To cooperate with the Drifting Flower Pavilion, and also to confuse the Profound Ice Sect, Huo Hai had not left the Drifting Flower Pavilion during this period. On the contrary, he had completed his cultivation of the Jade Condensation Heart Sutra within the Drifting Flower Pavilion.
The Jade Condensation Heart Sutra was very easy to begin cultivating; as long as one possessed a secret mental power defense technique, it could be practiced. The stronger the defensive technique, the better the effect. Huo Hai's mental power was terrifying to begin with, and he cultivated the exceptionally powerful Divine Control Art. Therefore, cultivating the Jade Condensation Heart Sutra had been very easy for him. Once it was complete, Huo Hai's Divine Control Art had condensed almost into substance.
A mental power defensive barrier like jade gathered the mental power Huo Hai unconsciously emitted, then used a special method to send it back into his mental Origin Essence. Through this method, it tempered his mental power.
When one's mental power had been tempered until it resembled a flawless piece of beautiful jade, without the slightest blemish throughout, the Jade Condensation Heart Sutra would have reached Greater Accomplishment Stage. Yet Huo Hai's mental power intensity was already close to that level.
Thus, Huo Hai's potential was greater, and the degree to which he could condense it was higher. Normally, the Jade Condensation Heart Sutra cultivated itself, and its speed was related to the speed at which he emitted mental power. To accelerate its cultivation, he could only actively temper it by consuming a great amount of mental power. Only after trying did Huo Hai discover that his current mental power seemed insufficient to support his cultivation.
Even exhausting all his mental power could only sustain one day of cultivation. Afterwards, it took several days