As the water level continued to drop, Zhou Xu absorbed a steady stream of mana.
Mana was slow to accumulate but vanished frighteningly fast. In the blink of an eye, more than seventy percent of his mana had already been depleted. Noticing this, Zhou Xu quickly stopped and controlled the Soul Body to open its eyes and rise to its feet.
"Damn it, with that much mana absorbed, how has this Soul Body only become solidified by this tiny bit?"
Although Zhou Xu had realized long ago that this was probably going to be a massive undertaking, it seemed that the project was even larger than he had initially estimated!
"At this rate of consumption, if I want to completely solidify this Soul Body, I'll need at least ten or twenty years? I might as well stop studying True Words altogether and pour all my mana into this thing!"
While grumbling nonstop, Zhou Xu also felt somewhat speechless inside.
Still, he could guess that advancing from the Saint Realm to the Out-of-Body Realm was undoubtedly a major breakthrough. The farther one progressed, the greater the gap became, and improvement and breakthroughs consequently grew more difficult.
It seemed that his efficiency had clearly dropped off now.
Of course, this might also have been because he had too many things to deal with. He had to handle government affairs in his daily life and study True Words as well.
If he changed careers and became a proper True Word Master, ignoring everything else and focusing solely on secluded cultivation, perhaps he could break through after ten or twenty years in seclusion.
But the problem was, he couldn't do that.
He mustn't forget that being a True Word Master was merely his side profession. He couldn't get his priorities mixed up.
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