body.
He first used his internal vision technique, but everything in his dantian was normal, and the incomplete Thunder Rune Pattern had not appeared.
Ning Fa pondered for a moment and then began circulating his internal magical power according to the cultivation method.
This time, there was finally a change. He saw the Thunder Rune Pattern reappear within his dantian.
To Ning Fa's utter astonishment, the previously incomplete Thunder Rune Pattern had become complete!
Within the pattern, the five-colored thunder runes, each with a different form, were connected to each other, interwoven in mysterious trajectories, making it incredibly profound and enigmatic.
Ning Fa found it hard to believe.
What he had always longed to achieve had inexplicably been completed while he was unconscious!
Furthermore, Ning Fa discovered that in the five corners of this circular Thunder Rune Pattern, there seemed to be spiritual runes resembling a golden longsword, an azure tree, a black long river, a crimson fireball, and a yellow hillock, respectively.
However, these spiritual runes were faint and indistinct, appearing as mere phantoms. Upon closer inspection, sparks of electricity flashed on them, suggesting they were entirely formed from countless bolts of lightning.
Ning Fa's heart jolted, and he immediately recalled the dream he had previously.
He was no longer completely ignorant of cultivation and vaguely guessed that the longsword, tree, long river, fireball, and hillock seemed to represent the five elements of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.
Moreover, the five elements in the pattern had a profound connection to lightning; these five symbolic objects seemed to be transformations of lightning.
Ning Fa couldn't help but ponder what this Thunder Rune Pattern with five-element symbols truly was.
Could it be that every cultivator with a Lightning Spiritual Root had this within them?
Ning Fa expressed doubt. After all, his previous self had read many ancient texts and consulted records related to cultivators with Lightning Spiritual Roots.
Although cultivators with Lightning Spiritual Roots were rare, many had appeared throughout tens of thousands of years of history, so there were not a few related records.
However, Ning Fa couldn't recall any text that recorded the existence of such a Thunder Rune Pattern within cultivators with Lightning Spiritual Roots.
Ning Fa once again realized that his previous condition was more than just an incomplete Lightning Spiritual Root; his body seemed to hold significant secrets.
He then became excited. Regardless of anything else, this Thunder Rune Pattern should symbolize that his Lightning Spiritual Root attribute was quite good.
Previously, the Thunder Rune Pattern was incomplete, which led to it being considered an incomplete Lightning Spiritual Root. Now that the Thunder Rune Pattern had become complete, did that mean his Lightning Spiritual Root had become normal?
Coupled with the peculiar changes in his body and his astonishing sensitivity to the surrounding Thunder Spiritual Power, everything seemed to confirm this.
Thinking of this, Ning Fa couldn't help but become incredibly excited.
At this moment, he suddenly thought of something and quickly looked at his right arm. The faint white imprint was still there.
Ning Fa breathed a sigh of relief. After all, strictly speaking, this was his greatest trump card.
He activated the scroll, and with a flash of white light before him, the Mysterious Scroll unfurled once more.
Ning Fa immediately noticed something unusual. The scroll seemed to have changed; the white light it emitted had significantly dimmed.
Of the three mysterious patterns originally on the scroll, only one remained. The other mysterious patterns had not completely vanished but had dimmed to the point of being almost invisible.
The only remaining pattern had also dimmed considerably.
Ning Fa's heart sank. What was going on with this scroll? It looked completely drained.
This scroll was his lifeline, and such a negative anomaly naturally made him extremely worried.
He couldn't bother to study the complete Thunder Rune Pattern any further and quickly took out an Essence Replenishing Pill from his storage bag.
Under Ning Fa's nervous gaze, nothing happened to the Mysterious Scroll at first. Then, a ball of white light slowly appeared, but it was clearly much sparser than before.
The white light began to flicker continuously but appeared somewhat weak. The Essence Replenishing Pill gradually appeared on the scroll.
Then, the white light extended, and the patterns of seven Spiritual Grasses appeared.
It looked the same as before, but the process took several times longer.
Seeing that the Mysterious Scroll could still be used, Ning Fa breathed a sigh of relief.
However, looking at the scroll's current listless state, he immediately connected it to the complete Thunder Rune Pattern within his body.
Ning Fa's eyes lit up, and he quickly guessed whether the Mysterious Scroll had finally completed the tracing back to the origin of the Thunder Rune Pattern while he was unconscious, which was why the Thunder Rune Pattern in his body could now become complete.
Moreover, this process seemed to have consumed a lot of energy from the Mysterious Scroll, explaining its current depleted state.
It seemed that the mysterious patterns represented the scroll's energy. The original three patterns were now reduced to one, likely equivalent to consuming sixty to seventy percent of its energy.
With insufficient energy, the scroll's溯源 process now appeared somewhat strenuous.
Even more than that, Ning Fa vaguely felt that the other two patterns likely represented higher-tier energy.
It was similar to how spiritual items in the cultivation world were classified into tiers one, two, three, and four.
If that were truly the case, the energy consumed wouldn't just be sixty to seventy percent, but the entire high-level energy of the scroll, leaving only this lowest-tier energy.
Given the Mysterious Scroll's heaven-defying function, the fact that the Thunder Rune Pattern within Ning Fa's body could consume so much of its energy undoubtedly spoke to its extraordinariness.
For instance, Ning Fa had previously used the scroll to trace the spiritual materials for Essence Replenishing Pills hundreds of times, and the mysterious patterns had not changed, appearing to have suffered no energy depletion at all.
As for why the Mysterious Scroll could suddenly trace the Thunder Rune Pattern completely, Ning Fa speculated it might be related to the heavy blow his dantian had suffered.
This seemed to be a turning point.
He vaguely recalled that after his dantian was heavily struck, the incomplete Thunder Rune Pattern suddenly appeared and underwent a certain mutation.
Ning Fa couldn't help but sigh, truly, fortune and misfortune are intertwined.
If his dantian hadn't been attacked, he might have spent a long time trying to trace it successfully with the Mysterious Scroll, or perhaps never even achieved it.
But looking at the listless Mysterious Scroll, he couldn't help but worry. If it was due to insufficient energy, how could he replenish it?
Given its heaven-defying capabilities, ordinary items likely wouldn't suffice.
Fortunately, it seemed the Mysterious Scroll could still trace elixirs back to their spiritual materials, although it took longer. However, compared to before, this extended time was perfectly acceptable to him.
Ning Fa let out a long sigh and put the scroll away.
His eyes lit up. Next, he was going to test if his cultivation aptitude had truly changed after the Thunder Rune Pattern became complete.
Although he had already keenly sensed a remarkable improvement in his spiritual energy perception, he still needed to test it to be at ease.
He immediately sat cross-legged, formed hand seals, and began circulating his energy according to the cultivation technique.
It was fine before, but now, as soon as he started circulating the technique, he felt as if his body had become a vortex on the sea, with the surrounding Thunder Spiritual Power surging towards him and madly pouring into his body.
After just one circulation, Ning Fa felt that the spiritual energy he absorbed was equivalent to several days of meditation before. The cultivation efficiency had increased by dozens of times.
He was overjoyed. If things continued like this, could he directly attempt to break through to the intermediate stage of Qi Condensation?
Without delay, Ning Fa circulated another ten times, gathering a torrent of spiritual power within his body that far surpassed anything before, to the point of making him tremble.
He guided this torrent of spiritual power to his dantian, but to his surprise, he didn't feel that obvious bottleneck sensation this time.
As he pondered this, the torrent of spiritual power seemed to have received a summons and, beyond Ning Fa's control, flew towards the Thunder Rune Pattern in his dantian.
The Thunder Rune Pattern acted like a bottomless pit, completely absorbing the torrent of spiritual power.