Opening the Furnace to Refine Pills

And with the appearance of a full fifteen flowers of mana,

the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique's power had long since ceased to lose out to other Golden Core spells.

Indeed, it even surpassed them.

And now,

during the years He Song had spent in seclusion, he had not slackened in his cultivation of the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique either.

As a result, whenever He Song employed the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique, the number of mana flowers he could condense had continued to grow.

However,

although the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique was powerful,

its difficulty of cultivation also gradually rose along with its power.

He Song now faced even greater difficulties in cultivating the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique.

The time required for him to cultivate each additional flower of mana had also grown longer and longer.

Under such circumstances, the cultivation of the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique naturally became increasingly difficult as time passed.

Fortunately, as time flowed on,

He Song's cultivation of the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique continued in an orderly fashion.

Thus,

as time trickled away bit by bit,

He Song soon spent a full ten years in seclusion within the Cloud Province Capital.

During those ten years,

He Song cultivated every day without pause, yet with a bottleneck before him, his cultivation showed not the slightest growth.

However, over those ten years, his progress in other areas was far from insignificant.

In terms of spells,

after ten years of cultivation, He Song could now condense a full eighteen flowers of mana when employing the Hundred Flowers Secret Technique.

Once these eighteen flowers of mana were controlled by He Song and merged into a single enormous flower of mana,

their power exceeded that of ordinary Golden Core spells by at least several tenths.

For some weaker Golden Core spells,