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He had not awakened for a thousand years, remaining in meditative seclusion the entire time. What kind of concentration and perseverance did that require? He had earned He Xuan's admiration as he stood watch beside him all this time.
When a cultivator entered seclusion, it was common for several years or even several decades to pass in the blink of an eye. Even a hundred years was nothing unusual.
But for a cultivator to enter selfless, desireless seclusion for several hundred or thousand years was truly rare. Even a Mahayana cultivator who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years would generally awaken for a period after every few decades or century of seclusion, adjusting his state of mind and organizing his insights.
There were people who could remain in seclusion for seven or eight hundred years, but they were exceedingly rare.
Qin Fengming had been sitting withered inside the stone hall for nearly a thousand years. He had forgotten both himself and the world, never opening his eyes even once as he operated the Profound Ghost Art with all his heart and refined the vast Vital Energy and Power surging into his body.
This time, Qin Fengming's seclusion differed from that of other cultivators. He had not comprehended the artistic conception of the Heaven and Earth laws; instead, he had continuously operated his incantation art to refine Heaven and Earth energy.
When cultivators operated their cultivation techniques, they could temper their Pill Seas, making their own magical power purer and more abundant.
In fact, whenever a cultivator reached a new realm, the Pill Sea within his body would expand. Once the Pill Sea grew larger, it naturally required an even more immense reserve of magical power.
Although the Pill Sea would