Lin Tian, within the Spirit Vine, had also successfully completed the fusion.
In truth, it was not that he was so stubborn. After all, with an Ancestral Witch Body, he could have simply burst the Spirit Vine's true form apart without any trouble.
But what displeased him was this.
It was clearly his own flesh and blood, yet the Power Runes had wrested it from his control. That left him deeply irritated.
Cultivation, after all, depended on harmony.
Possessing ten parts of strength but only being able to unleash five meant achieving half the result with twice the effort.
If he could not master his own body, then even if it became as strong as a peak Ancestral Witch's, or even Pan Gu's, how much of its strength would he actually be able to wield after breaking through?
Half?
Six-tenths?
Or seven-tenths?
Certainly not all of it!
Thus, he had to gain complete control over his body.
And so, this unintentional act in a moment of crisis had brought him another reward: he had refined the Power Runes and brought them completely under his control, which meant he had fully mastered his own body.
He could draw on the enhancement of every Power Runes within him!
And he had pushed the seventh revolution of the Nine-Revolution Mystic Art straight to its peak.
Besides that.
There was another unexpected gain.
While he refined the Power Runes, boundless, surging spiritual energy had mingled with them, greatly boosting their might and making his body at least dozens of times stronger than it otherwise would have been.
Hard work truly never failed those who persevered!
These two unexpected surprises thrilled him. Who would have thought that merely struggling against his own body would lead to another breakthrough?
He glanced outside. Much of the Innate