My wife, who's in a vegetative state, please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts.

Just then.

Weiss suddenly turned his head to look in the direction of the red dot on the map.

The night sky above that area was now ablaze with brilliant golden lightning, turning it into daylight.

The roar of lightning, even from hundreds of kilometers away, still made my eardrums ache, and every now and then a golden streak of lightning would streak across the sky.

Moreover, it was not a natural lightning strike from the sky.

It was almost as if something was spontaneously generating lightning...

Weiss's pupils contracted little by little.

"That familiar scent..."

"Yes--"

"Thunder!?"

The prerequisite route for Level 6 Thunder and Level 5 Flash!

It's also a favorite of Vera and various cuckolded lovers...

Weiss glanced at the map coordinates again, confirming that the source and the red dot location overlapped.

"I see......"

Now Weiss finally understood.

To his utter surprise, the decapitator he stumbled upon yesterday was actually a level 6 Feather King!

At this point, Miss Xing's encirclement operation has almost been declared a failure. Facing the Tier 6 Feather King, even if the opponent's secret is a blank card, the Tier 7 Ten Kings can only tuck their tails between their legs and flee in panic.

At this moment, even though Weiss has already advanced to the 7th tier of Storm and all his secrets have been fully evolved, at this pace, he could easily pull off a cool rescue.

However, facing the legendary 6th-order Thunder Path.

Is this the one who dares to go up?

Weiss closed the World Book, pondered for a moment, and then decided to go to the edge to observe.

Otherwise, if Cassandra insists on fighting the other side, he will consider whether he can save her. He can't just abandon his sister-in-law, can he?

However, this time, Weiss stopped after taking only a few steps.

He had a vague feeling that something was wrong, as if he had overlooked something...

Although he had never heard of the arcane pattern changing after advancing to the 7th rank before.

But he did have doubts about the loopholes in Aunt Bai's words.

Aunt Bai herself said that when that hero advanced to the next level, he drank an unknown number of drops of a sixth-tier lord's potion.

and so--

Why did drinking a lord's potion allow him to eventually become a hero?

So, what is the difference between a lord and a hero?

It should be...

Mystery, isn't it?

Thinking of his unrecognizable Arcane cards, Weiss reopened the Book of the World, turned to the first page, the one that recorded his panel information.

His pupils contracted sharply in that instant.

as predicted.

The record of his sequence panel was not a storm at all. At this moment, all his previous knowledge had been completely distorted.

[Seventh-Order Nature: Root Sequence]

【——The return of spring/humid weather——】

Chapter 117: A Stunning Debut!! [1.5 words]

Indeed, before seeing that line of text on the panel, Weiss always thought that his advancement path would be to 7th tier Storm.

Looking back now, aside from Aunt Bai and Hakimi deliberately concealing it, Cassandra and the Sun Princess had both inadvertently revealed that there was clearly some connection between the source path and the number of mysteries, but neither of them said it outright, seemingly tacitly acknowledging that they knew this information.

Weiss himself had never seriously considered that direction.

After all, he had never heard of a seventh-order cultivator reaching the Origin Realm before!

The two most widely sung sources in the world—

Heroes are in the 6th tier, while emperors are in the 5th tier.

Therefore, Weiss never considered the possibility of stepping into the Origin Realm when he was advancing to the 8th rank.

It now appears that advancing to the full level of mystery is a rigid requirement for reaching the source, and regardless of whether the extraordinary individual is willing or not, it is already unchangeable and irreversible.

This is probably why Aunt Bai didn't let him continue taking advanced magic potions before he could comprehend the mysteries of the mountains.

[Seventh-Order Nature: Root Sequence]

【——The return of spring/humid weather——】

The known root sequences are mostly two characters long.

It's only when your name is a three-character word that it's...

"So, I've arrived at the source path...?"

Weiss still looked dazed.

It feels a bit unreal.

No wonder I had to drink so many potions and rely on the extraordinary source of energy to barely complete my advancement...

It turns out that at that time, we had already taken one foot into the source path, but we were just one step away from the final step.

Just imagine, can the basic panels of a normal advancement and a root advancement be the same?

Every drop of the Tier 7 potion consumed will become a real numerical value after advancement.

In addition, the source channel is widely spread through spoken language, which is seen by the public as directly comparable to the end channel.

But now it seems that the information presented on the pages of the world's books is simply the word "roots".

Just then, Weiss suddenly remembered something interesting: a sentence he said tens of thousands of years ago, when the emperor ruled everything, has been passed down to this day.

"The original path is essentially a complete, unpolluted, and unbroken road."

Previously, when I heard this statement, I only felt that it was emphasizing the combat advantage of the source path, which was simply more powerful, more complete, and closer to the extraordinary essence than the ordinary path. It didn't seem to have any particularly special or hidden meaning.

But after seeing his own now completely distorted mysterious patterns, Weiss finally truly understood what the emperor wanted to express.

The five secrets of the Wind Addict are essentially the incomplete forms of the mechanism constellation of the Root Sequence after it has been split. Now, the five secrets plus a snowflake have merged into one, yet they only occupy one secret slot.

This is a sentence that only those who have truly embarked on the path to the root can understand.

Such multiplication stacking is no longer at the level of 1+1.

It's a pure 1x1!

[Wei Xiao: Hahahahahaha]

......

......

Just kidding, it's billions multiplied by billions.

Weiss was just used to teasing Weiss on a daily basis.

Unfortunately, only two of the five new Secret cards are currently in the Awakened state.

The first one, of course, is the [All Things] ring, which integrates the six mysteries of the previous Wind Addict.

The second one is the card art of the deep and vast colorless starry sky—[Void].

The other three secrets [Flying Shoes, Typhoon, and Lines] are in an unawakened, dim state, with a thin layer of dust covering the card surface.

"So, does that mean I'm actually at a level where I can go toe-to-toe with that Great Decapitation Executioner?"

Weiss seemed to be deep in thought.

You should know that when he first advanced, the reason he didn't intend to go head-to-head with the 6th-tier Thunder was because he subconsciously thought that he was at most just a somewhat special 7th-tier Storm.

I never even considered the fact that I had been promoted to the Root Path.

Throughout history, there has never been a precedent of a 6th-tier being losing to a 7th-tier being; not even once.

However, on the other hand, there has never been a precedent of someone reaching the Source at the 7th level.

Therefore, Weiss felt that just giving it a try shouldn't cause any major problems...

Thinking of this, he slowly raised his head.

His expression faltered slightly.

He didn't know when it started, but the surrounding woods were now filled with rain-soaked women, all of them blue-clad and carrying umbrellas, quietly and secretly observing him, like a group of lonely ghosts in this desolate wilderness.

Anyone who didn't know better would think this was a mass grave...

Weiss counted them and found there were more than 20.

I don't know how long I've been squatting here.

It seems that he hadn't noticed their existence at all before advancing to the next level.

"Girls, what are you doing?"

"This is really weird, you know?"

"Let's all go home, everyone..."

Upon hearing Weiss's voice of expulsion, the more than 20 Rain Thugs did not react at all, but simply continued to stare at him quietly.

It wasn't until Weiss stared at them with an increasingly bewildered expression for a good ten seconds that the Rain Clan finally realized something was wrong and began to look at each other in disbelief.

"He can still notice us?" a young rain-soaked man asked incredulously.

"Shh, don't make a sound..."

Another rain-soaked man shouted.

But her expression clearly showed that she was also extremely shocked.

Watching the rain-soaked creatures whispering amongst themselves all over the mountains, Weiss felt increasingly uneasy.

I wonder if these Rain Elementals were watching from the sidelines during those battles I experienced before? Perhaps I just didn't sense their presence at the time.

At this moment, after advancing to the Source Path, he suddenly could see...

It seems that Yu Tu's ability to reduce his presence and obscure perception has completely failed in his eyes.

"Forget it, let's just ignore them..."

Weiss didn't dwell on it too much.

In any case, there has never been a group in the world with a tighter mouth than Yu Tu.

No matter how severely they are tortured, they will never divulge a single word; this is common knowledge recognized worldwide.

No wonder there are no male Rain Disciples besides Rain Lord.

They were probably worried that the male laborers wouldn't be able to withstand the testicular torture...

[Wei Xiao: Hahahahahahahahahaha!!]

For the time being, Weiss put these female ghosts with umbrellas in the middle of the night out of his mind.

Then the pop-up window for the options of those Fate Rewards piled up there opened.

I tentatively selected two reward options: a lifespan of 200 years and insights gained from 20 years of addiction.

To Weiss's surprise, despite having accumulated a lifespan of 500 years, the improvement in his basic stats was negligible.

It doesn't look like it's completely saturated.

Instead, everything was diluted by the root cause.

All the passenger areas are now insufficient to meet his current size.