Longevity Thunder Ancestor

Chapter 5 Legacy
"It's okay, it's okay. Just use the mysterious scroll to restore them into spiritual materials and continue practicing."

Ningfa comforted himself in his heart, and when he thought of the mysterious scroll, a smile began to appear on the corners of his mouth.

Anyway, with this mysterious treasure, he can make the elixir again without any panic.

But he immediately realized that he was too naive.

When he unfolded the mysterious scroll again, this time the scroll did not respond at all. No matter how Ningfa tried, nothing appeared on it.

Ning Fa was stunned on the spot.

After a long while, his mouth twitched as he came up with two possible reasons.

First, this mysterious scroll may have a certain cooling time, and it will take some time after being used once before it can work again.

Secondly, the elixir must at least reach the level of being a waste elixir, or close to being formed into a elixir, before it can be restored by the mysterious scroll.

Whatever the reason, it is very bad for Ningfa.

It would be fine if the cooling time of this mysterious scroll was only a few hours, but if it is used once, it will need to cool down for several days or even longer.

Although it is still incredibly effective, it is not enough for him now. After all, he only has a month left.

If it was the second reason, it would also be very troublesome, because this was the last spiritual material, and he did not have any extra spiritual stones to buy more spiritual materials.

Ningfa frowned and decided to wait for a while. Holding on to hope was the first reason, and the cooling time could not be too long.

But until the next morning, Ningfa, who had been waiting anxiously, still could not activate the mysterious scroll again.

Ning Fa cursed in his heart, but he also knew that time was running out and he couldn't wait any longer. He had to get spirit stones to buy the spiritual ingredients for Zeng Yuan Dan.

First try to make this pill into a useless pill, then try this mysterious scroll.

"As long as I have five more spiritual materials for Zeng Yuan Dan, I should be able to make Fei Dan."

Ning Fa muttered to himself in a low voice, but his brows were tightly furrowed.

Because one portion of spiritual material needed to refine Zeng Yuan Dan required ten spiritual stones, he felt that he would need at least five portions of spiritual material to ensure that he could refine a good Zeng Yuan Dan, which meant that he would need nearly fifty spiritual stones.

For low-level cultivators, fifty spirit stones are already a huge sum of money, not to mention that Ning Fa does not have a single spirit stone on him now.

Ningfa searched his memory, wondering if there was any other way to get the spirit stone.

In Ning Fa's lineage, his father Ning Zhiyuan had an older sister and three brothers, and his father was the third oldest.

Except for Aunt Ningfa and Fourth Uncle, who are siblings, the others are just cousins, and other brothers and sisters from the same branch who do not have spiritual roots can be ignored.

Their lineage had a foundation-building cultivator more than three hundred years ago, and was considered prosperous for a time. They were the direct lineage of the Ning family.

The Ning family has a family rule that if any branch produces a foundation-building cultivator, their lineage will automatically become the direct line, and the family's treatment and status will far exceed that of other side branches.

However, if after the death of this foundation-building cultivator, no foundation-building cultivator appears in their lineage within three generations, their status as the direct lineage will be automatically cancelled and they will become a side branch.

After the death of the foundation-building ancestor, by the time of Ning Fa's father's generation, his status as a direct descendant had long been revoked and he became a side branch.

If one wants to become the direct descendant of the family again, in addition to having another foundation-building cultivator in the branch, there is another way, which is to get the top two in the succession competition held by the family every ten years.

However, in the more than 600 years since the Ning family was founded, there are now more than 400 cultivators, but there are only eight direct branches, and there are as many as forty or fifty other collateral branches.

You can imagine how difficult it is to get the top two places among so many branches.

In fact, Ning Fa's father's generation had excellent aptitude for cultivation. His father had the aptitude of a middle-grade spiritual root with three spiritual roots, and because of a fortuitous encounter, he advanced to the late stage of Qi training before he was twenty years old.

And like Ning Huarong, his strength exceeds that of his peers, and he is highly valued by the family and is considered to have the potential to build a foundation.

His third uncle Ning Hongye has double spiritual roots and is a top-grade spiritual root. His aptitude is even better than that of ordinary top-grade spiritual roots.

At the age of fifteen, he advanced to the late stage of Qi training, breaking the record of the youngest cultivator in the late stage of Qi training in the Ning family, which attracted the attention of the entire family.

In addition, Ning Fa was later found to have thunder spiritual roots, so their lineage was once very prosperous.

It is generally recognized by the family that there will definitely be a Foundation Establishment cultivator returning to the direct branch, and it is even very likely that multiple Foundation Establishment cultivators will appear.

But the subsequent developments made people sigh at the unpredictable nature of life.

First, Ning Fa’s genius third uncle Ning Hongye disappeared after a trip seven years ago and has never been seen since.

Later, in the last family direct line competition, Ningfa's father, who was generally recognized as having a good chance of winning the throne, was defeated by his opponent in the quarterfinals and regrettably lost his spot in the direct line.

Then Ning Fa was confirmed to have a defective thunder spirit root and was abandoned by his family.

Finally, three years ago, when the Ning family and the Qian family just started the war, Ning Fa's parents were ambushed by the Qian family and both died.

In just a few years, their lineage had gone from being in great glory to being in such a state of disgrace now, with even Ning Fa having to become someone else's dual cultivation cauldron.

Ning Fa shook his head and stopped thinking about these bad things. Instead, he thought about how to get spirit stones from his two uncles and aunt.

After reminiscing for a while, Ning Fa remembered that his previous life actually had a large inheritance.

His father Ning Zhiyuan was no small figure during his lifetime and had already cultivated to the perfect state of Qi Refining.

He is also very capable, has a high status and power in the family, and naturally has no shortage of spiritual stones.
He bought a shop in the family's internal market, Jinchang Island Market, early on.

Although the store is not big and its location is relatively remote.

However, with the rapid growth of the Ning family's strength, the Jinchang Island market became increasingly prosperous, and the shops there became more and more valuable.

Even that small shop can now easily sell its products at a high price, but there is still a lack of demand.

After Ning Zhiyuan's death, Ning Fa's predecessor naturally inherited the ownership of the store.

Logically speaking, with such a huge inheritance, if Ning Fa's predecessor took a desperate measure and sold the shop in exchange for a large sum of spirit stones.

Come and buy spiritual materials to practice alchemy, maybe you can pass the family alchemist assessment.

(End of this chapter)