Qian closed his eyes, carefully sensing his own condition as he seized the time to gather Cultivation Experience.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty minutes had passed.
At last, Qian could no longer maintain Sage Mode. The Sage Art Chakra inside him suddenly collapsed, turning into Body Energy, Spirit Energy, and Natural Energy.
Qian ignored those energies for the moment. After splitting off a portion of his focus to control them, he shifted his attention to the Proficiency Panel that had opened before him along with his thoughts.
It could be seen that after more than twenty minutes of insight, the proficiency of Sage Mode on his panel had risen from lv5 (1/5000) to lv5 (8/5000), increasing by seven points.
Calculated this way, with ten shadow clones cultivating together, after subtracting the overlapping portion of experience gained, he could obtain roughly one hundred and twenty points of proficiency in an hour.
In that case, saving up five thousand points of proficiency would require forty-one to forty-two hours of nonstop cultivation, while ten thousand points would require over eighty hours.
Added together, that made one hundred and twenty hours.
And right now, the time he properly spent on cultivation each day was about sixteen hours. One hundred and twenty hours meant eight days.
In other words, he needed eight days to grind Sage Mode up to lv7.
Even if Sage Mode's proficiency rose later and the amount of proficiency he could gain each day increased, the final time required would still not be less than six days.
Clearly, compared with the time needed to raise the previous few levels, this had suddenly become much longer.
Not to mention that starting from lv7, every level afterward would require even more proficiency.
Correspondingly, the time needed would also be longer.