Huo Hai had not wasted these two years. While helping the Medicine Immortal Sect refine pills, the power of his Astral Flame had gradually increased and was now nearly keeping pace with his cultivation.
Since he was not naturally fire-aspected, improving his Fire Seed was this troublesome. If he had been a fire-aspected expert, the power of his Fire Seed would have kept up whenever he broke through. Still, over such a long period, Huo Hai's alchemy had grown increasingly refined. Aside from a very few exceptionally special pills he had acquired from the Medicine King Sect, he could now successfully refine most of them.
He had even attempted Peak Imperial Grade pills and had barely succeeded. His technique was not lacking; only his Flame was somewhat deficient. Otherwise, Huo Hai felt that he might have been able to try refining Emperor Grade pills.
No matter whether it was pill formulas or techniques, however, Huo Hai had nowhere to learn them. Over these two years, he had deduced more than a thousand runes he needed. The more runes he deduced, the faster he found himself becoming at it. With the help of the Starstone Wall, the work also became increasingly easy.
At the same time, Huo Hai's habit of extravagantly wasting resources flared up again. Through experimentation, he discovered that he could recklessly consume large quantities of Mental Power Crystals to speed up the recovery of his Mental Power. By consuming them in great amounts, he could even slightly increase the speed at which he inscribed runes, with no harm whatsoever to the process.
He had also found that no matter how much he used these objects condensed from pure Mental Power, they would not leave impurities such as Pill Toxicity within his body. His mind suffered no damage at