The mote of light followed the Nine-Aperture Crow Ginseng's circulation route, completed a greater celestial circuit, and returned to the dantian rune.
Then Chen Lin noticed something.
The dantian rune and the mote of light gave off the same aura.
Without his guidance, they attracted each other and fused together.
A wondrous sensation arose.
Chen Lin felt as though he had entered the Great Thousand Worlds. He saw countless living beings bustling about, sensed their joy, anger, sorrow, and delight, and experienced their grief, happiness, partings, and reunions.
He was both a participant and a bystander.
In some inexplicable state, he wandered through different times and spaces. He seemed able to control everything he saw, yet a barrier remained that he could not eliminate no matter what he did.
Not perfectly integrated.
A phrase came to Chen Lin's mind.
Then the experience receded like a tide, and his consciousness returned to reality.
He slowly opened his eyes.
"Not bad. It looks like your ascension succeeded, much faster than expected."
The Red-Haired Mouse nodded in satisfaction.
Chen Lin did not respond. Instead, he directed his consciousness back into his body to examine the changes in the dantian rune.
A sense of intimacy welled up within him.
With a thought, he willed it to move.
The rune spun and trembled, light flowing across it as it released mysterious energy identical to that of the Bone Shard. Its power was also comparable.
Immediately afterward.
Chen Lin extended his palm. Fine runes appeared at once, coalescing into different shapes according to his will.
He smiled in satisfaction.
Now that his Natal Runic Inscription had fused with this rune, he could control and use it at will without following the Nine-Aperture Crow Ginseng's circulation route.
In this way.
The rune formed by the Nine-Aperture Crow