After an unknown amount of time, Ning Fa slowly woke up.
He immediately smelled a foul, fishy odor.
Wrinkling his nose, he looked around and realized he was completely naked.
His body was covered in a layer of black mud, which was the source of the smell.
Ning Fa's expression was one of shock and confusion.
He first cast a simple Waterball Technique to wash himself clean.
This basic Five Elements Spell could be cast even without a Lightning Spiritual Root.
Ning Fa immediately noticed that his body felt different.
His muscles were clearly defined, his skin was as lustrous as jade, possessing a crystal-clear quality.
Ning Fa's face was filled with astonishment. He lightly clenched his fist, feeling as if he possessed explosive power at that moment.
After a moment's thought, he bent down and punched a stone slab on the ground.
With a boom, the stone slab shattered, and Ning Fa's forearm sank deep into the dirt.
Ning Fa was taken aback. Although he felt very strong now, he hadn't expected to achieve this level of physical strength through his body alone. He suspected that even the top martial arts experts on Earth would struggle to do the same.
Then, as if remembering something, he closed his eyes and focused his senses.
He could clearly feel the surrounding Thunder Spiritual Power, much clearer than before.
The sensation was akin to looking at the stars through a higher-resolution astronomical telescope, with every detail vividly apparent.
He could feel the not-so-dense Thunder Spiritual Power swirling around him, as if his body possessed a powerful attraction to it.
With just a wave of his hand, this Thunder Spiritual Power would flow into his body.
Ning Fa felt like a cold, aloof goddess, and the Thunder Spiritual Power was like a fawning admirer.
Thinking this, he couldn't help but chuckle.
Then, he realized something, his eyes widening in disbelief.
His spiritual power sensitivity had significantly increased again?
How was this possible?
Ning Fa was utterly stunned.
This was simply unbelievable!
Previously, his spiritual power sensitivity had improved because his lightning body had become complete. What was happening now?
After all, a fundamental tenet of cultivation was that one's innate talent was fixed upon birth with the confirmation of their spiritual root.
It was irreversible.
Having read the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll, Ning Fa knew this saying wasn't entirely accurate.
The scroll recorded that there were indeed heaven-defying spiritual items capable of improving and enhancing a cultivator's talent, and even creating spiritual roots from scratch wasn't impossible.
However, such high-level spiritual items were extremely rare even in the Spirit Realm, let alone in this much more barren lower realm.
Whether such items even existed was debatable.
But now, without consuming any heaven-defying spiritual items, his cultivation talent had greatly improved, and his physical strength had also surged.
This was clearly caused by the Five-Colored Spiritual Power that surged from the Five Elements Thunder Rune Pattern after his advancement.
It had seemingly performed a marrow-cleansing effect on his body, but it was clearly far more profound, as even his spiritual power sensitivity had been enhanced.
Ning Fa's face was filled with excitement.
Could this be one of the mysteries of the Great Five Elements Thunder Body!?
Upon advancement, the body would be tempered, improved, and evolved?
It could even enhance one's cultivation talent!
This revelation was even more impactful than the time his Thunderball Technique had suddenly advanced to the Paragon realm.
Ning Fa was truly experiencing the formidable power of the Five Elements Thunder Body for the first time.
He recalled that the Heavenly Mechanism Scroll mentioned that the Five Elements Thunder Body had several stages: Taiyi, Taichu, Taishi, Taisu, and Wuji.
This seemed to indicate that the Five Elements Thunder Body needed to continuously evolve?
He was likely in the first stage, the Taiyi stage, and he wondered when he would advance to the Taichu stage and what conditions would be required.
However, he could imagine that it would be an extremely difficult undertaking.
Ning Fa shook his head, deciding not to dwell on the distant future.
It was better to focus on the present.
He didn't know how the spiritual power sensitivity of a normal Lightning Spiritual Root cultivator was, but he felt he had already far surpassed it.
This made Ning Fa chuckle, feeling that his hard work during this period had not been in vain.
At this moment, he remembered he was still naked. Fortunately, his storage bag was still lying on the ground nearby. He took out a robe from it and put it on.
At this time, Ning Fa thought of an important question: had he actually broken through to the Qi Condensation mid-stage?
He closed his eyes and felt it carefully, then the corners of his mouth turned up, and he burst into laughter.
At this moment, his spiritual pressure had increased several times compared to before, and his magic power realm had indeed reached the Qi Condensation mid-stage.
Moreover, he was far from an ordinary Qi Condensation mid-stage cultivator; even a cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Condensation couldn't compare.
The six Thunder Sources within his body had all grown by a circle, and the total amount of magic power within him had also more than doubled.
In addition, the strength of his spiritual sense had also greatly increased.
The range of his spiritual sense had directly expanded from about one zhang to ten zhang.
This was already the spiritual sense strength of a late-stage Qi Condensation cultivator.
To have such an astonishing increase, it seemed to be the effect of the Five Elements Thunder Body.
Ning Fa was exhilarated. After much effort, he had finally broken through to the Qi Condensation mid-stage realm!
Breaking through this realm had a profound impact on him.
Firstly, in terms of strength.
Although he was still only at the fourth level of Qi Condensation, at this moment, both his magic power and spiritual sense were not weaker than those of late-stage Qi Condensation cultivators.
Even in terms of magic power quality, ordinary late-stage Qi Condensation cultivators were far inferior to him.
The only drawback was the lack of combat skill.
However, after advancing to the Qi Condensation mid-stage, Ning Fa would have time to improve this issue.
First, he could cultivate several mid-grade first-tier Thunder spells. With his current superb comprehension ability for Thunder spells, He should be able to master Thunder spells to a profound realm, or even the Paragon realm, in a very short time.
Secondly, he could cultivate the second layer of the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture.
This layer of the scripture actually included some skills and moves, including both offensive spells and defensive methods.
For example, moves like the Thunder Yuan Overlord Spear, Primordial Thunder Armor, Lightning Transformation Finger, and Rushing Thunder Flash had long made Ning Fa's mouth water.
The skills attached to such top-tier cultivation techniques were naturally extraordinary; they could allow one to fight against opponents of a higher realm, especially since this was a Thunder-系的 cultivation technique known for its sharp combat prowess.
Once Ning Fa mastered these moves, he believed that ordinary late-stage Qi Condensation cultivators would not be his match.
Only then would he truly have a place in the Ning Family, instead of always relying on others for protection.
Personal strength was one aspect.
Another important impact was that after breaking through to the Qi Condensation mid-stage, he could finally begin refining mid-grade first-tier pills.
He believed that with the effect of the Mysterious Scroll, he would soon be able to master the refinement of several mid-grade first-tier pills, and becoming a mid-grade first-tier Pill Master should be a piece of cake.
He might even be able to directly refine high-grade first-tier pills.
At that time, his family status would inevitably be further elevated.
Finally.
After advancing to the Qi Condensation mid-stage, Ning Fa could finally put his long-prepared revenge plan into action.
Ning Ruiming's repeated schemes against him meant that this person had long been sentenced to death by Ning Fa.
Now that he had advanced to the mid-stage, he finally had the ability to execute this plan.
This matter even had the highest priority, as it concerned his status within the family.
Ning Fa planned to start working on this matter as soon as his realm stabilized.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel exceptionally excited.
Then, his sword-like eyebrows furrowed.
He thought about his cultivation problem.
The Ancient Source Thunder Scripture was a dual cultivation technique for both body and law.
From the second layer of the scripture onwards, it required dual cultivation of body and law.
Not only did his magic power need to advance, but his physical body also needed to be cultivated.
When breaking through realms, both magic power and physical body had to reach the breakthrough threshold; otherwise, breaking through realms would be extremely difficult.
Therefore, cultivators who practiced dual cultivation techniques for body and law faced far greater difficulty in breaking through realms than ordinary cultivators.
However, the advantage was that their combat strength would also far surpass cultivators of the same realm, and they could even contend against opponents of a higher minor realm without difficulty.
What Ning Fa found troublesome was the improvement of his physical body, which he felt was much more difficult than advancing his magic power.
Because his body's spiritual energy sensitivity was currently very high, even though his Spirit Vein's grade was not good, he could still cultivate by taking pills, so he was not too worried about the advancement of his magic power.
However, improving his physical body's strength would not be so simple; besides honestly cultivating, there seemed to be no shortcuts.
After all, spiritual pills that could directly enhance the physical body were extremely rare.
What pleased Ning Fa was that this advancement had also greatly improved his physical strength, which should be very helpful for body refinement cultivation.
Furthermore, the Ancient Source Thunder Scripture also took this into account, appending a body-refining potion after the second layer of cultivation techniques.
It was named the [Nine Revolutions Purple Yuan Powder].
This Nine Revolutions Purple Yuan Powder was divided into internal consumption and external bathing. This secret medicine could accelerate the tempering of the physical body.
The troublesome part, however, was that the spiritual materials required for this body-refining potion were extremely precious.
Even Ning Fa, a Pill Master who could obtain a large amount of Spirit Stones through alchemy, felt a headache just looking at it.
Moreover, the scripture described that after reaching the Foundation Establishment realm, the main spiritual materials for the potion would have to be replaced with even more precious ones.
Ning Fa didn't concern himself with what came after Foundation Establishment for now, as it was still a long way off.
Ning Fa recalled the plan he was about to undertake, and a smile of excitement couldn't help but curl up on his lips.
He had already decided that once he stabilized his realm a little, he would go find Ning Shaohong. After securing her support, he would act immediately.