After eating and drinking his fill, Ji An sat cross-legged and examined his body inwardly.
On the surface, he had seemed uninjured by this breakthrough, but that was not the case. Most of his outer skin showed signs of necrosis, while his muscles contained countless tiny tears and burns.
The wounds looked minor, yet wisps of an exceedingly faint black aura lingered around them. Anyone below the Three Flowers Realm would have been utterly unable to detect it.
Then again, had he not broken through to the Three Flowers Realm, he would already have been finished once and for all. There would have been no need to worry about any of this.
Fortunately, his bones had not been harmed. By the time the lightning reached them, it no longer possessed enough force to inflict substantial damage. Instead, it had turned wholly beneficial.
Previously, the surface of his bones had been covered in flame patterns and lightning patterns. Now, those markings had become extremely dim, while many white cloud patterns had appeared.
His originally jade-white bones had darkened, and a trace of gray vaguely emerged across them.
This was normal. The bones of Three Flowers Realm cultivators all gradually turned ink-black. The Ink Jade Bone skeleton he had obtained back then proved as much.
However, the reason his skeleton had gained cloud patterns was unknown.
The Ink Jade Bone skeleton Ji An had obtained had wholly transformed into a lustrous black, which indicated that its former owner had likely reached the late Three Flowers Realm.
Within his Lower Dantian, the golden Primordial Life Fire had changed and developed layers. Its core flame was faintly white, while its outer flame had turned slightly black.
One day, the Primordial Life Fire would become distinctly black and white. That would mean his cultivation had