It was a few hours later when Leo woke up.
Lately, he has been lacking sufficient rest. He could only replenish his soul energy during each period of rest. This time, he got a few hours of real sleep, and he woke up feeling rested.
Furthermore, he was thrilled to find that his hearing, eyesight, and other senses had all somewhat improved when he woke up. The improvement in his mental strength made his vision clearer.
In this regard, he wasn't surprised. This was an obvious sign that his mental strength had improved.
He had not thought that overusing his mental strength to draw the runes would have such an exciting result. It was a very wonderful surprise. Enchanters relied heavily on their mental strength. When drawing runes, the higher your mental strength, the more sensitive your hands will be, allowing you to see minute details more readily.
The Wild Explosion scroll on the table was presently producing a crystalline light, which looked appealing.
There was no violent aura emanating from the scroll. Once turned into runes, the energy from the savage wolf blood was fully contained and could no longer escape. As a result, there was no reason to be concerned about keeping it open for a few hours; the scroll's outcome would be unaffected.
Leo moved up to the completed Wild Explosion scroll, gently rolling it up and storing it. This scroll was valued at more than a thousand taels of gold, a significant sum that could purchase numerous dan medications. It was plenty for him to purchase numerous dan medications.
As Leo gazed at the freshly drawn rune, a sense of gratitude and luck filled his heart.
He hadn't previously thought that practicing the runes and actually drawing them would make such a large difference. The difference in the amount of soul force consumed wasn't on the same level at all.
Harold's fight gave him the lucky entry to the fourth level of body refining, which is bone purification. Without that fight, he wouldn't have had enough soul force to finish the drawing. Even at the fourth level of body refinement, his soul force wasn't quite enough. His soul force was sufficient due to the exceptional strength of the Soulforge Soul Return Tactic, which provided him with more energy than the average person.
However, this time's success still brought a very valuable experience to Leo. He had gained a deeper understanding of drawing runes and gained a better grasp on the overall situation.
Putting away the completed Wild Explosion scroll, Leo once again retrieved a low grade Wild Explosion scroll and spread it out, preparing to continue drawing. There was still enough savage wolf blood for about four or five times. Every success represented over a thousand taels of gold. Leo's heart couldn't help but be moved at the thought of those profits.
Creating enchantment scrolls required a significant amount of soul force. Every time he drew, Leo had to circulate the Soulforge Soul Return Tactic once to recover his soul force. Time silently flowed on as he continually drew and recovered.
After numerous hours, Leo finally used up all of the savage wolf blood. In total, he had drawn it five times, but he only succeeded twice.
Among two of his failures, it was due to him being too relaxed, resulting in the failures. Those could be considered low-grade mistakes, and the other time was because he had constructed the rune incorrectly.
The rune had come directly from the sword crystal's memories and was deeply imprinted in his head, but there would still be the occasional mistake. Even senior enchanters, when drawing low grade scrolls, didn't dare say that they would have a 100% success rate.
In Leo's first attempt at drawing enchantment scrolls, he had tried eight times and could succeed three times. This success rate was enough to make the self-proclaimed genius enchanters feel ashamed of themselves.
As for Leo, other than the three Wild Explosion scrolls, the biggest gain this time was his mental strength, and his soul force had both improved by a lot.
Every time he drew the runes, it would drain his mental strength and soul force completely empty. With the previous improvements in mental strength, Leo barely lasted through the entire process and didn't fall unconscious during it. And then cultivating under these circumstances made the improvements even more significant.
Other than improving mental strength, at the same time Leo also stabilized into the body refining fourth level, in the Bone Purification realm, the same as Harold's realm from before.
Given Leo's exceptional combat skills and profound understanding of cultivation techniques, passing the Zephyr Blade Sect assessment was almost guaranteed.
Human desires are insatiable. Right now, Leo had already fulfilled the conditions to enter the Zephyr Blade Sect, but now he didn't want to just pass the assessment, he also wanted to get a rank in the assessment.
In the Zephyr Blade Sect's assessment, the first ten places will receive lavish rewards; however, with Leo's previous strength, he didn't even dare to think about it. But now it was not the same. With the right resources at his disposal, Leo was determined to not only advance further but also secure a coveted spot within the top ten rankings, envisioning the rewards and recognition that awaited him.
Looking outside, it was currently night. Leo temporarily put a halt to go to Spirit Materials Street. Going tomorrow morning wouldn't be too late.
He once again sat down cross-legged and began to circulate his cultivation technique again.
With the unknown grade Soulforge Soul Return Tactic, cultivating was simply a pleasure to Leo. The feeling of his strength rapidly rising made him feel very comfortable.
These days, Leo, who had been stuck at the body refining fourth level bottleneck, had now broken through the bottleneck, and his cultivation speed had immediately soared.
Leo attracted a significant amount of soul force, which moved through his body's twenty-six meridians. At the same time, it continuously entered the bones, cleansing Leo's bones.
At this time, in his body, the impurities in his bones were constantly being forced out, making his bone density become higher and higher. At the same time, it also added resilience. With continuous bone purification, Leo's entire person's explosive strength would also reach a new level. Entering the bone-purification realm marks the initiation of the body tempering process.
Only after another whole night of cultivating and the light outside the window became bright did Leo wake up from his cultivation.
He slowly stood up. Over the course of one night, Leo's stature underwent a subtle yet noticeable increase. This was a change brought about by bone purification.
A disgusting smell emitted from Leo's body. He looked down and noticed that his clothes were sticking to his body. The sticky clothes were natural because of the impurities that had been washed out of his bones.
Frowning, Leo had to wash himself properly. He couldn't go out like this.
After a little less than half an hour, Leo finished changing clothes. Grabbing the three thousand taels of gold Wild Explosion scrolls, stuffing them into his clothes, he walked out the door, and knocked on Alden's door.
Alden quickly opened the door. Upon recognizing Leo, a brief moment of surprise flickered across his face. He said, "Brother Leo, why do I feel like you're a bit different today?"
At this time, Leo had already broken through to the body-refining fourth level, the bone purification realm. Not only was the expression in his eyes brighter, but even his aura had an indescribable change. This sort of sudden change would naturally be seen by Alden in this instance.
Leo smiled a little. "While cultivating yesterday, I already broke through."
Broke through? Alden was a little confused at first, but then quickly woke from his daze, excitedly saying, "Brother Leo, you've already broken through to the body-refining fourth level."
Leo nodded and said, "En, yesterday's fight gave me quite a bit of inspiration. Then, like a channel forming when water flows, I broke through. Come, accompany me to the Golden Pavilion again."
Alden was feeling very happy that Leo had successfully broken through, and when he heard his words, he immediately nodded. "Yeah, since you've broken through, then there's no need to be an enchanter, and you don't need the materials. Let's go return those materials and buy some more dan medicines!"
Alden hadn't thought that Leo could succeed and hadn't slept well all last night, his heart hurting over the wasted hundred taels of gold. However, since Leo had already broken through, there was no rush to spend money. He naturally thought that Leo would return the goods.
"Return?" Leo couldn't help but let out a smile: "I'm not going to return; I'm going to sell!"