Throughout this process, the Immortal Essence within Su Shi'er's body steadily dwindled, while the higher-quality Immortal Essence refined and compressed through the Essence Condensing Art grew increasingly abundant.
For twenty years, Su Shi'er had mainly practiced two secret arts.
The Immortal Essence Cultivation Power that had once filled his body to the brim had fallen to less than half a percent of its original amount.
This was even with the Three Purity Immortal Art circulating on its own, refining quite a bit of spiritual energy into his own Immortal Essence along the way.
Yet during this process, his cultivation realm had risen by more than thirty percent.
Such a rate of cultivation improvement was naturally inferior to the gains brought by refining spiritual power at full force.
But compared to ordinary Out of Body cultivators, rather than those gifted geniuses, cultivating in seclusion, it was no less impressive.
The compressed Immortal Essence gathered in his dantian qi sea, causing the aura emanating from Su Shi'er's body to gain several more degrees of invisible majesty.
Within the Sea of Consciousness between his brows, Su Shi'er's Primordial Spirit had also become more solid through cultivating the Star Soul Art of the Heavens.
The Primordial Spirit was most closely connected to the soul. As the soul grew stronger, the outward manifestation naturally appeared in the Primordial Spirit's changes.
With a powerful Primordial Spirit, the nurturing and recovery of divine sense within the Sea of Consciousness also became much faster.
Moreover, with the Quenching God Art, Su Shi'er's divine sense was constantly being tempered, becoming ever more solid and powerful.
After these twenty years had passed, the heavenly fire waterfall beyond the formation remained exactly as it had been before. It neither increased nor diminished, showing not the slightest sign of dispersing.
Only after